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We asked choreographer Ralph Lemon to talk about ephemerality in relationship to his work in the dance field.

The co-curators of Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen discuss lost languages and the politics of ephemerality in this exhibition walkthrough.

The curators of Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen discuss lost languages and the politics of ephemerality in this exhibition walkthrough.

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In the New Directions collection, Whitney Monaghan considers queer mash - up videos as sites reflecting the desire of fans to hold onto fleeing moments of screen queerness, positioning them as an archive of queer ephemerality.

Joan Didion has written, and better than no one else, about Miami as a transient metropolis, one that's been built in the image of so many Cuban cities, and one that seems like it will, if not exactly crumble, reveal its essential ephemerality when so many of its Cuban - born citizens feel like they finally have the license to return to their homeland.

But there's a deeper value here teased out in themes that few filmmakers, apart from Sweden's savage Roy Andersson, would dare: the ephemerality of existence, the need to emotionally invest in these fragile four - legged totems.

From the visually abstract meditations on mortality in Decasia (2002) to the haunting exploration of a historic natural disaster in The Great Flood (2012), his found - footage films are anchored by an abiding fascination with the ephemerality of physical media and the beauty of its disintegration.

And with the need for more velocity comes the need for more ephemerality: Each appearance by the celebrity on the smartphone screen must manage to be both instantly attention - grabbing and instantly forgettable, so as not to overtax the brain of the viewer while at the same time building up the «mental availability» that is crucial to selling brands, especially in highly fragmented, mass - market product categories like fragrances, mobile apps, and clothing where the Kardashians do especially well.

The strength of Tiravanija's work lies precisely in its ephemerality, and the slippery ways it escapes definition, the way it takes the material of the every - day and re-stages it, allowing the viewer a perspective at once banal and deeply profound about the quickly fleeting nature of life itself.

This «line», striking for its humanly warmth, exposes the fruitlessness of drawing borders and boundaries with its ephemerality, and seems to foreshadow in some way his later «Boundless» thinking.

According to the press release, «Themes of whimsy and ephemerality connect the selected artworks on exhibit in «INCITE.»

Work by local artists will be in conversation with pieces that will be traveling from as far as Alaska and France for a truly transnational exploration of ephemerality.

I'm really interested in your use of materials, which for me seem to play with notions of weight and weightlessness, ephemerality and permanence.

Instead, the careful selection of artists and works included in the exhibition encourage the visitor to reconsider the unique properties of the medium - primarily its ephemerality, and the ease with which it can be transformed into a variety of different objects - and, in doing so, Paper sheds a new light on this medium as both a raw material and a vehicle for artistic expression.

In her most recent work, she treats her own body as one might play with their online avatar, given the ephemerality and flexibility of its digital presentation.

In 1974 he founded, together with a group of artists, writers, film - makers, performance artists and musicians, the Laboratoire Agit» Art, whose aim was to transform the nature of artistic practice from a formalist, object - bound sensibility to practices based on experimentation and agitation, process rather than product, ephemerality rather than permanence.

Her work's ephemerality is pivotal to its content, which speaks to the presence of impermanence in everyday life and the possibility of responding to it with a sense of wonder and play rather than unease.

The flat, flashbulb - lit paintings of Richard Phillips have always seemed more destined for magazine (or album) covers than for the gallery setting — in fact, they often make their way into glossies like Elle, Visionaire, and Vogue China — but beneath the shallow surfaces of his celebrity portrayals lurk a troubled consciousness musing on ideas of ephemerality, objectification, and the high cost of cheap fame.

Albury uses analog materials to discuss ephemerality and invites spontaneous occurrences in everyday moments as a means to access the sublime.

Thick daubs of pigment and pasted - on sections of leaf - shaped paper articulate the tactile, fecund nature of the imagery, but long streaks of color also emphasize the blooms» ephemerality, as though their forms are dematerializing in front of the viewer's eyes.

