Ocula Report Havana Biennial 2019: Constructing the Possible 17 Apr 2019 : Federica Bueti for Ocula I first visited Havana in November 2016, a few days after Fidel Castro died, and just under a year before Hurricane Irma hit Cuba in September 2017. Since then, much has changed, including the hand-painted signs that punctuate the journey from the airport to the city centre, which today do not celebrate the revolution so much as the 'Unidad y...
Ocula Conversation Andrew Stahl and Guo Xiaohui The exhibition Beyond Boundaries at Somerset House in London (12 March–2 April 2019) marked the historic contributions of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, on the occasion of their 100th and 150th anniversaries, respectively. Spread across several rooms of Somerset House's...
Ocula Report The National 2019: New Australian Art 13 Apr 2019 : Elyse Goldfinch for Ocula The National 2019: New Australian Art features work by 70 contemporary Australia-based artists split across three venues: the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) (29 March–21 July 2019), as curated by Isobel Parker Philip, curator of photographs at AGNSW; Daniel Mudie Cunningham,...
Catherine Sullivan was born in 1968 in Los Angeles and lives and works in Chicago. In 2015, along with George Lewis and Sean Griffin, she presented Afterword, an Opera at the MCA Chicago. She has had solo or collaborative exhibitions at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago; STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Tate Modern, London; Secession, Vienna; and Kunsthalle Zurich. Additionally, her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Sullivan participated in the 2014 and 2004 Whitney Biennials, the 11th BALTIC Triennial of International Art, and the 7th Gwangju Biennale.
Catherine SullivanThe Startled Faction (a sensitivity training), 2018 Anamorphic video with colour and sound, 34 mins
Ocula Conversation Catherine Sullivan Artist Catherine Sullivan's artistic practice crosses genres and histories of art, theatre, movement, and performance, with poetry, literature, sound and popular culture, taking the actor as medium in the process. A former actor herself, Sullivan attended the California Institute of the Arts and the Art Center College of Design where she studied under...
Related Press Catherine Sullivan’s X-Ray Dreams Hyperallergic : 15 September 2018 Catherine Sullivan is a Chicago-based artist whose films and installations have been shown only spottily in New York, and we're the poorer for it. The last piece of hers I saw was Triangle of Need (2007) at Metro Pictures, and that was more than 10 years ago. (Somehow, her 2016 collaboration with the composers George Lewis and Sean Griffin,...
Related Press An Actor Prepares Frieze : 14 November 2005 When asked about the significance of the lighthouse in To the Lighthouse (1937), Virginia Woolf replied that it represented 'nothing'. 'One has to have a central line down the middle of the book to hold the design together' she wrote. Exemplary of mid-20th-century literary Modernism, Woolf's novel conjures a disorientating stream of consciousness...
