In Reyes’s words, “We should be able to extract the technological nutrients before we excrete our waste. There is a missing organ in our social metabolism which would work as a stomach or intestines. The Recyclone is a device made of plastic containers that fit into each other.
Pedro Reyes’s Los Mutantes ( Mutants , 2012) is composed of 170 plates that combine characters from ancient and modern mythologies. As in a periodic table, animals and objects are combined with humans (male or female), providing a rational framework for the irrational products of human imagination. A Cartesian matrix such as this must follow certain rules.
Sound of Ice Melting is based on the ancient Zen Buddhist koan about the sound of one hand clapping. Here, Kos has surrounded two twenty-five-pound blocks of ice with eight microphones that call to mind the political press conferences prevalent during the Vietnam War era when this piece was created. Zen practice values such absurdity as a way to transcend the limitations of ordinary discourse and rational thought—empirical processes at the root of all political conflicts.
Vieques is an island off the mainland of Puerto Rico used by the U. S Navy and NATO forces as military testing ground as from the 1940s. Civil disobedience and active protest movements initiated by local inhabitants and an international support network led to the end of the bombings and progressive demilitarization in 2002.
Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s recent drawing of cutout figures on architectural tracing paper takes a statement by Leoluca Orlando, the Mayor of Palermo, as a point of departure for the work. Stating, “migration problems can and should find their solution within the affirmation of ‘freedom of movement’ as the new inalienable right of humans. No human has chosen or chooses the place where they were born.
Some Dead Don’t Make a Sound (Hay muertos que no hacen ruido) is a single-channel video by Claudia Joskowicz that features the Mexican legend of the Weeping Woman (La Llorona) as its main protagonist. The video begins with the image of a ghost-like female figure, representing La Llorona, slowly walking down a well-known street in Oaxaca, from the main square (el Zócalo) to the Teatro Macedonio Alcalá, with a painful expression on her face. According to this famous oral myth, the Weeping Woman drowned her two sons in a fit of grief and anger after her husband abandoned her.
Variation & Improvisation for ‘In Harmonia Progressio’ by Duto Hardono is part of a series of work that focuses on sound loops as a fundamental element of his performance – a metaphor that Hardono employs as he examines the human condition, such as time and temporal spatiality. Unlike other works, where he generates sound using analog cassette tapes, this performance uses the human voice. Participants are instructed to vocalize ‘In’, ‘Harmonia’, and ‘Progressio’ – words that make up a Latin phrase which means “progress inside harmony”.
The essay film How to Improve the World by Nguyen Trinh Thi takes us into an indigenous village of the Jrai people in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, in Gia Lai province. It begins with sound – perhaps a hammer, or a gong – the lack of image making its identification difficult. A landscape emerges of an open field where a farmer tends his grazing cow herd.
Sweet Jesus is a sound installation by Lutz Bacher that consists of a found recording of James Earl Jones’ iconic voice reciting biblical genealogy from Matthew, Book 1. Lutz has edited the recording by slowing it down slightly and adding background sound from the same recording. In Lutz’s edit, these are all the names of the ancestors of Jesus leading up to Joseph, but she leaves Jesus out of it, then reverses chronologically.
Agatha Gothe-Snape’s POWERPOINTS is an ongoing series of digital artworks that have been created with Microsoft PowerPoint. They are endless loops with sound. POWERPOINTS parallel Gothe-Snape’s broader conceptual practice stemming from improvisational performance.
Em’kal Eyongakpa was born in Cameroon in 1981. After obtaining a postgraduate diploma in Botany and Ecology, he decided to concentrate exclusively on visual and sound art. His use of poetic, symbolic and surrealistic imagery is often sprinkled with paradoxes that challenge the obvious.