[1] The conversation that constitutes a Tino Sehgal sale consists of his talking to the buyer (usually a representative from a museum) before a notary and witnesses, generally with about five legal stipulations of the purchase: that the work be installed only by someone whom Sehgal himself has authorized via training and prior collaboration; that the people enacting the piece be paid an agreed - upon minimum; that the work be shown over a minimum period of six weeks (in order to avoid allegations of ephemerality); that the piece not be photographed; and that if the buyer resells the concept, he does so with this same oral contract.

Kelly Akashi: Long Exposure 18/9/2017 -18 / 12/2017 Kelly Akashi is a Los Angeles - based artist working in sculpture and photography, often using materials like wax, glass, bronze, light, and air to emphasize time and ephemerality.

Kunitani's Spaceless Space in the back room explores the ephemerality of the viewer's relationship with artworks and space.

NIMk's curator Petra Heck chose to exhibit works wherein the following elements circulate freely: the free floating of information on the Internet resulting in ephemerality, temporarility and performativity and on the other hand the hybrid of digital, analogue and 3D elements.

In her practice, she tests the boundaries of «human minimality» in terms of the fragility and ephemerality of our bodies and employs the experience of the uncanny as the catalyst for conversation, creating complex virtual identitieIn her practice, she tests the boundaries of «human minimality» in terms of the fragility and ephemerality of our bodies and employs the experience of the uncanny as the catalyst for conversation, creating complex virtual identitiein terms of the fragility and ephemerality of our bodies and employs the experience of the uncanny as the catalyst for conversation, creating complex virtual identities.

Ephemerality is sometimes lacking in most gallery exhibitions due to the market pressure in our current commercial climate, so I felt my approach could rekindle aspects of 60's and 70's avant - garde performances as well as engage with the concept of sculpture as the medium, or starting point, for drawing.

The first iteration, Embodied Absence: Ephemerality and Collectivity in Chilean Art of the 1970s (Sep 2015 — Jan 2016), was organized by Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile with its substantial support in research and production of works, in collaboration with DRCLAS.

By manipulating colored monofilament and other tendril - like materials, I mean to construct a kind of substantive ephemerality, an accretion of marks and their shadows delineating maelstroms of visual noise; a luminous expanse in suspended animation, conjuring microscopic activity, arterial systems, dust, and weather.»

Contending with issues of ephemerality and loss within the geopolitical sphere of late - 20th century South America, the artworks on view in Embodied Absence: Chilean Art of the 1970s Now find deep resonance in the groundbreaking display next door at the Harvard Art Museums» exhibition Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning.

Munsell's latest exhibitions include Embodied Absence: Ephemerality and Collectivity in Chilean Art of the 1970s, Museo de la Solidaridad, Santiago; Marilyn Arsem: 100 Ways to Consider Time, MFA Boston; Conversation Piece, MFA Boston, in collaboration with Boston Ballet and Cultural Agents Initiative, Harvard University; Permission To Be Global / Prácticas Globales, CIFO Art Space, Miami, and MFA Boston; and Cuban Virtualities: New Media Art from the Island, Tufts University and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The exhibition also features traditional African Sona drawings, or sand drawings used in oral history, to draw connections to the ephemerality of such efforts of homogenized modernization.

Her work is in collaboration with forgotten spaces, exploring our relationships to architecture and space, specifically our homes and how the possible ephemerality of these spaces affects our psyche.

Chiara's photographs are strongly perceptual, eliciting a visceral response, yet are rendered in soft hues that exude a strong sense of the viscosity of material and the ephemerality of presence.

