Tag: documenta
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Pushing against the roof of the world: ruangrupa’s prospects for documenta fifteen
My latest article about ruangrupa on Third Text:http://thirdtext.org/cristobal-ruangrupa “A concern in many texts of Indonesian mythology is the need to raise the sky. This appears in myths from elsewhere, too, but the forms they take are not as extreme as in Indonesian stories, in which heaven and Earth are so closely jammed together that even…
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Art writing needs to be activist
I find myself writing more frequently about photographs and writing about photographic exhibitions and the archive. Thinking about the photograph’s historical, theoretical, architectural, and urban contexts and attendant social issues became more insightful and rewarding in light of extended isolation from any art world experience. Time away from galleries and museums was good but I’m…
Geronimo Cristobal 