The neon sign Walk the Walk (Sam Durant) overlays a Walk/Don’t Walk Sign crosswalk sign onto the text “You Are On Indian Land Show Some Respect.” The sign asks viewers to not walk on Indigenous lands without respecting it, and, switching between a walking person icon in white and a raised hand icon in red, redirects their actions. This work by Native Art Department International signals a reminder that we–the audience and institution–are located on and occupy traditional territories. The work appropriates and twists white artist Sam Durant’s You Are On Indian Land Show Some Respect (2008) in response to his work Scaffold (2012) installed in 2016-7 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
De sino à sina (From Bell to Fate) is a six-channel sound installation by Carla Zaccagnini exploring the relationship between modern Brazil and its colonial past. The sound installation is made from a recording of the bell at Capela de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Homens Brancos, a Baroque-style chapel that is one of the first chapels in Ouro Preto (previously Vila Rica) in the region of Minas Gerais. The work references the execution of José da Silva Xavier (1746-1792), also known as “Tiradentes”.
For her telephone sound composition Dial Tone Drone, Aura Satz commissioned a conversation between two old friends, the sound pioneers Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) and Laurie Spiegel (born 1945). Carried out via iPhone and Skype and prompted by a series of questions from Satz, the pair congenially discuss aspects of drone sounds, which for years have been an important component of their unconventional electronic work, both audio and video. Their interest in drone sounds and use of sustained or repeated sounds, notes, or tone-clusters aligned with Satz’s own interest in alert signals, and the latter’s attempt to forge a new understanding of hypervigilance and emergency through sound as a perceptual trigger of high alert.
Four knives appearing as if thrown at the wall to alleviate frustration and boredom, form rhythmic shadows and markings of time above a translated phrase boldly printed in simplified Chinese and English. While the English reads “But Now I Manufacture Hate, Every Single Day,” the Chinese, resultant from Google Translate in 2011, reads awkwardly to something meaning “now I manufacture black special.” The term “black special” is derived from a transliteration of the word “hate” into the sound “heite”, where the corresponding written characters literally denote “black special”. The rigidity of the machine translation also preserved the syntax of English, forcing the Chinese to crudely abide by English grammar.
Although at first the work Sounds of War presents itself with a degree of playfulness and humour, a close inspection reveals its painful undertone. The sound installation by Laetitia Sonami is comprised by a series of toilet plungers retrofitted with speakers that audiences are encouraged to engage with. As viewers interact with the modified domestic objects, placing them over their ears, a soundtrack plays audio sourced by the artist from Youtube videos, which feature the haunting voices of women and children in several war zones (Srebrenica, Darfur, Fallujah, Gaza and Iraq).
Gary-Ross Pastrana’s video installation Rewilding consists of three large-scale projections placed across the exhibition space. The poetic footage filmed by the artist portrays three interconnected worlds: a colony of termites; a piano repair workshop in the outskirts of Manila; and an empty concert theatre. Their interconnectivity is shaped by the voice-over of three narrators: a musician discussing the balance between order and chaos found in classical music; a piano repairman describing termite infestations in an instrument of European origin; and a scientist describing the unique social structures of this tropical parasite.
In this four-channel 10 min video installation different episodes play simultaneously on the four screens. The artist has arranged several different scenarios and symbolic props which make it easy for viewers to feel the pervasive ambiguity which cannot be put into words. On the one hand, our imagination is tempted by the delicate details, but on the other hand, our imagination is limited through a very rigorous structure.
The Third Seal—They Are Already Old. They Don’t Need To Exist Anymore is part of The Seven Seals , Tsang’s ongoing series of digital videos that are projected as installations onto the walls and ceilings of dark rooms. Using texts and computer technology, the series draws its reference from various sources—the Bible, Judeo-Christian eschatology, existentialism, metaphysics, politics, among others—to articulate the world’s complexity and the dilemmas that people face while approaching “the end of the world.” The Third Seal is a nineteen-by-twenty-seven-foot projection on a single wall that, together with sound, creates an immersive and dynamic environment.
