For more than thirty years, Daniel Joseph Martinez’s practice has been politically motivated and socially engaged, opening up dialogues involving issues such as race, identity, and class.

Dora Garcia

Klau Mich 2012
KLAU MICH is a TV and performance project by Dora García with Ellen Blumenstein, Samir Kandil, Jan Mech, TheaterChaosium, and Offener Kanal Kassel, during the 100 days of dOCUMENTA (13).

Eleanor Antin

100 Boots 1973, 1971
Comprised of fifty-one photographic postcards, Antin’s 100 Boots is an epic visual narrative in which 100 black rubber boots stand in for a fictional “hero” making a “trip” from California to New York City. Over two-and-a-half years, Antin...

Julius Koller

UFO-Expedition (U.F.O.) 1982
Wordplay was a central focus of Koller’s work, in particular the acronym U.F.O., which he adapted in his diagrammatic drawings to stand variously for Univerzálna Futurologická Organizácia (Universal Futurological Organization, 1972–3), Univerzálny...

Charles Avery

Untitled (Map) 2011

Felix Gmelin

Ambiguous Gestures 2004, 2009
Ambiguous Gestures takes as its point of origin a film Gmelin discovered in his father’s archive. Filmed from a fixed point, it portrays his father in an intimate performance of body painting with a woman unknown to Felix Gmelin. The discovery of...

Vidya Gastaldon

Floating Mountain (Mt Hemo) 2011
Gastaldon has made a number of soft sculptures using materials associated with knitting and sewing that have alternately fetishistic, nightmarish or contemplative qualities. Floating Mountain is one of a group of works made from wool that overtly...

Mario Garcia Torres

The Transparencies of the Non-Act 2007
Mario Garcia Torres discovered the work of artist Oscar Neuestern in an article published in ARTnews in 1969. This article, which is the only trace of his work, is indicative of a lack of interest by Neuestern to leave his name in history; to "...

Charlotte Moth

The Absent Forms 2010
Charlotte Moth asked the art critic Francesco Pedraglio to write a text in response to the Man Ray film "Les Mystères du Château de Dé", the decor of which was the Villa Noailles, built by Mallet-Stevens. Pedraglio's text was then displaced since...

David Berezin

Eric Goes to Jail 2010
In Eric Goes to Jail, a coffee maker, red lipstick, a pile of cash, some exotic parakeets, a brassiere, a bow tie, and a stained napkin scribbled with a phone number constitute clues to unraveling a mystery and invite the viewer to speculate about...

Bernardo Ortiz

Casa de la Cabeza 2011

Andrew Grassie

After the Archive Collections Room 2009
In 2008, Grassie was invited by the Whitechapel Gallery to document the transformation of some of its spaces. The artist chose to depict the space before and after, thus creating the series titled "After the Archive Collections Room." This group of...

Bjorn Copeland

Sign series, #1, #2, #3 2009
Sign #1, Sign #2, Sign #3 were included in Found Object Assembly, Copeland’s 2009 solo show at Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco. These rather austere collages were created by simply cutting and inverting the text from existing information signs....

John Baldessari

One Must 1997
In One Must, an image of a pair of scissors, accompanied by the words of work’s title, poses an ominous question about the relationship between the image and the text. The otherwise banal scissors become suggestively violent in relation to the text...

Once Removed on my Mother's Side 2008
Like many of Djurberg’s films this work engages with the nightmarish grotesque, a theme of common currency in contemporary art. In this particular film, Djurberg deals with a theme that is becoming all too common in our lives, caring for an elderly...

Nicoline van Harskamp

Character Witness 2008, 2011
The work is a speech composed of excerpts from autobiographies of well-known political characters. From each book an excerpts that describes a childhood event and one that describes a political event or statement was selected. The former, in most...

Trisha Donnelly

Untitled 2007, 2008
Trisha Donnelly work moves through different media, often translating between or pushing at their boundaries. Allof the materials that form the presentation and composition of the work of art are included in this play, from theuse of text for an...

Chieh-Jen CHEN

Empire's Borders II-Workers 2010
The photography series are form the three-channel film installation Empire’s Borders II – Western Enterprise, Inc. (2010) which takes its point of departure of the political context of the 1950s Cold War when US interests in Taiwan overlapped with...

Pierre Leguillon

Diane Arbus: A printed retrospective, 1960-1971 2008
End of 2008, Pierre Leguillon presented at Kadist Art Foundation the first retrospective of the works of Diane Arbus (1923-1971) organized in France since 1980, bringing together all the images commissioned to the New York photographer by the Anglo-...

Anthony McCall

Fire Cycles III (Subcycle 10) 1974
This score is a graphic record of the detailed choreography of one of Anthony McCall's Landscape for Fire performances. These took place between 1972-74 in the UK at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, Colchester School of Art, in Reading and in...

Alexandre Arrechea

White Corner 2006
White Corner (2006) is a video installation, projected on two protruding perpendicular walls. On one level the work constitutes a self-portrait of the artist, whose image is projected on both walls, separated by the corner. Yet while facing, they...