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Laura Rokas
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. The scene’s dominant figure is a faceless woman whose blood red, dagger-like fingernails, polka dot jacket, and jet black hair resemble a sort of avatar of the artist. The figure surveys a chaotic scene that might be described as a “cute apocalypse” (a phrase Rokas says is characteristic of her work in general).
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Eamon Ore-Giron
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.
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Elsa Werth
In the video Color Strip by Elsa Werth two-dimensional versions of all the national flags of the world (197 in all) are compiled into a long horizontal strip. The video is presented on a large flat-screen, approximating the size and dimensions of a national flag. As each flag slides across the screen, connections between the colors, signs, and forms of different countries and parts of the world create unexpected associations.
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Martin Kippenberger
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. Untitled is a collage on paper work by Kippenberger that typifies his everything-goes approach: a barely discernible, sliced image of Michael Jackson’s face is overlaid and woven with strips and triangular shapes from a different source into a single composition. Blue tones come from torn out pages of a book where fragments of illustrations can be seen.
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Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
Filmed underwater, this is the third video in Nguyen-Hatsushiba’s “Memorial Project” series which began in 2001. The title already implies the cultural complexities about to be ironically unravelled: Ho Chi Minh is parodied and Okinawa (where this was filmed) was a battle site in Japan during World War II which then became an American training base during the Vietnam War. To a remix of James Bond movie tracks composed by Quoc Bao, no less than thirty divers in wet suits and full gear advance against the water resistance armed with cartridges of color.
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Wadada Leo Smith
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Kosmic Music is a musical score comprised of two parts: a single mixed media drawing titled Colors and Satellites, and a pair of mixed media drawings titled Koral Reef . Conceived of together as a single musical score, the three drawings exemplify a specific stage in the evolution of Wadada Leo Smith’s Ankhrasmation Language, which he has been developing since 1967. Although at first glance the works in Kosmic Music might appear abstract compositions drawn on paper, as with other scores produced by Smith, suggestions of musical structures are revealed upon closer inspection: an entanglement of musical sheets and bright geometric forms.
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Benvenuto Chavajay Gonzalez
Jardín (2013) refers to environmental destruction, specifically the preponderance of disposable plastics, as well as Medellín’s long history of dangerous conflict; it was once considered the most violent city in the world because of the drug trafficking there. This floor sculpture consists of shoes made of river stones, strung with flip-flop straps. Here, Chavajay plays the natural (found stones) against the synthetic (plastic), heavy against light, hard against soft, revealing the irony of their fusion and the impossibility of their alleged function as shoes.
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Hoda Afshar
In the islands of the Strait of Hormuz off the southern coast of Iran, a distinctive local culture has emerged as the result of many centuries of cultural and economic exchange, the traces of which are seen not only in the material culture of these islands but also in the customs and beliefs of their inhabitants. Central to these is a belief in the existence of winds—generally thought of as harmful—that may possess a person, causing her to experience illness or disease, and a corresponding ritual practice involving incense, music and movement in which an hereditary cult leader speaks with the wind through the afflicted patient in one of many local or foreign tongues in order to negotiate its exit. While their exact origins are unclear, the existence of similar beliefs and practices in many African countries suggests that the cult may have been brought to the south of Iran from southeast Africa through the Arab slave trade.
Jonathan Monk
- location: Berlin, Germany
- year born: 1969
- gender: male
- nationality: British
- home town: Leicester, United Kingdom
Hoda Afshar
At the intersection of conceptual, staged and documentary image-making, Hoda Afshar’s artistic practice explores the representation of gender, marginality and displacement...
Wadada Leo Smith
Wadada Leo Smith is an avant-garde jazz musician, composer, educator and visual artist, celebrated for his creative and unconventional approach to music...
Elsa Werth
Through an economy of means, Elsa Werth makes purposefully non-spectacular gestures as forms of resistance, disruption, and transformation...
Martin Kippenberger
- location: Vienna, Austria
- year born: 1953
- gender: male
- nationality: German
- home town: Dortmund, Germany
Mario Garcia Torres
- location: Mexico City, Mexico
- year born: 1975
- gender: male
- nationality: Mexican
- home town: Monclova, Mexico
Eamon Ore-Giron
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...
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
- location: Vietnam
- year born: 1968
- gender: male
- nationality: Japanese-Vietnamese
- home town: Tokyo, Japan
Laura Rokas
Laura Rokas is a painter, ceramicist, and textile artist...
Benvenuto Chavajay Gonzalez
Benvenuto Chavajay’s body of work includes sculpture, interventions into objects, installation, performance, and painting...
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This Björk-narrated fungi documentary is enough to make you trip | Dazed â¬…ï¸ Left Arrow *ï¸âƒ£ Asterisk â Star Option Sliders âœ‰ï¸ 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...
