Archive for the “Prague” category
Longitude’s Necklace
by Travis Jeppesen on June 4, 2011
“Her heart is boundless, bleeding. She is the porn star mother of us all, the whore, and she doesn’t even acknowledge her own presence once the forest threatens to overtake her human-style longing. She dresses in fur and feathers, leaves (…)
Queer Art in Central Europe: Travis Jeppesen on Mark Ther
by Travis Jeppesen on April 30, 2009
This is a transcription of my recent lecture on Mark Ther at the Sixth Culture for Tolerance Festival in Krakow, Poland. The lecture was adapted from my essay on Mark Ther in Disorientations: Art on the Margins of the “Contemporary” (…)
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
by Travis Jeppesen on April 14, 2009
My review of Janet Cardiff and George Bures MIller at Hamburger Bahnhof has been published in WhiteHot Magazine of Contemporary Art. I will be in Krakow later this week as part of the 6th Culture for Tolerance Festival. I will (…)
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.
Of Kids and Parents
by Travis Jeppesen on August 31, 2008
Of Kids and Parents by Emil Hakl, translated from the Czech by Marek Tomin (Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2008) Twisted Spoon’s latest publication, a translation of Emil Hakl’s Of Kids and Parents, is a simple novel, if any novel can (…)
HANES
by Travis Jeppesen on April 11, 2008
HANES, the film that Mark Ther made about my move from Prague to Berlin, can now be viewed in full online. Mark Ther
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 (…)
IN MEMORIAM: Jan Jakub Kotík (1972-2007)
by Travis Jeppesen on March 29, 2008
In December, the Czech Republic lost one of its most promising young artists to cancer. I first came into contact with Jan Jakub Kotík when I was commissioned to write an essay on his work by Umelec. I did not (…)
Four Films by Mark Ther
by Travis Jeppesen on March 27, 2008
1. I Will Get You Out and Chop You Up in Midair (2007) Plants. Flowers. I don’t know the names of any of them. A chair in a garden, an assortment of tools. The chirping birds are so bored, can’t (…)
Mark Ther’s Television Commercials
by Travis Jeppesen on March 26, 2008
Mark Ther is a Prague-based video artist. These are some of this television commercials. His work is the subject of an essay in my forthcoming book, Disorientations. Tomorrow, I’ll be writing about four of his recent films.
