Aesthetic Management

Untitled (Pan-National Flag)

2009 (in production). A prototype for an actual flag to be embroidered on textile - where all national flags have been overlaid upon one another.

The Fight Between Carnival and the Quotidian

2009. Two bags of hand sorted confetti (sorted into colours) - one bag ordered in a Cartesian grid, the other launched and fallen to the floor randomly.

Felicitous Football: One Minute of Iraqi Jubilation

2009. One minute of celebration as heard from the Iraqi Sportscaster upon the Iraqi team winning the 2007 Asia Cup (translated into the English phonetic alphabet)

Host Not Found: A Traveling Monument to the Suppression of Search

2007. In collaboration with Markus Miessen, a traveling monument proposal to address issues of internet governance - proposed to both Google Inc. and the ITU (UN)

M6.1 , Dept III: Abschlussball/Contract of Discord

2007. Published as a poster insert of IDEA magazine (Romania), whereby the group of presupposed Manifesta 6 participants (Dept III) joined forces in disagreement.

Estranged Proximities

2007. Single channel video of a performance of improvised 'waiting' from three actors, based on sociological observation in public spaces.

Intermingling Brouhaha

2006. Single channel video / animation, footage taken from a busy shopping street in Berlin

The Latest

Parcels for the Promised Land

Group exhibition and auction at Kunstbuero Berlin, 8. May - 12. June, 2009. Initiated by Shahram Entekhabi and Ruth Martius.

Intervention at Exhibition 211 New York

Freshly added intervention at the experimental exhibition project called ‘Exhibition’ at 211 Elizabeth St. NYC, April 20. Check out more about the project initiated by 5 artists / arts practitioners here.

Lecture and Workshop at Uni. Delaware

April 14, 10:00-12:00 & 13:00-15:00
Workshop with Fine Arts Students in the Digital Printmaking Lab, inaugural week called ‘Digital Hype’ on ‘Agonistic Collaboration’ and publication / discourse making.
16:00 Lecture and Artists’ Talk on Aesthetic Management, and setting out one’s own terms of artistic dissemination.
University of Delaware Fine Arts

C Magazine spring 2009

An article, Staging Shadows without Source, on the project of Claude Wampler produced for the 3rd Yokohama Triennale, included in latest C Magazine, Toronto, issue (101). View an excerpt of the article here…

Roundtable at Emily Carr

A discussion invitation, initiated by the student union at Emily Carr University, Woo Newspaper, Tuesday Feb. 24, 2009 at Emily Carr, Vancouver, 10am. Breakfast was served and delicious!

Contemporary Conversations at Western Front, Vancouver

A discussion initiated by Johan Lundh will take place on Monday February 23, 2009 at the Western Front Grand Luxe Theatre, 7 PM.
Lundh and Reed take the term “Aesthetic Management” as a point of departure for a conversation about interdisciplinary, collaborative practices.

Banff Centre Residency Jan - Feb 09

Back on home turf for a residency entitled: Roadshow - Travels of the Artist, Led by Ken Lum.
Banff Centre for the Arts

Through, Around and Against the Document - Maryam Jafri in Conversation with Patricia Reed

Published in Art Papers Magazine (Atlanta), January-February Issue

The Fillip Review

What is a Participatory Practice? published in the Fall 08 issue of The Fillip Review.
Conversation with David Goldenberg