Biennial Manifesto
“A twenty-first-century biennial will utilize calculated uncertainty and conscious incompleteness to produce a catalyst for invigorating change whilst always producing…
Features
I Can’t Play Guitar
I condemned myself to a life of collaboration when I bought a guitar and formed a band but decided to…
Carlo Mollino
Had Carlo Mollino (1905-1973) never existed, he would have almost certainly been imagined — the fictional embodiment, something between Moravian…
Luke Fowler
“You asked me if the abstract was obfuscating reality and I said no because the abstract is as valid as…
We are Ukrainians
December, 2004. While the Orange Revolution unfurled over Ukraine, about twenty artists slipped into the crowd of protestors, militant campers…
Brussels Residents
What’s so special about Brussels and why are so many artists moving there? Though the lively multicultural city is ideally…
Adrian Ghenie
Prior to becoming the “Transylvanian rising star,” Adrian Ghenie co-founded, together with Mihai Pop, Plan B gallery, the epicenter of…
Simone Forti
Jenny Schlenzka: How did you become invested with movement? Simone Forti: Before I got seriously involved with dance I painted.…
Athanasios Argianas
In a recent sculpture, whose title sounds as much like a manifesto as some kind of neo-Platonic magic trick, A…
Fluxus Tales
As soon as my dad told me I needed to make money and thus get a job, I found myself…
Kirstine Roepstorff
Kirstine Roepstorff’s 2007-2008 series “It’s not the eye of the needle that changed – The Time / The Self /…
Nedko Solakov
Laughter, shame, fear, love, anger, happiness, euphoria, boredom, depression… and if irony was an emotion, then especially irony. “Emotions” is…
Diego Perrone
and Simone Berti
Samuele Menin: When you are invited to participate in a group show with a specific theme, how does this theme…
Matthew Day Jackson
Bill Arning: In my time at MIT, I was always really grateful to be in a place where the bulk…
Conflicts of Interest
Writing about the work of the French artist Jean-Luc Moulène (b. 1955, France; lives in Paris), I’ve reached, many times,…
Terence Koh / Banks Violette
Terence Koh: It doesn’t seem to fail that every time we do something together it falls apart. Considering this is…