Archive for the “Mixed media” category
8th Baltic Contemporary Art Biennial – Szczecin, Poland
by Travis Jeppesen on June 6, 2009
Armando Lulaj, Time Out of Joint Szczecin is among the most depressing cities I’ve visited in Poland. I won’t say it’s my least favorite – that distinction would have to go to Zakopane, that overcrowded resort haven in the Tatra (…)
Jack Goldstein @ Daniel Buchholz Gallery, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on May 26, 2009
The story of Jack Goldstein is one of the saddest in recent art history. Throughout much of his career, Goldstein struggled with fame – both his own and that of the artists who rose to prominence alongside him in the (…)
Jacqueline Brown @ STYX Project Space, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on May 25, 2009
In her first solo exhibition, Jacqueline Brown uses drawings, photography, sound, and video to compose a sort of exercise in landscape autobiography. Mining the flora and fauna of the English countryside around Devon, where the young artist spent her childhood, (…)
For Jan Jakub Kotik, at 3am
by Travis Jeppesen on October 16, 2008
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.
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 (…)
Guma Guar
by Travis Jeppesen on April 3, 2008
Guma Guar Guma Guar is a Prague-based art collective. Through their live actions, interferences, exhibitions, breakcore activism, and resplendent energy, they continue to expand and revise the possibilities of art in the 21st century. This conversation recently took place via (…)