C: International Contemporary Art articles from December 2002

C: International Contemporary Art archives from December 2002

ABCDF la la: the non-definitive (artist's) guide to Mexico City.
December 22, 2002... ABCDF is a dictionary full of exceptions. A system is at the base of its structure, but it is more organic than consistent. The book as a whole is far from comprehensive, and it is not a viable resource for acquiring practical data. It offers...

Tops'n'bottoms. (Project).
December 22, 2002... A select guest list, a heap of clothes, a snack table, an AM radio. Everyone gets a turn. Maybe it starts out predictably, until someone wraps her head, pulls a crinoline over his nose, steps into fishnets and stilettos. Awkward at first, it...

For real: telling the truth in art & writing.
December 22, 2002... Maybe you've heard it said that profound truths can be found in ordinary things. That deeper meaning, the answers to existence are present in everyday experience--fleeting impressions, mundane acts and objects, spoken words, the passage of...

Torpor, Los Angeles Whole.
December 22, 2002... Dear Julie, On September 11th (the anniversary of) I was in this ashram in Tanglewood Massachusetts, and I'm not even going to tell you what put me there, the fit of despair, the endless crying, the pull in my heart towards going all the...

That cunt has balls the last of the four-letter words.
December 22, 2002... Part of the experience of being a woman involves the occasional realization that language hasn't caught up with you yet. You have to come up with your own vocabulary. It's hard to believe, for example, that "girl" sparked furious arguments in...

Whose Heinie is it anyway?
December 22, 2002... Bruce LaBruce Interviews Gavin McInnes Gavin McInnes, a Canadian from Montreal, is a founder and editor of Vice, the free, New York-based monthly that the Village Voice called "the world's most offensive magazine." Even Bruce LaBruce, an...

Prosthetic devices for a global walker recent works by Kinga Araya.
December 22, 2002... Kinga Araya is a Polish-born artist who defected to Italy in 1988 and is presently based in Montreal. This piece reflects on the videotaped performances, sculptural objects and drawings shown in her first solo show at Galerie Christiane...

Taking a peek at Cindy the philosopher and the drag-queen.
December 22, 2002... Cindy Lutece (pronounced Lootess) emerged in June 2001 as part of an ongoing project by artist Scott Hayes, in which he creates and inhabits a range of personas. Cindy is Hayes' first female character. She has her own CV, which so far lists...

On the Waterfront Roni Horn's River Works.
December 22, 2002... During the 1870s John Ruskin published the article, "The Storm-Cloud of the 19th Century," where he identified a new noxious entity hovering in the skies of Europe. Defending his point of view about this miasma, Ruskin claimed to have been...

The good destruction. (The Invisible Arts).
December 22, 2002... The only Governor-General's Award I'm ever impressed to hear about is the one for translation. I don't give a shit what the taxman's opinion is about novels or theatre or poetry, but I'm somehow willing to believe the government has a bead...

Sputum. (Project).
December 22, 2002... Leakage & seepage Puncture & penetrate The void & the well Going & coming Kicking ass & kicking back Lomo camera, high-speed film, pink neon light Karma Clarke-Davis is an artist based in Toronto and Berlin whose...

Eight points concerning why things are the way they are.
December 22, 2002... 1. What I feel is that the longer one works in a particular art form the more rarefied one's tastes become. And for some artists, aren't necessarily so brilliant to begin with, this reification of taste is a definite improvement, often leading...