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    • XVII

      • Colleen Asper Labor with Rectangle
      • Dushko Petrovich & Roger White Monument Working Strategies LLC: Structuring Creative Freedom
      • Triple Candie Exhibition Preparations
      • Sean Raspet 2GFR24SMEZZ2XMCVI5L8X9Y38ZJ2JD…
      • Owen Kydd Handheld
      • Dan Levenson Notes From Jessica
      • Julia Rommel Easy Tacker
      • Jordan Kantor MAN(ET/DE)GAS
      • Sreshta Rit Premnath The Last Image
      • OJO The Adventures of Nuclear Wad & How He Learned To Stop Dreaming
    • XVI

      • Julia Sherman Re-Claiming Susan B. Anthony
      • Robert Hult Hasidic Street Posters in Brooklyn
      • Runo Lagomarsino Pedro’s Story: An Unsuccessful Transatlantic Traveller
      • John Houck Pine Ridge: An interview with Jim Houck
      • Brian Zegeer Dragoman of Little Syria
      • Sidney Russell Kuna Yala Swag
      • Desirée Holman Outer Spaces: Part I
      • Faith47 The Unexpected Present
      • Carmen Winant Personal Best
      • Philip-Lorca diCorcia Red Bull Snake
    • XV

      • Jessica Green & Tom Griffiths Terra Incognita (A Video Game Folly)
      • Prem Krishnamurthy The People’s Representation: On Staged Graphics in Klaus Wittkugel’s Work
      • Cian O'Day N/A, or On the Dark Stores of Brian Ulrich
      • Yasmeen M. Siddiqui Avatar Gone Analog: Musings on The Bridge Project by Do Ho Suh
      • Emily Larned ARTS 02–2011: The Artist-Created Institution as Art Practice
      • Yoonjai Choi & Ken Meier Interview with Metahaven
      • Aaron Kunin Space and Place in Two Video Installations by Amie Siegel
      • Tom Griffiths Interview with Barbara Griffiths
    • XIV

      • Colleen Asper & Justin Lieberman In Conversation
      • Dushko Petrovich & Roger White Report To The Committee On Periodical Group Exhibitions
      • Ryan Mrozowski & Mike Womack Before-Biennial-After
      • Kay Rosen Waiting for Michael Asher
      • Kate Gilmore Drag
    • XIII

      • Talia Chetrit Van Hanos’s Harlem Studio
      • Mieke Marple The Lives of Objects at The Suburban
      • Laurel Nakadate Island Light
      • C.D. Parker Draw Me a Pie Chart Powerfully
      • Alan Reid Despondent Babysitter
      • Lucy Kim & Leeza Meksin Art Crimes
    • XII

      • Anonymous On Looking at Nature: An Untitled Petition on Crapomimicry
      • Paul Huf Musical Box with a Dancing Ballerina
      • Lance Wakeling Voluntary Sculptures: Photographing the Unmonumental
      • David Kennedy-Cutler Possession Obsession
      • Nine Budde Stopping by at a Friends’ Place
      • I recently asked some teenagers whether they live in their minds more in the present, past or future. When I asked myself the same question I was barely able to answer it. Finally, I decided on the future.

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        Wolfgang Tillmans, Silver Installation VI, 2009, Unique C-Prints (231 x 563 cm).

        Sitting on the train from Rome to Venice I realized that every person is forced by their job to live in a certain time zone intellectually. An architect might be trapped in futuristic competitions of buildings that were never built for most of his or her life. A doctor always has to work in the frame of seconds and sometimes they are even fighting fights of milliseconds. Sportsmen always fight in milliseconds yet an archeologist remains in a world hundreds of decades passed.

        So with interest I read an article about Futurism in “Tate Etc. Magazine” where Boris Groys states an interesting thesis that the impact of futurism was to create a totalitarian moment inside public space—the impossibility of the spectator to stay outside physically and psychologically. This made me think of Wolfgang Tillmans’ space at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni at this years Venice Biennale. For the 3rd time within the last two years I was standing inside his environments. The first time was at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, then at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin and now in Venice. With each time the same thing happened, his pictures were like the wardrobe of C.S. Lewis’ “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe“, I would step inside to be transported to a world that was impossible to exit.

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        Rosa Barba, Coro Spezzato: The future lasts one day, 2009. Film installation,
        5 x 16 mm films, each 5’, 5 modified projectors, dimensions variable. Photos courtesy Nine Budde.

        The original movement of Futurism probably wouldn’t have existed if it weren’t for the invention of the photo camera. Photographs were proof to the movement’s provocative actions. It was the tool necessary to transform nonsense into existence. For me, as a straight white female, Tillmans’ photographic world sometimes has a an unfamiliar exoticism: threesomes or moresomes — fucking, drinking, peeing, raving, testosteroning night and day at odds with delicate still-lives on a kitchen table. These pairing offer a simple dissent: a rave’s toughness to a flower’s delicate golden leaf. They are all held together by an absence of deeper privacy; while we often see his companion’s interiors there seems to be no palpable personal space. Everything seems in transition, which I associate with public space. In Tillmans’ pictures I find the transitional soul of the public on the beds and kitchen tables inside these apartments. Maybe by doing so he re-enacts the futurist’s ideology of a totalitarian movement unconsciously.

