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It’s time…for Art Basel 2015

Our selection of #ArtBasel events not to miss!

What: Performances at 186f Kepler ft. Juliana Huxtable, Marie Karlberg, Anina Troesch, Mai-Thu Perret, Emily Sundblad, John Armleder, Lhaga Koondhor
Where: Müllheimerstrasse 46
4057 Basel
When: Every day after 8pm

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What: PRICE live
Where: Schwarzwaldallee project space in Basel, within the SAMPLE
When: June 16, 17, 18 7pm



What: Inauguration of new exhibition space Der TANK ft. an introduction by Chus Martinez
Where: Campus of the Arts
Freilager-Platz 13/Pavillon, 40123 Basel
When: June 17, 8 pm

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What: Georgia Sagri is hosting The state of current situations, rumored to be the best party at Basel. Proceeds will go to financing her new art space in Athens, ‘ΥΛΗ[matter]HYLE.
Where: Kaschemme
Lehenmattstrasse 353
When: June 17, 10 pm

Summer Fun, Georgia Sagri

What: TOVES and Fabio Pirovino (Space Is The Place) presents LENE ADLER PETERSEN and Gina Folly

Space Is The Place will also launch a publication with NERO Magazine covering last year’s event in an edition of 100.

Where: Murbacherstrasse 27, 4056 Basel
When: June 19 at 6pm

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What: Villa Design Group‘s new three-act dramatic work A Summers Rest (Je T’aime Mont Blanc), will be performed as part of Passing Peaks, the 11th Performance Project of the LISTE Art Fair curated by Eva Birkenstock.
Set on the top floor of a Mountain Chalet, part hotel, part boarding school, part nursery, and part prison, this setting acts as the backdrop for the Villa Design Group’s splitterring of Clifford’s Odets Awake and Sing (1936). With a cast of five actors, the new production draws on Villa Design Group’s research into the pioneering work of the Group Theater. Transforming their familial drama of escape into a conflict between heteronormative privilege of maturation and the queer paranoia of being left behind.
Where: Junges Theater Basel
Kasernenstrasse 23
When: June 19, 7 pm

Pure Disclosure | Siliqoon

In 2014, Siliqoon hosted four artists at a residency in Bologna where they worked side-by-side with Italian artisanal companies that facilitated the production of new works. The resulting works are displayed in the Marsèlleria permanent exhibition in Milan, as Pure Disclosure. Daniel Keller was joined by Ella Plevin with whom he collaborated on his final work. The exhibition draws its concept from the creative incubation of four artists in the context of a transparent production… [read more »]

Mood Disorder | David Horvitz

Inspired by Bas Jan Ander’s I’m Too Sad To Tell You, Mood Disorder is a “stock image” made by David Horvitz of himself to look like a typical stock image of depression (using research from his Sad, Depressed, People book and project). It was then put onto Wikipedia’s page for Mood Disorder, after which it became copyright-free and began to be used as a free stock image for depression on cheap websites all over the… [read more »]

#FOMO at ICA

In the last weekend of May, London’s Institute of Contemporary Art hosted FOMO, a three-day conference chaired by German video-artist, professor and philosopher Hito Steyerl. FOMO (fear of missing out) indicated the event’s overarching topic of anxiety – and its socio-cultural-political plentitude in the post-digital or ‘anthropocene’ era. The program featured an impressive cast of international theorists, artists, activist, and hackers, all engaging with contemporary digital existence. Theorist Judy Wajcman first presented a series of… [read more »]

Young, Colored & Angry: Issue #1

“Hey, some of us are actually young, colored, and angry, but some of us aren’t, and we all have something to say” explains Elliot Brown Jr. over coffee at a midtown Starbucks near his part-time job assisting artist Hank Willis Thomas. When Elliott decided to start a magazine along with fellow NYU Tisch student Ashley Rahimi Syed, the two friends reasoned that whatever tone they expressed themselves in, they would inevitably be dubbed ‘young, colored… [read more »]

“God is a lesbian”: DISmiss presents Zanele Muholi

In South Africa, approximately 500,000 rapes, murders and beatings are committed against women every year.1 Many of these are carried out against black lesbian women, including hate crimes and practices of ‘corrective rape’.2 Zanele Muholi is a South African visual activist and creator of Inkanyiso, an activist platform that exposes the realities of black LGBTI individuals in South Africa. This month, she’s in New York as part of Brooklyn Museum’s Isibonelo/Evidence show, travelling with three… [read more »]

Sissy Nobby | Turn the F**k Up

In preparation for their last party ever as part of the Redbull Music Academy NYC Festival, GHE20G0TH1K is releasing Turn The Fuck Up, an exclusive track by Sissy Nobby. This is part of 6 song playlist of songs and remixes that will be available for free download on GHE20GOTH1K . #Yaaaas Don’t miss the last GHE20GOTH1K, coming up this Saturday May 2nd and featuring Sissy Nobby, Venus X, Mike Q, Divoli S’vere, Ma Nguzu, Total… [read more »]

Wether (excerpt) | Andrew Norman Wilson

In the summer of 2014, Nicole Russo and I started planning a show at her gallery, Chapter NY, together. The gallery is a single room. It has a recessed doorway that is also a window, and an air conditioner pierces the glass above the door. The gallery faces south and receives direct sunlight, so the shade in the window is always drawn. A temperamental radiator sits on the floor. Steam from the city’s underground steam… [read more »]

(IM)MATERIAL: Industrial and Post-Industrial Fabrication

Last Friday, the Judd Foundation hosted a panel on the relations of production underpinning fabrication in contemporary art, featuring artists Josh Kline, Dora Budor, and Keith Tilford. Organized by CCS Bard students Adriana Blidaru, Tim Gentles, Jody Graf, Rosario Guiraldes, and Dana Kopel, the event’s presentation proceeded from the premise that a paradigm shift in the economy — from industrial, manual production on the one hand, to post-industrial, digitized outsourcing on the other — deeply… [read more »]

Meet BINA48, the world’s most sensitive robot

Have you ever loved someone so much you wanted to clone them? Well, that’s exactly what Martine Rothblatt did. BINA48 is one of the world’s most sensitive robots. She’s been programmed based on the mannerisms, beliefs and memories of Bina Rothblatt, wife of satellite entrepeneur and author Martine Rothblatt. DIS caught up with BINA (Breakthrough Intelligence via Neural Architecture, 48 exaflops processing speed and 48 exabytes of memory) just in time for her live #Whettalk… [read more »]