Author Archives: jolanta

Spun of the Limits of my Lonely Waltz is an upside-down gothic cathedral whose blueprint is based on the footprints of my dancing the waltz with bare, painted feet. I chose the waltz because of its romantic spinning vertigo, which was once considered vulgar by aristocrats. The lead and the female positions were each danced […]

As Roland Barthes once noted: “The portrait-photograph is a closed field of forces. Four image-repertoires intersect here, oppose and distort each other. In front of the lens, I am at the same time: the one I think I am, the one the photographer thinks I am, and the one he makes use of to exhibit […]

Argentinian native Graciela Cassel’s latest work dramatizes interior dialogues on the intersections of space, place, time, memory, culture, and history. This new mixed media series consists of objects in acrylic, wood, and plexiglass that emphasize the leitmotif of a spiritual journey at once embedded in history and intensely intimate and personal. Appropriately, the series recently […]

Chung paints shapes and pieces them together as if he were working with mosaics, referencing historical cloth-making techniques and wrapping cloths to protect objects while traveling of his native Korea. Chung’s mother was known for skillfully hand-sewing these precious fabrics together to create patchwork. Similarly, Chung’s atmospheres present carefully painted patchwork patterns and reflect a […]

Unsettling and beautiful, Diamanda Galás’ work takes an assassin’s aim at ignorance. In pieces such as Saint of the Pit, Plague Mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Wild Women with Steak Knives, or  Defixiones: Orders from the Dead and Litanies of Satan, her performances, like her life, are never the same. Born […]

“Me, my sadface, my twoface, my youface, my frontside, backside, rightbrain, leftbrain, leftbehind brain, heartacheface…” This is Dynasty Handbag, Jibz Cameron’s one-woman performance. Resembling a Prozac-filled musical comedy gone awry, Dynasty Handbag’s acts consist of a series of prerecorded monologues set to accompany improvised bodily narratives and sad electro-ballads sung against a backdrop of disorienting […]

On a jam-packed subway ride one morning, a Muslim woman in head-scarf-to-covered-toe black sat pressed against a blonde babe in seersucker and Sperry Top-siders. Simultaneously, writers at USA Today churned out a story on Taco Bell’s new launch in downtown Shanghai. Japan Society says…they don’t know, either, but what an interesting question. The nonprofit’s upcoming […]

One of the oldest exhibition spaces for contemporary art in Moscow, L-gallery, presents the project of New York avangardist Barbara Rosenthal, " Existential Cartoons".  The theme of an individual’s reflection and self-identification within larger society has consumed artist Barbara Rosenthal for many years.  Her use of performance/installation for creative expression began in 1968, before that […]