C: International Contemporary Art articles from June 2003

C: International Contemporary Art archives from June 2003

The invisible arts.(Osama)(Sound Recording Review)
June 22, 2003... A man named Osama has been found working in a used bookstore on the main in downtown Montreal. Do not alert federal and provincial intelligence agencies, do not seal yourself in a basement room with duct tape, do not call the FBI. Please do...

Art collection.
June 22, 2003... Part 1: Thursday, 9 April, Palm Springs California My father shows me the six or seven rare books in his collection. Produced in the late sixteenth and seventeenth century in London, and published by the Cambridge University Press, the...

K48-3 Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show.(various artists, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY)
June 22, 2003... Teenage art is not an attempt to reclaim youth after it has passed, but an effort to expose the dishonesty of the domesticated adult experience, which is best served by reviving the emotional and psychological convictions of teenage-hood. ...

Dreams and conflicts -- the viewer's dictatorship.(2003 Venice Biennale)
June 22, 2003... The 50th Venice Biennale, 15 June-2 November, 2003 "Dreams and Conflicts" will not be a show about political art but a reflection on the politics of art.--Francesco Bonami After the legendary Swiss curator Harald Szeemann's triumphant...

In interview with Vasif Kortun.
June 22, 2003... March 2003, Turkish curator Vasif Kortun came to Canada to meet with artists and curators and visit art institutions in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Kortun's primary focus is on the notion of place in relation to institutional and...

Ryan McGinley and two years of BUTT.
June 22, 2003... In the spring, 2003 issue of BUTT 'fagazine' from Amsterdam, twenty-five-year-old photographer Ryan McGinley was quoted as saying he was starting a "non-gay gay movement in New York City." He said this in response to Toronto-based...

Sale of the century socialist realism wins big on the global art market.
June 22, 2003... Once a standard-bearer of Soviet communism's penchant for absurdity, socialist realism now lives a more ordinary existence as just another item for sale on the art market. Since about 1992, Western-style equality has been unleashed on...

FACT/Liverpool film, art and creative technology centre.(Film, Art and Creative Technology Centre, Liverpool, England)
June 22, 2003... A couple weeks ago, in a strange turn of events, I found myself in Liverpool. This is the second time I've visited the former port city, which is two more times than one might expect. It's one of those places you never think you'll visit; why...

UK/Canada Film & Video Exchange South London Gallery 10-13 April 2003.
June 22, 2003... As a country, Canada enjoys a rather unique position in terms of video art: there are representation and distribution agencies across the country, including G.I.V. in Montreal, V Tape in Toronto and Video Pool in Winnipeg. While this is...

Why Stoics Box: essays on art and society by Jeanne Randolph.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Where would we be without Jeanne Randolph? Her work has been so integral to Canada's cultural life in the past twenty years, one cannot fathom how things would be (and what they would mean) without her. We would be forced to attempt to invent...

Why stoics don't riff the prime of Ms. Jeanne Randolph.
June 22, 2003... Why are there neither titles nor words on this books front cover? Partly because sexy subject objects don't require explanation and partly because stoics accept rather than explain. The boy or manchild on the cover is wonderfully ageless....

Art Chicago 2003 the art industrial complex.
June 22, 2003... You could hear the buzz of a well-honed industrial machine from the second floor balcony of Festival Hall at Navy Pier. Below, the hum of deals, sales, shameless promotion and gossip drove the engine of the fair. The public and collectors came...