The One-Question Interview: What Nicolas Bourriaud Thinks Artists Should Be Reading
"Birds sing in the tree, but they don’t need to learn how to, right?"
Jeff Gibbons and Jesse Morgan Barnett at Goss-Michael Foundation
Together the two shows seem to constitute a kind of zeitgeist. The meaning comes through and the mystery remains intact.
Emily Peacock: Soft Diet
A quirky set of domestic snapshots blotted out with Jello, goo, fat, or baby teeth. These tactile, psychological fillers could merely be humorous play, but tend to read as potentially profound and personal.
Alex DiJulio: Constellation Logic at Circuit 12
Pairing the beautiful with the base, Dijulio makes the common meaningful through degrading symbioses.
Charles Long: CATALIN at The Contemporary Austin
I love the show and I get it, but I feel struck in the head. With my curiosity overstimulated and my eco-conscience battered, I'm simply consuming another large-scale cultural production.
DB14 at Oliver Francis
The exhibit was gratefully, blindingly, direct and free of pretense.