What Price Art?

CULTIVATE VYNER STREET
The corner of Vyner Street and Mowlem Street, London, E2 9HE
Opening night, Thurs 15th Sept, 6pm – 9pm, then 11.30am – 6pm Fri 16th- Sun 18th Sept.

fb info page: HERE

Not sure if I will ever find the right words to say about what I felt that morning in Brooklyn. For now, this was a view from one of the places I called my temporary home back then. To my luck the flashbacks of the smoking towers and the freakout within about what might follow do not come as often anymore. I love NYC, its people, all that is stands for and all that it represents. Dear NYC, I hope you are well and you won't be hit like this ever again. See you soon. 

Postcard from the studio

Floris nagged that I should say hi with him in focus, so here we are. 

Warm greetings from N15!

Speaking of Words Birthday Bash

So, with the album release on my very Birthday (September 19th), you know, I thought it being my first child of this kind and all, we could share the same official Birthday! So we needed to present. That is why, we are going to do a gig on the September 27th as part of Interrobang at The Bookclub, downstairs in the basement, where, expect lots of good art and much soul niceness, very very excited to do this!!! Big Thanks are in order to Vanessa who runs the event...

The Bookclub is in 100-106 Leonard Street in London. EC2A 4RH is the postcode for the ones who need that.

You can order Speaking of Words here http://mariaslovakova.bandcamp.com

FB even page is here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=271000139577859

Talking Heart to Heart at Sheffield United Football Club

...so, I have made it to a football stadium. Well one of my paintings did. Check out the view from where it's hanging! I truly have to give my big honest thanks to AIM(Artists in Mind) for this unique opportunity to shine in a place like this! Photo evidence provided by Richard Turner. Oh, Yeah.

...Rupert on my table

Some fish

Gifted some fish to my local fish store today...:)

Fleabaines

I saw him, in the middle of the night. Ever so cute. And lovely.
Full report on http://evildesign.com/evil/blog/EB6524/Under%20the%20Cover%20of%20Night

Tongue Fu photos by Artur Nizicky

I don't remember a gig that I would have enjoyed this much. I love being on stage, have done a good few shows in the past, but this simply felt quite alright. The band was truly amazing, Phil Davison has made a special dress for me to wear, David Cuesta did his magic with video projections...audience was great. So here also, I want to say thanks to Chris Redmond for inviting me and also to everyone else who has made it so special for me. Thank You!

Latitude festival 2011

...and some of my work at Pohoda 2011...

few music moments of Pohoda festival 2011

Tom Barman

PiL

Jarvis Cocker

Imogen Heap

The Big Lunch 2011

It drizzled and it rained. But the party was real real nice. http://www.thebiglunch.com

Tongue Fu

This is gonna be lotsa fun!

Come along!

Tongue Fu at Rich Mix 35-47 Bethnal Green Road E1 6LA London, United Kingdom on Thursday, June 30th 2011 is

featuring

Elvis McGonagall, Maria Slovakova & Anthony Anaxagorou

Three multi-syllable surnamed demigods of Spoken Word flex their freshest lyrical moves to jaw-dropping improvised soundtracks from the Tongue Fu Band (UNKLE, Massive Attack)

Elvis McGonagall – Firey stand up poet, armchair revolutionary and 2006 World Slam Champion. A regular on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live, Today Programme and Arthur Smith’s Balham Bash. “….funny, angry and tightly written…recalls John Cooper Clarke in his prime” The Scotsmanhttp://elvismcgonagall.co.uk/

Maria Slovakova makes poems, paintings, stickers, clothes, toys, iphone apps and album artwork, working in the UK, Europe and US with her Peace & Cookies company. Featured by Tom Robinson on BBC Radio 6, she’s Bjork, making toy poems on acid, with a Buddhist heart. http://maria-slovakova.net/

Anthony Anaxagorou – former Slambassador, setting stages alight all over London, Anthony recently toured the UK with MOBO winning hip-hop head Akala. Bright, political, spirited poetry with sharp teeth.http://anthonyanaxagorou.com/
Plus special guests

Poet In Residence Shane Solanki
http://lastmangoinparis.net/

Hosted by
Chris Redmond - as heard on BBC Radio 4’s Pick Of The Week
http://myspace.com/ventriloquistmusic

www.richmix.org.uk or 020 7613 7498 for tickets
£9 / £7 concs
Doors 8pm / Show 8.30pm

"It's poetry, but not as you know it…amazing to listen to” The Guardian

“Top performance poetry night” The Independent

“the best poetry night in London” WriteOutLoud.net

http://youtube.com/tonguefutales

ARTFLAKES

Thanks to ARTFLAKES from Berlin there are some more nice prints and cards now available!

Click bellow to enter my page...keep checking back, there is more to come.

http://www.artflakes.com/en/shop/maria-slovakova

Abe doing theTulip listening.

This one off to Australia very soon. Painted for my dear friend Chris who lives there now.

Kurt

Speaking of Words

So. After a year of work we're almost there. My first spoken word release is almost out of the oven. Titled Speaking of Words, it will be released on Peace&Cookies label and I think it's all so exciting! Here is one of the tracks for you this very fine Sunday.

http://soundcloud.com/mariaslovakova/incomprehensible/s-wUx27

You can follow the news on twitter if you wish!

http://twitter.com/SpeakingOfWords

Listening to Other Voices

I will be returning to AIM(Artist in Mind) on April 13th to do a spoken word reading...very much looking forward to it, it's been a long time since I was in Huddersfield and to AIM.

Stitching time

Viking the machine and I are making toys today.

Vzlet

I was asked to create a cover of February issue of Slovak language teenage magazine in Serbia. Thank You Jasmina for this!!!

FILL IN THE GROOVE

This is my submission on vinyl, titled 'And Richard loves you too'. The show will start at Hoodlums Records in Tempe, AZ on FEBRUARY 26th, 2011

Tongue Fu

It was so amazing to perform Beauty and the Beast.
What a night. Big thanks to all who were there!

...and 3 more...

3 for the start of the year

Happy New Year!

Festive Greetings

So, have a wonderful end of 2010. New Year Wish card shall follow soon.

Chris Garneau at Cafe de la Dance

chris garneau
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So beautiful. I am so happy that I finally got to see him play live.

Another painting give away...in Bratislava

Michal Kascak of Pohoda agency asked me if I would paint live during Swell Season/Longital gig in Divadlo Arena in Bratislava, Slovakia last Friday...so of course I did. Quite a large number of people put their name down to win the piece that I titled 'Friendship Angels'and then after all the musical action, Vetron won.Pictures above. Yay for making people happy.

Moments of Oslo

the soundtrack to this is a rough demo of First Encounter, one of my poems.
it somehow made sense to put these two together now...