Éric Alliez, is Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (Middlesex University, London).
His works include: Les Temps capitaux Capital Times, preface by G. Deleuze, Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota, 1997; The Signature of the World. Or What is the Philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari?, London: Continuum, 2005.
Most recent books : La Pensée-Matisse (with J.-Cl. Bonne) (Paris : Le Passage, 2005) ; L’Œil-Cerveau. Nouvelles Histoires de la peinture moderne (in collaboration with Jean-Clet Martin) (Paris: Vrin, 2007).
Forthcoming : Capitalism, Schizophrenia and Consensus. Of Relational Aesthetics ; Istanbul : Baglam Publishing ; 2010 (in English/Turkish)
He is currently working on Undoing the Image Of Contemporary Art.
Bernard Andrieu is a philosopher and faculty at UHP Nancy University in France. He researches the interaction of biology and subjectivity using concepts of hybridity, personal health and plasticity. Taking a position against technophobia and post-humanism, his philosophical project is to describe the interaction between the body and the world resisting the temptation of naturalization.
His research has been published widely and has been included in: “Touching Space, Placing Touch Edited by Mark Paterson and Martin Dodge (2010), “BiotArt And Beyond,” M.I.T. Press (2007) and Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Psychology and Arts, New York (2006).
Eric Anglès lives in Berlin and New York.
Kader Attia Lives and works in Berlin. Born in 1970 into an Algerian family in Paris, Kader Attia studied both Philosophy and Fine Art in Paris.
Attia gained international recognition at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) and at the Lyon Biennale (2005), where he exhibited the work ‘Flying Rats’, an installation of life-size, birdseed sculptures of children being devoured by a flock of pigeons.
Recent exhibitions include La Force de l’Art, the Paris Triennial and the Havana Biennale. In 2010, Attia will take part in the Sydney Biennial and the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Program amongst other projects. Attia is also one of the winners of the 2010 Abraaj Capital Art Prize, an award granted specifically to artists working in the Middle East, North Africa or South Asia.
Elena Bajo‘s concept-generated practice is concerned with the social and political dimensions of everyday spaces, the strategies to conceptualize resistance, the poetics of ideologies, and the relationship between temporalities and subjectivities.
She has recently participated in projects at White Columns, New York (2009); Prague Festival, Prague (2009); Sculpture Center, LIC (2009); ISCP, New York (2009); Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2008), co-editor of issue 2, INPUT Journal and was one of the founders of the temporary art project EXHIBITION, New York (2009). Bajo holds an MFA from Central Saint Martins School of Art in London and a MA in Architecture from ESARQ, Barcelona, in 2006 she was granted a Fellowship to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. Future projects include her first solo exhibition in the UK at The Woodmill, London;
Through film, performance, and various media Lindsay Benedict presents us with fragments and gestures that examine and question social relations. She received a BA from Williams College, an MFA from UC Berkeley and was a studio fellow at the Whitney ISP. Lindsay lives in Brooklyn and has shown in NYC at Rotunda, Bose Pacia, and PS 122, and performed at The Tank, Dixon Place, and in the Movement Research 2009 Spring Festival. Her work was also exhibited/screened at the Berkeley Art Museum, the Emergency Biennial, the Detroit Museum of New Art (MONA), New Langton Arts, and the Pacific Film Archive.
Dubbed by L.A. Weekly as “Eye/Ear Explorer,” composer Nicholas Chase is known for integrating popular media into chamber music. His electro-acoustic compositions have been performed across the US and Europe, and his live video work has been acclaimed as “pushing the edge of audio/visual,” while his interactive installation “Transmission” was featured at the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
Chase returns to the US from Germany where he taught visual media at the Bauhaus University and collaborated with the BauhausFM Experimental Radio to work toward the PhD in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ngoma-lungundu-voice-that/id319306003
Seth Cluett (b. 1976, Troy, NY) is an artist, performer, and composer whose work ranges from photography, and drawing to video, sound installation, concert music, and critical writing. Engaging the boundary between the auditory and other senses, his work is marked by a detailed attention to perception and to sound’s role in the creation of a sense of place and the experience of time. The apparent tranquility of Cluett’s work – at once gentle and un-nerving – is concerned with the rapidly shifting sensory landscape of technological development and urbanization.
