C: International Contemporary Art articles from December 2006

C: International Contemporary Art archives from December 2006

Dissociation.(Editorial)
December 22, 2006... "Constantly, it seemed, the experts were on the brink of deciphering the ever-growing mass of information... the scientists [were convinced] that they were confronted with a monstrous entity endowed with reason, a protoplasmic ocean-brain...

The romantic and the entrepreneur: is Martin Kippenberger the prototypical romantic artist? Jacob Wren investigates how the romantic model of the artist has changed--and how it has stayed the same.(Views)
December 22, 2006... In David Markson's 1996 experimental novel Reader's Block, sparse, isolated sentences about a protagonist referred to only as "Reader" are interspersed among a much larger number of equally sparse and isolated biographical fragments about the...

Pile driver: Philippe Donadini messes things up: a Parisian artist controls chaos in a small corner of his life.(Views)
December 22, 2006... Philippe Donadini has a pile in his living room and he loves it. I came across the pile in April 2006 as a dinner guest at the home of the Paris-based artist and curator. I was characteristically late, arriving to find the other guests already...

Ornament as content: an interview with Shannon Bool.(Interview)
December 22, 2006... R: You used to do work on paper and now what do you do? S: I'm still doing work on paper but I'm doing a lot of different things, a lot of photograms, photocollages, painting and drawings still, installation pieces or room pieces--pieces...

How to colour: Lisa Robertson imagines a history of the world in surface and pigment.
December 22, 2006... We are printing Lisa Robertson's text on the occasion of Coach House Books' publication of the Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, a collection of Robertson's essays. 'How to Colour' first appeared as...

Kirstine Roepstorff.(Artist Centerfold)
December 22, 2006... If balance stops and asks why, balance will die (2006) mixed media collage, 2.74 x 3.88 m, from the series One Hand

Madness is the language of the excluded: an interview with Javier Tellez.(Interview)
December 22, 2006... THE INTERVIEW FORMAT IS MOST FITTING FOR A Discussion of Javier Tellez's recent work, given that he is so articulate about the complicated set of references--historical, literary, cultural, personal--that inform his practice. Tellez is earnest...

Natural emptiness: thoughts about theatre and the body.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... AN ANALOGY CAN BE MADE BETWEEN THE THEATRE and the body, as both are home to dramatic events. The innate connection between the two is given popular expression in the idea that traumatized individuals "act out," and, conversely, that the...

Predators & Prey.(Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation)
December 22, 2006... Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto In Predators & Prey Toronto-based curator and collector Ydessa Hendeles once again presents her unique curatorial vision. Hendeles offers a challenging and highly intellectual experience to attentive...

Plotting revolution under an Apple tree.
December 22, 2006... Cornelia Schmidt-Bleek, Galerie Kamm, Berlin It is said that Steve Jobs was a fruitarian (eating nothing but fruit) when he named the Apple computer--one of several quirky stories feeding the mythos of the eccentric entrepreneur. The Apple...

Profondeurs Vertes.
December 22, 2006... Mike Kelley Musee du Louvre, Paris It's almost a joke: Mike Kelley haunts the basement of the Louvre with videos that "sexualize" examples of nineteenth-century American painting. Parallel to an exhibition of American paintings, Les...

Sleep of Ulro.(The Furnace)
December 22, 2006... Goshka Macuga, The Furnace, Greenland Street, Liverpool, UK A goal of the Liverpool Biennial is to assert to the art world that the city should be selected by the European Union as the European Capital of Culture in 2008. To mark the...

Sound and Vision.
December 22, 2006... Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec Sound and Vision, the summer exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, is the first collection-based curatorial collaboration between the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of...

Uncertain States of America.(American art exhibit)
December 22, 2006... Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York America isn't what it used to be. And neither is art. Sometimes it takes outsiders to see what's really going on in your world, and that's what three ambitious European curators have...

Interior Designer.
December 22, 2006... Sterling Ruby, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles Sterling Ruby is a cool name, a drag queen' name, a British spy's name. I don't know him, and hadn't heard of him before I saw his show at Marc Foxx. That doesn't matter because his show, Interior...

Group Search (Art in the Library).
December 22, 2006... Curated by Lorna Brown Vancouver Public Library Central Branch Through spring 2008 the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library will be home to one of the most interesting group shows in the city. Curated by Lorna Brown, Group Search...

Gwangju & Singapore Biennals, 2006.(exhibits)
December 22, 2006... Gwangju, Korea and Singapore It is not surprising that an artwork could suggest a metaphor for the global explosion of biennials. Korean-American Michael Joo's prize-winning work Bodhi Obfuscatus (Space-Baby) (2005) at the 2006 Gwangju...

Kevin Rodgers, Emotional Fascism (excerp), 2006.
December 22, 2006... Sometimes I get the feeling I want to come back home and forget everything. And just curl up with a certain slut.