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By MARINA VERONICA Thomas Hirschhorn’s “Utopia, Utopia = One World, One War, One Army, One Dress”, the latest exhibition at the ICA, looks like an over-stocked department store distastefully promoting camouflage. Simulated displays of commodities surrounded by a decor of “collages” – haphazardly-placed magazine and newspaper images of soldiers, models and citizens sporting camouflaged attire (from sexy briefs to baby clothing) – horrifically reflect what could realistically succeed as a store in today’s America, call it “Camouflage City”. Imagine a place where hoards of families could spend an afternoon exercising their favorite…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Let’s say that every text, including an art exhibit, has an ‘ideal reader.’ This ideal reader is the subject positioned by the text’s particular modes of address. In the case of an art show, these would be the visual language of the pieces, and all attending cues like positioning, lighting, even location and hours, of the show. The ideal reader may not be quite the perfect reader who manifests all curatorial and artistic intention but is instead a feasible model of a reader. The ideal reader’s reactions and interpretations…
By BIG RED AN INTERVIEW WITH KIRSTEN FORKERT by RACHEL GEPNER THE ARTIST IN RESEARCH RESIDENCY by MATTHEW NASH THE BERWICK IN BOSTON by CHRISTIAN HOLLAND THE REVOLVING DINNER by MICAH MALONE For an Institute dedicated to supporting “concept-driven work that eludes conventional modes of market distribution” the Berwick has certainly pushed the limits for inventive circulation of product. From its day as a makeshift rock n’ roll venue to exhibition space to residency program, the trajectory of this space has often been decided by powers above them. Shut down for…
By BIG RED October, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Art Interactive for Bollywood Breakdown. —- Art Interactive
By BIG RED Sunday, October 2, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Berwick Research Institute’s Revolving Dinner fundraiser. Diners were divided into 6 groups and traveled among 6 houses in Jamaica Plain. Each house featured a course of the dinner, and artwork presented by various Berwick Artists-In-Research. The Berwick Research Institute Images by Matthew Nash.
By BIG RED Sunday, October 2, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Berwick Research Institute’s Revolving Dinner fundraiser. Diners were divided into 6 groups and traveled among 6 houses in Jamaica Plain. Each house featured a course of the dinner, and artwork presented by various Berwick Artists-In-Research. The Berwick Research Institute Images by James Manning, Marta Fodor, Maria, Mary Fuller, Morgan Schwartz, Pam Larson, and Paul McEvoy.
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR University of Wisconsin – Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard recently defended his decision to remove an artwork by Chicago-based designer Al Brandtner from the exhibition “Axis of Evil: A Secret History of Sin” with the following statement: I have concluded that one piece in the exhibit does seriously cross an important line. That piece involves a representation of the current U.S. President with a handgun being pointed at and an inch or two away from the President’s temple, held by the hand of someone outside the frame,…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Regular Big RED columnist Charles Giuliano has recently announced the launch of his new website Maverick-Arts to supplant his long-standing email publication. The new site features archives of all of Giuliano’s past articles (200+ at the time of this writing) as well as images, links, and more. For those familiar with Giuliano’s Maverick Arts publication, this is a welcome opportunity to peruse past pieces and read those they may have missed. For anyone new to his writing, it is immediate and dense, full of the same energy…