Writings on Art from Central Europe and Beyond


  • Baselitz & bad painting/the making of suiciders

    Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about Georg Baselitz and his notion of “bad painting.” How this might correspond to writing, “bad writing.” To write badly on purpose. There is not much of a history to this anti-tradition in literature. Kathy Acker was one of the few writers who openly did it, then there’s the [...]

  • Italian Futurism in Czech and English

    I recently started writing forLiterarni Noviny, a Czech-language publication. You can now read my first article for them, a review of Languages of Futurism at Martin-Gropius-Bau, on Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, in the original English.

  • Kandis Williams @ SLUM, December 16th at 22:00

    SLUM is pleased to announce a one-night installation by American artist Kandis Williams.
    Williams will present a series of collages that replicate the interiors of the vagina, using black-and-white photocopies from many sources, including hardcore porn, African sculpture, and film stills.
    http://www.kandiswilliams.com/
    The night will also include a DJ set by Gonoretard.
    SLUM is held every Wednesday at 22:00, [...]

  • Marion Bataillard

    Looking at Marion Bataillard’s paintings is like peeking into a sort of madhouse or cult compound. Her figures are not quite gruesome enough to be called grotesque, but they aren’t pretty, either, and they inevitably bear expressions of rapture, existential befuddlement, and dementia. Her works are the expression of a very private vision of hell [...]

travis jeppesen Disorientations.com is Travis Jeppesen.
Travis Jeppesen is a novelist, poet, and art critic based in Berlin. His books include Wolf at the Door, Victims, Poems I Wrote While Watching TV, and a collection of art criticism, Disorientations: Art on the Margins of the "Contemporary".

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