Mapa-Mundi BR (postal) is a set of wooden shelves holding postcards that depict locations in Brazil named for foreign countries and cities. When installed, viewers are invited to fill out and mail a postcard to any destination, an act which parallels the dissemination and global circulation of image, text, and the idea of place.
Rivane Neuenschwander’s work foregrounds its inventive use of materials, often altering and manipulating them in novel ways: snails eat through rice paper, fish carry pieces of love letters, and prayer ribbons leave on museum visitors’ wrists. All of her projects—which are comprised of photography, film, or installation—refer back to cycles of human interaction, consumption, and sentiment.
John Houck’s brown- , sienna- and golden-toned composition, Untitled #185, 65, 535 combinations of a 2×2 grid, 16 colors , features densely packed lines of color moving diagonally across the creased page...
Miami Advice: Shantelle Rodriguez on Isamu Noguchi’s Slide Mantra Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 interview Miami Advice: Shantelle Rodriguez on Isamu Noguchi’s Slide Mantra Superblue's director of experiential art centres explains why the playful bayfront sculpture holds a special place in her heart Tim Schneider 8 December 2023 Share Slide Mantra featured in Noguchi’s US Pavilion at the 1986 Venice Biennale—the first by a single US artist © Phillip Pessar Isamu Noguchi created Slide Mantra (1986) as the centrepiece of his solo exhibition in the US Pavilion at the 1986 Venice Biennale, the first edition of the event at which the Americans had devoted their space to a single artist...
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Podcast 92: Critics Live: OIWA by The Finger Players at SIFA 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Arts House Limited July 3, 2021 Critics Alice Saville (UK), Amitha Amranand (TH), Matthew Lyon (SG) and Taisuke Shimanuki (JP) discuss OIWA: The Ghost of Yotsuya by The Finger Players, presented at Singapore International Festival of the Arts (SIFA)...
Katia Kameli’s film The Storyteller explores the cultural role of deep-rooted artistic tradition in Morocco...
Book Review: "Writing the Modern: Selected Texts on Art & Art History in Singapore, Malaysia & Southeast Asia" | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 12, 2018 By Carmen Nge (1300 words, five-minute read) In the vast firmament of Singaporean-Malaysian art history, no star illuminates as radiantly as T...
Satirizing an airport security checkpoint, The Ecdysiast – Molt (Body Inspection) by Yao Qingmei offers a comedic and critical inquiry into the logics underpinning collective control and surveillance culture...
In this work, Saâdane Afif quotes André Cadere’s round wooden batons using the copy share and remix principles...
Lam Tung Pang created Sketches from train ride Chicago to San Francisco during his travels through the United States researching American curatorial strategies for representing traditional Chinese painting in museums and cultural institutions...
Nathan Lewis has always made figurative and abstract drawings, which are related to anatomical textures and patterns he encountered when working as an ICU nurse...
Changi, Singapore, possibly 1970s is from the series “As We Walked on Water” (2010-2012), which looks into Singapore’s history around the phenomenon of land reclamation...