clockwise: ferhat özgür, wolfgang laib and his wife, 14 October 2012, Paris. 

Noordkaap Tour - Closing Part: 11-21-2012, Dordrecht, The Netherlands

Noordkaap Tour - Closing Part

Thursday October 11, 2012 till Sunday October 21, 2012

Closing Exhibition of Noordkaap's European tour on the rise of Populism.

http://noordkaap.org/programma/noordkaap-dordrecht/

Guided tours: October 11 – 21, startingpoint De Waag 110 3311XS Dordrecht.  For guided group tours please contact info@noordkaap.org.

Commedia dell'Arte: Saturday October 13, 13:30 and 15:30, Het Hof 3311XG Dordrecht

Dinner and public debate: Saturday October 13

Concert Hall & Rauch: Saturday October 13, Vriesweg 22 (Baracca)

After a European tour to Munich, Istanbul, Cologne, Budapest, and Lisbon, Noordkaap is coming home with an extensive overview exhibition in October. A selection of artworks that was created during the tour, will be on view in Dordrecht for two weeks. Various locations in the city center set the stage for international exchange between the artists and you! With guided tours, performances, film screenings, and more.

Many international artists, designers, art institutions, writers and social partners crossed the border with us for this traveling exhibition. The tour focused on socially relevant themes such as the economic crisis, national identity, urban development, democracy, populist imagery and hope! Noordkaap explored the theme Populism, and how this reflects on everyday life, art, culture and politics in various European countries.

Persbericht NL

Press Release EN

Participants

among others:

• Carlos D’Abreu (PT)
• Monica Aerden (NL)
• Ban & Zn. (NL)
• Johannes Brechter (DE)
• Nada van Dalen (NL)
• Burak Delier (T)
• Roland Farkas (HU)
• Foundland (NL)
• Arturo Hernández Alcázar (MX)
• Fabian Hesse (DE)
• Daan den Houter (NL)
• Oliver Kunkel (DE)
• Jan Kryszons (NL)
• KunstCommando (NL)
• ±maismenos± (PT)
• Tirzo Marta (AN)
• Filippo Minelli (IT)
• Federico D’Orazio (NL)
• Ferhat Özgür (TR)
• Remotewords (DE)
• Alexander Schikowski (HU)
• Zentrum für Politische Schönheit (DE)
• Art van Triest (NL)
• Yvo van der Vat (NL)
• The Geert Wilders (NL) 
• The Voice of Dordrecht

Eieren voor je geld

On Saturday, October 13, an extraordinary folk spectacle will take place, inspired by responses to artworks in Dordrecht's public space. The play 'Eieren voor je geld' (Eggs for your money, Dutch saying for the easy way out) is directed by artist Hans van den Ban, our man behind SuperLaTief, 2008. Once again, Hans connects unexpected elements, artists and audience.

Gijs Frieling creates the stage, and actors of theater group Toendra play the Harlequin, a headmaster, an art director, the pierrot, the artist and Jan Klaassen. The story is strewn together by Tedje Hausmacher (also known from the Dutch comedy duo Rembo & Rembo), and in between scenes the audience can sing along with folk singer Ed Palermo. There will be three performances at 't Hof in the city center, close to the weekly market, so all people in Dordrecht can choose the easy way out.

…What is it, people of Dordrecht? A conspiracy against art on the streets? Fear of the unknown? Where are the wide open vistas of yesteryear? Do you want to return to the time before the merchants, the adventurers and the sailor mobs, before the time of the flapping sails... Reed cutting and weaving baskets? Do you want to return to the swampy moors?...

From 'Eieren voor je geld', Hans van den Ban

Come one, come all!

Diner and debate

In the evening October 13,  Noordkaap offers a long table with many guests, audience, and great food, recitals, and discussions. Details to follow, as usual, at the last minute... If you want to reserve a spot at the table, please email us at info@noordkaap.org

Data

The exhibition is opened from October 11 – 21, Thursday & Friday 17:00- 21:00. Saturday 13:00-18:00. Sunday 14:00-18:00

Hometown Partners

For this closing exhibition foundation Noordkaap is working together with a.o.

