Infatuated siblings in the hypnagogic psychological thriller of Amanda Kramer’s Paris Window screening at Zebulon, Sep 7
6 September 2017
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The Paris Window film screening is on at Los Angeles’ Zebulon on September 6.
Directed by Not Not Fun and 100% Silk co-founder Amanda Kramer, the movie is described as a “hypnagogic psychological thriller” filmed in Chinatown and set entirely in the apartment of two infatuated siblings. The press release for Paris Window draws comparisons to work by David Cronenberg, Roman Polanski and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in a story following the hazards of hypnosis informercials that eventually turn the delusional pair against each other, when Sunny starts dating a man that looks just like her brother.
Performing on the night in support of the screening is DJ Bleak House (100% Silk), and Ben Babbitt who scored the film.
An ethics of discussing objects + politics in Sophie Jung’s It’s Not What It Looks Like at Vienna’s Sophie Tappeiner, Sep 8 – Oct 14
5 September 2017
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Sophie Jung is presenting solo exhibition It’s Not What It Looks Like at Vienna’s Sophie Tappeiner, opening September 8 and running to October 14.
The press release for the show — which includes a number of a performances, the dates of which are yet to be announced — comes accompanied by a text describing the practice of the writer and performance artist as one predicated on instability and uncertainty. As Paul Clinton writes in his essay ‘All Tension No Release,’ Jung, “repeatedly shuffles her observations in the same way she arranges and rearranges the objects that she discusses and displays, and their form is always contingent and provisional.”
That goes some way in illustrating what to expect in the London-based artist’s work, that the associate editor of Frieze magazine goes on to describe as offering “an ethics of discussing objects and politics in which the speaker does not assume a position of authority ‘about’ or ‘on’ anything.”**
Over 30 artists examine the line between individual experience + political statement in (X) A Fantasy at DRAF, Sep 7 – Oct 7
4 September 2017
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The (X) A Fantasy group exhibition is on at London’s DRAF, opening September 7 and running to October 7.
The show brings together over 30 artists examining the question, “when does the individual experience become a political statement?” Keren Cytter, Paul Maheke, Tala Madani, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, and more are among the respondents exploring the boundary between the public and private, like “living, eating, dancing, seducing, reading, watching films, going online.”
The opening night will feature performances by choreographer Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, and artists Hannah Regel and Urara Tsuchiya, as well as a DJ set during the afterparty by New Noveta. Upstairs will feature Zoe Williams ‘voluptuous banquet’ in ‘Ceremony of the Void.’
The exhibition is the last in DRAF’s Camden space, as they move onto new territory and spaces around London.
Searching for a past + future that isn’t here yet in I Wanna Give You Devotion at PLATFORM Munich, Sep 6 – Oct 4
4 September 2017
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TheIWannaGiveYouDevotion group exhibition is on at PLATFORM Munich, opening September 6 and running to October 4.
Organised by Philipp Gufler, the show focuses on the collection of forum homosexualität münchen e.V., in an archive where “feelings, personal experiences, political battles and desire emerge.”
The project will bring together historical posters and flyers from people like Cosy Piéro, as well nearly 30 contemporary contributions by Sands Murray-Wassink, Richard John Jones, Raphaela Vogel, X-Patch Collective, Evelyn Taocheng Wang and Chris Kraus, among others. The exhibition is self-described as a desire for a past and future that “is-not-yet-here.” There will be a short film screening on September 20, as well as on the closing evening of October 4.
Sands Murray-Wassink, ‘Identity Shots, 1995 or Before Robin, After Hannah Wilke’ (Reprinted 2017). Install view. Courtesy the artist + Lily Robert, Paris.). Install view. Courtesy the artist + Lily Robert, Paris. View Media (13)
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Kamilla Bischof’s narrative unfolds in *kosmetische Gesänge / Cosmetic Songs* at Sandy Brown, Sep 2 – Oct 21
31 August 2017
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Kamilla Bischof is presenting *kosmetische Gesänge / Cosmetic Songs* at Berlin’s Sandy Brown, opening September 2 and running to October 21.
There is no accompanying press release or sneak preview of what is to come, however we can expect a usual dose of the Berlin-based artists’ surreal and allegorical painting installations. Often using motifs that are both representational and abstract, her works turn into interior worlds, often using plants and fantastical animals.
