By Christoph Cox
Philosophical aesthetics suffers from a peculiar arrogance toward its object of inquiry, an arrogance that the “non-philosopher” François Laruelle has termed “the principle of sufficient philosophy.”1 By this awkward phrase, Laruelle cites the pretension of philosophy to elevate itself above any object or discourse in order to offer a philosophy of [...]
This summer, the Museum of Modern Art in New York opens “Soundings: A Contemporary Score,” a much anticipated group exhibition that promises to present the work of some of the most innovative contemporary artists working with sound today. ARTPULSE took the opportunity to interview Barbara London, MoMA’s long-standing media art curator, who has [...]
In the lead up to Marco Fusinato’s work being featured in “Soundings: A Contemporary Score,“ which runs from August 10th to November 3rd at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), Emily Cormack spoke with the artist, whose practice is equal parts violent subversion and conceptual seduction. Fusinato has been working as [...]
Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer living in Berlin. His work explores questions of social life and agency, using sound, performance, text and sited constructions. He also develops platforms for publishing and collaboration through Errant Bodies Press. His recent work has been presented at the Whitney Museum in New York (2012), Image [...]
By Michele Robecchi
At home with both high-value and down-home productions, Christian Marclay has established himself over the course of a 30-year career as a pioneer of sound and visual art. Following the success of The Clock, a 24-hour film that took about three years to be completed and is arguably Marclay’s most ambitious [...]
By Caridad Botella
MORE THAN SOUND
Sound became part of aesthetic experience in the beginning of the 20th century, when artist Marcel Duchamp made With Hidden Noise (1917), a collaborative work with artist and friend Walter Arensberg. This ready-made included a secret piece added by Arensberg inside a ball of twine stuck between two brass [...]
The nomination of Sarah Sze to represent the United States at the 2013 Venice Biennale is also the first time a relatively small institution such as the Bronx Museum is acting in a commissioning role. With Sze already in Venice working with local university students on her installation, ARTPULSE took the opportunity to [...]
Abstract Expressionist painter Ed Clark has been an influential figure in the world of painting for more than six decades. In addition to his signature push-broom sweep paintings, he was also an innovator in the field of shaped canvases and one of the original artists in the Brata Gallery during New York’s Tenth [...]
Working in a wide range of mediums including video, performance, installation and writing, Jill Magid creates art that examines the relationship between individuals and the monolithic social and political institutions-both official and informal-that surround and shape us. Many of her works involve a deliberate blurring of the boundary between art and life, and [...]
