Curating Identities: A quasi-ethnographic approach

The current world-picture changed massively since the post–World War II aftermath led to the reconstruction of the idea of Europe; Continue reading →

Artist of the Month: January with Nick Mangan

CtC’s Artist of the Month for December is the multi-disciplinary artist Nick Mangan (Geelong, Victoria, Australia 1979). He currently lives Continue reading →

An Empathetic Affair: The Embodied Practice of Hedwig Houben

Why is it that imagery seems to translate so willingly, from subject to artwork, and from artwork to viewer? Phenomenologists Continue reading →

Intertextuality and thematic development. From Badlands to True Romance

Hans Zimmer’s produced score for True Romance (1993) pays homage to Terrence Malick’s debut feature Badlands (1973). The two films Continue reading →

Where can we find our contemporary heterotopias?

Michel Foucault’s heterotopia has been a fundamental tool for understanding the territory of our past. Heterotopia specifies zones like the Continue reading →

Post-modernism, Neo-liberalism and the Selfie

The phenomenon of the selfie has been the subject of much debate and discussion in recent times. This essay aims Continue reading →

The Curatorial and the Collaborative: from the Independent Group to Assemble

This year’s Turner Prize (2015) nominees include Assemble (formed circa 2010), a collective comprised of fourteen members working across the Continue reading →

When walls speak

This is not an article of art. It does not have the ambition of well-read critique and the audacity of Continue reading →