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Jacco Olivier is included in the upcoming SITE Santa Fe 8th Biennial: The Dissolve, curated by Daniel Belasco and Sarah Lewis, June 18, 2010 - January 2, 2011.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Art of Being Santa Fe, by Henry Shukman
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Adobe Airstream
SITE Santa Fe 2010 biennial a David Adjaye design
Vogue Magazine
Brainiac Rising, by Dodie Kazanjian
The May 2010 issue of Vogue Magazine is a special issue dedicated to great american women. Sarah Lewis, one of the Biennial 2010 curators, is featured.
You can read the full article on Vogue.com or view the PDF version of the article below.
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ARTINFO
When in... Search of Summer Art Destinations, by Kris Wilton
While Basel grabs the biggest headlines, other cities are mounting major cultural events of their own.
The New York Times
36 Hours in Santa Fe, by FRED A. BERNSTEIN
Beyond the city's historic center lie contemporary art spaces, hot Asian restaurants and a new park by a pair of trailblazing architects.
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Albuquerque Journal
Biennial not merely sitting still, by Dan Mayfield
SITE show to feature moving pictures in expression of video
ARTINFO
Verbal Play and Venereal Disease: A Q&A with Mary Reid Kelley, by Emma Allen
Coming off successful gallery shows in New York and Los Angeles, the artist talks about her new project at the Santa Fe Biennial.
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Albuquerque Journal
SITE Launches Rare Film-Based Biennial, By Kathaleen Roberts
From Claymation-meets-watercolor to the flip-book scrawls of vaudeville, video links humanity with technology.
Aperture Foundation
OpenEnded Group in Santa Fe
Tonight is a performance by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company with OpenEnded Group, featured on the cover of the current issue of Aperture magazine.
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Santa Fe New Mexican
SITE Santa Fe show offers glimpse of 'magic'
At The Dissolve — SITE Santa Fe's Eighth International Biennial — more than two dozen artists have sparked their paintings and photos into motion using long-lost animation techniques from the early 20th century.
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Adobe Airstream
The Dissolve, SITE biennial, enchants, by Ellen Berkovitch
Audio Review of The Dissolve.
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michael salcman’s posterous
VIDEO AS CLOSE-UP MAGIC, by Michael Salcman
A review of the 2010 Biennial.
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Adobe Airstream
Interview with David Adjaye, by Ellen Berkovitch
Designer of "The Dissolve" Describes Atmosphere.
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ARTNET NEWS
SITE SANTA FE BIENNIAL -- ONLINE
People are calling it the first video-art biennial -- and a lot of the vids are now viewable online.
Albuquerque Journal
MOVING in many forms, by MALIN WILSON-POWELL
Exhibition unifies animation and range of moving images.
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ARTINFO
Review, by Alicia Inez Guzman
For many creators included in SITE Santa Fe’s eighth biennial, "The Dissolve," moving image technology and animation is the key that unlocks a door to a media borderland. For its curators, Sarah Lewis, doctoral candidate at Yale University, and Daniel Belasco, assistant curator at the Jewish Museum, it is the exploration of this in-between, this borderland and its deep roots in the past that is at the core of the 2010 Biennial.
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The New York Times | T Magazine
Now Showing | SITE Santa Fe Biennial, by RIMA SUQI
An exhibition featuring artists such as Kara Walker and Raymond Pettibon, where the works are as interesting as the space.
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Visual Art Source
the Dissolve review, by Alex Ross
“The Dissolve” surveys an emerging, yet historically-rooted, impulse within contemporary artistic practice. Offering contemporary animation as a point where “the homespun meets the high-tech,” this Eighth International Biennial is a fully moving-image-driven edition of SITE’s lauded program.
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Il giornale dell'arte magazine
Interview with Sarah Lewis & Daniel Belasco
Sarah and Daniel's interview on Il Giornale Dell'Arte Magazine.
This interview is in italian - there is a link to view the PDF below.
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Art Practical
From Santa Fe: The Dissolve, by Randall Miller
Released late last year, James Cameron's visual extravaganza Avatar has not only achieved critical and commercial success; the film has also reached new heights of animated realism through advancements in motion-picture technology. In contrast, SITE Santa Fe’s Eighth International Biennial, “The Dissolve,” celebrates videos that utilize the lo-fi, handmade aesthetics of early 20th-century animation.
