Ocula Report ‘An Opera for Animals’ at Rockbund Art Museum 19 Jul 2019 : Penny Liu for Ocula An Opera for Animals was first staged at Para Site in Hong Kong between 23 March and 2 June 2019, with works by over 48 artists and collectives that use opera as a metaphor for modes of contemporary, cross-disciplinary art-making. The exhibition's second iteration takes up a large portion of the Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai (22 June–25...
Ocula Conversation Zoe Butt on the Challenges and Rewards of Curating Zoe Butt is the artistic director of The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre in Ho Chi Minh City, the first purpose-built space for contemporary art in Vietnam. Founded in March 2016, the Centre was designed by HTAP Architects in an old steel warehouse, with cargo shipping containers added to its structure. Initiated as a social enterprise...
Ocula Report Ocula 报告｜Condo Shanghai 2019 展览看点 11 Jul 2019 : Penny Liu for Ocula 即将于2019年7月13开幕的第二届 Condo Shanghai，联合上海7座画廊/艺术机构与14 家来自全球11个不同的城市，如东京、首尔、雅加达、巴尔的摩、洛杉矶、伦敦、纽约、危地马拉城、利马和墨西哥城，为实验性展览营造了一个更切实可行的国际环境。以下是Ocula的展览看点。周奥，《景观/对象WA》（2016）。橡木上固化油墨打印，左: 55.88 × 147.32 cm，中: 121.92 × 152.4 cm，右: 55.88 × 147.32 cm，图片提供：马凌画廊，上海。马凌画廊 × 80m2 Livia Benavides × LABOR × Proyectos Ultravioleta马凌画廊 |...
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.
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...
