As her debut novel The Hearing Test is published, the New York-based artist and author talks about why her diagnosis of Sudden Deafness prompted her to write a novel
Though Leung’s works are highly attentive to their physical surroundings, she conceives of them not as site-specific but “context-contingent,” capable of being realized again and again in different places, but each time conditioned by institutional circumstances that would determine their form. Likewise, they accrue new layers of meaning as they circulate through different situations. When Violets 2 was originally exhibited at Netwerk Aalst, for instance, it was installed on the floor of the gallery space one story above the bar from which the pipes had been removed, mirroring their former placement, only this time as a waste product instead of a conduit for its elimination, as if the building were spilling its guts. Subsequent presentations, however, must contend with the challenges of one set of architectural footprints descending on another, with the reconfigured pipes now foregrounding the spatial eccentricities of their new containers. Meanwhile, Shrooms is particularly effe
UNIVERSALIZING HISTORIANS have given the newspaper comic strip a distinguished pedigree as the twentieth-century descendant of sacred Egyptian hieroglyphics. True or not, no classic strip was better suited to embellish the inner sanctum of Pharaoh Tut’s tomb than Ernie Bushmiller’s long-running tot saga Nancy.
OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS innumerable museums and art galleries across the country have been swept by an epidemic of drawing and "works on paper" exhibitions, a phenomenon which began…
It’s 1977, about five years after Bettina Grossman moved into the Chelsea Hotel and eleven years since a devastating studio fire in Brooklyn Heights reduced much of her work to ashes. Sitting in her room on the fifth floor, she looks out on 23rd Street with her camera, continuing her ritual as the city’s oblique witness.