Isa Genzken is an artist who lives and works in Berlin. Her work will be shown this summer in solo exhibitions at Secession, Vienna, and Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck.
An interview with Anthony McCall, an artist who, since his seminal 1973 film Line Describing a Cone, has explored the physical and sculptural qualities of film
Kara Walker’s film 8 Possible Beginnings, or the Creation of African-America; a Moving Picture by the Young, Self-Taught, Genius of the South, K.E. Walker (2005) was screened at Sikkema, Jenkins & Co., New York in March. Her exhibition ‘After the Deluge’ is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York until 25 June. She lives and works in New York.
Cosey Fanni Tutti is an artist who lives and works in Norfolk, England. Her work can be seen in the Tate Triennial, Tate Britain until 14 May and her solo show opens at Fales Library and Special Collection, New York in October. Cosey also works extensively on audio/visual projects with her long-term partner Chris Carter as CTI and CARTER TUTTI. She was a co-founder of Throbbing Gristle, who have recently regrouped. Their first studio album in 25 years, entitled PART TWO, is released this year.
Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, has been chosen to host Manifesta 6 in September, 2006. The curatorial team comprises Mai Abu ElDahab, an independent curator based in Cairo; Florian Waldvogel, a curator and writer living in Frankfurt and Essen; and Anton Vidokle, a Moscow-born artist who lives in New York, and who is a founding director of e-flux. Inspired by Black Mountain College, which opened in 1933 in North Carolina, and whose teachers and students included some of the most important artists, writers and thinkers of the time, the Manifesta team intends to start an experimental art school in Nicosia
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla live and work in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They have forthcoming solo shows at The Moore Space, Miami and The Renaissance Society, Chicago.
Stephen Shore is Director of the Photography Programme at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Stephen Shore: American Surfaces, in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name currently on view at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, is published by Phaidon Press. He lives in New York.
Francesco Vezzoli’s Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal’s Caligula (2005) is on view at the Italian Pavilion at Venice Biennale until November 2005. His exhibition Trilogia della morte (Trilogy of Death), presented by the Fonadazione Prada at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, will be on view until September 2005.
Sharon Lockhart is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She is currently working on a new film and photographic series addressing the experience of American childhood.
Samuel Fosso's photographs were included in the recent 'Africa Remix' exhibition at London's Hayward Gallery. 'Platform for Art' is showing three works by Samuel Fosso at Gloucester Road Underground station, London until 13 June 2005.
A recent exhibition at MoMA in New York included masterpieces of everyday design such as Post-It notes, tea-bags and the Chupa Chups lollipop wrapper created by Salvador Dalí; Paola Antonelli in conversation
