" Isa Genzken's work explores the space between public claims and private artistic autonomy, thus defining an interface where the personal and the universal meet. The formal and the conceptual rigour at the root of her approach is tempered by unrestricted freedom, producing works that can be interpreted and experienced on very different levels. "

Transmediale

January 31 - February 5 2012

" transmediale 2012 is an in/compatible being. Incompatibility is the condition that arises when things are not working together. With transmediale 2012, we are investigating the productive and destructive sides of incompatibility as a fundamental condition for cultural production in times of crisis. In this context transmediale 2012 calls for a transversal approach. With our theme in/compatible we are acknowledging that there is equally the need for creative hacks and modifications, as there is a need for a refusal of the quick re-integration into business as usual. "

Club Transmediale: Spectral

January 30 - February 5 2012

" With the theme Spectral, CTM.12 dedicates itself to the musical and medial visitations of rejectedpast aesthetics and their unredeemed utopias or dystopias, the uncanniness of media's hallucinatory effects as well as the quest for experiences of transcendence. DIY-media-archaeology, the exploration of the deep material structures of sounds, media and archives, the offensive recourse on past aesthetics to the point of the archaic, a visible superimposition of different temporalities, psychotropy, occult media, private mysticism, deception, mundane alchemy or specific forms of negativity as an at times bitter, at times euphoric rejection of the presence – these all provide points of entry into current constructions of reality, to respectively adjure or exorcise the inherent ghosts."

" Tino Sehgal is an artist based in Berlin. His works, which he calls " constructed situations" , involve one or more people carrying out instructions conceived by the artist. "

unitednationsplaza is an art project as school.

Watch the seminar " The Withdrawal of the Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster" hERE

" The more one looks at Thomas Ruff's work, the more one retains in one's visual memory, the more each part seems to be relating to an ever-changing, still elusive whole. " Vivian Rehberg

Read the full article in Tate Magazine

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The Urban Cultures of Global Prayers

Onview until: January 8, 2012