Berlin Biennale
My take on the biennale and Post-Internet Art. If you are planning a sight-seeing trip to Europe the bb9 is easy to integrate:
posted by Johanna Thompson @ 3:08 AM
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Tuesday, September 01, 2015
New Courses
I'm teaching new courses at bbk in October, please join me!
Art Talk Intensive and Performance Art, which also includes one hour of coaching.
See you there and then!
posted by Johanna Thompson @ 3:14 AM
Thursday, August 06, 2015
Tino Sehgal at Martin-Gropius-Bau
The Situation Of The Spectacle is my take on the Tino Sehgal show at Martin-Gropius-Bau for SFAQ. I included some visual notes, since there is no other visual documentation.
Enjoy!
posted by Johanna Thompson @ 3:35 AM
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
ZERO at Stedelijk
If you are in Amsterdam this Summer check out the ZERO retrospective at the Stedelijk and/or read my review of the show here.
posted by Johanna Thompson @ 1:27 PM
Monday, June 01, 2015
Performance Art Berlin
I'm teaching a Performance Art workshop for the bbk on Wednesday, focusing on urban space and Berlin in particular.
http://www.bbk-bildungswerk.de/con/cms/front_content.php?idart=3841&refId=415
6 hour workshop plus one hour of private coaching.
posted by Johanna Thompson @ 12:26 AM
Monday, March 30, 2015
Chess, Mail Art and The Society of Independent Artists
On my last visit to San Francisco Paul Kos organized a chess match between Mike Dyar and me, San Francisco versus Berlin. We played on two occasions at Tom Marioni's Society of Independent Artists.
Paul Kos himself claims to have retired from chess (in terms of active sports his focus now appears to be solely on petanque), which is a shame given that he has made some of the most touching chess art around:
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Pawn, 1991
2,500 plastic, magnetic chess pieces, steel, and wood
118” x 88” x 11 1/2”
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There are no pawns among these 2,500 chess pieces.
Mike Dyar, who I only met on the day of the game at the SIA, brought a chess board and a magazine cover featuring Marcel Duchamp. He also told me that his medium was mail art. It had been a long time since anyone had mentioned mail art to me. He said instead of talking about it I should provide my address, which I did.
A few weeks later I was thrilled to find two envelopes in my mailbox.
Mike Dyar had mentioned that he sometimes called himself a poet, and rightly so. This is beautiful:
And this.
Mail art is one of those elusive and radical art forms that are rarely exhibited, and I was not even sure that in this age of email physical mail was still employed. It is very exciting to be the recipient of such correspondence. Thank you, Mike!
posted by Johanna Thompson @ 8:55 AM
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
New workshops at bbk
I'm teaching two workshops at bbk, Art Talk on tour and performance:
If you know someone who might be interested please send them my way!
posted by Johanna Thompson @ 12:45 AM
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
SLIPSTREAM at secondhome projects
secondhome projects presents:
temp XX
slipstream
Michael Fliri • Justin Hoover • Johanna Thompson
Performance Research Residency on Philip K. Dick
6.10 - 12.10. 2014
Opening and culminating event:
October 11 2014 at 7pm
Reinickendorfer Straße 66,
13347 Berlin-Wedding
U-Bahnhof Nauener Platz
posted by Johanna Thompson @ 4:54 AM
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Art Talk On Tour
For Berlin Art Week come and join me and the bbk for Art Talk On Tour, we will explore and discuss the galleries around Potsdamer Strasse.
posted by Johanna Thompson @ 11:45 AM
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Performance Art Workshop at bbk
I am teaching a Performance Art Workshop at bbk next Wednesday. The workshop includes concepts, techniques and one hour of private coaching. It is always lots of fun, tell your friends.
posted by Johanna Thompson @ 3:34 AM
