ALBERTO GARCÍA DEL CASTILLO

2012-01-30T21:03:00.002+01:00

'It's All Downhill From Here On' by Filip Gilissen in Rotterdam (september 2012).

2012-01-19T10:13:00.003+01:00

Diane Arbus on storytelling architecture.

2012-01-12T13:35:00.003+01:00

Motto, a paradise bookshop in Berlin.

2012-01-10T17:40:00.001+01:00

" 'Vieques Videos 2003-2011' " is Allora & Calzadilla’s third solo show at Lisson Gallery.

Made over the course of a decade Returning a Sound (2004), Under Discussion (2005) and Half Mast/Full Mast (2010) are now shown here together for the first time.Each video addresses the complicated history of Vieques, an inhabited island off Puerto Rico that was used by the United States Navy as a bomb-testing range from 1941 until 2003. The Navy was forced to evacuate by a civil disobedience campaign waged by local residents, with supporters throughout the world. Allora & Calzadilla contributed to the visual culture of this campaign with a long-term, multi-sited project entitled ‘Landmark’, informed by the following questions: ‘How is land differentiated from other land by the way it is marked? Who decides what is worth preserving and what should be destroyed? What are strategies for reclaiming marked land? How does one articulate an ethics and politics of land use?'"

Mousse Magazine, 09.01.2012

2012-01-09T10:19:00.002+01:00

Could I love a right wing boy?

2011-12-29T13:38:00.001+01:00

'Le père Noël est une ordure', 1982

"When it comes to Christmas movies, the French prefer naughty over nice any day. “Le Père Noël Est une Ordure” (whose literal translation would make George Bailey blush, so “Santa Stinks” will have to do), a much-loved 1982 farce finally having its American theatrical premiere at the Museum of Modern Art, is a fine example. Crude, rude and with more foul language than a Gordon Ramsay marathon, this smutty staple could give even the most hardened Francophobe a few guilty giggles"

The New York Times, December 27, 2011

2011-12-28T16:04:00.003+01:00

Get over it.

2011-12-27T19:44:00.002+01:00

2011-12-23T10:38:00.002+01:00

Like Mary Poppins. Like Pogo.

2011-12-22T11:10:00.001+01:00

Todo cambia. Mercedes Sosa.

2011-12-21T09:30:00.002+01:00

At university (UNED).

2011-12-21T09:18:00.003+01:00

My first pub. Sidmouth, 2004

2011-12-07T11:32:00.001+01:00

A desktop.

2011-12-05T15:28:00.001+01:00

I am a dossier-maker. '$' by Pierre Fisher.

2011-12-01T15:38:00.001+01:00

Here is a group of trees. It's a forest.

2011-11-30T11:53:00.001+01:00

DIY-technologic-pseudoexotic collages by the gorgeous Carlos Sáez.

2011-11-29T22:02:00.001+01:00

Like Dean Sameshima.

2011-11-21T19:46:00.001+01:00

Komplot and The Public School of Brussels organize a queer video art projection on post-porn and gender studies themes to open a free space of debate inside the walls of this contemporary art centre that will become a Gang Bang Forest.

2011-11-17T00:44:00.001+01:00

A desktop.

2011-11-16T09:26:00.001+01:00

There's life after Built Inn Gallery.

César Segarra or fashion goes to the art gallery.

2011-11-12T13:18:00.001+01:00

Wanna work in Instituto Cervantes.

Beatriz Preciado: "Allí donde halla un Instituto Cervantes

tenéis un nicho de acción política"

2011-11-11T20:52:00.001+01:00

Begging for LOVE.

2011-11-08T22:48:00.005+01:00

A queer week in Brussels

Les Nuits Bas Nylon & Pink Screens

2011-11-08T19:52:00.001+01:00

Michael Heizer's 'Double Negative' is in the Earth.

2011-11-08T19:03:00.002+01:00

Igor, you are so sweet.

2011-11-02T09:42:00.003+01:00

Filip Van Dingenen is re-recording traditional videos. A clue for my next research.

2011-11-01T11:05:00.002+01:00

X Marks the Bökship, a warm place to have a tea surrounded by beautiful books in London.

210/ Unit 3 Cambridge Heath Road

2011-11-01T10:55:00.004+01:00

I am 'Learning From Las Vegas'

Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour

MIT Press, 1977

2011-10-30T08:43:00.002+01:00

Candy will do it again.

2011-10-16T22:21:00.001+02:00

Color seems an intelligent alternative way to read History.

'Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain' at Whitechapel Gallery.

Government Art Collection selected by Cornelia Parker.

2011-10-15T12:30:00.002+02:00

Still young (innocent) enough to buy an English translated Barthes book.

2011-10-11T22:50:00.004+02:00

"En otro orden de cosas, vi la performance de Danai Anesiadou y le dije "it was profoundly beautiful". Esta vez no era tanto "mendigar amor" como datar una cierta alegría por la belleza del mundo"

I just had a wonderful time seeing Danai Anesiadou last performance at David Roberts Art Fondation in London.

'There's no such thing as a pretty good omelette'

2011-10-10T09:27:00.000+02:00

This week I'll be having a "girlfull" time with Cocoladas in London.

2011-10-07T16:10:00.001+02:00

'Assault on Power in Porn', a research about Greimas semiotics and the postporn text.

2011-10-04T11:36:00.003+02:00

Jansen-Verbeke, M. y Rekom, J. Van (1996): “Scanning Museum Visitors: Urban Tourism Marketing”, 'Annals of Tourism Research', 23 (2): 364-375

"The role of museums in developing urban tourism is researched with special attention to the motivation constructs of visitors and the possible added value of a “museumpark”. Interviews with visitors were held in order to identify their motivation. The laddering technique was used to analyze the data. Both the interviews and the survey results can be used for the purpose of strategic positioning of the museum and cultural urban tourism. Marketing implications can be deduced from core motives. In addition, for urban authorities and tourism marketers, the motivation and behavior patterns of museum visitors offer interesting clues when developing an attractive urban tourism product"

2011-10-03T17:33:00.004+02:00

Mini Europe in Brussels: a place to dislocate history and cartography. A geopolitics statement.

2011-10-02T22:13:00.002+02:00

Adel Abdessemed, 'Also Sprach Allah'. Nietzsche is not the only way to God.

2011-10-01T12:14:00.004+02:00

Sunny autumn afternoons working in Komplot.

2011-09-26T16:28:00.001+02:00

Paolo Cirio: People Quote People - The Death of the Author 2.0.

Engraving white marble. 30x19x4cm each.

"This is a radical approach to the concept of the author as social degeneracy. The quotes no longer refer to the correct authors. In the mock website quotes are continually reordered randomly with different authors, spreading online misquotation mistakes as a form of liberation from the authorship fixation. This is a research into authorship issues in the era of the creative economy, with its attendant profusion of prosumers"

A clever idea about this mess of 2.0. quotations.

2011-09-26T09:16:00.001+02:00

"I tend to believe that homosexuality is by its very nature subversive and revolutionary, although inexplicably most homosexuals today do their best to make it as mundane and inoffensive as heterosexuality"

Bruce LaBruce (2009): 'Interview with Bruce LaBruce' in Stüttgen, Tim: 'Post/Porn/Politics'. Berlin: b-books.

Bruce LaBruce is also astonished of the heterosexual ideology invading the majority of faggots.

2011-09-21T20:15:00.004+02:00

Théophile's Papers is a sweet bookshop you'll find in Brussels.

2011-09-17T09:33:00.002+02:00

"It is tempting to read in this a theory of history – postmodernism as the historical consciousness of an age which has forgotten how to think historically, that kind of thing. The prevailing kitchiness of Composition Trouvée seems to support this hypothesis, even as the presence of a big wooden ladder lying on a floor near the wall provokes the perennial question: is this meant to be here?"

Daniel Miller about Guillaume Bijl for Frieze Magazine

2011-09-16T18:04:00.000+02:00

Carlos Sáez creates lovely videos where fashion becomes a delicate naïve game.

Electric Youth + American Apparel = 'Teenages Do It Better'

2011-09-14T12:28:00.000+02:00

New room at Komplot. Living in a White Cube, the extended art experience.

2011-09-11T21:15:00.002+02:00

Kust Hart: first announcements of Gang Bang Forest.

2011-09-11T11:30:00.001+02:00

truck.ca/pop a web-based exhibition, a Internet mirror curated by Mikhel Proulx.

2011-09-04T15:47:00.000+02:00

If you are looking for queer in Brussels, Les Nuits Bas Nylon will be revisiting our drag history every month.

2011-09-04T15:40:00.003+02:00

Hidrogenesse vs. Javiera Mena or how beautiful things get together.

2011-09-04T14:58:00.001+02:00

Lanvin: fashion can be fun.

