III. Built to Ride Monica Bonvicini on quotation as critique and the breakdown of language. We Finally Built Walls (2010), wooden structure, 30 safety glass panels, black enamel color, 398 x 983 x 7.3 cm; photo Nils Klinger. AllView More >
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Fiona Tan
“Rise and Fall and New Works” September 10 – October 15, 2011 Wako Works of Art, Tokyo Installation view of Rise and Fall (2009) at Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, 2011. Photo ART iT. An overview of recentView More >
London’s White Cube steals Frieze spotlight with new space
In advance of London’s Frieze Art Fair, local powerhouse gallery White Cube has unveiled a massive new institutional-scale venue on Bermondsey Street, proximal to Tate Modern and the Design Museum. Complementing already existing sites in Hoxton Square and Mason’s Yard,View More >
Aernout Mik: Part II
II. Group Erotics Aernout Mik discusses the erotics of sameness and collective emotions. Top: Exterior view of “Citizens and Subjects,” Dutch Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007; photo Victor Nieuwenhuis. Bottom: Installation view of Training Ground (2007) inView More >
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A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 1) The Runit Dome, Fukushima, and the Lucky Dragon In the summer of 2004, around the same time as now when the singing of the cicadas was intense, a certain exhibition openedView More >
Monica Bonvicini: Part II
II. I believe in the skin Monica Bonvicini discusses fetishism and the act of destroying her own works. Hammering Out (an old argument) (1998), video color projection, sound, amplifier, two speakers, 18 min 45 sec. All images: Courtesy MonicaView More >
Miwa Yanagi
ART OF UPHEAVAL: 1924 By Natsuko Odate All images unless otherwise noted: Performance still from 1924 at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 2011. Courtesy Miwa Yanagi. Best known as a photographer addressing images of feminity inView More >
Monica Bonvicini: Part I
ERECT AS SIN By Andrew Maerkle Belts Couch (2004), black leather men’s belts, iron, fabric, 55 x 160 x 200 cm. All images: Courtesy Monica Bonvicini and Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin. Based in Berlin, Monica Bonvicini is knownView More >
Aernout Mik: Part I
POSSESSION/FORM By Andrew Maerkle Still from Glutinosity (2001), single-channel video installation. All images: courtesy Aernout Mik and carlier❘gebauer, Berlin. Aernout Mik’s meticulously staged, multi-channel videos explore the tensions between individual actions and collective order, hysteria and reason, andView More >
No. 10: Cosplay
The hidden depths of cosplay Today, the term “cosplay” has attained global currency. Referring to the practice of engaging with a comic or cartoon by turning oneself into one’s favorite character, this phenomenon barely existed when Disney and Marvel dominatedView More >
Cheyney Thompson: Part II
II. The Index of Robert Macaire Cheyney Thompson on the technology of perspective, and names that un-name. Installation view of the solo exhibition “Chronochromes, Data, Motifs” at Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, 2011. All images: Courtesy Cheyney Thompson and RatView More >
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Kuninosuke Matsuo and the Yomiuri Indépendent Exhibitions (Part III) In his previous two columns, Part I and Part II, Noi Sawaragi has been exploring the links between the intellectual and newspaper correspondent, Kuninosuke Matsuo, and the Yomiuri Indépendent series ofView More >