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...
Related Press CREATIVE ALCHEMY: ACAW’S FIELD MEETING TAKE 6 Art Asia Pacific : 1 March 2019 To kick off Asia Contemporary Art Week's two-day forum, Field Meeting Take 6: Thinking Collections, curator and writer Leeza Ahmady performed a reading of On Kings, Films and Astronomads: A Script from Cave Paintings / Sufi Fluxus Production (2017). The fictional story begins with a king reflecting on his life to an audience of transcended beings,...
Related Press ASIA CONTEMPORARY ART WEEK FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS ArtAsiaPacific : 3 November 2017 In its fifth iteration, Asia Contemporary Art Week's Field Meeting convened to address the bounds and possibilities of the "project," a concept that has become increasingly popular in artistic practice.
Related Press Asian Contemporary Art Week, New York Jeff Tompkins for Asia Society / 20 October 2014 : 24 October 2014 Since its founding more than a decade ago, Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) has been an annual New York City platform for connecting major local amuseums, galleries, and art professionals with their counterparts in Asia, through exhibitions, public dialogues, performances, and other projects meant to address the increasing prominence of Asian...
