A Daze in the Life
By
Ben Portis
The Clock collates many accounts of, attitudes toward and explanations for time—fateful, profound, naïve, romantic, comic, fatuous—the point being not to separate sense from ...
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Date:
September 30, 2013
Tags:
Christian, Clock, Marclay, Telephones
Unsettled Objects (The Alchemy of Dispossession and Display)
By
Gina Badger
Tools for Conviviality, The Power Plant’s Summer 2012 group exhibition, presented a lively collection of work from ten artists and groups. This essay develops a reading of three work...
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Date:
February 04, 2013
Tags:
Abbas, Akhavan, Badger, Boisjoly, Conviviality, for, Gina, Illich, indigeneity, Ivan, objects, occidentalis, Raymond, thuja, Tools
Knowledge Held in Suspense: A Conversation with Kerry Tribe
By
Rosemary Heather
Toronto-based writer Rosemary Heather spoke to Los Angeles-based artist Kerry Tribe during her solo exhibition Speak, Memory at The Power Plant (24 March – 3 June 2012). This excerpt...
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Date:
June 14, 2012
Tags:
&, ________, Be, Elsewhere, film, Godard, Here, Jean-Luc, Kerry, Peter, There, Tribe, video, Will, Wollen
An over attachment or excessive engagement that goes beyond the intellectual
By
Sarah Todd
Last summer I participated in a project called Group Affinity at the Kunstverein München, working with Cinenova, a collectively run feminist film distributor based in London, UK. I became...
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Date:
April 30, 2012
Tags:
Art, Catherine, Cinenova, fandom, feminism, Feminist, film, Gallery, Grant, of, Sarah, Todd, University, York
The Plot and An Economy of Means-being-means
By
Sharon Kahanoff
Storytelling feels like it’s been “out of fashion” for many years, perhaps as long ago as the late 1970s. At that time, political critiques began linking the form of narrative, on...
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Date:
November 17, 2011
Tags:
Agamben, Cytter, de, economics, Gruyter, Harald, Isabelle, Jos, Keren, means, narrative, Pauwels, plot, Thys, video
The Long Glance
By
Jonathan VanDyke
On June 3rd I turned my gaze away from Jackson Pollock’s 1952 painting Convergence after staring at it for forty hours. To enact The Long Glance, as I had titled my perform...
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Date:
August 02, 2011
Tags:
Abstract, albright-knox, convergence, expressionism, glance, jackson, jonathan, longest, pollock, vandyke
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: Phantom Truck + Always After
By
Edward Kanerva
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s work utilizes sound, film and sculpture to engage viewers in phenomenological experiences that present and problematize sociological issues such as the history of mode...
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Date:
March 09, 2011
Tags:
After, Always, climate, Comedy, Dante, Divine, exhibition, Iñigo, Manglano-Ovalle, Phantom, Truck