May 2012
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Video Guerrilha 2011 | São Paulo
Catalog of the exhibition Video Guerrilha that took Place in São Paulo on November of 2011. Video Guerrilla is a pragmatic reflection centered in the representative expression of social and public spaces, and in the contemporary artistic practices of new media, articulated with the most recent languages and narratives of monumental image projection technologies. Thus, catalyses and inspires a...
May 24th
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Splitting Image, 4 min 40 sec video, 2 channels, silent, color, 2011.
May 4th
February 2012
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Open City | Crossroads
Open City/Otwarte Miasto, 2011, Curated by Monika Szewczyk. Book published on the occasion of the exhibition. Texts by Monika Szewczyk, Marta Ryczkowska, Magdalena Ujma. Artwork by Cezary Bodzianowski, Andrei Dureika, Maurycy Gomulicki, Ada Kaczmarczyk, Katarzyna Kozyra, Jacek Malinowski, Liliana Orbach, Alexandre Perigot, Konrad Smoleński, The Azorro (Super) Group, Izabela Tarasewicz,...
Feb 20th
January 2012
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The Sea-Image | Newgray
The Sea-Image: Visual Manifestations of Port Cities and Global Waters Edited and introduction by Hakan Topal, Guven Incirlioglu. Text by Ursula Biemann, Shuruq A. M. Harb, T.J. Demos, Vyjayanthi Rao, Alex Villar, Relli De Vries, xurban_collective. The outcome of visual researches by the international Xurban Collective (whose core members are Guven Incirlioglu and Hakan Topal) and a...
Jan 26th
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Panel and Book Launch: The Sea-Image | Cabinet
THE SEA-IMAGE Panel and Book Launch Cabinet Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 7–9 pm SPEAKERS Keller Easterling, Vyjayanthi Rao, Alex Villar, Guven Incirlioglu, and Hakan Topal Compared to landscapes, seascapes have always appeared less tangible—at once enigmatic and threatening, but also representing hope, adventure, and communication between distant places and people. Although these...
Jan 24th
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Time & Tide | Seaport Museum
TIME & TIDE The Waterfront in Film, 1903-2011 Curated by James Sander January 26 – December 31, 2012 One of the most essential qualities of the New York waterfront is also one of its most contradictory. More so even than the rest of the city, the waterfront is a place of constant transformation, where changing forms of transportation and commerce – and, in recent decades, a profound...
Jan 24th
December 2011
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Notice of Public Hearing | Sculpture Center
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Curated by Caryn Coleman December 8 - 19, 2011 Opening Reception Thursday, December 8, 2011 7 - 8:30pm ARTISTS Lian Amaris, Michael Cataldi, Blane De St. Croix, Molly Dilworth, Carolyn Lambert, Graham Parker, Risa Puno, Woody Sullender, and Alex Villar. As legal and judicial issues permeate every aspect of social, political and cultural life, artistic production...
Dec 6th
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Ivory Tower | Contemporary Wing
IVORY TOWER A multi-work video installation concurrent with Art Basel, Miami Beach. Co-curated by Ginger Shulick and Lauren Gentile Thu, 12/01/2011 to Sun, 12/04/2011 ARTISTS Tiffany Carbonneau, Alex Villar, Phillip David Stearns, Paul D. Miller, Sean Capone, Nia Burks, Paul Moakley Since the 19th century, the term “ivory tower” has been used to designate a world or atmosphere where...
Dec 1st
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November 2011
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Video Guerrilha 2011 | São Paulo
VIDEO GUERRILHA 2011 São Paulo, Brasil Curador: Miguel Petchovsky 17, 18 e 19 de Novembro, 2011 O Vídeo Guerrilha é uma intervenção urbana que estimula a produção artística na arquitetura e no espaço público das cidades, projetando em grandes formatos obras de diferentes linguagens e autores. É uma galeria de arte a céu aberto que mostrará de forma inédita e coletiva, a obra de dezenas de...
Nov 17th
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Mapping Community Arts: Subversion, Repressive...
