Archive for the “Writing” category
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, (…)
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). (…)
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. (…)
The “Lost” Art of Art Criticism
by Travis Jeppesen on March 31, 2008
In a recent editorial addressing the endless debates over criticism’s role in the current art world, Damon Willick argues that such debates often reduce the so-called crisis to a binary opposition – Greenbergian formalism vs. postmodernism. Proponents of the former (…)
On the Expulsion of the Friendless Warrior
by Travis Jeppesen on March 22, 2008
Why do we read art magazines? Sorry, but it’s a question that needs to be asked every now and then, as the answer seems to change over time according to one’s position, status, and relationship to the rest of the (…)