Berlin, 16:30, Feb 3, 2018, https://transmediale.de Eric Snodgrass: Affect is the capacity to be affected, it is what happens before describable and communicate-able “feelings” emerge. Hard Feelings is a title taken from Lorde’s album. A moment when the future collapses upon you. Shaka McGlotten: Manipulation of affect has become a data driven industry today, but…
Berlin, 19:30, Feb 2, 2018, https://transmediale.de Ruth Catlow: Finance is the coordination of large amounts of money and capital. Destruction of indigenous lifestyles, replaced by capitalism. We are all indigenous. Brett Scott (Book: Heretics guide to Finance) worked in finance as an “undercover anthropologist”. Zachary Formwalt: Representation of stock exchange building architecture. Existing stock exchanges,…
Berlin, Feb 2, 2018, https://transmediale.de/ Matteo Pasquinelli moderated the discussion / keynote lecture of Jonathan Beller. I value Beller for his work on the cinematic mode of production: the thesis, that media “consumers” are actually not consumers at all but cognitive workers creating value through the allocation of their quantifiable attention. In his talk, Beller…
Cologne, October 21 – November 25, 2017, http://brauchbarkeit.space Jörg Obergfell spent some time in Japan in a residency in Aomori and he was fascinated by the non-architecture of sheds used to store agricultural equipment. He documented the sheds in photography. Each shed was photographed in the spring and in the winter. There was a medium…
Prague, September 22 – 28, 2017, https://lustrfestival.cz The fourth edition of a festival dedicated to contemporary illustration. In fact, the focus was on the youngest generation of illustrators emerging in Czech Republic with a number of foreign guests invited. This event was on the design side, which had its advantages. It was incredibly user friendly.…
Kassel, Germany, June 10 – September 17, 2017, http://www.documenta14.de At first sight Documenta 14 appeared as very “political”. There were a lot of works seemingly addressing political topics, criticizing capitalism and its inherent relationship. At first sight, that is. After spending some time walking around, this first impression gave way to another reading. I felt…
Vienna, March 31 – May 28, 2017, http://www.q21.at/ Curator: Sabine Winkler, Artists: Antoine Catala, Xavier Cha, Florian Göttke, Femke Herregraven, Hertog Nadler, Micah Hesse, Francis Hunger, Scott Kildall, Barbora Kleinhamplova, Tom Molloy, Barbara Musil, Bego M. Santiago, Ruben van de Ven, Christina Werner
Eindhoven, March 19 – July 2, 2017, https://pietheineek.nl Philip van Tol focuses on the fleeting moments when light meets objects and shadows are born. The number of possible shapes created is infinite, as are the subtle color combinations as light passes through and reflects on different surfaces.
Eindhoven, April 23 – July 2, 2017, https://pietheineek.nl/en/ Daniel Ruanova is a Mexican artist and his work is based on his experience of living in Tijuana. At least that is what the exhibition statement alludes to. And it is also what one images Tijuana to be. Rough and dangerous, but also southerly colorful and emotional.
Eindhoven, November 17, 2016 – April 30, 2017, http://vanabbemuseum.nl Robert Glass’ work addressed a topic, which is very hot across Europe: Refugees. There were two photographs of Dutch detention cells. The detention cells were shockingly beautiful and in bright colors. Best Dutch design. Nevertheless these were locations were deportees who refused to leave are being…