Author Archives: jolanta

Adventures in the Present / Out of Brazil Carlos Sansolo  Erika Fraenkel, F�rias For�adas   We began by holding screenings at a few art galleries, media art centersand museums in Brazil; after the first event, we thought it would be importantto have international videos to establish a dialogue with our own nationalproduction.   Our situationhere in […]

Playing with Shonibare Anthony Downey Maxa, Yinka Shonibare, 2003, Emulsion, acrylic on textile   Notoften does a painting leave a grin on your face, and it is even more uncommonto find that grin still there after you have left the gallery. YinkaShonibare’s paintings, however, do exactly that – and, crucially, somethingelse too. An entire wall […]

Bill Rabinovitch and Jackson Pollock Squared Tarvis Watson image of him as fighter pilot   If youever find yourself having coffee with Bill Rabinovitch, be sure to ask himabout his days flying fighter jets. It’ll take him a moment to conjure hisprevious incarnation and he’ll probably iterate that he never did any fighting,having left the […]

Divining Fragments: Reconciling the Body K�an-Jeff Baysa  Patrick Martinez, Untitled, 2002, video installation, with assistance from the National Library of Medicine. Thehuman body is a slippery surface upon which discourses of race, class, gender,and sexuality are mediated, and thus it is a contested scientific, political,ethical, cultural, economic, and social site. Since human subjectivity andidentity are […]

The Ins and Outs of Beatriz Milhazes Elba Benitez O Conflito, 2001 (Acrylic on canvas, 150,5 x 35,5 cm)   TheBrazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes’ work is characterized by the Baroquecolorist quality of her canvases. At first sight, they seem to state asunequivocal their condition as paintings of organic forms: images of abstractedflowers, branches, leaves, intuited […]

MARC CAMILLE CHAIMOWICZ: DELIMITED OCCCURENCES Horace Brockington    In theearly 1970s Marc Chaimowicz was interested in ideas of art, which could challengedartists to move beyond the Duchampian readymade that had challenged the conceptof the art object. During the period, Chaimowicz wrote about performance artfor Studio International, in addition to actively participating in the origins of […]