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  • Nina Canell, Brief Syllable (Truncated), 2017, subterranean cable fragment, 9 × 25 5⁄8 × 9". From “Transmissions.”

    Nina Canell, Brief Syllable (Truncated), 2017, subterranean cable fragment, 9 × 25 5⁄8 × 9". From “Transmissions.”

    “Transmissions”

    Vin Vin

    Alex Bacon’s curatorial premise for this concise and elegantly installed group show, part of the annual “curated by” initiative bringing international curators to Vienna galleries, was to examine how artists address “rates of transmission—of energy, information, goods, bodies,” and the like. Questions of circulation, dissemination, and exchange have a significant Conceptualist lineage (think of Hans Haacke or Allan Sekula), but Bacon’s engagement with these highly relevant issues of contemporary life displayed a rare sharpness. Perhaps counterintuitively, however, the exhibition’s strength

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