ASX.TV: Takashi Murakami, “The 500 Arhats” (2016)
A short preview of Takashi Murakami’s solo exhibition “The 500 Arhats,” open at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Saturday October 31, 2015 -Sunday March 6, 2016. ©2015 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Five Uneasy Pieces: An Interview with Juno Calypso
Reasons You’re Tired All the Time, 2013 “I feel like this question is saying ‘can you still be a feminist when your camera is aiming at your ass?” If so, my answer is yes.” BF: Within the theatricality of your images, you seem to be hinting at a considered perception of the feminine […]
Into the Subject’s World, Katja Stuke’s “Nationalfeiertag (National Holiday)”
These event headlines are embedded in this single image, now symbolic of defiance against the brute force of state power. It is both the beginning and the end – the beginning the event evokes and an end that stops at the image and caption. The news image of global importance is the both the beginning […]
Estelle Hanania and The Willful Art of European Disappearance
Estelle Hanania is what I would consider a sort of phenomenological anthropological photographer. When I say this, I mean to consider her an anthropologist with a camera interested in regarding a marginal culture shifts rather than a quotidian and beleaguered photographer attempting to secure an interesting topic. Do we always disappear? Does custom evade […]
Li-Mi-Yan’s Nausea
“These dreams were a product of the IV missing the vein repeatedly and causing a beautiful shade of crimson, blues, fading to yellow just under the parchment-like encasement”. There would always be consequences to these observations. The longer days when their skin dried out and flaked off to the pavement before being carried away by […]
“Rebirth Negated by Truant Hope” – Melinda Gibson & Brad Feuerhelm
I can imagine what it is to wake up in a city like Dresden the morning after being carpet bombed by Allied forces in 1945…
Greetings from Auschwitz: All I Miss is You
Images that travel; images for hire. The postmarking of images. The weathering and creasing defamation, which detracts the value of a post-card is insipid as to its method of its perceived “correct” representation or is it?
In The Studio With Hiroshi Sugimoto
Directed by Meredith Danluck Music by John Fraser Carpenter