#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Reviews
Sidsel Meineche Hansen Chisenhale gallery / London
“Welcome to End-Used City” continues Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s ongoing consideration of techno-capitalism’s stranglehold on biopolitics. The focus here is the…
Janiva Ellis 47 Canal / New York
A body is torn away from itself and reformed around a hard fist. Light bounces off the eye of the…
Vanessa Beecroft
Massimiliano Gioni: Let’s go right back to the beginning, to your first show, where you presented a book that listed…
“STURTEVANT: MEMES”Freedman Fitzpatrick / Los Angeles
“STURTEVANT: MEMES” at Freedman Fitzpatrick is the artist’s first solo exhibition to be mounted in Los Angeles since her death…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Features
Apertures of Queer Prophecy. Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s Such Feeling
At the center of Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s Until a thousand roses bloom (with Warsaw in the background) (2018) are two plots…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Features
Image, performance, protest
Over the past decade, much has been written about the rise of performance in contemporary art’s institutions, with gargantuan architectures…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Features
When You Mix Something, It’s Good to Know Your Ingredients: Modes of Addressing and Economies of Attention in the Visual and Performing Arts
The event-oriented neo-avant-gardes of the 1950s and ’60s were very much driven by an oppositional stance to the conventions of…
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Oslo Biennial 2019
The Venice Biennale opened in the same week as the first edition of the OsloBiennalen. But while the former will…
If the Snake / Okayama Art Summit
The title of the second Okayama Art Summit is a half-formulated hypothesis: “If the Snake.” I guess we’ll never know.…
Chillida Leku Museum / San Sebastián
The spirit of Eduardo Chillida reverberates throughout Chillida Leku — “the place of Chillida” in the Basque language. Here, Chillida’s…
Paris Roundup 2019
Saturation occurs once again, the city drenched in expos, events, and itinerant first-timers. Given the slight period in which to…
Korakrit Arunanondchai: Ghosting Ghost Cinema
Korakrit Arunanondchai’s Together, created in collaboration with boychild and Alex Gvojic, is a live cinematic installation that calls itself a…
Nkisi: Visual Redub
A collaborative live performance by Paul Maheke, Nkisi, and Ariel Efraim Ashbel, co-commissioned by Performa, Abrons Art Center, and Red…
Kunststrom für Alle: POWER NIGHT at E-WERK Luckenwalde
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. The preserved stained-glass window above the entrance to…
Moving in the In-Between: Tarik Kiswanson
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. Arriving in Sweden in the 1980s, having fled Palestine…
When Body Horror Meets Fairy Tale: The Films of Marianna Simnett
In her legendary 1991 essay “The Cyborg Manifesto,” Donna Haraway described a world that many of us then dismissed as…
Sharing space: Meriem Bennani on Teleportation, Babycouple Adults, and Postcolonial Morocco
Combining an impressive range of imagery drawn from YouTube, reality television, music videos, cartoons, documentary footage, and self-crafted animations, the…
Elysia Crampton: Beyond the horizon of coloniality
“We come from a heavily colonized country where they adopted Christianity. I saw the way [my grandmother] navigated her relationship…
The Machinery of Identity: Candice Breitz
Candice Breitz says she hasn’t slept all week. Yet, as I visit the artist in her studio in a long-gentrified…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Reviews
FALSE SPACES TOKAS Project / Tokyo
For its second edition, TOKAS Project invited Hong Kong Arts Centre and independent curator Yuk-Yiu Ip to present a media…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Reviews
Marguerite Humeau CLEARING /Brussels
Maguerite Humeau’s earlier exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo and Nottingham Contemporary (2016–17) focused on what allowed the human species…
Cross-Species Communication and Bio-Sensing Art of the 1970s and 80s: A Conversation with Richard Lowenberg
Thinking back on the hallucinogenic American postwar art scene, one envisions that hazy confluence of networks and disciplines native to…
Whitney Biennial 2019 Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
The Whitney Biennial has historically been an occasion for artistic protest and institutional critique, and this year’s iteration proved to…
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DANCE OFFICE
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Kunststrom für Alle: POWER NIGHT at E-WERK Luckenwalde
Moving in the In-Between: Tarik Kiswanson
Crossing Borders, Mobilizing Thought: The Farm in the Cave’s Seven-Hour Performance
Disaffected Bodies: Anne Imhof’s Sex
Forsythe’s Immaculate Choreography
Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done
Full Service by Adam Linder Wattis Institute / San Francisco
Archaeologies of Form in Ballet
The Battleground of the Spirit: Chicago’s Glass and Steel Skin
Chicago’s Navy Pier has lived many past lives. Lining the shore of Lake Michigan for more than a kilometer, it…
Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts Kestnergesellschaft / Hannover
“A community for all the arts … a cultural center for the new age.” This sounds like another Bauhaus centennial…
