Installation view of Home is a Foreign Place (1999) in “Everybody Agrees: It’s About to Explode,” Indian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice, 2011. Portfolio of 36 woodcuts with Urdu text printed in black on Kozo paper, mounted onView More >
Navin Rawanchaikul at his studio in Chiang Mai. Photo ART iT While many artists use the Venice Biennale as a platform to critique, parody or invert expressions of national identity, Navin Rawanchaikul is the very embodiment of just such anView More >
From “The Inadequate,” Spanish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale. Born in 1965 in Valladolid, Spain, and currently based in Brussels, Dora García uses live actions, institutional space and online platforms to explore the dynamics between performance and spectatorship. SheView More >
Production photo from Mur i wieża (Wall and Tower) (2009). Photo Magda Wunsche & Samsel. All images: Unless otherwise noted, courtesy Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, and Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv. Currently living between Berlin and Tel Aviv, Yael BartanaView More >
From Welcome to Birdhead World Again in Tokyo 2011 – What we take before, now, and in the future is all the same. All images: Courtesy the artists. Established by the artists Ji Weiyu and Song Tao in 2004, BirdheadView More >
Abdulla Al Saadi – Naked Sweet Potato (2000-10), detail, engravings on rock. Photo Mohamed Somji. Based in Istanbul where he is research director of the newly established cross-disciplinary organization SALT, Vasif Kortun is curator of the UAE Pavilion at theView More >
Dayanita Singh – From “File Room” (2011), pigment print, 60 x 60cm. Courtesy the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London, and Nature Morte, New Delhi. The artistic director of the 54th Venice Biennale, Bice Curiger is curator of Kunsthaus Zürich, co-founderView More >
Installation view of the French Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, “Chance,” by Christian Boltanski, with kinetic installation The Wheel of Fortune in foreground and the interactive multimedia work Be New in background. All images: Photo Didier Plowy In JulyView More >
Making is Thinking By Andrew Maerkle Installation view of the exhibition “Making is Thinking” at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 2011. Visible at right is the C-print photograph Wand 28.04.2009 (2009) by Edgar Leciejewski; at left black-and-whiteView More >
Cheyney Thompson on Art Education ON RECORD is a series of dialogues with contemporary artists about the ideas and influences that inspire their works. ON RECORD #4 was conducted in Tokyo and edited by ART iT in collaboration with CheyneyView More >
III. Theatre of Transformation Wong Hoy Cheong discusses propaganda, politics and transparency in art. Still from Doghole (2009), HD Video, 22 min. All images: Unless otherwise noted courtesy Wong Hoy Cheong. ART iT: Earlier you mentioned that you often referenceView More >
II. Theatre of Consumption Wong Hoy Cheong on commodifying exploitation and the aesthetics of critique. Chronicles of Crime: Rooftop (2006), digital print on Kodak professional paper, 84 cm x 120 cm. All images: Unless otherwise noted courtesy Wong Hoy Cheong.View More >