5.7 – 6.27 Elizabeth Leach Gallery (Portland) Bicycle Repair Signals, 2009 16 digital prints on color photographic paper 246.4×424.2cm The Vietnamese-American artist returns to Vietnam’s street life with photo collages and installations. The work is bare, finding a more conceptualView More >
Kimura Ihei Award winner Honma Takashi is to run a workshop at the main Aoyama Book Center store in Tokyo. Using his book Tanoshii shashin – Yoi ko no tame no shashin kyoshitsu (Fun with photos: a photography class forView More >
4.4 – 6.21 Casula Powerhouse (Sydney) Dinh Q. Lê The Penal Colony: A Mapping of the Mind, 2008 4 channel video installation Courtesy the artist and Casula Powerhouse Even taking a seemingly innocuous look back decades after a conflict onView More >
3.9 – 9.9 Asia Society (New York) The first US museum showing of Yang Fudong’s masterly Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest, a five-part black-and-white video referencing the legendary Seven Sages, a group of third-century Chinese intellectuals who distanced themselvesView More >
Isolation bound to the universe Text: Sumiyoshi Chie Portrait: Nagare Satoshi A universe of elastic fabric stretched tight in every direction, unhampered by the laws of gravity. Relax your body and trust your instincts and you’ ll find there aView More >
2008.11.11 – 2009.2.22 Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane) by Michael Fitzgerald Vernon Ah Kee, Who let the dogs out (detail), 2008 Applied vinyl, Site-specific work for Contemporary Australia: Optimism Courtesy the artist On 13 February 2008, Australia’s newly elected PrimeView More >
The future of knowledge A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear HHR, Thanks so much for your compelling letter. Immanuel Wallerstein is indeed – besides Edouard Glissant – a wonderful toolbox for our times. I’ve recently beenView More >
Obama, Crisis, Two Realities and Change A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist By crisis in a historical system I shall mean not conjunctural difficulties within a system but a structural strain so great that the only possibleView More >
Parallel realities A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear HHR Thanks so much for your letter. I fully agree with you and Toni Negri that the new resistance is ‘in-between’. Your reference to Toni, whom we visitedView More >
In-between, and in small numbers A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist Dear HUO, Thanks very much for your recent thoughts on the Nanomuseum. These are issues so important to our search for new forms of space forView More >
The Nanomuseum A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear Hanru, Thanks so much for your inspiring text on Pelin and public art. Today I want to write about some issues related to my most recent exhibition, Everstill,View More >
The Future of Public Art A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist Dear HUO, Thanks much for your inspiring survey on the future of art. In response I’d like to share with you excerpts from an interview addressingView More >