Naama Tsabar’s sculptural works are developed serially. The series Work on Felt references the history of post-minimal sculpture: from Robert Morris to Joseph Beuys’s social sculptures. However one can equally relate her work to 1970s conceptual performers such as Terry Fox or Paul Kos.
Em’kal Eyongakpa was born in Cameroon in 1981. After obtaining a postgraduate diploma in Botany and Ecology, he decided to concentrate exclusively on visual and sound art. His use of poetic, symbolic and surrealistic imagery is often sprinkled with paradoxes that challenge the obvious.
A steel clothing rack adorned with turbine vents, Moroccan vintage jewelry, pinecones and knitting yarn, these heterogeneous elements are used here to create an exotic yet undefined identity within the work. Following Haegue Yang’s 2010 anthropomorphic series Medicine Men, this sculpture appears as a shamanic objet or being. It is mobile and can be activated.
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. The main characters in the video wear traditional dance masks of “La Chonguinada” rituals from Peru and attempt to dance while being bitten by trained attacked dogs. Through this act, the dogs simultaneously become sculptural obstacles and dancers.
Pay and Display is a film of a performance, for which there was no audience, staged in the multistory Pershore Street car park in Birmingham, a brutalist building, arguably one of the most inhospitable environments for a musical performance. Dilapidated and empty, the ghostly presence of the car park comes to life. Beer composed the piece to resonate with this architecture, finding the frequencies that would bring the building to life, acting as a sound box and in effect another voice.
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This score is a graphic record of the detailed choreography of one of Anthony McCall’s Landscape for Fire performances. These took place between 1972-74 in the UK at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, Colchester School of Art, in Reading and in North Weald as well as in Sweden at Fylkingen Society of Contemporary Music and Arts, Stockholm, and in the USA at the William Patterson University, Wayne, New Jersey. Many of these events were photographed by David Kilburn and Carolee Schneemann, only one in 1972 was filmed.
The Dragon is the Frame by Mary Helena Clark is an elegy that is somewhat paradoxically organized as a film noir or murder mystery, one that pays direct homage to Hitchcock’s Vertigo . But the parts don’t fit, and it is only in the eventual recognition of this faux raccord that Clark’s higher purpose becomes apparent. As we hear Bernard Herrmann’s score, we see the Golden Gate Bridge, Mission Dolores, and other Vertigo locations in the present day.
Tony Cokes’s long-form, multi-channel work Some Munich Moments 1937–1972 forms a layered montage of historical and contemporary source material exploring different periods of Munich’s history. Incorporating footage and speeches from the infamous 1937 exhibitions, Degenerate Art and First Great German Art Exhibition , views of the city’s destruction from June 1945, and texts on Otl Aicher’s graphic identity for the 20th Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, the film weaves together an open-ended narrative. This visual and textual material is set to music including techno playlists, contemporary EDM tracks, and Donna Summer’s disco classic, I Feel Love (1977), which the American singer recorded in Munich’s legendary Musicland studio.
In his practice, Sung Hwan Kim assumes the role of director, editor, performer, composer, narrator, and poet...
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla comprise the artistic duo Allora & Calzadilla...
Nguyen Trinh Thi is a moving image pioneer, not only within the landscape of contemporary art in Vietnam, but also broader South East Asia...
Em’kal Eyongakpa was born in Cameroon in 1981...
Julian Abraham “Togar” is an artist, musician, and pseudo-scientist...
Taiyo Kimura works with sculpture, video, and installation and uses everyday objects, humor, and music to questions the meaning of ordinary life...
Eamon Ore-Giron’s paintings, works on paper and installations blend contemporary graphic design, folk and tourist art, and surrealism in a hybridity of Mexican, South American, Native-American, and other American cultures...
Wura-Natasha Ogunji is a visual artist and performer...
With a background in photojournalism, artist Rahima Gambo entered into visual art by way of long-form documentary projects...
Huang Xiaopeng is a video and installation artist...
California-born and internationally recognized, Nao Bustamante cut her teeth as an artist between 1984 and 2001 in San Francisco where she studied in the New Genres department at the San Francisco Art Institute...