• Do Not X-Ray
• restaurant Veerhuis
• jongerenwerk De Twern
• Vastgoedbedrijf Dordrecht
• KunstCommando
• InnerCity Hotel
• Baracca
• SBK/ Galerie 180 Dordrecht
• Jonkers Events BV
• Boy Bastiaans 
• Werkplaats Oost
• Stad & Land NVM Makelaar

Made possible with the kind help of

• Mondriaan Fund
• City Council of Dordrecht
• VSBfund
• Fund for Cultuurparticipatie
• Goethe Institute
• NRW Kultursekretariat
• Do Not X-Ray
• and the growing number of supporters!

Artists: Abner Preis, Art van Triest, Arturo Hernández Alcázar,Carlos d’Abreu, Daan den Houter, Dan Dryer, Fabian Hesse,Federico d'Orazio, Filippo Minelli, Foundland collectief, Hans van den Ban, Jan Kryszons, Johannes Brechter, Michael Kluver, Nada van Dalen, Oliver Kunkel, Remotewords, Tassilo Letzel, Tirzo Martha and Yvo van der Vat.

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FICTIONS AND DISSENTIONS: 3rd CANAKKALE ART BIENNALE, 28 SEPTEMBER-3 NOVEMBER 2012

FICTIONS AND DISSENTIONS / 3rd Çanakkale Art Biennale / TURKEY

28 September - 3 November 2012

http://canakkalebienali.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57&Itemid=59

Curators

Beral Madra Art Director
Firat Arapoglu

Seyhan Boztepe

Parallel Activities Curator

Fatih Balci

Biennial Director
Seyhan Boztepe

Coordinator Curator

Deniz Erbas

Coordinators

Ismail Erten

Ezgi Ariduru

participants

Yesim Agaoglu (TR)

Murat Akagunduz (TR)

Nikita Alexeev (RU)

Melih Apa (TR)

Artik Isler Video Kolektifi (TR)

Fikret Atay (TR)

Bobbie (TR-DK)

Mehmet Ali Boran (TR)

Braco Dimitrijevic (HR)

Baris Eviz (TR)

Jakob Gautel (FR)

Nadi Guler (TR)

Insel Inal (TR)

Hakan Kirdar (TR)

Serhat Kiraz (TR)

Komet (TR-FR)

Kalliopi Lemos (GR)

Michelangelo Pistoletto's Love Difference & Artway of Thinking (IT)

Moataz Nasr (EG)

Mustafa Okan (TR)

Ali Ibrahim Ocal (TR)

Ferhat Ozgur (TR)

Neriman Polat (TR)

Ulrike Rosenbach (DE)

Cagri Saray (TR)

Marwan Sahmarani (LB)

Ani Setyan (TR)

Julian Stallabrass (UK)

Ayhan Taskiran (TR)

Sevil Tunaboylu (TR)

Yeni Anit (TR)

Sencer Vardarman (TR-DE)

Nalan Yirtmac (TR)

Pinar Yolacan (TR-USA)

Conceptual Framework

Turkey being closely watched from a global perspective has become a focus of attention, not only because of its own political and cultural state of affairs, but because of "The Arabic Spring" in the region, Iran's bid for nuclear power, its approaches and response to various countries in turmoil such as Iraq and Syria in a post-U.S.A. world politics and no doubt its dynamic relations with The EU.

In relation to all these, recently Turkey also somehow has managed to represent itself as a potential major player in the global art industry, with many worldwide cultural and artistic events and organizations. Turkey has succeeded to attain a unique status in this respect by giving a start to Istanbul Biennial in the mid-eighties, and by realizing Istanbul Cultural Capital of Europe Project in 2010. Now this development, this unique position has been strengthened by various biennial organizations of many emerging Turkish cities like that of Antakya, Canakkale, Mardin and Sinop.

