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Rosemary Heather on why Ryan Trecartin makes art cool again

03.12.10
Any Ever, Ryan Trecartin The third time I visited Ryan Trecartin’s show of video installations, Any Ever in Toronto, it was near the end of the exhibition. A small army of people moved from room to room, notebooks in hand, recording their thoughts. Like few other art events I can think of, the show contained within it the seeds of a conversation. See Ryan Trecartin’s work and ...

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Matter Loves, Matter Lives, Matter Loves – the affective labour of the image in Hito Steyerl’s In Free Fall by Bridget Crone

08.10.10
In Free Fall, Hito Steyerl, 2010, exhibition at Picture This, image courtesy of the artist What is it like to experience the duration of two minutes in film? One minute? Hito Steyerl’s latest work, In Free Fall – a co-commission by Chisenhale Gallery, Picture This and the Collective Gallery – begins with the announcement “2 minutes to screening” and so we experience the duration of this ...

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22.09.10
The War According to eBay, Hito Steyerl Hito Steyerl’s In Free Fall premiered at Collective Gallery, Edinburgh and is showing at Picture This, Bristol from 1-30 October 2010, and at Chisenhale Gallery, London from 4 November to 19 December 2010. For some summer lulz, I chatted on email with German artist Hito Steyerl over a couple of weeks in August. A somewhat protracted process, I found it ...

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17.07.10
Maryam Jafri, Death With Friends (work in progress), production still, image courtesy of the artist Maryam Jafri is an artist based in New York City and Copenhagen. Her work, Death With Friends was the subject of a lecture that the artist gave as part of the Media Art Bath programme, A theatre to address: a festival of textual form – concrete, material, scripted and performed, at ...