Writings on Art from Central Europe and Beyond


  • 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.

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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