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The video Swimming in rivers of Glue is composed of various images of nature, exploring the themes of exploration of space and its colonization. The images show the diversity of forms of life on earth. These forms are associated with texts that relay a form of propaganda. Interviews are conducted, and often refer to the most urgent issues concerning humanity. The interviews are the revealers of fear and anxiety that contaminate the entire film. The video has the effectiveness of a propaganda film while opening us to irrational and poetic images, as can still be the theme of the conquest of space. Like all Aranda’s works, the purpose of this video is related to our experience of space that has been diverted to be thought of as a means of subjugation and control.
Julieta Aranda is a contemporary artist whose explorations traverse installation, video, and print media. Aranda has a special interest in the creation and manipulation of artistic exchange and the subversion of traditional notions of commerce through art making. She is currently based in Berlin and New York City. She holds a degree from Columbia University and is the Editor of e-Flux. For many years, Aranda has been interested in design and architecture. She observes the ways through which planning of public space; architecture and design are often thought of and employed as a way to control the body. These city-planning devices establish physical frontiers that respond to the fences of information and knowledge in our age of hyper-connectivity. These themes have lead the artist to take an interest in the notions of time, circulation and imagination by examining social interactions and the role that the circulation of objects plays in the cycle of production and consumption. She seeks, by highlighting its arbitrary dimension, alternatives to the experience of time.
Hand Palm Echo 1 is a digital animation based on Christine Sun Kim’s staircase mural at The Drawing Center in New York (10 March – 22 May, 2022)...
Charco portátil congelado (Frozen Portable Puddle, 1994) is a photographic record of an installation of the same name that Gabriel Orozco made at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam for the group exhibition WATT (1994)...
Untitled (Perfect Lovers + 1) by Cerith Wyn Evans takes as its starting point Felix Gonzales-Torres’s seminal work Untitled (Perfect Lovers) , in which two clocks were synchronized and left to run without interference, the implication being that one would stop before the other...
Fridge-Freezer is a 2-channel video installation where Yoshua Okón explores the darker side of suburbia, d escribed by the artist as “ the ideal environment for a numb existence of passive consumerism and social a nd environmental disengagement...
The version of Frontier acquired by the Kadist Collection consists of a single-channel video, adapted from the monumental installation and performance that Aitken presented in Rome, by the Tiber River, in 2009...
Untitled (Perfect Lovers + 1) by Cerith Wyn Evans takes as its starting point Felix Gonzales-Torres’s seminal work Untitled (Perfect Lovers) , in which two clocks were synchronized and left to run without interference, the implication being that one would stop before the other...
Wright Imperial Hotel (2004) is a sort of bow and arrow made out of feathers, a São Paulo phone book, and other materials...
In Fordlândia Fieldwork (2012), Tossin documents the remains of Henry Ford’s rubber enterprise Fordlândia, built in 1928 in the Brazilian Amazon to export cultivated rubber for the booming automobile industry...
The series Belle Époque of the Tropics by Noara Quintana has as its background the history of the rubber industrialization in North of Brazil...
Welling employs simple materials like crumpled aluminum foil, wrinkled fabric and pastry dough and directly exposes them as photograms, playing with the image in the process of revealing it...
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...
Extrastellar Evaluations is a multimedia installation produced during Yin-Ju Chen’s residency at Kadist San Francisco in the spring of 2016...
In Tapitapultas (2012), Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker comment on mass consumerism and pollution by way of a game they invented...
Gabriel Kuri has created a series of works in which he juxtaposes perennial and ephemeral materials...
Shot in Oliveto Lucano, a village in the south of Italy, AUTOTROFIA (meaning self-eating) by artist Anton Vidokle is a cinéma vérité style film that slides fictive characters into real situations, and vice-versa, to draw a prolonged meditation on the cycle of life, seasonal renewal, and ecological awareness...
Searching for We’wha is composed of five photographic triptychs combining photographs from the American West (New Mexico and Arizona) with excerpts from American Indian poetry in an attempt to reconstruct imaginary aspects of the life of We’Wha, a famous member of the Zuni tribe, who was born male but who lived a feminine gender expression...
Re: Looking marks a new phase in Wong’s work which connects his region’s history with other parts of the world...
The Planets, Chapter 32 (2017) is a short video that depicts the world at a time of great anxiety...