Writings on Art from Central Europe and Beyond
- For Jan Jakub Kotik, at 3am
I do an occasional poetry column with Matthew Wascovich at 3ammagazine.com. In the latest installment, now online, you can read my homage to Jan Jakub Kotik.
- Olaf Breuning’s Ultimate Suicide
PLUS: Read an essay on Olaf Breuning’s Home in Disorientations
- Ayse Erkmen at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
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 - there is no there there. Or was it someone else? It doesn’t matter who [...]
- Christophe Chemin
My interview with Christophe Chemin, on the subject of his current exhibition at RISE Berlin, is now online at WhiteHot Magazine.
- Olafur Eliasson’s Reading List
While I agree that Olafur Eliasson’s upcoming professorship at the Universität der Künste in Berlin is a good thing, I don’t know that it’s the revolutionary event that Christy Lange at Frieze makes it out to be.
Looking at the reading list that Eliasson provides in the article linked above, I noticed that there is [...]
- Brewing Art
While Berlin may not be not be the power or economic epicenter of the international art world at the moment, there is mounting evidence for a case that the city has at least become its spiritual center. Beyond the highly touted cheap rents and ever-obliging coolness factor, which have come to define the post-Cold [...]
- A Star is Born: Tennessee Claflin at STYX Project Space
Last Friday night, Tennessee Claflin gave his first ever public performance in Berlin at STYX Project Space. Entitled Sunday Morning, the piece took as its departure point the passage from Genesis 2:7,
And then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and [...]
- The Critic as Avant-Garde Artist
I have to say that I’m a lot more interested now in the prospect of reading Boris Groys’s new book Art Power than I was before reading Brian Dillon’s review of it in the latest issue of Frieze. According to Dillon, Groys argues, among other things, that art criticism “is not necessarily written to [...]
- Robert Hughes is Back
God, I’ve missed Robert Hughes.
Hughes on Damien Hirst:
“His far-famed shark with its pretentious title, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, is “nature” for those who have no conception of nature, in whose life nature plays no real part except as a shallow emblem, a still from Jaws. It might [...]
- Jeremiah Palecek
My review of Jeremiah Palecek’s Berlin show is now online - check it out.
Disorientations.com is Travis Jeppesen.