Whoever claims authorship is not the author …
This statement comes via the press release for Anonymous, which is the title of an upcoming show at the Schirn in Frankfurt. It makes one wonder, if finally some of the discussion around open source, copyleft, .. etc came through to them?? On the other side – as one always would expect that the art […] Read MoreCatch a Fire
…. any similarities, assoziations, …? … whatever comes to mind … This film about Southafrica sounds interesting enough and it’s not at all just posted for the accumulation of similar post titles, even though there seems to be a line … Fears of terrorism. Demonization of an “other.†Suspects detained without explanation, held in isolation, […] Read More
… UF continued:
ok, I admit: I spend quite some time at the moment to read the posts on UNDER FIRE. I guess its general theme just became too inevitable in these times of ongoing wars to be ignored. And aside the fact that the military sector does show most clearly effects of new technologies, interpretations of scocial […] Read Moreunder fire again
Jordan Crandall’s UNDER FIRE mailinglist started into a new season of discourse: UNDER FIRE is an ongoing art and research project that explores militarization and political violence. It delves into the structural, symbolic, and affective dimensions of armed conflicts: the organization, representation, and materialization of war. This time the project publishes its major contributions on […] Read MoreUnfallen – the city as mnemonic
Daniel Belasco Rogers’ GPS recordings of his recent journeys developed into a project he called ‘Unfallen‘ – and for which he produced some really nice maps which show besides personel moving/learning processes also a relations according to the taken angle. Out of this developed the recent project ‘Our House‘ an attempt of mapping/visualiation of personal […] Read MoreSteve Reich .. and other events to memorize
.. not to be forgotten should be Steve Reich‘s 70th birthday at the beginning of the month and my incredible luck to attend a performing of ‘Drumming‘ with him and his musicians about a week ago. He is recently touring around the world and summarizes that he would never had thought even slightly about these […] Read Moreit’s important that you attend
“Information presented at the right time and in the right place can potentially be very powerful. It can affect the general social fabric… The working premise is to think in terms of systems: the production of systems, the interference with and the exposure of existing systems… Systems can be physical, biological or social.” from Jeanne […] Read Moremore on ‘performing lectures’
.. already since July 2004 Unfriendly Takeover are presenting their project called “Performing Lectures”. A series of investigative performances aiming to explore the practical and theoretical possibilities and borders of lecture performances. For some years now, even decades, there is talk about the fusion of artistic practice and its theory, about the crossing of the […] Read Morefailing the Greenberg test: net art
.. via several mailing lists and blogs the ‘Art of Sleep‘ presented by Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES is being past around. It is but worth to look up their website as well. … Commissioned to coincide with Frieze, the hottest art fair at a particularly market-driven moment, The Art of Sleep features an insomniac narrator […] Read Moreperformance lectures
.. via tropolism I found this interesting post on Smithson’s Hotel Palenque. It is a very detailed description about some essential points Robert Smithon‘s work with a specific focus on this hotel piece and its presentation at the Guggenheim. And it raises a good point in the following observation at a time, when artists increasingly […] Read More