SUFFER! SUFFER!Rachel Withers withers the region over the backline where the neck joins the thorax and where the dorsal margins of the scapulae lie just below the skin. fistulous withers see fistulous withers. Ow! Ow! For crying out loud, put down that cat-o'-nine-tails and pay attention. The Marquis de Sade Noun 1. Marquis de Sade - French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814) Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, de Sade, Sade wasn't just a connoisseur of eighteenth-century perversions. He was the driving force behind Surrealism's espousal of atheism atheism (ā`thē-ĭz'əm), denial of the existence of God or gods and of any supernatural existence, to be distinguished from agnosticism, which holds that the existence cannot be proved. , materialism, and erotics, argues "Sade/Surreal: The Marquis de Sade and the Erotic Imagination of Surrealism in Word and Image," at the Kunsthaus Zurich from November 30 to March 3. Expect an orgy or hypothetical entanglements as Goya and Fussli's Enlightenment nightmares encounter the fantasies of Bunuel, Duchamp, Bellmer, et al. on the Sadeian operating table. Meanwhile, from November 8 to January 20, IVAM IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (Spain) , Valencia, will rummage through the closets of the equally intriguing Claude Cahun Claude Cahun (25 October, 1894 – 8 December, 1954) was a French photographer and writer. Her work was both political and personal, and often played with the concepts of gender and sexuality. , artist, philosopher, writer, and gender terrorist par excellence. Featuring about seventy photographs spanning her career, the show will also document her literary work and links with Breton, Bataille, and other key inter-and postwar figures. At the Irish Museum of Modern Art The Irish Museum of Modern Art (Irish: Músaem Nua-Ealaíne na hÉireann), also known as IMMA, opened in May 1991 and is Ireland's leading national institution exhibiting and collecting modern and contemporary art. , Dublin, performance art's marathon woman Marina Abramovic takes time out from enduring pain to curate CURATE, eccl. law. One who represents the incumbent of a church, person, or20 vicar, and takes care of the church, and performs divine service in his stead. "Marking the Territory," her weekend-long survey of the energies at work in contemporary performance. About twenty artists, including Paul Pfeiffer
Paul Pfeiffer (born Honolulu, Hawaii, 1966) is an American video artist whose work incorporates the use of found footage. , Wim Delvoye, Amanda Coogan, and Ma Liuming, will move into action October 18. And then there's Paul McCarthy: Now he really knows how to have a bad time! The Hamburg Kunstverein's all-encompassing retrospective of McCarthy's often outrageous, often hilarious film and video work will include about seventy tapes, some previously unexhibited (Nov. 10-Jan. 27). Visitors can watch continuous screenings or select particular works from a video library-- and may be well advised to take along a paper bag or bucket. The Grazer Kunstverein, on the other hand, will probe the ecstasies rather than the agonies of altered states. With works by John McCracken, Angela Bulloch, and others, "Timewave Zero/The Politics of Ecstasy" (Oct. 6-Nov. 4) aims to expand visitors' consciousnesses "out of Western rationally based constraints." Carsten Holler will program a film and video screening in a local bar, and an accompanying book will offer insights into drugs by writers such as Timothy Leary and Sadie Plant. Speaking of which, let's not forget "Jef Geys: 1962-2001," on view at the Kunstverein Munchen from October 13 to November 28. Geys's year-by-year paintings of the seed packets whose contents have stocked his garden will appear alongside an installation reflecting the variety of cultures in Munich's human borders; the grapevine will be kept informed via a special issue of Geys's newspaper, the Kempens Informatieblad. |
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