Naama Tsabar is an Israel-born, New York-based sculpture artist...
Gary-Ross Pastrana is an artist interested in the philosophies of art and the epistemologies of the art object...
Duto Hardono is a conceptual artist and educator...
Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin are a duo of artists collaborating since 1999...
Native Art Department International is a collaborative project created in 2016 and administered by Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan...
Mary Helena Clark is an artist working in film, video, and installation...
Aura Satz is a London-based visual artist whose work encompasses film, performance and sculpture and emphasizes the complex relationship between humans and machines...
Based in improvisational performance, the meeting point between artistic process and social context is a central theme in Agatha Gothe-Snape’s work...
Aesthetica Magazine - Curator Interview: Redefining Landscape Art Curator Interview: Redefining Landscape Art “Green spaces and nature are where I find solace and comfort...
Aesthetica Magazine - Colonial Context: Art in Conversation Colonial Context: Art in Conversation In 2021, the Royal Academy of the Arts, London, began investigating its own connections to the colonial atrocities of the British Empire...
“UNMUTE GAZA”: New Art from Escif and Zacharevic | Brooklyn Street Art BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY Today, we unveil new works from the Unmute Campaign, a dynamic and impactful movement supporting photojournalists in Gaza...
Aesthetica Magazine - Aesthetica Art Prize: Playing with Light Aesthetica Art Prize: Playing with Light In 1960s Los Angeles, members of the Light and Space movement – James Turrell, Mary Corse, Larry Bell, Helen Pashgian – were experimenting with how geometric space and radiant light could impact human perception...
MAREUNROL’S solo exhibition “Fieldwork: Invisible exercises” at Riga Art Space – A Shaded View on Fashion Dear Shaded Viewers, In a celebration of sensory experiences and the undulating narrative of creation, the fashion and art duo MAREUNROL’S presents “Fieldwork: Invisible exercises” at Riga Art Space’s Grand Hall...
Rules & Repetition: Conceptual Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Skip to content “The Maze and Snares of Minimalism” (1993) by Carl Andre in front of Alfred Jensen’s “The World As It Really Is” (1977), on view in Rules & Repetition: Conceptual Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art presents works by groundbreaking conceptual artists of the 1960s and ‘70s alongside more recent acquisitions in Rules & Repetition: Conceptual Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum ...
‘Art helps us imagine a future we wish to remember’: the photographer finding art in a war zone | Art | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Poster by Kyiv designer Mykola Honcharov...
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...
How peter campus Changed the Video Art Game Skip to content Still from peter campus, "Three Transitions" (1973), single-channel video with sound, 4:53 mins...
Five curators join Whitney Biennial team for the 2024 edition Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Appointments & departures news Five curators join Whitney Biennial team for the 2024 edition The additional staff will programme sound art, film and performance events Theo Belci 9 December 2023 Share The Whitney Museum of American Art Photo: Ajay Suresh (CC BY 2.0) New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art has announced the expansion of its biennial in 2024, including five additional curators in sound art, film and performance...
In Taipei and Beijing, Asia Art Center Nurtures Diversity across Generations | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Market In Taipei and Beijing, Asia Art Center Nurtures Diversity across Generations Maxwell Rabb Dec 8, 2023 6:26PM Portrait of Alan and Steven Lee...
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“Miami English” Phrases to Know During Art Week Skip to content Still from “Shit Miami Girls Say” by Aimee Carrero, Michelle Sicars, and Giancarlo Sabogal (screenshot via Youtube , courtesy Michelle Sicars ) I grew up speaking Miami English, but I didn’t know it...
Best of 2023: Top 10 Art Installations Featured on My Modern Met Home / Art / Installation Best of 2023: Top 10 Art Installations Featured on My Modern Met By Jessica Stewart on December 4, 2023 From incredible, immersive videos to thought-provoking sculptures, the year in art installations was certainly thrilling...
