Tag: Art
Indonesian artist Irwan Ahmett, currently living in the Norwegian mountains, collected needles from a public park known to be a hotspot of intravenous drug activity and overdoses. He extracted the fluids inside and “re-purified” them. “It’s a metaphor of what is holiness and how the society could accept the reality about illegal drugs transaction and users that have […]
Remember that time Bill and Bobby slaughtered the entire Donald Duck family of humanoids? That episode when Kahn caught Connie camgirling was pretty sick too. But not really. Rhizome commissioned two New York-based artists Edward Marshall Shenk and Victor Vaughn to make these images for Dazed. Previously, the artists have collaborated on the “Oh Mirror in the sky, what is love?” exhibition, among other projects. Their […]
Performance art diva Marina Abramović has already utilized social platforms such as Kickstarter and Reddit and celebrities like Jay Z and Lady Gaga in order to promote and fund the Marina Abramović Institute, a giant sleek space in Hudson, NY that will “will serve as her legacy and homage to time-based and immaterial art.” And yet, some of us have been surprised at her collaboration with Adidas in “restaging” Work Relation […]
Marcel Duchamp has, above all, loved chess and created two chess sets in his life. His 1943 Pocket Chess Set has become a rare and valuable collectors item, but his 1918 set, made upon his arrival in Buenos Aires is owned by a private collector and not viewable by the public. Scott Kildall is clearly devoted […]
Six years from now, Swedish director Anders Weberg is releasing Ambiancé, a film that is a month (720 hours or 43,200 minutes) long. Its 72-minute trailer has been recently released online. As its name suggests, Ambiancé deals with the creation of mood in cinema. The trailer is full of smeared visions set to dramatic music. Weberg must be interested […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Berlin-based artist Labanna Babalon talks about mysterious emails, mind-expanding psychedelics, community, rejecting the monetization of the art world and new digital platforms, all of which resulted in her latest piece titled ANIMAL. Honestly, I had a […]
What happened since Rosalind Krauss introduced the term “postmedia,” full of semiotic contradictions? After Felix Guattari used the expression “post-media era” and producer and consumer melted within the media, dissecting themselves? What happened after Miss Krauss wrote A Voyage in the North Sea. Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition, chatting about post-medium, killing […]
It’s been a terrible summer for reproductive rights. The Supreme Court struck down “buffer zones” preventing anti-abortion protestors from approaching clinic entrances and patients. The Hobby Lobby decision ruled that corporations can deny birth control health coverage based on their corporate personhood’s religious preferences, making Planned Parenthood as important as ever in providing these resources. Recently, artist Marilyn Minter collaborated with American […]
The Met has announced its first fall fashion show since 2007, and it’s very special. “Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire” focuses on the Victorian & Edwardian fashions of the bereaved between 1815 and 1915. The exhibition will explore the aesthetic development and cultural implications of mourning fashions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. […]
The latest installation by Nils Völker in Austria features 1000 fans and 96 bags which inflate and deflate in rhythms controlled by an Arduino board. Every bag is controlled independently, forming wavelike gyrations along the wall. Creative Applications points out that it gives the installation the appearance of a pixels. Inside each module there are eight cpu cooling fans inflating […]
