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Posted on September 13, 2013

Posted on September 13, 2013

 

“The show — its full title was “Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form: Works, Concepts, Processes, Situations, Information” — was instant history, a radical moment.” – Holland Cotter

The New York Times art critic Holland Cotter recently reviewed When Attitudes Become Form, an exhibition at the Prada Foundation in Venice that re-creates the original 1969 show organized by renowned curator Harald Szeemann. Describing the original exhibition in depth, the review provides a historical context for the recreation of Szeemann’s pivotal exhibition. Read the full article on line here. Additionally, the exhibition was covered by Mousse Magazine, and Frieze Magazine.

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Posted on December 10, 2013

Posted on December 10, 2013

 

“Perhaps the most famous curator of the post-World War II era, Szeemann was an ardent advocate of modern and contemporary art, from Dada, surrealism, and futurism, to conceptualism, postminimalism, performance art, and new forms of installation and video art.”

In 2011, the Getty Research Institute acquired the Harald Szeemann complete archives and library. The archive and library contain a comprehensive record of Szeemann’s correspondence with artists, academics and cultural producers from the 1950’s through his death in 2005. Also included are extraordinary materials from the early 20th century including prints, drawings, photographs, posters, videotapes and other valuable ephemera. The archive encompasses Szeemann’s extensive personal library of monographs, artists books and other rare publications, documenting Szeemann’s work, research and relationships with some of 20th century’s most influential artists such as Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, and Cy Twombly. The Harald Szeemann archive and library are currently in the process of being catalogued and made available to the public, with the work scheduled to be completed by January of 2015. For more information and to stay up to date on the cataloguing process, visit the Getty Research Institute’s website here.

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Posted on March 8, 2014

ARC Magazine features one of the first performances for En Mas’: Marlon Griffith.

“Positions + Power is an intervention in the space of carnival that uses the body as a primary medium, stripping mas’ of its decorative elements while maintaining a balance between the material and the immaterial. Through the positions of and interactions between the masqueraders and an ominous mobile surveillance tower, reminiscent of police booths omnipresent at carnival time, Positions + Power points to power relations in public space between the state and civil society. Positions + Power also makes visible processes of negotiation of class and ethnicity through body make-up inspired by the local fashion of chest powdering.” – ARC Magazine

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Posted on March 24, 2014

Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina presented do it curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist from November 15 through December 14, 2013 marking the first time that do it has been realized in Kosovo. Completely objectless, this iteration of the project instead focused on the mass dissemination of information and infiltrated the media with artists’ instructions, drawn from do it: the compendium. With the goal of altering the role of the audience, Stacion organized the presentation of a selection of artists’ instructions on unexpected platforms such as newspapers, propaganda posters, and the evening news, making public the process of transmitting unconventional content while not documenting the consequences.  Dozens of artists’ instructions were featured as part of the project, and ICI has linked just a few highlights 

Pawel Althamer – Express KTV from ICI on Vimeo.

Stephen J Kaltenbach – Express KTV from ICI on Vimeo.

Josef Grigely – KLAN KOSOVA.tv from ICI on Vimeo.

Julius Koller – Express KTV from ICI on Vimeo.

Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina is the only independent project institution for contemporary art and architecture in Kosovo, established in 2006 by artist Albert Heta and architect Vala Osmani. Stacion is conceived of as a space for artists, architects, thinkers, critics and other sociopolitical workers committed to reflecting on and responding to relevant challenges of the contemporary society with an active, critical and emancipatory approach. Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina focuses on locally-rooted practice as well as regional, European and international processes.

do it at Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina is part of ‘Rethinking (Social) Space Program’ and is supported by Ministry of European Integration of the Republic of Kosovo, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo, Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, Koha Group and DZG.

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Posted on April 23, 2014

Marlon Griffith’s recent performance Positions + Power is featured in the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian. Griffith’s performance will be included in the upcoming exhibition En Mas’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean, curated by Claire Tancons and Krista Thompson and co-produced by ICI and the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans.

“It is a legitimate art form,” says the Trinidad-born, Japan-based artist, of his preferred medium, Carnival. “Painting is respected. Drawing, sculpture, dance, performance – [and] these things are all incorporated into Carnival.”

Continue reading the full article on the T&T Guardian website, here.

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