Cut Out or Cut In? A Reflection on Contemporary Insurrectional Art and Media is the talk and panel that will launch the special issue titled "CUT" of the Journal of Visual Culture, which is edited by Lanfranco Aceti, and features contributions by Bill Balaskas, Marina Gioti, Katerina Koskina, Nikos Navridis, Poka-Yio, Artemis Potamianou, Maria Tsagkari, Maria Tsantsanoglou, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Kostis Velonis and Yorgos Zois. Before
The exhibition An Opera of Labour and Revolution takes an unsentimental look at the collective and its expressions both today and in the past, juxtaposing artworks based on the iconography of heroic, revolutionary gestures or collaborative, unified action. The artists selected for this exhibition are Bill Balaskas, Paolo Cirio, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Felix Gmelin and Taus Makhacheva. The exhibition reminds of the
Car Park is a new participatory performance and installation in public space by Lanfranco Aceti, curated by Helen Sloan, Director of SCAN, as part of the exhibition Internet of Cars at the Hansard Gallery in Southampton. The works that comprise Car Park are inspired by themes of hard labor, economic exploitation, erosion of social rights and socio-political deprivation. The installation and public performances will take place in Southampton
Suggestions for Art That Could Be Called Red is the new exhibition by the Museum of Contemporary Cuts (MoCC), which presents artworks by Bill Balaskas, Felix Gmelin, Benjamin Grosser, Karl Heinz Jeron, Kevin Logan, Owen Mundy and Charmaine Ortiz. The exhibition is curated by Lanfranco Aceti and Susanne Jaschko. The exhibition launches a provocation and asks a series of questions on contemporary social structures. What
In Your Face by Lanfranco Aceti is a new installation and series of artworks curated by Susanne Jaschko and Marquard Smith. The event is part of the Platform Project @ Art-Athina, Director Artemis Potamianou - May 15-18, 2014. The artist will buy 5 screams for fifty euros and resell them at 500,000 euros. In an age in which, after having been left at the margins
Red Art: New Utopias in Data Capitalism is the first edited book, part of a series, by the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (Leonardo/ISAST, MIT Press). Red Art: New Utopias in Data Capitalism was edited and has introductions by Lanfranco Aceti, Bill Balaskas, Susanne Jaschko and Julian Stallabrass. The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is proud to announce the publication of its first LEA book, available on Amazon
Red Art: New Utopias in Data Capitalism, Volume 20 Issue 1. ISBN: 978-1-906897-20-8. ISSN: 1071-4391. Date of Publication: January 15, 2014. Number of Pages: 250. Book Editors: Lanfranco Aceti, Bill Balaskas, Susanne Jaschko and Julian Stallabrass. The print issue of the LEA Book Red Art: New Utopias in Data Capitalism, Volume 20 Issue 1, is available on Amazon. The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is proud
Beware of Cutting Down Trees: Contemporary Politics and Aesthetics between Ideal Matriarchal Democracy and Real Patriarchal Dictatorships is the title of the lecture I will be presenting for the Master Lecture Series at the Centre for Fine Art Research (CFAR), Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. The Director of CFAR, Professor Johnny Golding, will chair the event. The lecture will analyze the mythological role of
It Looks Like Art is the new exhibition of OCR's Media Exhibition Platform (MEP) that coincides with the Sound Art Curating Conference at Goldsmiths and the Courtauld. The exhibition is an international collaboration that sees the partnerships of MEP, NYU Steinhardt, Goldsmiths, Kasa Gallery and other international institutions. The exhibition is a counterpoint to the show at Kasa Gallery titled It Sounds Like Art. The
Money Is Time by Olga Kisseleva is the new exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Cuts (MoCC). The exhibition is a collaboration with Kasa Gallery where another exhibition titled Money Is Time will take place simultaneously. Kisseleva's works of art have engaged, over the course of her artistic career, with the concept of time and its value, but also with the value of money in
