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Marina Abramovic "reloaded".
When she was a child she did not like herself. She had a huge nose, an ugly hair cut and wore orthopaedic shoes. And she was fascinated with Brigitte Bardot. Every time she asked her mother to get her nose operated, she got a slap in her face. So she made a plan: spinning around, very very fast, falling on the edge of the bed, that was sharp, break...
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Jan 31, 2011 | Categories: Art | Tags: art, artist, bologna, experience, life, marina abramovic | Leave A Comment »
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Quando il cibo diventa cultura
Di ritorno da San Patrignano (Rimini) dove ieri si è chiuso Squisito, posso dire che se illywords ha trattato il tema Conviviliaty non è un caso perchè il cibo è cultura. Ho visto passione in chi spiegava ai visitatori il proprio prodotto, ho seguito i corsi di the, cioccolato, caffè, che da secoli stanno accompagnando la storia dell'uomo e ...
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May 04, 2010 | Categories: Conviviality, Experiences | Tags: coffee, culture, food, history, life, society | Leave A Comment »
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Sorpresa!
Mi sarebbe piaciuto produrre un numero di illywords intitolato “LA SORPRESA!”. Possiamo però riflettere e scambiare opinioni sul tema attraverso il web. Chissà che non si riesca un domani a realizzarlo fisicamente :-)
Oggi c'è una spasmodica voglia di sorprendere il pubblico, attraverso la pubblicità, attraverso le azioni e le relazioni:...
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Mar 10, 2010 | Categories: Design, Video | Tags: architecture, design, experience, fashion, gae aulenti, life, nanni strada, sorpresa, surprise, video | 1 Comment »
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Issue 28 is off to a great start at Domus Academy
We're off to a great start on Issue 28 at Domus Academy in Milan!
The theme of this issue will be conversations, relationships, conviviality... whether inside our homes or beyond. And what is one of the most delightful situations for creating smart conversation? At the table of course... When we eat, preferably over some good food…
The ...
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Feb 05, 2010 | Categories: Conviviality, Design, Students | Tags: creativity, culture, design, domus academy, food, life, people, project, roberta corradin, school, workshop, world | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
Over the years, I’ve developed the firm belief that there are similarities between the purpose of a company’s life and that of an individual. They both aspire to that kind of happiness which Aristotle called “eudaimonia”, the perfect union between physical and intellectual pleasures. I think that if this idea can apply to all businesses, it...
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Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: antonio damasio, aristotle, beautiful, business, cash, coffee, company, consumers, developing, emotion, excellence, growth, heart, illy, intellectual | Leave A Comment »
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#22 Kaizen
Ever since it was first used in management theory, the Japanese concept, kaizen, has intrigued me. So much so that, before gladly applying it in our company, more than fifteen years ago, I went to Japan to study it “on site” at Toyota, where the term was first seriously applied. There I was able to appreciate how efficient it is and see how thi...
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Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: ability, attention, company, consumer, deployment, enviromental, evolution, function, happiness, illy, improved, improvement, increasing, innovate, japan | Leave A Comment »
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#6 Orientation
La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Swiss Canton of Neuchâtel is where the house of Girare-Perregaux has been making timepieces since 1791. Master watchmakers capable of fully designing, developing, tooling and assembling each and every cog and wheel, spring and gear right through to the finished, working product are few and far between: Girard-Perregaux is ...
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Dec 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aeroplanes, back, canton, commodity, design, destination, digital, display, electronic, events, feeling, flux, gadget, gear, girare perregaux | Leave A Comment »
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#4 Passion
A quick review of the artistic passions, emotional drive, irresistible attractions and unmotivated fury of artists that are capable of making history.
Marina Abramovic and her boyfriend Ulay run in great strides towards each other, as if attracted by a magnet.
Their bodies slam into each other. They fall, they get up, they do it again and agai...
