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Article by Romily Alice In London // Jan. 20, 2017
Erin Riley’s work is a perpetual fusing of the virtual and the real. Marrying modern concepts with traditional technique, Riley weaves our online lives into large-scale tapestries, asking questions about the value of labour…[read on]
Article by Ursula Ströbele in Berlin // Jan. 13, 2017
The past year has been an exciting one for VR technology. Carl Goodman, Executive Director of the Museum for Moving Image in New York recently highlighted the paradigm shift: “Virtual reality has been…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Jan. 04, 2017
Canadian artist Char Davies pioneered the genre now known as immersive virtual reality (VR) in the 1990s. Davies built the famous ‘Osmose’ (1995), a fully immersive artwork that changed the role of the user in radical…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Dec. 25, 2016
How can we capture and represent a changing world, caught in the moment of transition? In the work of Marwan Rechmaoui, a large floor-based black rubber map delineates the entire city of Beirut, sixty individual…[read on]
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Dec. 14, 2016
Beirut’s Temporary Art Platform is a curatorial platform that develops art projects relating to the public realm. T.A.P. supports and encourages art practices concerned with public space, urban and social design,…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Dec. 05, 2016
How do we perceive the world as it changes around us, mediating the transition between before and after? How does this process bring with it new meaning, a new understanding of what came first?…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Nov. 30, 2016
I first encountered the work of Belgian-born Philip Aguirre y Otegui at this year’s Ireland Biennale, EVA International, being struck by his new installation ‘Cabinet Mare Nostrum’. Monotone blue, coffin-shaped boats…[read on]
Article by Nat Marcus in Berlin // Nov. 28, 2016
The textual, alphabetical characters spelling out subtitles also become acting, narrative characters in the films of Berlin-based Amelia Umuhire. As self-taught director, Umuhire represents the…[read on]
Article by Nat Marcus in Berlin // Nov. 21, 2016
As a premise, Embassy for the Displaced could seem like a bureau written into a Borges story: the design-based collective remains anonymous, and explicitly defines itself as an institution, a consulate general of…[read on]
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Nov. 18, 2016
Norwegian artist Marianne Heier is known for her politically-charged performance and installation works. While practice work has always been underpinned by anti-capitalist aims, she’s taken on a series of pertinent issues…[read on]
Article by Nina Prader in Berlin // Nov. 09, 2016
Berlin is brimming with transient artists. Originally from Uruguay, Madrid-based artist Veronika Marquez was artist-in-resident at Institut für alles Mögliche in Wedding for the past three months…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Oct. 31, 2016
Refractions of light emanate from the gaps between the edges of a mirrored cube, patterned beams echoing around the room over and over again, creating an expanding immaterial matrix; bright light peeps …[read on]
