Viewing articles from 2015/01

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, D-10557 Berlin

transmediale 2015: CAPTURE ALL

Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Invisible, installation view at CAPTURE ALL, transmediale 2015

transmediale 2015 is something of a closed-loop system, where endless data capture and gamification is turned back on itself, and where digital labour is both critiqued and revelled in. Review by Rob La Frenais

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Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA

Willem de Rooij

Willem de Rooij, Index: Riots, Protest, Mourning and Commemoration (as represented in newspapers, January 2000- July 2002) installation view, 2014

Willem de Rooij’s works at The Arnolfini combine to offer a politically charged response to global protests. Review by Rory Duckhouse

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BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead NE8 3BA

Graeme Durant: When in Roam

Graeme Durant, When in Roam (installation view), BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2014

Durant subjects seemingly disparate phenomena to a process of recycling, improvisation and low-tech construction. Review by Louise Winter

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Standpoint, 45 Coronet Street, London N1

Idit Elia Nathan: Footnotes Playing Dead

Idit Elia Nathan: Footnotes Playing Dead, installation view

‘Footnotes Playing Dead’ presents works using games, where viewers are invited to “play with” and explore for themselves aspects of the Israel-Palestine occupation. Becky Shaw reviews

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NGV International, 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Australia

Emily Floyd: The Dawn

An open space

Drawing parallels between educational models and contemporary art, Emily Floyd’s bold and colourful works generate spaces for social engagement and interaction whilst provoking discussions about contemporary social, cultural and political ideas.

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Fondazione HangarBicocca, Via Chiese 2, 20126 Milano, Italy

Céline Condorelli: bau bau

Installation view, bau bau

Condorelli's exhibition of sculpture, installation, video and text is imagined as a context for the co-existence of objects, participants and the public, creating a new space for doing and thinking.

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Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland

Lucy Skaer

Lucy Skaer, Leonora, 2006

Caught here are Skaer’s investigations into the essence of things and realities: intuitive, organic thought articulated in exquisite structures and meticulous processes. Review by Valerie Norris

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Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Piazza Mafalda di Savoia, 10098 Rivoli, Torino, Italy

Sophie Calle: MAdRE

Installation view, MAdRE

A major new collaboration between Sophie Calle and the Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea explores pain, intimacy and death through site-specific installations. Calle's works explore the analogy of mother|sea (madre|mare), a sea that welcomes and gathers, covers and invests emotions.

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Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal, Zahnradstr. 21, 8005 Zurich

Alex Hubbard: Urethane Paintings

Installation view

The cast and poured paintings of Alex Hubbard become lenses through which the gallery space as well as the other paintings in the exhibition can be viewed.

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New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002

Chris Ofili: Night and Day

Chris Ofili: Night and Day, installation view at New Museum

Chris Ofili’s first museum survey in the United States debunks and transcends his unjustified and limiting reputation as an African diaspora-centric artist who once employed the medium of elephant dung. Review by Arthur Ivan Bravo

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Gallery II, University of Bradford, Richmond Road, Bradford BD7 1DP UK

Past Caring

Past Caring, Installation View at Gallery II, Bradford, 2014

Past Caring is an exhibition that explicitly makes central the subject of care as an active site for ‘intellectual and political possibilities.' Review by Louise Shelley

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Galleria Zero, Viale Premuda 46, 20129 Milan, Italy

Jurgen Ots: THE PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY SERIES

Installation view

Jurgen Ots starts with old-fashioned sparkly projector screens that he collects in thrift shops. This uniquely identifiable material speaks of an earlier time, a media age of innocence when screens were unfurled before the assembled family with the majesty of sacred objects. When moving images left the movie palace for the home the potential for todays screen-world was born whole.

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Esther Schipper GMBH, Schöneberger Ufer, 65 D-10785 Berlin, Germany

Philippe Parreno: quasi-objects

Installation view, Esther Schipper

Parreno's exhibition explores the speculative concept of the ‘quasi-object,' one that seeks to radically redefine the relationship between the subject and the object. For 'quasi-objects,' Parreno has written an algorithm, a mathematical automaton, to synchronise the behaviour of the objects. The works become a network of quasi-objects that appear and disappear, act upon and, in turn, are acted upon.

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