Derek VanScoten, from Brooklyn, USA , has in his own words tried to tresspass into dangerous territory, a.k.a trying to remix a hallowed Beatles’ song. While some purists may have an issue with that sort of thing, if the world operated according to just their whims and fancies, we probably wouldn’t be communicating via this medium right now. I live in a city where the transformation from the old to the new is gradually taking place and juxtaposed amongst monuments of Prussian glory is suddenly something as audacious as the Humboldt Box (google it). And you know what, it doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb in the city landscape. If anything, it adds character…Tasteful mixing of the old and new may add a few quirks, provide a few laughs and give things a much needed jolt of freshness, which is exactly what this remix does. It doesn’t try to enhance the old or better it in any way. It is simply an interesting take, a lot of fun and with a unique flavor like a chilli chocolate:
it is a free download too ;)!
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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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