Dispatch: Venice Biennale

Political, racial, and religious conflicts, amplified by technology blitz, have plagued this century, making dinosaurs of our cities and spawning a relentless global nomadism… see the full review in the print edition of October 1999’s Sculpture magazine.

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Dispatch: “Volume and Form”

Singapore Vincent Leow, Money Suit, 1992. Mixed media, from the “Imaging Selves” exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum Singapore, still the quintessential Asian crossroads city and now a booming tribute to the Asian Miracle (even after the Asian Economic Disaster), has enthusiastically embraced the concept of Cultural Tourism as an economic engine.

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Dispatch: “Artranspennine98”

England Ulrich Ruckriem, Untitled, 1998. Stone, 10 pieces in all. Two views of site-specific project. Artranspennine98 was a ragbag of roughly 40 projects, 50 artists, and 30 sites that took place throughout the notional transpennine region in Great Britain, which spans Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, and Hull.

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Dispatch: Hearing the Noise: Revolution

Liverpool International Symposium on Electronic Art (isea98) Luke Jerram, Retinal Memory Volume, 1997. View of installation. Liverpool and Manchester, the cradles of the Industrial Revolution, experienced yet another upheaval last fall, the Ninth International Symposium on Electronic Art.

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