Berlin-based artist Rheim Alkadhi says she will pull her work out of London’s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) if the center does not take accountability for allegedly retaliating against workers who have expressed solidarity with Palestinians. “I cannot accept for my work to be instrumentalized in the service of structural repression, weapons manufacture, apartheid or genocide,” Alkadhi wrote in an …
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In ‘Dance, Dance Evolution,’ Grooving Is the Millennia-Old Key to Health and Community — Colossal
Animation Film Science Social Issues #dance #short film #video July 19, 2024 Grace Ebert More effective than medication, therapy, and yoga, dancing recently topped the list of successful treatments for depression, and for good reason. Since time immemorial, boogying has permeated every culture and formed the basis of social bonds, a linchpin of community and strong mental health. A …
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Joanna Piotrowska, “A Most Gentle Touch” (2019), gelatin silver print, 11 4/5 x 9 2/5 inches (© Joanna Piotrowska; courtesy the Princeton University Art Museum) PRINCETON, New Jersey — In Carolee Schneemann’s 1964 film “Meat Joy,” male and female bodies spontaneously writhe against each other on a beach in communal ecstasy as raw fish and chickens flop on their bare skin. …
Read More »Frank Deschandol’s Photos Uncover the Some of the World’s Most Elusive Insects and Arthropods — Colossal
Nature Photography #Frank Deschandol #insects #wildlife July 19, 2024 Jackie Andres All images © Frank Deschandol, shared with permission French photographer Frank Deschandol has held a lens up to wildlife for the last three decades. Journeying to opposite corners of the world in search of remarkable species, Deschandol’s main goal is to highlight the existence of rare and little-known …
Read More »“Familiar” at Gauli Zitter, Brussels
This is an exhibition of artworks related to ideas of family and familiarity, people and things belonging together. One can speak about family relationships, sometimes involving children, sometimes friends, parents, lovers, and chosen siblings. One can speak about familiar things—those we know—and things in the same family—those that share traits. It can be about becoming familiar and becoming family, learning …
Read More »You Can’t Finish This Brian Eno Doc in a Single Lifetime
Brian Eno has long resisted being the subject of a documentary. Filmmaker Rob Nilsson recently told the New York Times that the shooting of 1993’s Words for the Dying was a “great cat and mouse game” due to the experimental musician’s antipathy toward being captured. It was only because director Gary Hustwit’s pitch appealed to Eno’s longstanding interest in generative …
Read More »Share the Sky with Someone Far Away with These Cyanometer and Sunset Postcards — Colossal
Art Design Nature #Macarena Ruiz-Tagle #postcards #sky #weather July 20, 2024 Grace Ebert All photos by Franziska Strauss, © Macarena Ruiz-Tagle, shared with permission While exploring the Alpine region around Mont Blanc in 1789, the Swiss physicist and mountain climber Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799) conceived of a tool to measure the blueness of the sky. He developed a round instrument …
Read More »“Invasion Ecology” by Radical Ecology at Southcombe Barn, Widecombe-in-the-Moor
“Invasion Ecology” is a season of contemporary land art on Dartmoor that questions what we mean by “native” and what it means to belong—reimagining more empathic connections between humans, plants, animals and landscapes. At the centre of the programme is an exhibition on display at Southcombe Barn—an arts space and gardens located in Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Dartmoor. Artists include Ingrid Pollard, Iman …
Read More »Is Toronto’s Art Triennial Just for Those “In the Know”?
TORONTO — In its second iteration, the Greater Toronto Art 2024 (GTA24) triennial at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) connects art-making with ever-shifting movements in the region’s flawed formation. Until the late 1990s, when it was amalgamated into a single-tiered City of Toronto, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) was Metropolitan Toronto, a hodgepodge of municipal governments. This megacity resulted …
Read More »Gabriel Pozzo – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS
A selection of work by artist Gabriel Pozzo. Currently based in Nashville, Tennessee, Pozzo’s work is a culmination of personal experiences and memories infused with fantastical elements that subtly emphasize a particular narrative or overarching theme like time, ambition, intimacy, and relationships. Pozzo’s website contains a “blog” section with short essays that offer more context and backstory to his individual …
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