New Releases
Apr 30, 2009
niansa//"lanewayz"
By night, who knows what goes on here – but by day, Niansa takes a sneaky opportunity to capture a killer set that reflects both her colourful personality and her excitement about revealing her body to the world. She may just walk down that alleyway again someday to find the paparazzi waiting there on the hard rubbish.
photos | Primary
Apr 29, 2009
iris_p//"take_pause"
Iris P is surrounded by the unique moods provided by the layout of her uniquely beautiful home, and she explores that in a way that stops in each one to idle there and absorb its particular energy. Her stillness slows down the speed of our very lives and pumps the silence of space into our ears.
photos | overload
Apr 29, 2009
portia//"ritual_1" Video
There are lots of ways to honour oneself, and Portia combines a few of them in this part-ritual, part-exposé. The running water provides a most fitting sonic backdrop to the soothing sounds of her voice and her music.
video | Primary
Apr 29, 2009
alexia_laro//"monkeybars"
You may have avoided it when you were younger so as to protect yourself from the embarrassment of falling off, but now you’ve got nothing to lose, especially if your monkeybars are as abandoned as these ones are. This playful debut makes the back of our knees ache from the friction of hours spent swaying upside-down.
photos | Primary
Apr 28, 2009
del//"dressups"
The kids these days have so many styles to choose from, and this 80s-trash-glam-with-a-touch-of-roaring-20s kit is a fine example of how postmodernity has made us more fashionable than we’ve ever been. Dreamy Del plays dressups to dress right down to her very flesh.
photos | Primary
Apr 27, 2009
cinny_d//"ablaze"
Cinny_D returns to ISM with a little more of that golden glow she shared with us last year. She seems to have a firm grasp on how to make that natural glow brighter and brighter until we start to fear that she may combust – so much warm energy spills from her that we’re all feeling the heat.
photos | Reload
Apr 27, 2009
miss_toys//"legomation"
Miss_Toys puts on her spaceboots and transports us to the world of tiny plastic spacemen who know the real way forward – universal interlocking systems of great structural integrity. When it all goes to hell, Miss_Toys will be laughing from her Lego bunker at all of you fools who failed to prepare.
photos | Primary
Apr 26, 2009
ayla//"todiefor"
Yes, she most certainly is. Ayla is a total fox who isn’t afraid to act a bit silly and doesn’t take herself too seriously, and her big cheeky grin is more contagious than a yawn in a waiting room. Such a generous spirit is bound to find itself led to ISM eventually, and we’re glad she’s finally made it.
photos | overload
Apr 26, 2009
alissa//"the_whites"
Alissa celebrates the simple pleasure of crisp, clean white sheets left to dry in the sunshine, and what she’s created certainly delivers that feeling to her viewer. And oh, what she gets away with in the privacy of her makeshift tent!
photos | Primary
Apr 25, 2009
madeline//"polar"
Madeline practises restraint. The evidence is all here, but not in the most obvious indicators – no, no, look closer. At the careful compositions, the perfectly-executed controlled release of self and sex, the movement of a body known intensely by its owner, the precise occupation of this contained space.
photos | Reload
naima//"open_air"
"I love being naked, there's nothing better, and why not show yourself? It's a way to love your body even more. I've never been so comfortable with myself as I am now."
photos | Primary
Apr 25, 2009
joana//"LustForLife2" Video
ISM video is a bit of a lucky dip sometimes, both for its creators and its consumers. You never know when you might reach in and get a spontaneous musical performance that rivals the last good gig you went to, and when it comes round, you feel like the luckiest dipper there is.
video | Primary
Apr 24, 2009
lea//"highnote"
Lea’s rock goddess incarnation has made an appearance here before, and if you happened to be hanging out on BBC news or some other time-wasting website when she did, make haste to Lea’s collected ISM works to see and hear some of the sweetest crooning there ever was. Today her ‘studio’ is not just for making music – it’s for makin’ pictures too.
photos | Reload
Apr 24, 2009
jezzabelle//"goldenhour"
You know her type – the adventure-sports girl who’s always on one excursion or another, never afraid to take up any physical challenge, always on the run in one way or another. Today she captures the beach’s most perfect hour, where the sky and the sea are all mercury and fairy floss, the hour that you only know about if you’re outside as much as she is.
photos | Primary
Apr 23, 2009
ailith//"dia_de_oro"
Ailith lives in a gilded world – and it seems that most of it is created by her alchemic energy. She clearly carries with her a joy that is ever-present and far-reaching, and she has captured some moments of pure rapture in her follow-up exhibition on ISM.
photos | Reload
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