Sunday Morning Coffee [Gender Benders Around the World]

via DesignBoom

GERMANY on POLAND: I’d like to go see Twisted Entities at Museum Morsbroich in Germany. E-flux says, “bodies are dissected, squeezed, deformed, duplicated and over-wound.” Sign me up!

UNITED KINGDOM: Charming for the Revolution A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness a collaboration with the Tate Modern and Electra. E-flux says, “Charming for the Revolution is an experimental congress of artists, activists and thinkers who seek to unpick underpinning, pressing questions of contemporary sexual and gender politics; exploring strategies that divert and destabilise normative gender and its representations.”

NEPAL: There is now a third gender option for those procuring a citizenship certificate in Nepal. Huffington Post says, “activists hailed the decision, saying it was an achievement for gay and transgender rights.”

UNITED NATIONS: Did you know that there is a UN Gender Equality New Feed?

Sunday Morning Coffee [Fill the room!]

Above: Martin Creed via Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Above: Otomo Yoshihide and Yasutomo Aoyama at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo via e-flux

Above: Dietrich Wegner via Carrie Secrist Gallery, Opening October 26

Note to Self: Korea Art Prize 2012

Thanks for keeping me in the loop, e-flux.

Artists: Gimhongsok (Art Asia Pacific), MOON Kyungwon and JEON Joonho (Documenta 13), Yeesookyung (Saatchi Gallery), and Minouk Lim (Artist’s website).

Pink with Polka Dots

Yayoi Kusama, Footprints to the Future, 2012

At the first Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art

Thank you, eFlux, for getting my week off on the right foot!

Marianne Wex via eFlux

Marianne Wex, “Female” and “Male” Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures, 1972-1977

via eFlux

Sanja Ivekovic

 Sanja Ivekovic, The Right One (Pearls of Revolution) (detail), 2010

Exhibition Waiting For The Revolution at Mudam Luxembourg

Source eflux

The Bean and More

Anish Kapoor, Shooting into the corner, 2008-2009

This work was brought to my attention by e-flux, read about it here, it is now on display as part of a a retrospective of Kapoor’s work at Pinchuk Art Center.

Last Sunday marked the day of my graduation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Yes, now you can call me Master. The graduating students of SAIC have the privilege of walking across the stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millenium Park to receive their diplomas.  A smidgen to the west rests the infamous Chicago “Bean.” The “Bean’s” title is Cloud Gate and it was created by Anish Kapoor. This morning as I was wading through the emails I’ve neglected the past few weeks I came across another work by Kapoor and I thought the many visitors we had last weekend would find it interesting to see another work created by the “Bean” artist.

Making Chinatown by Ming Wong

Ming Wong, Making China Town, 2011

I learned about Ming Wong from e-flux.  This is what e-flux had to say.

Find Ming Wong’s website by clicking here.

Read about his work on REDCAT‘s website.

My initial attraction to the work was purely visual but after reading a bit about it my interest grew,

“Working through the visual styles and tropes of such iconic film directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wong Kar-wai and Ingmar Bergman, Wong’s practice considers the means through which subjectivity and geographic location are constructed by motion pictures.” -REDCAT

“Wong’s reinterpretation, Making Chinatown, transforms the exhibition space into a studio backlot and examines the original film’s constructions of language, performance and identity.” -e-flux