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Big Data and the Dark Art of Dispossession AC-15 05. December 2013
Big Data and the Dark Art of Dispossession This summer, years of anger against police brutality, gentrification, and evictions – all in the name of urban regeneration – reached boiling point in a series of Twitter-aided…
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The Work of Art in the Age of its Notarised Reproducibility
Collecting art relies on tangibility, the ability to hold, exhibit, and possess a cultural artefact. Performance and immaterial art is an exception to that rule. Usually documented in the form of visual mementos, a paradigm shift in the way museums and collectors conserve and trade intangible art works raises questions of authorship, ownership, and collecting.…
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Exercises in Style – AC-14 04. September 2013
Emerging from the flamboyant world of Pop Art and the cinema-infused street politics of the May 1968 students’ demonstrations, the Punk phenomenon in London and New York initiated the slow evolution from street fashion and performance art to the MTV generation. In this spirit the V&A Museum in London’s summer fashion exhibition Club to Catwalk:…
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Falling Out of Ruin AC-13 05. June 2013
An institutional collaboration between London and Lima blurs the boundaries between archaeology and fiction, presenting a range of contemporary artefacts and obsolete technologies as contemporary urban ruins. In Amalia Pica’s 2008 video piece On Education the artist, straddling a cherry picker crane, stands face to face with a horse that seats an unidentified national figure.…
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A Guide to the Cost of Everything and the Value of Nothing – Art Collector Mag AC-13 05. June 2013
Public and outdoor art features prominently at this year’s ArtBasel. But after the controversy surrounding the hijacking of street art for auction, can artwork like Banksy’s make the leap from the street to the gallery? For this Summer’s ArtBasel the rumour mill started churning early – December 2012, to be precise. The controversy over the…
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The Istanbul demonstrations aren’t about toppling the government, it’s about the revolution of everyday life.
The revolutionary promenaders of Taksim Square, Gezi Park and İstiklâl Caddesi are not engaged in a battle for control, they are instead mapping a symbolic territory where social life and street politics intersect. The proximity of civil unrest, and the fluctuating core of danger that greeted citizens either out for a stroll or in support…
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It was definitely murder, but was it art? – Art Collector Mag – March 2013
Musical icon and popular art iconoclast David Bowie’s surprise return coincides with the first major retrospective of his life and works in an exhibition in London’s V&A Museum. Bowie’s forays into the world of contemporary art have been as frequent and varied as his character incarnations, yet the design-focused institution hopes to dismiss claims of…