Carl Craig: Party/After-party

By Simon Wu

MARCH 2021 | ArtSeen

Party/After-party (2020) is the five-year lovechild of Detroit-based DJ/producer Carl Craig and curator Kelly Kivland, a sound-and-light-installation that turned the basement of the former Nabisco packaging factory into a hologram of a night club.

Lifting the Ban

By Jacob Blumenfeld

JUL-AUG 2021 | Field Notes

No new demands can bridge the gap of lost meaning, no new values can patch up the moral deficit, no new party can fill the void at the center of politics, for the gap itself is now occluded by time.

Meriem Bennani: Party on the CAPS

By Shehab Awad

OCT 2019 | ArtSeen

For Meriem Bennani’s first solo exhibition at CLEARING, the Brooklyn-based Moroccan artist has transformed the gallery into something like a spaceship.

Hypnose

By Joseph Nechvatal

MAY 2021 | ArtSeen

The exhibition Hypnose (Hypnosis), curated by Pascal Rousseau for the Musée d’arts in Nantes, is a chronicle both compelling and comical. Although submerged in a stream of spiritual consciousness tied to artistic principles of universal connection, the exhibition also flirts with certain kitsch clichés, most notably the iconic hypnotic-disc that by spiraling supposedly sucks suggestible cerveaux down a somnambulist whirlpool.