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Huffington Post
A Tale of Two Biennials: Santa Fe and Denver, by Leanne Goebel
Sixteen years ago, Santa Fe had a vision to establish a contemporary art museum with the focus of bringing the latest and greatest in the contemporary art world to the oldest city in the West. They created a Kunsthalle (non-collecting art museum) with a mission to host a contemporary art survey biennial.
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Art Lies
The Dissolve review, by Nancy Zastudil
The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fe’s Eighth International Biennial, curators Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco cast a wide conceptual net, claiming in their curatorial statement to recognize “a paradigm shift in contemporary art” and to present “a new sensibility in the art of our time.
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frieze
Moving Images, by Robert Storr
SITE Sante Fe’s Eighth International Biennial is as inspiring as it is original. First published in Issue 133, September 2010.
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The Brooklyn Rail
The Dissolve review, by Phong Bui
Before I entered the first gallery, Hiraki Sawa’s hypnotic “Airliner” (2003)—a video structured as a flipbook with digitized images of airplanes gliding across the page, threatening to congest the friendly sky—gave a strong initial impression: that of the magic touch of the hand.
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The Washington Post
Landmark advances in video-projection technology led to 'the new painting', by Blake Gopnik
Video projections are so much not about themselves that they can even channel and revive older media. The latest Site Santa Fe biennial, titled "The Dissolve," is all about how low-tech, handmade art forms -- especially as used in early cinema -- have been reanimated as video.
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The Dallas Morning News
SITE Santa Fe's Biennial focuses on animation, By SCOTT CANTRELL
The 2008 SITE Santa Fe Biennial went so far as to feature works designed to be broken up and recycled afterward. This year, curators Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco have loosely focused the contemporary-art museum's biennial on animation, hardly the first medium to come to mind as high art.
Kansas City Star
SITE Sante Fe offers an art biennial with an edge, By ELISABETH KIRSCH
It's the 400th anniversary of Santa Fe, the small New Mexican city with a big international appeal. The surrounding Pueblo cultures, historical adobe architecture, sage-covered mountains, roasted-chiles cuisine and unparalleled diversity explain its perennial popularity.
As a mecca for some of the country's top artists, writers and musicians, Santa Fe attracts art lovers from around the globe. It is now second only to New York as the largest art market in the United States.
While there are still howling coyote sculptures and pairs of $10,000 neon cowboy boots, the "Santa Fe style" cliches of the 1980s are mostly gone.
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The New Yorker Blog
A CLICK AWAY: SITE SANTA FE BIENNIAL, by Jessie Wender
I was lucky last week, when I was in New Mexico for the wedding of a dear friend, that my visit coincided with SITE Santa Fe's Eighth International Biennial Exhibition, The Dissolve. SITE Santa Fe is a non-profit, non-collecting arts organization specializing in contemporary art; its biennial, held since 1995, is the only international biennial of contemporary art in the U.S. On view through January 2nd, this year’s biennial is focussed on "moving-image art".
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The Wall Street Journal
The Usual Suspects, By LANCE ESPLUND
Seeing contemporary art across the U.S., I encounter many of the same artists—if not the same artworks. Increasingly, gallery and museum marquees, just like those at the cineplex, begin to look the same, and I realize how much the art world is being leveled by politics, globalization, satellite galleries and art fairs, as well as by the safety and allure of star power.
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IRAAA
profile by Andrea Douglas / review by Kissette Bundy
A nice profile and review of the Biennial from the International Review of African American Art.
View the PDF version of the article below.
Afterimage
Sagas, by Peter S. Briggs
Review of SITE Santa Fe's Eighth International Biennial Exhibition.
View the PDF version of the article below.
Art Practical
Group Show review, by Lani Asher
SITE Santa Fe was started fifteen years ago as a non-collecting alternative art space that gave independent curators the freedom to present unique international art events. Housed in a cavernous building located at the old Santa Fe railroad yard, SITE Santa Fe Eighth International Biennial 2010: The Dissolve, is a collaboration between curators Daniel Belasco and Sarah Lewis and architect David Adjaye, who designed the installation.
ARTnews
The Dissolve SITE Santa Fe, by Ann Landi
ARTnews review of SITE Santa Fe's eighth biennial.
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