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notes on installation art, performance art, interactive art, digital art, web art, theater, cinema, painting, sculpture, and more, and more, and more
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Leave the Work Alone

Lets set the background.Andre Lepecki:What dramaturgy as practice proposes is the discovery that it is the work itself that has its own sovereign, performative desires, wishes, and commands. It is th...

08 jan 12

After Fishing

"Last will and Testament" by Mariusz Hermanowicz (with Zygmunt Hermanowicz) was an instant crush for me.After his fathers death, Mariusz Hermanowicz discovers, among the things the father lef...

08 dec 11

Looking at the robots, I think

David Lewandowski, going to the storeRobot maker Azusa Amino recently won the Robot Japan 2 Dance competition with his 23-centimeter-high Toko Toko Maru robot. - they are the un-ego, the dream o...

24 nov 11

The House

This house which is almost gone. Which still has the lines and weight of a house, yet could very well be called landscape. This house which is a set of floors engraved with memories that no one you k...

05 nov 11

The Political Sight - Konrad Pustołas Views of Power

What do you see?This, here, is an image of power.Pure and simple, it is what a specific person with power sees. Out of the window. Every day.Some of the Views of Power, a project by Konrad Pustoła, c...

01 nov 11

How It Works

You do things.You try it, this way, that way. You stray, you flop and then you flip again, and something, some things come out of it.You do them and please, please, you think, do not ask me what Im d...

19 jun 11

Sharing the Sensible (In a Rich Mans World)

The thing is: Im very excited about performance moving forward. And I love how it invades all sorts of territories. I do it, watch it, write about it. Its my cup of tea. That is precisely why I dont ...

08 jun 11

Allan Kaprow on installation and performance

Now, I think those two words, installation and performance, mark accurately the shift in attitude toward a rejection or sense of abandonment of an experimental, modernist, position which had prevaile...

29 mar 11

Black Square: Malevich and The World That Wouldnt Die

Here it is: the end of the world.I am standing in front of it, and it looks like shit.It is Kasimir Malevichs "Black Square", it hangs at the New Tretyakov national gallery in Moscow, and it ...

15 mar 11

Four Propositions Concerning Art Blogging

My first proposition is: Blogging is about being stupid.It is accepting that I do not know what I should know before starting to write. But wait! "Should know"? Let me rephrase that: blogging...

02 jan 11

Melting ears (on Cory Arcangels two works)

The one I liked was this:while the one that goes further is this:Both are fragments of works by Cory Arcangel.The difference between them is significant. The first one is a joke - it is a repetition,...

19 dec 10

What you like is to look

What you like is to look.You like to suck it up in your gaze, you like to smear your innocent mind with the flesh of sight.What you like is to become dependent. To let go of the constructions and mak...

11 nov 10

Five sentences concerning ghosts

Both pictures by Ujin Lee, from the Dust series.There is never enough time or effort or vision to make sure things are fixed.We must suppose they are (or were) somewhere here, in the vicinity of the ...

04 nov 10

Alevtina Kakhidze - Revolutionary Obedience

"Art must concern itself with the real, but it throws any notion of the real into question. It always turns the real into a facade, a representation, and a construction. But it also raises questi...

30 oct 10

Take a break

Remember Zimoun?Zimoun : 186 prepared dc-motors, cardboard boxes 60x60x60cm, 2010. from ZIMOUN VIDEO ARCHIVE on Vimeo.

23 oct 10 1 person likes this

Reverse

At the BWA City Gallery in Bydgoszcz (which has the most poignant introduction of any art gallery Ive seen so far: "WHAT"), the Polygonum exhibition which opens on October 14th to showcase th...

13 oct 10

Blocked Keys

The etude by Gyorgy Ligeti I would like you to pay attention to is the second one. It starts at 215".Here is what a competent source has to say about the work: The third etude, "Touches bloqu...

30 sep 10

Cattelans Finger

Yet again, Maurizio Cattelan achieved his admitted goal: he is on the covers of magazines.The finger, called L.O.V.E.*, has been erected in front of the Milan stock exchange for the duration of the F...

25 sep 10

Old-Time Avantgarde

Oh, and on a different note, heres a little bit of pre-mash-up mashing up, for your listening amusement, the one and only John Oswald:It is a fascinating feeling, to realize that todays contemporary ...

21 sep 10

How I Got Tino Sehgal

1.The exhibition "Sexuality and Transcendence" at the Pinchuk Art Center in Kiev, Ukraine (open until 19.09) fulfills its task better than it could hope for. If you expect an overwhelming, to...

16 sep 10

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