A CLOCK THAT RUNS ON MUD is an attempt to unravel a quandary in the form of theories, propositions, works and writings on the concept of ‘muddy time’. A CLOCK THAT RUNS ON MUD was originally produced as a virtual exhibition at neromagazine.it in collaboration with NERO magazine from Rome. The Poznan version brings together new threads of thought on the muddy time thesis in the form of a physical exhibition at Galeria Stereo. A book culling together all of the artists and writers plus new contributors launches in Oct. 2011 in Poznan.

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Witte de With’s “Melanchotopia” is an exhibition that invites more than forty international artists to work with different venues in the city-center of Rotterdam – places where people live and work – and to activate their potential as spaces for ideas, discourse and invention.

From large-scale interventions to very simple gestures, Melanchotopia supports a range of artistic practices that go beyond the classical approach to displaying art in public space. Working with the existing dynamics of the city, Witte de With’s intention is to bring forward the diverse layers of daily life in Rotterdam, creating a rich framework for subjective encounters. It is an exhibition about the reality of Rotterdam.

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“For the last twenty years my work in one way or another has examined how psychological structures, thought systems and beliefs are manifested as physical objects in the world that we create around ourselves. Most recently this research has focused on the patterns and systems that are bound to habits, schedules and rules. For instance, I live in the desert where there all of my day to day necessities are ordered on-line, and delivered to my doorstep – a never ending stream of products, each carefully packed in its own cardboard box. After I unpack it’s contents I eye the box thinking that it is a shame to throw out such a perfect vehicle – especially if it has special proportions or clearly crisp edges and corners. Soon I found myself stacking the boxes up along an empty wall, eventually devising a way to cement this irregular structure together into an integrated unit that reflects a pattern of my own life through consumption.

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This year’s edition of abc art berlin contemporary is themed about painting and takes place in Berlin from September 7th to the 11th. The show will feature some 130 artists represented by 125 international galleries. Conceived as a showcase of contemporary painting, the exhibition will also feature installations, works on paper, video, photography and sculpture which deal thematically with painting as a medium.

For this year’s edition Mousse Publishing has published the abc exhibition catalogue distributed as of 7 September and on sale at the fair or directly through moussepublishing.com

Designed with a hybrid format – a cross between a magazine, essay and novel – the abc catalogue will be a valuable guide for visitors but also an instrument to find and collect information for those who want to investigate painting and its influence on today’s world.

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It all started as a research project. Or rather a compulsive and at times erratic search for constitutions and manifestos of self-organisation—an unwieldy archive commissioned by Tranzit for Manifesta 8. “Constitution of the Damned” is an attempt to return to this material and give space to the agency and restless movement of these ordering systems and alternative models of collective life. At the heart of this exploration is the question of how unruly documents, all of which share a certain desire for activation in the present, acquire a level of potentiality after the fact.

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For his first solo show in Los Angeles, Jacob Kassay continues his dialogue with color field and minimal painting, while additionally considering and creating a unique environment for these works to inhabit.

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