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Tania Pérez Córdova: Generalization / Marina Xenofontos: Practice / Julian Abraham: Togar at The Sculpture Center, NY (Video) - ArteFuse Please subscribe, like, and share the video to support the channel 1- Tania Pérez Córdova: Generalization (Click to see images and the Press Release) Sep 23–Dec 11, 2023 2- Marina Xenofontos: Practice (Click to see images and the Press Release) Sep 23 – Oct 23, 2023 3- Julian Abraham “Togar”: Too good to be OK (Click to see images and the Press Release) Sep 23–Dec 11, 2023...
The Art of Exhibition Licencing in Vietnam | ArtsEquator Skip to content In a country with opaque requirements for what can and cannot be shown, Linh Le highlights how something as seemingly straightforward as obtaining an exhibition licence may be used to control artistic expression in Vietnam...
Disability Arts – Notice us for our art, not our disability | ArtsEquator Skip to content Isaac Lim outlines conversations in online disability arts panel discussion, Nothing About Us Without Us: Artists on crafting their voices ...
Art and Fear of Propaganda - Steve Lambert Art and Fear of Propaganda - Steve Lambert Steve Lambert has a book coming out Art Works News Writing About Steve Contact Resume Now Newsletter Book Creative Commons BY-NC-SA November 2021 Work Center for Artistic Activism , NeON Festival , Scotland , writing Yes, you should worry about art becoming propaganda – but probably not for the reasons you’d imagine...
The Sound Inside: Duet of life and loss | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints April 9, 2021 By Leia Devadason (772 words, 3-minute read) Filled to the brim at 25% capacity, Singapore Repertory Theatre’s Robertson Quay theatre was cold...
FitArt - Fitness Art Club — Artnome Menu Blog Exploring art through data using the Artnome database...
A sound collaboration: 宿 (stay) at Sydney Festival 2020 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Guido Gonzalez January 31, 2020 By Maria Herminia Graterol Garrido (571 words, 4-minute read) There is a huge difference between watching a great piece of theatre with a beautiful original score, and experiencing a process that gives equal importance to all the creative aspects, including sound...
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Jakarta's controversial Performance Art Club; Bangkok Art Biennale | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar 69 Performance Club January 23, 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...
Fahmi Fadzil's "GE14": The sound and fury signifying everything | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo: Hideto Maezawa July 17, 2019 By Patricia Tobin ( 700 words, 5-minute read) “GE14 will be the arts festival to outdo all arts festivals,” said performer-politician Fahmi Fadzil...
The Sensorial Trail: Experience Art through Smell, Sound and Touch at National Gallery Singapore | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles January 30, 2019 Art doesn’t have to be for the eyes only...
Book Review: "Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945–1990" | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 13, 2018 By Reaksmey Yean (950 words, five-minute read) A result of a research collaboration organised by the University of Sydney’s Power Institute in partnership with the Institut Teknologi Bandung and National Gallery Singapore, Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945-1990 is a recently published volume of ten collected essays...
An Inconvenient Practice (via Plural Art Magazine) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar July 24, 2018 A recent video released by British diver Rich Horner, showed him swimming through the waters of Bali...
Summer ’17 Consortium Partner Programs - Asia Contemporary Art Week Asia Contemporary Art Week ABOUT Consortium Partners PRESENTED ARTISTS FIELD MEETING ABOUT FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS (2018) TAKE 5: THINKING PROJECTS (2017) TAKE 4: THINKING PRACTICE (2016) TAKE 3: THINKING PERFORMANCE (2015) TAKE 2: AN AFTERTHOUGHT (2015) TAKE 1: CRITICAL OF THE FUTURE (2014) FIELD REVIEW ABOUT FIELD REVIEW ISSUE 1: SOUTH ASIA ISSUE 2: MIDDLE EAST PAST EDITIONS ACAW 2002 – 2018 PRESENTED ARTISTS PRESS PRESS RELEASES PRESS COVERAGE Announcements Summer ’17 Consortium Partner Programs New York City Venues ASIA SOCIETY MUSEUM Inspired by Zao Wou-Ki: Works by New York City Students Exhibition | Through August 6 Artworks created by New York City public school students based on Asia Society’s fall 2016 exhibition “No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki” are exhibited in this one of a kind exhibition...
