By Andrew Maerkle All images: Still from The Clock (2010), single-channel video, 24 hours. © Christian Marclay, courtesy White Cube, London. Produced over the course of two years, Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010) combines clips from thousands of films intoView More >
Things Worth Remembering 2010 Memory rarely behaves the way we expect. Often, it is the things that at first seem incidental that take on greater significance over time, while those that initially seem impressive can fade to the margins. PressedView More >
EVERY FUTURE LEADS TO ITS OWN PAST By Andrew Maerkle and Natsuko Odate Still from Adventure of the Eyes of Mr WS, a Test-Pilot (1953/86), video, 4 min 55 sec. © Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Courtesy Taka Ishii Gallery. Throughout a careerView More >
IMAGINARIUM (1981) The below is a revised translation of the version of this text that appears in English and Japanese in the monograph Yamaguchi Katsuhiro 360º (Rikuyosha, 1981). Diagram for the video performance Eat (1972), conducted at the exhibition “VideoView More >
EXPERIMENT ON IMAGINARIUM (1977) The below is a revised translation of the version of this text that appears in English and Japanese in the monograph Yamaguchi Katsuhiro 360º (Rikuyosha, 1981). All images: © and courtesy Katsuhiro Yamaguchi. When and ifView More >
II. Roman Holiday Fischli and Weiss address the transparency of the visible world. From the series “Airports” (1987- ), C-print photograph, 160 x 225 cm. All images: © Peter Fischli/David Weiss, courtesy the artists; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich; Sprüth MagersView More >
The Techne of Schadenfreude By Andrew Maerkle Since their first collaboration in 1979, Peter Fischli and David Weiss have consistently challenged the preconditions of art as a system of historically determined conventions. From utilizing materials like sausages and clay toView More >
III. Interview with a Cat Cerith Wyn Evans on his admiration for Marcel Broodthaers and artistic hypertext. F=R=E=S=H=W=I=D=O=W (2010), 22 framed prints, each 48.7 x 40.8 x 3.8 cm. Photo Todd-White Art Photography, © the artist. All images: Courtesy TakaView More >
III. Such a Cloven Sensation Naoya Hatakeyama explains his first attraction to photography. Blast #12022 (2005), C-print, mounted on aluminum, 100 x 150 cm. Courtesy Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo. ART iT: We were just discussing the idea of “absolute” photographyView More >
II. The Seated Queen Cerith Wyn Evans on the slippages between poetics and politics. Installation view of the exhibition “Bubble Peddler” at Kunsthaus Graz, 2007. Photo Lackner, © the artist, courtesy Kunsthaus Graz, Austria. ART iT: We were just speaking about theView More >