Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine articles from July 2001

Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine archives from July 2001

Mouvances de l'image.
July 1, 2001... Les dernieres annees ont vu s'accroitre les pratiques hybrides dans l'art: nombreux sont les artistes qui font se croiser la photographie avec le film ou la video, et l'inverse. L'image fixe et l'image en mouvement, la tension qui s'exerce...

Temps et l'image: un entretien avec Jonathan Crary.
July 1, 2001... Le premier livre de Jonathan Crary, Dans son nouveau livre, Dans Mon travail oscille entre des interets historiques et contemporains. Ainsi, les questions a propos desquelles j'ai ecrit en termes de culture technologique...

Reloger le spectateur: une interview avec Atom Egoyan.
July 1, 2001... Jacinto Lageira et Stephen Wright L'histoire veut que lorsque le premier cinema fut construit au Japon, les fauteuils etaient alignes sur les cotes pour que l'auditoire puisse observer a la fois la source de projection et l'ecran, la chose...

Syndrome de Velazquez: (les deux derniers films de Michael Snow, Preludes et The living room).
July 1, 2001... La realite a toujours ete et sera toujours une forme de memoire, meme au moment de la perception de la perception. -Michael SNOW Anticiper ce qui n'est plus Preludes [2000] est un film tres court, de deux minutes, ou la brievete autant...

Sharon Lockhart: de la forme a la fluctuation.
July 1, 2001... La maniere dont le spectateur gere son attention au moment ou il entre en contact avec une oeuvre d'art demeure une des zones les moins discutees et comprises au sein de l'histoire et de la critique d'art. Que voit-il en premier, et en dernier?...

Barbarie ordinaire: Music a Dachau.
July 1, 2001... Jean Clair, Si des photos ont pu etre rescapees de l'enfer des camps, des dessins aussi l'ont ete grace a l'artiste peintre Zoran Music qui s'est trouve a partir de 1944 a Dachau comme prisonnier politique. Ne'en 1909 dans l'Empire...

Devant le temps: histoire de l'art et anachronisme des images.
July 1, 2001... Georges Didi-Huberman, Une decennie apres Devant l'image, ou Georges Didi-Huberman avait souligne les ambiguites de principe du concept d'histoire de l'art de Vasari a Panofsky, celui-ci nous invite, dans son nouvel essai, a reposer notre...

Ou en est l'interpretation de l'oeuvre d'art?
July 1, 2001... Regis Michel (sous la dir. de), La question de l'interpretation de l'oeuvre d'art et de son statut actuel peut emprunter tant de voies qu'elle nous semble irreductible a un modele qui, par definition, serait ideal. De cet ouvrage fonde sur...

Adieu a l'esthetique.
July 1, 2001... Jean-Marie Schaeffer, Adieu a l'esthetique? Oui, mais quelle esthetique? Depuis plus d'une decennie, nous assistons en philosophie a un retour a l'esthetique. Dans le cadre du debat sur l'art contemporain, ce renouveau a le merite de...

Memoire des camps, photographies des camps de concentration et d'extermination nazis (1933-1999).
July 1, 2001... Parmi les crimes commis contre l'humanite, l'extermination perpetree contre les Juifs, lors de la Deuxieme Guerre mondiale, demeure un cas representatif. Mais qu'en est-il, aujourd'hui, de cette memoire des camps ? Ne risque-t-elle pas, par...

Ann-Sofi Siden (Enquete, the panning eye revisited) (exposition).
July 1, 2001... Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 10 mars - 6 mal Dans son exposition Enquete, the panning eye revisited, l'artiste suedoise Ann-Sofi Siden presente comme piece principale une oeuvre intitulee Warte mal! Elle y aborde par un biais...

Stephane Gilot (exposition).
July 1, 2001... Les installations in situ de Stephane Gilot sont, par definition, toujours bien ancrees dans le lieu d'exposition. Elles le sont mais, avec plus de conviction encore, elles en provoquent le decrochement afin de complexifier les liens trop...

Internationale Virologie Numismatique.
July 1, 2001... Spare Some Social Change s'inscrit dans une serie d'expositions et d'evenements presentes par la galerie Skol qui sont reunis sous l'appellation Les commensaux et operent dans le champ toujours pluriel des echanges entre les artistes, leurs...

Monter/sampler, l'echantillonnage generalise.
July 1, 2001... A l'heure ou le developpement des technologies nouvelles contribue aussi bien a la circulation inflationniste de l'information (cf. les bases de donnees ou les bouquets numeriques composant le paysage televisuel) qu'a l'amenagement d'espaces...

Image shifts.
July 1, 2001... In recent years, art has witnessed an increase in hybrid practices, several artists now mixing photography with film or video, and vice-versa. The still image and the moving image are the source of infinite variations within a large part of...

Stan Douglas: living the drive.
July 1, 2001... What, then, does he who has passed through the experience of this opaque relation to the origin, to the drive, become? How can a subject who has traversed the radical phantasy experience the drive? This is the beyond of analysis, and has never...

