Tag Archive "no-soul-for-sale"
Part 2, Annette Monnier’s No Soul For Sale article, online at Machete
Many of you appreciated Annette’s article on artblog about the financial relationship (or lack thereof) between non-profit collective spaces and large institutions involved in No Soul for Sale. Read Part 2 of this two-part article at Machete, available online here or as a free tabloid handout at the Marginal Utility project space at 319 N. 11th St. and elsewhere.
No Soul For Sale: 2 Articles, both alike in dignity
In May of 2010 the Tate Modern staged No Soul For Sale, billed as a ‘Festival of Independents’ that was ‘neither a fair or an exhibition, [but] a convention of individuals and groups who devote their energies to art they believe in, beyond the limits of the market and other logistical constraints’(1). NSFS brought 70 artist collectives to Turbine Hall who exhibited alongside one another without partitions or walls. The organization of the non-fair was purportedly modeled after the set of Lars von Trier’s film Dogville(2), meaning that the non-exhibition space for each invited party was marked out on the ... More » »
Tripping across the pond – No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern
Post by Marianne Bernstein In his book The Empathic Civilization, economist Jeremy Rifkin, investigates the evolution of empathy. Recent scientific studies suggest that we are wired for collaboration. Our natural impulse is to get along with our native kin; which over time have evolved from our fellow cave men, to our state, country, or religion, to the planet at large. When we are prevented from engaging with others openly the best parts of ourselves are repressed, and this results in narcissism, fear, anger, and violence. However, when we see ourselves in each other, harmony often ensues. We have an innate ... More » »
Thursday morning reading roundup
From blogs to zines, here’s some interesting quick reads. Two from Culture Monster Architecture critic for the LA Times, Christopher Hawthorne, writes about Frank Gehry’s new Cleveland Clinic for Brain Health in Las Vegas. What a crazy looking building — my brain is jumping up and down just looking at it.
Tate Modern invites FLUX and Vox
FLUXspace is taking a kitty moon bounce to the Tate Modern for a wild weekend in May. It us one of Two Philadelphia collaborative galleries–the other is Vox Populi–that will be in the May 14 to 16 festival, a redux of sorts of the No Soul for Sale festival of independent art organizations, part of the X-Initiative at the old Dia in New York.
