Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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Awakening forgotten dreams
MICHAL BONCZA is intrigued by Daria Martin’s video exploration of her family past trauma coded in dreams
Daria Martin Tonight the World (Pic courtesy Maureen Paley)
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
Daria Martin: Tonight the World
The Curve, Barbican
Barbican Centre
Silk St, London EC2
Tonight the World is part of Life Rewired season that will run at the Curve throughout 2019, addressing “what it means to be human when technology is changing everything.”
In 2005 British-US video artist Daria Martin came across a 20,000-page archive of her just departed grandmother’s, artist Susi Stiassni’s, dream diaries, which contained around 40,000 dreams Stiassini had forensically recorded over a 35-year period from the 1970s onwards as an exercise of psychoanalysis. What brought about such obsessive and extreme introspection?
The Stiassnis lived in Brno (former Czechoslovakia) in a villa commissioned by Martin’s great-grandfather Alfred Stiassni — a wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer — and designed by the famous Brno architect Ernst Wiesner. It was built in 1927-1929 and was recently renovated and is part of the city’s architectural heritage, which includes the legendary villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe.
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