2011-09-01T09:03:00.006+02:00

Gang Bang Forest at Komplot.

2011-08-30T17:21:00.001+02:00

Love is taking care of each other member of your own made community or Paris is Burning.

2011-08-24T12:26:00.001+02:00

Who do I look like?

'Gorgeous Boys!', a pop-up book by Tom de Pekin.

2011-08-24T10:56:00.000+02:00

Rizoma Festival is programming John Water's 'This Filthy World' this September in Madrid.

2011-08-19T21:41:00.001+02:00

youdneverwearthat goes TV. First take of A Faggot View on Fashion Film.

2011-08-19T14:01:00.002+02:00

Raúl Querido wonders what would happen if the popemobile exploded in Gran Vía.

<p>&amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://raulque.bandcamp.com/track/susan-y-la-juventud-quemada"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Susan (y la Juventud Quemada) by Raúl Querido&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;gt;</p>

2011-08-15T19:13:00.001+02:00

Charlotte Moth

Counter work five, Kunsthalle Basel (Strange Comfort), 2010

Black and white analogue print

17 x 23.5 cm, 29 x 35 cm with frame

2011-08-15T10:57:00.000+02:00

Butt tries to make life easier, pinker.

2011-08-08T09:49:00.001+02:00

NO MEANS NO

Slutwalk in Berlin: Saturday the 13th of August / 13.00 / Wittenbergplatz.

2011-08-07T18:51:00.001+02:00

Charles Lum and his zigzag path through audiovisual narrative and the changing realities of HIV.

2011-08-07T14:38:00.001+02:00

You'd never wear that (.tumblr.com) because you're straight and you'll never get rid of patriarchy.

2011-07-26T14:22:00.003+02:00

Garçons is a beautiful chilian queer magazine. You'll soon see my dick in it.

2011-07-25T15:07:00.001+02:00

UEEH, I'll keep you in my heart.

2011-07-06T12:14:00.001+02:00

Filip Gilissen, an artist of golden.

It's All Downhill From Here On

The Only Way Is Up

2011-07-04T11:20:00.000+02:00

Eperlecques > Aix-les-Bains, on my way to the UEEH.

2011-07-01T13:15:00.001+02:00

HOMES

Guadalajara

Mandayona

Sidmouth

Madrid

Dresde

Berlin

Lille

Berlin

Brussels

2011-06-30T17:44:00.000+02:00

I just made this video for YEAR, an editorial project by Komplot.

2011-06-27T00:39:00.001+02:00

Le logis / Et jamais devient: after a whole week assisting during the installation at Komplot.

2011-06-19T16:21:00.002+02:00

Starting tomorrow, from now on you'll find me working at Komplot, in Brussels.

2011-06-19T16:14:00.002+02:00

Algora and I, a lifetime story.

2011-06-15T20:14:00.002+02:00

All my belongings are packed. They'll stay in A while I try to find room for me.

2011-06-09T20:41:00.001+02:00

Sergio Albiac challenges the image of the power using the video of the people.

"Content is Queen is a video art series of generative portraits that reflects on the foundations of democracy against the resilient nature of structures of power. At the same time, is a paradoxical dialogue and strange marriage between the banal and utterly majestic: to create the series, the most popular (in a truly democratic sense) internet videos of a given moment are used as the input of a generative process that “paints” with action the image of a contemporary Queen"

2011-06-08T16:15:00.001+02:00

Sometimes I wish I had never left Lille. They'll be queer partying again next weekend.

2011-05-30T14:41:00.000+02:00

I love the music covers phenomenon, and this is one of my favorite cover boys.

2011-05-29T15:54:00.000+02:00

Aram Bartholl, on the line between inside and outside the world wide web.

2011-05-27T12:35:00.001+02:00

This summer I'll be in:

Madrid

Brussels

Lille

Marseille

Paris

Berlin

and finally Brussels again.

2011-05-19T23:39:00.003+02:00

#spanishrevolution. Somewhere close to paradise.

2011-05-11T15:32:00.000+02:00

Last year I was vjing there and I would love to be there again, but you'll see me in the UEEH.

2011-05-09T11:50:00.002+02:00

Some of the things I like to see.

2011-05-09T09:23:00.000+02:00

Algora: El traje de bombillas

FUCKING YOUNG

07.05.2011

2011-05-08T09:53:00.000+02:00

Jimmy Gimferrer has directed Astrud's two last music videos in an exercise of what seems starting a film to stop its development ten minutes later.

It's the cinema of the beginning.

