Artefact Expo: The Act of Magic

All Colours White explores the relationship between what is natural and artificial and the plurality of seemingly indivisible entities and experiences. It consists of a mechanism which projects red, blue and green light onto a canvas sculpture. The projection is a...

I do not suppose that there is any one in this room who has not occasionally blown a common soap-bubble, and while admiring the perfection of its form, and the marvelous brilliancy of its colours, wondered how it is that such a magnificent object...

In Cultivating Probability, Marjolijn Dijkman presents a series of sculptures in a fictional anthropological display. The sculptures are inspired by a myriad of practices that...

The connections drawn within and among the cards are so mind-boggling to contemplate that it seems entirely appropriate to comprehend them within a magical system like the tarot.
The New York Times - Suzanne Treister: ‘Hexen 2.0’ -...

I am always in search of magic, as a way to escape mundanity. To fulfill this quest, I convoke fantasies and hallucinations. Sometimes, in everyday life, we still manage to perceive way-outs towards reverie.
Shana Moulton interviewed by Lia Rochas Paris, "Shana et...

In the work Mirror Pieces, artist Tim Etchells plays with the words optical illusions, political delusions, poetical confusions, in different set-ups. Without fixing its meaning, he prompts the visitor to think through the possible relations in the context...

If Karl Rove [political advisor to George W. Bush] has opportunistically misdirected the perceptions of a post-Baudrillardian, media-sated, and reality-disoriented electorate, then in so doing he has become a war magician for an era of permanent war...

For the video-installation/performance Stand Behind Me, American artist Liz Magic Laser worked with dancer Ariel Freedman to adapt oratorical gestures from 2013 speeches made by an international range of politicians. The performer turns her back to the...

What’s interesting about magic in all forms is that there is a sense of defying norms and creating exceptions through hidden knowledge and power. Like art, the worst kinds of magic fall flat on their promises and end up feeling delusional or boring...

Financial markets and more specifically the practice of high frequency trading are the subject of the works Femke Herregraven presents in the context of Artefact. In her work, she gives these ultrafast financial transactions of computational trading a material form and physical...

French collective RYBN.orgpresent Dataghost 2, a work which essentially questions the rationality of technology systems. Dataghost 2 is an...

Blinking slowly in the gallery window, Jonathan Allen’s magic shop sign acknowledges not only the white cube’s capacity to conceptually shape-shift to accommodate art’s constant re-definition, but also its more uncertain role as purveyor of...