Critical Machines Exhibition at AUB

Critical Machines is divided into two parts.

For the exhibition, they have invited six artists and artist groups to display their proposals for critical machines, a piece of equipment designated and programmed to monitor and report on other machines in the production chain.

The second part of the event is an international conference titled “Critical Machines: Art Periodicals Today” (March 7 and 8, 2014). They have summoned editors of local, regional and global art periodicals, inviting them to speak about their publications and the various agendas that inform and motivate their editorial efforts.

Artists in the Exhibition:
– Art & Language, Burak Arikan, Freee art collective, Janah Hilwé, Khalil Rabah, Vadim Zakharov

– A Bookshelf with critical machines by: André Breton, Critical Art Ensemble, Marcel Duchamp, Andrea Fraser, Heresies Collective, William Hogarth, György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay (Artpool), Kenneth Goldsmith, Hans Haacke & Pierre Bourdieu, Pablo Helguera, Garnet Hertz, Wassily Kandinsky, Allan Kaprow, Hassan Khan, Andrei Monastyrsky, William Morris, Walid Raad, Ad Reinhardt, Temporary Services, Gregory Sholette, Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi and others

Curator: Octavian Esanu

Exhibition Opening: March 6, 2014, from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.