MAPPING COMMUNITY ARTS Lecturer: Pascal Gielen Organizer/Moderator: Hakan Topal Respondend: Alex Villar Art in General Nov 8, 2011 6:30 PM In recent years there has been increased attention to so-called ‘socially engaged art practices’. Equipped with a sense of urgency and intent, artists and curators develop work with the support of communities or groups to tackle political and social...
Nov 9th
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October 2011
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Splitting Image
Splitting Image is said to be the originary version of the saying Spitting Image, meaning an exact likeness. According to social historian Dorothy Hartley, the evenness and symmetry which the term conveys would have been obtained by pairing two split halves of the same tree. There are competing positions on this view but as it is the case with the genealogy of many sayings, the history of a term...
Oct 5th
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September 2011
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Bring to Light | Nuit Blanche New York
BRING TO LIGHT Nuit Blanche New York Ethan Vogt, Executive Director Allison Kline, Artist Liaison Saturday, October 1st, 2011 6pm to Midnight Bring to Light is a free nighttime public festival of art in New York City that takes place simultaneously with “nuit blanche” events in cities around the world. Inviting emerging and established artists to make site-specific installations of light,...
Sep 30th
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43 Uses of Drawing | Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
43 USES OF DRAWING Curated by Paul Cureton and Craig Staff 6 September to 30 October 2011 A revived interest in drawing has brought the discipline to the forefront of contemporary art. The 43 Uses of Drawing exhibition explores the practice of drawing beyond the paper surface, via the work of 43 practitioners working in a number of different areas. The aim of the exhibition is to ignite...
Sep 6th
June 2011
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Breaking into Business
Created on the occasion of the Open City festival in Lublin, Poland, 2011, this piece was produced during its preceding week and was presented at the opening day as a video projection on the side of a building in Lublin’s old town (Plac po Farze). In the video, the main subject uses a scaffolding-on-wheels unit to move through town in search of opportunities to break into various types of...
Jun 21st
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Alex Villar | Hansberg/Woolf
ALEX VILLAR Hansberg/Woolf Directors: Emma Flynn and Leigh Hazzard Exhibition 24 June - 15 July, 2011 Artist Talk 24 June, 5.30pm We are pleased to announce that New York-based artist Alex Villar will inaugurate the Gallery’s exhibition programme in June 2011 with the first solo presentation of his work in the UK. Drawing on important video works made over the past 10 years, this exhibition...
Jun 19th
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Open City | Lublin
OPEN CITY / OTWARTE MIASTO City of Lublin, Poland Curator: Monika Szewczyk June 22, 2011 ARTISTS Cezary Bodzianowski, Andrei Dureika, Maurycy Gomulicki, Ada Kaczmarczyk, Katarzyna Kozyra, Jacek Malinowski, Liliana Orbach, Alexandre Perigot, Konrad Smoleński, The Azorro (Super) Group, Izabela Tarasewicz, Mariusz Tarkawian, Alex Villar, Julita Wójcik, Martin Zet June in Lublin – the perfect time...
Jun 19th
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LumenFest 2011 | Lighthouse Museum site
LUMENFEST 2011 Head curator Ginger Shulick Guest Curators: Denise Carvalho, Jill McDermid and Erik Hokanson, Natalia Mount, Peter Duhon, Paul Moakley Lighthouse Museum Site June 25th 6pm-midnight ARTISTS Adriana Varella, Aimee Norwich, Alex Villar, Alexey VS, Alice Vogler, Alina Rojas, Alison Ward, Allison Berkoy, Amanda Curtis, Amanda Morgan, Anarcho Art Lab, Ancient Ocean, Andrew Mount,...
Jun 10th
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April 2011
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Encontros | Paraíso Subway Station
ENCONTROS Curator: Giselle Beiguelman Selection: Nelson Brissac Peixoto, Ricardo van Steen, Guilherme Kujawski, luiz duVa e Fernando Oliva Paraíso Subway Station, São Paulo April 11 and 25 – May 16 and 30 ARTISTS Ivan Claudio, Alex Villar, Zilch, Júlio Leite, Rodrigo Born, Miro Soares, Marco Del Fiol, Davi Flores, David D’Visant, Manifesto21.tv The video “Crash Course” will be...
Apr 9th
January 2011
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Breaking into Business, 9 min video, silent, color, 2011.
