Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine articles from January 2001

Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine archives from January 2001

Idea of community.
January 1, 2001... This issue continues to explore the theme introduced with issue No. 100: "the idea of community" in contemporary art. We take a closer look at the work of Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rosemarie Trockel, Devora Neumark and Aernout Mik, and also analyze...

Rirkrit Tiravanija: the space of unconditional action.
January 1, 2001... In 1992, Rirkrit Tiravanija turned the organization of Gallery 303 in New York upside-down by emptying the offices and storage areas so as to exhibit their contents in the spaces usually reserved for presenting artworks. He then proceeded to...

Donner sommeil.
January 1, 2001... Devant qui, devant quoi est-ce que je, moi, me cOuche, avec quoi et avec qui. Elle effleura son front tandis qu'elle fermait ses yeux. Elle vint vers lui aveuglee par l'excitation. Prat sa tete entre les mains pour pouvoir s'eloigner de...

Giving sleep.
January 1, 2001... "In front of whom. In front of what do I, me, do sleep, with what and with whom." She touched his forehead while she shut her eyes. She came to him blinded by arousal. Took his head between the hands in order to get away from him so as to...

Community of strangers: the public space of speech in the work of Devora Neumark.
January 1, 2001... The recent performances of Devora Neumark, which are known for their relationship with the public and their insertion in urban places, present themselves as a form of political engagement and as desire to give meaning to the community. In a...

Communaute d'etrangers: l'espace public de la parole chez Devora Neumark.
January 1, 2001... Les performances recentes de Devora Neumark, qui se distinguent par leur relation avec le public et leur insertion dans des lieux urbains, s'offrent comme une forme d'engagement politique et comme une volonte de donner sens a la communaute. Le...

"In the fine underwear of our minds": love and community in the age of globalism.
January 1, 2001... There is a scene in Tom Tykwer's film Run Lola Run (1998) when the two protagonists -- Lola (Franka Potente) and her boyfriend Manni (Maritz Bleibtreu) -- lie in bed, discussing the random nature of love and existence. Lola asks Manni that...

Photographie, vers une communaute sur mesure.
January 1, 2001... Parmi les images que secrete l'art contemporain, nombre d'entre elles se revelent etre aujourd'hui de precieux vecteurs pour nos identites, autant d'espaces propices a l'experience de la communaute. Une part importante de la photographie, sur...

Ambient communities and association complexes: Aernout Mik's awry socialities.
January 1, 2001... Representations of "sociality" in contemporary art are, for the most part, generated out of the tension between the poles of singularity and collectivity. There is the realm of the individual, with all of the remnants of its Enlightenment...

Enigmes, offrandes, virus: formes furtives dans quelques pratiques actuelles.
January 1, 2001... Depuis juin 1997, Devora Neumark mene un projet de longue haleine: glisser les dix mille exemplaires d'un signet concu par elle dans des livres choisis parmi les librairies et bibliotheques ou elle se trouve a passer. Ce projet, Marked like...

Online communities.
January 1, 2001... To these centralized systems, the authors oppose off-centred systems, webs of finite automats wherein any neighbour can communicate with another, wherein every individual is interchangeable; they are defined only as a state at any given moment,...

Politics of fiction.
January 1, 2001... I. The Spirit of the Nineties Looking back on the art of the nineties and the "spirit" of the time, we can perceive a convergence of aesthetical forms and ideological modes of self-description and identification. It is not only the motto...

Body and the East, from the 1960s to the present.
January 1, 2001... Zdenka Badovinac, ed., For those of us hungry for contemporary arts information out of Eastern Europe, Body and the East is an encyclopaedic treasure-trove. Four decades of body art are documented, covering a culturally and politically...

Monde et reseaux de l'art: diffusion, migration et cosmopolitisme en art contemporain.
January 1, 2001... Guy Bellavance (sous la direction de), L'ouvrage entend ebranler l'opposition traditionnelle entre regionalisme et cosmopolitisme, deux poles autour desquels ont ete definis depuis toujours au Quebec les comportements et les pratiques en...

Regard du portrait.
January 1, 2001... Jean-Luc Nancy, En relation amicale avec les oeuvres de pensee de Blanchot et de Derrida, compagnon de route de Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe sur les sentiers qui lient ensemble la phiIosophie aux questions en jeu dans le geste artistique,...

Trespassers & captives.
January 1, 2001... Jamelie Hassan, ed., Trespassers & Captives documents Jamelie Hassan's artist-in-residence project at London, Ontario's historic Eldon House, a prestigious family residence built in 1834 and lived in by four generations of the Harris...

Object to be destroyed: the work of Gordon Matta-Clark.
January 1, 2001... Pamela M. Lee, Besides a book on Robert Smithson, this is the first full-length study of one member of the group of American artists renowned for triggering a dialogue between art, architecture and the urban in the late 1960s. Object to be...

Diana Thorneycroft: the body, its lesson and camouflage.
January 1, 2001... Meeka Walsh, ed., Diana Thorneycroft is a ten-year survey of the artist's unsettling photographic work. Forty-three top quality plates of her artwork are accompanied by essays from Vicki Goldberg, Mary Ann Caws, Meeka Walsh, and an...

I've got to stop talking to myself -- : text and sound by artists.
January 1, 2001... John Marriott, ed., Surely, we are each an expert at talking to ourself -- sometimes alone, sometimes inadvertently blurting a word or more out in public to an unexpecting audience. John Marriott's anthology of nine artists' work on the...

Media revolution: electronic media in the transformation process of Eastern and Central Europe.
January 1, 2001... Stephen Kovats, ed., The anthology Media Revolution is a sort of meditation by over twenty contributors on the new media aspect of the transition of the former Soviet satellite countries and those comprising the former Yugoslavia into...