The Third International Canakkale Biennial is contributing to this development with strong commitment and energy.

Canakkale-Gallipoli is a historically loaded city, since it has always been a geopolitical passage way between continents, oceans and civilizations. From the legendary fall of Troy to The Gallipoli Campaign during the 1st World War, Canakkale has always attained a very special place in the hearts and minds of many cultures and civilizations.

The Third International Canakkale Biennial will be held in Canakkale, on the eastern shore of The Dardanelles Straights. This year the Biennale has the aim to portray the intricate realities of political, social and economic world state of affairs in today's global stage. As an artistic event, it will question, analyse and deconstruct the current order of things. It will have a claim, to present visual and performing arts that reflects today’s contemporary art aesthetics and dissents.

The Third International Canakkale Biennial will have a particular claim, an argument. That is; today's artists everywhere, can and must create areas of engagement, activity, interpretation so that this alone could constitute an example, a proof that democracy and freedom can in fact be attained on both global and regional levels. This claim also underlines the attributes of creativity, innovation and memory, all may be interpreted as direct results of the Mediterranean socio-political geography in general into which this historic peninsula opens a passage way. But beyond all that, this claim also asserts that art has a politics of its own and this 'art-politics' does in fact competes fiercely with the other mainstream politics, by proving to its public an alternative way of living together is also indeed possible.

Today's contemporary art-especially an art that is based on questioning and analysis-is in fact a process, which moves forward slowly but surely and effectively. As a result of this process, it is able to portray many intricacies and ambiguities that are a part of our seemingly ordinary daily lives. Contemporary artists of today work like a detective; He/she researches into the complex web of political, social, economic and cultural issues and portrays them in the most effective forms and concepts that are possible. The artists point to the strong currents beneath the seemingly calm waters and try to reveal the truth. The strong currents in The Dardanelles Straights appear to be an analogy for this act. The currents of The Dardanelles presented many difficulties to Xerxes, who was trying to march his army against Alexander the Great. In 1810, this time Lord Byron crossed the straights and told about it in his poem of Don Juan.

Due to the internet, the network of artists from every corner of the world reduces the size of this vast geography and diminishes the time span of events around the globe. They are capable of learning about many issues, decipher secrets and tackle major problems concerning the whole of humanity in this age of swift information. Now, with this new arsenal at hand, great myths of the past are being rewritten and the post-modern individual position is no longer relevant in the state of current events as testified by ripples of rebellion vibrating through Twitter and Facebook. This is indeed a new epistemological situation which requests a new perception and appreciation. This current organization evidently has not invented the soul of rebellion, but makes possible for waves of rebellion to accumulate.

Modern artists have always questioned the conventions or rebelled against them by indulging into areas of class contradictions, ethnic identities, beliefs, identities and the concept of other. Their methods have been analytical and based on processes. This process opens a horizon based on analysis, appreciation and comprehension of these fast changing space-time notions. To realize and fully comprehend space and time and to operate on political, economic and cultural levels has requested a new way of collaboration and partnership between the artists. Thus, the artist initiatives of today are best active examples of this collaboration. These initiatives are a way to share the experience with the society.

The Third International Canakkale Biennial aims;

• To be a platform for viewing and perceiving art that is created within the above mentioned context;
• To make visible the geographical boundaries that is being re-drawn in global dimension, the neo-liberal economy which tries to re-incarnate itself, and in particular the political transformations in The Middle East region.
• To examine the emerging pressure on the existing political power; and evidently all these issues that influenced the daily life;
• To exhibits works emanating from a certain concept that supports an existing environment or proposes a new environment;
• To discuss and to deconstruct this organized movement that emerges with the new waves of revolution and revives itself.