2011-05-07T10:32:00.000+02:00

Chico y Chica are one of the most intelligent music groups in Spain.

Next week they are releasing a new album containing the following tracklist:

1. La joven investigadora

2. La joven investigadora (Instrumental)

3. Quiéreme Doctor (Longo)

4. Indicios de arrepentimiento

2011-05-06T08:11:00.002+02:00

Algora hace un vídeo para 'El traje de bombillas'

JENESAISPOP

05.05.2011

Algora ha hecho un vídeo para otra de las canciones contenidas en su nuevo disco, ‘Galimatías‘. Del vídeo se ha encargado Alberto García del Castillo. Está protagonizado por el actor porno Martín Mazza, el DJ Aviador Deluxe y el propio Víctor Algora. Su temática, por si no lo pillas, es “el primer contacto alienígena en la industria del porno en formato de falso documental”. El vídeo es NSFW. Algora toca con Corazón en el Teatro Lara de Madrid el próximo 12 de mayo en un concierto organizado por Son Estrella Galicia.

2011-05-06T08:06:00.003+02:00

Alberto García del Castillo entrevista a Víctor Algora

ROCKET MAGAZINE

05.05.2011

Lo vemos en MTV pero siempre ha sido uno de los grandes de la escena indie española, Víctor Algora lanza el vídeo de su tercer single “El Traje de Bombillas” dirigido por el genial Alberto García del Castillo, que lo entrevista en exclusiva para Rocket Magazine.

ALBERTO GARCÍA DEL CASTILLO: Hola Víctor, después de tantos años en que andamos paralelos volvemos a cruzarnos, ahora en esta entrevista a dos manos. Cuéntame algún cruce reciente con alguien que te haya marcado.

VÍCTOR ALGORA:Bueno, tú y yo nos hemos cruzado ya muchas veces, no sólo ahora. Quizás tu seas ese cruce reciente. El resto de personas que me han marcado o las conozco desde siempre o desde hace poco tiempo, pero mi relación con ellas ha sido continua. Luego hay otras con las que espero volver a cruzarme en algún momento de mi vida.

AGC: Cuando te conocí en Mandayona -un pequeño pueblo de Guadalajara del que ambos, de un modo u otro, venimos- ya andabas cantando tus planes veraniegos y repartiendo maquetas por las bodegas. ¿Qué eventos trascendentales le ocurren desde entonces hasta hoy a Algora?, y, ¿qué queda de aquello?

VA: Pues todo ocurrió muy rápido. Rápidamente me llamaron para grabar mi primer disco. De aquello queda una vehemencia brutal que a veces echo de menos en muchas cosas, y muchísima inexperiencia, que es algo muy bonito porque el 99 % de lo artístico proviene de ella.

AGC: ¿Cuáles de las constantes en tu música debes a aquellos años?, y, sobre todo, ¿cuáles parecen datar de entonces pero son de lo más actual?

VA: Todo tipo de constantes. Mi música está muy basada en aquellos tiempos desde el principio, y creo que cada vez más. Nunca he renegado de dónde vengo, y últimamente estoy utilizando palabras autóctonas y expresiones maravillosas propias del pueblo que en realidad son cultismos preciosos.

AGC: Es imposible separar a Algora del mundo animal, de escarabajos, cucarachas y demás insectos; ¿dónde y cuándo conoce Algora a tantos animales?

VA: Siempre me ha fascinado la biología y la zoología. Supongo que viene de niño. Adoro todo tipo de criaturas, incluso los que no son reales, híbridos, extraterrestres, objetos animados. Disney ha hecho mucho daño a mi imaginario. De niño siempre he trasteado con insectos: arañas, hormigas, sanguijuelas, gusanos de seda…Me encantaba enterrar animales muertos con mi prima Lorena, como pájaros, peces o ratones, y luego desenterrarlos al cabo de un tiempo. Y tengo un miedo terrible a los saltamontes y las chicharras esas gigantescas.

AGC: Siguiendo con las bestias, parece razonable que nos cuentes una brevísima historia de tí y tu música, en forma de una fábula horrenda.

VA: Creo que la fábula más terrible de mi vida la cuento en la historia de ‘Querido hombre cebolla’ de mi primer disco.

AGC: Hoy mismo estrenamos el videoclip de ‘El traje de bombillas’, tu último single. Víctor, ¿cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí?

