http://tcour.com Brian Droitcour's Home Page Wed, 19 May 2010 14:01:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Closing performance for the exhibition "Moving Shapes and Colors" 179 Canal January 17, 2010 Among other things, the exhibition "Moving Shapes and Colors" is about experiencing images through screen and networks. Short loops andalgorithms in the displayed works are reminders of the code behind pictures, reversing the old idea of geometric ... http://tcour.com/projects/loving-shapes-and-colors/ Pablo Bronstein The Metropolitan keeps a substantial part of its contemporary display in an awkward position: a horseshoe-shaped suite of galleries between the first and second floors. On the floor plan of the visitor’s guide, the area becomes a ghost hovering at the rear of the museum, and even the physical ... http://tcour.com/reviews/185/ Tigran Khachatryan Published in Artforum, January 2010 Making a gallery debut that looks like a retrospective can be a risky endeavor, especially when the artist is not yet thirty. But Tigran Khachatryan's video remakes of great films constitute an idiosyncratic history of cinema and revolutionary thought that is best considered as a ... http://tcour.com/reviews/tigran-khachatryan/ The New Museum March 19, 2010 "I was still living in Gibraltar, working through my notice at Sovereign Trust, an offshore management company. [...] One of thousands of companies that Sovereign manages is called Headless. It was incorporated (i.e. registered) on the Bahamas through our Gibraltar office. Headless is a strange name, ... http://tcour.com/projects/the-headless-conference/ Found objects have had a place in art for nearly a century, but the practice has seemed particularly pervasive in recent years, as approaches from both contemporary and historical perspectives have attempted to redefine it as appropriation, nonmonumental, unmonumental, or "combining crap with crap." ... http://tcour.com/essays/shana-moulton/ http://tcour.com/blog/hello/ Moving Shapes and Colors 179 Canal December 11, 2009 - January 17, 2010 Narratives, performances, personalities, and politics are fine for screenings, but who likes catching a sequence of events at a random point and watching from middle to middle, while standing up? The best videos to show in a gallery are impersonal ... http://tcour.com/projects/moving-shapes-and-colors/ Illuminated Manuscripts: Alexandre Singh's "Assembly Instructions" Published on Rhizome, November 4, 2009 The metaphor of the brain as a database (or, if you prefer, the database as a brain) flatters and anthropomorphizes the machine more than it explains the mind. Gray matter doesn't seem to be organized in a way that makes ... http://tcour.com/essays/illuminated-manuscripts-alexandre-singhs-assembly-instructions/ "Headquarters" Published in Artforum, October 2009 In 2003, Andreas Angelidakis presented “Neen World,” reconstructions of buildings that the architect had designed on the Active Worlds platform so that internet artists belonging to the self-branded Neen group could meet there and chat. The real estate in Active Worlds—as in the newer, more popular ... http://tcour.com/reviews/headquarters/ Published on Rhizome, September 30, 2009 For anyone who has found pleasure in the dancing, drinking, and melancholy of Mark Leckey’s collage films—or the witty lyrics of his bands, JackTooJack and the defunct donAteller—it was a surprise when the British press labeled his work esoteric and over-intellectualized following his receipt of ... http://tcour.com/interviews/mark-leckey/