Ground Control

by Travis Jeppesen on April 23, 2008

The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art Barbican Art Gallery, London Through May 18th, 2008   The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art is a hilarious piss-take on the anthropological impulse that tends to taint so much contemporary curatorial practice – not (…)

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The Institute of Psychoplasmics

by Travis Jeppesen on April 18, 2008

I’m proud to be a part of the Institute of Psychoplasmics, a group exhibition currently on (through May 26, 2008) at the Pump House Gallery in London’s Battersea Park. The Institute of Psychoplasmics, curated by the Pil and Galia Kollectiv, (…)

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My Life in Meat: Death as Art, Art as Death

by Travis Jeppesen on April 16, 2008

This essay was originally published in Czech translation in 2005. It appears here in the original English version for the first time. It is part of the forthcoming collection, Disorientations: Art on the Margins of the “Contemporary” (Social Disease, 2008). (…)

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Pause/Gio + Superm in Norway

by Travis Jeppesen on April 16, 2008

I’ll be back later this week, I promise. Things are a bit hectic right now, as I’ve been working on final edits for Disorientations (the book) ever since I got back from London, plus a deadline for ZOO Magazine. The (…)

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HANES

by Travis Jeppesen on April 11, 2008

HANES, the film that Mark Ther made about my move from Prague to Berlin, can now be viewed in full online. Mark Ther

In the Cold

by Travis Jeppesen on April 9, 2008

True North Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin Through April 13th, 2008     Ameland-Pier X by Elger Esser (C-Print, 2000): When you stand away from it, it looks like a white painting with a series of thin black lines bisecting it horizontally. (…)

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Biennale Blasé

by Travis Jeppesen on April 5, 2008

The problem with this Berlin Biennial – and every one I’ve seen so far, to be honest – is the fact that the curators can somehow never resist falling into the pitfalls of an unhealthy preoccupation with the city itself. (…)

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London April 5-6

by Travis Jeppesen on April 4, 2008

I’ll be doing two readings in London this weekend. Saturday, April 5, I’ll be reading with Adelle Stripe of the BRUTALISTS at Foyles Bookshop at 4pm. It’s part of some short story festival. I’ll be reading my story “What the (…)

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5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art: 1st Impressions

by Travis Jeppesen on April 3, 2008

Today was the first day of the press preview for the latest installment of the Berlin Biennial, curated by Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic. I generally make it a rule to see a show at least twice before I review (…)

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Guma Guar

by Travis Jeppesen on April 3, 2008

Guma Guar Guma Guar is a Prague-based art collective. Through their live actions, interferences, exhibitions, breakcore activism, and resplendent energy, they continue to expand and revise the possibilities of art in the 21st century. This conversation recently took place via (…)

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