Writings on Art from Central Europe and Beyond
- Jarman, Julien, Wittgenstein, Martians
Of all the possible mediums he could have chosen, it is somehow curious that Derek Jarman decided to become a filmmaker. He didn’t just do film, of course, but it is for his films that he is best known. Perhaps you get the feeling, when watching some of these movies, that they should have been [...]
- Alien Insurrection: A Note on Theory
I’ve been reading off and on this since shortly after I attended the Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art exhibition in London. I was intrigued by the title, so I picked it up. I have to say, I’m finding it quite dull. Theory seems to do little more than ruin one’s experience of a work [...]
- Rauschenberg: 1925-2008
It’s hard not to fall into the trap of thinking about Robert Rauschenberg from a historical perspective. Like two of his lovers, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly, he is frequently seen as a transitional figure, and perhaps more than the others, he was the artist whose work formed a bridge from the Abstract Expressionism of [...]
- 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 [...]
- Climbing the Anal Staircase: The Art of No Bra
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They say No Bra is all tits and wonder, but they’re wrong. There’s also a lot of cock, and even some fake mustache. This isn’t music for the masses; it’s music that makes fun of the masses - or at least that quotient of the masses that imagines it constitutes an elite.Susanne Oberbeck dreams [...]
- hear me read, see me lick…..
I read out loud (a slightly edited version of) “What the Witch Doctor Says” at Foyles Bookshop in London.
I eat pussy on Bruce LaBruce’s blog.
- 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 [...]
Disorientations.com is Travis Jeppesen.