“Our concept is to screw the authorities till they fall. Voina screws them in an artistic position.“
Voina Group-”voina” means “war” in Russian-is a Russian multi-disciplinary artists’ collective whose actions and performances hover between art, activism and politics. The Russian state has filed several criminal charges against some of its members and has even [...]

Who Cares? 16 Essays on Curating in Asia. Edited by Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya and Michael Lee. Hong Kong: Para/Site Art Space with Studio Bibliothèque and seed | projects, 2010. 187 pages. ISBN 9789889896393
By Irina Leyva-Pérez
This book opens the forum with a simple yet intriguing question: Is it different to curate an exhibition in [...]

By Carla Acevedo-Yates
Can art instigate social change? What can previous attempts to produce activist art teach us? It is a difficult task to assess the social and political impact of activist art. But perhaps the questions that arise with the proliferation of these practices are more important than any answers we can find.
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Susan Silton’s art sneaks up on you where you least expect it, often in public, on power boxes, billboards and fumigation tents, in postcards and posters, in whistling crowds and on Facebook. Silton’s work is all about communication (and lack thereof) and power (and lack thereof). Silton has cultivated a thriving practice with her [...]

By Michele Robecchi
When the eminent professor Arnold Bode initiated Documenta in 1955, his primary goal was to show the ‘Entartete Kunst’ (degenerated art) erstwhile banned from his country by giving movements such as Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism and fundamentally anything remotely abstract the first opportunity to be viewed in post-war Germany. It was clearly [...]

By Paco Barragán
Biennials have become very popular. They are like ready-mades, and like ready-mades, carry contradictory connotations. By “popular,” I mean a kind of artistic platform or product that is globally ubiquitous. Through this article I will introduce a critical perspective to the biennial phenomenon based on two paradigms: the economic and conceptual [...]

Xaviera Simmons creates photographs, installations and multimedia works that use landscape as a base on which to layer complicated characters and open-ended, non-linear narratives. Using an amalgamation of histories and memories as communicated over time through text and images, Simmons creates new characters that depart from and engage with the histories locked within [...]

A Conversation between Tim White-Sobieski and Hans Op de Beeck
Visual artists Tim White-Sobieski (USA) and Hans Op de Beeck (Belgium) have accepted ARTPULSE’s invitation to discuss their new media and film practices and the challenges of both current technology and the art market.

A Conversation between Marisa Jahn and Joseph del Pesco
On the occasion of the launching of Byproduct: On the Excess of Embedded Art Practices, published by YYZ BOOKS and REV, we have invited the editor, artist, and writer Marisa Jahn, and Joseph del Pesco, Program Director of Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco, one of the [...]

Peter Boswell has been Assistant Director for Programs/Senior Curator at the Miami Art Museum since 1999. Prior to the Miami Art Museum, Boswell served as Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome (1996-1999) and as a curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (1986-1996). He has a B.A. from the University of [...]

Christiane Paul is the Director of the Media Studies Graduate Programs at The New School, NY, and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her recent books are Digital Art (2003/2008), New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (2008) and Context Providers – Conditions of Meaning in Media [...]