Posts Tagged ‘politics’
Sensing Plants: An Interview with Zheng Bo
by Ilyn Wong // Aug. 10, 2021
Speaking in a careful and considered way, which echoes his art-making, Zheng Bo talked about his relationship to plants, Daoist philosophy and poetics…[read on]
Articulating Entities: An Interview with Eli Cortiñas
by Aoife Donnellan // May 14, 2021
Eli Cortiñas explores industry, power, politics and memory in her collage-like works of found footage and imagery mixed with her own material…[read on]
Are We the People?: An Interview with Lerato Shadi
by Aoife Donnellan // Apr. 13, 2021
Lerato Shadi’s work challenges societal assumptions about reality in relation to politics, race, power, and labour…[read on]
DICE Conference + Festival Launches 2020 Program ‘Point Of No Return’
by Noëlle BuAbbud // Oct. 9, 2020
We have reached the event horizon where ‘normative’ social, political and economic models show their true distorted tendencies. How many concentric event…[read on]
Ecologies, Myth and Historical Insistence in Nanna Heitmann’s Photography
by Noëlle BuAbbud // Sept. 30, 2020
In an age of visual noise driven by the rapid circulation of images, and the constant influx of (mis)information on global catastrophes, the German/Russian photographer…[read on]
The Science of Art and the Art of Science: Nina Rodin at Karl Oskar Gallery
by Vanessa Souli // Feb. 10, 2020
Nina Rodin’s interdisciplinary show ‘Caviar, Skin and Unsolved Systems’ at Karl Oskar Gallery in Tempelhof suggests an approach to art-making as a scientific process…[read on]
Lubaina Himid’s Revolution from Below at the New Museum New York
Article by Michelle Standley // Sept. 24, 2019
Zanzibar-born and London-bred, Turner-prize-winning painter and installation artist Lubaina Himid has an agenda. She wants to change the world…[read on]
Hito Steyerl and the Information Age at the Akademie der Künste
Article by Sarah Messerschmidt // Mar. 20, 2019
Hito Steyerl has become a ubiquitous name in international art circles. She is the eminent professor of New Media Art and co-founder of the Research Center for Proxy Politics at Berlin’s…[read on]
Isabelle Graeff’s Photography Binds People and Politics
Article by Louisa Stark // Jun. 2, 2018
Across Sexauer gallery’s walls Isabelle Graeff’s photographs are arranged either singularly or in groups of twos and threes at different heights, in a style that reminds me of Wolfgang Tilmans…[read on]
Nationalism // Archiving the Alt-Right: An Interview with Tomáš Rafa
Article by Jess Harrison // Feb. 23, 2018
Artist and filmmaker, Tomáš Rafa discusses democracy, the refugee crisis and the increasingly indistinguishable boundary between legality and illegality as far-right parties become part of official politics…[read on]
Exhibition // ‘Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War’ at HKW
Article by Jack Radley in Berlin // Nov. 29, 2017
‘Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War’ at Haus der Kulturen der Welt – HKW reveals scandals, reshapes narratives, and interrogates ideologies. The exhibition uses the U.S. Central Intelligence…[read on]