In May 2014, Israeli soldiers shot and killed two teenagers, Nadeem Nawara and Mohamad Abu Daher in occupied Palestine (West Bank). Through the Forensic Architecture program, the human rights organization Defence for Children International worked with Abu Hamdan to investigate the incident. The case hinged upon an audio-ballistic analysis of the recorded gunshots to determine whether the soldiers had used rubber bullets, as they asserted, or broken the law by firing live ammunition at the two unarmed teenagers.
Referencing psychology, philosophy, and spiritualism, A series of personal questions addressed to a Hikimawashi kappa traveling coat by James Webb is an ongoing series in which the artist poses spoken questions to objects via a speaker installed near the object on display. The questions are addressed to the objects as if they were sentient beings able to respond. Each question is left hanging, unanswered for approximately 10 seconds before the next question is posed.
30 Proposals of Flag explores the relationships between signs, meanings, aesthetics, and nations. The artwork consists of 30 flags layered together and hanging from the ceiling. Each flag is illustrated with Jao’s rendition of a possible coat of arms derived from Taiwan’s economic and political history.
Untitled (Construction) recalls the series of glass cubes that gained Bell international recognition in the 1960s. Resembling a black-mirrored box, this recent iridescent piece produces an uncanny effect in which the interior planes seem to enclose a mysterious light. Although austere in form, Bell’s works are far from simple: he uses technology like a vacuum-coating process, to accurately control the different levels of opacity and transparency on the surface of his immaculate glass works.
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). The artist arrived a week prior to the opening with no artwork to install, and created three spontaneous works from locally sourced materials. This one was made of white plastic record sleeves that Orozco arranged on the damp roof of the gallery.
Adam is an emblematic work within Jean-Charles de Quillacq’s oeuvre. The artist has created a number of pieces entitled Adam , referring to original man, incarnated in multiple objects at once. Materially, Adam is a fluorescent yellow walking rope with an epoxy coating on one side, rendering the structure rigid, demonstrative of his sculptural practice which is both conceptual and sensual.
«I will put two heavy stones in my jacket pockets that way my body will sink deep like a deflated truck tire, no one will notice», this excerpt from “Quay West” by Koltès could echo the story depicted by Katinka Bock: the shipwreck of a small boat full of stones. The grain of the image and the framing evoke distant times, maybe the origins of cinema and the footage of the Lumière brothers. The operator’s gaze creates a landscape undetermined in space and time.
The Last Post was inspired by Sikander’s ongoing interest in the colonial history of the sub-continent and the British opium trade with China. In this animation, layers of images, abstract forms, meaning, and metaphorical associations slowly unfold at the same time that more visual myths are created. The identity of the protagonist, a red-coated official, is indeterminate and suggestive of both the mercantilist policies that led to the Opium Wars with China and the cultural authority claimed by the Company school of painting over colonial India.
I don’t remember is a video by Yung Jake that combines his passion for both music and the visual arts. As per several of his works the video borrows from the vernacular of rap and relies on the aesthetic and stylistic qualities of music videos. A humorous interpretation of the rap and hip hop genres, the video combines scenes from urban settings and snapshots of a party as the artist raps in a drowsy monotone about having forgotten the wild night.
Like with other works of the artist, with First Piano Katinka Bock tried to go against the rules of use of clay, that is, by forcing the material to the extreme, and transferring the resulting elements into a cubic shaped volume. Thus, the resulting accumulated strata brings back the material to its very essence, the earth.
The Théâtre de poche video is inspired by Arthur Lloyd / “Human Card Index”, a magician who was famous for being able to take out of his pockets any image requested by his spectators. His coat hid over 15 000 different prints. In Aurélien Froment’s work, a magician presents images by making them appear, disappear or move in space.
Too Many Names by Troy Chew is a patchwork of contemporary Black culture and resistance, including hand-sewn symbols and patterns found in the coats of arms of the kings of the Dahomey region (now Benin) that ruled from 1600-1900. This painting is part of the series Out the Mud, a longterm project in which the artist explores African American history through the lens of traditional mudcloth techniques found in the West African countries involved in the Transatlantic-slave trade. The title of the series references the technique and materials for making mudcloth.
Sam Contis’s photographs explore the relationship of bodies to landscape, and the shifting nature of gender identity and expression. Horseback is part of a photographic series Contis made at Deep Springs College, one of the United States’s last all-male institutions of higher learning, located in a remote desert valley on the California–Nevada border. Horseback is a black and white photograph that depicts the arched shoulders of a horse, its slick mane splayed across its neck.
The title of Alicia Smith’s video work, Teomama , means “God Carrier” in the Aztec language of Nahuatl. It was the name given to medicine men and women who carried the bones of Huitzilopochtli—the god of war, sun, and human sacrifice in ancient Mexico, and the national deity of the Aztecs. Of the many legends featuring Huitzilopochtli, the origin story of Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico City) is perhaps one of the most well-known.
