UbuWeb or a world without copyright is possible
It has been around for eighteen years and is one of the most impressive accessible archives dedicated to contemporary culture. It contains concrete and sound poetry, video pieces made by artists, underground cinema, sound art and other extravaganzas that are true treasures. It is UbuWeb. It was founded by the poet Kenneth Goldsmith and defines […]
Carolina Bonfim
In her work, Carolina Bonfim explores the codes of gestures and body representation, as well as the overlaps and shifts between the gaze and physical presence. Through projects on a very human scale, the artist creates scenarios and situations that allow for a direct relationship between artist and spectator, as well as the questioning of […]
Please Pay Attention Please
James Lee Byars wrote in 1968: “I founded a fictitious museum in New York in ’68 and collected 1,000,000 minutes of attention to show”. That same year, Andy Warhol made a declaration of principles in the catalogue of an exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm: “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 […]
Rereading Marx (in update mode)
Link to the article July 28, 2014. Although the official discourse insists that there is an economic recovery, the crisis that began in 2008 is here to stay. Economic deregulation and its consequences (global inflation, food and energy crises, threat of recession, etc.) and that maxim that terrifies and paralyzes in equal measure, called “crisis […]
Enric Farrés-Duran
Enric Farrés-Duran (Palafrugell, Girona, 1983) is a storyteller in which the real and the fictional end up meeting and modifying each other. His work is articulated through research, coincidences and fortuitous encounters and the possibility of making connections between different places, objects and circumstances. Farrés-Duran creates narratives that reveal hidden and unexpected relationships, which sometimes […]
Some uncomfortable questions about art and its impact on reality
Link to the article in A*DESK The ADN gallery in Barcelona is currently presenting a collective exhibition which, as the text on the exhibition leaflet explains, “starts from the idea of the artist as an accomplice and witness to social dynamics that require their involvement, commitment and an active positioning that goes beyond denunciation.” The […]
When art becomes experience
In his latest book, Kassel does not invite logic, Enrique Vila-Matas creates, as he himself writes, “a fictionalized report of my participation in Documenta,” in which he mainly recounts his reencounter with the experience that art is capable of generating. Although at first, the invitation to Kassel is presented to him as a Martian proposal […]
The “like” culture
Digital culture has changed the way we read texts. We read diagonally, in hypertext or by keywords. Social networks have played a prominent role in this process. Although we may find it hard to admit it, the “like” button is having a huge impact on the way we relate to and access cultural events. The […]
Who is George Kaplan?
Link to the article in A*DESK George Kaplan is a myth, a legend, a rebel, a virus, a fiction, or rather, several fictions. George Kaplan appears in Alfred Hitchcock’s film North by Northwest (1959). He is the character that Cary Grant is mistaken for and because of whom he is chased by a crop duster […]
INVOCABLE REALITY
http://www.macba.cat/en/exhibition-la-invocable-reality Entrevista en Sonia, la radio del MACBA Catálogo / Catàleg / Catalogue “Buscarse enemigos”, recorrido de Enric Farrès-Duran Roman Ondak Teaching to walk Press TV3 – Telenotícies Vespre Núvol Núvol- Connexió Barcelona – BTV El Plan B – BTV