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This score is a graphic record of the detailed choreography of one of Anthony McCall’s Landscape for Fire performances...
Meireles, whose work often involves sound, refers to Sal Sem Carne (Salt Without Meat) as a “sound sculpture.” The printed images and sounds recorded on this vinyl record and it’s lithographed sleeve describe the massacre of the Krahó people of Brazil...
Mario Garcia Torres imagines cinematic devices to replay stories occasionally forgotten by Conceptual art...
In Reyes’s words, “We should be able to extract the technological nutrients before we excrete our waste...
Mario Garcia Torres films a game of Charades among professional actors guessing the former North Korean dictator’s favorite Hollywood films...
Although at first the work Sounds of War presents itself with a degree of playfulness and humour, a close inspection reveals its painful undertone...
“Product Recall” is a video perfomative pun on the action recalling memories in the form of a psychoanalytic session and the recall of faulty products from multinational corporations...
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Sung Hwan Kim created the drawing push against the air 01 during a rehearsal for his eponymous 2007 performance at De Apple (as part of Prix de Rome), Amsterdam, and Project Arts Centre, Dublin...
Agatha Gothe-Snape’s POWERPOINTS is an ongoing series of digital artworks that have been created with Microsoft PowerPoint...
“BC/AD” (Before Cancer, After Diagnoses) is a video of photographs of the artist’s face dating from early childhood to the month before he died, accompanied by the last diary entries he wrote from April 2004 to July 2005 (entitled “50 Reasons for Getting Out of Bed”), from the period from when he lost his voice, thinking he had laryngitis, through the moment he was diagnosed with lung cancer and the subsequent treatment that was ultimately, ineffective...
In Up All Night, Waiting for the Chelsea Hotel Magic to Spark My Creativity Mario García Torres constructs and documents a hypothetical scene, situating himself within a lineage of artists and creatives that used to congregate at the historic hotel...
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This untitled drawing was part of Sung Hwan Kim’s solo exhibition Sung Hwan Kim: A Still Window From Two or More Places , which took place in tranzitdisplay in Prague, Czech Republic in 2010...
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...
The Mohawk, the emblematic Frontier river in the period of American colonisation, is here a cable of data transmission, and the 7 Sultans Casino is a virtual destination, one of the three hundred online casinos hosted by the servers located in Kahnawake, a small native american indian reserve to the south of Montreal...
Four knives appearing as if thrown at the wall to alleviate frustration and boredom, form rhythmic shadows and markings of time above a translated phrase boldly printed in simplified Chinese and English...
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...
Pay and Display is a film of a performance, for which there was no audience, staged in the multistory Pershore Street car park in Birmingham, a brutalist building, arguably one of the most inhospitable environments for a musical performance...
Third Realm (2011) grew out of the artist’s long-term research of Indonesia’s colonial history and the processes of modernization and urbanization that have taken place there...
Part of a series entitled “Looking at Listening”, 2011, the piece invited the spectator to experiment and consider sound as a kinetic and synesthetic process, where multiple experiences and senses can cross...
Pedro Reyes’s Los Mutantes ( Mutants , 2012) is composed of 170 plates that combine characters from ancient and modern mythologies...
Cinthia Marcelle’s video work Automóvel (2012) re-edits the mundane rhythms of automotive traffic into a highly compelling and seemingly choreographed meditation on sequence, motion, and time...
Fashion is the focus of Blood Sugar , which consists of a video projected onto a vintage vinyl jacket set at torso height on a dressmaker’s dummy...
