March 2012
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Jeanne Gerrity writes on Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) for Art Practical;
“Kadist’s Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) is a distilled version of the original show and was adapted by necessity to fit the significantly more compact venue.
… [With] three components: a static window display with a weekly rotation of content, a video screening that changes every fortnight,...
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WatchJoachim Koester interviewed in Paris
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WatchNato Thompson’s talk entitled “Socially Engaged Art Outside the Bounds of an Artistic Discipline” from the programming in conjunction with the Living as Form exhibition.
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Interview with Ai Weiwei
As part of Kadist’s presentation of Living as Form, we’re screening Ai Weiwei’s “Fairytale: 1001 Chinese Visitors”. Here’s an interview from ARTZINE discussing the piece:
“Each participant is a single person, and that’s why our logo is 1=1000 — that means that in this project 1001 is not represented by one project, but by 1001 projects, as each...
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Nato Thompson in conversation with Larry Bogad
Nato Thompson is chief curator at Creative Time, and organizer of the Living as Form exhibition. On March 31st, he’ll speak with author and activist Larry Bogad, director of the west coast branch of the Center for Artistic Activism.
The talk will be at 3289 20th Street, San Francisco, CA from 5 to 8 PM.
Read Nato Thompson’s curatorial statement about the show here.
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Route 3 Review
“Each exhibition calls the notion of art collecting into question, reorganizing its thematic structure to redefine boundaries. Route 3 is designed to curate itself through a collaborative tag-team approach designating artists and other appointed colleagues as joint curators of the collection. Beginning with Anthony Discenza, each artist chose another artist to contribute a piece to the...
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WatchMapa-Mundi BR (postal), 2007.
This video is from our installation last Wednesday, March 14th, at Kadist SF.
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At the Reading Shop: White Fungus #12
An art magazine based in Taichung City, Taiwan, White Fungus features interviews, writing on art, new music, history and politics, plus original artworks, poetry, fiction and comics.“WF, from their unique vantage, come across one minute as hardcore situationist anarchists yet offset with the economic nerdiness and steadfast verve of a William F....
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Watch“First Love,” 2005 (and ongoing) at Kadist San Francisco.
Courtesy Inhotim Collection, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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WatchRudolf Frieling on Dora Garcia
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Michelle Grabner on Ben Kinmont
“In Moveable Type No Documenta, the inadequacy of the exhibition itself was exposed, apparent obviously to everyone but the institutional players … Unlike a current trend in contemporary art that is trying to recoup meaning and intelligence via the look of warmed over 70s conceptualism, Kinmont is playing for keeps.”
Michelle Grabner writes about Ben Kinmont’s project...
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from Kristen Chappa's "The Brazilian Way Station",...
The video showing at Kadist SF tonight was originally shown as part of the 29th São Paulo Biennial. In this Art in America essay on the show, Kristen Chappa discusses Dora García’s video:
“The Spanish artist addresses revolutionary reforms in psychiatry that grew out of the political foment of the late 1960s, and alternative treatment programs practiced today. The piece is structured...
Mad Marginal: Dora Garcia
“Whatever meaning we give to outsider art — art made by psychotics; art made by non-professional, untrained artists; art made by the socially marginalized; art that is not art because it was never conceived as art; art made spontaneously, that is, without knowledge of what art is supposed to be; art that is defined as art by other people (insiders) instead of its maker (an outsider) — whatever...
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