Jan 17th
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On the Edge
Shot during an art residency at Iaspis in 2007, On the Edge has the city of Stockholm as its background. The piece highlights the quotidian experiences of pedestrians as they negotiate the shared space of the street. The video depicts a walking through spaces that are normally not meant to be occupied: gaps between parked cars and the curb, the outer space of fenced sidewalks, extremely narrow...
Jan 13th
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Experimental Geography | Foreman
EXPERIMENTAL GEOGRAPHY Curated by Nato Thompson Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University January 28, 2011 - March 21, 2011 ARTISTS Francis Alys, AREA Chicago, The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), kanarinka (Catherine D’lgnazio), e-Xplo, Ilana Halperin, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, Lize Mogel, Multiplicity, Trevor Paglen, Raqs Media...
Jan 10th
December 2010
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Sea of Marble
SEA OF MARBLE: A NAVIGATIONAL CONVERGENCE Sanat LimanI, Istanbul 4 December 2010 PARTICIPANTS Ursula Biemann (Zurich) & Shuruq A. M. Harb (Ramallah), TJ Demos (London), John Palmesino (London) ,Vyjayanthi Rao (New York), Alex Villar (New York), Relli De Vries (Tel-Aviv) xurban_collective: Project Directors Guven Incirlioglu (Izmir) and Hakan Topal (New York), Project Lead Designers...
Dec 26th
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Flux Factory Benefit
FLUX FACTORY BENEFIT Flux Factory at Center 548 548 West 22nd Street, New York Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 Auction 7 to 10pm, performances and dancing to follow ARTISTS Adam Brent, Adam Pendleton, Adrienne Outlaw, Alex Villar, Alison Ward, Amy Westpfahl, Andrea Dezsö, Andrea Geyer, Angela Washko, Anna So Young Han, Aya Kakeda, Ben Dierckx,Betsy Eby, Blanka Amezkua, Bo Bartlett,...
Dec 10th
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October 2010
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Experimental Geography | Museum London
EXPERIMENTAL GEOGRAPHY Curated by Nato Thompson Museum London October 9, 2010 - January 2, 2011 ARTISTS Francis Alys, AREA Chicago, The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), kanarninka (Catherine D’lgnazio), e-Xplo, Ilana Halperin, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, Lize Mogel, Multiplicity, Trevor Paglen, Raqs Media Collective, Ellen Rothenberg,...
Oct 10th
September 2010
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Upward Mobility
In contrast to the invisible horizontal line drawn by everyday movements in the city, this video shows a person in search of vertical deviations from this norm. Several situations depict attempts to move up in spaces like a bus stop, a telephone booth, a building marquee, cracks on a wall that lead to a window, among others. The character of the actions varies from that of a playful childish game...
Sep 26th
June 2010
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LumenFest | Atlantic Salt
LUMEN Curated by Ginger Shulick Atlantic Salt June 26, 2010 4 - 10 pm ARTISTS Alex Villar; Lena Thüring; Tattfoo Tan; Sweatshoppe; Grace Exhibition Space; Katja Loher; Ali Hossaini, Ph.D.; Man Bartlett/Flux Factory; Steven Lapcevic and Brendan Coyle. The Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI) is proud to present Staten Island’s first ever cutting-edge...
Jun 26th
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Philosophy of Money | Museu da Cidade
THE PHILOSOPHY OF MONEY Curated by Miguel Amado Museu da Cidade, Lisbon Opening: June 22, 10 pm June 23 through September 5 ARTISTS Works by Alejandro Vidal, Alfredo Jaar, Carey Young, Carolina Caycedo, Cildo Meireles, Danica Phelps, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Joana Bastos, Liam Gillick, Lotte Lindner & Till Steinbrenner, Mads Lynnerup, Mariana Silva, Melanie Gilligan, Michael Elmgreen...
Jun 10th
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Experimental Geography | James Gallery
EXPERIMENTAL GEOGRAPHY Curated by Nato Thompson The James Gallery June 24-August 27, 2010 No opening (upcoming panel discussion noted below) ARTISTS Francis Alys, AREA Chicago, The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), kanarninka (Catherine D’lgnazio), e-Xplo, Ilana Halperin, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, Lize Mogel, Multiplicity, Trevor Paglen,...
