Friday, December 16, 2011
Despite post-structuralism’s and deconstruction’s extensive critique of the notion of ‘man’ and its humanist biases, early twenty-first century thought is experiencing a resurgence of interest in the classical philosophical question concerning ‘human nature’. What seems to be primarily at stake in current debates around this issue is not only an enquiry into the relation of [...]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Turkish sculptor Mehmet Ali Uysal interrupts flatlands. Seen on ignant.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
This must have been fun…
A Touch of Evil
Directed by Alex Prager
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Berlin, of course, is one of Europe’s hotspots for emerging artists, so it was only a matter of time until someone created a worthy website dedicated to the Berlin art scene. The time is now, cue Art Berlin – a blog, review and listings site all in one, dedicated to… exactly.
Not that this hasn’t been [...]
Some/Things Magazine is a bit of a gem, the kind of publication you only come across once every few years, and then don’t want to tell your friends about, because you want it all for yourself. But since we’re all about kindness this month, we will share it with you.
Some/Things is a lush and luxurious [...]
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Ai Weiwei gave a recent interview in the current issue of Der Spiegel, which you find here (alas, in German), talking about the accusations of tax evasion, his time in prison and the effects on his life. It is a moving conversation, and also an encouraging one, since it proves: In spite of everything that [...]
Thursday, November 24, 2011
The filmmaker and artist Philippe Parreno is going to present his new film Continuously Habitable Zones, aka C.H.Z. His work primarily revolves around the interrogation of the nature of an image, as well as the modes of its exhibition.
‘There are no ‘cuts’ in the film but only stretching and folding of the landscape. Because of [...]
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Ah yes, it’s that time of the year again: Idealistic young men and women flock to the grey pastures of Berlin to unleash their pretty books and magazines on art and the like on idealistic young men and women who can think of nothing better to do on a weekend than browse pretty books on [...]
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Russian photographer Valery Katsuba began exploring the aesthetics of acrobatics and gymnastics in a series entitled Phiscultura. Inspired by photographs taken in the gymnasiums of St. Petersburg in 1901 that he discovered in the state archives, he recreated the style of the era to demonstrate the similarities between now and then.
“I naively imagined that fitness [...]
