“[Rirkit Tiravanija takes a] transnational perspective on … cultural difference, borders, and human interaction in public space.”
(pg. 35). Rirkrit Tiravanija, A Lot of People, MoMA PS1, NY. Mannarino, C. -> relational aesthetics
“questions that pull the viewer through the space […] through each artwork’s meticulously crafted materiality […]
“The Sum Total of the Things They Aren’t Telling Us (2023) offers a moment of contemplation but also emphasizes that something is lacking. There is a space for something communal but nobody is present […] The works imply the presence of bodies that are not represented […]
“[…] each bullseye suggests a narrative crosshair […] a never-ending Looney Tunes end-credit sequence.
[The lockboxes’] initial function is obsolete, there are no keys here […] the colours of both mainstream parties of the United Kingdom […] pressing these buttons changes the score on the scoreboard hung outside the bunker, but it takes a few trips back and forth to determine this.”
(Pg. 45.) Gray Wielebinksi, The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low, ICA, London. Wasser, F.
“The six photographs here are of two types: three recall the regal sixteenth-century portraiture that her costume approximates; the other three are more humorous, showing Antin as “the king” touring his realm: in line at the grocery store, drinking beer with surfers at the beach, and chatting with an older man on the sidewalk […]
“While showing these artists together is undoubtedly fruitful […] the close ties between them diminish the stakes of the exhibition. They are almost so complementary as to leave nothing askew, no new threads to pull. Given the artists’ interest in alternative understandings of identity and community, this felt like a missed opportunity […]”
(pg. 41) Eleanor Antin and My Barbarian, MCASD – Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Ohringer, S.
“hyphenated readymades […] cheap commodities suggesting ersatz glam […] mirror the anxieties of class, taste and aspiration”
(pg. 37) Kayode Ojo, EDEN, 52 Walker, NY, Mallet, W.