HUNTING IN THE DARK

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  • Maria Eichhorn – ‘Das Geld der Kunsthalle Bern / Money at the Kunsthalle Bern’

    Maria Eichhorn‘s exhibition ‘Das Geld der Kunsthalle Bern / Money at the Kunsthalle Bern’ (2000) resulted from her research into funding of the exhibition and her decision to devote the entire budget for her show to the renovation of the building. The entire museum was on show during this renovation and visitors could watch the…

  • Willem de Rooij, Route langs 18 hoeken, 1993

    Willem de Rooij, Beverwijk (NL), 1969 Lives and works in Berlin (DE) Route Along 18 Corners, 1993/2010 Brochure Courtesy of the artist Route along 18 Corners belongs to a long tradition in which artists reflect on the conditions of the exhibition space. The work is a brochure setting out a route along 18 corners of…

  • Bethan Huws + Mies van der Rohe

    The site of this exhibition was one of a pair of Modernist villas built by Mies van der Rohe in 1928–30 that had been converted into gallery space. When artist Bethan Huws first saw the house she found it so beautiful that she decided to leave it empty for her exhibition, treating it as both…

  • Vides (Voids), A Retrospective @ Centre Pompidou

    Het begrip ‘leegte’ wordt in de kunst vaak beschouwd als een vorm van non-presentatie, een weigering kunst visueel te presenteren. Maar je kunt je afvragen wat die leegte nog voorstelt nu zij in de kunst zoveel nieuwe vormen van representatie heeft voortgebracht. Waar is de ‘leegte’, als zij altijd afhankelijk is van een zekere vorm…

  • Martin Creed Work No. 812

    Martin Creed Work No. 812.

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    art_theory_map.png PNG Image, 1800×878 pixels.

  • S(t)imulacrum(b)

    The Hyperreal: “From medium to medium, the real is volatilized, becoming an allegory of death. But it is also, in a sense, reinforced through its own destruction. It becomes reality for its own sake, the fetishism of the lost object: no longer the object of representation, but the ecstasy of denial and of its own…

  • Introduction to Mind and Consciousness

    The investigation of mind is closely related to the field of epistemology, the part of philosophy that deals with knowledge and whose principal question is: “What can we know?” Epistemology is not so much preoccupied with the process of accumulating knowledge, but with the validity of knowledge and how we can achieve certainty about it.…

  • ryoji ikeda  |  datamatics

    ryoji ikeda  |  datamatics.

  • Kabokov

    The ten characters are “The man who fled into his painting”, “The man who collects opinions of others”, “The man who flew out of his room into the space”, “The untalented artist”, “The little man”, “The composer”, “The col­lec­tor”, “The man who describes his life through other charac­ters”, “The man who saved Nikolai Viktorovich”, and…