John Gerrard Work from his oeuvre. “Nietzsche famously positioned the expressive possibilities of art between the formal surfaces of sculpture and the emotional immediacy of music. Sculpture, like most visual practice, he took to represent art’s “civilising” impulse and the pursuit of beauty: the creation and manipulation of surfaces with which to mask a chaotic, […]

Timur Si-Qin Work from his/her oeuvre. “Mystic truths are being is generate the networked into packets that can be bought and why should we? We celebrs. Mystic truths are being to future generationships. Mystic truths are being compressed interpolated. Meaning is generate the networked internal space of the world. Relationships. Mystic truths are micromanaging shamans […]

Jesse McLean Work from The Bearing Witness Trilogy. “Bearing Witness is a trilogy concerned with how we, as a culture, watch ourselves, especially in moments of great emotional significance. With footage culled from mainstream media and television, the single-channel videos (The Eternal Quarter Inch, Somewhere only we know, The Burning Blue) distill moments of sincerity […]

Kari Altmann Work from her oeuvre. “Kari Altmann, for example, considers her work to be located not in individual works (as meaningful as they may be), but rather in her avatar inside the data cloud wherein one views her perform the excavation and molding of her own artistic archive in mutable cloud-space, cloud-time. Sometimes she’ll […]

Artie Vierkant Work from Full Throttle. “In Full Throttle, by Artie Vierkant, a six-screen video installation and continuing series, action and suspense scenes from major Hollywood films are recorded streaming over the Internet at very slow connection speeds. Each film is a major part of our collective pop culture consciousness but is made available publicly only through means […]

Lyota Yagi Work from his oeuvre. “Appearing from out of the darkness, Lyota Yagi opens a small box and takes out a number of remote controls – those everyday items that one uses to operate household appliances from a distance. When he moves the arm which is holding a remote, while also holding down a […]

Luis Gispert Work from his oeuvre. Jacob Hashimoto: This last January, you opened an enormous two-part exhibition at Zach Feuer and Mary Boone Gallery that represented well over two years of sculptures and images and was crowned with a hugely ambitious short film, Smother. Having had the opportunity to watch you labor over this diverse […]

Amir Zaki Work from Eleven Minus One “Amir Zaki’s 11-1 meticulously recreates a group of photographs made in the mid-1980s by internationally-renowned Swiss artists David Fischli and Peter Weiss. Fischll and Weissʼ work, which depicts precariously balancing temporary sculptures intentionally constructed in a slap-dash manner, privilege the photographs over the sculptures themselves, a notion Zaki […]

Lernert & Sander Work from Chocolate Bunny, How to Explain it to my Parents and I Love Alaska (full video here). How to Explain it to my Parents is a documentary series in which 9 artists explain to their mom/dad what their work is about. For context, the artists’ work should be viewed if you are not […]

William Wegman Work from his oeuvre. While some of the shorts may be duplicates due to the nature of various compilations, they are all well worth watching. “As he describes such influences — Nauman, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha — his tone is measured, respectful, sort of Wall Street Journal meets Artforum. He really lets go […]