Listening is a Performative Act, by David Helbich

The following essay was published in the MusikTexte May 2016 issue: http://musiktexte.de/MusikTexte-149
MARIA LAET – COM A PELE FINA at MdM Gallery, Paris

MARIA LAET COM A PELE FINA 10.05.2016 » 09.07.2016 vernissage en présence de l’artiste mardi 10 mai 2016 Après La Voix/e des choses en 2013, la MdM Gallery présente du 10 mai au 9 juillet la deuxième exposition individuelle de Maria Laet en France. Maria do Mar Guinle suit son œuvre poétique et conceptuelle depuis […]
Phil America – Failure of the American Dream at CAM Raleigh

Failure of the American Dream is an exhibition featuring video and installation created in 2014 by Phil America while he lived in The Jungle, the nickname for a tent city near Silicon Valley in San Jose, California. The Jungle was the largest encampment of homeless people in the United States at the time. The exhibition […]
Tuguldur Yondonjamts in “In Practice: Fantasy Can Invent Nothing New” at Sculpture Center

May 1 – August 1, 2016 44-19 Purves Street Long Island City The title of this exhibition, taken directly from Freud’s lecture on dreams, is a sentence stopped midway. He completes the thought by stating that the creative process of the mind can only regroup elements from already existing sources—that any one creative fantasy is […]
Alice Micelli in Basta! at Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery

BASTA! Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York), West 59th Street at 11th Avenue, New York, NY On view from May 5-July 15, 2016 Free and open to the public Opening reception: Thursday, May 5, 2016 from 6:00-8:00pm Curated by Claudia Calirman and Isabela Villanueva […]
Patrick Rowe “Soñamos Sentirnos Libres: Under Construction” at Interference Archive

May 1 – Sept 5, 2016 Exhibition Opening May 1, 2016 5-8pm at Interference Archive Soñamos Sentirnos Libres : Under Construction is a collaborative exhibition, highlighting the work of Mobile Print Power. Mobile Print Power is a multigenerational collective based out of Immigrant Movement International in Corona, Queens. The collective uses silkscreen printmaking to engage communities and […]
“If It’s a Chair” at Patrick Parrish Gallery curated by Henriette Noermark

IF IT’S A CHAIR Group exhibition at Patrick Parrish Gallery 12 May – 6 June 2016 The group exhibition If it’s a Chair reformulates, amplifies and extends the idea of Danish design showcasing objects by Kasper Kjeldgaard, Pettersen & Hein, Maria Bruun & Anne Dorthe Vester that might as well be labeled art. The emphasis […]
WHEN HOME WON’T LET YOU STAY – Curated by Işın Önol at University of Applied Arts Vienna

WHEN HOME WON’T LET YOU STAY Exhibition Opening // Ausstellungseröffnung: 04. May 2016, 18:00 Exhibition Duration // Ausstellungsdauer: Until 25 May // bis zum 25. Mai Mo-Fr: 13:00 – 18:00 Venue // Ausstellungsort: Exhibition Center // Ausstellungszentrum Heiligenkreuzer Hof, REFEKTORIUM & SALA TERENA Address: Schönlaterngasse 5, (another entrance to the venue // bzw. Grashofgasse 3) […]
Thierry Costesèque open studio

Thursday, April 21; 6-8pm Friday, April 22; 10am – 8pm Zico House is pleased to present the work of Thierry Costesèque Artist in Residence from April 11-22. Using conversations and interactions as the foundation for his process-based work, Costesèque is creating a installation during his residency, that uses documentation of public performances that took place […]
Bruno Silva, In extenso open studio

Off-Site Project in Porto 25 avril 2016 às 18h Rua do Sol Rua Duque Loulé, 206 4000-528 Porto – Portugal On the occasion of its Off-site project, in partnership with Rua do Sol in Porto, In extenso proposes an open studio to present every participating artists’ artworks, displayed or disseminated in public space. After several […]