Interventions, Volume 01, Issue 03: In and Out of the White Cube Recent years have witnessed a critical reexamination of traditional models and hierarchies of the museum and gallery system, especially in light of the global economic downturn. Meanwhile, there has been both a tremendous rise in the number of independent and artist-run spaces as … Read more
In and Out of the White Cube
In and Out of the White Cube, which took place at Columbia University on April 9, 2012, represents the second in a series of panel discussions – collectively entitled Exit Strategies – that focus on paradigm shifts in contemporary curatorial practice. Exit Strategies is organized by Ceren Erdem, Jaime Schwartz, and Lisa Hayes Williams as … Read more
Process of Crystallization: an interview with Aki Sasamoto on process, practice, and presentation
by Daisy Nam* Since 1976 when Brian O’Doherty’s essay, “Inside the White Cube” was published in ArtForum, artists and curators continue to discuss the ramifications of an artwork’s content relative to its context in gallery spaces and systems. On a balmy day this April, I met with artist Aki Sasamoto in her studio to speak … Read more
artist’s project: The Anywhere (I’m Feeling An Emotion; Film Me.)
by Jordan Rathus* Out of the Bathroom; and In to Character: Out of the Woodshop; and In to THE GAME SHOW: Meanwhile, At the Studio – *Jordan Rathus is a 2012 graduate of the MFA Program in Columbia University School of the Arts.
Pushing through Gridlock: Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1950-1970
by Anne Bruder* In a 1972 ArtForum feature, Peter Plagens wrote, “L.A. is an elusive place: all flesh and no soul, all buildings and no architecture, all property and no land, all electricity and no light, all billboards and nothing to say, all ideas and no principles…you wouldn’t expect L.A. to have much culture and … Read more
Artist’s Project: Capsule 01
by Hayal Pozanti* *Hayal Pozanti is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2011. Her work has been recently shown at Silverman Gallery, San Francisco.
Nomadologies: Itinerant Objects and the Italian 1960s
by Lisa Hayes Williams* The model in question is one of becoming and heterogeneity, as opposed to the stable, the eternal, the identical, the constant. – Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari From September 2011 to April 2012, eight institutions in seven Italian cities simultaneously participated in the … Read more
Artist’s Project: Between the lines
by Jin Joo Chae* “The world is full of signs and information, which stand for things that no one fully understands because they, too, turn out to be more signs for other things. The real thing remains hidden. No one gets to see it.” Zumthor, Peter: Thinking Architecture, Boston: Basel, 1999. *Jin Joo Chae is … Read more
Lygia Clark, Marina Abramović and the Performance-Art-Architecture Complex
by Sarah Rafson* The white cube, an architectural model that is now so cliché as to be nearly inextricable from the institutional space of art museums, was not an inevitable development, but one that arose in tandem with the modern art that it was designed to hold. Hal Foster describes the complicated relationship between the … Read more
Artist’s Project: Appropriate, Subvert, Activate!
by Marcos Zotes* Appropriate, Subvert, Activate! identifies the limitations of urban public space, which has not only been restricted in physical terms but also in terms of self-autonomy and spontaneous social manifestation. This illicit intervention is a call for action that seeks to create moments of antagonism –however transitory, fragmentary and ephemeral– in which the … Read more
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: On the Political Present and the Recovery of Lost Ideas
by Evan Neely* All statements made in the following are my own and do not reflect the opinions of the Occupy movement as a whole, including the opinions that Occupy is a movement and that it is a whole.[1] “We must get rid of the conception of artistic ownership. … We try to secure a livelihood … Read more
Artist’s Project: Surname
by Kate Peterson* “Surname” is an installation that emerged from the search for my relatives disconnected through adoption. It includes a video projection on linen, two photographic pieces, three chairs, and red curtains. The photographs are from a large format, black and white, family album that I have been working on for eight years. I … Read more
The Void
by Helene Nguyen* From February 25 through March 23, 2009, the entire north wing of the Centre Pompidou’s fourth floor was completely emptied for a conceptual exhibition titled Voids: A Retrospective. According to Pompidou curator Laurent Le Bon, “Far from being a practical joke, Voids in fact asks a series of simple yet radical questions … Read more
unlimited edition
by R. Lyon* Each issue of Interventions will feature an artwork or image from a selected artist that will exist as a single-page pdf, available for download as an unlimited edition. Download your copy: Essential Items “The artists work as a series of 4″ inch cubes” Featuring the entire graduating class of the Columbia University MFA program. On … Read more
