Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine articles from January 2002

Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine archives from January 2002

Autofictions.
January 1, 2002... Ayant consacre trois numeros l'an dernier a l' idee de communaute , nous nous attardons dans celui-ci a l' auto-fiction . L'autofiction est une demarche qui peut sembler vouloir s'inscrire a l'oppose de la communaute. Elle pourrait vouloir se...

Autofictions, or elective identities.
January 1, 2002... Autobiography In literary studies, autofiction is defined, strictly speaking, as "works through which authors create new personalities and identities for themselves, while at the same time maintaining their real identity (their real...

Authority of autheniticity: Tracey Emin.
January 1, 2002... It's about very, very simple things, that can be really hard. People do get really frightened, people do fall in love, people do die, people do fuck. These things happen and everyone knows it but not much of it is expressed. Everything is...

Pouvoir de l'authenticite: Tracey Emin.
January 1, 2002... Ca concerne des choses tres tres simples, et qui peuvent etre vraiment difficiles. Les gens ont vraiment peur, les gens deviennent amoureux, les gens meurent, les gens baisent. Ces choses peuvent arriver et tout le monde les connait, mais on en...

Self-styling after the "end of art": an interview with Richard Shusterman.
January 1, 2002... Richard Shusterman teaches Philosophy at Temple University in Philadelphia and directs the College International de Philosophie in Paris. He has published numerous books, including Pragmatist AEsthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art (1992),...

Erwin Wurm l'art du soupcon.
January 1, 2002... Marque par l'art minimal et l'art conceptuel, le travail d'Erwin Wurm, d'abord relativement immateriel, en tout cas desincarne, se presente comme la progressive et presque inexorable apparition de la figure humaine. D'abord evoques par des...

Erwin Wurm: the art of doubting.
January 1, 2002... Erwin Wurm's early work, influenced by minimal and conceptual art, was relatively incorporeal, or in any event unbounded by the body. Gradually, almost inexorably, the human figure began to appear in it. The human form and the body were first...

Manipulating genetic identities: the creation of chimeras, cyborgs and (cyber-)golems.
January 1, 2002... Biotechnology and genetic engineering offer artists quasi-godlike powers to merge art and life. Although genetic artists, as early as the 1920s, were actively breeding "live" organisms, usually beautiful plant hybrids,(1) a sensational offshoot...

Complex identities: Jewish consciousness and modern art.
January 1, 2002... Matthew Baigell and Milly Heyd, eds., Reintroducing Jewish consciousness to the discourse of identity, editors Baigell and Heyd develop a unified portrait of Jewish artistic and intellectual inquiry while successfully representing the...

Kant, art, and art history: moments of discipline.
January 1, 2002... Mark Cheetham, Though the claim on the cover jacket states the book "is the first systematic study of Immanuel Kant's reception in and influence on the visual arts and art history" is a debatable proposition, Mark Cheetham's new book is...

Art, modes d'emploi. Esquisses d'une philisophie de l'usage.
January 1, 2002... Jean-Pierre Cometti, Il y a plus de deux ans, le philosophe J.-P. Cometti publiait un ouvrage intitule L'art sans qualites (Farrago, 1999). Bien qu'inspire du roman de Robert Musil, c'est egalement a la pensee de Ludwig Wittgenstein et...

Displaying the marvelous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali and surrealist exhibition installations.
January 1, 2002... Lewis Kachur, Displaying the Marvelous outlines the unlikely coupling of Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dali via a series of prewar Surrealist exhibitions. The unique and perceptive understanding of this research joins Surrealist principles...

Art and feminisim.
January 1, 2002... Helen Reckitt and Peggy Phelan, eds., Since identity is created largely within a context of binary opposition, for feminism to effectively counter the dominance of the traditional art canon there must be a distinct feminist canon. In its...

Foci. Interviews with ten international curators.
January 1, 2002... Carolee Thea, On ne saurait penser le rapport mimetique entre les nouvelles pratiques artistiques -- c'est-a-dire les nouveaux modes de production de formes et de sens -- et les nouvelles economies qu'elles engendrent sans tenir compte des...

Negative thoughts.
January 1, 2002... AA Bronson, The iconoclastic career of General Idea was grounded on the construction of elaborate fictions, parody and, most importanty, the role of self-fashioning. In these two catalogues, the sole survivor of the trio, AA Bronson shares...

AA Bronson, 1969-2000.
January 1, 2002... The iconoclastic career of General Idea was grounded on the construction of elaborate fictions, parody and, most importanty, the role of self-fashioning. In these two catalogues, the sole survivor of the trio, AA Bronson shares his memories and...

Selected titles: (review article).
January 1, 2002... Ouvrages recus _ Selected titles Ouvrages theoriques _ Essays Mieke Bal, Louise Bourgeois' Spider: The Architecture of Art-Writing, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001, 136 pp., ill. col. Danielle Blouin, Un livre...