Ocula Conversation Bani Abidi: ‘What you see in my films is what I know’ A group of voices accompanies me in the exhibition. They are singing words I cannot comprehend, yet the warm tunes are familiar: folk songs, love songs, songs of longing. There are letters, too. They speak of the quotidian details of a soldier's life: the hardness of the war, sending money to the family, and longing for familiar landscapes, food,...
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 Mark Bradford’s Call for Unity at Shanghai’s Long Museum 16 August 2019 Mark Bradford walks through Mark Bradford: Los Angeles Mark Bradford: Los Angeles at the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai (27 July–13 October 2019) is the artist's largest solo exhibition to date in China. In this video for Ocula, Bradford and Diana Nawi, curator of the show, walk through selected works that convey the artist's concerns with...
Casa Vecina is a cultural institution that is part of the Mexico City Historical Center Foundation (Fundación del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México, AC). It specializes in the production, display, and research of contemporary art. In addition to the conventional exhibition spaces, it works from a “studio” concept: the purpose of its projects is not to exhibit finished art objects, but to show the process that leads the artist to a final product. Exhibitions, installations, and displays are understood as a continuous process of experimentation. Casa Vecina supports resident artists with the funding and infrastructure necessary to develop their research.
All of the projects that are supported by Casa Vecina are registered and documented. Information about them is available to the public through our Documentation Center, which also offers specialized bibliographies and journals. In addition, Casa Vecina organizes workshops, theoretical seminars, and artistic projects that invite the local community in the Historical Center and other interested public audiences to be involved in the activities.
