POP 074/ Thursday, 13 August 2009

Today’s Pop is Hannah too. She’s living in a tie-dye wonderland. Keep your white T’s locked up.



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Nan Goldin, the queen of the snapshot aesthetic and all round photography legend, has been chosen as one of the artists to be featured at the

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Thessalaniki Biennale in Greece this summer.


I was lucky to catch her slideshow exhibition,

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The Ballad of Sexual Dependancy at the

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Tate last year, with

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Patrick Wolf providing an epic live sound track. Seeing her pictures on a 15 foot screen sure was an eye opener.

This year, along with an exhibition at the

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Arles Photography Festival in France, you will be able to see Nan’s work at the 2nd Thessalaniki Biennale where she is one of the one hundred and fifty artists that are involved. All the artists are from various geographical points around the world including Columbia, India, Mozambique and Brazil with the aim to unite them in the City.


The theme of this years festival is Praxis: Art In Times Of Uncertainty and runs from May 27th until September 27th in various locations including warehouses, market places, theatres and the Paradeisos Baths. The aim is to encourage visitors to walk around the centre of Thessalaniki with the exhibition sites starting at the port and continuing through into the historical city centre.


The Biennale will be made up of two parallel exhibitions, Face To Faces and 1000+1 Prax(e)is which will both run for the duration of the festival. 1000+1 Prax(e)is looks at the creative process and theory with artists such as Jean-Pierre Attal, Pavlina Verouki and Olivier Roller selected on the basis of their theoretical reasoning. Faces To Faces, however, will showcase video installations by international artists such as Yann Toma and Cecile Hartmann with the second part of the exhibition featuring photographs by fourteen contemporary artists including Nan Goldin, Suzanne Lafont, Orlan and Hans Hemmert.


Nan compels you, book those tickets!


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