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- Cocksucker Blues
Where do I get my cock sucked?
Where do I get my ass fucked?
Here, seems. (Shhh…. quiet!)
- Derek Holzer at STYX Project Space, Berlin
12 Meter Power Chord, Derek Holzer’s latest sound installation, consists of three strings stretched across the gallery space at the length specified, and amplified, so that the spectator can “play” them and experiment with the different frequencies emitted by each string singularly and in combination with the others. Call it relational noise. Or, applied [...]
- WhiteHot
The first print issue of WhiteHot Contemporary Art magazine is now available for purchase.
- DISORIENTATIONS Berlin Book Launch
The book launch for my collection of art criticism, DISORIENTATIONS, will be on November 29th at 19:00
at a new gallery/bar space at Kronenstraße 71, 10117 Berlin
Please contact me if you want to come, I will put your name at the door + any guests you want to bring…
xx
Travis
- Barry Schwabsky
Barry Schwabsky on the art world:
At a time when art still makes headlines mostly for the absurd prices people are willing to pay for it, it may sound surprising to say that the ethic of the art world entails a deep ambivalence about its financial basis–the “umbilical cord of gold” that, as Clement Greenberg once [...]
- Without a Name: Jon Campbell
Below is my catalog essay for Jon Campbell’s exhibition in Paris, which opens on Saturday, November 15th at Galerie Jeanroch Dard.
Faced with the difficulty of writing about Jon Campbell’s work, I can only try and identify the source of that complexity and get through it that way. Because we’re not talking about a [...]
- Social Disease
Social Disease, publisher of Disorientations: Art on the Margins of the “Contemporary”, has a new website.
- Richard Serra at Gagosian Britannia
The philosophical rigidity of Richard Serra’s sculptures stands for raw endurance. They last, they extend themselves past momentary interpretations, and yet they are not momentous; rather they nearly pass as organic forms. One at Gagosian is a vaginal maze that you can readily get lost in, its walls narrow and claustrophobic — a metallic birth [...]
- Ryan Trecartin at Whitechapel Gallery
Having sat through so much bad video art in the past, I had until fairly recently come close to giving up on the medium altogether. Lately, however, my prejudices have been dissolving, as a new generation of video artists — people like Mark Ther, Keren Cytter, and Ryan Trecartin — has been opening up possibilities [...]