The figures in the paintings become characters who engage in conversation with one another, with an impaired narrative unfolding. Ambiguity, complexity, fantasy and reality merge in a rejection of any one reading of the ‘story.’
Kamilla Bischof, ‘TURM FRISUR’ (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Halle für Kunst Lüneburg
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Physical + mental ailments + the disease of the artist herself in Lauryn Youden’s ‘Kunstsommer Detox’ for Sacred Serpent Sessions, Sep 1
30 August 2017
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Lauryn Youden is presenting Kunstsommer Detox at Frankfurt’s Meridian Spa Skyline Plaza on September 1.
Hosted by online Magazine Reflektor M (edited by María Inés Plaza), the event is part of Sacred Serpent Sessions; a series of performances and other events focused on healing. Sessions have included meditation, workshops, film screenings, CBT therapy, sound healing and alchemy, among other things.
Youden is a Canadian Berlin-based artist and co-director of Ashley Berlin who was a awarded the Berlin Art Prize, along with Stine Marie Jacobsen andBenedikt Partenheimer in 2016. Her session will explore “physical and mental ailments and disease of the artist herself and all participants.”
Linking back through material immortality + resurrection in Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism at HKW, Sep 1 – Oct 3
29 August 2017
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The Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism group exhibition is on at Berlin’sHaus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), opening September 1 and running to October 3.
The show brings together both Russian avant-garde work, curated by Boris Groys and drawn from the George Costakis collection, and contemporary work, including films by Anton Vidokle and Arseny Zhilyaev‘s installation reflecting “on the philosophical, scientific and artistic concepts of Russian Cosmism.”
Exploring the concept of Russian Cosmism and its dedication to”material immortality and resurrection,” as well as travel to outer space, there will also be a two-day conference looking at the intersection of science, technology and art. The event is part of 100 Years of Now, which is a four year program “undertaking an analysis of the present time by linking back to historical utopias.”
Anton Vidokle, ‘Immortality and resurrection for All (2017) Film still. Courtesy the artist + HKW, Berlin.
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Spiritual parallels connecting Saudi Arabia + Utah in Cities of Conviction at UMOCA, Aug 25 – Jan 6
24 August 2017
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The Cities of Conviction group exhibition is on at Salt Lake City’s UtahMuseum of ContemporaryArt (UMOCA), opening August 25 and running to January 6, 2018.
Curated by Data Rhei, the exhibition looks at scales of power, “the crisis between intimate and politics,” and explores “our capacity to produce discourse in an ideologically hostile infrastructural space,” asking you to settle in the in-between; “from the punk band to Steve Jobs.”
Park Nights presents Shen Xin’s explorations of emotion + criticism in ‘half-sung, half-spoken’ at Serpentine Galleries, Aug 25
23 August 2017
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Shen Xin is presenting half-sung, half-spoken at London’s Serpentine Pavilion on August 25.
Part of the Park Nights 2017 programme, Shen will unveil a “live interpretation of her films, exploring criticism as an embodied emotional state.” The screening and performance touches on her recent major four-channel video installation ‘Provocation of the Nightingale’ (2017) currently on show in Gateshead as part of the 2017 BALTIC Artists’ Award exhibition, running June 30 to October 1.
In a recent interview with the artist, Shen spoke about her interest in emotional states and how they are informed by socio-political structures, as well as the shift in her practice towards a more sensory way of making and viewing art.
Park Nights is an “experimental, interdisciplinary live platform” that runs over the summer, with other artists including Arthur Jafa, Bouchra Ouizguen, Tamara Henderson, Black Quantum Futurism and others.
Montez Press presents an epic show of publishers + their writers for The Only Thing That’s New is Us at Mathew NYC, Aug 25
22 August 2017
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The Only Thing That’s New is Us group exhibition is on at New York’s Mathew NYC on August 25.
Hosted by recent AQNB publisher pick, Montez Press and Nettles Artists Collective, the event is part of the Montez at Mathew 2017 Summer Program, which brings 18 New York-based press houses or organisations together, each selecting an artist (or pair of them) to take part in the residency. Also associated with the Brooklyn Institute of Social Research program, the project revolves around a course taught on James Joyce’s epic Ulysses, asking each artist to respond in their own way to the literature.
Ibiza’s BLOOP is going small with its ‘CHANGES’-themed Proactive International Art Festival, Aug 23 – Sep 9
22 August 2017
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BLOOPFestival is presenting its 7theditionacross venues in Ibiza, running August 23 to September 9.
