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Saskia Sassen Talks Finance, Climate, Race, Immigration and How We Can Begin to Fix Our Planet

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The pioneering sociologist Saskia Sassen speaks with Creative Time Chief Curator Nato Thompson as part of Creative Time Reports’ Summit Series, which features articles related to themes at the heart of the 2014 Creative Time Summit Stockholm, a collaboration with the Public Art Agency Sweden, for which Sassen will be a keynote speaker.

Το “Πολιτικό” στη σύγχρονη τέχνη σε τέσσερις στιγμές: Τέσσερις πολιτικές του χώρου.

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[διαλέξεις 14|15]

Σχεδιαστήριο_5 Τμήμα Αρχιτεκτόνων Μηχανικών, Πανεπιστημιούπολη Ρίου 26500
Τετάρτη 15/10/14 | 7:00 μ.μ. ** ανοικτή στο κοινό.**

Κωστής Σταφυλάκης
Θεωρητικός Τέχνης & εικαστικός, ΜοΚΕ/ΑΣΚΤ.

Το “Πολιτικό” στη σύγχρονη τέχνη σε τέσσερις στιγμές:
Τέσσερις πολιτικές του χώρου.

 

Patras School of Architecture

Gesture

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The Exhibition

The exhibition Gesture, that is on view from May 24 until August 3, 2014 at the Württembergischer Kunstverein approaches the subject of the human gesture from a philosophical, mediatic, and artistic perspective.

It takes up the semiotic and performative character of the gesture, and its theatrical nature. It sheds light on what is enacted and at the same time masked by it: a certain disability to speak, a speech disorder, the inabilty of humans “to figure something out in language.” Thus, the focus is not so much on the gesture’s potentials of expression, but on the linguistic dilemma it references, on its character of being a gag in the double sense of the word.

Taiping Tianguo lower Manhattan walking tours

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In conjunction with Taiping Tianguo, e-flux has organized a series of guided walks in the East Village, Lower East Side, and downtown Manhattan led by Ryan Wong, Julie Ault and Amy Zion, and Gregory Sholette. These walks—given by artists, colleagues, and historians—will address cultural activities that took place in these locations in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Each will provide unique and personal contexts for considering the work of Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong included in the exhibition.

Taiping Tianguo explores connections between these four Chinese artists, who lived and worked in New York during the heady days of the 1980s and early ’90s. During that period, New York was welcoming a diaspora of creative people while also experiencing the critical early years of the AIDS pandemic. At the same time in China, the contemporary art scene was battling authoritarian censorship and repression.