“I was working on site, transcribing and arranging these aphoristic notes I had compiled in the memo app on my iPhone, and as I wrote everything out I started hearing this voice in my head saying, ‘There’s no way this could ever be realized.’ I went back and forth with myself about it. Then at the end I thought: ‘Capitalism right now . . . needs to change!'”
THE ANTI-SOCIALLY ENGAGED ARTIST By Andrew Maerkle
— “There’s a secret smoking room behind the video installation of me singing karaoke as Joseph Beuys, Artistic Dandy (2018), so I could hear the song as I smoked. I mean, probably no serious artist anywhere else in the world would make a work like that. But the work is not an arrogant critique of the socially-engaged artists epitomized by Beuys. It’s more an expression of my doubt that they would ever let me join their club.”
MEANING RESTS WITHIN By Andrew Maerkle
— “As far as translations go, I mean, gee whiz, it’s like a reproduction. There are lousy reproductions of things and there are decent reproductions – but it’s still a reproduction of the same thing.”
BETWEEN PRACTICE AND THEORY By Futoshi Hoshino Nicolas Bourriaud lectures at Tokyo University of the Arts, January 8, 2018. Photo: Shu Nakagawa, courtesy Tokyo University of the Arts. One of the premier intellects in the fields of contemporary art andView More >
II. Prologue: Squat/Anti-Squat (2016), film installation with dialogue on back-to-back screens, 17 min each side, installation view in the Dutch Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, 2017. Photo Daria Scagliola. All images: © Wendelien van Oldenborgh, courtesy the artist andView More >
STARING WITH EQUALITY Cinema Olanda Film (2017), digital projection, 17 min, installation view in the Dutch Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, 2017. Photo Giacomo Frison. All images: © Wendelien van Oldenborgh, courtesy the artist and Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam. BasedView More >
STARING WITH EQUALITY Cinema Olanda Film (2017), digital projection, 17 min, installation view in the Dutch Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, 2017. Photo Giacomo Frison. All images: © Wendelien van Oldenborgh, courtesy the artist and Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam. BasedView More >
EPILOGUE Still from The Capital of Accumulation (2010), two synchronized video projections with sound, 50 min; two books in vitrines. All images: Courtesy Raqs Media Collective. ART iT: There is a strong Marxist element to your thinking. You were partView More >
III. Things that Happen When Falling in Love (2010), 18 colored and clear acrylic figures with printed mirrored letters, wire cables and fixings. Installation view at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2010, with The Knots that Bind are theView More >
II. Escapement (2009), installation with 24 Clocks, three reverse clocks, four video screens, sound track. All images: Courtesy Raqs Media Collective. ART iT: We were just talking about planetary consciousness and how people and ideas circulate around the world. ArtView More >