Four essays on art and blindness. By Aveek Sen I By God! if wommen hadde writen stories. – Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” in The Canterbury Tales. In the early years of the 1810s, the dusk of the firstView More >
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Critical Fieldwork 11
Seiichi Furuya: The Disclosed Mémoires (Part II) Christine Furuya-Gössler Mémoires 1978-1985 (1997) presents in chronological order from the time Furuya met her until her death photographs of “Christine” – who by then had become a categorical point of singularity –View More >
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Viewing the Setouchi International Art Festival (Part I) Shodoshima. Photo Osamu Nakamura. From July to October this year seven islands – Naoshima, Teshima, Shodoshima, Ogijima, Megijima, Oshima, Inujima – at the eastern end of Japan’s Inland Sea played host toView More >
Abstract Reading with Sora Kim
All images: Still from Abstract Reading (2010), video, black-and-white, 24 min 30 sec. Courtesy the artist and Atelier Hermès, Seoul. Abstract Reading (2010) is part of a cycle of four new video works that I have made for my currentView More >
A LIBRARY OF IMAGES
Dan Cameron on his personal Image Archive and its role in his curatorial practice Courtesy Dan Cameron. Most curators are, at their core, collectors of a sort, and recently I have decided to come to terms with the fact thatView More >
No. 4: Purgatory, Thai-Style
Day Trip to Hell All photos © Kyoichi Tsuzuki Hell is not a place many people want to visit. One could even say it has a slight image problem, namely that billions of members of the human race, over hundreds,View More >
No. 18
FREEDOM ON EARTH: METABOLISM, FAVELA, YANGJIANG GROUP A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist The Yangjiang Group headquarters. © the artists. Dear HUO, I enjoyed very much reading your comments on Metabolism, and especially Damisch’s A Theory ofView More >
Critical Fieldwork 10
Seiichi Furuya: The Disclosed Mémoires (Part I) East Berlin, 1985. Published intermittently since 1989, Seiichi Furuya’s series of photobooks entitled “Mémoires” was concluded this year with the appearance of volume five. Furuya’s 25-year “journey” began in the fall of 1985View More >
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New songs without words: Yurie Nagashima’s ‘SWISS+’ All images: Installation view of “SWISS+” (2010) at SCAI The Bathhouse 2F View Room. Photos Keizo Kioku, courtesy SCAI The Bathhouse. It was 1994 when I first met Yurie Nagashima, soon after sheView More >
Rem Koolhaas / OMA*AMO in Venice: 2005-2010
Co-founder in 1975 of the Rotterdam-based firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Rem Koolhaas is known not only for producing designs and masterplans of radical innovation, but also for radically innovating contemporary architectural practice through his numerous publications and exhibitions.View More >