Issues / #19 Autumn 2009
Q&A: Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan
Mona Casey interviews Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan
Some Shifting Nuances of Destruction
Chris Sharp breaks down a few ideas on a practice that has become essential to contemporary art
The Archive Is Not The Story
‘There is no individual authority on the history of Transmission, but a huge number of personal accounts from various perspectives’.[1] John Calcutt visits the gallery archives ahead of the move into Glasgow’s new Trongate 103 building
Pinochet Porn in Progress
Artist Ellen Cantor sketches out the narrative beginnings of an ambitious film project
Report: Art, Adolescence and Sociality
Sean Ashton takes a view from the crowd during ‘Our Name is Legion’, an event orchestrated by Kelly Large in Sleaford at 3pm on 30 April, 2009
Emerging: Rupert Ackroyd
Rebecca Geldard finds a restrained formality in this young artist’s practice
ENLIGHTENED COMMISSION
Curator of the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival’s ‘The Enlightenments’ programme, Juliana Engberg is enthuses over the commission by Joseph Kosuth
Production: Anja Kirschner & David Panos
Steven Cairns gets to the bottom of ‘The Last Days of Jack Sheppard’, a film based on inferred prison encounters between the eponomous 18th century criminal and Daniel Defoe, ghostwriter of Sheppard’s ‘autobiography’
Emerging: Lynn Hynd
Colin Perry enjoys the ‘pleasure of not knowing’ in the sculptural collage of this Glasgow-based artist
Remarks: Read-Out! Read-In!
Faith Wilding and Kate Davis are working towards a two-woman discursive exhibition project with CCA, Glasgow, entitled ‘The Long Loch: How Do We Go On From Here?’, commissioned for Glasgow international, April 2010
Etienne Chambaud: The Hole of the Matter
Joanna Fiduccia discovers the work of Etienne Chambaud is punctured with an element of surprise
Stephen Sutcliffe: Come to the Edge
Manipulating original broadcast material from his personal archive, Stephen Sutcliffe creates ‘surfaces which become the site of much-contested truth’. Michelle Cotton investigates these subtle ‘video collages’
Eva Hesse: Present Tense
Isla Leaver-Yap assesses the work of Eva Hesse, finding a sophisticated legacy with fresh resonance
Remarks: The New Showroom
Emily Pethick, curator of The Showroom talks about its re-opening and upcoming programme
Remarks: New Films In The Making
Steven Bode, director of The Film and Video Umbrella discusses the history of the organisation and some upcoming commission.
Remarks: Nottingham Central
Alex Farquharson, curator of the new Nottingham Contemporary, talks about the highlights of the year ahead and beyond
Commission: Clunie Reid
Contemporary images expose the future in this new commission
Back Page: Jane and Louise Wilson
Jane and Louise Wilson, film still from ‘Unfolding the Aryan Papers’, 2009
Bart Wells Institute, Eds: Luke Gottelier & Francis Upritchard
Dent-De-Leone, 2009, £15, ISBN: 978–0-9561885–2–6
Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory
Phaidon Press/New Museum, 2009, £25, ISBN 978-0-7148498-1-2
Sarah Anne Johnson
4 July– 23 August, 2009, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Selected works from a private collection: Thomas Kinkade
3 July–11 July, 2009, Freymond-Guth & Co. Fine Arts, Zurich
Bill Viola
19 June–5 September, 2009, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness
Simon Starling
13 December 2008–31 October, 2010, Sol LeWitt through 2033 MASS MoCA, Boston
Silke Otto-Knapp
4 July–13 September, 2009, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
EASTinternational
13 July–22 August, 2009, Various Venues, Norwich
Christopher Orr
24 May–1 August, 2009, IBID PROJECTS/Hoxton Square, London