Writings on Art from Central Europe and Beyond


  • WHITE TRASH DUMMIES

    On a recent trip to Paris, I was lucky enough to catch an exhibition of Duane Hanson, whose work I’ve long admired in reproduction but seldom seen in actuality. The sculptures most people and I know best stem from the latter half of his career, when he took to creating lifelike reproductions of mostly white [...]

  • PREVIEW: The 53rd Venice Biennale

    The major challenge faced by anyone asked to curate a biennial today – and this is especially true in the case of Venice, the biggest baby of them all – is that the task is simply an impossible one. No matter how all-encompassing one’s concept is, a slew of detractors will always be on hand [...]

  • Terence Koh @ Peres Projects

    Those of us who have watched Terence Koh’s meteoric rise with grotesque fascination have always wondered how the inevitable obverse process would measure up to the hype spectacle. His current exhibition indicates that the fall will be swift and dismal.
    Koh is showing a single sculpture, Boy By the Sea, a work that featured in a [...]

  • Ernesto Ortiz @ Golden Parachutes

    The border, as both physical reality and philosophical entity, forms the backdrop of the paintings Ernesto Ortiz is working on for his first solo exhibition, opening on May 23rd at Golden Parachutes in Berlin. Indeed, it could be said that the U.S.-Mexican border is one of the rare places where the supposed abstractions of philosophy [...]

  • I’ve Written a Letter to Daddy by Bruce LaBruce

    As many of you know, my first play, Daddy, will be produced in June at the HAU Theater in Berlin. Bruce LaBruce recently wrote this nice essay on the play, which I thought I’d post here. Tickets to Daddy can be ordered directly from the HAU website.

    Finally, the voice of a new generation has emerged. [...]

  • Reading on Thursday, Berlin

    ‘Movin’ on with VERSES’
    A new evening of poetry & spoken word
    Thursday 28th MAY  2009        9pm start

    @ Sin Club, Schönleinstrasse 6, Kreuz-köln

    Hosted by lady gaby            with special guests:
    1. Travis Jeppesen is an American poet/writer editor of the cultural magazine Blatt, author of Victims and Poems I wrote while watching TV. His [...]

travis jeppesen Disorientations.com is Travis Jeppesen.
Travis Jeppesen is a novelist, poet, and art critic based in Berlin. His books include Wolf at the Door, Victims, Poems I Wrote While Watching TV, and a collection of art criticism, Disorientations: Art on the Margins of the "Contemporary".

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