Archive for the “Video Art” category
Queer Art in Central Europe: Travis Jeppesen on Mark Ther
by Travis Jeppesen on April 30, 2009
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” (…)
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
by Travis Jeppesen on April 14, 2009
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 (…)
Candice Breitz
by Travis Jeppesen on December 17, 2008
My review of the Candice Breitz solo exhibition in Berlin is now online.
Ryan Trecartin at Whitechapel Gallery
by Travis Jeppesen on November 8, 2008
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 — (…)
Thiago Rocha Pitta at Andersen’s Contemporary, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on October 16, 2008
Notes on an Island Shipwreck is a simple project exploring the polar motifs of land and sea. Thiago Rocha Pitta is restrained in his approach, and the exhibition is well thought-out, though not extraordinary. The centerpiece, Project for a Stormy (…)
Ayse Erkmen at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on October 6, 2008
If minimal art has any importance, it’s in making us notice things that we wouldn’t otherwise. Ayse Erkmen has this figured out. She gives us an art that is barely there. What is it that Gertrude Stein once wrote – (…)
Dagger
by Travis Jeppesen on May 31, 2008
Words: Heidi James Visual: Matthew Coleman
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
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 (…)
Four Films by Mark Ther
by Travis Jeppesen on March 27, 2008
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 (…)