Exhibition Essays 2010

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Zeesy Powers’ Projected Realities

by Gabrielle Moser
From the performace The Ghost and TOTAL PANIC (Friday, November 12, 2010)
The first time I encountered Zeesy Powers’ live, projected, animation performances, I was struck by how magical they are…

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Technologies of Intuition: Geoffrey Pugen’s Bridge Kids

by Eli Horwatt
From the exhibition Bridge Kids by Geoffrey Pugen (September 30 – November 6, 2010)
Geoffrey Pugen’s installation Bridge Kids could be likened to an accumulation of historical artifacts, each video and photograph seeming to provide further evidence for the existence of his principal creation—Julia Denzig…

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Seven fragments for Georges Méliès, Day for Night and Journey to the Moon

by William Kentridge
From the exhibition Journey to the Moon by William Kentridge (Septemeber 7 – September 19, 2010)
We have had a summer plague of ants in Johannesburg, thin trails of them exploring different shelves of the kitchen every night, a syrup stain on a breadboard, a moving black patch in the morning…

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This is uncomfortable

by Arpi Kovacs & Gabrielle Moser
From the exhibition This is uncomfortable (June 24 – July 31, 2010)
Present in the video works of Robert Lendrum, Elizabeth Milton and Sheila Poznikoff, Kika Nicolela, Melissa Pauw and Joshua and Zachary Sandler is the question of what happens when artists attempt to relate to and connect with their subjects through the medium of video…

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Cruel Story of Youth (About the Project Child’s Play)

by Guillaume Désanges
From the exhibition Child’s Play by Guillaume Désanges (June 10 – June 19, 2010)
I love performance because it is an immediate, mute, obvious and yet legible form of art…

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Firing upon the clocks: observations on the work of Eric Baudelaire

by Tim Saltarelli & Eric Baudelaire
From the exhibition Unfinished Business by Eric Baudelaire (May 6 – June 5, 2010)
When considering some of the larger thematics at play in Eric Baudelaire’s recent practice, one might do well to think of his piece The Makes

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Family Albums

by Daniel Baird
From the exhibition Dominion Street by Jaret Belliveau (February 4 – March 6, 2010)
When I was a child on summer visits to my grandmother’s house, built in the 1860s on an embankment above railroad tracks, I spent hours playing in its dusty, spacious attic…

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