Ocula News Black Lives Matter Tops ArtReview Power 100 London, 3 December 2020 The list remains overwhelmingly dominated by people, institutions and movements in the Western world.
Ocula Insight Artissima XYZ: Artist Highlights By Stephanie Bailey, Online We introduce some of the artists showing with Artissima XYZ, an online platform being staged for the fair's 2020 edition.
Ocula Feature Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements By Radha Mahendru, Dhaka The fifth Dhaka Art Summit plotted movements, solidarities, and exchanges across the Global South.
Ocula Feature At Art Taipei, Galleries Adapt to Regional Politics By Sam Gaskin, Tapiei The longest-running art fair in Asia returned to Taipei's World Trade Center for its 26th edition in October.
Ocula Conversation Otobong Nkanga By Stephanie Bailey Otobong Nkanga has developed a practice that reads the world on material terms and maps out how the body fits into a shared, earthly narrative. Her 2012 project Contained Measures of a Kolanut followed the artist's research into the library of CIRAD, the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development in Paris' Bois De...
Ocula Feature documenta 14: the view from Athens By Maria Nicolacopoulou, Athens documenta 14's mammoth effort to include 40 something venues and over 160 artists in its exhibition in Athens (8 April–16 July 2017) is a testimony of the institution's struggle to infiltrate a city with a weighted ancient and modern past, a turbulent present, and an uncertain future. There is a push-pull relationship between inside and outside in...
Ocula Feature 'Polyphonic Worlds': Contour Biennale 8 By Federica Bueti, Mechelen Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium is the eighth edition of the Contour Biennale. It opened on 11 March 2017 (running until 21 May) with an ambitious exhibition and public programme curated by Natasha Ginwala and an all-female team of advisors including thinker Denise Ferreira da Silva, artist Judy Radul and writer Rachel O'Reilly...
Ocula Feature Borderline: A Report from the 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil By Stephanie Bailey, São Paulo The 19th edition of Videobrasil shifted all its programming towards the theme 'Southern Panoramas.' In other words, the Global South and its social fabric—-its diasporas, hybrid identities, and migration flows.
