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Chisenhale Gallery announces 2021 Commissions Programme #ChisenhaleGallery Chisenhale Gallery was founded by artists. The same experimental vision and spirit of possibility that changed an empty veneer factory and brewery warehouse into an art gallery guides our work today. We commission and produce contemporary art, supporting international and UK-based artists to make their most ambitious work to date by pursuing new directions in their practices. The gallery has an award ...Continue reading

Artforum - October/November 2020 #ArtForum In this issue of Artforum:... Artists’ Projects: For this election issue, Artforum asked nine artistsJudith Bernstein, Jennifer Bolande, Sue Coe (with introduction by Lauren O’Neill-Butler), Renée Green, Tomashi Jackson (with introduction by Amarie Gipson), Tala Madani, Kenny Scharf, Taryn Simon, and Adam Pendleton (whose work is on the cover)to contribute projects reflecting on a moment that requires us to think the unthinkable. Galvanized by the heartbreak of generational trauma and decades of prolonged crisis, Jackson sees her work as a mode of healing, a means to salvage the ruptured records of the past in order to better understand our present. Amarie Gipson Critical Care: Colby Chamberlain on the art of Park McArthur Sometimes the best deconstruction is a sledgehammer to the curb. Colby Chamberlain Pandemic Flowers: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh on the art of Luciano Perna Staged artificially against a black background, Perna's images already exude a whiff of the pompes funèbres, as though they knew all too well that this might be their only public appearance before the extinction, if not of the plant itself, then at least of the spectatorial patience to spend even one more moment on melancholic contemplation. Yet dialectically, the chromatic intensity of Perna’s still lifes, their technological luminosity as much as their slippery mobility from site to site, might easily antiquate anybody’s desire to possess a printed picture. Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Paige K. Bradley on QAnon The QAnon narrative collages American conspiracy literature’s greatest hits of the past 70-odd years into a contemporary mythic LARP of mistrust with a runaway cult following and a demonstrable trail of violence. And: Laura McLean-Ferris on Ken Okiishi’s Vital Behaviors, 2019; Amy Taubin on Garrett Bradley’s Time, 2020, and America, 2019; Du Keke on the Yokohama Triennale 2020; and more than 35 exhibition reviews from around the globe. Plus: Erika Balsom on Tsai Ming-liang’s Days, Emmanuel Iduma on the Kamoinge Workshop, Christina Catherine Martinez on Sisi in Private, Alexandro Segade’s Fall of the Death Cult, Michael Lobel on art and the United States Postal Service, Paige K. Bradley on QAnon, Lauren O’Neill-Butler on the Feminist Art Coalition, and Akeem Smith shares his Top Ten. e-flux.com/announcemen//october-november-2020-in-artforum/

Seoul Mediacity Biennale announces new dates and participants for 11th edition #SeoulMediacityBiennale The 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, One Escape at a Time, has been rescheduled to open to the public from September 8 to November 21, 2021 at the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) and other locations across the city....Continue reading

While it would be wrong to think that when one says ‘ocean,’ one is naming a ‘subject,’ we might be so radical as to posit that to say ocean is, today, to say ‘art’art without the burden of institutional life, without the ideological twists of cultural politics, art as a practice that belongs to artists, art facing the urgency of socializing with all who care about life. In other words, to say ‘ocean’ is to replace the historical notion of the avant-garde with a code that... is not determined by form and the invention of new gestures, but by an investigation of the substance of life, identifying this as the mission of art. Chus Martínez, "Gathering Sea I Am!", e-flux journal #112"the ocean" #ChusMartínez #TBA21 #efluxjournal This issue, edited by Julieta Aranda and Chus Martínez, is a collaboration between TBA21-Academy and e-flux journal. e-flux.com/journal/112/354953/gathering-sea-i-am/

e-flux Architecture presents MOLD and Yardy World’s Your Mouth Has Power (2020) as part of Critical Cooking Show, a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Istanbul Design Biennial within the context of its fifth edition, Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one. MOLD YARDY #efluxArchitecture #CriticalCooking Broadcasting from Crown Heights, Your Mouth Has Power is a collective message from Brooklyn about food sovereignty, resilience and culture during a precari...ous period of both pandemic and revolution. Inspired by 1990s MTV, TikTok videos, the video works of artist Arthur Jafa, and Jenn Nkiru’s cosmic archaeology, the film challenges the conventions of cooking shows by placing our understanding of imagery and viewership in friction with vignettes from black pop culture and historic references. By sharing the ways that individuals and communities in Brooklyn have responded to the anxieties of system collapse with networks of care and radical imagination, the film invites viewers to become active participants in an inequitably designed food system that only has space for consumers. The text from MOLD’s manifesto, Your Mouth Has Power (2019), champions the creation of hyperlocal food ecologies, providing a portal into a field of ideas and a scaffold for a set of disparate actions, ideas, places, and collaborators emanating from Crown Heights to your neighborhood. e-flux.com//critical-cooking-/358123/your-mouth-has-power/

