POINTS OF CONVERGENCE By Andrew Maerkle Still from Thread Routes – Chapter 1 (2010), 16mm film transferred to HD format, 29 min 31 sec, sound. All images: Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio. In 1999, in Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya neighborhood, Kimsooja producedView More >
THE GARDEN SPEAKS FOR ITSELF By Andrew Maerkle and Natsuko Odate Proposed Helsinki Garden at the Singapore Biennale (2011), site-specific community project commissioned by the Singapore Biennale 2011 . Photo Mae Ee Wong. All images: Courtesy Martha Rosler. In March 2011View More >
Pipilotti Rist – Non voglio tornare indietro (Ospedale) (2011), video projection on veduta oil painting “Anonymous Venetian Master (Apollonio Domenichini?): Veduta with Canal Grande with Santa Maria di Nazareth, Santa Lucia and Scuola dei Nobili,” Museum Langmatt, Stiftung Langmatt SidneyView More >
Combing through press releases, mining contacts and reviewing advance publications, the editors of ART iT have sought out the most promising national representations planned for the 54th Venice Biennale. This is a year for bold, ambitious projects that equally combineView More >
Installation view of Home is a Foreign Place (1999) in “Everybody Agrees: It’s About to Explode,” Indian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice, 2011. Portfolio of 36 woodcuts with Urdu text printed in black on Kozo paper, mounted onView More >
Navin Rawanchaikul at his studio in Chiang Mai. Photo ART iT While many artists use the Venice Biennale as a platform to critique, parody or invert expressions of national identity, Navin Rawanchaikul is the very embodiment of just such anView More >
From “The Inadequate,” Spanish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale. Born in 1965 in Valladolid, Spain, and currently based in Brussels, Dora García uses live actions, institutional space and online platforms to explore the dynamics between performance and spectatorship. SheView More >
Production photo from Mur i wieża (Wall and Tower) (2009). Photo Magda Wunsche & Samsel. All images: Unless otherwise noted, courtesy Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, and Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv. Currently living between Berlin and Tel Aviv, Yael BartanaView More >
From Welcome to Birdhead World Again in Tokyo 2011 – What we take before, now, and in the future is all the same. All images: Courtesy the artists. Established by the artists Ji Weiyu and Song Tao in 2004, BirdheadView More >
Abdulla Al Saadi – Naked Sweet Potato (2000-10), detail, engravings on rock. Photo Mohamed Somji. Based in Istanbul where he is research director of the newly established cross-disciplinary organization SALT, Vasif Kortun is curator of the UAE Pavilion at theView More >