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Art, mathematics and a spider crab at the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum
Dalziel + Scullion, Primates (detail) While in Dundee (Scotland), i got a chance to visit The D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, in the company of Matthew Jarron, Curator of Museum Services at the...
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Brown Sound Kit. ‘Toilet humour for gallery space’
Because we could all do with a bit of humour today, even if it’s of the Benny Hill kind… Martin Kersels, Brown Sound Kit, 1994. Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois...
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Sounds from bridges, ventilation systems and other industrial spaces. An...
Jonáš Gruska, Vzduchotechnika Jonáš Gruska. Photo by Gabriela Zigova When Jonáš Gruska is not busy giving workshops on urban sonification, creating his own recording instruments, rehearsing with...
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RAVE. Rave and Its Influence on Art and Culture
RAVE. Rave and Its Influence on Art and Culture, edited by art curator Nav Haq. It’s on amazon UK and USA. black dog publishing writes: Rave: Rave and Its Influence on Art and Culture is one of the...
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Self portraits for bank cards investigate money circulation, art ownership...
Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša, All About You (detail), 2016. Photo: Katra Petriček Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša, All About You (stop motion video), 2016 Since 2012, the three...
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Entertainment for times of suspicion and uncertainty
Calum Bowden, Calls of Duty, 2016 Calum Bowden, Calls of Duty, 2016 Calum Bowden, Calls of Duty (trailer), 2016 There’s a long tradition of artistic infiltration into the first-person shooter game...
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Oscillations. Or the grace of unpredictability
Joris Strijbos, Axon, 2016. Photo by Bresadola+Freese/drama-berlin.de for NOME Gallery Joris Strijbos‘s kinetic light sculptures are elegant, ingenious and almost minimalist. Under the deceivingly...
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Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 1. The blood session)
Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott, Project 12:31 Semen, cell cultures, urine, feaces, tears, blood, hair, skin– the human body has been used not merely as the subject of art works, but also as their...
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Extra Fantômes. The real, the fake, the uncertain
While in Paris a few weeks ago, i visited Extra Fantômes. The real, the fake, the uncertain, an exhibition at La Gaîté Lyrique that explores the interweaving of the technological and the uncanny. Extra...
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Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 2. At the morgue)
Previously: Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 1. The blood session). Part two of the notes i took during Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art. Materials / Aesthetics / Ethics, a symposium...
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Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 3: On expendable body parts)
Previously: Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 1. The blood session). Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 2. At the morgue). Part three of the notes i took during Bodily Matters:...
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The butterfly mobile lab of Stefan Cools
Image courtesy of the artist While visiting an ex soldier training area in Maastricht turned into workshops for designers, swanky bar, park, playground with swings and vintage gas pumps, i met an...
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Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 4. On skin and hair)
Previous episodes of Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art: Part 1. The blood session; Part 2. At the morgue and Part 3: On expendable body parts. ::vtol::, reading my body Bharti Parmar, Shag...
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Book review – Japanese Tattoos: History * Culture * Design
Japanese Tattoos: History * Culture * Design, by editor Brian Ashcraft and tattoo artist Hori Benny. On amazon USA and UK. Tuttle Publishing writes: Japanese Tattoos is an insider’s look at the world...
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Andres Serrano. Uncensored photographs
A few weeks ago i took advantage of a long morning in Brussels to visit Andres Serrano. Uncensored photographs at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts. Uncensored photographs | Andres Serrano I’ve always...
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Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 5. Working with HeLa cells,...
Previous episodes of Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art: Part 1. The blood session; Part 2. At the morgue; Part 3: On expendable body parts and Part 4. On skin and hair. Part five (and i can’t...
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AJNHAJTCLUB, a celebration of migrant workers
Bernd Oppl, Crooked Building, 2015 Evelyn Bencicova & Adam Csoka Keller, ASYMPTOTE AJNHAJTCLUB, an exhibition at frei_raum Q21 in Vienna, celebrates the men and women who came from Yugoslavia (now...
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Show Us the Money. Portrait of financial impunity
Carlos Spottorno, Wealth Management If there’s one art space in Belgium that never disappoints it’s FOMU, Antwerp’s photo museum. One of their current exhibitions draws an often startling portrait of...
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Book review: World of Malls. Architectures of Consumption
World of Malls. Architectures of Consumption, edited by Andres Lepik and Vera Simone Bader. Available on amazon UK and USA. Publisher Hatje Cantz writes: The catalogue World of Malls is devoted to a...
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ENERGY FLASH. The Rave Movement
Walter Van Beirendonck, Hard Beat collection, 1989-1990. Opening of the exhibition. Photo: Bram Goots for MUHKA While i was in Antwerp a couple of weeks ago to visit Show Us the Money at the Photo...
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