Thus the Third International Canakkale Biennial;

• Will place this historical city into the calendar of international art world by inviting artists and art experts from all over the world, who will contribute to the conceptual framework of this biennial;
• Will provide interesting and functional locations such as The Old Bus Terminal, The Naval Museum, Korfmann Library, The Old Armenian Church, and The State Fine Art;
• Will invite the art and culture institutions and universities to join the biennial artists to create an environment of interaction and communication;
• Will provide the widest possible discussion of the biennial with various social and educational programmes such as workshops, debates and conferences;
• Will prove the fact that a biennial is not an end in itself, but a sustainable event which demands audience participation and which will become a form of cultural interface for The Mediterranean region;
• Will place Canakkale into the global art-culture production and communication networks.

*"Art does not produce knowledge and submissions for politics. It produces dissent, fictionalities, and the reciprocal interdependence of different kinds of sequences in the realm of sensibility. These it produces, not for political action, but in the framework of its own politics, in accordance with that peculiar double action, which on one hand encourages itself for self-destruction and on the other locks itself in loneliness. Art produces fictionalities and dissents which reorganize the space-time of can pages, museums, films and theatre which are in fact forms that demand divisions and subdivisions of general locations of sensibility, alone and together and the interrelations between vision and reality. In this way, art produces-creates forms that provide recreations of experiences- It is indeed the area, in which forms of political subject-agent to come into existence.”

Jacques Ranciére, Die Aufteilung des Sinnlichen (Die Politik der Kunst und İhre Paradoxen), Polypen, 2008, pg.89-90

PAMI (Peckham Artist Moving Images Festival), 19-23 September 2012, London: 'Drive-In'

PAMI. (Peckham Artist Moving Image Festival), 19-23 September 2012 London

Curator: Elise Lammer

In an immobile parade of cars parked on the top floor of Bold Tendencies sculpture park, artists and curators vehicles serve as viewing cubicles for this unique drive-in experience. Viewers are invited to intrude into strangers’ cars to enjoy a screening programme that reflects on the fetishism of the private space, while immersed within the materiality of the sculptures presented in this year’s car park.

Featuring Sven Sachsalber, Aisha Abid Hussain, Simon Martin, Wendy Vainity, Mélodie Mousset, Berry Patten, Choterina Freer, John Smith, Fabian Marti, Ferhat Özgür

http://www.pami.org.uk/post/30473324511/sunday-23-september-2012-8pm-drive-in-curated-by

Ferhat Özgür is the third guest of Cite des Arts for 2012-PARIS

Ferhat Özgür is the third guest of Cite des Arts for 2012

Ferhat Özgür is participating in the art residency program at Cité International des Arts between September-December 2012.

Ferhat Özgür graduated from Gazi University, Education Faculty, Department Of Painting in 1989. Having completed his master and doctorate studies in Hacettepe University Fine Arts Faculty, Department of Painting in 1997, he was appointed to the same department as professor where he has taught for nearly two decades. He currently works and teaches in Istanbul Kültür University, Art and Design Faculty, Department of Communication Design (Multimedia). Özgür took part in the 6th Berlin Biennale, the 10th Istanbul Biennale and 3rd Örebro Open Art Biennale-Sweeden, 1st Mardin Biennale and Sinopale 1, 3 Turkey. His works have been exhibited in numerous venues including, Centre George Pompidou-Paris, Haus der Kulturen Der Welt-Berlin, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, MUMOK-Wien, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo-Turin, Mattress Factory Art Museum-Pittsburgh, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art Comtemporaine, Zone Contemporaine-Bern etc.

Located in Paris, Cité Internationale des Arts gives 350 artists, whom it accommodates at the same time, the chance to stay at individually assigned workshops from two months to one year. With its exhibition halls, rehearsal studios, concert and performance venues, along with its various workshops, Cite des Arts gives the artists the opportunity to improve themselves and actively create.

The selection of the artists who are invited to the residency program is done by a committee of seven with the coordination of IKSV and is conducted with an open call system. The residency program will continue until 2029.

Cité des Arts'ın Eylül-Aralık 2012 dönemindeki konuğu Ferhat Özgür

Cité Internationale des Arts Türkiye Atölyesi Seçici Kurulu, Eylül-Aralık 2012 döneminde misafir sanatçı programına katılacak sanatçıyı belirledi. 2012 yılında Cité des Arts'ın üçüncü konuğu Ferhat Özgür olacak.

