New FORT photos

There are new photos from the FORT painting project at fort-art.net
Visit FORT to make your own art galleries and join the fort project, or browse other galleries and read news from Weimar, Ann Arbor, and the world.

fort-art.net

http://fort-art.net is the new home of FORT online! Visit the site to create your own FORT . Share your artwork, news, events. View artwork, and make your own fort. Thank you to Maik Gramatte for programming and designing the site. Hopefully what you see will inspire you to collaborate and share with others.

more time then we you i know

spent the day smelling mold mixed with car-sin-tag-ins to find every thing bruned. glad in a happy melow way to have fifty 50 cents. teacher said "DONT forget to use pass tense!"

BUILD YOUR OWN, MAKE YOUR OWN

PARKING LOT ART SHOW-Weimar, Germany 2006

Parking lot art show: June 11th, 2006.
To contribute your artwork, or submit a proposal Email: Ilanagoldszer@gmail.com

STIIL FRESH

there is sdfg i love webdings there is something wonderful out there and I am gunna go find it, thats what this guy is saying.
banksy

MEDIA ART NET

A beautiful site which allows easy navigation through the land of media art, worth checking out at least for the randomly generated intro picture.


Art work by John Baldessari

The site is a good reference point for looking up who did what in the world of media art, art in general, or if you just want to learn something new.

Loose change

Worth watching.

SPLOTCHES

This is an online magazine featuring thematic art work. It is easy to navigate, and fun to look at. Good for anytime, and you can submit your work: issues come out every three months, submit@splotches.org. The deadline for the next issue "Private" has passed, but you can wait and see what it has to ffer and then submit to the next theme.

SPLOTCHES CAN BE FOUND HERE

The kind of project that FORT is all about

from the site..."The StabilityMobility Network is a partnership of artist-led visual arts organisations operating in Europe. Each partner primarily operates within its home region, although most are involved in transnational work of one form or another. One of the key factors that led to the partnership being formed was the interest in operating more effectively –and with increased peer support- at a transnational European level."

ARTIST RUN SPACES IN BERLIN

Page compliled by Catherine Griffiths, with pictures, links, and information aboutartist run spaces
in Berlin. Art spaces in Berlin run by artists, check it out...
Interesting links to spaces, galleries, and more information.

fleisch

Tacita Dean

ARTIST ROLL CALL
Tacita Dean, british, photography, ideas, films.

Represented byFrith Street gallery

This link is to a review of the show described below

" The exhibition appeared from January 10 through February 8 at Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019. Tel. 212 977 7160. Fax 212 581 5187."

a no the r thought

grand total

edit bight light monkey brian, rat tale,five brothers, the american family,

walking home "bubble heads"

The Event

Commentary later..

Pedal for Peace-Weimar-2006

Critical Mass--Weimar, May 4th 2006.

Get on your bike, or any wheeled object, and tour "the atrocities of war in" Weimar!
Get dressed up in your craziest gear, use alternative means of transportation,and tour the sites of historical significance in Weimar. Meet at Hotel Elephant in the Markt-platz. More details will follow as the event approaches!

Contact Carole Lung for more information: carolefamous@aol.com

/Also, if you come to this event on a yellow bike, (that is mine) I will ask for it back, and if you stole my bike from the Hababusch hostelon the night of 10/4/2006, please give my bike back to the Hababusch or.../

4th Berlin Biennial

Exhibition opens March 24 and runs until May 28, from Tuesday to Sunday (12 am to 7 pm), Thursday (12 am to 9 pm)

Entrance: 12 Euro / 7 Euro

http://www.berlinbiennale.de/

Ohne Titel III -- Künstlerische Positionierung und Professionalisierung

The project "Ohne Titel III -- Künstlerische Positionierung und Professionalisierung", for the Summer Semester 2006, at the Bauhaus University Weimar, Co-taught by professor Elfie Frölich, Nicole Degenhardt, and Fabian Seiche, started today. If you are interested in joining FORT, leave a comment, or email onefort@gmail.com. FORT is an art collective which builds non-hierarchical art communities, positive public space, and critical debate.

Maurice's Photographs, for a little mnemosyne

Some photo's from the show on March 4th can be found here:

FORT photo's by maurice alberda

The Road View

Hanging

glory days: when jumping onto buildings was made with ease. One only has to fit through a toliet window, ninja walk the roof, put up old frosted ladders, warped by wind, sand, fire, and earth. Climb the ladder rope and sign, and hope that the wind does not blow it over...but this is what poeple who carrie first aid kits around their belts and have 911 on speed dial hope for "the danger of helping the fallen" The fort went up and no one went down.

