TIPPING POINT @ MILLS GALLERY
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Do all stories have a climax, breaking point, or fulcrum of sorts? Well, they all can, but how the story is spoken, written, played, drawn, or however…
Author Christian Holland
Christian Holland
Christian Holland is an aspiring New York City-based essayist who likes writing about how New York City isn't the center of the world. He was executive editor and founding contributor of Big, Red & Shiny, and sat on the publication's board for V2.
BRIAN KNEP @ MEMORIAL HALL, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Deep Wounds is nothing new from Brian Knep, though it was a commissioned piece, and—to his credit—by both the Office for the Arts of Harvard University and…
A CONVERSATION WITH JOE GIBBONS
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Christian Holland: I think this is the 3rd time you’ve been in the Whitney Biennial? Joe Gibbons: It’s actually the 4th time, starting in 95, I think.…
KATE ERICSON AND MEL ZIEGLER @ MIT LIST
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The irony of much public art, especially that which came in the last third of the 20th century, is that it is hardly public at all. It…
COACH TV @ CONTAMINATE PERFORMANCES
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND “You are a brave man,” Raishad Glover said to me with subtle sympathy as he wheeled me, head first, into the Coach TV performance space at last…
SUARA WELITOFF @ ALLSTON SKIRT
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Cinema is principally a visual medium; movement and light (i.e. color and shade) are its essential properties. Some of its ancillary aspects are visual composition, in the…
QUANTUM GRIDS @ HUAM
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The ubiquity of the grid in our culture may explain the fascination with it. Unconsciously, consciously and self-consciously, artists, designers, mathematicians and just about everybody who’s ever…
ROBIN MANDEL @ GREEN ST. GALLERY
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND When an artist represents something, whether they be a writer, painter, sculptor, etc., they must determine, among other things, how much they would like to show and…
ALVIN LUCIER @ THE ROSE
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The Mildred S. Lee Gallery of the Rose Art Museum sounds like the courtyard garden of a large apartment complex. It is currently the site of 12…
MOMENTUM 5: PAUL CHAN @ ICA
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Will we ever tire of 9/11 artwork? Probably not, just as long as the framers of popular debate continue to espouse viewpoints that only…
MASS APPEAL @ AXIOM, INC.
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Perhaps an appropriate show as Axiom’s finale at its Allston space, MASS MEDIA included the work of 21 new media artists in its comparatively…
IMPERSONATURE @ ARTSPACE@16
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Nature is everything (energy, matter, etc.) (as far as I know). impersonature is the 27th show at Sand T’s artSPACE@16. Nature, in our anthropocentric…
NEW MEDIA ART FROM FINLAND @ STUDIO SOTO
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article There was little interest in this show during its first few weeks up. One might guess that it was because it was billed simply…
RELAYING THE TRANSATLANTIC CABLE: SOCIETY FOR CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES, 2005 CONFERENCE
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article I set out across the Atlantic Ocean to visit old England for the first time in my life. I was going to London, and…
ALFREDO CONDE @ AS220
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Copying something creates a fake. Creating that fake object can be quite simple, you need only find an original and copy it, bearing in…
CALEB WEINTRAUB @ GALERIE SWANSTROM
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article I was suspicious when I walked into the opening, the gallery turned into a discotèque, bass pumping, dimmed lighting, a video projection—presumably of Caleb…
PUPPETS IN CINEMA
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the undisputed kings of construction paper animation chose not to create “Team America: World Police” with their favorite medium…
BALAGAN @ COOLIDGE
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article The very first screening of the Fall 2004 season of Alla Kovgan and Jeff Silva’s semi-weekly Balagan experimental film and video series was called…
TEA PARTY @ BERWICK
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article I first met Fereshteh Toosi and Carolyn Lambert after a presentation they gave at the The Berwick Research Institute in late June. During this…
MFA THESIS EXHIBITION @ MECA
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article No more than in any other occupation can the ‘worker’ define their role to themselves than in the fine arts, that is to say…