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- Queer Art in Central Europe: Travis Jeppesen on Mark Ther
This is a transcription of my recent lecture on Mark Ther at the Sixth Culture for Tolerance Festival in Krakow, Poland. The lecture was adapted from my essay on Mark Ther in Disorientations: Art on the Margins of the “Contemporary” (Social Disease, 2008). Unfortunately, most of the videos I showed are not currently available online. [...]
- Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
My review of Janet Cardiff and George Bures MIller at Hamburger Bahnhof has been published in WhiteHot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
I will be in Krakow later this week as part of the 6th Culture for Tolerance Festival. I will be lecturing on the work of Mark Ther at 15:00 on Saturday, April 18th, at Spokój, [...]
- For Jan Jakub Kotik, at 3am
I do an occasional poetry column with Matthew Wascovich at 3ammagazine.com. In the latest installment, now online, you can read my homage to Jan Jakub Kotik.
- Of Kids and Parents
Of Kids and Parents by Emil Hakl, translated from the Czech by Marek Tomin (Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2008)
Twisted Spoon’s latest publication, a translation of Emil Hakl’s Of Kids and Parents, is a simple novel, if any novel can really be called simple, but simple in a deceptive way, in that it connects its [...]
- HANES
HANES, the film that Mark Ther made about my move from Prague to Berlin, can now be viewed in full online.
Mark Ther
- Guma Guar
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 e-mail, as Guma Guar was making preparations for their upcoming exhibition at Prague’s Old [...]
- IN MEMORIAM: Jan Jakub Kotík (1972-2007)
In December, the Czech Republic lost one of its most promising young artists to cancer. I first came into contact with Jan Jakub Kotík when I was commissioned to write an essay on his work by Umelec. I did not know Jan well, but I quickly became a fan of his work, and was fortunate [...]
- Four Films by Mark Ther
1. I Will Get You Out and Chop You Up in Midair (2007)
Plants. Flowers. I don’t know the names of any of them. A chair in a garden, an assortment of tools. The chirping birds are so bored, can’t you hear them. Why do we generate nature in our own backyards. A dead man in [...]
- Mark Ther’s Television Commercials
Mark Ther is a Prague-based video artist.
These are some of this television commercials.
His work is the subject of an essay in my forthcoming book, Disorientations.
Tomorrow, I’ll be writing about four of his recent films.
