Theaster Gates: Afro-Mingei

Theaster Gates: Afro-MingeiTrained as a sculptor and urban planner, Theaster Gates first travelled to Japan in 2004 to study ceramics. Since then, his work has been deeply influenced by Japanese craft and culture. His encounters in Japan and across the Asia Pacific, coupled with his experiences as an African American man with roots in Mississippi and Chicago, have been the keystones of his creative process. Through his exploration of cultural hybridity, he coined the term Afro

artists witness the rise and fall of many villages —from populated communities to ghost towns as people move away

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Peter Fend has argued that art premonitions material culture

“ON THE RESISTANCE OF BODIES

engages in an indeterminate journey of in-betweenness

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Whitney Biennial

Mariana Castillo Deball investigated how the collections of public libraries in Berlin

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a dropout in the forests of Sweden as he slaughters a sheep

as the game itself is full of political metaphors

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