November 2011
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Migrant Manifesto
We have been called many names. Illegals. Aliens. Guest workers. Border crossers. Undesirables. Exiles. Criminals. Non-citizens. Terrorists. Thieves. Foreigners. Invaders. Undocumented.
On these principles our voices converge: 1. We know that international connectivity is the reality that migrants have helped create, it is the place where we all reside. We understand that the quality of life of a...
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“At the Queens Museum of Art last year, Tania Bruguera installed a piece that looked just like Duchamp’s Fountain—same model of urinal, same “R. Mutt” signature. The crucial difference: this one was in a men’s room, and it worked.
“You can see it, and you can pee in it,” she told a crowd assembled in a storefront in Corona, Queens, the neighborhood where she’s based this year. It’s the...
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Untitled (Havana, 2000) By Tania Bruguera
You are standing in the inky black, a black that rises at the entrance, threatening to engulf you. This could be a place to die.
You don’t know this place. it is a fortress. The ground is all cobblestones, rounded by time and water even before they arrived in Havana as weights in the belly of empty ships coming from far away, soon to be bursting with sugar and other treasures taken...
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Interview with Tania Bruguera for Magazin Sztuki...
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Joanna Zielińska: Where is your home?
Tania Bruguera: Being an immigrant means that the concept of home doesn’t exist. That doesn’t mean that you are a gregarious type, or that you have no capacity for affection for your current location, and it has nothing to do with valuing your new circumstances. You can be an immigrant who has encountered a better situation at your present...
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Tania Bruguera
invizualz:
Tania Bruguera (born 1968, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban installation and performance artist, trained at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[1][2] Bruguera’s work pivots around issues of power and control.
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Tania Bruguera interview
“An important thing in my work is to delay the moment of awareness of what is being experienced as art. It is precisely the moment when the doubt whether something is artistic or not is there that I believe the experience is more fruitful. This does not mean that I am not interested in a reading from the point of view of the history of art of what I am presenting; on the contrary, many...
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Curators or Artists?
Jens Hoffmann in The Exhibitionist #2
“What is really at the core of this criticism, this fear that the curator is superseding the artist? Interestingly, this critique is voiced less by artists than by curators, mostly those who claim to be merely the enablers of artists’ visions and understand themselves as administrators, producers, or intermediaries. This position refuses the very...
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Understanding Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts on FORA.tv
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Calvin Blog Carl: The Best Museum Imaginable Would... →
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Written by Larry Rinder
All-ages interactive art appreciation classes
A piano
A gallery lit only by natural light
A gallery lit by a candle
All the paintings of Vermeer
Floors with radiant heat (no shoes allowed)
No digital education kiosks
The Dieter Roth archives
Anything Justin Bond…
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xoxo the mag: Jens Hoffmann’s Istanbul Biennial... →
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Bienal için artık oturduk gün sayıyoruz. İstanbul’u modern sanat ve ona bağlı diğer tüm disiplinlerin beşiği haline getirecek olan Bienal öncesinde ilginç bir okuma listesi ulaştı elimize. Adriano Pedrosa ile birlikte bu senenin küratörlüğünü üstlenen Brezilyalı bağımsız küratör, editör ve…
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WatchNamed after the album by the psychedelic rock band Red Krayola and the conceptual artist collective Art & Language, Corrected Slogans commissioned a new collaboration between a language based artwork by Claire Fontaine and the musical ensemble of Jim Fairchild (Grandaddy, Modest Mouse) and artist Natasha Wheat. The collaboration resulted in the production of a this song that was performed...
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