Ferhat Özgür 1989 yılında Gazi Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Resim-İş Eğitimi Bölümü’nü bitirdi. Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora (Sanatta Yeterlik) çalışmalarını Hacettepe Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi Resim Bölümü’nde tamamladıktan sonra bu kurumda yirmi yıl kadar öğretim üyesi olarak çalıştı. Sanatçı halen İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi Sanat ve Tasarım Fakültesi İletişim Tasarımı-Multimedya Bölümü’nde öğretim üyesidir. 6.Berlin Bienali, 10.İstanbul Bienali, 3.Örebro Open Art Bienali-İsveç, 1.Mardin Bienali ve 1.ve 3.Sinopale etkinliklerine katılan Özgür’ün yapıtları bugüne kadar aralarında, Centre George Pompidou-Paris, Haus der Kulturen Der Welt - Berlin, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, MUMOK - Wien, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo-Turin, Mattress Factory Art Museum-Pittsburgh, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art Comtemporaine, Zone Contemporaine-Bern’in de bulunduğu pek çok mekanda gerçekleştirilen uluslararası sergilerde yer aldı.

Paris'te yer alan Cité Internationale des Arts, aynı anda ev sahipliği yaptığı 350 sanatçıya, tahsis ettiği kişisel atölyelerde iki aydan bir yıla kadar süreyle konaklama imkânı sağlıyor. Bünyesindeki sergi salonları, prova odaları, konser ve gösteri alanlarının yanı sıra, çeşitli atölyelerle sanatçılara kendilerini geliştirme ve aktif üretim fırsatı sunuyor.

İKSV tarafından yürütülen ve 2029 yılına dek kesintisiz devam edecek misafir sanatçı programına katılan sanatçılar 7 kişilik seçici kurul tarafından belirleniyor.

'Reflecting Fashion: Art and Fashion Since Modernism', MUMOK, Austria, 15 June 2012 / 20 September 2012

“Reflecting Fashion: Art and Fashion Since Modernism” Opening: June 14, 2012–7.00 p.m.

15 June 2012 / 20 September 2012

MUMOK (Museum der Moderne Stiftung Ludwig Wien) Austria

The exhibition will be opened parallel with the "Summer of Fashion" in the MuseumsQuartier.

The exhibition focuses on clothing and fashion as an essential component of art, where particularly since the mid-1960s they have played a major role in the work of such artists as Ellsworth Kelly, Cindy Sherman, Niki de Saint Phalle and Daniel Buren. Fashion has always played an important role in the semantics of modernism, with numerous traditions following Baudelaire in defining “modernité” through a concept of fashion - of what is “à la mode”.

During the early 20th century, fashion became part of the formal language of the avant-garde including such artists as Sonia Delaunay, the Futurists and the Surrealists. Celebrated theorists such as Walter Benjamin emphasized the power of fashion in connection with broader questions of art: “Fashion has a flair for the topical, no matter where it stirs in the thickets of long ago; it is a tiger's leap into the past.” Benjamin not only confers a revolutionary significance to fashion but also a certain primacy over art. Art in turn takes fashion “at its most perfect” and relies on its complex and paradoxical nature, where “perfection” can only be achieved through remaining imperfect, where permanence is sought in change and individuality made possible through imitation.
Fashion is artifice, clothing is everyday life. “Fashion,” according to Barbara Vinken, “is commentary expressed through clothing about clothing.”

The exhibition will explore the interplay between art and fashion from the beginning of modernism to the present.