Inner Ear Vision: Sound as Medium Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts / Omaha
“Inner Ear Vision: Sound as Medium” at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts offers a welcome cross section of innovative…
Wong Ping Camden Arts Centre / London
Wong Ping’s practice revolves around three fundamental aspects — filmmaking, sculpture, and storytelling. His animated films are the result of…
Libita Clayton Spike Island / Bristol
To access Libita Clayton’s immersive sound installation Quantum Ghost (2019), one must enter the space through a cave mouth leading…
Mia Habib TBA Festival / Portland
A swarm of people gathers in Pioneer Square, the amphitheater-shaped plaza that is Portland’s downtown hub. These thirty or forty…
Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival XXII Triennale / Milan
Put it this way: what we define as contemporary is mainly connoted by fragility. If we look at projects like…
Sara Cwynar Blitz / Valletta
“My mission is to spark joy in the world through tidying,” says a smiling Marie Kondo — the pop-culture tidying guru…
HOMELAND Ordet / Milan
If there is a narrative that dominates degenerate populist and sovereign rhetoric, it is that of the border. Whether based…
Conditions of Life: Forensic Architecture in the Age of Climate Breakdown
The Motagua Fault is an active, moving fault that extends across Guatemala and is part of the tectonic boundary between…
COMPOSING HOME / UNIVERSAL RIGHTS
Composing Home In this time when we humans have become a geologic force, most of us live in increasingly…
Coactivity: Between the Human and Nonhuman
A new generation of artists is exploring the intrinsic qualities of materials “informed” by the activities of humanity, and bearing…
Flash Art #326 June – August 2019
The summer issue of Flash Art is an attempt to map the ecological breakdown that is restructuring our belief systems, forcing us…
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#326 JUNE–AUG 2019
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COMPOSING HOME / UNIVERSAL RIGHTS
Ettore Spalletti NMNM / Monaco
Conditions of Life: Forensic Architecture in the Age of Climate Breakdown
“The Life of Matter is Already an Artistic Practice.” Metamorphosis and Alchemy in the work of Bianca Bondi
Coactivity: Between the Human and Nonhuman
Unsublime Ecology
Eco-Tripping: Ant Farm’s Environmental Media
Between Two Bookends: Ecology and the Work of Mark Dion
Alexander Calder Centro Botín / Santander
Each “Calder Story” at Centro Botín is an untold one. More than eighty mobiles, maquettes, and architectural projects are on…
Tawan Wattuya Hatch Art Project / Singapore
In these ominous images we see the dark vision of humanity that has characterized Wattuya’s work for much of his…
Lee Jaffe Eva Presenhuber / New York
As a musician, artist, poet, photographer, and filmmaker, Lee Jaffe has lived many lives in different countries. What has always…
May You Live In Interesting Times 58th Venice Biennale
How does one write a review for a “project” like the Venice Biennale, which includes an international mega-exhibition alongside a…
Lis Rhodes Nottingham Contemporary / UK
This summer, all four galleries at Nottingham Contemporary are dedicated to the largest survey exhibition of Lis Rhodes to date…
MOMENTUM10 10th Nordic Biennial of Contemporay Art / Norway
The tenth installment of this Scandinavian biennial, held in the small paper-milling town of Moss, Norway, can certainly be seen…
Gil Yefman Tel Aviv Museum of Art / Israel
How can a young Israeli relate to the memory of the Holocaust without the risk of falling into the twofold…
CRACK UP – CRACK DOWN 33rd Ljubljana Biennial
What is the place of comedy in a groundless world? Amid the volatility of contemporary society, where claims of truth,…
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REVIEWS
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Janiva Ellis 47 Canal / New York
Chillida Leku Museum / San Sebastián
“STURTEVANT: MEMES”Freedman Fitzpatrick / Los Angeles
Oslo Biennial 2019
Zhao Zhao Mizuma Art Gallery / Singapore
Singapore Utopia Chan + Hori Contemporary / Singapore
The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100 GARAGE Museum of Contemporary Art / Moscow
Mia Habib TBA Festival / Portland
On Failure, Decay, and New Forms of Responsibility. A Conversation with Ibrahim Mahama
Architecture, and the dissonance between its history, form and function is paramount to artist Ibrahim Mahama, representing Ghana at the…
Anastasia Mityukova’s Project Iceworm
“Project Iceworm” was a mid-twentieth-century mission undertaken — then abandoned — by the U.S. military to test nuclear missiles in…
Sex and the Panopticon A conversation between Shu Lea Cheang and Paul B. Preciado
Shu Lea Cheang has lived a number of different lives: as a queer media activist, a cyberpunk filmmaker, and an…
The “Homespun Spinelessness Cult” of nabbteeri
The task of representing Finland, Norway, and Sweden — or the Nordic countries — at the 58th International Art Exhibition…
Art and the Idea of Black Film: A Conversation
This past fall, the Fondazione Prada in Milan hosted “The Black Image Corporation” (September 20, 2018–January 14, 2019), conceived by…
Spectacle of Concealment
Performances of blackness have generally been limited to particular styles of music, theater, dance, and popular culture, which has fostered…
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Double Take
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