Harsh Free Jazz. A Conversation with Michael E. Smith
Luigi Alberto Cippini One day, I was trying to get out of software boredom and I was browsing for YouTube…
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Klára Hosnedlová: World Weaver
The pattern best employed to express the generation of life and energy thrown from the motion of its development is…
“A Cosmic Movie Camera” Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement / Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Examining last century’s art through a post-formalist lens reveals two key aspects: the gradual blurring of the line between viewer…
The Year of Magical Discipline. A Conversation with Dozie Kanu
An oracle mumbles the dreams of a Beautiful wanderer Obliterating fear From a single memory archive Spiraling diamond Sparkle Sun…
Thoughts of Elsewhere
“The successful negotiation of holes is dependent on maintaining a healthy respect for what cannot be seen.” – Pope. L…
London: From Wind to Signs. A Conversation with Zeinab Saleh
A baby and a great fear of meeting my past stopped me from returning to London for almost seven years.…
Jasmine Gregory “Si je ne peux pas l’avoir, toi non plus” CAPC – Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux
The CAPC – Musée d’art Contemporain is contained in a cavernous converted nineteenth-century warehouse in Bordeaux. It is a fitting…
Cutting Up the World. A Conversation with Gray Wielebinski
Perhaps appropriately for an interview on a cold, dark, January evening, the first question I ask Gray Wielebinski is one…
Dora Budor “Again” Nottingham Contemporary
Croatian-born Dora Budor’s inaugural institutional exhibition in the UK, titled “Again,” takes place at Nottingham Contemporary, one of many organizations…
All the Images will Disappear. A Conversation with Rebecca Ackroyd
A blood-red carpet, ghostly body parts infused with lurid blues and pastel pinks that are weighted to heavy wooden furniture,…
Divisions
Originally published in Aperto ’93: Emergency/Emergenza, Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1993. The European scene of late has been dominated by the…
Sloppy, poor and free
In 1993, the world was not so much different than today. In the Balkans people were killing each other…
APERTO ’93: 1993–2023
Aperto ’93 set the artistic agenda for the 1990s. It is widely considered to have been one of the best…
Copies of Copies, I Which I Then Copy Again. A Conversation with Motoko Ishibashi
Art history lectures frequently begin with an image of the Venus of Willendorf. The ancient fertility sculpture, with its exaggerated…
“Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum / New York
Visibility is a double-edged sword or, as French philosopher Michel Foucault once categorized it, “a trap.”1 The term’s duality is…
"Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living" Mori Art Museum / Tokyo
To mark their twentieth anniversary, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo presents “Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living,” co-curated by…