Vessel (Navine G.Dossos and James Bridle)
Super Kiosk is the remodelling―for a new age―of a prominent prototype, found in all Greek cities, that cater to all sorts of disparate needs (thirst, hunger, information). In this case, the Super Kiosk is a structure for making tea and generating new ideas. A stand-alone platform for sitting, reading, and imbibing is supplemented with solar-powered […]
Sky Hopinka
In the spring of 2016, the indigenous communities of Standing Rock, North Dakota (US) made a global call to defend the water and ecosystems of their ancestral land that were threatened by the construction of an oil pipeline. Their struggle―which continues to this day―rallied thousands of individuals and indigenous tribes in the region, and received […]
Piero Gilardi
Piero Gilardi was born in Turin in 1942 and studied at the Art School and at the Accademia Albertina in Turin. A pioneer of the Arte Povera movement which saw Italian artists taking radical stances against institutions and systems of government, Gilardi’s artistic practice evolved around experiments with synthetic materials and forms that diverged from […]
Jumana Manna
Jumana Manna’s installation Sketch and Bread is a sculptural homage to cast-offs, the excesses of urbanity, and forms of decay. In Old Bread, the fragility and fragmented plurality of the ‘breads’ in display are suggestive of ceramic shards found in archaeological excavations. Taking as a starting point the process of decay as a part of […]
Jumana Emil Abboud
Jumana Emil Abboud’s artistic practice involves researching into fairytales, myths, and lullabies cradled by generations of women as a form of remembrance of Palestinian water sources long gone, erased by the occupation. These women, these stories became the care-takers and protectors of landscapes from which they were violently uprooted; carrying them still in their language, […]
Iva Radivojević
“I saw the Aleph from every point and angle, and in the Aleph I saw the earth and in the earth the Aleph and in the Aleph the earth; I saw my own face and my own bowels; I saw your face; And I felt dizzy and wept, for my eyes had seen that secret […]
Hira Nabi
How to Love a Tree is the opening chapter of Hira Nabi’s broader ongoing exploration of forests, trees, and our relationship to them. In Nabi’s immersive four-channel video-installation, co-supported by the Thessaloniki Biennale, we witness four musicians, invited by Nabi to improvise, on their respective musical instruments, each performing for an ailing or dying tree. […]
Gianfranco Baruchello
Gianfranco Baruchello was part of the European avant-garde movement of the 1960’s, spending time between New York, where he counted John Cage as a friend, and Paris, where he took part in the revolts of 1968, with friends Felix Guattari, Alain Jouffroy, and Jean Jacques Lebel. In the early sixties, in Milan, at the time […]
COYOTE
“Most anthropological theory (forget practice — there isn’t any) works by getting itself wrong and then trying to get itself right about why it was wrong in the first place.” Roy Wagner, The Coyote Anthropology The coyote is neither a wolf nor a dog, but an invasive species migrating from the New World; a metaphorical […]
Corinne Silva
Established in Cappadocia by the sisters Güler and Türkan, the garden at the centre of the two-channel video and textile installation, Flames Among Stones, is a haven, a fertile ground for going into resonance with the earth and its knowledge. Together with their daughters and granddaughters, the siblings quietly care for their enclave’s ecosystem and […]
