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Lu Yang’s motion capture performance Delusional World (2020) was live streamed from Chronus Art Centre in Shanghai this week. Presented by ACMI, Arts Centre Melbourne, AsiaTOPA, and The Exhibitionist, the event was scheduled to take place in Federation Square, Melbourne, but was shifted online due to the pandemic. Read more on Ocula.LINEBREAK

At von ammon co., Washington DC, the artist presents a series of new-media works that further his ‘New Peace’ polemics against the West’s exploitation of the natural world. Read more on frieze.LINEBREAK

Most of the artists who show at Von Ammon Co. have a love-hate relationship with contemporary American advertising and marketing. Timur Si-Qin shares their fascination, but not their cynicism. His “Take Me, I Love You” borrows Madison Avenue’s tools to make a pitch that’s earnest and even cosmic. The New York-based artist’s photography and sculpture show touts “New Peace,” billed by the gallery as “a new form of spirituality in the face of global pandemics, climate change and biodiversity collapse.” Read more on The Washington Post.LINEBREAK

Pünktlich zur US-Wahl erleuchtete die Künstlerin Trisha Baga das Fridericianum in Kassel mit Bildern aus Trumps Amtszeit. Die Videoinstallation “Hope” zeigt dystopische Szenen, weckt aber auch Hoffnung auf das Kommende. Read more in German on Monopol Magazin.LINEBREAK

New-wave artist Lu Yang from Shanghai invites visitors to explore heaven and hell in the video game The Great Adventure Of The Material World. This digital fantasy features cyberpunk noir, mind-bending technologies and neuroscientific religion in finding the way to nirvana. Read more on Bangok Post.LINEBREAK

Five years ago, Lu Yang made a genderless rendering of himself the protagonist of Lu Yang Delusional Mandala, a 2015 video in which the artist’s avatar wears a baseball cap and dances through a computer-generated version of outer space. Not that the figure is carefree. The viewer is given to understand that there is a tumor in the avatar’s brain, and at times it seems to be in pain. At various points in the 16-minute piece, it is probed by diagnostic machines. The avatar dies and lives again numerous times, and ultimately ends up suspended in an enormous mandala. Read more ARTnews.LINEBREAK

The oldest public museum in Germany, the Fridericianum, will reflect the dark mood of chaos in the year leading up to the United States’ presidential election. On November 3 in Kassel, Trisha Baga’s commissioned eight-minute film, Hope (2020), will be projected onto the front facade of the Fridericianum, coinciding with the US vote, which the work highlights in addition to other global affairs. Read more on Art Asia Pacific.LINEBREAK

Passend zur Jahreszeit fühlt man sich in den Kontext einer Halloweenparty versetzt, die einer US-amerikanischen Highschoolserie entsprungen sein könnte: der Raum sparsam beleuchtet, die Wände im dunklem Violett, mit abgewetzten Tapetendetails, davor großformatige Portraits in leicht kitschigen, ebenfalls lilafarbenen Rahmen. Die Assoziation ist nicht weit gefehlt, denn die Medienkünstlerin Bunny Rogers (*1990 in Houston, Texas) bedient sich in ihren Arbeiten der Symbolsprache und Ästhetik von Cartoons, Videospielen und frühen Websites – einer Medienwelt also, mit der all jene, die um die Jahrtausendwende aufwachsen durften, bestens vertraut sind. Read more on art-in-berlin.de.LINEBREAK

Die unheimliche Stimmung scheint sich auch auf den Hamburger Bahnhof zu legen, wo er sein Büro in den letzten Jahren unterhielt und bis zum Monatsende gepackt haben muss. Wer das Museum für Gegenwart besucht, gelangt nach der Buchhandlung in die Ausstellung von Bunny Rogers, ein junger Superstar aus den Vereinigten Staaten. Read more on Der Tagesspiegel.LINEBREAK

Fragile Identitäten und popkulturelle Aneignung bestimmen ihr Werk: Bunny Rogers trägt den Kampf mit Unsicherheiten künstlerisch aus. Read more on kultunews.LINEBREAK

In this interview, the artist delves into his evolving perspectives on life and death, virtuality and corporeality, machine and perception, as well as the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on digital art, being, and afterlife. Read the full interview on art-agenda. LINEBREAK

There are more romantics in contemporary art than they tell you. L’OFFICIEL looks to the work of Bunny Rogers, Torey Thornton, Andra Ursuta, and Doreen Chan, examining the vulnerability that comes with merging your relationships and your art. Read more on L’Officiel Art.LINEBREAK

Hier schreiben Galeristen über die beste Kunst ihrer Konkurrenten. Heute: Daniel Von Wichelhaus, Chef der Galerie Société in Berlin. Read more in German in Sunday Issue, nr. 42 of die Welt.LINEBREAK

U Zagreb od 6. do 10. listopada po prvi put dolazi cijenjena berlinska galerija Société kako bi predstavila svoj rad te umjetnike koji rade pod njezinim okriljem. Za Zagreb to znači još jedna zanimljiva izložba svjetskog glasa. Read more in Croatian.LINEBREAK

Sinoć je u centru Zagreba, u Dežmanovoj ulici svečano otvorena prva pop up izložba berlinske galerije Société koja je okupila brojne zaljubljenike suvremene umjetnosti, umjetnike i kolekcionare. Read more in Croatian.LINEBREAK

Having been pushed from April to September, the city’s main market event, Gallery Weekend Berlin, opens tonight across the city. Many of its notable shows this year are of works by young artists based in Berlin, including painters Tobias Spichtig at Contemporary Fine Arts and Tina Braegger at Société. Read more on artnet news.LINEBREAK

Société ist gerade von der Gegend um die rauhe Kurfürstenstraße in das gediegene Ku’damm-Umfeld gezogen, wo die großformatigen Grateful Dead-Bärengemälde der 1980 geborenen Tina Braegger auch gleich ganz anders wirken. Read more on artmagazine.LINEBREAK

Einen „langen, trockenen Weg“ sieht Daniel Wichelhaus vor sich. Der Geschäftsführer der Galerie Société malt sich aus, wann das „Sparschwein leer sein dürfte, dann wird es spannend“. Zunächst einmal kontert er alle Skepsis mit dem Umzug nach Charlottenburg in noble Räume, wo er die 1985 in Luzern geborene Tina Braegger in sein Programm aufnimmt. Read in German on FAZ.LINEBREAK