On one level, this show is a curatorial coup, tying together different themes with works from
various global collections.
Not exact matches
Their work has appeared in several group shows, including Integration and Resistance in the
Global Age at the Havana Biennale, ABSA L'Atelier in Johannesburg and Power Play at Goodman Gallery Cape, as well as
various private and public
collections, including the Durban Art Gallery and the South African National Gallery.
The full program will feature Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Hairy Who Artists; Diego Perrone, Eugenio Re Rebaudengo, Letizia Ragaglia and Ilaria Bonacossa on contemporary art in Italy; Matthieu Poirier and Daniel Buren on the intersections of art and architecture; Dan Cameron, Anthony Elms and Irene Hofmann on the difference between American and European international exhibition models in «Biennale Biennial;» a discussion on contemporary photography with curator and author of Photography is Magic, Charlotte Cotton, in conversation with
various artists through the Aperture Foundation; the impact of contemporary design criticism and its discourse featuring Alice Twemlow among others; and Thelma Golden, Solveig Øvstebø and Franklin Sirmans in conversation with Jacob Proctor on the
global influence of museum
collections and exhibitions.
It would be cool to see a wide
collection of maps covering many different issues, not just climate and food production, but, for instance, poverty and wealth, arms production and war, clothing production and leisure time, education levels, consumption, production, health, population growth and decline, movement of immigrants, human rights, animal populations, housing ownership, housing starts, anything basically which can be measured in a visual map... not just for the US but as
global maps, collected on pages where you could drag them around to sit on top of each other and try and make sense of the
various impacts...
Individual decisions about how to direct capital to
various energy projects — related to the
collection, conversion, transport and consumption of energy resources — combine to shape
global patterns of energy use and related emissions for decades to come.
There is a
collection of weather data called the
global historical climatology network (GHCN), but most of the data was collected from
various other sources, and lumped together, so the word network might be misleading.