A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
DECEMBER 31, 2020
JASON BUTLER'S EXHIBITION
Meyer Schapiro, “Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist and Society
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LIOR GALL, BRUSSELS, 2020
HIGHLIGHT:
LOVE LETTERS
A new participative project by artist Koen Vanmechelen
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LINDA KARSHAN AND THE BROOKLYN RAIL
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NOVEMBER 2020, LINDA KARSHAN
The Covid Conversation, A New Film
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PARIS, NOV. 6, 2020
ABËTËI by Ishmael Fiifi Annobil
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MATHILDE BRETILLOT
Designs new offices for Parfums de Marly, Paris
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BERLIN STUDIO VISIT - LUKAS HOFFMANN
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BERLIN
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GALERIE NÄCHST ST. STEPHAN ROSEMARIE SCHWARZWÄLDER, VIENNA
Friederike Mayröcker, Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist - until 10 Oct
Schutzgeister/Guardian Spirits
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JSVCPROJECTS AND KOEN VANMECHELEN
The Battery Channel Podcast
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ARTISTS IN THE STUDIO, JERSEY
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MANIFEST OF THE TRUE
A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
3 LOVE POEMS IN THE SUMMER
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SUMMER NEWS
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ROD MENGHAM,
Awarded the Cholmondeley Award for Poets
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JILL SILVERMAN VAN COENEGRACHTS RECOMMENDS
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LINDA KARSHAN
Studio visit
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STEFANO CIGADA,
"Frammenti" at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020!
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JSVCPROJECTS AND KOEN VANMECHELEN
The Battery Channel Podcast
September 9th 2020
The world we are living in today is not the world of the 1st of February 2020. There are orders around us that are so much vaster than we are. Everyone has been fundamentally changed.
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EPISODE III – UNCOMFORTABLE
08 September 2020
In this third episode of The Battery Channel, UNCOMFORTABLE, Jill Silverman Van Coenegrachts talks to Koen Vanmechelen. Together they explore the meaning of this moment in time. JSVC has been working with Koen Vanmechelen since 1999.
Your work has been building up a head of steam for 25 years to arrive at this point in time.
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We’re very pleased to speak on the subject of this transformative moment with Vanmechelen, whose work has made a singular point around diversity and transformation.
Coming out of the pandemic – we have seen this huge human awareness of social injustice. This is a moment of social change we have not seen since 1968. […] Every culture is trying to balance the economic needs of their community v the public health issues.
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Over this period, the work has systematically examined the relationship between human beings and nature. It continues to do so.
His work deals with these questions and these paradoxes from the very beginning by looking so clearly at the macrocosm of the chicken family.
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The conversation on art and COVID-19 starts with Joseph Beuys, on balance and nature.
The power of [Beuys’] vision was so palpable and it was a universal vision. Joseph Beuys was an artist who saw how everything was interconnected. He came to become a lightning rod for social change and a recalibration of the social order.
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The conversation looks at links between the death of George Floyd and the pandemic,
We have seen […] this huge human awareness of social injustice coming out of the terrible experience in the United States with George Floyd.
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It’s been over five months since COVID-19 forced us into a new way of connecting.
Art and the art world have a huge role to play in whatever is coming next and wherever we are right this minute. […] This is a transformative moment and I think art has an homeopathic position in the body politic of the world. […] Art has a way of influencing hearts and minds.
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The sculpture, UNCOMFORTABLE, defines this episode and title.
As Koen Vanmechelen describes:
I think the future is freedom. Freedom of thinking, freedom of speech.
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With this crisis, my work has become more visual, I can feel that.
Koen Vanmechelen
In the LABIOMISTA park you see all the installations with the animals, the chickens, the drama.
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How do we let a child be in the new world? Shall we block it from freedom, put in quarantine, shall we give him the liberty to exist?
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When the environment becomes more violent, we become more social.
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When I hear you, Jill, I can feel an energy and a passion that there is something about the future.
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I hope this pandemic but also its reaction bring us in a less designed world and in a more real and authentic world where true culture true art is knowledge and a discussion platform for further generations.
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Children are our immune system, their future is our health
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The pandemic has brought a profound change to our sensitivities as one global community.
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There has never been a more exciting time to be an artist.
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