Article by Linus Ignatius – in Berlin; Frirday, Apr. 11, 2014.
I am standing on the corner of Kurfürstendamm and Albrecht-Achilles-Straße, kicking the ground. I have just left MEAT, a conceptual theater piece installed in the Schaubühne studios, directed by Swedish artist Thomas Bo Nilsson. I am waiting for an Italian rentboy…[read on…]
Article by Anna Wallace-Thompson – in London; Tuesday, Apr. 01, 2014.
A recent retrospective of the Berlin-based performance artist in London marked 13 years of performative practice by Nezaket Ekici, including a three-day live performance and installation at Pi Artworks…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi, photos by Emelie Flood – in Berlin; Saturday, Mar. 15, 2014.
The small space at Emerson Gallery held an intimate performance on Friday. It was intimate in that the space was personal and sparsely populated, but the performance itself can better be described as explicit, drawing aggressive contrasts between two different Secret Garden’s: one the classic…[read on…]
Blog post by Emelie Flood – in Berlin; Friday, Feb. 20, 2014.
The first evening of the One Night Stand series took place at KW Institute for Contemporary Art last Thursday. The project space NOTE ON presented Crampographies, a combination of performance and video art which reflected the potentiality of the cramp as a collective-singular collapse from a feminist and post-identitarian perspective…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014.
Live tableaus may seem like a played out and gimmicky art trend, but the performance Afterimage / Anti-Demo from Yvon Chabrowski last Thursday at the Eigen + Art Lab offered a tasteful poignancy to scenes modelled after viral photos of Russian activists at the hands of the police…[read on…]
As I suspected it would be – strangely, even before meeting Jen Ray in person – the studio visit was both laid-back and intellectually enlightening. The…[read on]
Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013 PLATOON KUNSTHALLE “Dazed Visionaries” – MATT LAMBERT Screening: Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013; 7pm Schönhauser Allee 9 (click here for map) Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013 THE GYM “I can’t believe people are still making work like this” – TOMASZ KOBIALKA Opening Reception: Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013; 6-10pm Buttmannstrasse 21 (click here for… Read more »
Blog post by Joel Huggins & photos by Stephanie Third – in Berlin; Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013.
The Good-Bye Neukölln / Hello Lichtenberg exhibition was not only an opportunity to view a collection of works by a number of artists, including new work from Agathe Alberti Bock, Linards Kulless, and Archie Fitzgerald among others, but it was also a fond farewell to the space itself…[read on…]
Blog post by Monica Salazar – in Berlin; Tuesday Nov. 5, 2013.
Dallas, Texas is one of the fastest growing cities in America and the contemporary art event Aurora is keeping the city’s arts and culture progress apace. The free event, which took place in October in the urban heart of the Dallas Arts District, revolved around the theme Light of Convergence…[read on…]
Article by Henry Andersen – in Berlin; Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013.
A famous story about Richard Wagner tells of the premier performance of his opera Der Ring des Niblungen (sometimes called The Ring Cycle, completed 1883). As the story goes, after one of the arias an old man in the theatre, particularly moved by the singer’s performance began to clap…[read on…]
