{"id":5269,"date":"2014-03-10T13:58:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T12:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2015-07-18T10:10:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T08:10:24","slug":"at-the-whitney-biennial-three-artworks-plus-semiotexte-are-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/10\/at-the-whitney-biennial-three-artworks-plus-semiotexte-are-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Whitney Biennial three artworks, plus Semiotext(e)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5269 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/10\/at-the-whitney-biennial-three-artworks-plus-semiotexte-are-enough\/dscn8329\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN8329.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"The Itinerary of catastrophe, a conversation between Sylv\u00e8re Lotringer and Paul Virilio, 2008.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5274\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5274'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Itinerary of catastrophe, a conversation between Sylv\u00e8re Lotringer and Paul Virilio, 2008.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/10\/at-the-whitney-biennial-three-artworks-plus-semiotexte-are-enough\/dscn8325\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN8325-e1394332879128.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Mike Kelly, Poster of the Chance Event, 1996. Collection Semiotext(e).\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5275\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5275'>\n\t\t\t\tMike Kelly, Poster of the Chance Event, 1996. Collection Semiotext(e).\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/10\/at-the-whitney-biennial-three-artworks-plus-semiotexte-are-enough\/dscn8367\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN8367-e1394333000288.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Bjarne Melgaard and Travis Jeppesen, Untitled, 2014.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5281\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5281'>\n\t\t\t\tBjarne Melgaard and Travis Jeppesen, Untitled, 2014.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/10\/at-the-whitney-biennial-three-artworks-plus-semiotexte-are-enough\/dscn8373\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN8373.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Bjarne Melgaard and Travis Jeppesen, Untitled, 2014.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5280\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5280'>\n\t\t\t\tBjarne Melgaard and Travis Jeppesen, Untitled, 2014.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/10\/at-the-whitney-biennial-three-artworks-plus-semiotexte-are-enough\/dscn8341\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN8341-e1394333218315.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5282\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5282'>\n\t\t\t\tL.A. Steiner, Cost-benefit analysis, 2014. Installation.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/10\/at-the-whitney-biennial-three-artworks-plus-semiotexte-are-enough\/dscn8340\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN8340-e1394332904230.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Danh Vo, 06.01.1945, 2014.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5276\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5276'>\n\t\t\t\tL.A. Steiner, Cost-benefit analysis, 2014. Installation.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/10\/at-the-whitney-biennial-three-artworks-plus-semiotexte-are-enough\/dscn8350\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN8350-e1394332945867.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/10\/at-the-whitney-biennial-three-artworks-plus-semiotexte-are-enough\/dscn8301\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN8301-e1394332839246.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5273\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5273'>\n\t\t\t\tDashiell Manley The great train robbery (scene 3 version C), 2013.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/10\/at-the-whitney-biennial-three-artworks-plus-semiotexte-are-enough\/dscn8297\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN8297.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5272\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5272'>\n\t\t\t\tDashiell Manley The great train robbery (scene 3 version C), 2013.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/10\/at-the-whitney-biennial-three-artworks-plus-semiotexte-are-enough\/dscn8306-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN83061.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5271\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5271'>\n\t\t\t\tDashiell Manley The great train robbery (scene 3 version C), 2013.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday CFA had a very dedicated tour of the Whitney Biennial of American art, its last dance in the amazing Marcel Breuer&#8217;s building before moving to the new location, as everybody knows. We have spent there more than three hours. Was it enough? Of course not. Many of the 103 artists selected by the three curators will still remain unknown to us. This is indeed the bad side of having this huge, sometimes even \u201cencyclopedic\u201d group shows that have been the landmark of the last two decades: the visitor is asked to select, according to his own sensitivity, and to the time he has at his disposal. Therefore, probably the point is not to say whether a Biennial is good or not, because every visitor will surely find, among the multitude of artists, at least one work he does appreciate. In our case we picked three artworks, all of them located on the third floor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They are framed by what is not properly an artwork, but a kind of replacement, or a displacement for that matter, as it was the extraordinary performance by Ernst Reijseger filmed by Werner Herzog during the last edition. This year, the ideas brought to the attention of the public by Semiotext(e), invited as a collective to take part to the Biennial, are the evidence of how art is in needs, nowadays more than ever, of valid theories and information. Listening to Sylv\u00e8re Lotringer interviewing Paul Virilio has given us many good keys to read, for example, the installations by Bjarne Melgaard and Travis Jeppesen, Channa Horwitz&#8217;s visual novel or the two small Danh Vo&#8217;s. On this floor it is also to be found the ambitious installation by Dashiell Manley, perhaps too slow and complex for this sort of circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Yesterday CFA had a very dedicated tour of the Whitney Biennial of American art, its last dance in the amazing Marcel Breuer&#8217;s building before moving to the new location, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1796],"tags":[1647,1648,1649],"class_list":["post-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapping-the-artscape","tag-bjarne-melgaard","tag-channa-horwitz","tag-dashiell-manley"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}