For today’s Secondi Platti, we have Marla Mase…she’s been honoured by Friends of the UN, performed at Global Peace Day in China, and had her multimedia “SPEAK” live show confirmed for this year’s NYC Summerstage festival. She is now currently embarking on a UK tour to promote her album.
There is something very distinctive about her music. It’s like Bob Dylan had a sex change and added the fantasy genre to his imaginative powers. It sounds like she is having a conversation with you, but you could very well be in the middle of a musical or in amovie hall. The stage or the screen is your own mind and each song tells you a story which first slowly draws you into it’s world with mundane real world details and then really evokes feelings inside you because you are suddenly a part of the mess and turmoil. Two thumbs up for originality! I haven’t had an experience like this in ages:
If you like what you hear, you can follow her and/or purchase her album on bandcamp at: http://marlamase.bandcamp.com/album/speak-deluxe
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Karan Khurana
Karan Khurana ( Born in 1982, Mumbai, India) makes photos and mixed media artworks. By using popular themes such as pointlessness, old monuments and nightlife, Khurana creates intense personal moments by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
His photos don’t reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By applying abstraction, he touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognised, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations.
His works are saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, clichés and bad jokes. They question the coerciveness that is derived from the more profound meaning and the superficial aesthetic appearance of an image. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society, he makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of consumer-oriented superabundance and marketing.
His works often refer to pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created.
Karan Khurana currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany!
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