Issues / #12 Winter 2007
Interview: Linder
Linder Sterling has collaborated with Jon Savage on The Secret Public, designed record sleeves for Buzzcocks and performed with her band Ludus at the acienda covered in meat and wearing a dildo. This year she resides over several exhibitions, performances and publications
Enrico David: Choreography of Man
Enrico David’s first major solo show in London received much praise. But what is the impulse behind his carefully rendered theatricality? Isla Leaver-Yap asks him about harmony, risk and the art of language
Emerging: Ruth Ewan
Ruth Hedges catches up with Ruth Ewan as her latest work hits London’s streets
Emerging: Babak Ghazi
Sally O’Reilly looks back at the 1980’s through the work of Babak Ghazi
Karla Black: Mother Sculpture
Karla Black, a young Glasgow sculptor makes work which is at once fragile and powerful beyond its materials. Barry Schwabsky uncovers the detail
Oliver Godow: Waiting for Godow
John Calcutt discovers a tangible presence in the abstract emptiness of Oliver Godow’s photographs
Obituary: Steven Campbell
Artist, born 19 March 1953, died 15 August 2007
Report: Arms, Art & Automobiles (Sean Ashton, War on Culture)
Sean Ashton goes to ExCel ‘Defence Systems & Equipment International 07’, and Frieze Art Fair, to confront the material and political effects of artworks and arms at point-of-sale
Residency: Jane Topping
Steven Cairns talks to Glasgow artist Jane Topping, currently on a year long Scottish Arts Council residency in Amsterdam
Mike Kelley
29 September–22 December 2007, Jablonka Gallery, Berlin
Re: [Video Positive] Archiving Video Positively
31 August–4 November 2007, FACT, Liverpool
Books: Scott Myles
Edited by Beatrix Ruf www.jrp-ringier.com ISBN 978-3-905701-63-0 £17
Books: Art and Revolution: Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century
Gerald Raunig www.semiotexte.com ISBN 978-1-58435-046-0 £11.95
Music: Daniel Johnston: It’s A Beautiful Life
5 September–10 November 2007, alt.gallery, Newcastle
Music: Re-make/Re-model
Michael Bracewell www.faber.co.uk ISBN 978-0-571-22985-7 £20
Music: EXTRACT: Portraits Of Sound Artists
www.nonvisualobjects.com £21
#12 Winter - November 2007
Review
Music: Sighs Trapped By Liars (new album from Red Krayola)
The Red Krayola with Art & Language www.dragcity.com £10
Robert Orchardson & Sarah Tripp
29 September–28 October 2007, Generator Projects, Dundee
Alas Nature / Roni Horn / My Oz, Iceland National Gallery
20 July–21 October 2007, National Gallery of Iceland / Long-term installation, Library of Water, Stykkisholmur / 11 May–19 August 2007, Reykjavik Art Museum
A North Light ~ Cynosure, Pier Arts Center
7 July–10 November 2007, Pier Art Centre, Orkney
Stan Douglas
15 September 2007–6 January 2008, Staatsgalerie & Wurttembergischer Kunstverine, Stuttgart
Matthew Barney
20 September–11 November 2007, Serpentine Gallery, London
Louise Bourgeois
10 October 2007–20 January 2008, Tate Modern, London
David Lamelas
6–29 September 2007, Monika Spruth Philomene Magers, London
Michael Fullerton
10 October–8 December 2007, Carl Freedman Gallery, London