The 14th Gwangju Biennale 7 April – 9 July 2023 The 14th Gwangju Biennale proposes to imagine our shared planet as a site of resistance, coexistence, solidarity and care by thinking through the transformative and restorative potential of water as a metaphor, a force, and a method. Soft and weak like water celebrates an aqueous …
Author Archives: Gorica Orsholits
In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities – Jean Baudrillard
States of Violence – Exhibition in London (March 24. 2023 to April 8. 2023)
The exhibition ‘States of Violence’ exposes top government cables leaked by Julian Assange and brings together the work of leading artists and agitators, unveiling forms of government oppression. The rebellious show is presented by the non-profit London-based arts organization a/political, marking an outstanding collaboration with WikiLeaks — the well-known NGO that operates a whistleblowing news …
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Review of A new dawn for politics by Alain Badiou; by Gorica Orsholits
A new dawn for politics is a collection of Alain Badiou’s writings from 2016 and 2020 which comprise essays and lectures on the ideological and political situation worldwide and in France. https://www.tankebanen.no/inscriptions/index.php/inscriptions/issue/view/10
Internationale Situationniste journal
Online archive of English translations of Internationale Situationniste, aka International Situationist: the journal of the Situationist International. Détournement as Negation and Prelude Détournement, the reuse of preexisting artistic elements in a new ensemble, has been a constantly present tendency of the contemporary avant-garde, both before and since the formation of the SI. The two fundamental …
The Loss of Object and Practice of Philosophy as Art: Interview with Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han in his latest book – Undinge (Nonobjects) claims that the age of object is over. “Today we are in the transition from the age of objects to the age of nonobjects. Information, not objects, now defines our environment. Under no circumstances do I want to praise old, beautiful objects. That would be very unphilosophical. …
Lee Ufan and Mono-ha: School of Things
Lee UfanTokyoAugust 10 (Wed.) – November 7 (Mon.), 2022The National Art Centerhttps://leeufan.exhibit.jp/english/ The National Art Center, Tokyo is exhibiting a major retrospective by Lee Ufan (Korean: 이우환, Hanja: 李禹煥, born in Haman County, in South Kyongsang province in Korea), Korean minimalist painter, sculptor artist and academic, honored by the government of Japan for having contributed …
Multiple Arts: Making Poetry
Poetry is the indeterminate unity of a set of qualities that are not restricted to the kind of writing called “poetry”. The history of poetry is the history of poetry’s persistent refusal to allow itself to be identified with any given poetic mode or genre – not in order to invent one that would be …
Philippe Beck’s art of poetry: the poems of Opéradiques
Contemporary French poet Philippe Beck through his intriguing poetic project Opéradiques (2014; which has yet to be translated into English) demonstrates a new understanding of writing poetry through the deconstructive, reconstructive, boustrophedon process. Beck finds the foundation of his art of poetry in the “ruins” of existing written poems, stories, texts of all genres and …
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Alain Badiou: The Immanence of Truths
Being and Event III The Being and Event trilogy is the philosophical basis of Alain Badiou’s entire oeuvre. It is formed of three major texts, which constitute a kind of metaphysical saga: Being and Event (1988), Logics of the Worlds (2006) and finally The Immanence of Truths (published 19 May 2022), which he has been …