Brian Jungen

Court, 2004, 224 sweatshop tables, paint, 2 rolling steel warehouse ladders, 2 basketball hoops each with net and backboard, 12' 4" × 28' × 70' 7"


Installation view, Secession, Vienna, 2003

Using mass-produced sweat-shop products as material -- both in the artistic medium sense, as well as in the sense of artistic content --- in the fashioning of extremely haunting and poignant artworks that bespoke of global commerce and the extreme unbalance of )economic) power.

Also see short Wikipedia entry here.

See more of artist's works here.
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Desiree Palmen

A searing (political) comment on subjugation and surveillance with undercurrents of racial profiling and stereotyping.

See also article from Daily Mail.

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Anthony McCall

Between You and I, 2006 -- Installation view at Peer/The Round Chapel, London, 2006 -- Vertical solid light installation, 32-minute cycle in two parts -- Computer, QuickTime movie file, two video projectors, two haze machines -- Dimensions variable © 2007 Anthony McCall -- Photograph: Hugo Glendinning

From the exhibition write-up at Serpentine Gallery's web-page:

"In these works, the artist sought to deconstruct cinema by reducing film to its principle components of time and light and removing the screen entirely as the prescribed surface for projection."

Also see exhibition review and interview.

Also see a short segment over at Tate Shots on McCall's early work "Line Describing a Cone".

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Richard Bram & Silvia Willkens

Isabel Trio, 3rd for Transfigurations, 2007

A visual thesis on art as an act of re-telling, without necessarily being repetitive - as re-interpretation in time and space. See more images from the series here. Also hear an interview excerpt here.

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Markus Kison

CharmingBurka -- based on a photo by Guy Hoffman

A wry take on acts of hiding and revealing as mediated by technology, real-world materiality and psychological perceptions. From the project page:

"The CharmingBurka sends a self-defined picture of the wearing person to every mobile phone next to it. The project researches about clothes with a digital layer that is different to their first optical impression."

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