KlingonTerranResearchEnsemble is doing some great Opera production on Star Trek. Would be great to have them over at Incubate!

Hi there! This is Incu Thursday. Every Thursday, 2pm local time, we will announce the artists that were confirmed for the Incubate 2010 festival during the past week. Whether it’s one or twenty names. Here are the new names for this week:

• Daniel Haaksman (DE) / MySpace / Last.fm
• Ducktails (US) / Website / MySpace / Last.fm / Twitter
• Drunkdriver (US) / Website / MySpace / Last.fm

We’re now on 34 confirmed artists. All confirmations for Incubate 2010 are in the Last.fm event (the temporary website for Incubate 2010 will launch soon). Attending Incubate 2010? Show us on Last.fm, Facebook, Festivalinfo, iDiDiD or Hyves! Incubate 2010 is from September 12th until September 19th in the city of Tilburg.

Do you have tips for our bookers? We’re very interested in them! You can post your band-tips on GetSatisfaction.com.

See you next week!

Nikoo = guitar, vox, guitar, bass, kit, keys, noise. The band, hailing from Eindhoven and Utrecht, will play Incubate 2010. Their EP will be available for download on March 16th via Nikoo.nu. We’ll keep you updated.

Javier Peres is pleased to present Bruce LABRUCE’s first solo show with Peres Projects in Berlin. “LA ZOMBIE: The film that would not die” will consist of new works on canvas and a sneak preview of LaBruce’s most recent film, LA Zombie, starring Francois Sagat.

Peres Projects
Berlin, Schlesische Str. 26
January 30 – April 24, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION:
January 30th, 2010
Tuesday – Saturday 11 am – 6 pm and by appointment

And also his former zombie movie OTTO or, up with dead people will be shown Sunday the 14th of March in Schijnheilig in Amsterdam.

3AM posted not only a funny wedding pic of Shaun Ryder (ex-Happy Mondays, ex-Black Grape), but also a hilarious title. We just had to steal it.

Michiel Ceulers (B) makes paintings that investigate the medium of paint. At first these inconvenient, difficult to read, uncompromising and very diverse paintings are hard to grasp but on a second and third look these small, rather dirty paintings are very precise and sharply handled, cheekily referencing previous historical styles.

Ceulers produces modest, greasy paintings that live with him; they are his belongings. Jostling for position in his small studio apartment they are treated roughly and poorly, they lean amongst and against each other (whilst some are still wet) producing scaring and marking. The dirty marks, thumb-prints, ripped and badly stretched canvases are integral to the work; he is not interested in beautiful or representational pictures, he is simply analysing shapes in colour, brushstrokes and light. Once the paintings have left the confines of his home/studio they cease to be in a constant state of flux and they finally become.

Rod Barton 2008

Michiel, amongst a lot of other artists, will show some of his work at Whatbar # 8 in London.
Opening: March 18, 2010 | 8:30 pm
THE NON-OBVIOUS-BAR
The Boadicea
292-294 St. John Street
London
8.30 – 12.00pm

For more info check: Whatspace

I asked them, “Is it art?”
“Sure,” they said.
“But there are no pictures, no sculptures.” I pointed out.
My youngest responded “Yeah, but it’s like spiritual. Not like that stuff.”

Tino Sehgal (b. 1976, London) constructs situations that defy the traditional context of museum and gallery environments, focusing on the fleeting gestures and social subtleties of lived experience rather than on material objects. We think he is one of the greatest artists of the moment. At the moment his work is being shown at Guggenheim. This great article shows kids really understand the work.