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Kunsthalle Bielefeld presents Monica Bonvicini: LOVER'S MATERIAL #KunsthalleBielefeld #MonicaBonvicini The Kunsthalle Bielefeld is pleased to present the solo exhibition LOVER’S MATERIAL by Monica Bonvicini. It is the first exhibition organized by recently appointed Kunsthalle’s director Christina Végh. Spanning across the entire first floor of the museum, LOVER’S MATERIAL includes the most recent works by the artist, some created specifically for the exhibition in Bielefeld...Continue reading

Join us on e-flux Video & Film for the online screening of Nashashibi/Skaer’s Lamb (2015), the second installment of Here is where we are, on view from Saturday, October 31 through Friday, November 6, 2020 and featuring an excerpt from Ursula K. Le Guin's short story The Silence of the Asonu (1998). #eflux #ArtistCinemas #RosalindNashashibi #LucySkaer #UrsulaKLeGuin Here is where we are is a six-part program of films, video works, interviews, and texts put together by Laur...e Prouvost. It is the fourth program in Artist Cinemas, a long-term, online series of film programs curated by artists for e-flux Video & Film. Artist Cinemas presents Here is where we are Week #2: Saturday, October 31Friday, November 6, 2020 Nashashibi/Skaer, Lamb, 2015 6:19 minutes The film was shot over a course of mornings in a farmer’s lambing shed near Lucy Skaer’s house on the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Ewes are in labor, giving birth or tending to their lambs. The soundtrack is a musical composition by composer Will Carslake and singer Olivia Ray in collaboration with Rosalind Nashashibi, using trumpet, breath, voice, and piano. Watch the film and read the excerpt here: e-flux.com/video/357238/nashashibi-skaer-nbsp-lamb/ e-flux.com/announcements/346012/here-is-where-we-are-week-2/

La villa du parc centre d'art contemporain presents Alexandra Leykauf: Both Sides Now #villaduparc #AlexandraLeykauf For its first show of the new fall season, la Villa du Parc has invited the artist Alexandra Leykauf (Germany, 1973), who has put together an on-sight tour of her recent work on the landscape. Appropriating some of the depictions that have fashioned the modern view of nature, Leykauf plumbs their visual and cultural depths by manipulating them through various ...reproduction processes and plays on scale and texture. Cheerfully and eagerly drawing on art history, especially the paintings hanging on the walls of the world’s greatest museums, she projects herself and incorporates her image in them through the prism of tangible elements of what she sees dailyher worktable, studio, Smartphone, etc. For her show at La Villa du Parc, Leykauf offers visitors a number of pieces based on trompe-l’oeil and the kaleidoscope, especially after paintings treating the landscape of Lake Geneva (Corot, Crespy le Prince, Hodler, etc.). She is likewise exhibiting a complete series of her Faces. These are pareidolias with a hidden animality; they surface unconsciously in the harmonious canonical landscapes of art history. In this way, the artist shifts and upends the explicit and implicit conventions of the (male) gaze, which fashioned landscapes in the past and continues to shape them today, from the window to the screen and from classical perspective to the satellite camera, returning to her eye and ours an active critical position while renewing esthetic wonder. Alexandra Leykauf (1976) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Fine Art of Nuremberg, Germany, and later at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her work has been seen in France in group shows, including Rencontres de la photographie in Arles in 2016; Les Images constellantes at the Villa du Parc in 2015; and MRAC in Sérignan in 2013 for Entre Deux. Several of her films were screened at the Pompidou Center in Paris in 2011. Finally, Leykauf exhibited a large installation called Salle Noire at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2010. Outside of France her work as figured in a number of other group shows, including in 2019 at the Kunstlerhaus in Dortmund, Gemany, and Quinta do Quetzal in Portugal; as well as in 2016 in Glasgow, 2014 in St. Petersburg, and 2013 in New York. She has also been featured in several solo shows, notably in 2018 with Caprona (Focal Point Gallery Southend, United Kingdom) and cliché verre at the KM Gallery in Berlin. She is represented by the Martin van Zomeren Gallery, Amsterdam and by KM Galerie in Berlin. e-flux.com/announce/349735/alexandra-leykaufboth-sides-now/