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Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: andy warhol, art, attraction, biennale, cezanne, desert, design, emile zola, emilio vedova, enthusiasm, experiencing, expressionist, factory, film, fitness | Leave A Comment »
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#3 Weaving relations
Milan, the world capital of fashion and design. This link between fashion and design seems to merge the two disciplines, blending their environments and dynamics. There is one person, however, who wants to keep them well separated, critiquing his own circle of designers: Enzo Mari. First and foremost an artist, and then a designer at international ...
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Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: artist, commercial, commodity, cycle, daily, design, designers, enzo mari, failure, fashion, habits, imagination, life, marketing, milan | Leave A Comment »
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#2 Creating Opportunities
Palais de Tokyo, a place for contemporary creativity, was founded following the will to change the traditional institutional "white cube" into a living place. Making art and life, the eternal adagio, actually meet. Making a place for contemporary creation become also a laboratory for emerging cultures, a place for resources and exchanges between ar...
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Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: adagio, art, artists, bookshop, cinema, concert, conferences, contacts, contemporary, creativity, cube, cultures, day, debates, disciplines | Leave A Comment »
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#1 Timetables and scoreboards
Time and rhythm are an integral part of modern life and they can be experienced either as incentives to improve or as reasons for dissatisfaction. Today, our attention is turned to the well being of our social system: there is clear evidence of this in science, technology and culture, but the objective is not always attained in a harmonised and hom...
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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: andrea illy, attention, companies, confidence, crisis, culture, dissatisfaction, dynamics, future, greed, homogeneous, information, knowledge, life, mankind | Leave A Comment »
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#1 Timetables and scoreboards
After thirty years spent in Asia as correspondent for Der Spiegel and collaborator for Italian newspapers, Tiziano Terzani has definitely not lost one bit of the intense warmth and the impetus of his homeland, Tuscany.
These characteristics however, are now mingled with the peaceful and ascetic wisdom that has been transferred onto him by the cult...
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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: absurd, advantages, asia, attentive, awareness, cambodia, china, choice, cnn, coffee, contemplation, der spiegel, diversities, evil, gandhi | Leave A Comment »
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#1 Timetables and scoreboards
Experimentation, innovation and creation are everything. Such a statement presents a comprehensive basis for things which we encounter in our everyday life, which people belonging to various cultures and classes all around the world meet in their everyday life.
The relationship between content and form, and the aesthetic disunity of an ordinary da...
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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aestethic, circle, clothes, communication, content, creation, cultures, design, everyday, experimentation, form, globally, graphic, graphic design, influence | Leave A Comment »
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#26 Re-Evaluate The Error
He woke up that morning with the clear resolve of wanting to do something good, or at least something that would unequivocally outstrip all the rest. He had a quick breakfast, all the time looking in admiration upon the marvellous achievements of his handiwork over the last five days. Dawn and sunset, he had to admit were perfect; the light and sta...
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Dec 13, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: amen, birds, breath, conscience, creation, creator, creature, doing, earth, fragrant, god, handiwork, hell, ice, judgement | Leave A Comment »
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#27 The Culture of Listening
Silence creates room for the mind, and the mind can create visions. Yoko Ono described how the hypnotic effect of a flame would help to do this: “You could tell someone to look into the fire for 10 days just to create a vision in someone’s mind” she write in her first, epic work, a book of instructions for performances entitled Grapefruit (a ...
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Dec 13, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: the other rooms, yoko ono, 1952, 1964, 2003, artist, biennale, birds, bodies, east, emotion, emptiness, feel, forever, grapefruit | Leave A Comment »
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#20 Home Made
In front a cup of coffee.
Home-made: where did your creative career start, and how much has it been influenced by your roots?
I was born on an island, somewhere between here and elsewhere, between solid ground and the infinite horizons that stretch beyond the seas.
