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Documenta 14_undersea Kingdom

The big great whale, Walis Gwy Um, as fellow Kwakwaka’wakw people named Beau Dick , one of their hereditary chiefs, was a maker of masks, a hand guided by superior forces to bring them to life in colored cedar wood. All the masks exhibited at Kassel and Athens have been danced and will do so…

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Documenta 14_lovebomb

For Terre Thaemelitz , sales, distribution and claims are the essential tools of culture and thus they determine his* artistic practice, where her* roles as DJ Sprinkles, writer, contemporary artists, designer and businessman become one. In Lovebomb, the video/conceptual album on view at Documenta, these practices result in a disturbing,challenging and intense audiovisual experience. Circuitry of…

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Documenta 14_i Had Nowhere To Go

For the following weeks, this column will be dedicated to discuss some of the works exhibited at the Documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany. The first takeaway from this huge endeavor is its leviathanic ambition to collect, process and polemize urgent topics of politics, economy and culture. Much like the globalized world it is discussing, Documenta…

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