Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine articles from October 2001

Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine archives from October 2001

Mexico.
October 1, 2001... This issue of PARACHUTE is by no means intended to be a comprehensive overview of current artistic practices emerging from Mexico City. On the contrary, I have chosen to compile diverse and even antagonistic perspectives on the relationship...

Lutter contre le determinisme: un entretien avec Carlos Monsivais.
October 1, 2001... Le travail de Carlos Monsivais (1938) est exemplaire de l'ecriture postmoderne en Amerique latine. Des ouvrages comme Dias de Guardar (1970), Amor perdido (1977), Los Rituales des caos (1995) et Aires de familia (2000) ont fait de lui le...

Struggle against determinism: a conversation with Carlos Monsivais.
October 1, 2001... The work of Carlos Monsivais epitomizes post-modern writing in Latin America. Books like Dias de Guardar (1970), Amor perdido (1977), Los Rituales del caos (1995) and Aires de familia (2000) marked him as the leading chronicler of Mexico's...

Zones of tolerance: Teresa Margolles, SEMEFO and beyond.
October 1, 2001... Organ Trafficking One day in the spring of 2000 the corpse of a young punk arrived at the morgue in Mexico City: another casualty in the endless war of drug trafficking and gangsterism that pervades the slums of the biggest megalopolis in...

Active market: fluctuations in the competition for the aesthetic user.
October 1, 2001... In one of the globe's most visually polluted cities, the competition to put forth the most attractive aesthetic offer increases every day. Art must contend with other events related to daily life to reach its target audience. The alarming flow...

Histoire veridique de la conquete de la Nouvelle Amerique.
October 1, 2001... Prologue Nous, Ruben Ortiz Torres, professeur de l'Universite de Las Californias, auteur de cette tres veridique histoire, la terminons de mettre en lumiere; c'est le recit de la decouverte et de toutes les conquetes de la Nouvelle...

Chemist offer leaflet gobelin.
October 1, 2001... take into account: the brevity of an offer as a marketing hook the authoritative and unavoidable time in the lapse between medical doses precarious printing processes and materials in a flyer unassuming aesthetic value ...

Horizontal / vertical: avoiding gender.
October 1, 2001... This rebellion against the female sex, against her nature as woman, against her natural status as the nurturer of men and of all humanity, can only lead to moral and social disaster.... And yet some women are tempted to free themselves from...

Horizontal / vertical: comment peut-on eviter d'aborder les questions de genre?
October 1, 2001... Cette rebellion contre le sexe feminin, contre la nature feminine, contre sa condition de mere nourriciere pour les hommes et pour l'ensemble de l'humanite ne peut produire que des catastrophes morales et sociales... Cependant, quelques femmes...

Miguel Calderon: enfants ne sont pas si terribles que ca.
October 1, 2001... Il regarde la tele, torse nu et en slip, couche sur un vieux matelas, dans un coin de son vieil atelier, une imprimerie commerciale specialisee dans la serigraphie, sur les hauteurs de Tacubaya qui dominent la ville de Mexico sur son flanc...

Fear of returning and being misunderstood: on Carlos Amorales.
October 1, 2001... We are all tourists now and there is no escape. -- Paul Fussell(1) Over the course of the last decade art criticism on Mexico articulated abroad has tended to traffic in a set of tired, narcissistic cliches about the chaotic,...

Revisiting Robert Smithson in Ohio: Tacita Dean, Sam Durant and Renee Green.
October 1, 2001... In Art in America September/October, 1966, there is a portrait of Anthony Caro, with photographs of his sculpture in settings and landscapes that suggest English gardening. One work, Prima Luce 1966, painted yellow, matches the yellow daffodils...

ReMembering the body.
October 1, 2001... Gabriele Brandstetter and Hortensia Volckers, eds., ReMembering the Body is painstakingly cool and sleek. Its images and text are laid out so precisely and with such energy that they connote movement and change. And truly, this is what the...

Art contemporain africain: du colonialisme au post-colonialisme.
October 1, 2001... Joelle Busca, Depuis la fin de l'apartheid en Affique du Sud -- c'est-a-dire depuis la disparition du dernier regime proprement colonial sur le continent --, on constate un interet accru pour l'art contemporain en Afrique, ce qui marche de...

Perspectives sur l'art contemporain africain.
October 1, 2001... Depuis la fin de l'apartheid en Affique du Sud -- c'est-a-dire depuis la disparition du dernier regime proprement colonial sur le continent --, on constate un interet accru pour l'art contemporain en Afrique, ce qui marche de pair avec une...

Ephemeral museum: Old Master paintings and the rise of the art exhibition.
October 1, 2001... Francis Haskell, From the stacked walls of the Salon to today's white cube galleries, the way that art is displayed has affected its reception and meaning. Renowned Oxford art historian Francis Haskell bas dedicated his career to...