Ciap - Ile de Vassivière announces search for Director Application deadline: November 18, 2020 The International Centre for Art and Landscape in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine is recruiting a Director. The position is offered on a permanent basis (CDI) and the starting date is the first quarter of 2021. ... Present on the island of Vassivière since 1991, the International Centre for Art and Landscape is a unique institution within the French and international artistic scene. Managed as an association, it is dedicated to contemporary creativity, research, production, the conservation of works in situ, and the broadcasting of this activity to the widest possible public. The art centre’s work also encompasses a sculpture park with 60 works, premises for artists in residence, and a programme for new commissions. The International Centre for Art and Landscape is a member of the following networks: Astre the visual arts network for the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, the DCA and Arts en résidence. It is accredited as a Contemporary Art Centre of national interest. The main financial partners are the Regional Council for the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and the Ministry of Culture. Job description: The director will be responsible for the following tasks: -Artistic direction: he or she will plan and execute an ambitious artistic and cultural programme within which the notions of landscape and territory will be central. The artistic programme should take into account the context of the surrounding environment and have the development of visitor numbers as an objective. In particular, as part of the work, he or she will be responsible for the planning, the programming and the production of exhibitions. -The development of partnerships with other artistic and cultural institutions on a local, regional, national and international level. -Understanding and working within the context of local tourism and the technical conditions and constraints of the Vassivière site. -Being responsible for the efficient management of the organisation: human resources, budgeting, representing the supervisory board, respecting employers social obligations. Candidate’s profile: The new director will be a well-known professional within the visual arts world and will be someone who enjoys artistic independence and the freedom of programming. (At least 5 years’ experience of directing and managing a cultural and artistic institution is required). Recruitment process: A full and complete job description is available from: administration [at] ciapiledevassiviere.com or www.ciapiledevassiviere.com Candidates should submit their letter of application and CV in digital form, before the November 18, 2020, to: Monsieur le Président - Centre international d'art et du paysage Ile de Vassivière - 87120 Beaumont du Lac - France T +33 (0)5 55 69 27 27 administration [at] ciapiledevassiviere.com More info: e-flux.com/announcements/357452/job-opportunity-director/

Time for verveling (boredom). In moments of boredom. Just drawing. Everywhere. And with all sorts of things. And so with Excel. Again. And now without further ado. Just drawing. In Excel. Jan de Vylder and Inge Vinck, "Home", e-flux Architecture and gta exhibitions, "Confinement". October 2020 #JandeVylder #IngeVinck #efluxarchitecture #gtaexhibitions #confinement... e-flux.com/architecture/confinement/352867/home/

Amsterdam Art - Amsterdam Art Gallery Weekend [November 2529, 2020] #AmsterdamArt #ArtWeekend Every year in November, Amsterdam's finest contemporary art institutions collectively open their doors to showcase the latest developments in contemporary art during Amsterdam Art Weekend. This festive event connects galleries, project spaces, museums, art institutions and residency programs with the local community as well as art professionals and collectors from all over the wor...Continue reading

When we’re looking at our Pacific Island nations, one of the things that holds us together is the body of ocean which we know as the Pacificalso a name that’s come from somebody else. That’s why it becomes crucial to look at the relationships we have as Pacific Island people to this body of waterthe largest continent in the world. Latai Taumoepeau and Taloi Havini, "The Last Resort: A Conversation", e-flux journal #112"the ocean" #LataiTaumoepeau #TaloiHavini #TBA21 #ef...luxjournal This issue, edited by Julieta Aranda and Chus Martínez, is a collaboration between TBA21-Academy and e-flux journal. e-flux.com/journ/112/353919/the-last-resort-a-conversation/

Summa Technologiae (The Lem Seminars) announces call for applications #SummaTechnologiae #StanislawLem #TheLemSeminars In September 1974, the American science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick, wrote a letter to the FBI, claiming there was a communist conspiracy disguised as science-fiction literature. This conspiracy was orchestrated by a communist committee, whichaccording to Philip K. Dickoperated under the name of "Stanisaw Lem."...Continue reading