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All that is marvelous (and eye-opening): Laura Poitras’ Trilogy | Shifting Connections
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All that is marvelous (and eye-opening): Laura Poitras’ Trilogy. January 28, 2015. Middot; by Kathleen MacQueen. Middot; in All that is marvelous. Middot; 1 Comment. Cinema view from Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy. Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. Artists Space, December 14, 2014 – February 15, 2015. 38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10013. ES: Are you there? LP: Are you o.k? On June 5, 2013, Glenn Greenwald published in The Guardian. My Country, My Country. 2006) focuses on Dr. Riyadh ...
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Alejandro Cesarco: An artist’s promise | Shifting Connections
https://shiftingconnections.com/2015/03/06/alejandro-cesarco-an-artists-promise
Alejandro Cesarco: An artist’s promise. March 6, 2015. Middot; by Kathleen MacQueen. Middot; in Shifting Connections. ALEJANDRO CESARCO: Loyalties and Betrayals. Murray Guy, 453 West 17th Street, New York, NY. 28 February 11 April 2015. Alejandro Cesarco, Untitled (Remembered),. 2014, archival inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist and Murray Guy, New York. The story of the hero’s life is the smallest part of the author’s concern, [1]. Wrote Edmund Burke in 1760 of Tristam Shandy. 28 February 4 April 2015,...
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All that is marvelous: Hito Steyerl | Shifting Connections
https://shiftingconnections.com/2015/03/20/all-that-is-marvelous-hito-steyerls-21c-baudelairean-insight
All that is marvelous: Hito Steyerl. March 20, 2015. Middot; by Kathleen MacQueen. Middot; in All that is marvelous. 38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor. New York, NY 10013. 8 March – 24 May 2015. Artists Space Talks and Books. New York, NY 10013. Hito Steyerl, Liquidity, Inc.,. 2014, HD video with sound, 30 mins, installation view from Hito Steyerl,. Artists Space, 2015. Courtesy of the artist; Andrew Kreps, New York; and Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam. Twenty years ago, Hal Foster asked in The Return of the Real.
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Walid Raad’s witness protection program | Shifting Connections
https://shiftingconnections.com/2015/04/17/walid-raads-witness-protection-program
Walid Raad’s witness protection program. April 17, 2015. Middot; by Kathleen MacQueen. Middot; in Shifting Connections. Walid Raad, Letters to the Reader (1864, 1877, 1916, 1923),. 2014, installation view showing walls created by Suha Traboulsi, Warsaw Museum of Modern Art. Courtesy of the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg/Beirut. Who is Suha Traboulsi? Her work has been shown most recently in Here and Elsewhere,. At the Paula Cooper Gallery. Who is Suha Traboulsi? Who is Suha Traboulsi? She is th...
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All that is marvelous: Haacke’s Gift Horse | Shifting Connections
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All that is marvelous: Haacke’s Gift Horse. November 19, 2014. Middot; by Kathleen MacQueen. Middot; in All that is marvelous. 521 W 21st Street, New York, NY. October 25 – December 13, 2014. Installation view, Hans Haacke, Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 W 21st Street. One could easily believe Hans Haacke’s current exhibition at the Paula Cooper Gallery. Is about the cooptation of art for purposes of public relations and the influence of money in support of ultra-conservative agendas and it is! Hans Haacke, G...
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Summer Shorts | Shifting Connections
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May 22, 2015. Middot; by Kathleen MacQueen. Middot; in Summer Shorts. In spite of an overwhelming profusion of monumental abstraction this gallery season by the expected array of STARtists, a number of shows offer stubborn resistance to predictability. Ironically, two stalwart anti-establishment artists are showing at one of the most prestigious galleries in the market today… [Read More…]. Interviews, Reviews and Essays. KOANS OF DISLOCATED EXPERIENCE". NEWS: panel discussion 9/29! Join 32 other followers.
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All that is marvelous (and intolerable): Irving Petlin’s Inferno | Shifting Connections
https://shiftingconnections.com/2014/12/13/all-that-is-marvelous-and-hateful-irving-petlins-inferno
All that is marvelous (and intolerable): Irving Petlin’s Inferno. December 13, 2014. Middot; by Kathleen MacQueen. Middot; in All that is marvelous. The Still Open Case of Irving Petlin. Kent Fine Art, 210 Eleventh Avenue, 2nd Floor. November 8 – December 20, 2014. The World of Irving Petlin,. Installation view, 2014. Courtesy Kent Fine Art, New York, NY. A figure raises tall against a brilliant, yellow faceted landscape, his face mask-like, his staff navigating a journey. Through what? 1997), Petlin use...
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The brilliance of Snow(den) – Congratulations Laura Poitras! | Shifting Connections
https://shiftingconnections.com/2015/02/24/the-brilliance-of-snowden-congratulations-laura-poitras
The brilliance of Snow(den) – Congratulations Laura Poitras! February 24, 2015. Middot; by Kathleen MacQueen. Middot; in Shifting Connections. Middot; 1 Comment. Directed by Laura Poitras – winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary! How do we participate actively in the world if our efforts are scorned? When our work goes unacknowledged, unpublished, and unpaid? When the usual platforms for speech are denied and the ones we create are little respected? Are we condemned to the shadows? Snowden, Poi...
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In sight/In mind: Yevgeniy Fiks (Part 2) | Shifting Connections
https://shiftingconnections.com/2014/12/17/in-sightin-mind-yevgeniy-fiks-part-2
In sight/In mind: Yevgeniy Fiks (Part 2). December 17, 2014. Middot; by Kathleen MacQueen. Middot; in In sight/In mind. Yevgeniy Fiks, Has anyone ever wondered? 2014, in The Lenin Museum at The James Gallery, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Photo: Julia Sherman. November 20, 2014 January 17, 2015. The James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York. Monument to Cold War Victory,. October 7 November 7, 2014. Organized by Yevgeniy Fiks and Stamatina Gregory. A Gift to Birobidzhan,. 2014; Anatoly,.
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Shifting Connections | Shifting Connections
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June 21, 2015. Middot; by Kathleen MacQueen. Middot; in Shifting Connections. Middot; 2 Comments. Still life: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In the late 1970s, Milan Kundera in the cynical equivalent to Joseph Beuys’ mantra, We are all artists! Bemoans the advent of hack writers:. Have we forgotten how to listen to the stories of others? It begins by the creation of opportunity rather than need and it entails listening. It also involves a question of belonging. Where can I make a difference? I am b...
