Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine articles from April 2001

Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine archives from April 2001

Atelier Van Lieshout.
April 1, 2001... L'Atelier Van Lieshout est le lieu de travail de l'artiste rotterdamois Joep van Lieshout, ne en 1963. C'est ici que son oeuvre imposant et inusite prend forme, avec le concours d'une equipe permanente d'assistants. Il comprend ses projets...

Atelier Van Lieshout.
April 1, 2001... Atelier Van Lieshout is the workplace of the Rotterdam artist Joep van Lieshout (b. 1963). Here, with the help of a permanent group of assistants, his extensive and unusual oeuvre takes shape. It includes projects of his own as well as...

Etoy: community hacktivism and art.
April 1, 2001... Because of the commercial mechanisms that rule cultural activity, avant-garde movements are cut off from potentially supportive groups that are already restricted by overall social conditions. -- Guy Debord, June 1957. It's time to create...

Fear of togetherness? Community in the films of Lars von Trier.
April 1, 2001... Scandinavia has a very conflicted relationship with the European Union; this is perhaps best illustrated by the very cantankerous debate about whether to join the single currency that took place in Denmark just last September. The work of...

Demotic art of Gillian Wearing.
April 1, 2001... Gillian Wearing has a demotic touch. Until recently, her art using photography and video has been characterized by an awkward immediacy, however much technical artfulness may have gone into its achievement. It has kept close to the life of the...

Intercultural storytelling: a voyage around the theatre world of Alain Platel.
April 1, 2001... "Les determinants ultimes de l'humanite sont la naissance, la mort et la communaute." Edward Bond(1) It took me some time to finish this essay, for it was not easy to find the appropriate angle to link the idea of community with the...

Lynda Gaudreau, Jocelyn Robert en entretien avec Chantal Pontbriand.
April 1, 2001... Chantal Pontbriand -- Dans le contexte de ce troisieme numero sur l'idee de communaute, j'aimerais que nous parlions de votre maniere de travailler a chacun, des rapports differents que vous etablissez avec les spectateurs et meme avec les...

Art of travel.
April 1, 2001... He who after long practice of this art of travel has become a hundred-eyed Argus will accompany his Io -- I mean his ego -- everywhere, and... at home and abroad, in sea, forest, plant, and mountain, will again light upon the travel-adventure...

Communitas: origine et destin de la communaute.
April 1, 2001... Roberto Esposito, Qu'est-ce qu'un livre ayant pour sujet la communaute, et ecrit par un professeur d'histoire des doctrines politiques et de philosophie morale, peut avoir en commun avec la question de l'art, ou mieux encore, avec le geste...

Pour une realite publique de l'art.
April 1, 2001... Catherine Grout, Faisant des oeuvres in situ, ou encore hors les murs , l'objet de son analyse, Catherine Grout degage l'hypothese selon laquelle l'experience de cette forme d'art favoriserait une rencontre avec les autres et le monde....

Life style.
April 1, 2001... Bruce Mau, Not only does this mammoth book survey more than fifteen years of work by Toronto-based designer Bruce Mau and his studio, ranging from early posters to a failed pitch to numerous books, but it also includes a manifesto,...

Minimalism.
April 1, 2001... James Meyer, ed., Another year, another mammoth book from Phaidon's "Themes and Movements" series -- this one a glossy tomb-like shrine to Minimalism. But sandwiching the copious image section, are an erudite introduction and a...

Let's entertain: life's guilty pleasures.
April 1, 2001... The histories of art and entertainment reveal repeated collisions, but the current hybrids born of these two categories have more than elided such categorical boundaries. Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures, the catalogue published for the...

:ec/art S: no 2, special textualites et nouvelles technologies, 2000-2001.
April 1, 2001... Sur le theme des textualites et des nouvelles technologies, ce deuxieme numero de la revue : ec/art S : ne presente pas moins de cinquante articles (!). En noir et blanc, abondamment illustre et arborant une mise en page inventive, ce numero...