Editor: “la critique, ce sera l’art de l’inservitude volontaire, celui de l’indocilité réfléchie. La critique aurait essentiellement pour fonction le désassujetiissement dans le jeu de ce qu’on pourrait appeler, d’un mot. la politique de la vérité” Michel Foucault, Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi, Vrin, 2015, p.39 inservitude dans le cadre …
Lorenza Mezzapelle Making a case for research-based art, The Concordion, November 5, 2019 [Editor: Update 26 February 2026. Link above is to the archived page on the Wayback Machine] The Empty S(h)elf is on display at Artexte, at 2 Ste-Catherine St. E, Suite 301, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, until Jan. 25, 2020. The gallery is open …
A look at just some of the work displayed at the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto Life, Jean Grant | Photography By Gabby Frank | September 25, 2019 Editor: Update 12 February 2026. Link above is to the page archived on the Wayback Machine. The Toronto Biennial of Art is a brand-new, totally free …
FORMAT19: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Leah Gordon Exhibition at Format 19 Forever//Now Festival of photography FORMAT19 – University of Derby, Derby 15th March – 14th April […] In Michel Foucault’s book Discipline and Punish, the author moves the panopticon beyond a function of discipline into an apparatus of power, a …
Rosie Hastie: Pendulous, Art Guide Australia, 16 January 2019 Bett Gallery 18 January—9 February 2019 Tasmanian artist Rosie Hastie exploits the photographic medium like an illusionist. To create her work, Hastie combines skillfully placed lighting with wads of crumpled paper to produce the impression of a fantastical landscape. Conjuring lo-fi special effects made with a …
Reconstructing the Japanese house | The Japan Times BY JOHN L. TRAN, AUG 13, 2017 Editor’s note: old news After very successful runs in Rome and London, “The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945,” an exhibition of maquettes, photographs, plans and drawings, is now in the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. For providing …
Madness and Civilisation. Exhibition by Kudzanai Chiurai. Mail and Guardian, 11 May 2018 Madness and Civilisation: Kudzanai Chiurai’s ongoing interest in the cyclical nature of struggle, liberation and freedom is brought to light in Madness and Civilisation. The exhibition takes its title from Michel Foucault’s book, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of …
How ruling class controls the public Gao Lei addresses power, violence By Kwon Mee-yoo. Korea Times, Dec 2017 Exhibition ran until January 7 2018 Editor’s note: old news Chinese artist Gao Lei explores the power, control and violence of the ruling class in contemporary society through witty and allegorical art. “I was inspired by French …
The Quietus | Features | Craft/Work | Into The Voids: Traversing The Work Of Raymond Depardon, December 2017 Editor’s note: old news Extract At the Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson in Paris, Adam Scovell explores one of the most important European post-war photographers still working today. […] Depardon captures institutes with a rare eye; the faces …
BBC – Culture – Magritte and the subversive power of his pipe By Cath Pound, 5 December 2017 René Magritte’s The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe) is one of the most famous yet persistently enigmatic works in the history of art. One of the word-image series of paintings in which the Belgian …
