Wednesday 11 December 2013
7pm
Ubu-Websday is a series of events where invited guests are asked to present a personal selection of material from one of the largest web-based archives, www.ubu.com. Our guests this evening are the artists »
Ubu-Websday is a series of events where invited guests are asked to present a personal selection of material from one of the largest web-based archives, www.ubu.com. Our guests this evening are the artists »
A preface
In the opening scene of George Romero’s Land of the Dead the camera sweeps over what seems to be a desolate landscape. Maybe a park, maybe a fun fair. However,… »
The task of translation is not limited only to the process of inter-linguistic correspondence. For artists especially, this activity opens up the potential for inter-semiotic transmission and transmutation as well. And, through this type of… »
Museum collections are created on assumptions that have seen their hay days. This is a fact that all museums are well aware of and they are looking for strategies to deal with their legacy in the… »
On view is the exhibition Reading: “The World in Which We Live” with works by Dan Graham, Camille Henrot and A-L. Löfberg.
Please note that we will be closed during the day, but open as usual on Sunday the… »
Versatile, courageous, contrary, intuitive, unpredictable, impulsive, impatient, original. This could be the initial words of a horoscope, or the introduction to an exhibition that unfolds… »
Melanie Smith´s work is informed by the legacy of modernist painting, but overlaps into photography, video, and installation. Since 1989 she has lived and worked in Mexico City, an experience that has enormously influenced her works ever since. Past… »
Greece Gropers Foundation is a fictional institution and play authored by artists Jeuno JE Kim and Lasse Krog Møller. Greece Gropers, the fictive “founder” of the institution is an anagram of author Georges Perec, whose literary methods and games… »
This cinematic essay posits science fiction (with tropes such as alien abduction, estrangement, and genetic engineering) as a metaphor for the Pan-African experience of forced displacement, cultural alienation, and otherness. Akomfrah’s… »
The evening is dedicated to difficulties of speech.
An artist at work with paintbrush and a palette on a portrait of the patron –… »