It’s no secret that some moments slip away into the mental archive forever, while others vanish before we fully sense them. Random Institute presents at Despacio conceptual works spanning the past 40 years by artists who understand how to capture and create ingenious moments that inform our memories and provoke our deepest ruminations.
Sometimes it’s the small, silent moments that tell the story.
Discover what's left of an iconic conceptual artwork that has long been considered lost and untraceable. For one full month, the remains of Robert Barry’s Inert Gas Series (1969) will hover in the air above the Kunsthalle Tropical.
What we see is infinitely less than all we can imagine.
Join us for a guest lecture about the value of undisturbed solitude, our projects, and the consistent desire to rethink the art institution. We’ll discuss why we like established artist just as much as artists with zero critical acclaim, why we think sometimes we have to pay attention to the absence of everything, and finally, why it all ends where it started—in the present.
November 17th in New York.
Many of life's most interesting situations arise from unexpected encounters with strangers. Don’t Talk to Strangers was conceived to lead viewers into such experiences by integrating the unexpected into the very structure of an exhibition.
The book retraces some of the dialogues that emerged from the exhibitions, which took place in New York and Zurich, somewhere between the openness of an art space and the intimacy of a stranger’s home.
Two North African artists were invited to Switzerland to speak about their work: one who meets the necessary visa requirements to enter the country and one who doesn’t. These two scenarios, to be presented at the Belluard Festival, are the starting points for a story that isn’t afraid to touch upon our collective prejudices and the controversial question looming behind its creation:
Will the visiting artist overstay his visa after his talk to start a new life in Switzerland?