From Russia with Love
e-flux in May
Dear friends,
This month we’ll be spending some time in Moscow, where we’ll release a new book edited by Boris Groys on Moscow conceptualism, open our first Russian Time/Bank branch, and together with Ekaterina Degot, present a series of public lectures and conversations on art and insurrection. Meanwhile, at home in New York, we hope you’ll have a chance to see Animism, the fifth iteration of a remarkable exhibition that has been traveling through Europe over the past few years. It’s curated by Anselm Franke. Also be sure to catch e-flux book co-op at MoMA PS1 before May 21, when it drives off to its next location. It’s filled with incredible art books and periodicals from more than 100 small and independent publishers from around the world. And if you happen to be in Ljubljana, e-flux video rental is on view at Moderna Galerija.
With warm wishes,
e-flux
Moscow
Time/Bank: Time/Food
On Tuesday, May 15th, Time/Bank will open as a temporary restaurant in Moscow, offering lunch in exchange for time credits that can be earned through the Time/Bank community. Time/Food restaurant, located at Stella Art Foundation at 7 Skaryatinsky Pereulok, will be open Thursdays through Sundays from 2–4pm. The daily lunch menu will feature recipes by chefs Ingrid Erstadt and Anton Vidokle, as well as a group of artists, curators, and writers who like to cook. The price of lunch is One Half Hour.
Time/Food will host a special program of public talks and conversations on art and politics, organized in cooperation with Ekaterina Degot and Openspace.ru, featuring speakers such as Julieta Aranda, Pavel Arsenyev, Martha Rosler, Keti Chukhrov, Sarah Rifky, Oleksyi Radynski & Nikita Kadan, Boris Groys, Alexander Skidan, Liam Gillick, Kirill Adibekov, and others.
Opening: Tuesday, May 15
Lunch: 2–4pm
Talk by Sarah Rifky at 4pm.
The full schedule and daily menus will be posted here.
May 15–June 28, 2012
More here
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New book!
e-flux journal reader: Moscow Symposium: Conceptualism Revisited
Edited by Boris Groys
Beyond the view that multiple, globally dispersed conceptual art practices provide a heterogeneity of cultural references, Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions propose much more: other dimensions altogether, other spatiotemporal politics, other timescales, other understandings of matter, other forms of life—not only as works, but as a basic condition for being able to perceive artworks in the first place. With an introduction by Boris Groys and essays by Claire Bishop, Keti Chukhrov, Ekaterina Degot, Jörg Heiser, Terry Smith, Anton Vidokle, and Sarah Wilson.
More here
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New York
Animism
A New York iteration of Animism, curated by Anselm Franke.
Outside the field of art and mass media, discussions on the effect of animation within aesthetics
turn into an ontological battleground at the frontier of colonial modernity. With Marcel Broodthaers, Walt Disney, Jimmie Durham, Harun Farocki, Tom Holert, Luis Jacob, Ken Jacobs, Joachim Koester, Len Lye, Chris Marker, Daria Martin, Angela Melitopoulos & Maurizio Lazzarato, Ana Mendieta, Vincent Monnikendam, Spyros Papapetros, Alain Resnais, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and others.
e-flux exhibition space
311 East Broadway
New York, NY
Tuesday–Saturday, 12–6pm
April 26–July 28, 2012
More here
e-flux book co-op
Don’t miss the last three weeks of e-flux book co-op trailer at MoMA PS1, before we drive off into the sunset… Books, journals, and more by 100+ independent art publishers. (Most of the proceeds go back to the publishers so they can publish more.)
Through May 21
More here
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Ljubljana
e-flux video rental (EVR) is on view at Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova.
More here