Jun 10th
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City Beats | Bankart
CITY BEATS Curated by Berit Fischer BankArt June 25 - July 15, 2010 ARTISTS Laura Bruce, Rainer Ganahl, Dryden Goodwin, Alexander Heim, Ben Judd, Stephan Pascher, Jeff Preiss, and Alex Villar The urbanscape can best be understood as a site in which multiple spaces, temporalities and webs of relations are co-present, and in which local sites and subjects are tied into globalising economic,...
Jun 10th
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May 2010
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Catching Up, 3 min video, silent, color, 2010
May 21st
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Bodies of Dispersion, Mechanisms of Distention |...
BODIES OF DISPERSION: MECHANISMS OF DISTENTION Curated by Denise Carvalho Assistant Curator: Brooke Chroman Galeria Arsenal May 21 - June 20, 2010 ARTISTS Øyvind Renberg (Norway) and Miho Shimizu (Japan) participate in a group exhibition with Alex Villar (USA), Elin Wikström (Sweden), spurse (USA), eteam (USA), xurban collective (USA) and Artur Zmijewski (Poland). The exhibition examines the...
May 10th
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April 2010
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“The ‘break’ is nothing other than a series of significant shifts that follow...”
– Judith Butler, Frames of War: When is Life Grievable (New York: Verso, 2010) p. 169.
Apr 30th
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“To appear before the law means that one has entered into the realm of appearance...”
– Judith Butler, Frames of War: When is Life Grievable (New York: Verso, 2010) p. 140
Apr 29th
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Force of Forward | Anchorage
FORCE OF FORWARD Curated by Leo Kuelbs Manhattan Bridge Anchorage April 8 - 10, 2010 ARTISTS Daniel Leeb, Christine Schulz, Tamas Veszi and Alex Villar “Force of Forward” is a three-evening video event exploring the nature of momentum and forward motion as its basis, presented on the anchorage of the Manhattan Bridge. As trains, cars, trucks, bicycles and pedestrians pass overhead,...
Apr 10th
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Dribbling the Field
Dribbling the Field conflates the action of dribbling in a soccer game with the experience of finding one’s way in the city. Clearly, both experiences are distinct in character, but they share a similar set of rules that organize and control the range of activities permitted in their respective fields. What this project proposes is a rearticulation of some of these prescriptive codes....
Apr 1st
November 2009
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Avant-Guide to NYC: Discovering Absence
AVANT-GUIDE TO NYC: DISCOVERING ABSENCE Curated by Sandra Skurvida Apexart Nov 4 to Dec 19, 2009 Artists Julieta Aranda, caraballo-farman, Kabir Carter, Dexter Sinister, Eckhard Etzold, Andrea Geyer, Pablo Helguera, Nancy Hwang, Pia Lindman, Anna Lundh, Nina Katchadourian, Carlos Motta, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Hatuey Ramos-Fermin, Katya Sander, Ward Shelley, Xaviera Simmons, and...
Nov 13th
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Around America IV: Making Time, Making Space
AROUND AMERICA IV: MARKING TIME, MAKING SPACE Curated by Beth Stryker Beirut Art Center Nov 11, 2009 Artists Matthew Buckingham, Oliver Herring, Gordon Matta-Clark, Ana Mendieta and Alex Villar. Following on the imperative of Matta-Clark and his fellow anarchitects to “[make] space without building it,” the artists in this screening perform critical, spectacular, and spatial...
Nov 10th
October 2009
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Experimental Geography | Miller
EXPERIMENTAL GEOGRAPHY Curated by Nato Thompson Miller Gallery October 9 - January 21, 2009 Experimental Geography presents a panoptic view of this new practice through a wide range of mediums including interactive computer units, sound and video installations, photography, sculpture, and experimental cartography created by 18 artists or artist teams from six countries as well as the United...
Oct 9th
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September 2009
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Subversive Spaces | Sainsbury
SUBVERSIVE SPACES Surrealism and Contemporary Art Curated by Anna Dezeuze, Sam Lackey and David Lomas Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts 29th Sep 2009 - 13th Dec 2009 ARTISTS Surrealists: Dorothea Tanning, Claude Cahun, Salvador Dalí , Max Ernst, René Magritte, Hans Bellmer, Dora Maar, Jacques-André Boiffard, Brassaï, Giorgio De Chirico, Eugéne Atget, Humphrey Spender, Henri...
