I’m interested in situations; I’m interested in life itself. Nevertheless, I do not trust in the appearance of reality as it is showcased to us in mainstream culture. I like to believe that the surface hides deeper clues and essential mechanisms. Like archeologists, we need to dig in order to excavate what lies beneath. I […]

LX 2.0 is a curatorial project developed by Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea, a commercial contemporary art gallery based in Lisbon. LX 2.0 is one of the direct consequences of the regular program presented by the Upgrade! Lisbon, a monthly gathering of new media artists, curators, and interested people, also held at Lisboa 20.       […]

Introduction 1 is a series of seven Introductions, in the form of a conversation, later edited by New York-based Portuguese artists, Pedro Barateiro and Ricardo Valentim, to be published in the book What Is Content? in February 2009. The collaboration between the two artists is centered on the construction and the form that content has […]

Recently the CIA assured us that the destroyed videotapes of hundreds of hours of the interrogations of two detainees in 2002 no longer had intelligence value and that their destruction was nothing but standard procedure to protect the identities of the interrogators. They claim that there is no need for the tapes since the agency […]

Nicky Coutts uses imagery that might be recognized from elsewhere. She appropriates paintings, photographs, objects, and stories, some easy to recognize, others lodged more deeply in our collective memory. These borrowed forms are then altered in some way and returned, often seamlessly, to impersonate what they replace. Currently, Coutts is interested in how we visit […]

Blandy’s film trilogy, The Way of the Barefoot Lone Pilgrim, presents popular culture as something Janus-faced – as both an offer of potential liberation, but simultaneously a solipsistic prison. In the films, Blandy plays the role of a questing, wandering monk – in the mold of David Carradine from ‘70s TV series Kung Fu – as he attempts […]

The exhibition Best Regards from the Blind Spot is conceived as a rather specific insight into the representations of feminine subjectivity. It should be understood as an ironic intonation of a postcard sent from the place where these artists live: Serbia and Montenegro represents a certain “blind spot” of the art world.   Jovana Stokic […]

As I walk through Chinatown toward the Martha Rosler Library at e-flux, three other things ride my mind and whisper in my ear: the growing Danish Cartoon situation in which art has initiated a worldwide face-off between liberty and tyranny; my 1988 videotape My Whole Wardrobe / All My Books which suggested that one’s collections […]

What: Test, a new private non-for-profit contemporary art center–a 30,000 square foot industrial building for new exhibitions, new projects, new collaborations and a new contemporary art collection.   In the summer of 2007, Portuguese artist Joao Simoes was invited to propose an idea for an industrial building, at LX factory creative cluster, in the heart […]

The recent solo exhibition of the Sardinian “raw” outsider artist, Franco Meloni, innovatively curated by Tchera Niyego, was an overwhelming success. A young self-taught artist from Sardinia, Italy, Meloni’s compositions exude a creative sense of the wild and abandon associated with the terrestrial freedom and radiant sunlight of his Mediterranean island home.    Tanzinika Schwartzschloff […]