Sturtevant Q & A
12/02/10 Vanessa Desclaux
At the special request of METROPOLIS M, Elaine Sturtevant (1930) answers a few questions about her exhibition in Paris.
Read more..I did not have Relational Asthmatics with that Woman, althoug I did cough in her Lemongrass Soup An Interview with Michael Portnoy
10/12/09 Maxine Kopsa
He dreams of an object becoming a force and has already coined a term for it: ‘objection’. The New York artist, choreographer and performer Michael Portnoy is obsessed with energy and movement and continually puts it into practice. For instance, with table-sized game boards that literally make the players dance to his tune.
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features 02.11.09 Erik van Tuijn
Interview with Tijs Teulings and James Burke, founders of NARB.me, the online platform for ‘people filtered art’ which offers a micro blog and art agenda as well as an interactive list of ‘hottest exhibitions’ all rolled into one.
features 01.10.09 Metropolis M
Graphic designer David Bennewith has produced an amazing book about cult typeface designer Joseph Churchward (New Zealand). In this interview he tells about his 4-years research, which started at the Jan van Eyck Academy.
Behind the ‘Collection Dubai’ Interview with curator November Paynter
features 21.09.09 Maxine Kopsa
Amsterdam
SMART Project Space
07/09/09 - 25/10/09
Until October 25th SMART Project Space in Amsterdam plays host to Collection Dubai by Istanbul-based curator November Paynter. Maxine Kopsa interviewed her about the exhibitions backgrounds.
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Is there such a thing as a generation? What would its characteristics be? The current generation of those in their late twenties and early thirties is described as relatively bourgeois, very professional, purist, without rough edges and very strongly structured. Bregje van Woensel (35) converses with sociologist and contemporary Willem Schinkel (33) about the sense and nonsense of generational thinking.
13/07/09 Henk Slager
Daniel Birnbaum, rector of the Städelschule in Frankfurt, curator of Portikus Contemproary Art Centre and sought-after curator for biennial exhibitions around the world, is artistic director for the central exhibition of the 53rd Venice Biennial, entitled Making Worlds. Henk Slager travelled to Frankfurt to speak with Birnbaum on the background to this summer’s most important exhibition.
'The past does not influence me. I influence the past' An Interview with Adam Pendleton
15/06/09 Krist Gruijthuijsen
The young artist Adam Pendleton is currently making waves with performances, paintings and installations in which he critically examines our interpretation of history and culture. His work is often describe as ‘conceptual’ or even ‘complicated’, thanks to his frequent use of texts both from his own hand and derived from Afro-American literature, music and pop culture. Is Pendleton ridiculing the clichés about black culture, collecting them like a sociologist, or is he trying to initiate a more subtle way of thinking about language and identity? Time to let him speak for himself.
Read more..A Voice from 1984: RAMM-ELL-ZEE 's TREAT'SE
features 27.04.09 Arno Vriends
In the special VOICE (METROPOLIS M 2009#2), Creative Time curator Mark Beasley gives an impression of the multifaceted role of the voice in art and culture over the past hundred years. For Hey Hey Glossolalia, a series of performances revolving around the voice, Beasley cooperated with graffiti writer, performance artist, rap/hip-hop musician, and sculptor Rammellzee. Who, as it happens, was interviewed by METROPOLIS M correspondent Arno Vriends back in 1984. So what follows is a voice from the past..
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features 13.04.09 Hendrik Folkerts
Haarlem
Body Double at Nieuwe Vide
21/03/09 - 25/04/09
Every year art space Nieuwe Vide in Haarlem (near Amsterdam) appoints a new curator to give shape to its exhibition program. This year's curator is Emilie Oursel, founding director of Violet Bureau and editor of the publication .doc//m.
