The Future of Art A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear Hanru Daniel Birnbaum, a close colleague and friend of mine, and one of the sharpest of our present generation of art writers, had this to sayView More >
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Reinventing Biennials A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist Dear HUO Nice to see you again at the Venice Biennale opening earlier this month: as intense and inspiring as usual, one of those ‘hurricane moments’ we always have!View More >
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Exhibition-making in a transnational context A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear HHR Your text on Adel and Ming also made me think of the transnational condition of art. As Simryn Gill once told us at theView More >
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Yan Pei Ming and Adel Abdessemed A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist Dear HUO, I’d like to return to the reflections on Paul Chan’s work that you sent me two issues back. I’m keen to exchange viewsView More >
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Interview Marathon A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear Hanru I hope your move to San Francisco went well and am very curious to hear more about your new city. I am in London now and toView More >
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■A Ai Weiwei part 1｜Part 2 I’m fighting for freedom of speech. I never settle for less. I don’t engage in negotiation. Interview: ART iT Ando Tadao and Sugimoto Hiroshi Creating an alternative world: What is the ideal art museum architecture?View More >
MASH UP
2009.3.7 – 4.29 ARTSPACE (Auckland) by Charlotte Huddleston Shimabuku, Then, I decided to give a tour of Tokyo to the Octopus from Akashi, 2000 Photos Sam Hartnett, Courtesy the artists and ARTSPACE As an exhibition, the chaotic and/or free-ranging cross-culturalView More >
Sawaragi Noi: Notes on Art and Current Events
Index 6: Chaos*Lounge 2010 – Budding freedom/equality and their future 5: Ernest Fenollosa – the unacknowledged source of simulationism? 4: From art history concepts to independents – On viewing the Expressionist Movements in Japan exhibition 3: Overseas territories as culturalView More >
Odani Motohiko: SP4 ‘the specter’ in modern sculpture
2009.4.4 – 5.2 Yamamoto Gendai, Tokyo http://www.yamamotogendai.org/ by Sumiyoshi Chie SP4 the specter – What wonders around in every mind, 2009 FRP, cloth, horsehair, other media, 30 x 235 x 105 cm Photo Kioku Keizo, courtesy Yamamoto Gendai {Text inView More >
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Laboratory for an uncertain future A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist Dear HUO, I was very impressed by your text on Paul Chan. Certainly the question of political engagement in contemporary art activity has become more crucialView More >
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Paul Chan in the Uncertain States of America A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear Hanru Last night, as I was writing a bit about Paul Chan, I suddenly decided to send it to you. If weView More >
Shiriagari Kotobuki’s Unsolicited Proposals: No. 1
The Staff Contemporary art surely has to be the freest form of expression in the world. A painting, an object, a performance: simply say ta-dah! A work of art! And there you have it ? contemporary art. But even contemporaryView More >