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Documenta Fifteen and Berlin Biennale 12: A comparative review

December 9, 2022/in Reviews, Autumn 2022_#Materiality, Exhibition Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

The thematic contents of the Berlin Biennale 12 and documenta 15, which both took place in Summer 2022, are certainly close, ‘focusing on themes of colonialism and decolonization … art as an opportunity to repair’[1] even though ‘documenta fifteen is practice and not theme based’,[2] its themes also follow decolonisation and demonstrating the continued presence […]

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How to Win at Photography: Image-Making and Play

December 8, 2022/in Exhibition Reviews, Autumn 2022_#Materiality, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

How does one win at photography? The Photographers’ Gallery in Soho, London is a very good place to ask this question, since it hosts one of the world’s most prestigious photography competitions: the Deutsche Börse Prize, whose past winners include Andreas Gursky, Rineke Dijsktra, Anna Gaskell, Juergen Teller, and Luc Delahaye. But it is precisely […]

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The Milk Of Dreams, or The Lukewarm Cup That Puts Commons to Sleep

December 8, 2022/in Autumn 2022_#Materiality, Exhibition Reviews, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

In reviewing The Milk of Dreams, an enthusiastic Laura Raicovich summarises: The exhibition features mostly women and non-binary artists and engages deeply with notions of transformation and identity beyond the anthropocentric. Plants, animals, and machines are integral; the hybridity of these forms emphasizes inter-connectedness, solidarity networks, and alternate forms of knowledge production.[1] These few lines […]

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RIDM 2021: Act local, think global

June 7, 2022/1 Comment/in Exhibition Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2022_#Rumors /by Greg DeCuir

In 2021, the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) opted for a hybrid format for its 24th edition (10-21 November 2021), but the real novelty was the appointment of a new director and a new programming team. I investigate the selection of this new team through the lens of the territory where the festival […]

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Enfin le Cinéma! Arts, images et spectacles en France 1833-1907

June 7, 2022/1 Comment/in Exhibition Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2022_#Rumors /by Greg DeCuir

With multidisciplinary collections dating from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th, the Musée d’Orsay has regularly been integrating cinema into its permanent exhibition. Films, as works of art, are increasingly shown in its exhibitions, and film programming is a regular feature of the museum’s activities. The last major exhibition […]

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Monument Palimpsest: Excavating the visions of the empire

June 7, 2022/1 Comment/in Exhibition Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2022_#Rumors /by Greg DeCuir

A theme that characterises the artistic and public discussion animating Portugal’s current cultural life centres around the questioning of colonial legacies and the possibilities of a decolonial present, as a variety of presentations, exhibitions, documentaries, and publications across the academic and cultural field demonstrate.[1] Different university projects such as ‘MEMOIRS – Children of Empire and […]

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Post-cinematic spectatorship in virtual reality: Negotiating 3DoF and 6DoF in ‘Queerskins: Ark’

May 31, 2021/in Exhibition Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2021_#Solidarity /by Greg DeCuir

Queerkins: Ark is the second chapter of a four-chapter cinematic virtual reality experience Queerskins (2018-ongoing). The piece, made by Illya Szilak and Cyril Tsiboulski in collaboration with the choreographer Brandon Powers, premiered at the Venice VR Expanded exhibition of the Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica La Biennale di Venezia that took place digitally – in virtual […]

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Surveillance, bias, and healing through re-articulation: An interview with Paula Albuquerque on her recent solo exhibition in Amsterdam

May 16, 2021/in Exhibition Reviews, Interviews, Spring 2021_#Solidarity /by Greg DeCuir

In Autumn 2020, the artist and media researcher Paula Albuquerque presented a major exhibition of her work at Nieuw Dakota in Amsterdam, titled Enter the Ghost: Haunted Media Ecologies. Concerned with topics of surveillance, colonial trauma, and media hauntology, the artworks in the show provide a poetic engagement with the violence of contemporary technologies. The […]

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Turtles all the way down: The Daata Art Fair

May 16, 2021/in Exhibition Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2021_#Solidarity /by Greg DeCuir

I am watching a man eating a tortoise. Shirtless, sitting at a table against a plain wall, he is eating it with his hands, and staring right back at me. This is Zina Saro-Wiwa’s video artwork Table Manners: Bush Tales #1, part of her exploration of indigenous cosmologies, particularly in her native Nigeria. Her practice […]

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The Supermarket of Images: A conversation with curators Peter Szendy, Emmanuel Alloa, and Marta Ponsa

December 13, 2020/in Autumn 2020_#Method, Exhibition Reviews, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

by Claire Salles The exhibition Le Supermarché des images (The Supermarket of Images, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 11 February – 16 March 2020) explores the economy of images without reducing it to the funding systems of the production of images. Marta Gili, the former director of Jeu de Paume read Peter Szendy’s essay Le Supermarché […]

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Glitch: Art & Technology: Processing media matter

November 30, 2020/in Autumn 2020_#Method, Exhibition Reviews, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

The political upheavals, topological disruptions, and perpetual fragmentations of present and future lives in the Middle East and North Africa have resurfaced in a novel aesthetic of crisis in the art worlds and digital infrastructures of the region. Glitch: Art & Technology (https://www.facebook.com/events/auc-tahrir-cultural-center/glitch/170253620939407/) is a timely exhibition curated by Los Angeles-based scholar and art curator […]

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Mediating climate visualities: Notes on Meteorological Mobilities

November 15, 2020/in Autumn 2020_#Method, Exhibition Reviews, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

In The Ecological Thought, Timothy Morton remarks that  ecology isn’t just about global warming, recycling and solar power – and also not just to do with everyday relationships between humans and non-humans. It has to do with love, loss, despair, and compassion. (…) It has to do with capitalism and with what might exist after […]

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Making the Xapiri dance: Photography and shamanism in the exhibition Claudia Andujar, The Yanomami Struggle

June 14, 2020/in Exhibition Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2020_#Intelligence /by Greg DeCuir

The xapiri are the images of the yarori ancestors who turned into animals in the beginning of time. This is their real name. You call them ‘spirits’, [sic] but they are other. They came into existence when the forest was still young. The shaman elders have always made them dance and we continue to do […]

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Cinema and a ‘time-varying universe’: An interview with curator Antonio Somaini

June 14, 2020/in Exhibition Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2020_#Intelligence /by Greg DeCuir

On 12 January 2020 the exhibition Time Machine: Cinematic Temporalities opened in the Palazzo del Governatore in Parma. Commissioned by the city’s Department of Culture led by the film studies scholar Michele Guerra and conceived as part of the cultural program for Parma 2020 Italian Capital of Culture, this exhibition offers a transmedial and media-archaeological […]

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Both inside the circle and out: Béla Tarr’s ‘Missing People’ at the Vienna Festival

December 21, 2019/in Autumn 2019_#Gesture, Exhibition Reviews, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

One must imagine Béla Tarr busy. Even though he has repeatedly insisted on the fact that he considers himself retired – at least as a director of feature films[1] – he has not stopped working since the release of The Turin Horse (2011). Currently, he is preparing a book project;[2] between 2013 and 2017 he […]

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