2010 CRONOCAOS 12th Venice Architecture Biennale Both: Photo Yasuhiro Takagi for ART iT. The exhibition occupies a suite of two rooms, each with a distinct character and function. The first room is a vestibule featuring a range of OMA projectsView More >
A Bar-Hopping Lesson in Architectural Reality For the better part of three years now I’ve been traveling around Japan reporting on “snack” drinking establishments by the name of Limelight, as part of a series for the photographic monthly Asahi Camera.View More >
Dan Cameron reviews Massimiliano Gioni’s recently opened Gwangju Biennale Sanggil Kim – off‐line_burberry internet community (2004), C-print, 134.5 x 163.5 cm. © Sanggil Kim, courtesy PKM Gallery | Bartleby Bickle & Meursault. Since its debut in 1995, the Gwangju Biennale has typicallyView More >
By Oscar Tuazon Photo Oscar Tuazon. Our apartment building caught fire this summer. The kid below us had a fight with his dad, a fireman, so he set his bed on fire and went to school. We came home toView More >
Lift to the Scaffold By Judy Annear Lift (2005), C-Print/Diasec, 190 x 150 cm. © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / APG-JAA, Tokyo. All images: Courtesy Sprueth Magers Berlin London. In 1958 Louis Malle directed his first feature film, AscenseurView More >
Lift to the Scaffold By Judy Annear Lift (2005), C-Print/Diasec, 190 x 150 cm. © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / APG-JAA, Tokyo. All images: Courtesy Sprueth Magers Berlin London. In 1958 Louis Malle directed his first feature film, AscenseurView More >
THE PRODUCTION OF CLOUD A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Koo Jeong-A – Petit déj’ & quick notes (2007), felt pen on paper, 45 x 64 cm. Courtesy the artist and Yvon Lambert Paris, New York. DearView More >
Chaos, Destruction, Recurring Chaosmos – Beyond the ‘Hametsu*Lounge’ Installation view of “Hametsu*Lounge” (2010) at Nanzuka Agenda Shibuya. Courtesy Nanzuka Underground. Following on from my review of the recent “Chaos*Lounge” exhibition at Takahashi Collection Hibiya in Part 6 of this series,View More >
Dan Cameron on the non-distribution of Matthew Barney’s Cremaster cycle Photo illustration by ART iT. A few weeks ago, an art cinema in downtown Manhattan held a public screening of the complete Matthew Barney Cremaster cycle. While I was weighingView More >
By Trond Lundemo Photo illustration by ART iT. Seemingly, one has always spoken of the end of cinema. Even one of the main inventors of the apparatus, Louis Lumière, saw that it was “without a future,” and with the adventView More >
Not Identical, but the Same: Yuuki Matsumura’s ‘Almost-Dead Sculpture’ Yuuki Matsumura – Untitled (2009), set of three aluminum sheets, 30 x 65 x 45 cm, each. Let’s begin with the dualism of “things that can be reproduced any number ofView More >
By Olga Bryukhovetska What is Dispositif? The concept of “dispositif” is best known as a key term in late Foucault that first appeared in his History of Sexuality, Volume 1 (1976) to replace the use of “discursive formation,” which forView More >