casagrande video here
Monday, March 1, 2021
MIL M2
MIL M2 website here and video here
2020 has changed our ways of being together and of being part of a community. It has forced the performing arts to reinvent its relationship with its audiences, adapting them to protective restrictions. As part of this reinvention, the 25th version of Homo Novus, one of the main theater festivals in the Baltic region, conceived its program using the city as a stage.
WHO HAS THE POWER TO CHANGE THINGS? The Question Project moves through Riga, a city in the middle of elections, where citizens’ voting participation increases, while orbiting between frustrations and organizations.
HOW DO WE LEARN TO LIVE TOGETHER? Because of its mobility, the project develops in neighborhoods which seem contradicting, confusing and beautiful; The image of a city with a challenging past that manifests in different scales of public space. With a population divided between Latvians and Russians, the tensions between the Eastern and Western Blocs still affect the lives of their inhabitants.
WHY DO YOU ALWAYS START SINGING AT MIDNIGHT? By working alongside a population that perceives itself as calm and timid, the project was developed in a manner that emphasized empathy. To gather discarded materials instead of buying them, to ask for favors and help, became a practical exercise which explored sustainable ways of consuming and working as a community.
Working together with local collaborators was a crucial aspect for the project. They allowed us to open up dialogues, identifying relevant points of view, and to accelerate connection in order to propose a series of interventions throughout the city, or directly on their bodies, and in spaces of commercial exchange.
The project generated interventions in the Central Market (the largest in Europe), the Civic Center, the Āgenskalns Market (located at an old neighborhood in the process of gentrification), and Bolderaja neighborhood (one of the last districts to be included as part of Riga, and one which possesses a majority of Russian speaking inhabitants). The project surfaced in these neighborhoods and produced different visual and poetic messages, dealing with language and aesthetic challenges, in specific political and affective circumstances.
Dan Perjovschi, WHAT HAPPENED TO US?, at Museum of Modern Art
Dan Perjovschi, WHAT HAPPENED TO US?, at MoMA video here and here
Glenn Ligon National Gallery of Art
Glenn Ligon speaks with the National Gallery of Art about his work here
On March 15, 2013, Glenn Ligon discussed the layers of history, meaning, and physical material of three of his works in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art. The painting Untitled (I Am a Man), acquired in 2012 through the Patrons' Permanent Fund and as a gift of the artist, and a pair of prints given by the artist entitled Condition Report (2000) served as the backdrop for this interview. The painted neon sculpture Double America (2012), gift of Agnes Gund, is also featured. The interview followed Ligon’s presentation of the 20th annual Elson Lecture, A Conversation with Glenn Ligon.
Santiago Sierra "Destroyed Word" and "NO"
Read about Sierra's Destroyed Word on Bruce E. Phillips website here
Video here
"No Global Tour videos here and here
Te Tuhi is proud to present Destroyed Word, by internationally renowned Spanish artist Santiago Sierra. Throughout his practice, Sierra has investigated systems of social, political and economic power that assert their dominance through exploitation and marginalisation. He is most famously known for his works of the late 1990s where he paid underprivileged people to undertake mundane or humiliating tasks. Sierra based these works on the logic of business practices that employ the poor for menial labour with little remuneration. In doing so, he re-enacted the logic of such exploitative economies within an art gallery context - a powerful but intentionally problematic artistic gesture that resisted the simplistic morals of activism and implicates the subject, audience and the artist himself.
Sierra's current body of work continues this line of enquiry but through the creation of monumental words. Works such as Submission (2006-7), NO Global Tour (2009-12) and Burned Word (2012) feature singular giant words constructed or positioned in specific locations that resonate with the harsh economic realities of capitalism. Destroyed Word is the most recent and ambitious work from this series. The work consists of a 10 channel video installation that features the spectacular destruction of the word KAPITALISM. Te Tuhi was one of 9 commissioning partners around the world that contributed to Destroyed Word by erecting and destroying a giant three metre high letter. Each letter was constructed out of a primary product or material significant to the economy of each location. The letters were destroyed in Australia, Austria, Germany, France, Iceland, India, Papua New Guinea, Holland, New Zealand and Sweden. Each letter stands in reference to specific local contexts of economic and political power relations. As a whole, Sierra's outsourced KAPITALISM draws on the far reaching implications of the global financial crisis. Te Tuhi is the second in the world and the only New Zealand venue for Destroyed Word on its international tour.
Produced by: Baltic Arts Center, Visby, Sweden; CAC, Brétigny, France; Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia ; INCUBATE Festival, Tilburg, Netherlands; KOW, Berlin, Germany; Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria; Melbourne Arts Festival, Australia; Te Tuhi, Auckland, New Zealand; Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland. Courtesy of Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Supported by NGV. Production Coordinators: Bruce E. Phillips & James McCarthy, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts; Paul Greenaway, Greenaway Art Gallery & GAGProjects; Alexander Koch, KOW Berlin.
Te Tuhi would like to acknowledge the technical expertise of Regan Gentry, camera work of Ian Powell, audio editing by Guy Nicoll, and all of the shooters who shall remain anonymous.
Paul Ramirez Jonas' "Public Trust"
Paul Ramirez Jonas' "Public Trust" in Boston video here
Arts reporter Joyce Kulhawik visits Dudley Square in Boston, so see promises being made in public at "Public Trust." (http://wbur.fm/2cYjjFX)
Walk up, make a promise, and it will be displayed on a 16 foot billboard created by artist Paul Ramirez Jonas.
Reporter - Joyce Kulhawik
Video - Robin Lubbock
Artist video - courtesy of Now + There
Robert Rauschenberg Discusses Erased De Kooning Drawing
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art video in which Robert Rauschenberg describes the story and process behind "Erased de Kooning" (1953), a piece based on a work originally created by artist Willem de Kooning. Video here
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