July 2011
78 posts
“There is nothing wrong with inventing words, especially in a business. But a...”
– Excerpt: ‘The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis’ : NPR
The Believer - Interview with Laurel Nakadate →
BLVR: In meeting these guys, has there ever been a negative experience, a line crossed?
LN: No. I feel like the men who end up in my videos, their biggest crime is being lonely. They’re not violent, they’re not scary people, they’re just men who keep to themselves and have a hard time being social. I’m always out there by myself, I go into stranger’s houses. I did a project where I went and...
The Believer - Interview with Laurel Nakadate →
BLVR: Were you doing that from day one, making videos involving strangers?
LN: Yeah. I got to Yale and I didn’t know what I wanted to photograph. I’d just finished the college-girls documentary. I knew I was still interested in looking at people, I knew I wanted to put myself in a world I didn’t belong in because I liked the friction of feeling like I didn’t belong—the terror of not knowing...
MoMA PS1: Exhibitions: Laurel Nakadate: Only the... →
Laurel Nakadate is known for her works in video, photography, and feature-length film. This is Nakadate’s first large-scale museum exhibition and will feature works made over the last ten years in all three media, including her early video works, in which she was invited into the homes of anonymous men to dance, pose, or even play dead in their kitchens, bedrooms, and living rooms.
I come ♥ back U — Google Sightseeing →
Olympic teen hopeful →
Teenager Alethea Sedgman took up rifle shooting five years ago and is now the second best shooter in the country with a strong prospect of making it to next year’s London Olympics. As part of Alethea’s training she spends hours ‘dryfiring’: kneeling on the living room floor with her rifle held motionless to hone skills of focus and stillness.
Frieze Magazine | Archive | Haegue Yang →
While the perpetual mobility and lack of belonging in Yang’s works create detached, melancholy narratives, the non-arrival seems also to produce a thought process that prevents things from becoming bound. Objects are not kept in fixed positions but are removed from their contexts and realigned in different relationships. It is this sense of disjointedness, in which the connections among things and...
The Sea Wall: Haegue Yang with an inclusion by... →
THE CREATIVE TIME SUMMIT | LIVING AS FORM →
Up and coming Czech artist Kateřina Šedá - Radio... →
Introducing Katerina Šedá - ARTINFO.com →
In choreographing mischievous acts, this Czech native transforms participation into an art form of its own
Kaldor Public Art Projects | Michael Landy Acts of... →
Yael Bartana ...and Europe will be stunned -... →
“This is a universal presentation of the impossibility of living together. These are mechanisms and situations which can be observed anywhere in the world. I quote the past, the time of Socialist utopia, youthfulness and optimism – when there was a project of constructing a modernist idea of a new world.” - Yael Bartana
Art Review - Artur Zmijewski - Using Humans at... →
UNCERTAIN SPECTATOR - Emily Zimmerman →
Anxiety is said to arise in the face of freedom. This understanding of anxiety originates in a lineage of thought that began with Søren Kierkegaard’s The Concept of Anxiety, originally published in 1844. In this seminal treatise, Kierkegaard defined anxiety as “freedom’s disclosure to itself in possibility.” An individual experiences anxiety by coming to terms with possibility, at the precise...
The bond of the awkward | Adam Kotsko | Comment is... →
If the bond of awkwardness is more intense than a social encounter mediated by social norms, it also holds the potential to be more meaningful and enjoyable… The enjoyment of awkwardness allows the possibility of actually identifying with those that social orders seek to exclude.
Existing and Counter-Existing in Public Space: the... →
Things that Go Bump In the Night - Australian... →
The Making of the Moment: The Work of Argentinean... →
Frieze Magazine | Archive | Focus: Amalia Pica →
Piccadilly Community Centre: Broken Britain... →
NuPenny: Portland →
NuPenny exists as a traveling art installation under the guise of an inaccessible toy store.
Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism... →
Presented by Melbourne Festival and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power. The Vietnam War, the rise of the civil rights movement, the strikes of Paris ‘68 - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness, a new era of community involvement and self-determination.
Art in turn responded by...
Stone soup →
Stone Soup is an old folk story in which hungry strangers persuade local people of a town to give them food. It is usually told as a lesson in cooperation, especially amid scarcity.
Roman Ondák – review | Art and design | The... →
In the long tradition of art that involves the public as both viewer and performer, Ondák has proved himself capable of directing (and affecting) multitudes of people with the simplest of ideas.
Trespass Parade →
West of Rome Public Art is pleased to announce our forthcoming project Trespass Parade with musician Arto Lindsay and artist Rirkrit Tiravanija. Social awareness is alive in the streets of downtown Los Angeles in the form of a parade. Join us for an afternoon of art, music, dance, free speech, and community activism. Major Los Angeles based contemporary artists and local students are expressing...
“Here there are lists of the personnel of the sections who are in the ninth...”
– First Kursk Burial Held; Letter on Display - ABC News 