Curator
Susanne Neuburger in collaboration with Barbara Rüdiger

Artists:

Vito Acconci / Fred Adlmüller / Pawel Althamer/ Jean Arp / Maja Bajevic / Giacomo Balla / Bauhaus / Herbert Bayer / Joseph Beuys / BLESS / Alighiero Boetti / Cosima von Bonin / Andre Breton / Kaucyila Brooke / Buch / Daniel Buren / Hussein Chalayan / Christo / Courreges-Guy Debord / DAMEN (I. Strobl, Ona B., E. Egerer, B. Jürgenssen) / Sonja Delaunay / Marcel Duchamp / Ines Doujak / "Dragos Olea Apparatus 22 / Madame D'Ora / Max Ernst / VALIE EXPORT / Alexandra Exter / "Fabrics Interseason Wally Salner / "Fabrics Interseason Johannes Schweiger" / "Factory of Found Clothes (Natalia Pershina)" / Marina Faust / Trude Fleischmann / Sylvie Fleury / Schwestern Flöge / Marcus Geiger / Isa Genzken / Rudi Gernreich - Ed Ruscha / Rudi Gernreich / George Grosz / Maria Hahnenkamp / Raoul Hausmann / Tibor Hajas / Rosa El Hazan -Milica Tomic / Kurt Husnik / Sanja Ivekovic / Jugenstilmantel / Birgit Jürgenssen / Allen Jones / Taddeusz Kantor / Ellsworth Kelly / Gustav Klimt / Jakob Lena Knebl / Milan Knizák / Daniel Knorr / Christoph Kohlhofer / Silvia Kolbowski / Grete Kolliner / Germaine Krull / Friedl Kubelka / Yayoi Kusama / Yayoi Kusama-Günter Uecker / Helmut Lang / Strauß Maria Likarz- / El Lissitzky / George Maciunas / Rene Magritte / Christopher Makos / Man Ray / Marie Claire Nr 148 / Lucia Moholy Regina Möller / Kolo Moser / Helmut Newton / Olaf Nicolai / Marzena Nowak / Meret Oppenheim / Ferhat Özgür / Mai-Thu Peret / Lil Picard / Pop Art / Liubov Popova / Stephen Prina / Florian Pumhösl / Pierre Restany / Felice Rix / Alexander Rodtschenko / James Rosenquist / Martha Rosler / August Sander / Hans Scheirl / Klaus Scherübel / Markus Schinwald / Elsa Schiaparelli & Salvador Dali / Kurt Seligman / Elfie Semotan / Martin Kippenberger - Elfie Semotan / Helmut Lang - Elfie Semotan / Cindy Sherman / Niki de St. Phalle / Oskar Schlemmer / Nedko Solakov / Alfred Stieglitz / Warwara Stepanowa / Ingeborg Strobl / Struppi (Gerhard Stecharnig) / Surrealistenausstellung / Sophie Arp Taeuber / Tanaka Atsuko / Vladimir Tatlin / Wolfgang Tillmans / Rosemarie Trockel / Unbekannt / Nadim Vardag / Andrea Van der Straeten / Sacrum Ver / Franz Erhard Walther / Andy Warhol / Karl-Heinz Weinberger / Franz West / Werkstätte Wiener / Valy Wieselthier / Steven Willats / Wols / Erwin Wurm / Andrea Zittel / Heimo Zobernig

