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 …
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Dissent of Zenitism – A Tribute
Artistic, Programmatic, Aesthetic, Political and Existential Critique of the World The journal Zenit (Zenith) was a Yugoslav avant-garde review of new art and culture, initiated in 1921 by the poet and critic Ljubomir Micić. Until 1923, it was published in Zagreb, and subsequently in Belgrade. Zenit was sharply criticised, prohibited even, and accused of being …
Dissent as an Event in Art
Carla Lonzi, Art Critic – Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) – An Excerpt It wasn’t an interest in art, my interest that is, at the beginning, I have to tell the truth, if I retrace the steps from the very beginning it comes out that I immediately had this existential feeling, like a warning from within, but my …
Films of protest/rebellion/revolution
October: Ten Days That Shook the World, 1927 This film is the final part of director Sergei Eisenstein’s trilogy. He admitted that the revolution had “given him the most precious of all things: It made him an artist.” Chapaev, 1934 This is a film by the Vasiliev brothers about self-sacrificing Red Army commander Vasily Chapaev, …
Philosophy and Politics
Justice is the philosophical name of the inconsistency, for the state, of any equalitarian political orientation. And we can here join the declarative and axiomatic vocation of the poem. For it is Paul Celan who probably gives us the most exact image of what we must understand by ʻjusticeʼ: On inconsistencies Lean:flickin the abyss, in …
Rhapsody for the Theatre
[ … ] next to the spiritual suspicion that befalls theatre, there is always the vigilant concern of the State, to the point where all theatre has been one of the affairs of the State and remains so to this day! Who fails to see that this territorial and mental division has the additional merit …
‘The Political Possibility of Sound’
The themes of these seven essays emerge from and deepen discussions started in Voegelin’s previous books, Listening to Noise and Silence and Sonic Possible Worlds. Continuing the methodological juxtaposition of phenomenology and logic and writing from close sonic encounters, each represents a fragment of listening to a variety of sound works, to music, the acoustic …
Reappraising Tel Quel
It is thus within language, now grasped somehow mathematically as our milieu of transformation, that we must pose the problems that concern us – this is to say, outside of the notion of a character (to the degree to which you, actors, authors and readers of this life, you take yourselves for characters, you give …
Does the Notion of Activist Art Still Have Meaning?
Alain Badiou recognizes the ontological difference between an art of representation – official art – which presumes that the result of political emancipation is present, and an art able to create emancipatory change through its own presentation – militant art – that is an art of the current situation which is not compatible with the …
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On the Borders of Fiction
“I think documentary is not about confession, but about what it means to confess or to testify. My own position trades on overturning the question, on saying that it is not true that people want the real, that it is not true that they don’t want fiction. Fiction is everywhere. The question is: where do …