Afterimage articles from November 1999

Afterimage archives from November 1999

COLLABORATION.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
November 1, 1999... This special issue of Afterimage explores the varied meanings and contexts of the process of artistic collaboration. The projects discussed herein are diverse, but each has one shared element: a mutually-agreed upon genesis. Individuals with...

ARTSLINK GRANTS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... ArtsLink has announced the recipients of this year's Collaborative Projects grants. Eighteen awards totaling $110,000 were awarded to artists and arts organizations in the United States. The recipients will collaborate with artists and arts...

FESTIVAL OF LIGHT.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Twenty-two major international photography festivals will be highlighted on a Web site entitled "Festival of Light." The on-line festival will be in place for two years and will feature events from festivals in 16 countries including...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ARTSCI) and the Extended Studies Program at The Cooper Union will host a symposium entitled "ARTSCI '99: Nurturing Collaborations for the Next Century," November 13-14 at The Cooper Union in New York City....

PROCESS DESCRIPTIONS OF COLLABORATION & DISCURSIVE INTEREST IN PRODUCTIVE PROCESS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... ChanShatz's ongoing collaboration reveals itself in the objects and systems of new media production. Engaging multiple contexts their dialogue exemplifies the emergence of the database as an evolving cultural form. By creating traceable...

EDUCATING THE THIRD MIND.
November 1, 1999... Our names are Ian Pollock and Janet Silk. Each of us has been pursuing collaborative relationships within an art context since we began to take ourselves seriously as artists. Ian has been involved in several two-artist collaborations as well...

DIRECTING OURSELVES.
November 1, 1999... Tina DiFeliciantonio and Jane C. Wagner's collaboration began at Stanford University's Masters Film Program in 1987, where DiFeliciantonio made her directorial debut with the National Emmy Award-winning film Living With AIDS (1986), and Wagner...

IF YOU GO FIRST AND I REMAIN ...
November 1, 1999... Henry VIII's Wives is a collaborative group founded in 1997 based in Scotland and Scandinavia. Its members--Rachel Dagnall, Bob Grieve, Sirko Knuepfer, Simon Polli, Per Sander and Lucy Skaer--met while students in the Environmental Art...

ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Pure Chutney (1998) was directed by Sanjeev Chatterjee and written and narrated by Amitava Kumar. Posing as a travel essay, with the camera following a United States-based Indian writer and photographer to Trinidad, the video is a trip into the...

MODERN FOLK TALES AND ANCIENT STORIES: A CONVERSATION WITH BERYL KOROT AND STEVE REICH.
November 1, 1999... Beryl Korot and Steve Reich spoke with writer Jonathan Cott before the first performance of their video opera, The Cave, which premiered in Vienna in 1993. In 1997, they spoke with Andreas Molich-Zebhauser of Ensemble Modem before their Three...

ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS ABOUT DIGITAL COLLABORATION.
November 1, 1999... Janet Cohen, Keith Frank and Jon Ippolito have been agreeing to disagree since they met in graduate school at Yale University in 1989. While most collaborative teams present their work as a united front, Cohen, Frank and Ippolito foreground the...

COLLABORATIVE TY/OPOGRAPHY.
November 1, 1999... Brad Freeman and met in the spring of 1990 while he was director of the Offset Artists' Books Program at Pyramid Atlantic in Washington, D.C. I had received a grant to produce my book Simulant Portrait (1990). It was one of my first...

VIDEO JOURNEY THROUGH UTOPIA.
November 1, 1999... A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and seeing a better country, sets sail. ...

BUILDING A BETTER HOTHOUSE.
November 1, 1999... If you put creative people in a hothouse setting, innovation will naturally emerge. John Seely Brown, director of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) [1] The collaboration of art and digital technology is one of the most exciting...

"I AM THE PERSON ...": THE COMPLICIT WORK OF JANE AND LOUISE WILSON.
November 1, 1999... "I am the person who smashed your door I was not well I have a psychiatric illness if you want to contact me see overleaf." So reads the scrawled note that forms part of Jane and Louise Wilson's early photographic installation Construction and...

Disappearance and Photography in Post-Object Art: Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
November 1, 1999... The artistic collaboration between husband and wife team Christo and Jeanne-Claude represents a transition from traditional individual artistic identity to a more complex effacement of individual collaborators and to the identification of the...

