F for Fake: Notes from the conversation pit
reviews 15.04.09 Sarah Farrar
Amsterdam
Endless Installation, A Ghost Story for Adults at SMART Project Space
21/03/09 - 26/04/09
Curator and critic Simon Sheikh makes regular guest appearances in the Netherlands. The occasion for his lecture F for fake: Notes on the signature, authorship and authority is the exhibition Endless Installation: A Ghost Story for Adults by Public Space With A Roof (PSWAR).
Melt, Love, Protest
Towards a theory of psychedelia
01/02/08 Lars Bang Larsen
From flower power to punk – pyschedelia comes in many guises. Its multiplicity of forms is part of what inspires the fascination for this movement that continues to this day. In 2005 and 2006 there was a large retrospective exhibition in Frankfurt and Liverpool called Summer of Love. Lars Bang Larsen, currently busy with his doctoral research, is a specialist on the subject. METROPOLIS M asked him to expound upon the deeper meaning of the movement.
The Power of Postcolonial Thinking
01/12/07 Saloni Mathur
South-Asian cultural philosophers are authoritative in present-day thinking on the consequences of today’s globalism. Trained in both India and the West, they know better than anyone how to place the complexity of contemporary cultures in a critical light. What makes their approach so special?
Nowadays art academies are no longer simply institutes for art education, but places where art is received, produced, collected and distributed. The idea of the open academie has consequences for art, the practice of exhibition making, and art education itself.
The emergence of the academy in the exhibition circuit is connected with the popularity of ‘relational aesthetics’. Pursuing contact may well have led to a lot of talk in the exhibition circuit, but a genuinely critical dialogue has been lacking until now. It’s more a question of talking for talking’s sake. According to Robert Garnett, ‘the exhibition as academy’ is weighed down by a threatening academicism. It’s time to disrupt the prevailing relationships.