dESIRE Update

dESIRE #003100

Recent sales and a trade bring the price of one unit of desire (100 intangible desires and their photographic representations) up from $200 to $500. The last increase was in October 2008 when the price was raised from $125 to $200 due to global inflation and demand. There are still units available and I can always make more ;)

For more information on the dESIRE Project, please check here:

http://www.kristenalvanson.com/new/market.html

2009 Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale

I participated in the Women Artists’ Archive Project for 2009 Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon, Korea in August. For more information about the Biennale, check here: http://iwabiennale.org/2009_new/eng/main/main.php

Or here: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2009/09/artseen/2009-incheon-women-artists-biennale

Vilnius Update

Images from the 5th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2009 in Vilnius, Lithuania

The triennial includes 132 works of artists from 34 countries around the world including Jordan, Pakistan, Iran, Mexico, Cuba, Singapore, Iceland, South Africa, Canada and others.

A hand-binded catalogue has been created in an addition of 500 (all catalogues are numbered).

My spell text book

Kestutis Vasiliunas' Pr 32,29 book behind spell book

Wakilur Rahman's book (Bangladesh)

For more information check here: http://www.bernardinai.lt/index.php?url=articles%2F95034

5th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2009

Gallery "Arka", Vilnius, Lithuania
April 30 – May 16, 2009 

Opening of the exhibition will take place on April 30th 2009, 6 p.m.

Gallery "Arka", Vilnius
Ausros vartu Str. 7, LT–01129
Vilnius, Lithuania

My Text Spell Book is included in the 5th International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius 2009, the theme of which is “Text”. The Book Triennial will be on exhibit in multiple countries throughout 2009. The first showing was held at the Leipzig Book Fair in March.

1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran: BELGRADE

The 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran's next stop is Belgrade:

URBAN JEALOUSY IN BELGRADE 

3-10 APRIL 2009 
Urban Jealousy 
the 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran
3rd station: Belgrade, 3rd -10th of April 2009
Curated by Serhat Koksal and Amirali Ghasemi 
Belgrade Contact : Isidora Krstic

For more information check here: http://www.biennialtehran.com/

Exhibition in Leipzig Book Fair

My Text Spell Book will be included in the 5th International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius 2009, the theme of which will be “Text”.

The Book Triennial will be on exhibit in multiple countries throughout 2009. The first exhibition will be launched at:

5th International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius 2009

Exhibition in Leipzig Book Fair

12-15 of March, 2009

Iakh - Internationale Ausstellung für Künstlerbücher und Handpressendrucke

HALLE 3, H 501

Leipzig, Germany 

Then it continues on to Vilnius, Lithuania in April (more info to follow).

ITCH MAGAZINE

The third issue of ITCH Magazine, addressing and exploring the $ symbol, is now out. Itch is a South African born online/offline periodical. 

I have a short photo-text sequence in the issue on what you can buy in Iran for a dollar. You can check it out here:  http://www.itch.co.za/?article=102

New Humanist Issue 124 is now available

My photos accompany an article on Iran entitled ‘Before the Dawn’ by Nasrin Alavi in the current issue of New Humanist (issue 124 Jan/Feb 2009). Issue includes:

Editorial: Fine Lessons

Funny how atheists enjoying themselves can be so threatening to believers

Cover Stories

Power Struggle

For decades, it was the scourge of the environmental movement. But now, discovers Angela Saini, the greens are going nuclear

Features

In the burning house

In 2005 Russian artist Anna Alchuk was publicly vilified and put on trial for her involvement in the Caution:Religion! exhibition. Three years later she drowned herself. Her husband, the philosopherMichail Ryklin, reads her diaries to find out why

Bad Faith Awards 2008

Following a tough campaign and a hard-fought election, we can finally announce last year's most scurrilous enemy of reason

Before the dawn

Thirty years after the revolution consumerism and political apathy dominate Iran. But a new generation may change that, says Nasrin Alavi

Days of atonement

Visiting Israel just weeks before the current Gaza conflict, Sally Feldman found that rising religious bigotry is one of the biggest barriers to peace 

Unsafe havens

The Government is planning tougher penalties for men who use trafficked prostitutes. But who is helping the women themselves? Rahila Gupta uncovers a distributing trend 

True disbelievers

Being faith-less is no excuse for rewriting history, says Theodore Dalrymple

Regulars

Endgame: One track mind

Laurie Taylor hopes he’s not a running joke

Diary: Trump cards

Our religions game seemed to annoy everyone. Result! says Christina Martin 

Culture

Darwin's journey

For poet Ruth Padel the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great scientist is more than a historical milestone, it’s a family celebration 

Book Reviews

The Weight of a Mustard Seed by Wendell Steavenson

Nina Power considers complicity in Iraq 

Three-Letter Plaque by Johnny Steinberg

Andrew Mueller enjoys some journalism with a human touch 

The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo

James Randerson encounters a strange legend of physics

Teenagers: A Natural History by David Bainbridge

Bill Thompson gets down with the kids 

Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie

Philip Womack barely survives the tedium of a new Chinese novel

The Artist, the Philosopher and the Warrior by Paul Strathern

Brenda Maddox enjoys some Renaissance history

Check out it out here: http://newhumanist.org.uk/1947

FACELESS MUSIC

Artist Jason Sweeney has made a 'silent film' of my flesh photos as part of his Faceless Music project. He is currently collating materials (recorded and/or written stories, sounds, noise, anecdotes, nightmares and confessionals about attempts at living a life online) and reworking them into an audio-museum project. The project is being assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council.

Check out Flesh Film here: http://ifnotforyouthenwho.blip.tv/#1629630