Performing Life, Living Art: Abramovic/Ulay and KwieKulik.
November 1, 1999... Artistic couples are not a common phenomenon when artistic activity fuses with private life. There has been, however, growing interest in this kind of collaboration since the 1970s and it is not accidental that it coincided with the development...

Counting On Your Collective Silence: Notes on Activist Art as Collaborative Practice.
November 1, 1999... Hi Greg, As I'm thinking about your questions on collective practice, I'm disturbed but not surprised to sense that it would be far easier for me to speak about the difficulties of collaborative work than to outline the things which draw...

THE POLITICS OF THE MACHINE.
November 1, 1999... Pulse 48 by Bill Jones and Ben Neill Sandra Gering Gallery New York, New York July 8-September 11, 1999 Political intervention through abstract art is commonly expressed through the artwork's negation of political...

SHARED FREEDOMS.
November 1, 1999... Such as We: Leone & Macdonald, Ten Years of Collaboration North Dakota Museum of Art Grand Forks, North Dakota March 18-May 19,1999 Henry Art Gallery Seattle, Washington June 29-October 3,1999 The overriding...

ENCOUNTERING CHANGE.(Review)
November 1, 1999... No Ordinary Land: Encounters in a Changing Environment Photographs by Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee Introduction by Rebecca Solnit, afterword by John McPhee New York: Aperture, 1998 107 pp./$35.00 (hb), $25.00 (sb) ...

MATTER AND MEMORIES.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Memory, Matter, and Modern Romance Bruce and Norman Yonemoto Japanese American National Museum Los Angeles, California Bruce and Norman Yonemoto: Memory, Matter, and Modern Romance January 23-July 4, 1999 edited by...

A COMPLEX LEGACY.(Charles and Ray Eames, various galleries)
November 1, 1999... The Works of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum New York, New York October 12, 1999-January 9, 2000 Saint Louis Art Museum Saint Louis, Missouri February 19-May 14, 2000 ...

Bohm-Biederman Correspondence.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Creativity in Art and Science, edited by Paavo Pylkkanen. Routledge/253 pp./$40.OO (sb). In 1960, American artist Charles Biederman, founder of the Constructionism movement in art, wrote a letter to physicist David Bohm in response to his book...

The Challenge of Piety.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... The Satmar Hasidim in New York, by Maud B. Weiss and Michel Neumeister. Gina Kehayoff, Munich/135 pp./ price unavailable (hb). With an informative historical and cultural text by Indiana University Professor Jerome R. Mintz, German...

Collaboration in the Feminine.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Writings on Women and Culture from Tessera, edited by Barbara Godard. Second Story Press (720 Bathurst St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2R4)/312 pp./price unavailable (sb). Tessera, a Canadian periodical dedicated to women's writing and...

Collaboration.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... The Photographs of Paul Cadmus, Margaret French and Jared French. Twelvetrees Press/unpaginated/price unavailable (hb). Collaboration is a collection of photographs taken by the painters French, Cadmus and French from the late 1930s to the...

The Director's Journey.(Review)(Brief Review)
November 1, 1999... The Creative Collaboration between Directors, Writers & Actors, by Mark W. Travis. Michael Wiese Productions/304 pp./$26.95 (sb). An inspirational handbook for the directing process, exploring the making of a film from writing to editing and...

The Fae Richards Photo Archive.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... The Fae Richards Photo Archive, by Zoe Leonard and Cheryl Dunye. Artspace Books/unpaginated/$15.00 (hb). The photographs from this archive are documents from the fictional life and career of Fae Richards--a black performer and actress from the...

The Garden of Distances.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Drawings and Poems, by Brigitte Mahlknecht and Robert Kelly. McPherson & Co./205 pp./$4O.OO (hb). This collaborative project was executed long-distance between New York and Italy as Italian painter Mahlknecht faxed images of her artwork to...

Garner Tullis and the Art of Collaboration.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Garner Tullis arid the Art of Collaboration, by David Carrier. Self-published/163 pp./price unavailable (hb). This book provides a comprehensive history of printmaker Tullis and the collaborative work he has done with other printmakers,...

Gemini G. E. L. Art and Collaboration.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... a history at the unique relationship between artists and the Gemini workshop, by Ruth E. Fine. Abbeville Press/280 pp./price unavailable (hb). Founded in 1966, the Gemini Workshop has provided a workspace and the necessary printmaking expertise...

