Currently in exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco’s Asterisms features thousands of waste objects collected from two locations, a bay along the coast of Mexico and a playing field in New York City. Asterisms is a work that reflects on the culture of waste; where it comes from, where it …
Careful readers have probably noticed the high number of features that the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven has gained in the press over the past few months. Even though the museum of modern and contemporary art is often praised both nationally and internationally, it suffers from increasing criticism by the local authorities. On the one hand …
As this inclement and balmy London summer draws to a close, the ICA plays host to Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace’s darkly comic collection of short stories, adapted for stage by artists Andy Holden and David Raymond Conroy. Penned in the late 90s, Wallace’s text employs a variety of literary techniques to …
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“There is no longer anyone today who would be deceived by the accumulation of facts as to how much of historical representation and construction is fulfilled by naïve projections and identification. Thus we must be aware of our own historical situation.” Carl Schmitt[1] If there is one thing Artur Zmijewski’s controversial 7th Berlin Biennale Forget Fear, …
The interweb has been abuzz of late with talk of The New Aesthetic. A never-ending stream of polemical blog posts and autobot-regurgitated twitter commentaries (hashtag #newaesthetic) bombards us from every angle. What is this new thing? Why does it matter? Where will it lead? Is it even a thing at all? The stage was set …
Annabel Daou’s art work ‘Which Side are You On?’ (2012) features an old television, a still image, a tape recording of the artist asking the titular question ‘which side are you on?’, and a recording of people’s answers to that question. That’s it. It seems simple enough. But this work represents the doubts and desires …