Subtle Salutations

walking in to a building without an address is pretty ballsie, so we decided if there are no numbers on the building we would make letters to greet the lovely public that joined us at our function.

Thinking Big?

Have you ever wondered how ideas pop in to ones mind?
"Thinking Walls"
Images of the first FORT studio: Detroit, MI.

Post show and collective news

The show went well! FORT saw a lot of friends and was overwhelmed by the number of people who stopped in to show support, thanks guys that was huge. Thanks to Bonnie Obel for driving up all the way from Baltimore, and then rocking out on her Cello at the show!
Big thanks to John who snapped some great photos of the show I am glad to see that he is doing great work You can also check out more of John's artwork here.
In the New York Times Sunday, March 5th, 2006, in the Arts and Leisure section (section two), on the front page , there is an article about art collectives. The article is called "The Collective Conscious"it is written by Holland Cutter. Some collectives that are mentioned in the article are: Otabenga Jones & Associates, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Critical Art ensemble, Claire Fontaine, ChanSchatz, 0100101110101101.ORG, Reena Spaulings (Gallery, and Novel), Bernadette Corporation, and the Wrong Gallery.

THE SHIRT

The first T-shirt. Ask and we will make one for you to buy: custom made for you. Vintage: WASHED AT CAROUSEL LAUNDRY: located in DETROIT

The Height of Minamalism

what can be said? minamalisim at its best:

Making some thing?

the start of "Bubble Heads"...

DJ I-GOLDIE

we are a futile kind yeah yeah, we have paint brushes in our pockets and turpentine in our minds.

the tune un-known

If you do not work....

the reign of terror 1789

home box

Studio wall: 2006 "aged brick"

MEXICO

An Introduction to an Introduction. cans of beans and piles of cheese you made we due thank you: A.M.W. 3 and 4 done. names TN, lovely anti-lovely, 4 o'clock, what I was taught in kindergarten, how to count chickens, shantie town and how to draw a mouth, a house and a fish.

In the Beginning

yeah, this is the start of out first painting after layers of talking...

Wood Splinter

Our paintings have their back to us. The first step is to get to know your painting. --FORT 2006

ROTHKO

WHAT UP? so here/hear is the early days of painting. Yeah, well, umm not so detailed, but a painting.

COUNTING ART VENUES

Today and yesterday have been giant flyer missions. We are scrambling to let 5,000 people and their friends "know" about FORT. We ordered from Miami Flyers the quality of the printing was better than imagined so we were excstatic. We recieved our 4x6" postcards with a week to go before the show so, we have a LOT to do. We will see how the flyering effort will pan out.
We ran into our neighboor Carl outside the 555 Gallery and found out they are having a film festival on the same night of the opening. This is good because there will be a crowd at 555 but it also means a lack of parking for our lovely guests, who we will have to send to U.S. Auto across the street.
Also going on in Detroit this coming weekend is the Hamtramck Blowout which will bring music appreciators to the D. FORT once apun a time (1998) went there. But there was ice on the ground and our fake id's were not good enough, when you look 13 you look 13. Braces and pig tails, broken knees from soccer and sailor coats that are too big (this look will never get you any where even if you are 18 or 21).
Yesterday while flyering up and down the streets of Ann Arbor MI. we stumbled into The Gallery Project, they currently have a show up called:Beauty/Sublime/Intensity. (Questionable) The show is a mesh of sculpture, painting, and mixed media art which focuses on innovative uses of materials. Tons of eye candy. The Ann Arbor Art Center has a show called Drawing into painting. The materials were well used and the content was basic colorful abstractions.
More Flyer Adventures on the campus of Wayne State, U of M, and beyond to come..."that's all folks"--porky pig

FORT=ART AND MIND

FORT shuffling around the internet and looking at contemporary art sites, here is an art and tech site http://www.rhizome.org/

PAINTING ONE

ONE, TWO, THREE. DIMENSIONS 9'X9'

PAINTING TWO, THREE, AND FOUR

JG working on almost completed "Cityman." IG in front of paintings in progress: "Looking up/Anti-Lovely (based on actual events)" on the left, and "Looking down/Anti-Lovely (based on actual events)" on the right.
JG working on "Cityman", completed 2/24.
The dimensions of "Cityman" are 12'x6', the medium is oil, acrylic, foam, and latex on luon.

MORE HOT FORT PICKS

FORT headquarters, JG, and two lovely paintings with a first coat of paint on.

Thank you to Ron of Creative Coatings.

These two paintings are called Looking up/anti-Lovely and Looking down/Lovely (based on actual events).





JG wearing FORT gear. Thanks to Ben Winter.