Monday, September 22, 2008
Short piece I wrote on New York artist Andrew Kuo is out in the latest issue of Theme.
Andrew Kuo, Little Wayne, 2008
Our little publishing concern, Historical Fiction Press, is now distributing Pash Buzari’s book Rainbows in Curved Air. The book was printed in 2003 as a component of Buzari’s contribution to the 50th Venice Biennale (Utopia Station). It’s a fascinating collection of images of Buzari’s architecturally concerned work and research, with texts by Philippe Parreno, Doreen [...]
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Theme magazine’s Beijing/Olympics issue is out. It features a condensed city guide that Shu and I helped develop for those checking out the Olympics first hand.
Timezone 8 book shop in Dashanzi, Beijing
I’m happy to hear that Christoph Keller’s KIOSK project, a traveling exhibition of nearly 6,000 publications by about 400 independent publishers, will soon have a permanent home in Berlin! Christoph has been developing and exhibiting the archive internationally for 8 years, but the increasing cost and logistic difficulty of moving around 2.5 tons of books [...]
Asian Photography Blog pointed me to a recent series of photos by Beijing-based artist Liu Bolin. The series is titled Hiding in the City, and it is currently on view at Robischon Gallery in Denver, Eli Klein in New York, and Galerie Bertin-Toublanc in Paris. Louis Lannoo Gallery in Belgium will feature the work later [...]
The Tokyo Type Directors Club has an exhibition of selections from its 2008 Annual up at the Ginza Graphic Gallery until April 26. A project I developed a few years back called Sleep Space is in the show.
Joe Magliaro, Sleep Space, 2005, 1000 vinyl stickers, photographic documentation.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
We met up with John and Jiae from THEME , an amazing magazine (”the lens into the vanguard of Asian culture”) that we contribute articles to now and again. They have a new baby, a new office space in DUMBO and new staff members.
John and Dobie have the corner office.
We kept asking Jason [...]
Our friend Andre was recently invited to the influential Beijing art book store Timezone 8 to present a lecture on his most recent book project, Big Bang Beijing. We showed up to support him.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
There’s a short write up on our Dead Animals project in the latest edition of Inmyx magazine. There’s some great content on their site worth checking out too - like the ping pong tube story we mentioned!
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Our friend and brilliant photographer, 223 , invited us to participate in a film project called “Ten Minute Life.” 10 artists were asked to contribute a 10 minute film documenting, in any shape or form, their life in one of four cities — Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Taipei. Our film, titled Between There and Here, [...]