Organised by Biokip Labs, this year’s theme is ‘CHANGES’ and will reflect on the concept of the word as it relates to the rapidly changing face of societal “values, lifestyle, politics, technology, and environment.” Unlike previous years, the 2017 festival will focus on reducing its size and ‘going small,’ with space design by Designersblock.
The event, which has a longer title of BLOOP International Proactive Art Festival, will bring together installation, video mappings, parties, street art and more, featuring work by Lo Spino (Dario Spinelli), Dizzconnected, Inge Sluijs, Ellamae Statham, Montse Nadal, Helene Steiner + Thomas Meaney, Aiwu, Margaux Hendriksen and more.
At the intersection of art, sound & community: a guide to Montréal’s MUTEK Festival, Aug 22 – 27
21 August 2017
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The 18th Edition of MUTEK is on at various locations across Montreal, running August 22 to 27.
Known as Canada’s “preeminent hub of electronic music and digital creativity” — with festivals also taking place in London, Mexico City, Barcelona and Berlin — the five-day event brings together music, art and technology, dedicated to “discovery, revelation and community.”
-Panel discussion ‘Berlin Imaginaries,’ moderated by Taïca Replansky of CTM Festival with Hans Reuschl (Africaine 808), Chris Vargas (Pelada), Hermione Frank (rRoxymore) and Mike Shannon at Monument-National, Aug 26
The press release includes a narrative about coming across a sea of webs that ‘exp(anded)(loded)(lored)(osed)’:
“My nephew rubbed his hands clean on my felt vest, contently saying: ‘There we go — A skillful combination of the 20 types of amino acids with an endless potential for unprecedented versatility. Elastic, thin and tougher than steel’.”
Created in 2007 and now in its 11th edition, the event is the first art fair to take place in the South of France. Run by Jérôme Pantalacci, the curatorial premise has its own unique format that allows the galleries and artists to design their exhibition space; each booth creating ‘signature lines’ in the project.
The fair brings together an intimate number of 26 international galleries and six publishing houses, including a guest project by Sabrina Belouaar. This year’s Showroom, running to September 10, features work by François Bellabas among others.
In addition there are a nunmber of talks moderated by Cédric Aurelle on the themes of “polarisation and the emergence of new contemporary art scenes,” which include ‘The Art Market between Feminism and Decolonialism’ on August 26 and ‘South(s) as a State of Mind’ on August 27.
This show comes with little information, typical to the impressive programming of Paddington space, dedicated to “non-institutional modes of practice.” It has notably shown millennially-numbered group shows — featuring international artists Keith J Varadi, Adriana Ramić, Quintessa Matranga, Anna Solal and others — like 2021 in May and 2024 Part 2 last year.
Founded by artists Daniel Iinatti and Anna Sagström — the latter of whom recently closed out the seven-year running Minibar in Stockholm — the collaborative project is a way to explore the “(so called, or self defined) periphery and (club) music outside of the megalopolitan.” With a keen interest in material desires and failures, as well as ‘post-industrial economies,’ the Country Music label brings artists together who explore this terrain.
The event will include performances by KABLAM, HAJ300, GIL and IINATTI, as well as the release of a special version of ‘A Theory for the Strange-Girl’ by Jennifer Boyd.
Soothed by “the monotone voice of the talking head that echoes out of a speaker, wiry, just made of hollow tin,” the press release talks about a character who “upholds the established order” and sounds like an ode to driving or cruising, in which “the crane is falling, it snapped in half, but the skyline looks the same.”
Kayode Ojo, ‘Untitled (from Trigger, 2014)’ (2017) Courtesy the artist + MX Gallery, New York.
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Geographically-scattered media collective Quantum Natives present Brood Ma, Dane Law, Yearning Kru + others at ICA, Aug 20
15 August 2017
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Quantum Natives are presenting a night of live audio-visual performances at London’s ICA on August 20.
Part of #In_formationICA, the evening will feature Brood Ma, Dane Law, Terribilis, Recsund, Oxhy, and Yearning Kru. The London/URL-based label, who recently premiered Xquisite Nihil’s new compilation seize the means of production on AQNB in June, are a “geographically-scattered media collective” who explore online production and community, while also working with video game technology and software-based design.
