Alexandra Kleiman
Alexandra is associate editor of Artlog. She is a Brooklyn-based, Chicago-born writer and independent curator. She studied art history and social entrepreneurship at New York University where she wrote her thesis on the history of the ‘laboratory’ approach of innovation in museum direction and cu... Read more
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Ethical Aesthetics
01/09 |
Alexandra Kleiman
Korean artist Minouk Lim uses video as an intermediary between the real and the imaginary, the actual and the irrational, and she harbors its ability to freely raise questions that movies are too bowdlerized to ask. She uses the medium as a malleable, utopian umbrella, incorporating her declarative poetic writing as well as performance, music, and clips of other videos into her works.
The Sociology of Towers
01/10 |
Alexandra Kleiman
From Babel to the Burj Khalifa, towers serve as potent sites of collective memory and symbols of cultural change. The Syrian-born American artist Diana Al-Hadid, now living and working in Brooklyn, creates primarily architectural sculptures that oscillate between rigid modernist construction and slumping ancient forms. Al-Hadid’s works evoke structures from the Roman Coliseum to The Monument to the Third International and the World Trade Center.
A Laboratory for Art, Food, and Tech
01/11 |
Alexandra Kleiman
You hear of new media art collectives, you hear of art and technology collectives, and you hear of food and art collectives, but only now have we heard of a collective tackling all of these territories at once. The House of Natural Fiber (HONF) collective, founded in 1999 and based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, positions itself as a “new media art laboratory” driven by collaborative creation.
The Braddock Story
01/12 |
Alexandra Kleiman
LaToya Ruby Frazier, a recent graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program, explores the ground between self-portraiture and social documentary, using her work – primarily photographic - to cut through the inter-generational gaps in her family. She uses her camera to probe into her family members’ relationships and experience (herself included) and the de-industrialized, toxic city of Braddock.
New Histories
01/16 |
Alexandra Kleiman
Initially known by his graffiti tag “Dephect,” Ian Tweedy continues to intervene in public space through murals and in social consciousness through the appropriation of cultural symbols. In his sculptural constructs and installations, the artist grafts images ranging from soldiers at war to old cars onto found objects large and small, creating parcels of times past.
