Beware of Cutting Down Trees: Contemporary Politics and Aesthetics between Ideal Matriarchal Democracy and Real Patriarchal Dictatorships is the title of the lecture I will be presenting for the Master Lecture Series at the Centre for Fine Art Research (CFAR), Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. The Director of CFAR, Professor Johnny Golding, will chair the event. The lecture will analyze the mythological role of
It Looks Like Art is the new exhibition of OCR's Media Exhibition Platform (MEP) that coincides with the Sound Art Curating Conference at Goldsmiths and the Courtauld. The exhibition is an international collaboration that sees the partnerships of MEP, NYU Steinhardt, Goldsmiths, Kasa Gallery and other international institutions. The exhibition is a counterpoint to the show at Kasa Gallery titled It Sounds Like Art. The
Money Is Time by Olga Kisseleva is the new exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Cuts (MoCC). The exhibition is a collaboration with Kasa Gallery where another exhibition titled Money Is Time will take place simultaneously. Kisseleva's works of art have engaged, over the course of her artistic career, with the concept of time and its value, but also with the value of money in
Time is Money and Money Is Time are the two new exhibitions by Olga Kisseleva for Kasa Gallery and for the Museum of Contemporary Cuts. The exhibitions are conceived as two complementary and intertwined shows that happen simultaneously in physical and online spaces, creating a constant dialogue and reflection on the concept of money and time. Time is Money, the exhibition at Kasa Gallery, will
This is the title of a talk at Art-Athina on Sunday, May 18, 2014, from 15:30 to 16:00. The talk is chaired by Artemis Potamianou, Director of Platform Project @ Art-Athina, and will focus on the aesthetic representation of anger as an 'uncouth,' disruptive and rebellious act that infringes and impinges upon the codified rules of good behavior and civilized life. The talk will question
In Your Face is a new exhibition to be installed at Art-Athina as part of a project in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Cuts upon invitation by Artemis Potamianou, Director of Platform Project @ Art-Athina. In Your Face is made of a series of visuals and sound works - screams - that play once every hour. The screams will be bought from people who
Car Park is a new artwork by Lanfranco Aceti curated by Helen Sloan as part of the exhibition Internet of Cars at the Hansard Gallery. The artwork is inspired by notions of hard labor and economic exploitation which will provide the conceptual underpinning for a public performance in Southampton from June 7 to June 11, 2014. Can people be reduced in an extreme process of
The new exhibition by Kasa Gallery, It Sounds Like Art, is a collection of sound artworks that explore a variety of environmental, social, aesthetic and conceptual approaches to art. The artworks by John Drever, the duo Jane Grant and John Matthias, Music for Installations (MFI) and Nigel Helyer will provide an insight into sound art practices. The exhibition at Kasa Gallery in Istanbul precedes the
Histories, Theories and Practices of Sound Art May 15 – 16 – 17, 2014 Venues: Goldsmiths, University of London, May 15 and 16, 2014; The Courtauld Institute of Art May 17, 2014. Conference website at: https://ocradst.org/soundartcurating/ Traditionally, the curator has been affiliated to the modern museum as the persona who manages an archive, and arranges and communicates knowledge to an audience, according to fields of
This catalog is a project I have worked on with Omar Kholeif and with the support of FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology). It follows the first major retrospective on Nam June Paik in the UK with an exhibition and conference organized by Tate Liverpool and FACT. The exhibition Nam June Paik, December 17, 2010 to March 13, 2011, was curated by Sook-Kyung Lee
