Contact: info@benjamintiven.com
Recent and/or Forthcoming
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Screenings for A Third Version of the Imaginary
Dispersed Documents, part of the Living Archive, Arsenal, Berlin, June 25-26, 2013
(curated by Madeleine Bernstorff)
FID Marseille festival, July, 2013
International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany (International Competition)
Visions du Reel festival, Nyon, Switzerland (Premiere)
Images Festival, Toronto, ON
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Group exhibition "There's No Place Like Home"
Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
More information is here
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Foraarsudstillingen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Film screening and talk at the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture
with Sukhdev Sandhu, Tavia Nyong'o, and Michael Vazquez.
April 8th, 20 Cooper Square (East 5th and Bowery), Room 503, 6:45 PM
More information is here
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An interview with the Vancouver-based architect Hossein Amanat is out now in the current issue of BIDOUN magazine, #28 (Interviews!). A PDF of the piece is here.
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"The Delight of the Yearner: Ernst May and Erica Mann in Nairobi, Kenya, 1933-1953" will be reprinted (and slightly emended) in NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, next issue, Spring 2013
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Distant Objects Becoming Near, a project for Triple Canopy issue #16
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Group exhibition Movable Facture at Vivo Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC, June, 2012
Exhibition catalog is available here
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The book An Echo Without a Medium is available through the Bidoun Bookshop
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Group exhibition for the Whitney Independent Study Program, opens 5/4/12
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Essay on the Fälschungserschwerende Schrift, Bulletins of the Serving Library, issue #3
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Mr. Freedom Speaks!
A collaboration with Wayne Koestenbaum, annotated in Triple Canopy
Print version (ever so slightly nsfw, mind you) can be downloaded here
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An Echo Without a Medium
2012
96 pages
5.5"x8"
ISBN 978-0-9849219-0-4
Publication to accompany solo show at The Print Studio, Hamilton, ON, January 2012
In PDF format here
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The Essay “On The Delight of the Yearner” is first published in the conference reader
Netzwerke des Exils:
Künstlerische Verflechtungen, Austausch und Patronage nach 1933
Karin Wimmer and Burcu Dogramaci (eds.)
Munich: Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig Maximillian University / Gebrüder Mann Verlag, 2011.
The full text of this piece can be downloaded here
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On the Iranian futurist and philosopher FM-2030, from Bidoun issue #19
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On the South African photographer Guy Tillim, from Bidoun issue #19
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On the British artist Jeremy Deller, from the Abu Dhabi National Review,
November 20, 2009
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On the American artist Trevor Paglen, from the Abu Dhabi National Review,
July 30, 2010
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On the German architect Albert Speer, from Bidoun issue #11