The Device of Eternal Motion. A Conversation with Karla Kaplun
Mexican artist Karla Kaplun makes work around the construction and functioning of collective memory, and how that unfolds in dynamics…
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“STEADYSTATE” Zero… / Milan
Time, in “STEADYSTATE,” doesn’t tick — it lingers, loops, and evaporates. The group exhibition at Zero… in Milan, co-curated with…
Zurich: Peripheral Presence.
Moving through Zurich — whether on foot, by bicycle, tram, or car — rarely involves a direct or uninterrupted trajectory.…
TOWARDS A CYBERSPACIAL URBAN TERRAIN. A Conversation with Rem Koolhaas
Francesco Bonami: Do you still think that Manhattan is the center of the culture of congestion? Rem Koolhaas: It is…
The Familiar Strange. Phung-Tien Phan
I first came across the work of German-Vietnamese artist Phung-Tien Phan during a visit to Project Native Informant during the…
Nora Turato “pool7” ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts / London
Nora Turato’s “pool7” is an elaborate attempt at an exorcism — of language, of self, and of what she repeatedly…
Bayberry Greenhouses: Monumentality and Cropscape
Clouds of mist part in the mountains of Lin’an (临安), China to reveal a fragment of reptilian skin. A mass…
How do we repair?
London, December 2024 Dear Lizzie, I noticed that last year Rory Pilgrim wrote this very same letter to a loved…
Image Theater Utopia. Kelsey Isaacs
Kelsey Isaacs’s shower floor is home to a sculptural tableau that quite literally sets the stage for a practice in…
Who Are These People? A Conversation with Kai Althoff
Carlo Antonelli: Who are these people, the ones that populates your works? Kai Althoff: They accumulate. Some return more often…
A Room with a View. Hardy Hill
The first camera was a darkened room. Through a pinhole, the outside world was reflected on the opposite wall, upside…
Participatory Design or Processual Formalism? Frei Otto, the Ökohaus, and the Ökohäusler
My first, fleeting encounter with the Ökohaus (Eco-House) project came during an all too brief visit to Berlin in November…
Pan Daijing “Sudden Places” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Intentional obfuscation runs through “Sudden Places,” the exhibition by Chinese-born, Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist Pan Daijing at the Walker Art Center…
Between Ruins: Zazou Roddam
I’ve known Zazou Roddam for almost a decade, long before Roddam considered herself an artist or I was curating. For…
Food for the Journey
In Christianity, the cross announces a terrifying requirement, a gloomy invitation to participate in that at which we “shudder,” according…
Survival Mechanism. A Conversation with Christine Sun Kim
Christine Sun Kim began working at the Whitney in 2007 as an educator, and later, as a consultant to establish…