Gallery April 11 June 21, 2015 Curated by Gavin Morrison …as though literature, theater, deceit, infidelity, hypocrisy, infelicity, parasitism, and the simulation of real life were not part of real life!* This exhibition is about the lives of real people, albeit people that are somewhat extraordinary: an Icelandic artist, a Swiss ski jumper, a Swedish polar explorer and a Norwegian philosopher. The work that the artists and filmmakers have made about these individuals may be biographical but they are not however conventional biographies. They tell the stories of these people from particular, and sometimes peculiar perspectives. Uncertainties often occur, at […]
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Two Rivers
“Two Rivers” explores two different marginalized socio-political and cultural spaces of globalization. Rather than polarizing the two site-specific installations shown question the conditions, which function as basis for processes of exclusion and concepts of Otherness by reflecting on coexistence in and of material and spiritual spaces and Beings. One Hundred Ten Thousand investigates the subject of graveyards in demolished, or due for demolition, suburban villages of Beijing, the complexity and dynamics of these conditions as well as the metaphorical possibilities of rituals, phenomena and beliefs related to burials and cremations in contemporary China.The birds should quiet down now, they always […]