Issues / #10 Summer 2007
#10 - June 2007
Emerging: Catherine Street
Ruth Beal talks to an artist who offers ‘a glimpse through a velvet curtain’
Residency: Fringe Fraternity
Cathryn Drake visits Sicily to talk to Duncan Marquiss about his new work, artists’ groups and living in Italy
Commision: Chris Evans
For this MAP commission Chris Evans presents, ‘Militant Bourgeois’ a film script, written in collaboration with Will Bradley and developed from a commissioned text by philosopher Nina Power
Aernout Mik: Deadlock
Barry Schwabsky examines the truths behind the video work of renowned Netherlands artist Aernout Mik and wonders just how close we all are to being extras in one of his videos
Martin Boyce: Sculpture Scene
Alexander Kennedy outlines his thoughts on Modernism in Scotland in relation to the work of artist Martin Boyce
#10 - June 2007
Gustav Metzger: Revolutionary Constructions
Gustav Metzger in conversation with international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist reveals a visionary spirit active both politically and artistically across nearly seven decades. With a busy year ahead, Metzger is preparing to show at skulptur projecte munster
Lucy Skaer: Drawing Close
Glasgow-based artist Lucy Skaer is interested in fictions and histories. Highly articulate in the medium of drawing, she also makes films and installation and installations with charged imagination. Here, she is in conversation with Isla Leaver-Yap
Kate Davis: Could we? I am asking
John Calcutt finds the work of Kate Davis complex, subtle, powerful and bravely questioning of gender perspectives. Born in New Zeland, and now resident in Glasgow, Davis is attracting increasing international recognition
Interview: Peter Saville
Peter Saville is creative consultant for Manchester International Festival. He designed album covers for Factory Records, art directed for Yohji Yamamoto and founded Peter Saville Associates.
Amsterdam
Morag Keil, 3 March–14 April, Grimm Fine Art 14 / Lucy Stein, 3 March–14 April, Galerie Martin van Zomeren / Sue Tompkins, 3 March–7 April, Galerie Diana Stigter
Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle
16 January–31 March 2007, Grey Art Gallery, New York University
Kommando Friedrich Hölderlin
27 January–17 March 2007, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Marc Bijl, Gerard Byrne, Valerie Jouve
21 April–23 June 2007, Aliceday, Brussels
Hayley Tompkins and Sue Tompkins
3 February–25 March 2007, Spike Island, Bristol
Ross Sinclair versus Sir Edwin Landseer
13 January–9 April 2007, Aberdeen Art Gallery
Books: 40 Years Videoart.de
PART1: Digital Heritage: Video Art in Germany 1963 to the present Rudolf Frieling/Wulf Herzogenrath www.hatjecantz.de English edition ISBN 978-3-77571-717-5 £24.95
Books: Utopia Deferred: Writings from Utopie ( 1967-1978)
Jean Baudrillard www.semiotexte.com ISBN 978-1-58435-033-0 £11.95