Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

The Object, the Image, and Equipo Hexágono: Rediscovering an Influential ’80s Collective, Cuban Art News, Published: May 30, 2017 Editor’s note: old news Curated by Aluna Curatorial Collective (Adriana Herrera and Willy Castellanos) The object and the image (this is not a chair either) opened this spring at the new and promising Concrete Space Projects in Doral. Aluna, …

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Editor: old news Aidan Dunne, From the Burren to Belfast: Sean Lynch removes our heritage from its neat packaging, The Irish Times, Feb 28, 2017 Lynch leaves us pondering on a kind of cultural uncertainty principle, and that notion carries over into his video fables in What Is an Apparatus? The title is taken from …

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Post-Internet Artists Crack Open Our Technological Past Editor’s note: old news A group show at Paris’s Galerie Charlot uses bygone tools and techniques to explore modern media. PARIS — Curator Valentina Peri has made smart, cross-generational, idea-based choices when formulating her excellent group show Archéonauts, the best of the Paris season. Citing Michel Foucault’s Archeology of Knowledge, the …

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Source: The Biscuit Collection of Michel Foucault | The Dots, Artist William Dalton A concept that used the format of a limited edition set of prints to communicate Michel Foucault’s philosophies of heterotopias and utopias. Inside the box are 30 photographs of biscuits unusually customised to describe either a heterotopia or a utopia. Foucault’s concepts …

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Heterotopic space opera | Vue Weekly, September 7, 2017 by Stephan Boissonneault Editor’s note: old news Travis McEwen’s exhibit tackles themes in an inventive sci-fi world Working in the medium of vibrant painting, Travis McEwen explores the themes of gender identity, queerness, science fiction, and the abstract in his exhibit, The Arch: Plans for a Heterotopic …

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This graphic novel is the biography of a painting. But perhaps it’s really about reality Review by Debkumar Mitra, Scroll.in, Published Oct 15, 2017 Santiago Garcia and Javier Olivares’s ‘The Ladies-In-Waiting’ tries to lift the veil of mystery over Velázquez’s famous work ‘Las Meninas’. A fictional account of a mysterious and famous painting and a …

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January 19 – Mar 10 2018 EX-VOTO the body + the institution – Galway Arts Centre Lucy Beech Jenna Bliss Cecilia Bullo Judy Foley Sinéad Gleeson Rajinder Singh   “the cataclysm which was my body…this dislocated assemblage, this piece of damaged geology.”The Peyote Dance, Antonin Artaud Ex-Voto is a group exhibition that addresses the colonisation of …

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Giampiero Assumma THE LOWER WORLD “The Lower World” is the title of Giampiero Assumma’s photographic long term project (2001-2014) on human alienation within the context of the last six criminal lunatic asylums in Italy, named ‘Ospedale Psichiatrico Giudiziario’ (O.P.G). These facilities, with the exception of one pioneering institution that was purely a psychiatric hospital, showed …

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Amelia Melbourne-Hayward, Temporary environments | Architecture Now, 22 August 2016 Young New Zealand artist Jillian Whitmore explores the intersection between art and architecture with her translucent watercolours. Whitmore will be exhibiting a solo exhibition titled Juncture at the Fine Arts Whanganui Gallery, opening Friday 26 August 2016. Here, she speaks with Amelia Melbourne-Hayward about her …

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