Is it I, or is it not I?
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 first
Past series
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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 –
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
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
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,
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
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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
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.
Rem Koolhaas / OMA*AMO in Venice: 2010
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
No. 3: The Snack
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
‘10,000 Lives’
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
Busting Up French Furniture
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