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Jun 4, 2011 • Comments Closed MEI.collectiv : is an art and design collective based in San Francisco. Its members are inspired by a common creative desire to mix up sensibilities and skills, exploring socially, culturally and environmentally engaging themes that reflect our times and personal interactions with the world. members : Jorge Bachmann (founding member) is a Swiss-Colombian multidisciplinary...
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Jun 4, 2011 • Comments Closed MEI.collectiv Art Residency Stage 1 : Paris – May 2011 Finally, all 4 members of the MEI.collectiv met physically in Paris, in order to strategize for the June 2011 art residency. We used this precious opportunity to glean new ideas together, connect with potential partners. Stage 2 : “Marais”( Clermont-Ferrand, France ) – June...
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Jun 3, 2011 • Comments Closed In fabula : This sensuous journey represents diverse species of creatures and plants, revealing the inherent and eccentric beauty of the natural world. Field recordings participate in blurring the boundary between body/environment, skin/earth which are both biotopes or habitats for biological communities. Soil, vegetation, and rocks are the planet’s outer skin, fungi its digestive system,...
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Jun 3, 2011 • Comments Closed Illuminated forest : The act of illumination has many meanings: “intellectual or spiritual enlightenment, knowledge, revelation, insight, wisdom,” or more bluntly, “decoration of lights, usually colored lights” – Dictionary.com. I have been pondering a lot about what it means to be illuminated in its most physical sense as well as a more intellectual and...
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Jun 3, 2011 • Comments Closed JetLag (multimedia in situ installation) JetLag uses the metaphors of the brain and the airplane travel experience to engage us in a discussion about the disconnection and alienation experienced by many in our society, despite easier and greater access to places and people, facilitated by technology including computers, internet, and airplanes. JetLag provides a...
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Jun 3, 2011 • Comments Closed Shipped : Global Terroir Inkjet prints (24’’x32’’ each) and headphones 2008 Art At The Cheese Factory Gallery, USA Shipped: Global Terroir, draws attention to non-local food practices, dominating the current consumer landscape. “Mexico”, “Chile”, “Peru”, “Costa Rica”, “Ecuador”, “Canada”, “Israel”, and “USA” -under the corporation brand name- become abstractions. Transportation and displacement, trade agreements...
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Jun 3, 2011 • Comments Closed Transit : Every day thousands of people cross the famous “international orange” structure at the mouth of the San Francisco bay. Every day thousands of people move across this 80,000 miles mass of wire, creating a sustained bio-mechanical flow. Every year, China alone moves 50 million containers through the gate, supposedly reaching 100 million in...
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Jun 3, 2011 • Comments Closed SkunkFunk : Skunkfunk is a multi-media intervention produced by Jorge Bachmann, Jessica Resmond and Anne Chao for Funk Fall-Winter 2008 collection launch party. Storefront in situ Installation + Site Specific Realtime Projections by MEI.collectiv Clothes + Accessories by Skunkfunk Music by DJ MEZUKI
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Jun 3, 2011 • Comments Closed MEI.collectiv P.O.Box 15953 San Francisco, CA 94115-90953 USA meicollectiv [at] gmail [dot] com