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10 Arrested in Protest Outside Brooklyn Museum Skip to content At least 300 demonstrators gathered in front of the Brooklyn Museum to call for ceasefire and denounce widespread institutional suppression of Gaza activism...
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Bad luck in mahjong? 4 game taboos to avoid, from shoulder tapping to book reading, and a way to improve your luck | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Chinese culture + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more Dos and don’t in mahjong? There are plenty of the former but even more of the latter – we take a look at four taboos to be aware of when playing, and a way to reverse your luck....
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Artists Participating in the Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, NYC - ArteFuse Seventy-one visionary artists and collectives will participate in the eighty-first installment of the Whitney Biennial, opening March 20, 2024...
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Wallpaper* gift guide: shop with tech editor Jonathan Bell | Wallpaper (Image credit: Teenage Engineering) By Jonathan Bell published 12 December 2023 Technological gift giving can be a minefield; not everyone appreciates receiving electronics as a seasonal surprise and tech is either too personal or too prosaic to leave down to the gifting whims of another, however well intentioned...
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Peinture, poésie, architecture… Les beaux livres d’art sélectionnés par « Le Monde » nav_close_menu Offrir Le Monde Article réservé aux abonnés Peinture 1 « Poésies d’Emily Dickinson illustrées par la peinture moderniste américaine » « Fille endormie » (1926-1927), de Yun Gee, exposée au Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden de Washington...
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Documentation of Magnus Andersen at Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt is featured on Contemporary Art Daily....
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Out-of-town Selected Gallery Guide: Dec 2023 – Two Coats of Paint Front Room Gallery: Beth Dary , Notions , 2022, Red Glass head pins on steell hoop with fabric and beeswax, 3.5 inches diameter What’s up outside the city? At Jack Shainman The School in Kinderhook, take some time at the sprawling installation by Meleko Mokgosi, co-director of Graduate Studies in Painting/Printmaking at Yale...
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Zhang Wenzhi & Zheng Haozhong at Blindspot Gallery – ARTOMITY 藝源 Zhang Wenzhi: Tiger in Mountains, Deer at Ocean / Zheng Haozhong: Melodic Variations / Curator: Leo Li Chen / Nov 28, 2023 – Jan 13, 2024 / Opening: Saturday, Nov 25, 4pm – 6.30pm / In Conversation (in Mandarin): Zhang Wenzhi and Leo Li Chen, 5pm – 6pm / Blindspot Gallery 15/F Po Chai Industrial Building 28 Wong Chuk Hang Road Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong +852 2517 6238 Tuesday – Saturday, 10.30am – 6.30pm blindspotgallery.com Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present the duo solo exhibition Zhang Wenzhi: Tiger in Mountains, Deer at Ocean and Zheng Haozhong: Melodic Variations , curated by Leo Li Chen, showcasing the recent paintings of two Mainland Chinese artists...
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The entire NFT ecosystem has thrummed recently with the same message: this is the moment to separate the speculators from the true believers....
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Thirty works, including an expensive Joan Mitchell, head to sale in November....
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As the art world becomes increasingly aware of its contributions to the climate emergency, collectors can play a central role in a push for substantial change....
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Where are the Malays? : Locating the Singaporean Malay in Singa-Pura-Pura | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints August 27, 2021 By Lily Jamaludin (1,368 words, 4-minute read) Singa-Pura-Pura boasts an eclectic collection of short speculative fiction from a minority ethnic group in Singapore, exploring worlds where robots are therapists, prayers are read from preloaded cards, and humans are migrating to Mars...
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Weekly Picks: Malaysia (25 June – 1 July 2018) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Malaysia June 25, 2018 Malam Sayu Berpuisi , at klpac, 27 June, 8:30pm A night performance held outdoors on klpac’s grounds, by the banyan tree...
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1980-1989
Martin Kippenberger
1988Martin 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...
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2000-2009
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
2003Filmed underwater, this is the third video in Nguyen-Hatsushiba’s “Memorial Project” series which began in 2001...
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2010-2019
Eamon Ore-Giron
2011Eamon 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...
Benvenuto Chavajay Gonzalez
2013Jardín (2013) refers to environmental destruction, specifically the preponderance of disposable plastics, as well as Medellín’s long history of dangerous conflict; it was once considered the most violent city in the world because of the drug trafficking there...
Laura Rokas
2017Like 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...
Elsa Werth
2019In the video Color Strip by Elsa Werth two-dimensional versions of all the national flags of the world (197 in all) are compiled into a long horizontal strip...
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2020-2029
Hoda Afshar
2022In the islands of the Strait of Hormuz off the southern coast of Iran, a distinctive local culture has emerged as the result of many centuries of cultural and economic exchange, the traces of which are seen not only in the material culture of these islands but also in the customs and beliefs of their inhabitants...