Not Identical, but the Same: Yuuki Matsumura’s ‘Almost-Dead Sculpture’ Yuuki Matsumura – Untitled (2009), set of three aluminum sheets, 30 x 65 x 45 cm, each. Let’s begin with the dualism of “things that can be reproduced anyView More >
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‘Dispositif’ Theory: Returning to the Movie Theater
By Olga Bryukhovetska What is Dispositif? The concept of “dispositif” is best known as a key term in late Foucault that first appeared in his History of Sexuality, Volume 1 (1976) to replace the use of “discursive formation,”View More >
Opening/Closing this week (8.9-15)
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Paula Sengupta: “Rivers of Blood” 8.10 – 9.10 Chemould Prescott Road (Mumbai) Stephen Vitiello: “The Birds” 8.11 – 9.12 Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney) Jenny Watson / Nell 8.12 – 9.4 Roslyn Oxley9View More >
‘Where Three Dreams Cross’
Between Blue Rocks By Aveek Sen Dayanita Singh – Dream Villa 40 (2008), C-type print. Courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London. To approach photography through the gates of poetry is to complicate the relationship of bothView More >
Opening/Closing this week (8.2-8)
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Zhan Wang: “Suyuan Stone Generator – 1 Hour Equals 100 Million Years” 8.3 – 10 Today Art Museum (Beijing) Jiang Zhi: “Temperature of the Nerve Endings” 8.4 – 31 Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok Allison Holt:View More >
Ming Wong: Part I
In his videos and installations, the Berlin-based Singaporean artist Ming Wong explores the intersections of language, identity and performance. Wong’s recent works adapt landmarks of World Cinema into intentionally stripped-down video productions. Made in 2005, the multi-channel installation FourView More >
Ming Wong: Part II
II. Intermediate: Ablegen, Anlegen, Auflegen, Auslegen, Belegen, Beilegen, Darlegen, Einlegen, Erlegen Ming Wong discusses Fassbinder, Pasolini and international attitudes toward cross-dressing. Video still from Devo partire. Domani / I must go. Tomorrow (2010). ART iT: We were justView More >
Ming Wong: Part III
III. Advanced: Yishmór, Tishmór, Tishmór, Tishmrí, Eshmór, Yishmrú, Tishmórna, Tishmrú, Tishmórna, Nishmór Ming Wong on future developments in his work and representing his nation at Venice. Video still from Lerne Deutsch mit Petra Von Kant (2007). ART iT:View More >
An Indexical Survey of Tokyo in the Age of Cinema
By Shinro Ohtake Left: Vintage promotional pamphlet for the film Wu yue yu zhong hua, xia ji (Blossom in Rainy May Part 2, 1960), directed by Kim Chun, produced by Kong Ngee Motion Picture Production Company, Hong Kong. Right:View More >
Ming Wong: Essay I
The Scene is Elsewhere: Tracking Ming Wong By Adele Tan Cinema billboard designed by Ming Wong, painted by Neo Chon Teck (2009), variable dimensions, acrylic emulsion on canvas. All the world’s a stage, And all the men and womenView More >
Laser Karaoke Three-Minute Theater of Life
By Kyoichi Tsuzuki There are certain individuals who in their youth avoid any place associated with karaoke, stubbornly preferring to remain cool and aloof by refusing to sing even when taken to such establishments, but who upon reachingView More >
Ming Wong: Essay II
Stranger on the Road By Hu Fang Cinema billboard designed by Ming Wong, painted by Neo Chon Teck (2009), variable dimensions, acrylic emulsion on canvas. All images: Courtesy the artist. Word Order Many of Ming Wong’s work titlesView More >