"Does a Group of More than Three Women Make It Feminist?" Review of exhibition Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, November 13, 2009 — February 14, 2010; and at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, March 19 — June 13, 2010. Published in Studija 70, no. 1 (2010): 54-63.
Read moreExhibition review: Rauma Biennale Balticum 2010, Rauma, Finland
"Is it Easy to be Caught Between 'Sunday Artists' and Commercial Kitsch?" Review of the Rauma Biennale Balticum 2010 What’s up, Sea? Contemporary Art of the Baltic Sea Region. Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland, June 12 — September 19, 2010. Published in Studija 75, no. 6 (2010).
Read moreExhibition review: And Others – Movements, Explorations and Artists in Latvia 1960–1984
"Results of the Revision." Review of the exhibition And Others – Movements, Explorations and Artists in Latvia 1960–1984, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia, November 17 — December 30, 2010. Published in Studija 76, no. 1 (2011): 30-37.
Read moreBook review: Creative Networks by Rasa Smite
“When a Process Acquires Form and Becomes a Canon.” Review of Rasa Šmite, Creative Networks (Riga: RIXC Publishing, 2011). Published in Studija 81, no. 6 (2011).
Read moreExhibition review: Ostalgia at the New Museum, New York (Studija)
"We from Nowhere and Our Art." Review of exhibition Ostalgia at the New Museum, New York, July 6 - October 2, 2011. Published in Studija 81, no. 6 (2011).
Read moreExhibition review: "This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“To Put Things into Order.” Review of exhibition This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, February 11 - June 3, 2012. Published in Studija 84, no. 3 (2012).
Read moreExhibition review: Tom Sachs, "Space Program: Mars" at the Park Avenue Armory, New York
“Admirable Human Error, or What Drinking and Welding can Lead to.” Review of Tom Sachs solo exhibition Space Program: Mars at the Park Avenue Armory, New York, May 16 — June 17, 2012. Published in Studija 85, no. 4 (2012).
Read moreThe New Masters of the Land, preliminary outline of the Latvian pavilion at the Venice Biennale
"The New Masters of the Land, or Our Muddy Pastalas* on the Parquet Floor of Cosmopolitan Venice." Preliminary remarks by Alise Tifentale, a co-curator of the Latvia’s exposition North by Northeast at the 55th International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale, May 31 — November 24, 2013. Published in Studija 90, no. 3 (2013).
Read moreIntroduction to exhibition I am Your Servant, I am Your Worker
“How to Stop Worrying and Love the Computer.” Work-in-progress: Introduction to the exhibition I am Your Servant, I am Your Worker for the James Gallery, New York City. Published in Studija 96, no. 3 (2014): 50 - 65.
Read moreWhat’s Next after the Year of the Selfie, or Work-in-Progress by Lev Manovich and the Software Studies Initiative
"What’s Next after the Year of the Selfie, or Work-in-Progress by Lev Manovich and the Software Studies Initiative." Studija 94, no. 1 (2014): 6-21.
Read moreIntroducing Selfiecity
The Selfie: Making sense of the “Masturbation of Self-Image” and the “Virtual Mini-Me.” Selfiecity, 2014. This essay reviews some of the recent debates on the selfie (at the time of writing - late 2013 and early 2014) and places it into a broader context of photographic self-portraiture, investigating how the Instagrammed selfie differs from its precursors, as well as mapping out avenues for further research and interpretation of the results obtained in Selfiecity.
Read moreExhibition review: Public Eye at the New York Public Library
Review of the exhibition Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing Photography at the New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building from December 12, 2014 to January 3, 2016. Published in Studija 100, no.1 (2015): 72-77.
Read moreExhibition review: Chasing Napoleon at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris
"Either the Hunter or the Hunted – There’s No Other Option" Review of the exhibition Chasing Napoleon at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, from October 15, 2009 to January 17, 2010. Published in Studija 70, no. 1 (2010).
Read moreExhibition review: dOCUMENTA (13)
“How to Rectify All Mistakes at Once” Review of dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel, Germany, from June 9 to September 19, 2012. Published in Studija 86, no. 6 (2012): 14 - 23.
Read moreExhibition review: Art of Another Kind at the Guggenheim, New York
“How Quickly Does Avant-garde Age?” Review of exhibition Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960 on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 8 - September 12, 2012. Published in Studija 87, no. 6 (2012): 8-17.
Read moreFive Sensational Tweets about Photographs That I Have Not Seen
“Five Sensational Tweets about Photographs That I Have Not Seen” in Latvian Photography 2018 Yearbook (Riga: FK, 2018).
Read moreIntroduction to José Oiticica Filho's “Setting the Record Straighter”
My “Introduction to José Oiticica Filho's ‘Setting the Record Straighter’ “ accompanies a reprint of Oiticica Filho’s 1951 article whose first translation from Portuguese (by Luisa Valle) I commissioned for a special edition of journal ARTMargins vol. 8, no. 2 (2019), edited by Chelsea Haines and Gemma Sharpe.
Read moreFollowing the Invisible Hand: The Role of Photo Clubs, Magazines, Exhibitions, and Curators in Latvian Photography, 1960–2000
“Following the Invisible Hand: The Role of Photo Clubs, Magazines, Exhibitions, and Curators in Latvian Photography, 1960–2000” is a commissioned research article for a volume of articles Ten Episodes in Art of the Second Half of the 20th Century in Latvia. Edited by Elita Ansone. Riga: Latvian National Museum of Art, 2019. In English and Latvian.
Read moreArt, Idealism, and Networking: Brazilian Participation in the Global Photo-Club Culture, 1950–1965
“Art, Idealism, and Networking: Brazilian Participation in the Global Photo-Club Culture, 1950–1965,” translated into Portuguese and published as:
Alise Tifentale, “Arte, idealism e rede de contatos: a participação brasileira na cultura fotoclubista global (1950–1965),” 168–192, in Helouise Costa and Heloisa Espada, eds., Fotografia moderna no Brasil, 1900–1950. Arte, saber e poder (São Paulo, IMS: 2024).
Read moreMachines, Methods, and Humans: On the Production Line of Contemporary Photography
Article "Machines, Methods, and Humans: On the Production Line of Contemporary Photography" is published in Fotografija 35, no. 1 (2018). This is a special edition of the magazine “New Tools in Photography: From Google to the Algorithm” edited by Paul Paper.
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