As humans we select potential mates according to what we find attractive (at least at first sight). We don’t have to argue that this of course is related to our physical perception and the appearance of this person in front of us.

A pretty face is one of the most important attributes in the selection of potential mates. If facial features are symmetrical it is more likely that you fancy this person. You can find this symmetry in the whole body and although you might not be aware of it, you take it into account.

Laboratory as well as field studies showed that the consumtion of alcohol strongly influences our perception of what we find attractive in the physical appearance of someone as well as sexual attraction, which explains why there are so many drunk hook-ups when we go out for a couple of drinks.

You ask why? According to the scientist, the consumption of alcohol hinders from detecting the existing body symmetry and we find everyone attractive.

A psychological study showed that the consumption of alcohol causes a drop in our visual functions and as a consequence one can’t distinguish correctly between symmetry and asymmetry.

MiLK

Now you know the explanation why there are more opportunites for sex when you go out for drinks. The best you can do now is to rent apartments in Seville to go out to bars and pubs and put the findings of this study to the test.?

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The Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo is presenting “Marta Minujín: MINUSCODEs” until the 6th of February. The exhibition is a review of a project that Minujín did in 1968 when she explored how different social groups act in the same situation. Influenced by Marshall McLuhan this projects explores the social codes of 4 groups consisting of personalities of the art world, business people, the fashion industry and politicians. Minujín created a space with images, light scenes and sounds that emerged out of these social gatherings.

Minujín is considered the „godmother“ of Argentinian Pop Art. She has always been very progressive and started her career in the midst of the controversial 60s when the schemes of Latin American society where destroyed and artists went through an radical change. One of her famous works is La Destrucción (1963) where she burned her works in Paris before the Sarbonne students started throwing with stones. She organized happenings in Latin America and was friends with Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.

She is famous for saying something like „Puke, puke, puke, this is exactly what an artist has to do.“ Although she assures that this is an alter ego she shows her unique personality in her appearance. Wearing extravagant rings and jewellery she says that she is influenced by Dalí’s surrealism. But she denies any stereotypes and assures: “I am schizophrenic, I have a public and a private personality.”

Her character is intrusive and pushy and adds life to her work with coherence and critic density. She is the inventor of happenings in Argentina where her life and reality transformed into a temporary project in itself.

Famous for her performance „El pago de la deuda externa a Margereth Thatcher“ where the artist was sitting across from the former prime minister sitting on corn, “the gold of Latin America.” You see Thatcher screaming, holding on to her chair for dear life. The work was presented at the Institute for Modern Art in London (1996) und consists of 3 pictures that reflect the subversive character of the piece.

Nancy Guzman

After you have seen Minujín’s work and career you can wander the wonderful streets of Sevilla, explore its history and taste its delicious food to later ponder the critical art by Minujín in one of the apartments in Seville?

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One of the greatest jewels of Seville is what we call today the Guadalquivir River, a beautiful Arabic name that echoes its majestic currents. The Romans had formerly named it Betis, currently the name of the centenary football team which prides itself on being the most earthy and passionate in Spain, like the luscious and oil-dark river that lends it its name. But even before the Romans, the river was called theTartessos and was the highlight of Iberian culture in the days before the Romans arrived.

Around it, the Greeks developed some of the most fascinating myths of antiquity, such as the legendary king Arganthonios, beneficent monarch whose wisdom, wealth and generosity greatly impressed Herodotus during the fifth century BC. Another great figure from this epoch was Gárgoris, inventor of beekeeping, and in turn the son and grandson Habis, inventor and promoter of techniques such as plowing.

The climax of the Tartessian culture must have taken place between the seventh and sixth centuries BC. The lower valley of the Guadalquivir River, near the city currently known as Huelva had a vast area of influence which comprised the majority of Extremadura, part of La Mancha and the Mediterranean coast of the Southeast.

We know from the sites found that it was an urban culture  which used writing and produced significant engineering works and roads,  as well as luxury industries, and apparently, plenty of poetry. In fact, its silver, iron and copper mines as well as famous dancers, singers and musicians, precursors of the dancers of Gades (Cadiz) enjoyed legendary status in ancient Rome. Lore has it that   their descendants, according to some medieval chronicles, have educated William of Aquitaine in the arts, thus giving rise to the poetry of Provence and with it, perhaps even the Western idea of love.

In short, the mystery of Tartessos, which more than one occasion has been linked with enigmatic civilization of Atlantis based on the testimony of authors such as Plato, has fueled the imagination of the West for millennia. Hence the extraordinary turmoil that led to the accidental discovery in 1958 just three kilometers from Seville of the Carambolo Treasury, a dazzling display of Tartessian culture.

This magnificent treasure trove consists of 21 pieces of delicately decorated gold in excellent condition which is only occasionally on public display. However in the Archaeological Museum of Maria Luisa Park in Seville, which is full of precious archaeological finds, in one of its rooms an exact replica of it on permanent display.

If you need more information about this permanent collection please visit the web:

http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/museos/MASE/index.jsp?redirect=S2_3_1.jsp

Paul Oilzum

If you rent apartments in Seville take a trip back in time and relive the fantastical history of the Tartessians.

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The CAAC in Seville has become a referential institution for contemporary art in Europe, curating relevant and timely exhibitions featuring a wide variety of contemporary artists. Year after year, their interesting exhibition proposals shed light on the most important currents of the art world. On October 28^th , the exhibition “Public Counterpublics” opened in order to present a project that is dedicated to questioning the viewer’s position in the field of contemporary visual culture. Artists like Marina Abramovi? and Joseph Beuys will collaborate.

With the rise of new media art in the cultural field and innovative exhibition techniques encouraged by institutions and museums, the figure of the spectator has undergone a drastic change from the purely visual and passive role of the past. In other words, changing the exhibition spaces has gone hand in with finding new means of artistic expression, simultaneously changing the perception and consumption of the art by the viewer, accustomed to more passive forms of reception.

Using this occasion to inquire about the phenomenon, the CAAC has invited more than thirty artists, whose works serve to articulate four different points of reflection on the figure of the spectator. On the one hand, we have the closing and opening of the exhibition space and on the other, its public reception as well as its communication and broadcasting. Finally, the spectator as figure interacts with the work itself and thus becomes an actor.

As we could expect from an institution like CAAC, we can count on seeing some of the most important artists of a generation whose work deals with the idea of the spectator. Among them you will find the iconic Marina Abramovic, Andrea Fraser, Joseph Beuys, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Ulla von Brandenbur,  just to name few.

Heloise Battista

Rent apartments in Seville to muse about the role of the spectator in art until March 6th 2011.

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