FREEDOM ON EARTH: METABOLISM, FAVELA, YANGJIANG GROUP A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist The Yangjiang Group headquarters. © the artists. Dear HUO, I enjoyed very much reading your comments on Metabolism, and especially Damisch’s A Theory ofView More >
Issue 5: LITERATURE If literature is the art of the written word, it is also the art of reading. Whatever the intentions of their authors, books ranging from novels to memoirs, critical texts, political and philosophical treatises and even religiousView More >
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Raqs Media Collective 10.20 – 11.20 Project 88, Mumbai Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski: “Incompatible Elements” 10.21 – 30 Sarah Goffman: “Trashcan Dreams” 10.21 – 30 Performance Space, NSW Tim Maguire: “Light and Water” 10.23View More >
A Subjective History of Photography Before and After Literature By Andrew Maerkle Although they rarely feature people, the photographs of Naoya Hatakeyama often evoke the grand narrative of humanity’s interaction with the environment. Like monuments once forgotten and then rediscovered,View More >
Hic et Nunc; or, The Delirium Beyond Translation By Andrew Maerkle Working effortlessly between canonical, alternative and esoteric sources, Cerith Wyn Evans draws upon a broad knowledge of literature, linguistics and even astrophysics in his conceptual art practice. At timesView More >
Six Rooms for Enrique Vila-Matas ON RECORD is a series of dialogues with contemporary artists about the ideas and influences that inspire their works. ON RECORD #3 was conducted in Tokyo and edited by ART iT in collaboration with DominiqueView More >
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Angus McDonald 10.12 – 30 Jan Murphy Gallery, Queensland “Paintings by Amitava” 10.14 – 11.16 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai “Afghanistan: The Perils of Freedom 1993 – 2009” 10.15 – 11.20 Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney “LegacyView More >
Paris-based curator Akiko Miki has been selected as artistic director for next year’s 4th Yokohama Triennale, it was announced Oct 1. Miki is chief curator at the contemporary art center Palais de Tokyo. While she has yet to determine anView More >
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Nidhi Agarwal, Ramakrishna Behera and Basist Kumar: “The Gamut” 10.5 – 23 Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi Fauzulyusri & Agathe de Bailliencourt 10.6 – 29 TAKSU, Singapore Chatr Jenchitr: “Intersections” 10.6 – 31 H Gallery,View More >
Seiichi Furuya: The Disclosed Mémoires (Part I) East Berlin, 1985. Published intermittently since 1989, Seiichi Furuya’s series of photobooks entitled “Mémoires” was concluded this year with the appearance of volume five. Furuya’s 25-year “journey” began in the fall of 1985View More >
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Shelley McSpedden and Jessica Neath: “Views from the Vanishing Point” 9.30 – 10.23 Sutton Gallery Project Space, Melbourne Chow Chun-fai 9.30 – 10.23 Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong K. G. Subramanyan 10.1 – 25 TheView More >
New songs without words: Yurie Nagashima’s ‘SWISS+’ All images: Installation view of “SWISS+” (2010) at SCAI The Bathhouse 2F View Room. Photos Keizo Kioku, courtesy SCAI The Bathhouse. It was 1994 when I first met Yurie Nagashima, soon after sheView More >