“Re-performance is a pertinent subject that warrants further discussion; artists, institutions, curators and media are..debating about how to address this issue, especially how to re-create work without wounding the essence of the masterpiece.”
Journals
Notes from the Edges of Beijing
“It is my ambition to provide multiple viewpoints and artistic, curatorial and art historical perspectives that are relevant locally, but not yet widely visible or understood outside of China.”
Project 35: Interview Series
This online interview series was developed by five M.A. candidates at NYU during ICI’s Spring 2011 Curatorial Practice course, providing increased engagement with the art and ideas behind Project 35 through interviews with the artists and curators involved in the project.
Contemporary Art in Times of Social Crisis
Syrago Tsiara writes about the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, and its attempt to record the state of art in “times of uncertainty” by focusing on artists from prominent geopolitical centers and their colleagues from distant and less accessible areas.
The Doubting City: Artists and their search for forgotten places in Berlin
The following is a short summary of the most important paradigm Christine Nippe discovered in art related to the urban space Berlin: fascination with forgotten places and empty public space.
Notes towards a Lexicon of Urgencies
In this DISPATCH, Nancy Adajania and Ranjit Hoskote will attempt to address the dilemmas as well as the potentialities of a mode of cultural production that is based on global circulations yet is not merely circulatory; and a mode of life that is based on transnational mobility but is not without anchorage in regional predicaments.
Specters of San Francisco Magazines
For this DISPATCH, Joseph del Pesco will think through a selection of San Francisco historical magazines as a way to address the present—starting in 1962 up to the most recent instances.
Artists as Engineers in Vietnam
Can artists be successful in creating systems for contemporary art production and interpretation?
Experimental pedagogy and art practice in Mexico
This DISPATCH addresses the case of a growing scene at the intersection of education, pedagogy and art in Mexico.