Arts & Labor Working Group

This message is intended to serve as an introduction and invitation. Arts & Labor is a working group founded in conjunction with the New York General Assembly for #occupywallstreet. We are artists and interns, writers and educators, art handlers and designers, administrators, curators, assistants, and students. We are all art workers and members of the 99%. Arts & Labor is dedicated to exposing and rectifying economic inequalities and exploitative working conditions in our fields through… [read more »]

November 14th, 2011

by Marco Roso

Going Over

THE ANTI-ARTIST TALK SERIES Fatima Al Qadiri and Khalid Al Gharaballi Going Over Tuesday, Nov. 15 1:00 pm @ Performa Hub 233 Mott Streetdis New York, NY 10012 Going Over is an illustrated meditation on the global marketing of masculinity through hair, hair products and signature hairstyles, focusing on the microcosm of Kuwait and the ‘exiting of trends’ by Kuwati youth, in contrast with the hair conservatism of an older generation.In this presentation, Al Qadiri… [read more »]

November 11th, 2011

by DIS Magazine

“One of the best looking, conceptually cohesive exhibitions I’ve ever been to in Chelsea.”

Performance Anxiety Curated by Nicolas Djandji Stadium, 548 W 28th St, Suite 636 10 November – 20 December, 2011 Opening: Thursday, November 10th • 6:00pm – 8:00pm Stadium is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition, Performance Anxiety, curated by Nicolas Djandji. Featuring the work of Steve Bishop, Chris Chiappa, Ben Schumacher, and Timur Si-Qin, the exhibition will run from November 10th until December 20th, 2011. Employing mass-produced products designed for bodily self-improvement, the artists in… [read more »]

November 10th, 2011

by DIS Magazine

Fujiwara @ Performa!

Simon Fujiwara’s The Boy Who Cried Wolf is a dreamlike blend of autobiographical fantasy, homoerotic desire, and the power of Abstract Expressionism to change a young boy’s sexual life. The story weaves in and out of re-imagined scenes from Fujiwara’s own life, but with a twist. A wedding scene, his parent’s bar set in Franco’s Spain and a confrontation with himself in the Mirror Stage all come together to paint the perfect non-linear narrative. Is… [read more »]

November 9th, 2011

by Katerina Llanes

Politics

Regarding the Pain of Gaddafi

An all-white room. Four pieces arranged in the center of a gallery that’s otherwise minimally decorated. A bunch of guys in beards milling around outside. Your average gallery opening, right? But this is Libya, not Berlin. The pieces on display are the corpses of Gaddafi and his loyalists. The gallery is a meat locker—an ad hoc solution to the problem of displaying rotting flesh: The spare setting conveys just how much of Gaddafi’s power remains.… [read more »]

November 9th, 2011

by Steven Phillips-Horst

Keeping up with the Velocity of Trending

In an effort to save you some trolling time I’ve invoked a DIS algorithm to generate topics that are being talked about more right now than they were previously. So, what are the hottest emerging topics captured? #Girlongirl and #highasfuck. Sorry #fellas. Thanks for the heads up VenusX and Chaparrita Candy

November 8th, 2011

by David Toro

Josh Kline | Dignity and Self-Respect

Josh Kline Dignity and Self-Respect November 4 – December 18, 2011 Opening: Friday, November 4, 6 – 8pm 47 Canal 47 Canal Street, 2nd Floor (between Ludlow and Orchard) PRESS RELEASE///// Hard work is often its own reward in the creative sector. You become your job, putting your career on like it’s a skin graft. Paid positions are scarcity commodities in 2011. Behind those zombie fossils, those words, “middle class,” income brackets, lifestyle identities, inherited… [read more »]

November 7th, 2011

by DIS Magazine

WWWorld Click

WWWorld Click | After Affects

Good morning and wwwelcome to the first installment of WWWorld Click, where I’ll report on the vagaries of online behavior, bravely click through links of spurious interest, and act as internet interlocutor in the meta-minstrelsy of logged-on linguistics. First up, for those of us—and we are legion—who can muster neither the effort to visit much-talked-about exhibitions nor the guilt for having missed them, a poem by esteemed writer and Rhizome staffer Brian Droitcour: And here,… [read more »]

November 7th, 2011