Sanded Edges: Pierre Huyghe Turns Polite at the Serpentine
Pierre Huyghe’s work has often worn its politics lightly, preferring to focus on the exhibition as a laboratory-theater for cultural experiment. However, his latest…
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Do Androids Dream of Representative Art?
“The closer we come to the danger, the more brightly do the ways into the saving power begin to shine and the more questioning…
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Drones, by Design: Mahwish Chishty and the Politics of Representation
What’s at stake – aesthetically and politically – when we imagine the drone as an emblem for contemporary society? Consider the range of artistic…
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The 11th Gwangju Biennale’s Overreach: “What Does Art Do?”
By asking what art “does,” the curators of the eleventh Gwangju Biennale betray a palpable anxiety about whether the field in which we work…
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Flickering Insight from the Whitechapel’s “Electronic Superhighway”
“The internet does not exist,” wrote Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle in e-flux journal’s critical anthology of the same name. Perhaps…
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What Should Art “Do”? The Eccentrics’ Vital Nonsense in a Time of Crisis
What should artists do in a time of crisis? This grave question haunted the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth-century. In the wake of…
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