Shifter Magazine http://shifter-magazine.com A topical print publication edited by Sreshta Rit Premnath and Matthew Metzger Thu, 16 May 2013 17:08:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Proposals for an Impractical Education http://shifter-magazine.com/proposals-for-an-impractical-education?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=proposals-for-an-impractical-education http://shifter-magazine.com/proposals-for-an-impractical-education#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 02:58:55 +0000 shifter admin http://shifter-magazine.com/?p=4649 A Joint Booklaunch by SHIFTER and Soberscove Press

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May 11th 2013
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]]> http://shifter-magazine.com/proposals-for-an-impractical-education/feed 0 SHIFTER19 : PROPOSALS http://shifter-magazine.com/shifter19?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shifter19 http://shifter-magazine.com/shifter19#comments Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:36:42 +0000 shifter admin http://shifter-magazine.com/?p=4207 Shifter 19 : Proposals

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With contributions from:
Allan deSouza, Andrea Geyer, Branden Koch, Carlos Motta, Catherine Sullivan, Dan Paz, Deborah Stratman, Doug Ashford, Gareth James, Iman Issa, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Jesal Kapadia & Brian McCarthy, Kelly Kaczynski, Luis Camnitzer, Marjetica Potrč, Michelle Grabner, R.H. Quaytman, Raqs Media Collective, Ulrike Müller, Valerio Rocco Orlando.

Design and Layout by:
Dan Levenson

Shifter 19 : Proposals will be published in two volumes. The first is this newsprint publication launched in September 2012 at the New York Art Book Fair and the second, a reader, will be released in the summer of 2013.

In this first volume of Shifter 19 we have invited a small group of artist- educators to each contribute a “proposal.” The proposals loosely gathered here will build a framework for a more detailed deliberation on art and education in the second volume of this issue.

Shifter’s 18th issue considered the temporality of intention as a prior condition for action—an impetus that is often understood only after an action has already been performed and is then reformulated and narrativized in one’s consciousness. We see the proposal as an embodied form of intention that often requires collaboration in order to be realized, trusting in another’s willingness to extend and enact one’s desire. When a proposal enters into a social contract, its pulsating potential constitutes the conditions of possibility for alternate ways of thinking and acting. When you propose you also expose the terms of your relationship with another, in turn making yourself vulnerable, awaiting, anticipating the utterance of the other. You initiate an exchange that couples power and intimacy. A proposal in this sense is a speech act that establishes a social form for desire in advance of its fulfillment. Thus, the knot of intention and desire, embodied in the proposal creates the conditions for the realization of an idea through negotiation and collaboration.

]]> http://shifter-magazine.com/shifter19/feed 0 Liz-n-Val http://shifter-magazine.com/liz-n-val?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=liz-n-val http://shifter-magazine.com/liz-n-val#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:12:07 +0000 shifter admin http://shifter-magazine.com/?p=3310 The art team Liz-n-Val are known for their unique ways of art distribution and public art inter-Actions. They have invented Abstractrealism, the art of constructed reality. They run the MuseuM of Art After Art, alternately known by other thematic names such as: MuseuM of Advanced Art, MuseuM of Truth-N- Beauty, MuseuM of Something-N-Nothing, Museum of Anything, MuseuM of Everything and recently, ArtSites. They have worked together for over 25 years and have shown their work internationally, in a variety of venues from the streets of New York, Paris and Berlin to galleries and Museums. 


http://www.liz-n-val.net

]]> http://shifter-magazine.com/liz-n-val/feed 0 Aaron S. Davidson http://shifter-magazine.com/aaron-s-davidson?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aaron-s-davidson http://shifter-magazine.com/aaron-s-davidson#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:12:07 +0000 shifter admin http://shifter-magazine.com/?p=3095 Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson have worked collaboratively since 1998. Their projects are multi-disciplinary in nature and include practices in video, sculpture, sound, performance, and works on paper. Dubbin & Davidson have exhibited internationally at Sadler’s Wells, London; 2004 Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; E-Flux Video Rental; Espace Paul Ricard, Paris; and the New York/Québec Interlacé Festival. They have exhibited in the United States at museums, galleries, and art centers including SculptureCenter, New York; Gigantic Art Space, New York; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe, New Mexico; The Museum of Art & Design, New York; New Sound New York Festival.
Melissa Dubbin was born in 1976, in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She graduated with honors in Moving Image Arts from College of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Aaron S. Davidson was born in 1971, in Madison, Wisconsin. He received his degree in Photography from University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Davidson currently teaches at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Dubbin & Davidson live and work in Brooklyn, New York City.