When you grow up on an island, you learn to discover the world around you, pa...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: ability, alghero, antonio marras, atmospheres, career, city, clothes, collection, concept, creative, cultures, dessert, discover, experience, honey | Leave A Comment »
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#23 Emotion and Surprise
First of all, is there a difference between the concept of excitement and surprise?
Put simply, a surprise is something that happens just once and is unlikely to happen again. Excitement, on the other hand, is something more complex, it might crop up again, and in theory it could last a lifetime. Surprise also has a powerful physical aspect – it...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: advertising, andy warhol, benjamin pardo, body, brand, chanel, channels, coco chanel, designers, difference, excitement, future, history, industrial, karl lagerfeld | Leave A Comment »
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#27 The Culture of Listening
Sometimes I am asked to help other people to improve their listening skills. My profession exposes me to the risk of thinking of listening mainly as a subjective ability, something that can be trained, partly linked to personal predisposition.
But when I actually listen, and when listening becomes a tool necessary for a job in which you approach...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: approach, circumstances, claudio ondoli, cohesion, colourful, companion, company, fascinating, geography, history, intention, job, knowledge, landscapes, life | Leave A Comment »
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#27 The Culture of Listening
You could be me. Any human being on earth could end up in my situation – that of an (im)migrant. I am not talking about tourists who give up their daily life at home to try living somewhere else for a time. I’m talking about people who pack up their lives and move to a country that is so foreign that they have to mobilise all their resources - ...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: cartloads, countries, cultures, difference, email, expatrieted, foreign, home, human being, identify, ignorance, immigrant, interpret, language, life | Leave A Comment »
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#14 Refresh
One of the top of the pops - art-wise, that is - at seventy the man has no intention of sitting back, taking it easy and telling tales. No, indeed! He's still very much craving for new experiences, as frisky and fiery as any mustang colt on the plains back home.
Born in North Dakota into a family of Scandinavian extraction, James Rosenquist has ex...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: america, art, attractive, biennale, contemporary art, dakota, europe, evolution, expression, james rosenquist, life, magic illusion, meaning, picture, plato | Leave A Comment »
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#11 Different cultures
It's seven years now that writers, publishers, reporters, and above all hoards of readers who annually meet in Mantua for Festivaletteratura (literature festival) in September. Amid happenings of all sorts, readings, press conferences, and concerts all across the town centre, blockbuster authors meet and have a friendly bar-like chat with simple fo...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: 911, acknowledge, apathy, change, cocoon, culture, digitl age, do goodism, evolving, festivaletteratura, generation, lespresso, la repubblica, life, literature | Leave A Comment »
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#8 Place, not place
It was in the sixties that Daniel Buren barred access to the Apollinaire Gallery by blocking the entrance. The Gallery's owner, Le Noci, was made to promise never to open it again. At the time the artist's concern was to "close down all art venues". Actually, his gesture was meant as a protest and reaction against the separation of art and life, ag...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: apollinaire gallery, art, avant garde, daniel buren, giulia niccolai, le noci, life, painting, sitting room art, surroundings | Leave A Comment »
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#5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption
Does the architect respond to the client or to himself?
Every architect necessarily responds to himself. The architecture he expresses is the fruit of his values and sensitivity, the fruit of a personal quest, therefore. In a way, it is the transposition of his way of being. It is not a matter of following fashions or styles. It means translating...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: architect, claudio silvestrin, fashion, idea, le corbusier, life, mies van de rohe, minimal, minimalism, nineties, perfect, shape, styles, tastes | Leave A Comment »
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#0 Experimentation and innovation
WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AN ARTIST LIKE YOURSELF AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD, EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE HISTORY OF SIMPLE THINGS?
The pattern of simple things is the same for everyone, I believe: it means doing things, feeling active, exploring nearby and far away places, coming to learn about the things that surround you, travelling to experience p...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: artist, atmosphere, bars, cappuccino, civilisation, comfortable, different, enjoyement, entertainment, espresso, history, human beings, juice of life, kinds, life | Leave A Comment »