Sep 29th
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City Beats
Fischer, Berit. City Beats exhibition brochure (New York: Dorsky Gallery, 2009)
Sep 20th
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City Beats | Dorsky
CITY BEATS Curated by Berit Fischer Dorsky Gallery | Curatorial Programs September 13- November 15, 2009 City Beats employs video to compile a polyrhythmic cacophony of glances at non-events within the urban commonplace and offers new ways of looking at and questioning structured relationships between the elements of time and place, private and public, framework and content. Similar to the...
Sep 13th
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City Beats Talk at Dorky Gallery
CITY BEATS: A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO THE URBAN Dorsky Gallery | Curatorial Programs Sunday, September 20, 2009, 2:30 to 4 pm A conversation between Berit Fischer, curator of the current exhibition City Beats and the artists Rainer Ganahl, Ben Judd, Stephan Pascher, and Alex Villar. While looking at the artworks in the exhibition this discussion will focus on the urban space and concepts of...
Sep 4th
May 2009
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Experimental Geography
ICI | EXPERIMENTAL GEOGRAPHY Experimental Geography explores the distinctions between geographical study and artistic experience of the earth, as well as the juncture where the two realms collide (and possibly make a new field altogether). This lavishly illustrated book features more than a dozen maps; artwork by Francis Alys, Alex Villar, and Yin Xiuzhen; and recent projects by The Center for...
May 21st
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Subversive Spaces
Anna Dezeuze, Samantha Lackey, and David Lomas. Subversive Spaces: Surrealism and Contemporary Art (Manchester: University of Manchester, 2009)
May 21st
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Between the Images
How can the photographic image be a place for dialogue and conflict between the positions of the artists and dominating political, historical and aesthetical structures? In what way can we discuss the image in terms of agency - as an act or intervention? How can the image act and function in a time when many visual strategies have been disarmed or canonized? With these questions as a starting...
May 20th
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Fortified Zones talk at ISCP
FORTIFIED ZONES International Studio & Curatorial Program Sunday, May 10, 2009 2-4 pm Hakan Topal/xurban_collective and Alex Villar discuss the question of fortifications as they apply to the urban environment. In a single presentation, they discuss the ideas that inform their distinct art practices and develop an argument for contesting art tactics. They propose the term...
May 20th
April 2009
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Actions for Urban Space talk at Art in General
ACTIONS FOR URBAN SPACES Art in General Apr 22, 2009 7:00 PM A panel discussion examining the construction of public space, its effects on flows of people through urban environments, and the social and economic ramifications of such directed movements. Featuring Actions for Urban Spaces artist John Hawke, artist Alex Villar, Institute for Urban Design Director Olympia Kazi, and Art in...
Apr 22nd
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Broken Window
Created on the occasion of Avant Guide, an exhibition that revisited the spaces of the avant guarde in New York, this piece is presented as a posthumous proposal for Food, the restaurant/art space that Gordon Matta-Clark ran in Soho in the early seventies. Printed on self-adhesive vinyl and applied directly to the wall, the poster describes all the steps for the production of a scene or an...
Apr 1st
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March 2009
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Printed Project 12
view | order PRINTED PROJECT 12: CIRCULATION Curated/Edited by Katya Sander November, 2009 Contributers Zach Formwalt, Elin Wikström, Neil Cummings, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Alex Villar, Katja Eydel, Brian Holmes, Andrea Creutz & Thomas Boren, Ashley Hunt, Jason Simon, Simon Sheikh, John Strauss, Sandra Schäfer, Ralph and Stefan Heidenreich. In the light of the recent...
Mar 31st
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Other Ways
This video shows someone walking continuously through a variety of underground spaces, all located in the subway system in New York City. The person shown in these actions follows a contrary orientation. What is depicted is the pursuit of spaces that exist on the edge of the rational logic that administers life in the city. This piece dwells on dead space and time, the portion of the day when...
Mar 31st