April 2012
32 posts
“Draftsmen’s Congress” initiated by Paweł Althamer... →
The walls and the floor of the church, covered by a white surface, are a background for images and can be totally marked by the visitors. Many Berlin-based artists, architects, and other professionals who use drawings in their work accepted our invitation to participate in the congress. Non-professional draftsmen are also invited. In this project, authorship, hierarchies of expertise, and...
7th Berlin Biennale | Art Agenda →
Łukasz Surowiec’s project Berlin-Birkenau transplants baby birches from around the former death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau into private gardens in Berlin. The KW top floor is thus filled with vast swaths of the sprouts, and an ancillary video that is vaguely reminiscent of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah (1985). Now, a ritual is a set of stylized actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value. Ritual...
Berlin Biennale showcases contemporary political... →
“This is an attempt to create a new kind of monument - a living monument”
La Triennale “Intense Proximity” | Art Agenda →
Organized under the matter-of-fact stewardship of Okwui Enwezor with the assistance of curators Mélanie Bouteloup, Abdellah Karroum, Emilie Renard, and Claire Staebler, “Intense Proximity” is essentially predicated upon the following global and post-colonial predicament: what happens when the distance between the colonizer and the colonial subject, or, in broader strokes, near and far, visible and...
Anzac timeline recreated on Twitter - ABC News... →
Tate Modern unveils underground space – the Tanks... →
KUNSTrePUBLIK : Leopold Kessler – Fence sharpening →
KUNSTrePUBLIK : Home →
Call for work | The Long Walk Seattle →
10yo pleads for release from asylum detention -... →
Death of anonymity on the web: battle lines drawn →
“Email wouldn’t even exist if it weren’t for AIDS”
– Nancy in “Me and You and Everyone We Know”
WatchDocumentation of my work “Spit Chain” by Monte Masi. Part of the show Vague Possibilities which took place at SASA Gallery, 22 February to 25 March 2011.
Thousands queue for 'hugging saint' - ABC News... →
A Meme Conferred: Chatroulette Missed Connections →
Anonymity as Culture: Treatise - Triple Canopy →
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of... →
The web might look like a giant co-operative endeavour, but it’s not. It’s an endless array of communities. Community life is relatively easy. All it takes is finding people who think like you do. Co-operation is hard because it is about learning to live with people who think differently or don’t know what they think at all. Sennett wants to remind us that this is a skill, and...
Why Are So Many Americans Single? : The New Yorker →
In a landmark study, “Bowling Alone” (2000), the Harvard political scientist Robert D. Putnam noted a puzzling three-decade decline in what he called “social capital”: the networks of support and reciprocity that bind people together and help things get done collectively. His work considered the waning of everything from P.T.A. enrollment to dinner parties and card games, but the core of his...
“A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It...”
– Michel Foucault, “Practicing Criticism” (via golehyas) “Practicing criticism is a matter of making facile gestures difficult.” (via elanormcinerney)
Katie Paterson, the cosmicomical artist | Art and... →
