๐๐ผ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ | ๐ง๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ข Performance is a tricky art form to sell & collectโmight blockchain technology offer a solution? This is the question that drives The Sphere DAO, which has been creating & collecting live art since 2020. Read on ~ ๐ฐ: outland.art/the-sphere-d...
Might blockchain technology offer new ways for artists working with performance to sustain their practices?
In 2021, Lauren Lee McCarthy minted โGood Night,โ a NFT performance work in which the artist sends a text to the tokenโs holder every night before she goes to bed. What do you think itโs like to hold a work like this? To participate in a performance with no end date? outland.art/good-night-p...
๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐บ | ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ง๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ฌ Get to know our current guest editor ๐ In her new solo show, Lauren Lee McCarthy takes on surveillance capitalism with the shock effects of radical performance and equally radical politics of care. In focus: Bodily Autonomy, cur. by Ceci Moss outland.art/lauren-lee-m...
Lauren Lee McCarthyโs art takes on surveillance capitalism with the shock effects of radical performance and a politics of care.
๐ก๐ฒ๐๐ | ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ก Introducing the next #OutlandGuestEditor#Performanceoutland.art/spilling-out...
Lauren Lee McCarthy guest edits an issue of Outland on performance and digital media, and how artists are bringing intimacy and care to tech.
New writing from me!A special issue of @outland.bsky.socialoutland.art/art-games/
Happy to have written this piece about one of my favorite genre-bending artists, @chan.galleryoutland.art/mitchell-cha...
Mitchell F. Chanโs digital works combine conceptual art strategies and computer games to show that play can be serious business.
๐ก๐ฒ๐๐ | ๐๐ข๐ช ๐๐ฅ๐ง ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐ช๐ข๐ฅ๐ This month we embarked on our special issue on #GAMES@chan.galleryoutland.art/art-games/
Guest editor Mitchell F. Chan introduces our special issue on games with a discussion of agency as a medium.
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I just published a new piece of criticism. It's about a series by DEAFBEEF commissioned by LACMA, inspired by Eadweard Muybridge. You can read it now on @outland.bsky.socialoutland.art/deafbeef-lac...
Deafbeefโs latest project calls back to Muybridgeโs motion studies to meditate on the relationship between media and time on the blockchain.
Read Mounaโs full critique of Massanโs solo exhibition โThird World: The Bottom Dimension,โ at Serpentine Galleries, London. ๐๏ธ: https://outland.art/gabriel-massan-serpentine/
Gabriel Massanโs Third World involves NFTs as player souvenirs, rather than using the blockchain to elaborate the gameโs collaborative spirit.