C: International Contemporary Art articles from March 2002

C: International Contemporary Art archives from March 2002

Editorial.
March 22, 2002... Starting with C. This issue is filled with fantastic and thoughtful impressions and comments by writers and artists from here and there. I have offered space to those who will enlighten, provoke, seduce and entertain. As my editorial...

Colin Campbell.(Canadian video artist)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
March 22, 2002... 15 June 1942 - 31 October 2002 Canadian video artist Colin Campbell leaves behind a body of work that has Inspired two generations of artists and audiences. His videos bring together theory and gossip, profundity and banality, humour and...

On Drawing.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Drawing is as close to complete freedom as we can get. When I taught at Hampshire College they were making the kids do still life, which they hated and I mocked, so I made them instead draw a continuous line in black or blue pen straight from...

Sensories: a time to be heavy, a time to move. (Project).(project by painter Cecile Hartmann)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... A project by Cecile Hartmann Cecile Hartmann is an artist with a will to intervention: a reactivation of the painting as dissident vector of animation in public space. Her paintings are strapped onto performers' backs as they move through...

Ca Cb: Lynn Crosbie looks at the work of Corinne Calrson.
March 22, 2002... December 16 I 01 - While showing me Road Test, her collaboration with artists Karen Henderson and Maria Hlady, Corinne Carlson states that she is a conceptual artist who likes the idea of "art before it's made." She puts my coat and scarf...

Three generations of conceptual artists. (Conceptual Think-See).
March 22, 2002... Conceptual art of the 1960s, while much revered, is not very often looked at. Younger artists know the names and reputations of this generation, but have little close experience with the work itself. This is particularly odd since much work...

Notes on a Town Without Pity (*). (Textual Views from People's Places).(art scene in Winnipeg, Manitoba)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... "The city of hope and opportunity" - that's how Winnipeg's been described. The Chicago of Canada, the gateway to the west, the essential link between east and west. But that was long ago when the grain barons and land speculators boldly roamed...

Letter from the large intestine. (Textual Views from People's Places).(art scene in New York, NY)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... I've said elsewhere that I came here in search of the Beast That Ate the Interesting Part. I think I'm getting warm. The hardest bit so far has been interpreting combinations: of the things that the locals pretend to remember, and the things...

A view from Chicago. (Textual Views from People's Places).(Chicago's art scene)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Chicago doesn't have much of an art scene, but it does have a lot of architecture and music, songs and buildings. It's a big city, of course, growing from the bottom of Lake Michigan like a penile wart. Though there are high-density pockets,...

Letter from Wien/Vienna. (Textual Views from People's Places).(Vienna's art scene)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... The psychoanalytic model of a smiling conscious face covering the dark and nasty unconscious is a cliche born in Wien to describe (then as now) its particular brand of bourgeois neurosis. That the unconscious will out has a certain truth, a...

Politics and Romance in James Carl's redemption.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... This photograph is a document of a performance titled redemption. The performance was one of two works presented by James Carl at the grunt gallery, Vancouver, in 1993. The second work was a lifesize cardboard replica of an industrial garbage...

Untitled (C insert). (Project).(project by artist Claude Closky)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... A project by Claude Closky Claude Closky's work is about what our daily life is made up of: the signs and codes through which we interpret daily events, the systems that we use to articulate these and the messages that stir up our desires....

A conversation between artists Nadine Norman and Sam Samore at the opening. (Palais de Tokyo).(Interview)
March 22, 2002... The Palais de Tokyo has a history that alternates between occupation and abandonment. Originally built in the 1930s to house the Paris Art Fair, it has been used over the years as an exhibition space for contemporary art, national photography...

A survey of who is looking forward to what. (Looking Forward).
March 22, 2002... LISA GABRIELLE MARK LOS ANGELES Despite the desire for business-as-usual, it would be impassible for me to say what I'm looking forward to without acknowledging the situation American museums and galleries are in right now. Dramatic...

We need your dick out here: Chris Kraus on Sophie Calle.
March 22, 2002... There was a time when was thinking LA might be something like Paris. I had just gotten back to LA after spending the fall in East Hampton because I was writing a book, and I was thinking, to write it I would have to stop talking and be more...

Coming home. (Project).(art project by Corin Hewitt)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... A project by Corin Hewitt Corin Hewitt has made a scale model of Skylab, the fallen US space station of the 1970s. The exterior is cast stone and cast earth; the illuminated interior is a slightly modified hand-made version of his...

Nothing and something in the work of Martin Creed.
March 22, 2002... Since 1999, with Louise Dompierre as Director and Shirley Madill as Senior Curator, the Art Gallery of Hamilton has renewed its commitment to contemporary art. Recently, it has offered some of the most dynamic shows in the region, strategically...

Shirin Neshat. (Reviews).(Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal Some of the most compelling art today stems from the interface of art and technology - think of Janet Cardiff, Maria Hlady, Mona Hatoum, Bill Viola, Shirin Neshat. Sound gives their work a critical edge....

Barbara McGill Balfour. (Reviews).(Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Open Studio, Toronto The gallery at Open Studio is notable for the large scale of its double doors, which open onto a comparatively small, though beautifully proportioned exhibition space. While the site functioned previously as a garment...

Mara Korkola. (Reviews).(painting, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Ontario)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto Mara Korkola's exhibition, "No Place," featured fifty snapshot-size paintings in oil on panel. For her previous series, "You Think of Houses," Korkola painted small, intimate scenes of houses and neighbourhoods....