‘Quiet Attentions: Departure from Women’ February 12 – May 8, 2011 Art Tower Mito+Contemporary Art Gallery View of Art Tower Mito plaza as seen from the position of the loudspeaker installed for Susan Philipsz’s site-specific sound installation Did I DreamView More >
2.25: “Daydream Believer!!” 3rd Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions Established in 2009, the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions investigates the intersections between contemporary art and media practices. Also known as Yebizo, and hosted byView More >
The 3rd Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions ‘Daydream Believer!!’ February 18-27, 2011 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Javier Tellez – Still from Caligari and the Sleepwalker (2008), Super-16mm film transferred to HDV Blue-ray, sound, b&w, 27 minView More >
Issue 8: TEXT Perhaps the most efficient means of communication yet invented by humans, text is also inherently saddled with confusion and contradiction. When commentators wring their hands about contemporary knowlege spinning out of control with the circulation of virallyView More >
‘Too Far to See’ January 21 to March 20, 2011 Yokohama Museum of Art God Bless America (2002), video, 8 min 18 sec. In 2004, Tadasu Takamine’s video Kimura-san was preemptively removed from the group exhibition “Non-Sect Radical Contemporary PhotographyView More >
Issue 7: RETROSPECT 2010 Who knows how the year 2010 will be remembered in art history. A number of events may stand out as having been immediately significant – with its controversial use of reperformance, Marina Abramovic’s retrospective at theView More >
Jens Hoffmann is the Director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco. In 2011 he will be the curator, with Adriano Pedrosa, of the 12th Istanbul Biennial as well as a curator for the 3rd Biennial ofView More >
In 2010 Massimiliano Gioni served as Artistic Director of the 8th Gwangju Biennale, “10,000 Lives” (September 3 to November 7), and in October was named Associate Director and Director of Exhibitions of the New Museum in New York, where heView More >
Things Worth Remembering 2010 Memory rarely behaves the way we expect. Often, it is the things that at first seem incidental that take on greater significance over time, while those that initially seem impressive can fade to the margins. PressedView More >
Over the past year, the editors of ART iT have traveled the length and breadth of Japan and visited international cities ranging from Bangkok, Beijing, Busan, Gwangju, Seoul and Shanghai to Berlin, Brussels, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris andView More >