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'We join spokes together in a wheel, but
it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We hammer wood
for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable.
We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that
holds whatever we want.'
Lao Tse
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nothing
featured
The Big Nothing
The Big Nothing
 The
Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania
is this summer the anchor of a series of exhibitions and events
investigating nothing. 36 museums, galleries, science centers
and performing arts groups in Philadelphia will address ideas
of nothing, nothingness, and negation in contemporary life.
The main exhibition at ICA, Philadelphia, is organized
around four themes; pop vacuities, metaphysical absences,
negating actions, and the closed or emptied gallery . Among
the more than 50 artists, are works by Andy Warhol and Richard
Prince exploring pop art's portrayal of a vacuous consumer
culture, paintings by Jack Goldstein depicting “invisible”
natural phenomena like heat or star clusters, photographs
by Louise Lawler of empty or deinstalled museum spaces, and
photographs, manifestos, and other ephemera documenting Yves
Kleins displacing of art from its normative contexts. The
curators are Ingrid Schaffner, Bennett Simpson, Tanya Leighton.
 Strike
at Basekamp is a large-scale exhibition of
responses to two questions: How does/could/would the withdrawal
of art affect the world? And does the answer to the first
question reveal ways that art can affect the world or strike
a blow on the structures of the world?
Open
at Arcadia University Art Gallery is an investigation
into the threshold of awareness that emphasizes the process
of looking and curiosity.
Dust
organized by Lighting for Urban Rooftop Environments (LURE)
will manifest itself as an accumulation of media-based projects
presented throughout Philadelphia's urban spaces.
Overview over other exhibitions and events. (Link -
http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/bn_initiative.php - broken
Nov 04)
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The
Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania
: The Big Nothing | ~ | The Big Nothing - Philadelphia
Wide Initiative (http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/ past/bn_initiative.php)
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former featured nothings
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| THE
BIG NOTHING - 36 museums, galleries, science centers and
performing arts groups in Philadelphia, US, is this summer
addressing ideas of nothing, nothingness, and negation! |
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 THE
DESIRE FOR A TOTALIZING VIEW of our world is omnipresent.
But, according to Bruno Latour's webbased work Paris:
Invisible City, such attempts at complete cartographic
indexes on the contrary might hinder vision. |
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 GUANTANAMO;
A LEGAL BLACK HOLE - The Guantanamo prison camp is a territory
beyond the reach of any law and outside the jurisdiction
of any court. |
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 MARTIN
CREED: WORK NO. 79: 'SOME BLU-TACK KNEADED, ROLLED
INTO A BALL, AND DEPRESSED AGAINST A WALL |
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 VACUUM
TO NORWAY! Issak Kiflu has been living in Norway for ten
years, but formally he does not exist. |
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 LOST
CHAIR - by Heidi Rødstøl.
Installation in living room, paint on carpet, variable
dimensions, 2003. |
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 24
YEAR OLD GANGA NEUPANE IS STATELESS Like several million
persons worldwide Ganga Neupane has no citizenship. Being
stateless means not having regular citizenship rights. |
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RAISING
OF STREET LAMP FOR PLACING OF TIRE - On November 27, 1996,
Andreas Slominski upr ooted a lamppost in order to place
an abandoned tire around it. The tire was then later stolen. |
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PENTAGON
HAS STOPPED ALL REFERENCE TO "NUMBER KILLED"
in official releases. The preferred word "casualties"
conceals responsibility and makes moral questions into
non-issues. Moreover the number of casualties is a non-subject
in the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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BUY NOTHING
DAY - exposes the environmental and ethical consequences of
consumerism. ... |
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CREATION
OF ANTIMATTER - CERN have announced that they have passed
through nature's looking glass and created atoms made of antimatter,
or anti-atoms ... |
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REFUGEES
ARE NON-PERSONS - taking photographs that could "humanise
or personalise" asylum seekers has been banned by
former defense minister Peter Reith's office in Australia
... |
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WHAT IS
- WHAT IS NOT? - a story about an encounter and about trying
to differ between fact and non-fact ... |
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THE
RIGHT NOT TO BE BORN - the French parliament has passed
a bill that states that "nobody can claim to have
been harmed simply by being born". the extraordinary
bill was a response to a conviction by the French supreme
court that is said to have established the right not to
be born ... |
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THE 11,202,803
CHILDREN - who were born out of nothing during the 31 days
of Mars 2002 ... |
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NOTHING
I KNOW / SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW - by Graham Gussin
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THE NOTHING
OF TERROR AND RESPONS ON TERROR - the World Trade Center - Afghanistan
and on ... |
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THE
POTENT NOTHING OF CYBERSPACE - this virtual reality in which
we now are taking part ...
NOTHING
AT ROOSEUM, Malmö's Center for Contemporary Art, 3 November
- 16 December, 2001. works by 35 artists exploring notions
of invisibility, imagination and dematerialisation ...
FOR
EVERY TENT; THE OTHER!
- consisting of two Irish green, empty tents, one raised outside
Atelier 35 in Bucharest, and one inside the gallery space
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THE
HYPER-METAPHOR; UK, RAISING TENTS
- containing, among other things, a motorway, ten tents, a
text discussion and an internet diary ...
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