…ooden house, laundry hung out outside, in an empty green landscape under a deep blue sky. It’s projected on a fine curtain hung in front of it, puckering and slightly moving, as though breathed on, which makes it look like a dream or a faint memory. The house swells and swells than, until it fills up the whole image. The rushing sound in the background that first reminds of wind now makes one think the house is somehow inflated, and might eventual…
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…n the Netherlands, a wedding party in Marocco, workers in Dubai and Shaolin, monks in China. What seems to be cheerful on the first look unfolds the shadows and dark sides of human existence soon. They are deeply influenced by the rapidly deepening social gaps in a globalized world and by a lack of communication betweens the suffering individuals. PG Art Gallery Istanbul (02.11.-02.12.12)…
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…a short video he explains his motivation behind that initiative and delves deeper into that in an interview to the Rolling Stone Magazin: “Why should Israelis be the only ones to decide who gets to enter Palestine? I wanted to welcome people, as a Palestinian, to Palestine”. In his part of Here and Elsewhere, he picks up this very serious matter of Israel´s voyage policy in the 70-minutes-long film Infiltrators (2012). Infiltrators “the tr…
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…peal and elitist obscurantism. Paradoxically, Musson and his art belong to precisely the kind of high-society art world that Bushmiller made fun of. Underlying the cheerful, visually attractive surfaces of this show’s works is a deeper ambivalence, a divided, insider-outsider state of mind that is expressed much more pointedly in Musson’s videos. Jayson Musson’s exhibition was on display at SALON 94, Bowery, New York City First published in New Yo…
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…-Bowery for example continues to host theater, dance, and music decades after Patti Smith launched her rock career there in 1971. Each place is forensically photographed as it is now, without any people in frame. The authors don’t delve very deeply into the present, or consider that the arts today might revolve more around collectives and experiences rather than spaces. [widgetkit id=19793] Unforgotten New York: Legendary Spaces of the Twentie…
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…pite our small size) there is not much collaboration, unfortunately. Around 18/19 years ago, I coordinated a group of contemporary artists. There were around 10 of us, but it lasted perhaps three years, not more. It was difficult to survive for longer. So it’s not easy to collaborate, but I don’t feel guilty about not having offered a hand. What can you tell us about your latest work, News from Nowhere? It’s called News from Nowhere because it was…
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…latest video work that was shot in 2015. We see a group of refugees waist deep down in dark waters in the video. That group of young men seem like they are singing a quiet anthem as the waves lap up against the shore. They all have a proud expression on their faces as they realize the last duty for their gone friends with whom they shared a common fate. ‘’Just Before Paradise’’ draws attention to forced migration and refugee crisis and also depic…
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…eply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, 1880-91 . Zaporozhtsky means “over the threshold,” and is a region where these nomads live. They are called Zaporozhtsky Cossacks. The image in the collage has been reappropriated by myself. Originally, it was appropriated from Ilya Repin’s painting entitled Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, 1880- 91. The tobacco company took the…
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…pite our small size) there is not much collaboration, unfortunately. Around 18/19 years ago, I coordinated a group of contemporary artists. There were around 10 of us, but it lasted perhaps three years, not more. It was difficult to survive for longer. So it’s not easy to collaborate, but I don’t feel guilty about not having offered a hand. What can you tell us about your latest work, News from Nowhere? It’s called News from Nowhere because it was…
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