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In 1999, a short video of a solitary boy kicking an empty bottle up a hill in Mexico City became the first instalment of Children’s Games, a series of works by artist Francis Alÿs (b. Antwerp, 1959). The ongoing project, which now numbers around thirty-five works, has gradually given shape to an extensive collection of videos of children at play. For almost twenty-five years, Alÿs and his collaborators Félix Blume, Julien Devaux, and Rafael Ortega have been travelling around the world to document the distinctive ways in which children interact with each other and their physical environment. They have gone from remote villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Venezue...
Artists and writers go beyond disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to address the fight for environmental justice, uniting the Asia-Pacific vantage point with international discourse. Modeling the curatorial as a method for uniting cultural production and science, Climates. Habitats. Environments. weaves together image and text to address the global climate crisis. Through exhibitions, artworks, and essays, artists and writers transcend disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to bring their knowledge and experience to bear on the fight for environmental justice. In doing so, they draw on the rich cultural heritage of the Asia-Pacific, in conversation with international discourse...
The exhibition has been put together by Hilde Teerlinck, director of CRAC Alsace, in collaboration with Han Nefkens. Works by Victor Boullet (NW), Angela Bulloch (UK), Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Cuba), Thomas Rentmeister (D), Sam Taylor-Wood (USA), Roni Horn (USA), Otto Berchem (USA/NL), Bernard Frize (F), Karin Sander (D), Naoya Hatakeyama (JAP), Jeff Wall (Canada), Paul Kooiker (NL), Jörg Sasse (D), Hrafnkell Sigurdsson (Isl), Diane Thater (USA), Fabien Rigobert (F), Gerald Van Der Kaap (NL) and Erwin Wurm (AU) will be shown -- [Published Art website].
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Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, May 11-Sept. 9, 2007.
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