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Ocula Report New propositions on curatorial practice: the making of the 11th Shanghai Biennale By TESS MAUNDER | May 2017 Read More

Lantian Xie, The Sidewinder (2016). Site-specific installation with Volkswagen car, audio system, and LIFE magazine. Installation view: 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art (12 November 2016–12 March 2017). Courtesy Power Station of Art.

Ocula Conversation Zai Kuning Artist, Singapore ‘When I give talks at universities, I always guide students to look at the evidence. Never argue only based on your own idea and imagination.’ Read More By ELLIAT ALBRECHT

Zai Kuning. Courtesy National Arts Council, Singapore.

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Latest Ocula Conversation iLiana Fokianaki and Antonia Alampi Founders: Future Climates, Athens ‘In places where funding for the arts is limited, if not practically non-existent, people are pushed to find alternative ways to make, curate, and invent survival strategies to keep going.’ Read More By FEDERICA BUETI

iLiana Fokianaki and Antonia Alampi. Founders of Future Climates, Athens. Courtesy Kunsthal Extra City.

Latest Ocula Report Spotlight: Frieze week 2017 By KAT HERRIMAN | May 2017 Read More

Frieze New York (5–7 May 2017). Courtesy Ocula. Photo: Charles Roussel.

Zai Kuning. Courtesy National Arts Council, Singapore.

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Ocula ReportSpotlight: Frieze week 201719 May. 2017 : Kat Herriman for Ocula{{document.location.href}}

When the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) announced they were joining Armory week, everyone assumed New York's Frieze week would be quieter, but this year, felt more frantic than ever. The week, which ran from 3 to 8 May, saw the opening of TEFAF New York's inaugural spring edition (4-8 May 2017) as well as the first BKLYN IMMERSIVE (7-14 May 2017),...

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The 11th Shanghai Biennale (SHB11): Why Not Ask Again: Arguments, Counter-arguments, and Stories was an exhibition staged at the Power Station of Art, Shanghai from 12 November 2016 to 12 March 2017. The exhibition was curated by the artist and curatorial collective Raqs Media Collective, and featured 92 artists from 40 countries, with a strong...

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Ocula ConversationHiroshi SugimotoArtist, Japan{{document.location.href}}

Having embarked on his exploration of conceptual photography in the mid-1970s with Dioramas, a series in which he photographed displays in natural history museums, Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto is today best known for his black and white photographs of silent monochromatic seascapes and movie theatres where, with the exposure set to the duration...

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Ocula ConversationPeter Eleey and Klaus BiesenbachCurators, '.com/.cn', K11 Art Foundation Pop-up Space, Hong Kong (21 March–30 April 2017){{document.location.href}}

One of the pressing threads of curatorial thinking over the last decade has attempted to draw together the ideological stakes of technology with the political realities of globalisation and post-colonialism. These relationships have been articulated in compelling ways in the work of critics and curators like Omar Kholeif, Orit Gat, and Karen...

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