http://dubbin-davidson.com

]]> http://shifter-magazine.com/aaron-s-davidson/feed 0 The Machete Group http://shifter-magazine.com/the-machete-group?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-machete-group http://shifter-magazine.com/the-machete-group#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:12:06 +0000 shifter admin http://shifter-magazine.com/?p=3308 The Machete Group is a union of artists and intellectuals based in Philadelphia. The group writes on activities in the art world, orchestrates performative symposia, participates in forms of public activism, stages motley interventions in the art world and is generally dedicated to rethinking the nature and practice of art itself. The guiding proposition of the Machete Group is that theory without practice is empty and practice without theory is blind. The goal of our work is to engender a rigorous and open atmosphere outside a strictly academic or market-driven context that encourages autodidacticism, a willingness to question all forms of authority, and the desire to think critically about the world that we have inherited.

https://machetegroup.wordpress.com

]]> http://shifter-magazine.com/the-machete-group/feed 0 WochenKlausur http://shifter-magazine.com/wochenklausur?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wochenklausur http://shifter-magazine.com/wochenklausur#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:12:06 +0000 shifter admin http://shifter-magazine.com/?p=3307 On invitation from art institutions, the artist group WochenKlausur develops concrete proposals aimed at small, but nevertheless effective improvements to socio-political deficiencies. Proceeding even further and invariably translating these proposals into action, artistic creativity is no longer seen as a formal act but as an intervention into society. It all started 1993 when Wolfgang Zinggl invited eight artists to solve a localized problem during an exhibition at the Secession in Vienna. Within the normal time span of an exhibition this group developed and realized a small but concrete measure to improve conditions for homeless people by making medical care available to them. An invitation from the Zurich Shedhalle followed, where WochenKlausur developed a pension for drug-addicted women. Meanwhile over 30 projects have been successfully carried out among others in Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan, Sweden and Portugal.

http://www.wochenklausur.at

]]> http://shifter-magazine.com/wochenklausur/feed 0 Caleb Larsen http://shifter-magazine.com/caleb-larsen?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=caleb-larsen http://shifter-magazine.com/caleb-larsen#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:12:06 +0000 shifter admin http://shifter-magazine.com/?p=3170 Caleb Larsen lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Working between a variety of media and practices, he explores time expenditure, sensation and instance, and relationships between elements of art and life.

http://www.caleblarsen.com

]]> http://shifter-magazine.com/caleb-larsen/feed 0 Christopher Landau http://shifter-magazine.com/christopher-landau?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=christopher-landau http://shifter-magazine.com/christopher-landau#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:12:06 +0000 shifter admin http://shifter-magazine.com/?p=3169 Christopher Landau is an MFA candidate at U Michigan at Ann Arbor. He has shown at various galleries including Jean Paul Slusser Gallery and 555 Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI; Tsing Hua University, Beijing, China and Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH.

]]> http://shifter-magazine.com/christopher-landau/feed 0 Carole Kim http://shifter-magazine.com/carole-kim?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=carole-kim http://shifter-magazine.com/carole-kim#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:12:06 +0000 shifter admin http://shifter-magazine.com/?p=3157 Carole Kim is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on performance-based video installation. Her practice in time-based performance/ installations combines digital/ new media technologies and the sensitivity of the improvisational live performer/ participant. The work emphasizes video¹s capacity as a live medium and the illusory architecture of layered video projection in space. The moving image is spatially mapped onto a site, compositing in real space. One is aware that the projections are being constructed in the moment. Recent venues include REDCAT/Disney Hall, the Getty Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art-Los Angeles, the Stanford Jazz Festival and Engine 27 (New York).

http://www.carolekim.com

]]> http://shifter-magazine.com/carole-kim/feed 0 Hassan Khan http://shifter-magazine.com/hassan-khan?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hassan-khan http://shifter-magazine.com/hassan-khan#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:12:06 +0000 shifter admin http://shifter-magazine.com/?p=3156 Hassan Khan lives and works in Cairo. Solo and group exhibitions include Galerie Chantal Crousel, Gasworks, Kunsthalle St. Gallen (2010), as well as the Biennials of Istanbul (2003), Seville (2006), Sydney (2006), Thessaloniki (2007), Contour (2007), Gwangju (2008), and Manifesta 8. Khan is the head of 2011 Venice Biennial jury.

http://www.hassankhan.com

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