Zoe Crosher is an artist living in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Vancouver, Rotterdam, Los Angeles and New York City. In addition to her exhibition practice, she has a monograph, Out the Window (LAX), examining space and transience around the Los Angeles airport, and an upcoming monograph on her newest project The Unraveling of Michelle duBois, to be published by Aperture Books. Crosher recently served as visiting faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles, was an associate editor at the journal Afterall and is currently visiting faculty at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.
www.zoecrosher.com.
Krysten Cunningham earned her BFA in 2000 from University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. In 2003 she received her MFA: University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. Her selected exhibitions include: “’3 to 4′”, Ritter/Zamet, London, 2010; “Krysten Cunningham”, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, 2010; TANGENTAL, Dispatch, New York, NY, 2010; “Time Machines”, Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Cottage Home, Los Angeles, 2008; Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, 2008; Minimalism and After V, DaimlerChrysler, Berlin, 2007; Big Secret Cash, Angstrom Gallery, 2007; The Re-distribution of the Sensible, Magnus Muller, Berlin, Germany, 2007; Kairos, Cantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, 2007.
Yevgeniy Fiks was born in Moscow in 1972 and has been living and working in New York since 1994. Fiks has produced many projects on the subject of the Post-Soviet dialog in the West, among them: “Lenin for Your Library?” in which he mailed V.I. Lenin’s text “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism” to one hundred global corporations as a donation for their corporate libraries and “Communist Party USA,” a series of portraits of current members of Communist Party USA.
Dan Levenson is a multi-disciplinary artist whose central project, Little Switzerland, is an art-world mise en abîme involving painting, sculpture, photography, installation, performance and printed matter.
For this issue of Shifter he contributed the book layout and cover design and a short fiction inspired by the history of Futura.
www.danlevenson.com
Antje Majewski lives and works in Berlin. Her works have been shown internationally, including Kunsthalle Basel (Basel), Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), Deichtorhallen (Hamburg), Joanneum (Graz), Galerie neugerriemschneider (Berlin), asprey jaques (London), ZKM (Karlsruhe) and Salzburger Kunstverein. She teaches as Professor for painting at Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin.
“Entity” was first written for the exhibition “Dubai Düsseldorf” in Kunstverein Düsseldorf, 2009. This text is part of an ongoing body of works – paintings, objects, texts and a film – around the meaning of objects. The next part will be shown at Museum der Weltkulturen, Frankfurt, and finally all parts of the piece will come together in the show “The World of Gimel” in Kunsthaus Graz, 2011.
T. Kelly Mason is an artist from Los Angeles. Mason has been exhibiting worldwide since 1990 and is currently spending time in St. Louis as a visiting professor of art at Washington University. The 2 projects are the result of the Centre du Monde residency on Belle-Île-en-Mer, France. This marks the second time Mason has lived across the street from a house that Claude Monet had inhabited. Though he spent a month alone on the island, he has yet to find a successful respite from everyday life and intends to keep looking.
Michele Masucci lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
Trying to make a living as an artist, writer, translator. Earning money from stipends, residencies, participaton in art shows and production of art shows and other immaterial services. Always looking to find a possible way out of an all encopassing economic mental and linguistic system built on competition, fear and generalised exploitation. Longing for the possibility of solidarity, trust and friendship through the formation of autonomous communities that manage to resist the numbing effect of capitalism and thus recreate the experience of human sensibility. Imagining an existence where mental presence and emotional vulnerability becomes a part of everydaylife.
Daniel Miller works in Israel and Palestine.
