Author Archives: jeudepaumeblog

Sara Eliassen

04 March 2019

Sara Eliassen’s (b. and b. in Oslo, 1977) site-specific video-intervention for her project The Feedback Loop, which also encompasses a film and conference program and an exhibition at Munchmuseet on The Move – Kunsthall Oslo, Dronning Eufemias gate 34, was displayed …

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Julieta Aranda

25 February 2019

“Ghost fishing” describes a highly destructive phenomenon that is activated when fishing nets get detached from their vessels and begin catching fish, coral reefs and other forms of marine life autonomously. As a consequence, entire ecosystems are being wiped out, …

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Uprisings at MUAC

30 January 2019

If an art necessarily imposed the shock or vibration the world would have changed long ago, and men would have been thinking for a long time. Gilles Deleuze, Cinéma II, p.152 The crowd’s chaotic moment is indeterminate, but to fetishize …

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Modernization as Consensual Abuse: Contemporary Art for Cuauhtémoc Medina

15 January 2019

I disagree with the way in which power is exercised in Mexico, but I participate in the consensus, as I choose not take up as a personal task to bring power down. Cuauhtémoc Medina (AM, 38) Art has a political …

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Neoliberalism, Modernity and Panic of Entropy: Undoing the Knot of the Anthropocene?

14 December 2018

When we are not elucidating the fact that the reality of humanity in the second decade of the 21st Century has literally become sci-fi, we can ponder that neoliberal common sense implies hostility to caring about others and to contributing …

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Silvia Gruner

30 November 2018

In Silvia Gruner’s (born 1959 in Mexico City, work there) work, the loop is the medium and temporality a mental structure in order to deliver mentalscapes of inhabitable locations. In her work, the surfaces of objects and the figments of the mind correspond to each other and film and video go beyond their status as indexes to function as analogies that suggest emotions, moods or states of mind.

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Allotropes in Dislocation

27 November 2018

Allotropy, from the Greek “allos” (other) and “tropos” (form) means “of another form”, and in chemistry, it designates the property of some chemical elements to exist in two or more different forms. Indeed, allotropes are different structural modifications of an …

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