Robert Kulisek Work from Photographing Sculptures. “Offered here is artwork as a form of investigation, not artwork as an authoritative assertion. To perceive a photograph (or artwork) in such a way is to point to something unsure inside of it, to insist on the once and future presence of a thing, an event, or a […]

Miranda Lichtenstein Work from her oeuvre. “Searching, misrepresentation, failure, and our troubled relationship to the natural world are components of my work. For this reason, living at Monet’s garden on a residency in Giverny a number of years ago had a tremendous impact on me. Recognizing the garden as a giant tableaux staged by a […]

Chris Coy Work from his oeuvre. Below is a text from Montage: Unmonumental Online at the New Museum. “…“Montage: Unmonumental Online” will feature works by an international group of fourteen emerging and midcareer artists who appropriate diverse material from the Web to create new Internet-based montage. Cutting and pasting, breaking apart and re-assembling, ripping and […]

Blake Shell Work from The Gloria Project. “My artistic practice stems from my interest in the influence of the Internet on my generation. The Internet is a central method of contemporary communication, reflecting humanity and all of its cultures, interests, and visions. I look to discover new aspects of humanity and to see the new […]

John Stezaker Work from his oeuvre. “John Stezaker’s work re-examines the various relationships to the photographic image: as documentation of truth, purveyor of memory, and symbol of modern culture. In his collages, Stezaker appropriates images found in books, magazines, and postcards and uses them as ‘readymades’. Through his elegant juxtapositions, Stezaker adopts the content and […]

Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin Work from Afterlife. “Afterlife is a re-reading of a controversial photograph taken in Iran on 6 August 1979. This remarkable image, taken just months after the revolution, records the execution of 11 blindfolded Kurdish prisoners by firing squad. The image, which captures the decisive moment the guns were fired, was […]

Lisa Oppenheim Work from Killed Negatives, After Walker Evans. “Lisa Oppenheim’s work constitutes an archaeology of visual culture. She brings the hidden, under-appreciated and repressed into view, and in the process reveals an ordering of things that goes beyond our commonplace responses. Her work ranges from damaged negatives from early 20th century news stories, personal […]

Nikolaus Gansterer Work from The Bureau of Found Appropriations. “”The Bureau of Found Appropriations / Département des Sourires” is a work which is part of a long-term study on strategies of appropriation and forms of production (and reproduction) in Asia. My main attention is directed towards differences, misinterpretation and errors committed in the process of translating […]

Tom Smith Work from CocoaGL film stills. “CocoaGL is a bespoke computer program designed to break down a film into its constituent frames. If a short film is made up of 100 frames, CocoaGL will split the screen into 100 vertical/horizontal lines or 100 concentric squares. As the film plays the 1st 100th of the […]

Thomas Mailaender Work from Extreme Tourism and Sponsoring. “Documentation marks the starting point for his work. Using a slightly scientific way of working, he registers insignificant, incidentatlly grotesque moments that possess an abruptand unexepted monumentatlity. For the past years his work mainly focused on playing with the concept of typology. A recently Dead famous french […]