Writings on Art from Central Europe and Beyond
- Wolf at the Door
Me reading from Wolf at the Door.
- George Condo in Berlin
Read my review of the George Condo exhibition at Artforum.
- Conversation Piece
I interview Jens Hoffmann at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
- Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Read my review of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres show in Brussels at Artforum.
- Gary Indiana and the Five Percent Paradox
This is so important, I can’t believe I didn’t post it earlier.
- Bechtler Museum of Modern Art
The United States’ newest museum of modern art opened on January 2 to much fanfare locally, and very little notice on the national level. One can only speculate as to the reasons why. Perhaps the proliferation of contemporary art museums, with numerous institutions dedicated to living artists in every major city, has clouded our memory [...]
- Discosalope
TONIGHT, 27 January, SLUM presents
DISCOSALOPE, a performance by Marc-Andre Casavant
DISCOSALOPE is not completely a man and not exactly a woman.
Refreshing, amusing and disturbing…Marc-Andre Casavant’s spoken word-interactive-theatrical performance about the craziness of over-consumption in society will not leave anybody indifferent!!!
Before&after set by DJ Goddamnit.
SLUM - Berlin’s anti-art salon
Every Wednesday at
Ficken3000
Urbanstr. 70
Berlin
Doors open at 22:00; show starts [...]
- You’ve gotta be kidding me
First Jeff Koons, now Takashi Murakami? What’s with this conspiracy to clutter Versailles’s halls with crap? I mean, what’s next? Maybe fill the Louvre with elephant shit?
- Lucrecia Martel’s La mujer sin cabeza
A woman driving down a dirt road runs over something. At first, she thinks it is “only” a dog (this only is always negligible; one of the points of the film), but later, after the fact, she decides in her mind that it was in fact a child. Nobody can convince her otherwise.
A woman hits [...]
- Mark Ther @ SLUM, January 20th
There will be a screening of Mark Ther’s video work on January 20th at SLUM, the anti-art salon I co-curate with Tennessee Claflin every Wednesday night at Ficken3000, Urbanstr. 70, Berlin. Doors open at 22:00; the screening will start at 1:00. The evening includes a before & after set by DJ Goddamnit.
Disorientations.com is Travis Jeppesen.