Flash Art International: May_June 2012

MAY JUNE 2012

Flash Art International 284 features two covers: Takashi Murakami and Jacob Kassay. News Section:Lucy Rees introduces us to the inaugural exhibition and program of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney , on the occasion of its reopening in March, 2012. Lucy Rees extends her Australia overview to the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), in Tasmania . Flash Art International’s editorial team interviews White Cube Hong Kong’s director Graham Steele about the recent opening of the gallery’s Asian branch. Umberta Genta interviews Manifesta 9 curator and co-curators, discussing the theme of this edition, “The Deep of The Modern,” as well as the choice of location. Wendy Vogel provides an insight to the second New Museum’s Triennial, “The Ungovernables,” by analyzing the political and aesthetic orientation of the exhibition. Lucy Rees interviews Anne Barlow, curator of the BucharestBiennale 5, “Tactics for the Here and Now.” Adam O’Reilly talks to Garry Neill Kennedy about his latest book, The Last Art College , 1968-1978, which details the history of the legendary Nova Scotia College of Art and its influence on conceptual art. Columns: In the Gallerist’s Page, Donatien Grau interviews Seth Sieglaub about the beginning of his gallerist career in the ’60s and the evolution of his practice. In the Curator’s Space, Sam Bardaouil takes Iranian art of the Safavid Empire as a starting point to debate on the challenges and provocations offered by art throughout history. Flash Art International also features Asian Insider, a column on the Asian art market by Patricia Chen, who, in this issue, focuses on Hong Kong and Singapore. Book Reviews: Ver Sacrum: The Death of The Audience, by Nicola Trezzi; Trembling Bodies, by Lucy Rees; Francesca Woodman, by Umberta Genta. Features: Flash Art Editor at Large Gea Politi interviews Palais de Tokyo President, Jean de Loisy, on the occasion of the reopening of the Palais on April 2012. Alexander Ferrando talks to Toronto-based collector Ydessa Hendeles about her “curatorial compositions” and theYdessa Hendeles Art Foundation. On the occasion of his major exhibition “Murakami-Ego” at the Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall, Doha , Qatar , Japanese artist Takashi Murakami is interviewed by the exhibition curator and 2013 Venice Biennale artistic directorMassimiliano Gioni. American artist Jacob Kassay is interviewed by Matthew Lyons about his background in Buffalo , his relationship to music and his exhibition at the Power Station in Dallas . In a conversation moderated by Getty curator Glenn Phillips and Flash Art Los Angeles editor Patrick Steffen, Judy Chicago and Eleanor Antin talk about their arrival in California in the ’60s, the early days of Feminism, and Pacific Standard Time. Los Angeles-based artist Tomory Dodge speaks to his fellow artist Brett Cody Rogers about his recent body of work, his childhood and abstract painting. Kunsthalle Winterthur director Oliver Kielmayer presents a selection of works by Phil Collins, Adrian Paci, Ferhat Özgür, Irina Botea, Köken Ergun and Mircea Nicolae under the title “We are beautiful.” Flash Art International May-June issue features the second iteration of its supplement Flash Art Asia: Introducing the supplement is a Survey edited by Giancarlo Politi and Lucy Rees involving professionals based in the region. In an essay written by Beijing-based art critic Edward Sanderson, Flash Art International introduces the practice of Chinese artist Liu Ding. Iona Whittaker explores Chinese artist Liu Wei’s practice in an essay focused on the artist’s most recent works. Lucy Rees talks to Indonesian artist Gede Mahendra Yasa about his work in relationship to the legacy of painting. Israeli curator and filmmaker Joshua Simon and artist Ohad Meromi speak about Meromi’s notion sculptures and much more. Using the term Hallyu as a starting point, editor II-Joo presents the modus operandi of Seven Korean artists: YeonDoo Jung, U-Ram Choe, YongBaek Lee , KiBong Rhee, Heung-Woo Shin, Lee Se-Hyun and Park Min Joon. This issue Brand New section includes Jeremy Shaw by Klaus Biesenbach and George Henry Longly by Wendy Vogel, and the Spotlight exhibitions are “The Collectors show: Kimera. Asian contemporary art from private collections,” at the Singapore Art Museum, and “Elad Lassry (Presence 2005) ” at the Hayworth Theatre, Los Angeles . The review section includes: Interiors, Birgit Brenner, Albert Oehlen, My Barbarian, Glenn Kaino, Gabriel Kuri, Toby Ziegler, Thomas Eggerer, Boris Mikhailov, Yayoi Kusama, Combine Reality: Eli Cortiñas and Katharina Jahnke, Monica Bonvicini, Philippe Mayaux, Lucio Fontana, Pierre Vadi, Dan Graham, Atelier Van Lieshout, Ai Weiwei, Ali Kazma, Aernout Mik, Karl Holmqvist, Kwan Sheung Chi, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pushpamala N.