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- You’ll Know What to Do: Vaginal Davis Guides Us into Summer
The maverick terrorist drag artist Vaginal Davis was recently enlisted by the Berlin art academy at Weissensee to submit a select group of students to a sort of week-long avant-garde boot camp, the result of which was a one-off performance, You’ll Know What to Do, which took place last Friday, May 23rd, at the Raumerweiterungshalle, […]
- Institutional Ineptitude: An Open Letter to the Deutsche Guggenheim
Dear Sir or Madam,
Today, I attempted to attend your current exhibition, Freisteller, with the intention of reviewing it for the web site, disorientations.com. Upon presenting my international press card to your employee, Heike Schlenger, I was told that it is not valid at your institution. I was quite surprised as, having traveled throughout many countries, […]
- Color Theory
Carsten Nicolai
Eigen + Art, Berlin
Through June 28th, 2008
The day was a pinkish orange thing, and as I entered the gallery, the orange overwhelmed the pink in a way that was unbearable - especially the heat. It is generated by a large neon wall that reflects nothing - just the scent of its own burning. Surrounded […]
- While we’re on the subject of aliens…
I wrote this review for Think Again magazine; I thought I’d include it here because I picked up the book at the Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art show at the Barbican when I was in London. It was actually the only book on ufology that they were selling at the Barbican, which leads me to […]
- Ground Control
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 to mention contemporary art.
It all started off with curators Francesco Manacorda and Lydia Yee being asked to organize a […]
- Biennale Blasé
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. As though we need to be told time and again the harsh lessons that history […]
- 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art: 1st Impressions
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 it, but first impressions can also be good a gauge of things, so before I […]
- New Kid on the Bloc
Jon Campbell
Galerie Deschler, Berlin
Through March 29, 2008
At Galerie Deschler, hidden away down in the basement, a young American painter by the name of Jon Campbell is having his first solo exhibition in Europe. It’s rare to find an artist so young who already possesses such a clearly defined, well thought-out vision.
Campbell is primarily interested in […]
