Blood Business – Point Productions reported by Marie Maurisse, Francois Pilet

http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/four-corners/NC1704H029S00 Saw this documentary last night on the ABC 4Corners program in Australia. Its one thing to read about it but another thing to see it.  Just watch it.

Battery powered means of detecting malaria in the bloodstream while the blood is still within the body.

What a fantastic way of making the cost of testing so cheap and so flexible in terms of conditions of use that its really, really useful. https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/scientists-a-step-closer-to-fighting-malaria-with-world-first-diagnostic-tool   Associate Professor Bayden Wood and members of the No Road Expeditions group. Photo credit: Steve Morton   Images courtesy of the Monash website  

Better blood transfusions !

  Image Credit ABC RN Tiger Web http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/better-blood-transfusions/8507588 Click the link above for this ABC Health Report story on making blood transfusions better. Short and fabulous.

Video of new work Blood on Silk: Buy/Sell up on vimeo

https://vimeo.com/210003924

3rd KloHäuschen Biennial – Opening today

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3rd KloHäuschen Biennial ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Biennale der vernachlässigten Lebensformen" "Biennial of neglected Life Forms" Eröffnung Samstag, 02. Juli 2016 . 20 Uhr Final Event Samstag, 09. Juli 2016 . 20 Uhr Öffnungszeiten 03.-08. Juli . 17-19 Uhr ... English Invitation http://www.das-klohaeuschen.de/proj/160702_KHBi3/de/khbi_about_en.html mit 9 Volt | Adam Zaretsky | Anette Friedrich Johannessen | Anna Rose | [...]

Control SLSA Stockholm

Short presentation for session 4 - artist's roundtable Control Stockholm University. I was thinking about the difference between the terms - experiment and test on the way home last night and in particular the role of experimentation in an artistic practice where I associate it with speculation and a different level of expectation about the outcome. My work [...]

The third video night at Das KloHäuschen

The third video night at Das KloHäuschen was the showing of a video shot last week on a public holiday when the market was clean, apparently  abandoned and quiet. A solitary delivery truck performed for the camera doing a simple and beautiful U-turn. This curve outward towards the camera was projected into the urinal whose [...]

Second video night at Das KloHäuschen in Munich

First video night at Das KloHäuschen in Munich

The first of four  video nights was held last night at Das KloHäuschen in Munich. The video Blood on Silk: Site of Production was projected into one of the former urinals in the building. The video shows a series of repeated actions where the inner crease of the elbow is shown to the viewer. This [...]