Archive for the “Video Art” category
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, (…)
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 (…)
Candice Breitz
by Travis Jeppesen on December 17, 2008
My review of the Candice Breitz solo exhibition in Berlin is now online.
Ryan Trecartin at Whitechapel Gallery
by Travis Jeppesen on November 8, 2008
Having sat through so much bad video art in the past, I had until fairly recently come close to giving up on the medium altogether. Lately, however, my prejudices have been dissolving, as a new generation of video artists — (…)
Thiago Rocha Pitta at Andersen’s Contemporary, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on October 16, 2008
Notes on an Island Shipwreck is a simple project exploring the polar motifs of land and sea. Thiago Rocha Pitta is restrained in his approach, and the exhibition is well thought-out, though not extraordinary. The centerpiece, Project for a Stormy (…)
Ayse Erkmen at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on October 6, 2008
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 – (…)
Dagger
by Travis Jeppesen on May 31, 2008
Words: Heidi James Visual: Matthew Coleman
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
