Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY 10014
The 78th instalment of the Whitney Biennial for 2017 - which always aims for the zeitgeist and the seminal - opens at a time of crisis not only in the United States, but around the world. Review by Arthur Ivan Bravo
Basement Roma, Via Nicola Ricciotti 4, 00195 Rome
In Truth Table, Ed Fornieles converts the gallery into the provider of an experience: a new VR product that allows the viewer to occupy a changing host of bodies as they engage in a chain of sexual interactions.
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Chausseestrasse 128/129, 10115 Berlin
In light of European defence against immigrants, Halil Altındere proposes - at some ironic distance - to use the cosmic space as a haven for refugees. This vision of a life in space for the refugees is illustrated with specially designed spacesuits from a fictitious “Palmyra”-space mission, a planetary rover and a virtual reality video.
Phoenix, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG
Kitty Clark presents an oculus rift virtual reality experience at the centre of a series of sculptures and projection works. Mr. Nobody, the central figure in the installation, suffers from Technostress, a term coined to describe the negative psychological relationship between people and new technologies.
