C: International Contemporary Art articles from June 2001

C: International Contemporary Art archives from June 2001

EDITORIAL.
June 22, 2001... Contemporary art is a colossal processor for everything from history, philosophy, science and psychology to pop culture, music and high junk. It is perhaps the freshest filter of understanding, and quite possibly the lens through which...

Nostalgia and Nationalism / Two London Surveys.
June 22, 2001... I'm not sure if anyone remembers the mild-mannered fireworks display that London broadcast to the world during its millennium celebrations, but unlike the short sexy spectacles of other European cities, London's effort failed as a convincing...

Kit Bashing, Street Remakes and Bisexual Archtecture.
June 22, 2001... Urbanist Rafael Gomez-Moriana in conversation with sculptor Kim Adams Rafael Gomez-Moriana: Kim, you gave a talk in 1988 at the Christianne Chassay Gallery in Montreal in which you showed slides of street remakes": vehicles and buildings...

Strip-Joint Interventions My Night with Charmaine.
June 22, 2001... In a notorious 1997 performance piece enacted one night in Halifax's roughest neighbourhood, Canadian-born performance artist Charmaine Wheatley videotaped viewers' reactions to her naked body through the window of a storefront gallery. Police...

Adelaide \ Maria Bilske on Mathieu Gallois.
June 22, 2001... Mathieu Gallois Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide, Australia by Maria Bilske Mathieu Gallois' installations and performances are characterized by a certain theatricality. Whether erecting a life-size polystyrene facsimile of a...

New York \ James Trainor on Thomas Demand.
June 22, 2001... Thomas Demand 303 Gallery, New York by James Trainor Writing about the CIA and the duplicitous theatrics of counterespionage, Norman Mailer once suggested that a mountain of lies, carefully considered, could project a better...

UNRAVELLING THE GRID / "SUBSTITUTE CITY" AT THE POWER PLANT.
June 22, 2001... There's an intangible inner logic to Philip Monk's "Substitute City" that gives the exhibition its coherence and clarity. He contends that the overt subject of the show is neither the city of Toronto nor its architecture and urban planning;...

London \ Xandra Eden on Christine Borland.
June 22, 2001... Christine Borland Lisson Gallery, London by Xandra Eden Given the current tendency for artists to select media that suit the concept of a work (Katy Schimert and Gabriel Orozco are just two examples), British artist Christine...

Jordan Crandall's Heatseeking.
June 22, 2001... Before going to see Jordan Crandall's Heatseeking as part of the "Bitstreams" show at the Whitney, I took my lunch to Central Park. It was late winter and only a few black leaves still hung from the branches. Above my bench perched a tiny...

Janet Cardiff wins the Millennium Prize.
June 22, 2001... Ottawa - Wednesday 7 March 2001 - Canadian artist Janet Cardiff has won the Millennium Prize, following her brilliant presentation in the exhibition "Elusive Paradise: The Millennium Prize." The jurors were "deeply moved" by Cardiff's...

Max Dean slides into Venice.(2001 Venice Biennale)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Toronto - Max Dean has been added to the list of Canadian artists participating in the 2001 Venice Biennale. A Table: Childhood (1984-2001) will be included in Director Harald Szeemann's exhibition, "Plateau of Mankind." Table is a fully...

John Massey receives the 2001 Gershon Iskowitz Prize.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Toronto - John Massey has been honoured by the Gershon lskowitz Foundation for his contribution to visual art, spanning some twenty-five years, in the fields of video, installation and photography. Jurors acknowledged Massey's intensely...

Hiroshi Sugimoto receives the Hasselbiad Foundation International Award in Photography.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Goteborg - The prize, consisting of SEK 500,000 and a gold medal, will be awarded at a ceremony held in Goteborg, Sweden on October 20, 2001. A new exhibition of Sugimoto's work, curated and organized by the Hasselblad Center, will open in...

Governor General's Awards in visual and media arts.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Ottawa - Visual artists Tom Dean, Jamelie Hassan and Liz Magor were presented with their awards by Governor General Adrienne Clarson at a ceremony at Rideau Hall on March 21st. From the jury citations: "Tom Dean's 30-year career is marked by a...

Prizes at Arco '01.(awards for artists)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Madrid - The first "Aldeasa" Painting Prize of one million pesetas was awarded to the young artist Maria Jesus Vazquez from Pontevedra. Cameroon-based artist Pascale Marthine Tayou has been selected by the Nit-Niu jury as guest artist for the...

Toronto video artist Richard Fung wins Bell Canada Award in video art.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Ottawa -- The Canada Council for the Arts and Bell Canada presented Richard Fung with the 2000 Bell Canada Award for outstanding achievement in video art. As a writer, curator, lecturer and panelist, Fung is recognized for his contribution to...

The 2001 Kunstkoin prize goes to photographer Astrid Klein.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Cologne -- This year's Kunstkoin prizewinner is Astrid Klein. A special exhibition of her photographic work will be featured at Kunstkoin -- the international fair specializing in limited editions, Art Brut and post-1969 artwork. The prize,...

C invitational.
June 22, 2001... For this issue, C invited an international roster of critics, curators, collectors, gallery directors and dealers to contribute 200 words to a discussion of, "How do you launch an international art career?" or "How do you make an international...