Sigurdur Gudmundsson Work from his oeuvre. “These photographs, influenced by Fluxus and conceptual art, and collectively titled Situations, construct a certain poetic and philosophical vision through a series of staged situations where the artist himself is a stand-in for a persona caught in different circumstances. Each mise-en-scène frames human existence in a humorous and pointed […]
Archives for posts tagged ‘performance’
Kim Asendorf
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Kim Asendorf Work from Solo Show in Sim City. “Kim Asendorf is a conceptual media artist and works in a large area of digital related art. He loves to transport things from the internet into the real life and back. Kim did several net.art projects, often based on data taken from the internet or gathered […]
Melanie Bonajo
Monday, 24 October 2011
Melanie Bonajo Work from her oeuvre. Text by Wyatt Niehaus. In her photographs, videos, installations and performances Melanie Bonajo approaches paradoxes of domestic life within a culture of free-time and luxury, the facets of a Modernized Society that remove from the individual the feeling of belonging, and increase feelings of isolation and identity issues […]
Walid Raad
Monday, 22 August 2011
Walid Raad / The Atlas Group Work from The Sweet talk File. “The Atlas Group is a fictional collective, the work of which is produced by Walid Raad. His works to date include video, photography and literary essays. All, in one way or another, deal with the contemporary history of Lebanon with particular emphasis on […]
Elín Hansdóttir
Friday, 19 August 2011
Elín Hansdóttir Work from On Misunderstanding. “When understanding collapses, confusion follows, and in the mess new discoveries can be made. On Misunderstanding looks into the nature of misunderstandings, into how communication can break down, into behavioral malfunctions, into illusions, distortions and parallel realities. Is it all a question of perspective? A bad translation? Or is […]
Gazira Babeli
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
Gazira Babeli Work from her oeuvre “Gazira Babeli is a performance artist and filmmaker and she exists only in a virtual world. In 2006 Babeli was born in the 3-D infrastructure “Second Life”. Since then she created films and performances which can be exhibited in the “real world” as well. Her existence is a play […]
Cheryl Donegan
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Cheryl Donegan Work from her oeuvre. “Painting is the touchstone for Cheryl Donegan’s aesthetic, though she seldom produces work that resembles painting in any conventional sense. Indeed, her preferred media are video, performance, and installation, and her recurrent points of reference film, MTV video, modern decor, and the mass media. By such means, she addresses […]
Natasha Caruana
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Natasha Caruana Work from The Married Man. “Natasha Caruana’s series of photographs, ‘Married Man’ documents occasions when the artist arranged ‘dates’ through dating websites designed for married men to conduct affairs. She photographed each man, concealing their identity, but also recorded them secretly using a digital recorder hidden in a red purse seen in several […]
Kate Gilmore
Friday, 17 June 2011
Kate Gilmore Work from her oeuvre. “Kate Gilmore has ideas of her own about site-specific video installation and sexual stereotypes. Entering her New York solo debut requires stepping through large holes in two closely set temporary walls. You can pause between them and watch Ms. Gilmore in the video ”Walk This Way” as she kicks […]
Michel de Broin
Friday, 27 May 2011
Michel de Broin Work from Réparations (the video of this piece is here). “Reparations is an initiative in the course of which used plastic bottles found by chance on the street are recuperated and transformed into rockets. The ballistic launching device is made up of a bicycle pump used to compress a mixture of water […]