Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015.
The question that transmediale asks is not ‘what’ – as in, what can technologies do – but ‘how’: how are we using and being affected by technologies? I think the same question can be turned to transmediale itself, with the four days of events coming to a conclusion…[read on…]
Article by Nora Kovacs – in Berlin // Feb. 17, 2015
For this year’s Forum Expanded portion of the 65th Berlinale Film Festival, the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg opened its doors or, rather, closed them to the film installations of 16 contemporary artists with its group exhibition, “To the Sound of the Closing Door”…[read on…]
Article by Lucia Love – in New York; Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015.
Pervasive market branding of female athleticism is a recent development, which is rooted in unprecedented social and political actions of the early 1970s that allowed an active lifestyle to become a cultural possibility. Americans have Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendment, to view as a turning point for this change…[read on…]
Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 03, 2015.
The question that transmediale asks is not ‘what’ – as in, what can technologies do – but ‘how’: how are we using and being affected by technologies? I think the same question can be turned to transmediale itself, with the four days of events coming to a conclusion…[read on…]
Interview by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Friday, Jan. 30, 2015
Canadian, Berlin-based artist Jeremy Shaw explores altered states in his considerable body of work, straddling the borders between neuroscience and what he refers to as ‘psychedelic kitsch’…[read on…]
Article by Natasha Klimenko – in Berlin; Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015.
“Track sleep. Track steps. Track habits.” – So begins the promotional video for this year’s transmediale, themed “Capture All”. Intimating an invasion, collection, and configuration of basic patterns and functions, the theme initially purports a fixation on human activity and an overabundance of whichever qualities it takes to be and predict what is human…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015.
At the entrance to the UnTune exhibition at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, visitors are offered a strange array of items: alongside the usual catalogues and press releases, we get a set of yellow construction headphones and an assortment of bike lights and headlamps…[read on…]
Article by Harriet Thorpe – in London; Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015.
Pace arrived in London in 2011 with a fanfare, opening up shop in a wing of the Royal Academy of Arts at Burlington Gardens. The space, converted by architect David Chipperfield…
Article by Maria Achkar – in Berlin; Friday, Jan. 16, 2015.
For years now, Lebanon has been portrayed in the news as a land ruled by religion, war and chaos. It has been depicted numerous times as a place guided by secularism and instability. Its capital, Beirut…[read on…]
Interview by Alena Sokhan – in New York; Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015.
Artists have long criticized and resisted the commercialization of art, though few have taken such a personal and professional risk as to disengage with the art market so absolutely as Post-Minimalist painter Dale Henry…[read on…]
Article by Henry Andersen // Jan. 12, 2015
What spirit possesses the objects in Philippe Parreno’s exhibition ‘Quasi Objects’ at Esther Schipper Gallery, so that they seem to move about of their own volition? Is it the spirit of poetry or that of philosophy…[read on]
Interview by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Tuesday, Jan. 06, 2015.
Kristoffer Gansing is the artistic director of transmediale, a major Berlin-based cultural festival dealing with the intersection of technology, art and culture through four formats: an academic conference, an art exhibition, a film programme, and a series of performances…[read on…]