Noémie Goudal’s short film, Below the Deep South , is based on the work of palaeoclimatologist James Bendle who, while drilling in Antarctica, discovered coal beneath the ice. Bendle’s theory is that the coal is an indication that Antarctica was once a lush, green forested environment with insects and animals. It only arrived in its present position due to the shifting of tectonic plates.
The city, the landscape and the exhibition space are Katinka Bock’s favored playgrounds...
Yung Jake is a visual artist and YouTube rapper based in Los Angeles whose work fuses new media, music, and art...
Chia-En Jao’s artwork approaches issues of identity, political regimes, coded sign systems, and his own experiences as a migrant...
Artist Jean-Charles de Quillacq erects works which have a complicated relationship to remaining upright...
What are the political implication of our sounds and voices? How is it heard and used for or against us? These are questions posed by Lawrence Abu Hamdan (b...
Spanning painting, drawing, and sculpture, Troy Chew’s practice reflects on the legacy of the African diaspora through the lens of urban culture...
Alicia Smith is a Xicana artist and activist whose work thoughtfully engages with the subjects of indigeneity, colonialism, the environment, and the female body...
James Webb is a conceptual artist, known for his site-specific interventions and installations...
Workplace Is Building a Community-Led Gallery with Roots in England’s North East | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Market Workplace Is Building a Community-Led Gallery with Roots in England’s North East Maxwell Rabb Feb 7, 2024 5:25PM Portrait of Miles Thurlow and Paul Moss in Gateshead, U...
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11 Contemporary Artists Channeling Pierre Bonnard’s Post-Impressionist Vision | Artsy Skip to Main Content Art 11 Contemporary Artists Channeling Pierre Bonnard’s Post-Impressionist Vision Cath Pound Jan 22, 2024 5:56PM Considered one of the greatest colorists of modern art, Pierre Bonnard reveled in the simple joys of daily life...
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Aesthetica Magazine - Poetry of the Everyday Poetry of the Everyday Chinese artist Li Feng works in his studios in Shanghai and Los Angeles, where he is inspired by the everyday: people, language and the poetic ironies of life...
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A Cleveland Museum’s Bad Bet on a Looted Roman Statue Skip to content “Draped Male Figure” (circa 150 BCE–200 CE) at the Cleveland Museum of Art...
James Patterson Awards Bonuses to Bay Area Bookstore Employees | KQED Skip to Nav Skip to Main Skip to Footer Arts & Culture James Patterson Awards $500 Bonuses to Bay Area Bookstore Employees The Associated Press Dec 14 Save Article Save Article Failed to save article Please try again Facebook Share-FB Twitter Share-Twitter Email Share-Email Copy Link Copy Link Inside Green Apple on Clement Street; the bookstore has two additional locations, Green Apple Books on the Park and Browser Books...
Guts Gallery, the Bold Space Shaking up the London Art Scene | AnOther As their new group show opens in Hackney, founder Ell Pennick talks about the daring ethos behind Guts Gallery, and challenging the art world’s set systems December 07, 2023 Text Emily Steer Many London galleries claim to rethink the mould, but few go ahead and do it with such conviction as Guts ...
Fresh Sounds for the Holidays | KQED Skip to Nav Skip to Main Skip to Footer The Do List Fresh Sounds for the Holidays Andrew Gilbert Dec 12 Save Article Save Article Failed to save article Please try again Facebook Share-FB Twitter Share-Twitter Email Share-Email Copy Link Copy Link Sam Reider and the Human Hands, seen here performing at Dizzy's Club at Lincoln Center, will play at JCCSF on Dec...
Watch a Bay Area Hip-Hop Game Show | KQED Skip to Nav Skip to Main Skip to Footer That's My Word Watch a Bay Area Hip-Hop Game Show Gabe Meline Dec 1 Save Article Save Article Failed to save article Please try again Facebook Share-FB Twitter Share-Twitter Email Share-Email Copy Link Copy Link It started as an improbable idea: What if KQED hosted a game show about Bay Area hip-hop? What if we pulled contestants out of the crowd to test their knowledge on Mac Dre, Andre Nickatina and Too Short? Like Jeopardy meets Name That Tune , but make it player?...
NYC Selected Gallery Guide: Dec 2023 – Two Coats of Paint Bortolami: Jutta Koethe in “ Good Luck Spot ” Hey galleries and artists! If you have enjoyed being included in our NYC Selected Gallery Guide and find it a helpful way to get the word out to promote your exhibitions, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Two Coats of Paint ...
Transcending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this musical ensemble plays a message of hope for the Middle East | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Performing arts in Hong Kong + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more The West-Eastern Divan Ensemble at the Pierre Boulez Saal concert hall in Berlin, Germany...
