Issues / #20 Winter 2009
Pulling Strings
Alessandro Rabottini falls for the work of Portuguese collaborators João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva
Artists of Course Are a Completely Foreign Species
Elizabeth Neilson views the work of Henry Coombes, an artist flirting with class, family ties and narrative on the boundary between mainstream and artist films
A Report on the Production of Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock
For the past four years Richard Birkett has received JCHP cards, their stark design farming assertions and declarations about art and society. Here, he describes this exclusive postal practice
Power Structures, Pantomimes and Parodies
The installations and performances of Paris-based artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar draw from a kaleidoscopic field of identities and histories—from Rastafarianism to Super Studio, from shorthand typists to burlesque entertainers. Here, in conversation with Joanna Fiduccia, she discusses the ambiguities, both sculptural and moral, behind her very particular Follies, and what it means to be the woman behind the curtain
Gintaras Didžiapetris
Gintaras Didžiapetris in collaboration with Resonance 104.4fm
Abstract Capitalist Realism
Alastair MacKinven reflects on his current practice
Residency: Bik van der Pol
John Calcutt talks to Rotterdam duo Bik Van der Pol about taking the collaborative route during their stay at Cove Park near Glasgow
Report: The Rise of Art Publishing
Artist-led publishing is on the increase, stimulating a growing number of both DIY and institutional publishing events. Kit Hammonds investigates
Emerging: Anna Molska
Malgorzata Mleczko finds the unexpected at the heart of Anna Molska’s practice
Emerging: Corin Sworn
Isla Leaver-Yap examines radical narratives in Corin Sworn’s practice
Remarks: Hanging Matters
Patrick Elliot, senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, talks about a new re-hang to celebrate the gallery’s 50th anniversary.
Performance and Pedagogy: All Talk, Some Action
Karen Archey sheds light on the rise of performance and pedagogy in contemporary art practice
Remarks: Performa 09
Roselee Goldberg, founder and director of Performa, maps out the origins, current programme, and future of the biennial of performance in New York City
Remarks: Pawel Althamer
Suzanne Cotter, curator at Modern Art Oxford, describes Pawel Althamer’s ongoing project Common Task.
Remarks: Face to Face
Collector, founder and president of the eponymous foundation in Turin, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo talks about FACE.
Remarks: The Briggait reopens
Alison Fullerton of WASPS views The Briggait, a stunning new artist development in the heart of Glasgow, due to open in December 2009.
Rewind + Play: An Anthology of Early British Video Art
LUX, DVD, 2009, £30
Artists with PhDs
Edited by James Elkins, New Academia Press, 2009, £17, ISBN 978-0-98 18654-5-4
Alejandro Cesarco
19 September–31 October, 2009, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion
15 September–6 December, 2009 Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
Mathilde ter Heijne
20 September–8 November, 2009, SMBA, Amsterdam
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’: An exhibition of a film of a book that never was
17 September–25 October, 2009, The Drawing Room, London
Head-Wig (Portrait of an exhibition)
25 September–29 November, 2009, Camden Arts Centre, London
The Enlightenments
Various dates, August–October, 2009, Various venues, Edinburgh
Generosity is the New Political
5 September–1 November, 2009, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Dance With Camera
11 September 2009–21 March 2010, ICA, Philadelphia
Static Cinema
29 September–10 October, 2009, Intermedia, CCA, Glasgow
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976
19 July–5 October, MoMA, 2009, New York