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KÜTMAAN

Saturday, April 4, 2015

As an asylum seeker, one is already othered, lives in hard conditions whilst waiting for one of the basic rights to be approved: the freedom of movement. No one would leave her/his country if there was no more wars or more tolerance towards other choices. Even in so-called-civilised-West, women and LGBTI rights is still a crucial [...]

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It’s A Bubble

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Remember Bubbles? Well, whatever, we don’t want to say too much about this hypnotic new Aaron Rose-directed clip about the NYC art scene called “The Bubble”, other than the fact that it features a ton of creative people (aka his buddies) and has a strangely unique (and poetic, thanks to Kipling) [...]

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THE PARASITES AND THE HOSTS

Friday, February 6, 2015

In the pool of luscious texts of e-flux, Ahmet Öğüt’s CCC: Currency of Collective Consciousness gets the attention by dealing with the problematics of art’s production and the market around it. How to sabotage by not destroying but re-using the tools of institutions and how to be able to counter-attack without strictly cutting the bonds… Öğüt’s [...]

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discoverness, freedoming, sharehood

Saturday, January 31, 2015

Pulling off yet another genius move, Father John Misty just announced his very own (and crap-sounding) SAP – Streamline Audio Protocol: “I am pleased to introduce SAP, a new signal-to-audio process by which popular albums are “sapped” of their performances, original vocal, atmosphere and other distracting affectations so the consumer can decide quickly and efficiently [...]

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MOCKED CRIMES

Monday, January 26, 2015

In the (post)digital era, our notion of time and ‘event’ is contradictory. As we all know, the heinous crimes of extremist group ISIS are devastating… The videos they publish online make the evil act, create a new ‘now’. The more we watch the videos, the more people they kill digitally – the event of death [...]

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JE SUIS CHARLIE

Friday, January 9, 2015

Over at It’s Nice That, they compiled a nice series of caricatures responding to the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in Paris – vicious as ever, and long live political satire. See more here.

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REVEAL AND RELIEF

Monday, October 20, 2014

It is interesting – scary, as well – how power interprets certain things and engenders the ‘truth’(!). Recently, London police arrested street artist Banksy on the charge of ‘graffiti, public vandalism, criminal mischief, public indecency, resisting arrest, money laundering, criminal conspiracy and racketeering’. Beyond that, the police department revealed the artist’s identity with photos of him [...]

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WOULD THEY IF THEY COULD

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Selfies taken by statues in the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, Ireland by anonymous only known by Reddit username Jazsus_ur_lookin_well. While more meme exhibitionism than witty irreverence, I have to admit it’s funny…it’s telling–of what though?–that I mistook it for a lesser example of today’s artwork.

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 27: ROBERTA SMITH

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Art critic heavyweights Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz – coincidentally also a couple in real life – talk about their craft, writing as a form of thinking and the state of the arts, in Interview.

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Monday Madness All Around

Monday, March 17, 2014

It’s a monday, and we are all going back to the hamster wheel. Artists Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley were living and working in their 30-feet-hamster-wheel at Boiler for only 10 days until March 9th. It’s a bit like an architectural remix of Mad World. Have a good start to the week everyone!

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