Seth Nehil is an artist, performance-maker, and composer with a practice that crosses between sound, performance-events and the visual arts. In recent years he has created large-scale sound performances, collaborated with choreographers including Liz Gerring (NYC) and Linda Austin (Portland, Ore), and has published music on various international labels, including Sonoris (France) and Senufo Editions (Italy). Seth Nehil has also been an editor of arts publications, an organizer of performance festivals and a curator of exhibitions. He currently teaches sound, video and art theory at WSU Vancouver and the Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Warren Neidich is an artist and writer living between Berlin and Los Angeles whose work has been exhibited internationally. He is the recipient of the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, 2010. Selected future exhibitions include Bringing Up Knowledge, MUSAC, Leon, Spain, Book Exchange, Glenn Horowitz, East Hampton, Hidden Publics, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland, Love Letter for a Surrogate, Torrence Art MuseumTorrence, CA., and UKS-Unge Kunstneres Samfund/Young Artist Society, Oslo, Norway.
His recent monograph of drawings entitled Lost Between the Extensivity/Intensivity Exchange was recently published by Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Cognitive Architecture: From Biopower to Noo-power is forthcoming and will launch at this years Venice Biennial for Architecture at the Dutch Pavilion. He is currently Visiting Artist at the TU Delft School of Architecture, Delft, The Netherlands.
Susanne Neubauer is a curator and art historian. She was curator at Museum of Art Lucerne 2002-2009 and has curated numerous monographic exhibitions, including Anton Henning, Minnette Vári, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba and Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven as well as thematic exhibitions such as Documentary Creations, Projection (on the slide projection in art since the 1960s), Paul Thek Lucerne 1973/2005 and The Big Scene. Her recent and upcoming essays on Paul Thek and Ree Morton are published with MIT Press (2008), Generali Foundation Vienna and Whitney Museum of American Art (2010). She runs the online platform www.ptproject.net on the environmental work of Paul Thek and is currently finalizing a dissertation on the documentation of ephemeral spacial works of the 1970s.
Hans Ulrich Obrist was born in Zurich in May 1968. He became Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery in April 2006, joining Julia Peyton-Jones, the Serpentine Gallery Director. Prior to this he was Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris since 2000, as well as curator of museum in progress, Vienna, from 1993 to 2000.
Obrist has curated and co-curated over 200 solo and group exhibitions and biennales internationally since 1991, including: World Soup, 1991; do it, 1994; Take Me, I’m Yours, 1995; Manifesta 1, 1996; Laboratorium, 1999; Cities on the Move, 1997; Live/Life, 1996; Nuit Blanche, 1998; 1st Berlin Biennale, 1998; Utopia Station, 2003; 2nd Guangzhou Triennale, 2005; Dakar Biennale, 2004; 1st & 2nd Moscow Biennale, 2005 and 2007; Lyon Biennale, 2007; and Yokohama Triennale, 2008.
Chloe Piene lives and works in New York City. She has exhibited internationally. In 2010 she has shows in galleries including: Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv; Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles; Rotwand Gallery, Zürich. She has also shown in Barbara Thumm Gallery, Artforum Berlin, Berlin; Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris; Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nimes, France; Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York.
Her work in included in the collections of: Museum of Modern Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco among others.
Recent interests in Linda Quinlan’s practice lend themselves to formation. She considers what we move through on the way towards the center of something, be it an action, form or utterance. Her work touches on the pleasure gleaned in the meeting of elements, allowing them to become molten, soften and stretch out, reaching for meaning and recognition and embracing new substances that emerge. Quinlan is Irish and studying at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Recent exhibitions include the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, AutoItalia, London, CareOf Gallery, Milan and the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin. In 2006 she was awarded the Allied Irish Bank Prize.
Patricia Reed is a Canadian artist living and working in Berlin. She has participated in the residency programs of the Centre for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Japan; CCA Jeleni, Prague; Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; and the Banff Centre for the Arts. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include: They go round and round, 0047 Projects, Oslo; First Nations/Second Nature, Audain Gallery, Vancouver; Territories of the In/Human, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart. She has contributed texts to the following publications: Shifter Magazine, Fillip, Art Papers, C Magazine and Framework: The Finnish Art Review.
Silva Reichwein is a painter. She was born in Zurich and lives and works in Berlin and Zurich. She studied at the Ecole Superieure d Art Visuel, Geneva, and at the Universität der Künste, Berlin. 1993 she received her diploma as master scholar with Anna Oppermann. The artist`s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands and Hungary. She has received various scholarships and her work is present in various public and private collections.