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Spectrum of Nature in SIFA 2022 | ArtsEquator Skip to content ArtsEquator interviews four artists whose works depict nature in different spectrums, at the upcoming Singapore International Festival of Arts 2022...
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Statistically Speaking: What the data says about arts audiences in Singapore and Australia | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles January 27, 2021 On Thursday, 28 January 11am-12.30pm (GMT +8), representatives from Singapore’s National Arts Council (NAC) and the Australia Council for the Arts will discuss audience attitudes towards the arts in their respective countries in the webinar titled “Statistically Speaking: Analysing Arts Audience Engagement in Singapore and Australia”...
Statistically Speaking: Analysing Arts Audience Engagement in Singapore and Australia | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles January 20, 2021 Representatives from Singapore’s National Arts Council (NAC) and the Australia Council for the Arts will discuss audience attitudes towards the arts in their respective countries, based on research survey data collected in 2019 and 2020...
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: 70 years of filmmaking in Indonesia; Malaysia's digital theatre | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Liver and Lungs Production August 19, 2020 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...
The working processes of artists: ScRach MarcS | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 6, 2019 In this video, LASALLE students Heng Wei Ting and Syarifuddin Bin Sahari speak to dancers Rachel Lee and Marcus Tan, also known as ScRach MarcS, on the intricacies of street dance in Singapore, including its acceptance as an art form, and how Singapore’s cultural make-up affects the scene...
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“Learning”: Memory, Precision, Uncertainty in a 5-hour Durational Performance at National Gallery Singapore | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Arnaud Bouvier "Learning”, choreographed by Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard February 25, 2019 By Jocelyn Chng (440 words, three-minute read) Part of National Gallery Singapore’s special programme Performing Spaces that explores how space can be a “living organism” facilitating encounters between performers and audiences, Learning takes place over two weekends in March 2019...
Solid are the Winds: Aeolian Encounters at The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (Part II) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles January 10, 2019 By Marcus Yee (1340 words, five-minute read) This is the second of a two-part essay on the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial running at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, from 24 November 2018 to 28 April 2019...
Solid are the Winds: Aeolian Encounters at The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (Part I) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Natasha Harth for QAGOMA untitled (giran) (2018), Jonathan Jones in collaboration with Dr Uncle Stan Grant Snr AM January 10, 2019 By Marcus Yee (1259 words, five-minute read) This is the first of a two-part essay on the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial running at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, from 24 November 2018 to 28 April 2019...
Weekly Picks: Singapore (26 November - 2 December 2018) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do November 26, 2018 Guards at the Taj by Singapore Repertory Theatre, KC Arts Centre – Home of SRT, 14 Nov – 1 Dec 2018 A wickedly dark comedy based on a myth surrounding the Taj Mahal that “nothing so beautiful shall ever be built again”...
Weekly Picks: Singapore (12 - 18 November 2018) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do November 12, 2018 667 , a Film Screening by Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, 17 – 18 November 2018 Here’s your chance to catch 667 《回程667》 as the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre celebrates the latest win of local filmmaker, Jun Chong, whose debut short film Ke《客》 , was awarded the Best Asian Short at the 13th Sapporo International Short Film Festival...
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 (Construction) recalls the series of glass cubes that gained Bell international recognition in the 1960s...
«I will put two heavy stones in my jacket pockets that way my body will sink deep like a deflated truck tire, no one will notice», this excerpt from “Quay West” by Koltès could echo the story depicted by Katinka Bock: the shipwreck of a small boat full of stones...
Like with other works of the artist, with First Piano Katinka Bock tried to go against the rules of use of clay, that is, by forcing the material to the extreme, and transferring the resulting elements into a cubic shaped volume...
The Théâtre de poche video is inspired by Arthur Lloyd / “Human Card Index”, a magician who was famous for being able to take out of his pockets any image requested by his spectators...
30 Proposals of Flag explores the relationships between signs, meanings, aesthetics, and nations...
The Last Post was inspired by Sikander’s ongoing interest in the colonial history of the sub-continent and the British opium trade with China...
Adam is an emblematic work within Jean-Charles de Quillacq’s oeuvre...
Sam Contis’s photographs explore the relationship of bodies to landscape, and the shifting nature of gender identity and expression...
In May 2014, Israeli soldiers shot and killed two teenagers, Nadeem Nawara and Mohamad Abu Daher in occupied Palestine (West Bank)...
The title of Alicia Smith’s video work, Teomama , means “God Carrier” in the Aztec language of Nahuatl...
Noémie Goudal’s short film, Below the Deep South , is based on the work of palaeoclimatologist James Bendle who, while drilling in Antarctica, discovered coal beneath the ice...
Referencing psychology, philosophy, and spiritualism, A series of personal questions addressed to a Hikimawashi kappa traveling coat by James Webb is an ongoing series in which the artist poses spoken questions to objects via a speaker installed near the object on display...