Thomas Hirschhorn: Das Auge (The Eye)
With the work Das Auge (The Eye) I want to give a form which resists facts, which resist opinion and which goes beyond actuality, which reaches beyond information – that is why I invented the motif...
View ArticleIñigo Manglano-Ovalle: Phantom Truck + Always After
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s work utilizes sound, film and sculpture to engage viewers in phenomenological experiences that present and problematize sociological issues such as the history of modernity, the...
View ArticleThe Long Glance
On June 3rd I turned my gaze away from Jackson Pollock’s 1952 painting Convergence after staring at it for forty hours. To enact The Long Glance, as I had titled my performance, I stood silently in the...
View ArticleThe Plot and An Economy of Means-being-means
Storytelling feels like it’s been “out of fashion” for many years, perhaps as long ago as the late 1970s. At that time, political critiques began linking the form of narrative, on several fronts, to...
View ArticleAn over attachment or excessive engagement that goes beyond the intellectual
Last summer I participated in a project called Group Affinity at the Kunstverein München, working with Cinenova, a collectively run feminist film distributor based in London, UK. I became part of a...
View ArticleKnowledge Held in Suspense: A Conversation with Kerry Tribe
Toronto-based writer Rosemary Heather spoke to Los Angeles-based artist Kerry Tribe during her solo exhibition Speak, Memory at The Power Plant (24 March – 3 June 2012). This excerpt is part of a...
View ArticleUnsettled Objects (The Alchemy of Dispossession and Display)
Tools for Conviviality, The Power Plant’s Summer 2012 group exhibition, presented a lively collection of work from ten artists and groups. This essay develops a reading of three works in the...
View ArticleUncreative Writing
In Summer 2013, experimental poet and leading figure in the conceptual writing movement Kenneth Goldsmith led nine participants in an Uncreative Writing Workshop at The Power Plant in conjunction with...
View ArticleA Daze in the Life
The Clock collates many accounts of, attitudes toward and explanations for time—fateful, profound, naïve, romantic, comic, fatuous—the point being not to separate sense from fantasy from delusion, but...
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