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Hotter Than Hell: A Trip to Rashid Johnson’s Dutchman | Art F City →

Added on February 4, 2014 by Alana Chloe Esposito.

Though held in the sauna, the imagined setting is a New York City subway car on a sultry day. The performance is artist Rashid Johnson’s revival of Amiri Baraka’s 1963 Obie-winning play, Dutchman.

“Don’t use the internet as a f***ing condiment”: Net Art at Art Dubai →

Added on March 30, 2012 by Alana Chloe Esposito.

DUBAI - At (It’s Not) Net Art 2: Emancipate the Medium!, one panel at Art Dubai’s Global Art Forum, heated debates began over nearly every aspect of the medium, from its formal qualities to its politicization and the notion that it is inherently radical. This argumentativeness is perhaps unsurprising given that the medium lacks a strict definition.

Art and Media, Guernica and Tahrir Square: Observations from Art Dubai | Art F City →

Added on March 29, 2012 by Alana Chloe Esposito.

This year’s Global Art Forum, an annual discourse on contemporary art under the aegis of Art Dubai, explores the theme “the Medium of the Media”. The event takes place on the rough anniversary of uprisings that spread across the Middle East, making it inevitable that panelists focused on where art fits into a landscape marked by tweets from Tahrir Square and the real-time dissemination of images of Qaddafi's corpse.