Barry Schwabsky is art critic for The Nation and co-editor of international reviews at Artforum. His recent collection of poems is Book Left Open in the Rain (Black Square Editions/The Brooklyn Rail). His poems in this issue of Shifter are part of a new project for which he has asked fellow poets to give him their “failed” or abandoned poems to work on.
Gemma Sharpe has a background in literature and art history. She is a writer and critic based in London, currently undertaking an MFA at Goldsmiths. Her recent work is concerned with experimental practices of art writing, collaborative writing methods and political and Feminist philosophy and theory. She is a founding member of art writing platform, antepress.
Amy Sillman is an artist who lives in Brooklyn. Her most recent solo show, “Transformer (…or, how many lightbulbs does it take to change a painting?)” will be on view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co in NY from April 15-May 15, 2010.
Francesco Spampinato is a visual artist and art theorist who works with painting, performance, installation and sound. He holds two degrees in Art History from the University of Bologna and an MA in Modern Art: Critical Studies Track from Columbia University in New York. He regularly contributes to contemporary art magazines Flash Art, Impackt and Artlab and is visiting professor of Performance Art at NABA, Milano. Lives and works between Bologna and New York.
Tyler Stallings is the director of University of California, Riverside’s Sweeney Art Gallery. He was chief curator at Laguna Art Museum from 1999 to 2006. Since arriving at Sweeney in 2007, he has organized Your Donations Do Our Work: Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy (2009), Absurd Recreation: Contemporary Art from China (2008), Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture (2008), and The Signs Pile Up: Paintings by Pedro Álvarez (2008), among others.
www.sweeney.ucr.edu.
Laura Stein has exhibited in the States and abroad, in both museums and galleries. She has been in over 80 group exhibitions including Aldrich Museum and the New Museum. She has had 9 solo shows in New York and Los Angeles as well as a project at PS1/Moma. She installed a public commission at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany and 2 large-scale projects at the Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus, Ohio. Her work is represented in numerous private, museum, and corporate collections including Disney and the Eli Broad Corporate collection. She has taught workshops at the school of the Museum Fine Arts Boston and the Staatliche Hochschule in Frankfurt. She has also lectured internationally at universities as well as museums.
Clarissa Tossin is an artist based in Los Angeles and São Paulo. Her work synthesizes place, economy, history and narrative into sculptural objects, installations, videos and performances. She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2009 and BFA from FAAP, Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2000. She attended the Skowhegan residency in 2009. Her work has been shown at Redling Fine Art, Compact Space and Redcat, in Los Angeles, Galeria Vermelho in São Paulo, Brazil, La Ferme du Buisson, in Noisiel, France, and Kunsthalle Wien, in Vienna, Austria.
www.clarissatossin.net
Brindalyn Webster is currently living in Göteborg, Sweden, through the Independent Study Program at Valand Konsthögskolan. In 2009 she attended Skowhegan School of Art in East Madison, Maine, after receiving her MFA in Social Practice from California College of Art in San Francisco. In 2001 she received her BFA in Sculpture from Parsons School of Design in New York City. The output of each of Webster’s projects is slightly different, but providing space and attention through listening is an essential part of her work.
http://www.brindalyn.com
Lee Welch is currently undertaking an MFA at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. His work has been exhibited widely, including the solo exhibitions: At the still point of the turning world, Galway Arts Centre, Galway; Never Odd or Even, The LAB, Dublin and has been featured in the Clifford Irving Show, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; MISSING LINK, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest; Non-knowledge, Project Arts Centre, Dublin; COE, Claremorris curated by Lizzie Carey-Thomas. Welch has received the Dublin City Council Bursary, an Arts Council Bursary and Travel and Training Award as well as supported from Culture Ireland. He recently received the Banff Residency at The Banff Centre, Canada.
Olav Westphalen is a German-born artist. He currently lives in Stockholm, where he is a professor in performance art at the Royal Art Institute.
James Yeary lives in Portland, from where he co-publishes the My Day zine series, & curates readings & events for the Spare Room collective. He is also an experimental/ambient priest, & does weddings & fune
