C: International Contemporary Art articles from January 2004

C: International Contemporary Art archives from January 2004

Collective action.(Editorial)
January 1, 2004... Most of the articles in this issue can be stacked like books on a shelf--volumes in a library--that all address the issue of collective action. Art making as a self-consciously collective endeavor dates back to the experiments of the...

World war vs tribal war.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... Dear C Editors, Rosemary Heather's assertion in her editorial in the Fall 2003 issue of C, that Sept 11/01 represents an "eclipse of liberal ideology" seems a little arbitrary. I think unwittingly it aligns itself with that spectacular and...

Good will hunting.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... Response to Bruce LaBruce's Interview with GVS in Issue #79 I was very disappointed in reading this interviewer. I loved the movie and that is why I purchased your publication. I have never read an interview where the interviewer has...

Obituary_Doris Shadbolt 1918-2003.
January 1, 2004... In 1942 Doris Shadbolt took a job at the Art Gallery of Toronto as a secretary to the director. From that modest introduction to the Canadian museum world until her death on December 22, more than sixty years later, Shadbolt demonstrated a...

Temporal protocols.(Slant)
January 1, 2004... "AS THE TANTRIC TRADITION ASSERTS, IF WE LOOK CLOSELY, EVERY DETAIL PERCEIVED SCALE-MODEL'S THE COSMOS" "There is no 'mankind' because mankind has changed too far. There is no past, because the past has wiped itself away. we must divide...

Collectively wrong--fascist aesthetics in contemporary life.(The Shover)
January 1, 2004... On a particularly good day in 2003, Leni Riefenstahl died. Over the years, she and her Neoclassical Nazi propaganda resurfaced with the buoyancy of a German-made plastic tampon applicator. Bleached and worn, a mysterious piece of colored...

Golden streams: artists' collaboration and exchange in the 1970s.
January 1, 2004... The correspondence-art network (known as the Eternal Network) was a loosely configured, international group of artists communicating with one another through the postal system, producing and exchanging art projects by mail. Artworks were often...

The 8th Havana Biennial: two perspectives on two collaborations.
January 1, 2004... With the overabundance of biennials occurring internationally, what makes the Havana Biennial stand out? After Venice and San Paulo, Havana was the third city to undertake such an ambitious project. Since its establishment in 1984, its agenda...

They is them, we is you, they is us, we is them.
January 1, 2004... "Dear C,... as for 'why we bother to make art in a society hostile to independent cultural production, 'I often ask myself that (and I believe we have discussed it at length more than once), but I also find the question enormously funny. We...

Contemporary art is sex: Rita McBride in conversation with Kathy Slade.
January 1, 2004... "THE ARCHITECTURAL WORLD IS A LOT MORE CYNICAL THAN THE ART WORLD. ARCHITECTS DON'T EXPECT REAL COLLABORATION" Rita McBride is an artist based in New York and Cologne. She is known primarily as a sculptor but works in a variety of media....

John Currin Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
January 1, 2004... Art. It should be Moving, Fun and Moral. When something is moving it makes you feel love and that life is precious. It helps to make you feel not alone. This is one of the central functions of art. There are a lot of ways for art to be...

Re-play Edmonton Art Gallery. Edmonton.
January 1, 2004... Led Zeppelin's IV album was my first CD, and I obsessively replayed Stairway to Heaven. I was a fan alone in my obsession, at a time when my friends and I wore all black, pinned our pants tight and teased our hair like Robert Smith. Music...

'I am a Curator', Per Huttner Chisenhale Gallery, London.
January 1, 2004... Swedish artist-curator Per Huttner is conducting "an experiment in democratising the curatorial process". Here's how. He had a team choose items by 57 artists to be 'curated' during gallery opening hours by one volunteer member of the public...

Nikki S. Lee in conversation University of Toronto.
January 1, 2004... In November, the Colloquium on Visual Culture hosted New York-based photographer Nikki S. Lee in conversation with art historian Louis Kaplan from the University of Toronto. The Colloquium is organizing a series of these events to foster a...

Andrew J. Paterson, Mono Logical 7A*11D and Pleasure Dome, Toronto.
January 1, 2004... This event was an attempt to connect the academy and the arts community, but what was effectively accomplished instead was a demonstration of a disjuncture. The polemical style of debate and the fact that Lee's position was reactive rather than...

Bankleer (Christopher Leither, Karin Kasbock) Kunstbank, Berlin.
January 1, 2004... The Devil's Platform is a carnival game played by drunken visitors to Munich's Oktoberfest, hosted by an MC with a microphone. The object of the game is to stay on a spinning platform as long as possible without loosing one's balance or being...

Karin Bubas, Ivy House Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver.
January 1, 2004... Consisting of 42 colour photographs of the interior of the central London home of the late Elizabeth Caddy, Ivy House by Karin Bubas meticulously documents the material and social history of a vanishing way of life. Commissioned by the former...

Mark Lombardi: global networks The Drawing Center, New York.
January 1, 2004... Traditionally, history painting was one of the best ways for the academically trained artist to demonstrate a grasp of the dialectic of past and present. Mark Lombardi's "Narrative Structures"--a series of drawings begun in 1994 and continued...

Big picture.
January 1, 2004... HADLEY HOWLES + MAXWELL STEPHENS, UNTITTLED SCULPTURE (1997), AN IDEA OF COLLABORATION. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]