Among an ever expanding (and as Karen Barad might say, «entangled») list, I am inspired by the complex and contradictory city I live in (the city of Chicago) and the incredible community of hard working, sincere, talented artists who I am surround by and have the privilege of working alongside and in collaboration with every day (too many and to diverse to name individually here) / / by mentors A. Laurie Palmer and Claire Pentecost and Anne Wilson and Ben Nicholson / / by Simon Starling and Andrea Zittel and Mark Dion and Sarah Sze and Phoebe Wasburn and Mierele Laderman Ukeles and Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse and Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson / / by writers and philosophers Karen Barad and Jane Bennett and Rebecca Solnit and Italo Calvino and Steward Brand and the contributors to The Whole Earth Catalog (of which my father gave me his copies) and Ken Issacs and Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Cronon and Bruno Latour and Deluze and Guttari and Jack Burnham / / by ideas of radical intimacy and transformation and ephemerality and experimentation and growth and agency and mobility and nomadicism and balance and maintenance and survival and change and subjectivity and hylozoism and living structures / / by mycelium and soil and terracotta and honey and mead and wild yeast and beeswax and fat and felt and salt and sulfur and bismuth and meteorites and microbes and algae and oil and carbon and tar and water and lightening and electricity and oak and maple / / by exploration and navigation and «the Age of Wonder» and the Mir Space Station and the Deep Tunnel Project / / by Lake Michigan and the Chicago River and waterways and canals and oceans and puddles... to name a few.

Working on a monumental scale the artist Gordon Matta - Clark, from whose work the gallery takes its name, similarly redefined architecture in the 1970s, using massive slicings and excisions to suggest, among other things, the instability of the concept of property and the ephemerality of what we call real estate.

It is here when «Time» becomes the essence in Denzler's work, focusing in the diffraction of the images in an attempt to catch the ephemerality of a single moment in such a way that can remind us of paused picture frame from VHS reels.

In this work, the artist states, «I aspire to represent through the use of visual metaphor, and vibrant elements the potency and ephemerality of life and its natural cycles.»

The paintings in Kissing The Sun embody a celebration and nostalgia for the ephemerality of summer — how fragile, how precious — the relationship between what we feel and the elements.

The production of such works is, in effect, a ceremonial action, emptying the mind and evoking a combination of endurance and ephemerality.

In her work the nostalgia of growing up in the Caribbean entails the continued investigation of the commodified imagery of primitivism, folklore, fantasy, consumerism, spirituality and nature's ephemeralitIn her work the nostalgia of growing up in the Caribbean entails the continued investigation of the commodified imagery of primitivism, folklore, fantasy, consumerism, spirituality and nature's ephemeralitin the Caribbean entails the continued investigation of the commodified imagery of primitivism, folklore, fantasy, consumerism, spirituality and nature's ephemerality.

The Hirshhorn Museum's description for the show is very punctual and poetic at the same time: «In a world conditioned by the frantic, 24/7 flow of information and the ephemerality of digital media, many moving - image artists are countering these tendencies with works that emphasize slower, more meditative forms of perception.

Documenting the rare juxtaposition of water against a golden sweep of Nevada desert, mirrored in the oversize sky, Misrach points to the ephemerality of nature that photography is uniquely positioned to capture.

Such ephemerality is embraced by Cordova in this exhibition.

The work explores themes of consumption, ephemerality and craft, as well as gender roles in the home.

In her practice, meyers grapples with the philosophical aspects of uncertainty, materiality, and ephemerality.

Simultaneously, the artist also presents Phasma (2017), a series of new drawings and poems, created in Japan these last few months, and dealing with the feeling of suicide, life struggle and ephemerality.

McCarty, who has been obsessed with watercolor and its ephemerality since a massive wildfire burned down her home and studio in 1993, creates her work with wet - into - wet on loose sheets of watercolor paper.

Irgin Sena's work is substantial in its fragility: it explores the ephemerality of the representational structures and systems that constitute the foundations of our need to project significance, and perhaps narrative coherence, onto widely disparate signs.

Despite the substantial installations of artists such as Small, Ruby and Porras - Kim, however, «Made in L.A. 2016» may well be remembered for its ephemerality.

Visitors included publication contributors, curator Simon Dove, and composer Lisa Bielawa, whose entry on «Ephemerality» can be seen in the gallery.