LIMITS OF CONTROL: RAIN ROOM AND IMMERSIVE …
Jun 10, 2013 · Rain Room is the brainchild of Random International, a London-based collective founded in 2005 by Hannes Koch, Florian Ortkrass, and Stuart Wood. They debuted this technically impressive (if far from random) environment at London’s Barbican Centre in October 2012 before installing it at MoMA within a large, orthogonal black tent in the lot ...
Dan Adler on Yuko Mohri’s “Moré Moré (Leaky),” 2015– - Artforum
Sep 5, 2021 · But lately such fond reminiscences are few and far between, partly because of the surging tide of institutional pressure to produce easy-to-consume spectacles. Back in 2016, for example, a bit of dread crept into my encounter with Random International’s Rain Room, 2012, when the work made an appearance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ...
CAMERA EYE: THE ART OF JOAN SEMMEL - Artforum
In Double X, 2005, on display earlier this year in the Bronx Museum’s exhibition “Joan Semmel: A Lucid Eye,” the artist parodies pornography by having the camera appear at the level of, and indeed overlaying, her crotch. The painting playfully proposes that the sexual, rather than optical, organ has become the aperture through which the ...
LACMA ACQUIRES RAIN ROOM - artforum.com
Jan 28, 2017 · Restoration Hardware has gifted the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Rain Room, 2012, an interactive installation that re-creates the experience of a torrential downpour for visitors without drenching them…
THE BUILDING AFTER - Artforum
The nuclear plant itself was supposedly designed to resist even a massive earthquake. Yet the walls were easily broken and the plant was irreparably damaged. The catastrophe showed that you cannot isolate a building or a city from the environment. That kind of modernist thinking has reached its limit.
CLOSE-UP: IN KINO VERITAS - Artforum
limits of control: rain room and immersive environments NEGAR AZIMI For those who know only a modern-day Paris, the various statistics cited by Marker—that one in twelve Parisian homes had no electricity and one in twenty no water—may, to some degree, undercut the sense of immediacy that is the strength of both films.
THE ETHICS OF DUST - Artforum
Jul 31, 2021 · Gala Porras-Kim, 2,576 offerings for the rain at the Peabody Museum (detail), 2021, color pencil and Flashe paint on paper, 72 × 72″. Varied forms of resistance to repatriation demands, both recent and long-standing, indicate the challenges associated with relying on Western legal traditions, particularly country-by-country ownership protocols.
BENJAMIN H. D. BUCHLOH - Artforum
Dieter Roth, Solo Szenen (Solo Scenes), 1997–98, 131 video monitors, media players, shelving. Installation view, Arsenale, Venice, 2013.
CLOSE-UP: UNMOORED FUTURE - Artforum
limits of control: rain room and immersive environments NEGAR AZIMI Like many of Barba’s longer films, and in contrast to her more conceptual projector sculptures and wall works, Outwardly from Earth’s Center conveys a sense of looming crisis, which is underscored by a foreboding electronic sound track (by Folke Rabe and Jan St. Werner).
CLOSE-UP: WEATHER CHANNEL - Artforum
To view Symptomatic Syntax, 1981, a twenty-seven-minute-long video work by Frank Gillette, is to be implicated in a concerted interaction between technical, biological, and human time loops that was one of the key preoccupations of the Raindance media collective founded in 1969 by Gillette along with Paul Ryan, Michael Shamberg, and Ira Schneider:This was the “media …