VA: Pues es una canción con una historia curiosa, porque la escribí para ti hace años, basada en aquel cortometraje que rodaste en Guadalajara. Sobre una mujer que recuerda a su enamorada, una torera de la época de la Segunda República, desde su silla en la residencia de ancianos. Es una canción sobre el poder de la memoria y la imaginación, y sobre la felicidad imborrable que puede traer el recuerdo y la locura.

AGC: El vídeo se presenta como un cómico falso documental sobre la primera aparición alienígena en el la industria del porno, jugando a varios niveles. Cuéntanos lo que ves en cada capa de esta pieza, y qué parte de ello era, forma parte o pertenecerá a Algora.

VA: Podemos decir que casi eres el co-autor de la canción, que nadie como tu podría haberlo entendido mejor, y que la historia del videoclip tiene que ver con la historia misma de la canción y de como llegó a nosotros. Me encanta el rollo decadente y delirante de la historia, me encanta el montaje, los fanzines que aparecen, Martín y Nico, lo mal que hablamos en inglés y lo ridículos que parecemos ante los periodistas americanos que han venido a entrevistarnos.Pero tú podrías explicarlo mucho mejor.

2011-05-05T18:16:00.001+02:00

The beautiful project of a music video for Algora.

INSIDE THE FIRST ALIEN CONTACT IN THE PORN INDUSTRY, 2011

2011-05-04T16:52:00.002+02:00

A music video for the spanish pop group Algora.

2011-05-04T15:37:00.000+02:00

Impatience.

2011-04-29T16:09:00.000+02:00

Soon we'll be releasing a new music video for Algora's last single.

2011-04-26T12:02:00.001+02:00

Tomorrow, in Madrid, I'll spend 'La noche de los libros mutantes' with Susana López.

2011-04-24T22:32:00.004+02:00

Gio Black Peter by Bruce LaBruce.

2011-04-24T13:07:00.001+02:00

J. González Requena propone una manera inteligente de romper con el mito del realismo:

"Finalmente, se mire como se mire, el realismo aparece siempre como el rasgo que se atribuye a los textos que, para cada época y sociedad, participan del sistema de representación dominante, en tanto que éste constituye, para esa sociedad y esa época, el modelo de lo que se entiende por realidad"

2011-04-21T12:42:00.001+02:00

I have always been part of the oppressed. I have always loved indian parties.

2011-04-20T10:55:00.000+02:00

Catholicism sucks. Happy Easter faggots.

2011-04-17T11:27:00.000+02:00

I love how delicately the clothes fly in this Igor Dewe video.

2011-04-12T20:51:00.002+02:00

I would just say wow.

2011-04-07T18:56:00.001+02:00

One can wonderfully explain a beautiful use of the pronouns.

2011-04-06T22:48:00.002+02:00

I want César Segarra to become a lesbian icon.

2011-04-06T20:37:00.003+02:00

Brent Corrigan is just lovely, and he is my favorite mainstream porn actor.

2011-03-31T16:40:00.002+02:00

John Waters, someone who's close to God.

POSTWAR SEXUAL TOURIST SEEKING QUEER CRUISING SPOTS IN SARAJEVO, 2011

2011-03-28T22:56:00.000+02:00

A document to prove and explain a space appropriation strategie in Sarajevo, to justify my visit during the Winter Festival (BiH) 2011.

2011-03-26T09:13:00.004+01:00

'Postwar Sexual Tourist Seeking Queer Cruising Spots in Sarajevo' is a a document to prove and explain a space appropriation strategie in Sarajevo, to justify my visit during the Winter Festival (BiH) 2011.

This action is composed by three consecutive steps:

ONE. Placement of the stickers saying “Hey queers! Here there's a postwar queer cruising spot!” near the selected spaces, transcendental places during the war: the National Library, the Holiday Inn Hotel -where the international press stayed- and the tramway throw the Sniper Alley

TWO. Appropriation of my own speech on Sarajevo TV.

THREE. Editing the videos fake documentary about the history of postwar queer cruising in Sarajevo.

This process of creation allows that different dynamics take place; we might consider the first step of marking those places with the stickers as an appropriation of the public space, or a virtual sexualisation of this public spaces, proposing queer cruising spots specifically, and the origin of a non hetero-centered scene. The second step consists in a performance of those appropriated spaces, proposing a discourse that invites people to inhabit them. Finally, a second appropriation takes place during the editing process, when the speeches on television will be combined together with other images of Sarajevo to form the narration of a non-reality-based history of the of postwar queer cruising in Sarajevo, through the eyes of a postwar queer sexual tourist.