NOKIA SINGAPORE ART 2001

2002.1.27　 Text: Fann ZJ

There is a celebration of Singapore's art scene. This takes place in the form of the Nokia Singapore Art (NSA) 2001. A visual arts festival that brings together an array of art forms to showcase the latest development...

DOMESTICO ’01

2002.1.27　 Text: Terevision Ruiz

The idea is not new, but it is always pleasant to bring art out of its usual environment, those cold and aseptic galleries, and bring it closer to the public from different spaces. Domestico was born last year fr...

LISTENING POST

2002.1.27　 Text: Michael Foronda

The mounting of the installation, Listening Post, marks both the celebration of a fresh collaboration between Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin but also the mourning of Brooklyn Academy of Music's Artists in Multimedia ...

GACHA PARCO

2001.12.26　 Text: Shinichi Ishikawa

Do you know a machine which is commonly known as 'Gacha Gacha'? This is a vending machine which can be found at toy shops or supermarkets with full of small toys in capsules. The origin of the word Gacha Gacha is th...

INTEGER HONG KONG PAVILLION

2001.12.26　 Text: Mlee

The Integer Hong Kong Pavillion is a special event in Hong Kong. Why is it so special? Hong Kong is a city that has limited concept of green. People are living with all kinds of pollution everyday. In the downtown of ...

WORMS FESTIVAL 3

2001.12.26　 Text: Fann ZJ

Worms Festival? You must be wondering; a festival where different types of worms are celebrated? Definitely not for the faint hearted, but the Worms Festival is actually a multi-disciplinary annual art festival compri...

NEO-TOKYO: JAPANESE ART NOW

2001.12.26　 Text: Luca Ionescu

'Neo-Tokyo: Japanese Art Now' presents the work of a generation of contemporary Japanese artists who have come to prominence, within their own country and abroad, during the second half of the 1990s. Predominantly bor...

PIPILOTTI RIST “APRICOTS ALONG THE STREETS”

2001.12.26　 Text: Terevision Ruiz

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia is a must for all those who are interested in the most avant-garde contemporary art. The third floor of the Museum houses an exhibition where the best works of one of the ...

FORM FOLLOWS FICTION

2001.12.26　 Text: Ilaria Ventriglia

At Castello di Rivoli, curator and gallery owner Jeffrey Deitch has put together the exhibition "Form Follows Fiction". Twenty international artists give body and voice to aesthetic worlds in which it is no longer pos...

NOSTALGIES COREENNES: KOREAN ART EXHIBITION

2001.12.26　 Text: Aki Ikemura

Guimet Museum is known to be a the museum with a great collection of Oriental art. Various types of important works from China, Japan, South Korea and other Aisan countries have been placed from the basement floor to...

ICA DIGITAL FESTIVAL “WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH IT”

2001.12.26　 Text: Natsume Shiroyama

A Digital festival "WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH IT?" is held in ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art). 10 computers and 10 chairs are displayed in a small room of about four mat half that exists in ICA. When I...

CTRL SPACE EXHIBITION

2001.12.24　 Text: Timo Linsenmaier

In 1785, the British philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), began working on a plan for a model prison called the panopticon. The signature feature of this design was that every one of the individual jail cells could...