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With Hidden Noise

Titled after Marcel Duchamp’s readymade of a ball of string containing a mysterious sound-making object hidden in its folds, With Hidden Noise brings together evocative sounds, some recognizable from traditional instruments and field recordings, and others masked through electronic processes.

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Living as Form (The Nomadic Version)

Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) is an unprecedented international project exploring over 20 years of cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, emphasizing participation, dialogue and community engagement.

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Project 35

Project 35 is a program of single-channel videos selected by 35 international curators who have each chosen one work by an artist that they think is important for audiences around the world to experience today. The resulting compendium is released in four installments and is presented simultaneously in an ever-expanding number of venues.

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Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports

Despite all that has changed since sexual and social identity became a hot-button topic in art production and discourse throughout the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, one American stereotype still remains particularly entrenched: that of the male athlete.

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VIDEOART U.S.A.

VIDEOART U.S.A. was born out of a grand-scale erudite and historical study of international contemporary video art. In the present decade it has become increasingly clear that video art extends beyond a new technology designed to please the human eye. It is rather used as a tool to explore the most pressing issues in contemporary art.

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Supershow!

Supershow! was organized with your enjoyment in mind. Its major purpose is to present the variety and diversity of contemporary art, and to encourage involvement and participation with that art, both physically and intellectually.

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No Laughing Matter

Humor can be a powerful tool in the hands of both political reactionaries and progressives. The artists in this exhibition use humor subversively, as a means of undermining the dominant order or critiquing the status quo. It also offers a means of addressing social, political, and cultural issues without abandoning art for polemics or propaganda.

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Project 35 Volume 2

Following the widespread popularity and success of PROJECT 35, ICI is collaborating with 35 more international curators to produce PROJECT 35 VOLUME 2. This program of single-channel videos is selected by 35 international curators who each chose one work from an artist they think is important for audiences around the world to experience today.

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Push Play

Push Play explores the work of artists who borrow from play and games to reveal social, philosophical, and cultural issues. From playfulness, to mathematical strategy, the artists have mined the significance of games, reinventing them to create experiences that often involve the viewer and reflect on the nature of participation in art.

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The Storyteller

Responding to the rapid, often violent transformations of the 21st century, contemporary artists have displayed a growing desire to activate art’s documentary capacity: its ability to bear witness to events in the world.

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FAX

FAX invites a multigenerational group of artists, as well as architects, designers, scientists and filmmakers, to conceive of the fax machine as a tool for thinking and drawing.

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Beyond Preconceptions: The Sixties Experiment

The sixties was a decade of dramatic political and cultural change. Throughout the world, artists questioned the very notion of art as they searched for alternative theoretical models reflecting their own political and cultural realities.

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Publishing Against the Grain

Publishing Against the Grain highlights the current state of publishing and art criticism as it exists in small journals, experimental publications, websites, and radio, as well as other innovative platforms around the world.

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Salon de Fleurus

Salon de Fleurus investigates the narratives and nature of exhibiting through a contemporary reconstruction of Gertrude Stein’s Parisian salon that existed at 27 rue de Fleurus from 1904-34.

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Hybrid Neutral: Modes of Abstraction and the Social

Art is no longer restricted necessarily to a paradigm of formal values that constitutes or describes an 'art world' or aesthetic scheme. Instead, it posits a hybrid network of provisional relations. Hybrid Neutral examines the way in which abstraction, today, in the art matrix, reaches into the social.

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Line and Image: The Northern Sensibility in Recent European Drawing

The unifying factors in Line and Image are visual. They intimate and often embody the subject matter that might concern a northern European artist, as argued above, but they by no means bespeak a common subject matter among the artists.

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Team Spirit

Since the mid-to-late 1960s, collaboration as a mode of production and self-definition has become increasingly visible in the international art world. Most forms of art – theater, film, dance, architecture, and music – are inherently collaborative. With rare exceptions, all involve the participation of more than one individual.

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Irish Art Now: From the Poetic to the Political

From the Poetic to the Political presents a reading of Irish art of the nineties and examines the repositioning of Irish identity.

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Empty Dress

Empty Dress: Clothing as Surrogate in Recent Art focuses on the use of clothing in art as a means of investigating issues of cultural and sexual difference, in particular the construction of gender including gender stereotypes, the instability of gendered identity, and the fluidity of gender boundaries

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A Different War

The Vietnam War had a powerful impact on American culture, yet it’s influence on American art has to yet been fully explored. After a decade of avoidance, repression, and silence, Americans are finally coming to terms with a war that deeply divided our country.

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