Victory, 1984
Cy Twombly
Emerge, 2007
William Lamson
Lost and Found, 2006
Lara Favaretto
The artist purchases a piece of lost luggage from a train auction and locks it without ever opening it to look inside.
The Handle Comes Up The Hammer Comes Down, 2009
Doug Aitken
Poem (click image for link), 2011
Quattara Watts
Interregna (click image for link), 1999-2000
John Pilson
The Forty Part Motet (A reworking of “Spem in Alium” by Thomas Tallis 1573), 2001
Janet Cardiff
“I breathe in a little, I breathe out a little. It’s with me. It’s with me! My breath.”
My Breath, 2007
Victor Alimpiev
Marxism Today, 2010
Phil Collins
“I was in Berlin during the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall and I thought about what happened to the people that taught Marxism and Leninism. After ‘89 not only does that job evaporate but also their expertise and knowledge devalues at a very rapid pace. I tried to find out what happened to them, where did they go? We spoke to forty people, filmed ten and then in the final film, Marxism Today, used three. I was trying to find stories which would work in a biographical, not analytical, reading. What the teachers thought of what happened and what became of them afterwards. We focus on three characters, one women whose husband killed himself just before the fall in ‘89. A doctor who taught political economy and then moved into the banking system and became very rich. The third set up an introduction and dating service and was the mother of an Olympic gymnast. They all have very different trajectories within the reunification.” - Phil Collins
“It’s not curators or collectors who set the art-world agenda, it’s artists. By definition, without them there would be no art world.”
Hans Ulrich Obrist
