Ocula Conversation Hito Steyerl: How To Build a Sustainable Art World 'A Picture of War is Not War', we read in Hito Steyerl's iconic film November (2004), an essayistic Super 8 film tackling the definition of terrorism constructed around the figure of the artist's best friend Andrea Wolf, who was killed as a terrorist in 1998 in Eastern Anatolia after she joined the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party). Mixing documentary...
Ocula Report Aichi to Okayama: Art in Japan Looks to the Future 11 Oct 2019 : Stephanie Bailey for Ocula There has been a flurry of triennial and biennial art activity in Japan this year. The Aichi Triennale opened in Nagoya this August, sparking a national debate about the shutting down of a display of formerly censored works—the result of public backlash against a burnt image of Emperor Hirohito and a statue commemorating the women forced into...
Ocula Insight | Video Hans Hartung and Art Informel at Mazzoleni London (1 October 2019-18 January 2020) presents key works by the French-German painter while highlighting his connection with artists active in Paris during the 50s and 60s. In this video, writer and historian Alan Montgomery discusses Hartung's practice and its legacy.Born in Leipzig in 1904, Hans...
Imogen Taylor (b. 1985, Whangarei) graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts in 2010 and lives and works in Auckland.
Related Press Auckland artist Imogen Taylor contemplates the art world sausage-ocracy Noted : 9 March 2017 From a studio beside Colin McCahon’s former Titirangi home, artist Imogen Taylor contemplates the art world sausage-ocracy, her pretty/ugly work and having a parent in the Act Party.“It’s really hard to make people laugh with art. Or it’s like a one-liner and you laugh once, and then it’s gone.” Imogen Taylor is speaking about the very funny zine...
Related Press Artists in aid mission Stuff : 4 February 2015 Every week, another funeral. Gravesides. Scattered ashes. An act of love, suddenly a conduit to fear and disease. In 1992, a record number of New Zealanders died of Aids. Artists responded. Implicated and Immune at Auckland's Fisher Gallery (now Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts) was a group exhibition praised for its "initiative, courage and...
