Art + Tech Director, Curator, Writer, Publisher
Office address: mm:museum [Media Majlis] @ Northwestern Qatar, Education City, Doha, Qatar
- CuratorWork / CuratorView is an artsphere website
You First has received the kind endorsement of the French critic and curator Nicolas Bourriaud who coined the term, relational aesthetics. Another true art luminary, Alfredo Cramerotti, a UK-based artist, author and curator, represents himself with a collaborative blog and videos about the radical European art biennial Manifesta. Best-selling social visionaries Michiel Schwarz & Joost Elffers will reveal new symbols for a sustainable future. NYC's favorite rock and roll fashionista, Jordan Betten, will demonstrate how to dress for the party. Marc Pally, a high-power hyphenate, is both the artistic director of Glow (an all night event held in Santa Monica) and an LA-based artist showing sensitive, stylized drawings of a human face, wry, melancholy and somehow heroic. Max Presneill, mercurial director of the Torrance Art Museum, exhibits brooding, painterly explorations of cognition and experience. Arie Galles, a professor at Soka University, artist and gallery director, bears witness to the Holocaust in a series of large-scale drawings of maps and aerial photographs from military archives. Art collectives are a fascinating phenomenon --- and there is none more elusive than Finishing School, masters of street-smart provocation. A complete exposition about You First, the ideas and personalities that shaped it --- and the Ufora project in general --- will be unpacked in a forthcoming book by the curators.