reviews 21.11.11 Agnieszka Gratza
Three weeks into Performa 11, what’s the state of play? Which of the performances stood out and which were rather underwhelming?
In his Sacred Selections, Matt Stokes performs pipe organ recitals based on transcripts of underground music. For the performance night at the Nieuwe Kerk in Haarlem, June 9th, Happy Hardcore was his particular music style of focus. The video shows the organ translation of Heart Of Gold (1996), originally from the British record producers Force and Styles.
reviews 02.03.11 Alexander Mayhew
In the performance Real Artists don’t have Teeth Dora García displays her characteristically dark humour.
The Awkward Impostor
03/02/11 Chris Sharp
Maastricht
Marres
12/03/11 - 05/06/11
Lili Reynaud-Dewar’s work is a loaded, sometimes even sultry mix of cultural observations, larded with surprising personal stories. This spring she is presenting a large installation in Marres in Maastricht.
features 22.09.10 Alexander Mayhew
Alexander Mayhew reports on the unique experience of taking part in the reading of On Kawara's book series One Million Years, currently on view at The Temporary Stedelijk in the exhibition Taking Place.
'Rabih! Rabih!'
Rabih Mroué in BAK
reviews 22.07.10 Nat Muller
Utrecht
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst
21/05/10 - 01/08/10
Witness, narrator, chronicler, participant and agent. In I, the Undersigned, Rabih Mroué's first solo-exhibition as a visual artist, he questions the role of the artist in the charged context of post-war Lebanon, focusing on the political and historical amnesia.
He is a rising star that the exhibition circuit can no longer do without. Constant Dullaart, fresh from the Rijksakademie, can always be found showing his work somewhere. He is a critic of the medium, highly active on the Internet, and is an equally talented critic of himself and of his vocation of contemporary visual artist.
I did not have relational asthmatics with that woman, although I did cough in her lemon grass soup
29/10/09 Maxine Kopsa
In the new issue of METROPOLIS M magazine, Michael Portnoy talks about his performances, including his infamous 'Soy Bomb' stunt at the 1998 Grammy Awards. This item contains several video's of Portnoy's work to date.
Rietveld ignored
a performance by Ruth Buchanan
reviews 15.07.09 Sarah Farrar
Utrecht
Casco, Rietveld Schröder huis
18/06/09 - 21/06/09
Ruth Buchanan acts as tourguide to the Rietveld Schröder house in her performance Nothing Is Closed—Lying Freely Part I for Casco.
A performance with effects
15/06/09 Mark Beasley
As curator for Creative Time, an independent New York centre presenting art in public space, Mark Beasley was responsible for Hey Hey Glossolalia (2008), a series of performances revolving around the voice, featuring Mark Leckey, Frances Stark, Rammellzee, Liam Gillick and others. Here, he gives an impression of the multifaceted role of the voice in art and culture over the past one hundred years.