Other conundrums: race, culture and Canadian art.
October 1, 2001... Monika Kin Gagnon, Other Conundrums: Race, Culture and Canadian Art is a collection of essays and three lexica published since 1989. As a writer, curator, and critical analyst deeply involved in cultural difference, ethnicity and race in...

Mutations.
October 1, 2001... Rem Koolhaas, Mutations is an exhaustive "project on the city" that brings together artists, architects, urban planners, and social theorists to examine the meanings and shifting topographies of urban space. The book's seductive glossy...

Vivre libre ou mourir.
October 1, 2001... Robert Nickas, Critique, commissaire independant et redacteur en chef, jusqu'en 1999 de la revue index, Robert Nickas rassemble dans Vivre libre ou mourir des textes parus dans differents catalogues ou revues entre 1985 et 1999. Le...

Reflections on exile and other essays.
October 1, 2001... Edward W. Said, Reflections on Exile and Other Essays is a record of more than thirty years of Edward Said's literary and cultural criticism. Throughout this diverse and erudite collection of essays, Said's abiding concerns are with the...

Spectacular bodies: the art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now.
October 1, 2001... Martin Kemp and Marina Wallace, eds., Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now, presented by the Hayward Gallery, brings contemporary artworks working with themes related to art and science (John...

Gift: generous offerings, threatened hospitality.
October 1, 2001... Gianfranco Maraniello, Sergio Risaliti et Antonio Somaini (conservateurs), Ce catalogue entend lever le voile qui pese sur ce refoule de la modernite que serait le monde du don. Avales par la logique implacable de l'utilitarisme, les...

Candida Hofer (exhibition).
October 1, 2001... Toronto December 9 - March 4 Some things never change. Cologne artist Candida Hofer has photographed public facilities and interior spaces for well-over twenty-five years, yet the dozen large-scale prints that constitute her recent...

Mies in Berlin et Mies in America (expositions).
October 1, 2001... Museum of Modern Art New York 21 Juin - 11 Septembre Whitney Museum of America New York 21 Juin - 23 Septembre A New York cette annee, la saison estivale aura ete en grande partie livree a l'oeuvre colossal de l'architecte Ludwig Mies...

Claire Savoie; Deja (exposition).
October 1, 2001... Circa Montreal 24 Mars - 21 Avril Deja, annonce le titre de l'installation pour aussitot dementir l'instantaneite qu'il semble designer. Cette derniere oeuvre de Claire Savoie livre en effet tres peu au visiteur presse. Le depouillement...

Nancy Spero; Jana Sterbak (exposition).
October 1, 2001... Galerie d l'UQAM Montreal 9 mai - 23 juin Des recentes expositions presentees a Montreal, l'expo des dessins de Nancy Spero et de Jana Sterbak est l'une de celles qu'il etait profitable de voir a la fois pour sa sobriete et son opulence....

Alain Paiement (exposition).
October 1, 2001... Galerie Clark Montreal 10 mai - 17 juin Determinee par la science de la cartographie, la demarche d'Alain Paiement fut, a l'origine, picturale puis a rapidement bifurque vers la photographie et l'installation photographique. L'artiste...

Valerie Lamontagne: Snowflake (exhibition).
October 1, 2001... TRUCK Calgary April 6 - May 5 While winter -- and specifically snow -- are the background to much of life in Canada, little of the white stuff, relatively speaking, appears in contemporary Canadian art. Because snow and cold can be a...

2nd Berlin Biennale for Contemporay Art.
October 1, 2001... Postfuhramt Kunst-Werke Berlin S-Banbogen Jannowitzbrucke Allianz Treptowers Berlin April 20 - June 20 The ambition of the 2nd Berlin Biennale for contemporary art is to exhibit a utopian sociability in art. In twentieth-century art, utopia...

Edouard Leve: Angoisse (exposition).
October 1, 2001... La Peripherie Malakoff 7 Juin - 7 Juillet Des photographies couleur, sobres, desuetes, strictes : l'interieur demode d'un restaurant, la facade quelconque d'un batiment administratif, une maison en beton gris... Autant de motifs banals,...

Meschac Gaba: Museum (exhibition).
October 1, 2001... Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art Rotterdam February 25 -- April 15 In 1996, Meschac Gaba, already well-known in Benin for his paintings and collages of worthless shredded banknotes, enrolled in the post-graduate program of...

Vi-intentional communities (exhibition).
October 1, 2001... Rooseum Malmo May 12 - August 12 "Vi-Intentional Communities" is the first major group exhibition mounted at the Rooseum by its new curator, Charles Esche. Its intention is to introduce the newly twinned cities of Malmo and Copenhagen to...

Open city (exhibition).
October 1, 2001... Museum of Modern Art Oxford May 6 -- July 15 This survey of street photography is a foray into one of the seminal links between the exclusive, and somewhat excluded, world of art photography, and its more inclusive successor, photographic...