Simone Weil Map
> Thomas Hirschhorn 2020 Courtesy of the artist and Dvir Gallery. The many links between notions and definitions show the dynamic, radical, and singular movements of Simone Weil’s philosophy: her absoluteness, her extremism, her anorexia, because she tried – in a touching way – to separate the body from the spirit in her work and […]
Motor Vehicle Sundown Event
> George Brecht 1960 Courtesy of George Brecht Trust. Any number of motor vehicles are arranged outdoors. There are at least as many sets of instruction cards as vehicles. All instruction sets are shuffled collectively, and 22 cards are distributed to the single performer per vehicle. At sundown (relatively dark/open are incident light 2 foot […]
The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia
> Tzu Nyen Ho 2017 – Courtesy of the artist. The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia is part of an ongoing project that generates critical insight into the pluralistic definitions of ‘Southeast Asia’. Born out of recognition of how sweeping this term is, the work is a reflection on what makes up an area not […]
Fontana Mix
> John Cage 1958 Courtesy of John Cage Trust. Fontana Mix is a composition derived from John Cage’s Concert for Piano and Orchestra. The score consists of 10 sheets of paper and 12 transparencies. The sheets of paper contain drawings of 6 different curved lines. 10 of these transparencies have randomly distributed points (the number […]
Scoring the Tweets
> Warren Neidich 2018 – 2019 Courtesy of the artist. In this improvisational performative work Warren Neidich uses a cut and paste method first devised in Surrealism and later used in the works of William Burroughs, to alter and rearrange the one hundred and ninety-six tweets of Donald Trump that mention fake news to create […]
Goatman
> Thomas Thwaites 2016 Courtesy of the artist. In this work, Thomas Thwaites tried to become a goat to escape the angst inherent in being a human. The project became an exploration of how close modern technology can take us to fulfilling an ancient human dream: to take on characteristics from other animals. But instead […]
I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts
> Harun Farocki 2000 Courtesy of Harun Farocki GbR and Antje Ehmann. These images are from the maximum-security prison in Corcoran, California. The surveillance camera shows a pie-shaped segment: a concrete-paved yard where the prisoners, dressed in shorts and mostly shirtless, are allowed to spend half an hour a day. A convict attacks another, upon […]
My Father’s FBI File Project 4
> Sadie Barnette 2017 Courtesy of the artist and Charlie James Gallery. Sadie Barnette’s My Father’s FBI File, Project 4, comprises political and personal documents concerning the surveillance and life of Rodney Barnette, founder of the Compton, California chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, known as Section 9-A. The artist obtained over five […]
Capture
> Paolo Cirio 2020 Courtesy of the artist. Capture is composed of French police officers’ faces. Paolo Cirio collected a thousand public images of police taken during the protests in France and processed them with the Facial Recognition software. Cirio then created an online platform with a database of the resulting four thousand police officers’ […]
Prepared Desktop: Plugin Beachball Success
> Jon Satrom 2012 Courtesy of the artist. Plugin Beachball Success forms part of Jon Satrom’s ‘prepared desktop’ series of real-time performances, which refer to John Cage’s ‘prepared piano’ pieces where Cage inserted screws, nuts, bolts, and objects between the strings of a piano to create nonpiano sounds. Plugin Beachball Success is an ‘interrupt’ developed […]