26: Parataxis, screens, skeins,
portage and refraction
A poem from a 100 e-flux press releases, 2021
A portage of Planet Labs blog posts, 2015
A cycle around the neighborhood, 2022
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invisible art-care-workers
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tell me about Darkness, your recent project
the protagonists are trees and tree stumps
which move diagonally against a magnificent colorful sky
tilting or shedding their bark
the central installation
passing one loop into another
is linked with the hands via several
algorithmically describable intermediate steps
to form an image
from my window / from your window
the oldest and most prestigious festival of its kind
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diving headlong into the uncanny valley of lockdown nostalgia
a woman bursts into a state of frenzied dance on the street
within the next month four hundred more follow
paroxysms that erupted without warning
a state of participation mystique
this immersive VR film follows a young girl
who recounts her family’s uncanny past
a small window into their current situation
composed entirely of gestures, grunts
gibberish, moans, and screams
a great migration, a great rejection
the abstract techno-financial violence
the concrete violence of the returning
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yes, their residuals are protesting to disappear
art is even allowed back into people’s lives
in Austria, for instance, galleries reopened
at the same time as gardening stores
Show Me A Good Time
is a unique 12 hour
live-streamed performance
In the Ashes of History
consists of works in several series
performed in different techniques
the second of the two existing versions
of Disarm (Mechanized) II
will enter into dialog with
Tinguely’s Mengele-Dance of Death
the unsettling and the second iteration
of the “Women On Aeroplanes” project in Lagos
in the background
a class war is raging as well
the third section, To Live Like a Human
only the music is “exhibited”
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a project about an overabundance of information
this plays into the hands of people
that want to challenge legitimacy
experiences of diaspora
remain unfixed
the multilayered subtle variations
in green that emerge
Ten Minutes Older
remains one of the most wondrous
ruminations on the passage of time
what I work on when nothing is working out
Cucú and Her Fishes casts their undisciplined
research methods into cyberspace
shimmering surfaces
ghostly screen backs
absorbent tunnels
some of the strategies the artist use
to capture the futural
to instill a sense of disorientation
hallucination and uncanniness
in partnership with Libération
The New York Times
Le Bonbon and Trois Couleurs
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when we recall
we do so in images
the artist compiles data
while strolling languorously
in an orchid greenhouse
or being ferried in a canoe
I collect art in the same way
that I walk down the street
and see people
this is intention infinitely approaching
without ever touching its object-cause
“You” are strangers, women
plants and animals
machines and the earth
Agile and finally Stay Woke
transform the street
into an obliged museum
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Heinkuhn Oh that he took on the film set of A Petal
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at its core Pictures at an Exhibition
is an homage and a remembrance
memorialization through funerary photography
an impulse to groove and an impulse to come home
the methods can overall be divided
the exhibition’s two main themes
closeness and empathy
to write as if you were dead
the phrase ‘inner emigration’
with the kind support of the
Bureau des arts plastiques
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A Cloud makes itself, receives its premiere at EMMA
still, Asha manages to conceive a vision
strong enough to take her beyond
some of the works depict silence and intimacy
numbers have taken on a different meaning
a stop to the criminalization of sea rescue
a cinematic language that appeals to audiences
too young for the exhibition Unprecedented Times
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a prelude to its postponed edition
a durational performance
researching the laboring gestures
of theme park animal performers
including invocations, symposia
labour and its sonic ecologies
within the body of this exhibition
no walls or fixtures are added
a cat with clipped whiskers called Rayyes
involved in restoring social bonds
And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?
a champion of slowness
and concentration
force times distance
degrowth society
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Within the scope of the exhibition
Tell me about yesterday tomorrow
a multi-stranded program named “Assembly”
will take place in two parts
it has a reserved rhythm
a result of our need for reciprocal conversation
why do you think it’s important to make a film
about banal, non-heroic, non-tragic, everyday things
depicted in a manner devoid of dramatic images?
your presence Más allá del fin
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About 80,000 people reside in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, a small percentage of the millions of refugees who have fled Syria. The camp continues to evolve, as tents erected in 2012 are replaced by semi-permanent structures.
In the middle of Table Bay lies the isolated Robben Island, the infamous prison (now a World Heritage Site) where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for 18 years.
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