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For those who have yet to convert to online exhibitions―let’s be honest, paintings and sculptural installations tend to lose their textural and spatial qualities when translated to bytes―there is one medium that is particularly suited to the format: video. That’s where virtual exhibition makers are turning to now. We’ve compiled a selection of these video-based programs, along with audio programs, a new vlog series, and an archive of net art for your viewing/listening pleasure.
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Kadist Video Library
Over the past year, Kadist invited four international curators to dig around its archive and curate a series of online video exhibitions. Currently on view is Rudolf Frieling’s “AP: Assembled Personalities,” which engages with multidisciplinary studio practices and the intersection of the staged and the real. The show runs until April 30 and includes works by Guy Ben-Ner, Keren Cytter, Alex Da Corte, Mark Leckey, and Li Ran.
On sen line Confidential
Onsen Confidential, a gallery-share-meets-onsen-retreat organized by a group of Tokyo and international galleries, has been postponed for now, but one of the hosts, Mujin-to Production, has moved video works online in the meantime. “Online Confidential” is available to view until April 12.
The Diary of Simon Fujiwara
The first entry in Simon Fujiwara’s Quarantine Diaries will be published this weekend. In the series of Anne-Frank-inspired vlogs, the artist will muse on popular-culture phenomena and review books and products.
Edouard Malingue Gallery’s “H A N D (Have A Nice Day)” series presents SAMSON YOUNG’s top five playlists for your time at home.
Quarantine Sessions
Artists Pick Their Greatest Hits
As part of Edouard Malingue’s “Have a Nice Day” series, where the gallery’s artists share some of their favorite things, artist-composer Samson Young has assembled five playlists, with tracks ranging from sonatas by Beethoven and Mozart to traditional Nohmusic and cantopop hits. Ho Tzu Nyen, clearly a fan of Alabama Shakes, recommended four of the band’s musical performances, and lead singer Brittany Howards’ NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (an entertaining series in itself).
Radio Alhara
Radio has a long history of connecting communities at the worst of times. Radio Alhara, Arabic for “neighborhood radio,” taps into this communal ethos. The brainchild of Ramallah-based artist Yazan Khalili, and artists and brothers Elias and Yousef Anastas in Bethlehem, the internet radio station is a multilingual platform for talks, music, readings, and anything else that can be recorded and played on the airwaves. The Radio Alhara team are taking submissions now! While you’re at it, also check out Radio il Hai Beirut and Radio Alhuma Tunis, which inspired Alhara.
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Digital History
A three-year collaborative project with the digital archivists of the New York-based organization Rhizome, the Net Art Anthology features “100 exemplary works in a field characterized by broad participation, diverse practices, promiscuous collaboration, and rapidly shifting formal and aesthetic standards.” The project’s IRL exhibition, “The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics,” ran at the New Museum in 2019. Closures have interrupted the show’s 2020 tour but you can view the entire repository of works online.
Stay Safe, Enjoy #netart
For a contemporary exhibition of net art, check out Shanghai’s Chronus Art Center’s project “We=Link: Ten Easy Pieces,” curated by Zhang Ga, and co-commissioned with the Art Center Nabi (Seoul) and Rhizome of the New Museum (New York). There are projects by ten artists, including Raphaël Bastide’s daily artworks in quarantine times, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne’s massively long, 200,000 line “get well soon” card drawn from gofundme.com pleas for assistance in paying medical bills. Li Weiyi’s The Ongoing Moment creates a unique “mood mask” based the answers to a few questions—shared to your social media profile.
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