field of movement

"Based on previous work with Meteor Shower , Cosmicomics presents a fantastical sky animated by a fusion of lunar dreams inspired by Italo Calvino's eponymous novel, and by the quantum inflationary cosmology created by Andre Linde." Sha Xin Wei - Director, Art Concept

gesture

"Artist Christian Jankowski... noticed a Hula-Hooper practicing regularly on a rooftop across from his apartment on Division Street. He rang her doorbell; she introduced him to other practitioners, and a performance piece was born, with performers sharing coordinated gestures from blocks away. Whatever you call the results ­ art, aerobics, dance ­ it was one of the most thrilling sights I’ve seen in the city all year, and one of the most poignant. The choreographer Trisha Brown did a similar piece, minus Hula-Hoops, on the rooftops of SoHo just before that neighborhood was effectively lost to artists." Holland Cotter, NYtimes

gesture

"...the work of art, its very "formation", is based not so much on a model of creativity or construction, much less on one of expressivity, but rather on a process of separation, by which an intentional, teleological movement -call it a "plot"- is arrested, dislocated and reconfigured. Reconfigured as what? Precisely as gesture." Samuel Weber

immigration museum

"It’s hard to say who will go to the National Center at the moment, save for bored schoolchildren on compulsory field trips, although the place has the potential to be a constructive troublemaker. Mr. Toubon promises, in time, a program of events to add meat to the bare-bones display, which he says will also change. Clearly the place needs to do more than cheerlead, feign scholarly impartiality and make vague noises about past injustices to have any impact. It needs to try to steer a debate that is reshaping France and the rest of Europe."

landscape

"Although Sian Pile's work is purely 'photographic', she presents - in almost minimalist style - a sense of gesture within the landscape. The red cordon ribbon holds nothing 'in' or 'out' other than the space it defines. The subject - as in other images of the same series - is not randomly chosen neither it is documentary in nature."

by sian pile, via axisweb.org