A History of Photography.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... A History of Photography, by David McDermott and Peter McGough. Arena Editions/144 pp./price unavailable (hb). The images created by McDermott and McGough rely on nineteenth-century processes (salt prints, gum bichromate, palladium, cyanotype)...

Hitchcock and Selznick.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David 0. Selznick in Hollywood, by Leonard J. Leff. University of California Press/383 pp./$24.95 (sb). The David 0. Selznick-Alfred Hitchcock alliance is a tale of mythological...

Hover.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Hover, photographs by Gregory Crewdson, text by Rick Moody, Darcey Steinke, Joyce Carol Oates and Bradford Morrow. Artspace Books/57 pp./$l5.00 (hb). This small, idiosyncratic book contains strangely beautiful vignettes of writing accompanied...

The Literary Literary Products of the Lewis Carroll-George MacDanal Friendship.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The Literary Literary Products of the Lewis Carroll-George MacDanal Friendship, by John Docherty. The Edwin Edwin Press (415 Ridge St., Lewiston, NY 14092) pp./$109.95 (hb). This is a scholarly examination of the specific works of each writer...

Low Tide.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Writings on Artists' Collaborations, by Jeni Walwin. Black Dog Publishing Ltd./63 pp./price unavailable (sb). Commissioned by the London Arts Board, this book presents three examples of interdisciplinary collaboration. "Subtle Bodies" describes...

Magnifying Mirrors.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Women, Surrealism & Partnership, by Renee Riese Hubert. University of Nebraska Press/409 pp./$90.00 (hb). Hubert provides in-depth analysis of numerous male-female surrealist partnerships, observing the great attention often afforded to the...

Pearl.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Pearl, poems by Vincent Katz and paintings by Taboo I powerHouse Books (180 Varick St., New York, NY 10014)/72 pp./price unavailable (hb). Taboo! (Stephen Tashjian) and Katz combine their respective talents to create a moving portrait of what...

Nina Pope.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Somewhere, by Nina Pope, Karen J. Guthrie, Pauline Van Mourik Broekman, Paul Welsh and Victoria Glare Bernie. Black Dog Publishing, Ltd./71 pp./price unavailable (sb). Somewhere offers a glimpse of the on-line artwork of Pope and Guthrie, a...

When We Were Three.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... George Platt Lynes, Monroe Wheeler, and Glenway Wescott, 1925-1935, texts by Anatole Pohorilenko and James Crump. Arena Editions/300 pp./$65.OO (hb). Lynes, Wheeler and Wescott each became wellknown in their respective flelds-Lynes as a...

Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century, by Cynthia Jaffee McCabe with essays by Robert C. Hobbs and David Shapiro. Smithsonian Institution Press/224 pp./$32.00 (sb). This exhibition catalog from the show at the Hirshhorn Museum and...

In Company.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Robert Creeley's Collaborations, edited by Amy Cappellazzo and Elizabeth Licata. University of North Carolina Press/108 pp/$24.95 (sb). For more than 40 years, acclaimed poet creeley has worked on collaborative projects with well-known artists...

Faye and Janice.(Review)
November 1, 1999... A series of conversations between Faye Hirsch & Janice Krasnow at various hotel bars in New York City. Printed Matter/29 pp./price unavailable (sb). This humbly-printed chapbook-like project is related to artist Krasnow's "Text Portrait" series...

The Invisible City.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Stories by People Who Work at Night as Told to Artists Grennan & Sperandio, by Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio. Public Art Fund/unpaginated/price unavailable (sb). This collection of vignettes tells the true stories of people who work...

Temple of Confessions.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Mexican Beasts and Living Santos, by Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes. powerHouse Books/144 pp./$18.00 (hb). Temple of Confessions is a documentation of the eponymous collaborative performance, installation and exhibition as well as...

Five Bells.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Five Bells, produced by Roar Film, Australia (Tel:03-6224-9866 or e-mail roarfilm@trump.net.au). Produced by the two-person collaborative team of Roar Film, Five Bells is a gorgeously illustrated multi-textual exploration of the eponymous 1937...

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE.
November 1, 1999... The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has awarded its ninth annual Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize to photographer Jason Eskenazi and writer Jennifer Gould. The $10,000 award encourages collaboration between writers and...