Becoming an Image
> Cassils 2012 Video (ONE National Archives, Transactivations, Los Angeles), 2012. Photo: Cassils with Eric Charles. Edit: Terri Zitnick. Sound: Cassils with France Jobin.Courtesy of the artist. In the live performance Becoming an Image, Cassils unleashes an attack on a 2000 pound clay block in total darkness. The spectacle is illuminated solely by the flash […]
Autonets
> Micha Cárdenas 2013 Autonets: We Already Know and We Don’t Yet Know. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics VIII Encuentro, São Paulo, Brazil, January 2013, with Micha Cárdenas, Alessandra Renzi, Frantz Jerome, Benjamin Lundberg, Lily Mengesha, Aisha Jordan, Joana Fittipaldi and Tomaz Capobanco. Photos by Macarena Gomez-Barris. Courtesy of the artist. Local Autonomy Networks […]
Hybrid Spirit
> Adejoke Tugbiyele 2020 Courtesy of the artist and Melrose Gallery.L. Series 1, Warrior Spirit/ Gathering Energy, 2020. Photo by Clint Strydom.R. Series 2, The Self/Spear, 2020. Photo by Clint Strydom. These works were produced in South Africa. ‘Ase’ is energy or lifeforce within Yoruba cosmology. ‘Ase’ exists in all living and nonliving things, human […]
Controller of the Universe
> Damián Ortega 2007 Courtesy of the artist and Cooper Hewitt Collection, Smithsonian Design Museum. Controller of the Universe is a frozen explosion of hand tools hovering in an almost dreamlike state. These saws, planes, and axes suggest alternative ways to look at tools, in the hope that the experience will transform the visitor’s own […]
En el aire (In the Air)
> Teresa Margolles 2003 Site specific installation at the MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST 2004.© MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST. Photo: Axel Schneider.Courtesy of the artist and MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST. In In the Air a machine blows soap bubbles into an empty room. The water in the soap bubbles comes from a morgue; […]
The Sum of All Evil
> Jake and Dinos Chapman 2012 – 2013 Courtesy of the artists. The Sum of All Evil is the fourth in Jake and Dinos Chapman’s series of Hell landscapes. The first was Hell (1999). In The Sum of All Evil, the diorama installations are detailed and large in scale, depicting an apocalyptic scene in which […]
Mary
> Kent Monkman 2011 03:18 minutes, colour, English. An Urban Nation Production.Courtesy of Kent Monkman. Hair holds power. Shot in slo-mo like a glossy shampoo commercial, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, Kent Monkman’s alter ego, stars in her first foot fetish video. Once again oozing sex and irreverence, Miss Chief revisits the Prince of Wales’ visit […]
RefuGreenErgy
> The Yes Men 2017 Courtesy of the artists. RefuGreenErgy, a green energy start-up utilising the power of refugees to fight climate change, successfully launched its public campaign in partnership with the city of Brussels on 30 September 2017. Outside of la Bourse, Brussels’s former stock exchange, the launch was met with the overwhelming support […]
Tracing Transience
> Hasan Elahi 2002 – present Courtesy of the artist. An erroneous tip call to law enforcement authorities after 9/11 subjected Hasan Elahi to an intensive investigation by the FBI and after undergoing months of interrogations, he was finally cleared of suspicions. After this harrowing experience, Elahi conceived Tracking Transience and opened just about every […]
The Library of Missing Data Sets
> Mimi Ọnụọha 2016 Courtesy of the artist. The Library of Missing Datasets is a physical repository of those things that have been excluded in a society where so much is collected. ‘Missing data sets’ are the blank spots that exist in spaces that are otherwise data-saturated. Wherever large amounts of data are collected, there […]