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Percent for Art is seemingly concerned with “art enrichment” by state or city arts agencies role in it, managing the artist rosters, maintaining public art collections, commissioning artworks, selecting installation sites, among other things for aesthetic and cultural enhancement in both public and private real estate developments...
The Dragon is the Frame by Mary Helena Clark is an elegy that is somewhat paradoxically organized as a film noir or murder mystery, one that pays direct homage to Hitchcock’s Vertigo ...
Some Dead Don’t Make a Sound (Hay muertos que no hacen ruido) is a single-channel video by Claudia Joskowicz that features the Mexican legend of the Weeping Woman (La Llorona) as its main protagonist...
Sweet Jesus is a sound installation by Lutz Bacher that consists of a found recording of James Earl Jones’ iconic voice reciting biblical genealogy from Matthew, Book 1...
A steel clothing rack adorned with turbine vents, Moroccan vintage jewelry, pinecones and knitting yarn, these heterogeneous elements are used here to create an exotic yet undefined identity within the work...
Variation & Improvisation for ‘In Harmonia Progressio’ by Duto Hardono is part of a series of work that focuses on sound loops as a fundamental element of his performance – a metaphor that Hardono employs as he examines the human condition, such as time and temporal spatiality...
The Crime of Art is an animation by Kota Ezawa that appropriates scenes from various popular Hollywood films featuring the theft of artworks: a Monet painting in The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), a Rembrandt in Entrapment (1999), a Cellini in How to Steal a Million (1966), and an emerald encrusted dagger in Topkapi (1964)...
The neon sign Walk the Walk (Sam Durant) overlays a Walk/Don’t Walk Sign crosswalk sign onto the text “You Are On Indian Land Show Some Respect.” The sign asks viewers to not walk on Indigenous lands without respecting it, and, switching between a walking person icon in white and a raised hand icon in red, redirects their actions...
De sino à sina (From Bell to Fate) is a six-channel sound installation by Carla Zaccagnini exploring the relationship between modern Brazil and its colonial past...
Gary-Ross Pastrana’s video installation Rewilding consists of three large-scale projections placed across the exhibition space...
You have given the world your songs by Francisca Benítez is a poem in American Sign Language (ASL)...
Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s recent drawing of cutout figures on architectural tracing paper takes a statement by Leoluca Orlando, the Mayor of Palermo, as a point of departure for the work...
Enrique Ramirez’s La Memoria Verde is a work of poetry, politics, and memory created in response to the curatorial statement for the 13th Havana Biennial in 2019, The Construction of the Possible ...
The installation Music Stands: Free Exercise 7, 8, and 9 by Marina Rosenfeld consists of music stand-like structures and a corresponding set of panels and acoustic devices that direct, focus, obstruct, reflect and project sound in the gallery...
In 2015, while in residence at the Jatiwangi Art Factory (JaF) located in the village of Jatisura in Jatiwangi, West Java, Indonesia, Togar initiated the Jatiwangi Cup in which the artist, together with communities in the area, established an annual bodybuilding contest...
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The series of ink drawings and hand-lettered texts, titled COVID-19: Labor Camp Reports , were made and posted daily by artist Piotr Szyhalski on the @LaborCamp Instagram account, capturing the politically fraught Trump era and looking directly at some of the most painful aspects of life during COVID-19...
Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: Lavender Town Syndrome by Andrew Norman Wilson is a multi-channel video that uses three different imaging technologies—a photographic lens, photorealistic ray tracing animations, and fractal ray-marching animations—to travel through three constructed environments...
“ I think we are oversaturated, filled to the brim with images in our inner subconscious eye...
The essay film How to Improve the World by Nguyen Trinh Thi takes us into an indigenous village of the Jrai people in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, in Gia Lai province...
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The Wooden People is a 360º virtual reality film series comprising seven episodes...
Tony Cokes’s long-form, multi-channel work Some Munich Moments 1937–1972 forms a layered montage of historical and contemporary source material exploring different periods of Munich’s history...