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This Björk-narrated fungi documentary is enough to make you trip | Dazed ⬅️ Left Arrow *️⃣ Asterisk ⭐ Star Option Sliders ✉️ Mail Exit Film & TV Feature Directed by Merlin Sheldrake, Fungi: Web of Life features jaw-dropping time-lapse footage in which fungi germinate like majestic, otherworldly creatures 12 February 2024 Text Nick Chen Fungi: Web of Life 8 The British biologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake is to mushrooms what Björk is to music...

Route 1: R for Replicant is the first exhibition in an annual series to be drawn from the 101 Collection based in San Francisco...

Jorge González joins KADIST San Francisco for a short residency to expand on his long-term research on Indigenous craft techniques and knowledge specific to the Carribean...

“Cloth as Land” at JMKAC Presents Textiles as a Wellspring of Hmong Indigeneity Skip to content Ger Xiong/Ntxawg Xyooj, “I sat closely and watched it crumble and unraveled and crumbled and unraveled and...” (2023), Coca-Cola can and embroidery thread (image courtesy the artist) HMong* indigeneity is complicated by centuries of political conflicts, displacement, erasure, and disorientation in HMong homelands of China and Southeast Asia...

de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas reader This digital publication was produced as part of the exhibition de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas [from underwater mountains fire makes islands] , curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel and co-presented by KADIST and Pivô, which continues the curator’s research project, ‘de montanhas submarinas o fogo faz ilhas.’ Released on November 9, 2022, the reader brings together commissioned and translated texts by Félix Servio Ducoudray, Marta Aponte Alsina, Marilia Loureiro, Suely Rolnik, Olivier Marboeuf, Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, and Yina Jiménez Suriel...

biarritzzz is interested in how the development of the internet, and experimentation in the virtual world happens simultaneously with the experimentation in the material world of the human species; and how these developments reflect the precariousness of life within neoliberalism...

Documentation of Magnus Andersen at Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt is featured on Contemporary Art Daily....

Eamon Ore-Giron’s new commissioned video project Bite Work, is an experimental genre breaking video that is part-performance, part-conceptual and part-comical addressing issues of mediation, surveillance and trust...

Young men are often found together in uniform, already influenced by ideology and bodily and style stereotypes...

Untitled is a work on paper by Martin Kippenberger comprised of several seemingly disparate elements: cut-out images of a group of dancers, a japanese ceramic vase, and a pair of legs, are all combined with gestural, hand-drawn traces and additional elements such as a candy wrapper from a hotel in Monte Carlo and a statistical form from a federal government office in Wiesbaden, Germany...

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FIELD MEETING Take 4: Thinking Practice | Ibraaz Contemporary Visual Culture in North Africa and the Middle East Home Platform Essays Interviews Projects Channel Reviews Publications News About Sign up Quick search Go Author Keyword Search archive Title Platform 010: Where to Now? Shifting Regional Dynamics and Cultural Production in North Africa and the Middle East 009: What are the genealogies of performance art in North Africa and the Middle East? 008: How do we productively map the historical and contemporary relationships that exist between North Africa, the Middle East and the Global South? 007: What is the future of arts infrastructures and audiences across North Africa and the Middle East? 006: What role can the archive play in developing and sustaining a critical and culturally located art history? 005: How has a globalised cultural economy affected the production of contemporary visual culture in North Africa and the Middle East? 004: With the benefit of hindsight, what role does new media play in artistic practices, activism, and as an agent for social change in the Middle East and North Africa today? 003: Can Artistic Practices Negotiate the Demands of Cultural Institutions, Public Space, and Civil Society? 002: What relationship does visual culture have to the world we live in? 001: What do we need to know about the MENA region today? Published between and Publications FIELD MEETING Take 4: Thinking Practice Online Programme 010_05 / 28 October 2016 Tags Curatorial Practice Conference Chapters in this series Introduction Curatorial Narrative Speaker Biographies + Synopses Programme / Schedule Closing Remarks Responses Video documentation Day 1 Video documentation Day 2 Most Viewed The Global South Conflicting Narratives and the Invention of Geographies Fernando Resende Global Art Forum 8 1972-1982 Spaceship Sheraton and the Making of Doha's Masterplans Ibraaz The North of the South and the West of the East A Provocation to the Question Walter D...

In her new series titled Ninas Peruanas Cusquenas , Teresa Burga depicts young indigenous women from Peru’s Andean region, dressed in traditional garments...

Like most of Laura Rokas’s hand-stitched works, Once in Two Moons was made while she sat in bed, imbuing the work with a tender sense of domestic intimacy...

Hauser & Wirth and Nicola Vassell Unveil New Partnership Model – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Sarah Douglas Plus Icon Sarah Douglas Editor-in-Chief, ARTnews View All November 28, 2023 4:00pm Amapiano Dance , 2022-2023, Uman, Acrylic, oil and oil stick on canvas in artist's frame, 62 5/8 x 62 5/8 in...

South Africa Righteous Space by Hank Willis Thomas is concerned with history and identity, with the way race and ‘blackness’ has not only been informed but deliberately shaped and constructed by various forces – first through colonialism and slavery, and more recently through mass media and advertising – and reminds us of the financial and economic stakes that have always been involved in representations of race....

February Book Bag: from to a graphic novel of Ruth Asawa’s life to a tome of Glenn Brown’s works Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Books blog February Book Bag: from to a graphic novel of Ruth Asawa’s life to a tome of Glenn Brown’s works Our round-up of the latest art publications Gareth Harris 6 February 2024 Share Glenn Brown , contributors include Hans Werner Holzwarth, Taschen, 474pp, £750 (hb) This new monograph gives an in-depth overview of the work of the UK artist Glenn Brown, known for his reproductions of other artists’ works—including those byOld Masters, the greats of Modern art and science-fiction illustrators—which he transforms by radically reconfiguring their colour, orientation and size...

Weekly Picks: Indonesia (4 - 10 March 2019) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do March 4, 2019 Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Jakarta, Surabaya and Bali from 4-10 March 2019 In order to understand the contemporary art and society, we have to take our understanding beyond the principles of modernism...

Coproduced between KADIST and Sharjah Art Foundation in the context of Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present , Farah Al Qasimi’s Um Al Dhabaab (Mother of Fog) challenges colonial myths upheld by Western academia and the lingering imperialist interests at play across Asia’s modern-day trade hubs...

Martin Kippenberger’s late collages are known for incorporating a wide range of materials, from polaroids and magazine clips to hotel stationery, decals, and graphite drawings...