The exhibition «Pleated Blinds» offers an international perspective on the status of photography and the intricate nature of representation in
the contemporary cultural sphere.
Not exact matches
Postcommodity works to forge new metaphors capable of rationalizing our shared experiences within this increasingly challenging
contemporary environment; promote a constructive discourse that challenges the social, political and economic processes that are destabilizing communities and geographies; and connect Indigenous narratives of
cultural self - determination with the broader public
sphere.
In his new publication Jens Hoffmann reflects on the spaces of
contemporary art — the gallery, the institution, the biennial — and ultimately positions the discipline of curating in the context of a larger
cultural sphere shaped by the political, social, and economic conditions of its time, while demanding new attitudes and new thinking.
The artists, exhibitions, cities, and events gathered below reveal a year of boundaries being broken — of
contemporary art becoming increasingly diverse and dispersed, and of artists asserting influence in the wider
cultural and political
sphere.
Art Slant Chicago Art Talk Chicago Bad at Sports Bite and Smile Brian Dickie of COT Bridgeport International Carrie Secrist Gallery Chainsaw Calligraphy Chicago Art Blog Chicago Art Department Chicago Art Examiner Chicago Art Journal Chicago Artists Resource Chicago Art Map Chicago Art Review Chicago Classical Music Chicago Comedy Examiner Chicago
Cultural Center Chicago Daily Views Chicago Film Examiner Chicago Film Archives Chicago Gallery News Chicago Uncommon Collaboraction
Contemporary Art Space Co-op Image Group Co-Prosperity
Sphere Chicago Urban Art Society Creative Control Defibrillator Devening Projects Digressions DIY Film ebersmoore The Exhibition Agency The Flatiron Project F newsmagazine The Gallery Crawl... Galerie F The Gaudy God Happy Dog Gallery HollywoodChicago Homeroom Chicago I, Homunculus Hyde Park Artcenter Blog InCUBATE Joyce Owens: Artist on Art J - Pointe Julius Caesar Kasia Kay Gallery Kavi Gupta Gallery Rob Kozlowski Lookingglass Theatre Blog Lumpen Blog Marquee Mess Hall N'DIGO Neoteric Art NewcityArt NewcityFilm NewcityStage Not If But When Noun and Verb On Film On the Make Onstage Peanut Gallery Peregrine Program Performink The Poor Choices Show Pop Up Art Loop The Post Family The Recycled Film Reversible Eye Rhona Hoffman Gallery Roots & Culture Gallery SAIC Blog The Seen Sharkforum Sisterman Vintage Site of Big Shoulders Sixty Inches From Center Soleil's To - Do's Sometimes Store Steppenwolf.blog Stop Go Stop Storefront Rebellion TOC Blog Theater for the Future Theatre in Chicago The Franklin The Mission The Theater Loop Thomas Robertello Gallery threewalls Time Tells Tony Wight Gallery Uncommon Photographers The Unscene Chicago The Visualist Vocalo Western Exhibitions What's Going On?
Beckman's innovations overlap two
cultural spheres — neither completely in line with the vernacular of the American structural filmmakers in which it was exhibited cinematically in festivals — nor maximized to its full potential in
contemporary art durational venues, where opportunities for installations focusing on projection, sculpture and sound were limited.
He recently completed a solo exhibition at The Co-Prosperity
Sphere (C - PS), an experimental
cultural center in Chicago, and participated in the Wisconsin Triennial at the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Madison.
Although in the past Gordon's installations have investigated the sonic infrastructure of concert stadiums and military testing sites, for Catchy she tackles a
sphere of
cultural production fraught with meaning for
contemporary subjectivity: the recording studio.
Previous works have looked to the
contemporary media
sphere and its relationship to the visceral body, the degenerative aspects of pervasive new technologies, to
cultural forms of fanaticism and cults, to ideas of attraction and repulsion, body horror, the defamiliarisation of the human body and cartoon abjection.