It is now both a convention and also a joke to make the title of pieces about animals “Consider the __” where the blank is the name of the animal. This is because of a now famous essay that David Foster Wallace wrote called “Consider the Lobster”. So now: Consider the Pigeon. I would like to say tha...

Wellnow.wtf

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Alexandra Marraccini (27 avr. 2020)

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At Silicon Valet/Wellnow.wtf online. Wellnow.wtf is a digital exhibition curated by Faith Holland, Lorna Mills, and Wade Wallerstein that opened on 4 April 2020, and featured a large international group of eighty net artists with moving-image related practises. The web address of the installation is...

Rosalind Krauss: The Optical Unconscious

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Alexandra Marraccini (18 févr. 2020)

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Here is why I am addressing Chapter Six of Rosalind Krauss’ The Optical Unconscious, in which she considers the mid-career paintings made by the artist Cy Twombly: I am writing about Rosalind Krauss on Cy Twombly’s ‘chalkboard’ paintings as way of thinking about mark and repetition, eventually as ap...

The paved floor of St Paul's Cathedral, London.

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Alexandra Marraccini (14 oct. 2019)

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Designing the iconic London churches of the late 17th to early 18th century was a collaborative endeavor. As much as one might attribute broad conceptual sweeps to figures like Wren and Hawksmoor, like today’s phenomenon of the ‘Starchitect’, they had many designers working under them, producing som...

Museum Of The Moon

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Alexandra Marraccini (22 juil. 2019)

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Museum of the Moon by Luke Jerram at The Natural History Museum, 17 May 2019 – 1 January 2020. The “Museum of the Moon” is about the moon in the same way Die Zauberflöte is about a magic flute; it both is and it fundamentally isn’t. Luke Jerram’s work of public art, a giant glowing sphere with an 12...

W.G. Sebald: 'The Rings Of Saturn'

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Alexandra Marraccini (4 mars 2019)

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On W.G. Sebald’s 'The Rings of Saturn' and the Englishness of English Art Image of Saturn's Hexagon (the six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole) from NASA's Cassini mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Hampton University If I said I was writing about W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn because o...

Bilderfahrzeuge Lecture series 2022-2023

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Stuart Moss (26 août 2022)

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The Bilderfahrzeuge Project is pleased to announce its final, 2022-2023 lecture series, entitled "Border Regimes." The series has been conceived and organised by the sub-group "Art & Nationhood," comprising Andreas Beyer, Alexandra Marraccini, Oliver O'Donnell and Judith Rottenburg, and is presented...

New Article: 'Betting on Babel'

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Stuart Moss (3 déc. 2021)

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A new article by our Bilderfahrzeuge colleague Alexandra Marraccini on the NFT artist Pak on the platform Outland. https://outland.art/pak-lost-poets/

Fellowship award and new book announcement for Alexandra Marraccini

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Stuart Moss (6 juil. 2021)

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We are delighted to announce that our colleague Dr Alexandra Marraccini has been selected as a 2021/22 National Book Critics' Circle Emerging Critics Fellow. Moreover, her first book on critical writing WE THE PARASITES is to be published in the US by Sublunary Editions in Autumn 2022. “WE THE PARA...

Art and Nationhood, Forumsvorträge 2019 im Kunsthistorischen Seminar, Universität Basel

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Stuart Moss (21 févr. 2019)

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Lectures by Research Associates of the international research project "Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg's Legacy and the Future of Iconology" Wednesday, 27 February 2019, 18:15-19:45 Alexandra Marraccini (London) The Nautilus and the Pearl: Dutch Gazes, Oceanic Objects and the English Seventeenth Cent...