Time and the image: a conversation with Jonathan Crary.
July 1, 2001... Jonathan Crary's first book, In both My work has oscillated between historical and contemporary interests. So issues that I've been writing about in terms of contemporary technological culture have tended to nourish my work on the...

Relocating the viewer: an interview with Atom Egoyan.
July 1, 2001... Rumour has if that when the first movie theatre in Japan was built, the seats were installed sideways so the audience could watch both the projection source and the screen, If being unimagiable to These early movie buffs that the mechanics of...

Sharon Lockhart: from form to flux.
July 1, 2001... How viewers actually manage their attention as they encounter works of art remains one of the least discussed and least understood areas within art history and criticism. What does the spectator see first -- and last? What happens in the...

Contemporary knots: the videography of Manon Labrecque.
July 1, 2001... If in a technical sense, the video image is an image in movement merely because of its temporal nature (it is defined by the continuous electronic sweeping of the weave), one is by no means bound to immediately designate it as such. "Image...

Jaki Irvine: metamorphoses and becomings.
July 1, 2001... In the end the only thing that never changed, never became deformed, were animals. -- Michael Ondaatje(1) If a lion could talk, we could not understand it. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein(2) The first of these quotations is from Michael...

Fictional community.
July 1, 2001... In order to promote his "Politics of Fiction" (Parachute 101), Michael Hirsch needs ideological bogeymen. I am one of them. As a prime example of what's amiss he cites my project DER BEVOLKERUNG at the Reichstag (German Parliament Building) in...

Political art versus democratic political procedure?
July 1, 2001... Hans Haacke rightly recalls that his project is designed for the courtyard of the Reichstag and only refers to the dedication on the main portal of the building. As to his correction that Parliament intervened after a first approval of the Art...

Wolfgang Paalen's Dyn.
July 1, 2001... Christian Kloyber, ed., Amongst other annoyances, the outbreak of World War II put the kibosh on the proliferation of the small literary magazines that did so much to make the West aware of new developments in the arts between Armistice...

Warped space: art, architecture, and anxiety in modern culture.
July 1, 2001... Anthony Vidler, Anthony Vidler, more than any other contemporary writer, has taken up an analysis of space and representation to contribute to the "history" of space. Beginning the book with an inquiry into spatial modernism, his writings...

Landscape of events.
July 1, 2001... Paul Virilio, Traversing the critical terrain of the social and the political, the technological and the moral, A Landscape of Events provides another installment of trenchant observations on contemporary culture from Paul Virilio. An...

Artist's body.
July 1, 2001... Tracy Warr and Amelia Jones, Charting the semantic shifts in the history of performance art with serious comprehensive yet accessible writing and an arresting collection of images, Tracy Warr and Amelia Jones have succeeded in producing a...

Paul McCarthy: dimensions of the mind: the denial and desire in the spectacle.
July 1, 2001... Paul McCarthy and Eva Meyer-Hermann, Dimensions of the Mind -- The Denial and the Desire in the Spectacle documents a series of installations by Paul McCarthy exhibited at the Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise, St. Gallen,...

Yoko Ono (Yes) (exhibition).
July 1, 2001... Japan Society New York October 18 -- January 14 Yoko Ono, the most enigmatic of art stars, was once called by her "Beatle" husband John Lennon the "most famous unknown artist." And yet her diverse oeuvre as a poet, artist and composer span...

What is happy, baby? (exhibition): or jokes and their relation to the work of Rodney Graham.
July 1, 2001... Lisson Galler London December 7 -- January 27 At Rodney Graham's recent show at the Lisson Gallery in London I had to laugh before I even got in the gallery. Blinded by my own good taste, I had walked right past the gallery window,...

Christian Marclay: cinema (exhibition).
July 1, 2001... Known for altering and manipulating audio material such as vinyl records, cassette tapes and CDS to produce experimental music, sculpture and installation work, Christian Marclay has recently extended his practice into the realm of the moving...

BHV inspire les artistes.
July 1, 2001... BHV Paris February 27 -- March 24 Installations at BHV -- the Sears of Paris. An introduction of "other' things into the decoration department on the fourth floor. It's a great idea: it has legs (Duchamp bought his objets quotidiens there,...

Gary Hill (Hill(Scape)) (exhibition).
July 1, 2001... Hong Kong Space Museum Hong Kong Cultural Centre January 14 -- 31 Organised by Videotage, a media artist collective based in Hong Kong, "Hill(Scape)" presented a survey of the art of Seattle-based artist Gary Hill through screenings of his...

Daniel and Geo Fuchs (Conserving) (exhibition).
July 1, 2001... Stephen Bulger Gallery Toronto October 28 -- November 25 I will die. Of that, I am sure -- notwithstanding Andy Warhol's denial of death's certainty. "I don't believe in death," he said, "because you're not around to experience it." ...