I couldn’t find anywhere willing to publish this, so I’m going to drop it here before it completely loses its timeliness. This is a review I penned of the first three (of four) days of the festival of performance “Living, Rehearsing…” which took place at Y.D.P. Space in London over January and February of 2026. The fourth and final event in the series will be on the 16 May 2026.
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thinking about photography and “truth”
Nothing earth-shattering, just some notes that won’t make it into a review.
For me, the classic, single-viewpoint photograph is a seduction. It threatens to convince us that it is imparting a “truth” about the world by its seemingly straightforward presentation of a view. Art’s use (and more importantly, abuse) of the medium and its formats has been instrumental in disabusing us of the static image’s privileged status as a purveyor of truth. So these days no one should be under any illusion about these fixed perspective, mono-directional images—neither for their depiction of reality nor for the value of their meanings.
new book on alternative practices from apexart
just arrived from NY, includes a text by Biljana Ciric on “Searching for Tomorrow’s Alternative China, Vietnam and Cambodia”.
Photos from Ma Yongfeng’s “forget art” show
As Ma mentioned in my interview with him, the group show “forget art” which he has curated took place this afternoon in the Dragon Fountain Bathhouse in Caochangdi. Following his reasoning for the show, the works more or less blended into reality, so for a while the whole bathhouse was an object of artistic possibility.
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