e-flux shows (5 unread)

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  The Gallerist Programme

  Fetched: 24-May-2013, 6:32pm EDT

  2012 saw the advent of a unique professional development programme, initiated by de Appel arts centre and The Fair Gallery (gb agency, Paris; Hollybush Gardens, London; Jan Mot, Brussels; Raster, Warsaw): the Gallerist Programme. Over the past nine months nine young professionals participated in a trajectory consisting of six workshop weeks, taking place at different places worldwide such as London, New York, Brussels, Berlin, Warsaw and Hong Kong, related to a number of prestigious art events such as Frieze London, the Armory Show and the Independent, Berlin Gallery Weekend and Art Basel Hong Kong.
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  Altars of Madness

  Fetched: 24-May-2013, 6:32pm EDT

  Extreme metal emerged in the second half of the 1980s through three distinct musical genres with different principles, aesthetics and evolutions: grindcore, death metal and black metal. Like all underground cultures, extreme metal is not something that can simply be passed on: you have to experience it on your own. And so it appears that some artists, whose works have been deeply affected by it, started to get involved in the extreme metal scene at a time when they were far from imagining that one day their ideas would become works of art.
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  Politics: I don?t like it, but it likes me

  Fetched: 24-May-2013, 6:32pm EDT

  The title of the exhibition, Politics: I don't like it, but it likes me, was borrowed from the text of a song by a Cuban group called Porno para Ricardo. The musicians suggest that, whether we want it or not, we are immersed in politics. Is this opinion valid only in Cuba?
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  Dates announced for 2014

  Fetched: 24-May-2013, 6:32pm EDT

  Glasgow International (Festival of Visual Art) will return for its sixth edition in April 2014, under the guidance of new Director Sarah McCrory. The festival will continue to showcase Glasgow as a unique major centre for the production and display of contemporary visual art. Taking place in various venues and locations across the city, including Glasgow's major art spaces and cultural institutions, the Festival will be comprised of an ambitious programme which includes exhibitions, events, talks, performances and projects by international and Glasgow-based artists.
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  The Second Sex ? a visual footnote

  Fetched: 24-May-2013, 6:32pm EDT

  The exhibition The Second Sex - a visual footnote is a visual essay inspired by the book of the same name by French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, whose existentialist take on many of the issues of feminism first emerged with the publication of Le Deuxième Sexe in 1949. One of de Beauvoir's principal challenges was to foster women's emancipation and the recognition of their working force. Through a close reading of de Beauvoir's seminal book, the exhibition introduces a number of works that lean towards ideas highlighted in her texts, such as representations of women in myths and the descriptions of their lived situations.
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  Richard Mosse

  Fetched: 23-May-2013, 6:33pm EDT

  Richard Mosse represents Ireland with The Enclave, a major new multimedia installation at the 55th International Art Exhibition ? La Biennale di Venezia. The Commissioner and Curator is Anna O'Sullivan, Director of the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland. Ireland at Venice is an initiative of Culture Ireland in partnership with the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.  Throughout 2012, Richard Mosse and his collaborators Trevor Tweeten (cinematographer and editor) and Ben Frost (composer and sound designer) travelled in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, infiltrating armed rebel groups in a war zone plagued by frequent ambushes, massacres and systematic sexual violence.
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  Artists in 9th Bienal

  Fetched: 23-May-2013, 6:33pm EDT

  The promises of the 9th Bienal do Mercosul l Porto Alegre are to identify, propose and repurpose changing belief systems and appraisals of experimentation and innovation. It intends to raise ontological and technological questions through artistic practice, object making and nodes of experience. This edition of the biennial can be considered an environment in which to encounter natural resources and material culture in a new light, and to speculate on the bases that have marked distinctions between discovery and invention, as well as the values of both sustainability and entropy.
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  Kader Attia

  Fetched: 23-May-2013, 6:33pm EDT

  REPAIR. 5 ACTS at KW Institute for Contemporary Art is French-Algerian artist Kader Attia's first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. For KW, Attia develops a site-specific installation in five acts, which applies his concept of "repair" as reconstruction in a wider sense to political, cultural and scientific topics, examining their various interactions. The exhibition places subjects Attia has been working with for several years in relation to each other, at times associatively and at times as framing an argument. He combines the European approach to its own colonial past within the framework of World War I with struggles for independence on the African continent, with current migration politics and with mechanisms of identity construction.
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  Wilhelm Thöny

  Fetched: 23-May-2013, 6:33pm EDT

  Today Wilhelm Thöny (1888?1949) is considered one of the most important Austrian artists of the first half of the 20th century, who, according to the latest findings, can be ranked alongside such famous painters as Oskar Kokoschka, Herbert Boeckl or the artists of the Nötscher Kreis like Anton Kolig, Franz Wiegele and Anton Faistauer. While these artists have had numerous publications and exhibitions based on current research devoted to them in recent years, a more comprehensive treatment of Thöny's work still waits to be carried out.
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  issue 45: Language and Internet out now

  Fetched: 23-May-2013, 6:33pm EDT

  In April, Mark Epstein from the Cooper Union Board of Trustees announced the end of fully subsidized education across the college's art, engineering, and architecture schools. It was a closing chapter in a ferocious battle in the college since it announced its insolvency in 2011. But it may be the beginning of something else. The details are too complex to fully describe here. On the one hand, a shortfall in Cooper's endowment became unsustainable following the market crash of 2007?2008.