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Art Basel’s “Favela Café” becomes a little too much like a favela than the art fair organizers had hoped

17th Jun 2013 | 1 note

The installation “Favela Café” by the artist Tadashi Kawamata, shown at Art Basel was the site of clashes on Friday night after the police cracked down an illegal party at the request of the art fair organizers.

Kawamata’s installation consisted of 18 small wooden huts on the Messeplatz that intend to reflect the living conditions among the poor in Latin America. The huts main function was as a working café, offering Art Basel visitors a place to grab a cappuccino, or flat white in-between the tiring business of art viewing and buying.

I wonder if this is shameful incident is one of the first examples of an implosion within contemporary art, where it is no longer capable of including the effects of the situation that it produces, and where the obvious levels of ironies involved cannot simply be read as part of contemporary art. 

EVIAN DISEASE
By Helen Marten

thornsinroses:

I saw Dan Graham’s piece, Rock My Religion, during my time in New York as part of MoMA Highlights since 1980.  It felt like a collage on tape, with footage and audio of live music with information about the development of different religious movements. Probably my favorite piece of the day.

Read more about it here.

Elizabeth Price going through her Final Cut Pro file for one of her works.

Gilles Deleuze on Cinema - What is the Creative Act? (1987)

Here is a rare video of the piece “Annlee” by Tino Sehgal, which made a big stir at the Frieze Art Fair, New York, last week. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151446460589033 The piece is part of a larger ongoing project instigated by artists Pierre Hughye, and Philippe Parreno,who purchased the rights to a manga figure who they named “Annlee”. They invited other artists including Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Rirkrit Tiravanija to produce animated videos using Annlee.

Here is a rare video of the piece “Annlee” by Tino Sehgal, which made a big stir at the Frieze Art Fair, New York, last week.

The piece is part of a larger ongoing project instigated by artists Pierre Hughye, and Philippe Parreno,who purchased the rights to a manga figure who they named “Annlee”. They invited other artists including Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Rirkrit Tiravanija to produce animated videos using Annlee.



Amanda Beech: Single screen 5 MIN Sanity Assassin 2010

Pamela Rosenkranz, ‘Death of Yves Klein’, 2011

Pamela Rosenkranz, ‘Death of Yves Klein’, 2011

MoMA: the voracious monster gobbling up 12-year-old buildings

12th Apr 2013



12-Year-Old-Building at MoMA Is Doomed
Robin Pogrebin
Published: April 10, 2013
New York Times

“When a new home for the American Folk Art Museum opened on West 53d Street in Manhattan in 2001 it was hailed as a harbinger of hope for the city after the Sept. 11 attacks and praised for its bold architecture.

“Its heart is in the right time as well as the right place,” Herbert Muschamp wrote in his architecture review in The New York Times, calling the museum’s sculptural bronze facade “already a Midtown icon.”

Now, a mere 12 years later, the building is going to be demolished.

In its place the adjacent Museum of Modern Art, which bought the building in 2011, will put up an expansion, which will connect to a new tower with floors for the Modern on the other side of the former museum. And the folk museum building, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, will take a dubious place in history as having had one of the shortest lives of an architecturally ambitious project in Manhattan.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/arts/design/moma-to-raze-ex-american-folk-art-museum-building.html?ref=arts&_r=1&

Bernard Stiegler on Jacques Derrida, Hauntology, and “Ghost Dance”.