Smooth the Pillow for the Dying Race
> Cat Hope 2015 Courtesy of the artist. To quell the violence on the frontiers of early Australia, to reduce devastation by disease and to provide Aborigines with a ‘humane’ environment while their race died out, colonial governments introduced systems of ‘protective’ legislation. The first was in 1860 in South Australia, where a Chief Protector […]
Pithoprakta
> Iannis Xenakis 1955 Courtesy of Iannis Xenakis Org. Pithoprakta is stochastic work. Stochastic processes have a random probability distribution that cannot be predicted. Examples include bacterial growth patterns, electrical current fluctuation, and the movement of particles within a fluid. Pithoprakta was composed for 49 musicians – 2 trombones, xylophone/woodblock, and 46 strings. Each instrument […]
Volume and Void
> Bjarni Gunnarsson 2020 Courtesy of the artist. The four compositions that form part of Volume and Void – Heap, Wreck, Blur, and Stash – were composed with experimental scheduling algorithms. The algorithms were used to explore the duality – juxtaposition and interpenetration – of immediate, direct events, and gradual processes that evolve over time. […]
Kinematope [paisaje técnico]
> Pablo Valbuena 2016 Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, ES. Courtesy of the artist. Kinematope [paisaje técnico] takes as its starting point the false ceiling of the exhibition space where conduits, pipes, cables, and machinery circulate. The work delineates the 300 meters of wiring that distributes the electricity across the room and is vital for its use […]
Myrkviðr
> Yasuhiro Chida 2020 Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Frank Vinken, Centre for International Light Art Unna. Space is a most curious thing. Light is one of the purest materials. It is what makes it possible to perceive space that we cannot otherwise see or touch. It is the only material that doesn’t come with […]
Reality is not Always Probable
> Troika 2018 21,651 mm white dice. Courtesy of the artists. Reality is not Always Probable is constructed from tens of thousands of white dice and is generated, line by line, by manually emulating the rules of a simple computer binary programme. Its title references a quote by Jorge Luis Borges, and human anxiety about […]
Land Archive
<< Go Back Go Forward >> Critical Zoologists 2015 Singapore Wild Dogs. Courtesy of the artists. Land Archive Singapore 1925 – 2025 chronicles the significant changes in Singapore’s natural and urban landscape that have occurred over a 100-year period. The 15 images have been carefully selected by researchers from The Land Archive to capture the […]
After ALife Ahead
> Pierre Huyghe 2009 Skulptur Projekte Münster, 10 June – 1 October 2017, exhibition views. Courtesy of the artist. Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; Esther Schipper, Berlin; Hauser & Wirth, London; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photo: Ola Rindal © Pierre Huyghe. Pierre Huyghe’s site-specific project for the 2017 Skulptur Projekte consists of a live ecosystem […]
Amphibious Architecture
> Natalie Jeremijenko & Chris Woebken 2009 A collaboration between xClinic (NYU) and The Living (GSAPP). David Benjamin, Amelia Black, Natalie Jeremijenko, Abha Katarina, Jonathan Laventhol, Deborah Richards, Zenon Tech-Czarny, Kevin Wei, Chris Woebken, Soo-In Yang. Curated by Mark Sheppard. Courtesy of the artists. Though New York is surrounded by rivers, residents have little to […]
Becoming
> Yishay Garbasz 2008 – 2010 Photos, steel, makrolon, motor, light, wood, foil, cloth, 300cm width. 230cm high (Zoetrope).Courtesy of the artist. Yishay Garbasz was born a woman. She is now a woman. She will die a woman. On November 18, 2008, she had gender clarification surgery. For one year before and one year after, […]