        So after Tillmans’ space I walked downstairs to the former Italian Pavillion where I found a beautiful contrast to this by an artist who had transformed a public space situation into an intimate happening via machine sounds. Rosa Barba’s piece “Coro Spezzato: The future lasts one day” has developed a new dimension of drawing sound into space. She based her installation on the Venetian polychoral singing styles invented during the Renaissance. Polychoral singing techniques are several choirs singing inside one church at different locations. Hereby they created an acoustical experience directing ones attention to their surroundings. Barba’s piece was composed by the sounds of five 16mm projectors instead of church choirs. Words were projected on the gallery walls echoing a chorus as a solo and a duet. The rhythmic clicking of the projector accompanied the lyrics with an unsteady motion.

        When I stepped into the room I was a little disappointed that is wasn’t completely dark. I wanted to be consumed by the celluloid’s magic. It took me some time to realize that this wasn’t primarily about celluloid; it was about melodies you couldn’t hear but which your brain started to create unconsciously. The speed of the projectors combined with the projected words caused this acoustic association in your brain. It was like a Fata Morgana. When I heard the sound it created a melodic fantasma like an audio trompe l’oeil. Instead of shooting intimate sceneries that appear transitional and finite, Barba created moving pictures, creating an intimate and personal experience for the viewer. Everyone will have had another melody popping up in his or hers brain.

        Retrospectively, I hope we are all on our way toward an inside revolution. There is great need for this in our overwhelming external world, which has bombed so much of our inner peace. For me it isn’t necessary anymore to search for shocks while viewing art. I would rather have someone take my hand and leads me to a place of peace. Both artists have done this in a beautiful manner at the 53rd Venice Biennale.

        Nine Budde is a Berlin based artist. She did her Master studies about Public Art and New Artistic Strategies. Since the 90’s she has produced installations, performances and videos with a strong social and site-specific context,. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally.

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      • Cody Trepte Untitled (Something Clever Here)
    • XI

      • Adam Helms Hirschhorn at Gladstone Gallery
      • David Scanavino Fact or Fiction
      • Jason Tomme The Voodoo of Robert Irwin
      • Kristin Posehn The Rocks of Rocklin
      • Joanne Greenbaum Decorating the Void: On Clay and Dirt on Delight
    • X

      • Jennifer Dudley Interview with Daniel Bozhkov
      • Dushko Petrovich & Roger White Report to the Committee on Decentered Practices
      • Shana Lutker Artists Are Not
      • Steve Cairns & Isla Leaver-Yap Blind Carbon Copy
      • Katarina Burin Rooms No One Lives In
      • Jonathan Bogarin What’s Your Context?
      • Sara Greenberger Rafferty Master of None
    • IX

      • Andrea Hill Fact, Factoid, Factotum
      • Nicholas Weist We’re Interested in Your White Horse
      • Tyler Coburn Ronnie Bass at I-20
      • Allison Kave Doa Aly and Juan William Chavez
      • Gillian Sneed Interview with Adam Pendleton
    • VIII

      • Jacob Hashimoto Interview with Luis Gispert
      • Lilly McElroy Guy Maddin’s Winnipeg
      • Kevin Zucker Thematic Apperception Test
      • Ian Cooper That’s What He Said
      • Colleen Asper Interview with Matt Borruso
    • VII

      • Mieke Marple Interview with Michelle Grabner
      • Farrah Karapetian Reframing Mirrors and Windows
      • Ruby Sky Stiler That’s What She Said
      • Spencer Finch New Zealand Light
      • Dana Frankfort John Walker: Text in/and Painting
      • The Editors Whitney Biennial 2008
    • VI

      • Katie Herzog Bay Area Figurative Language
      • Matt Connors Teignmouth Electron by Tacita Dean
      • Connelly LaMar New Photography 2007 at MOMA
      • Ethan Greenbaum Inside Lights
      • Matthew Lancit Cleaning Magritte’s Pipe
    • V

      • Roger White Jay Heikes at Marianne Boesky
      • Luke Stettner Interview with Michael DeLucia
      • Erin Shirreff Michel Auder: The Feature
      • Jessica Lansdon Interview with Brian Bress
      • Lisha Bai Suzanne Song at Michael Steinberg Fine Art
    • IV

      • Mariah Robertson Conditions in Time
      • Jacob Feige Psychopathia Pastoralis
      • Eric Golo Stone Interview with George Kontos
      • Skyler Brickley Keith Tyson at PaceWildenstein
      • Lumi Tan Curatorial Project with Jo-ey Tang
    • III

      • George Rush Wayne Gonzales at Paula Cooper
      • Jacqueline Cooper Margaret Wall-Romana at Bucheon Gallery
      • Ana Wolovick Robin Rhode at Perry Rubenstein
      • Skyler Brickley Nicholas Krushenick at Marianne Boesky
      • Luke Stettner Peter Young at PS1
      • Ethan Greenbaum Daniel Gordon Interview
    • II

      • Christine Frerichs Rebecca Morris at Karyn Lovegrove Gallery
      • Skyler Brickley Josh Smith at Luhring Augustine
      • Ethan Greenbaum Kristen Baker at Deitch Projects
    • I

      • Mark Barrow On Abstraction
      • Tova Carlin Superstudio
      • Julia Weist Johannes Vanderbeek at Zach Feuer
      • Skyler Brickley Wilhelm Sasnal at Anton Kern
      • Ethan Greenbaum Cement Garden at Marvelli Gallery