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The installation consists of only a handful of elements: five yellow mesh hangings which divide the gallery, four oversized kitchen colanders with text engravings, a pair of traffic lights. The constellation turns the gallery into a stage set in search of a script.

The programme promises the world. We’re watching comedia dell’arte! These objects are “experiences of power” and “satires of social hierarchies”! They question “agency and authority” and engage us in “roleplay”!

All those would be great plot twists, but the play has been cancelled. The actors are missing and there is no story, neither forward nor back.

Why theatre, why these notions, why these props? Having forgotten what the ‘dramatic’ in art stands for, visual artists today too often mistake hacked theory and mistranslated philosophy for stage directions. A tragedia dell’arte for our times.


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William S. Burroughs at October Gallery

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Burroughs should be sexy, right?

Stuart Middleton, The Human Model at Carlos/Ishikawa ★★☆☆☆

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An interest in material is core to this practice but Middleton mistrusts his instincts.

Alexis Kyle Mitchell: The Goal of Our Health at Peer ★★☆☆☆

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When Adam Curtis stopped narrating his ‘documentaries’, some stories are wasted breath.

Sula Bermúdez-Silverman, Bad Luck Rock at Josh Lilley ★★☆☆☆

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This is a poor man’s version of history or a philistine collector’s absolution.

Dickon Drury at Seventeen ★★★☆☆

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Painting needs prophets, Drury plays a jester.

Pakui Hardware, Maria Terese Rozanskaite, Inflammation at Lithuanian pavilion Venice ★★★☆☆

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One of the novelties in Venice is the artwork that looks good but on reflection isn’t.

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