C: International Contemporary Art articles from March 2004

C: International Contemporary Art archives from March 2004

C Magazine Spring 2004: editorial.(Dysentery)
March 22, 2004... Dysentery refers to the joke Woody Allen tells in the movie Annie Hall, about the name that would result if the American leftwing periodicals Dissent and Commentary were to merge. As a joke, it's a comment on the Left's weakness for verbiage,...

Anne Lind 1943-2004.(Obituary)(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2004... When Anne Lind died suddenly a few weeks ago, anyone who knew her was stunned with disbelief. Then a deep sadness settled in over the reality that the life of such a generous, vibrant woman, who in many respects was finding a new stride, should...

Let's call the whole thing off.(Slant)
March 22, 2004... Having just come back to L.A. from a trip through Eastern Europe to Romania, I am obsessed with relativity. Yesterday, at the art school where I teach, I watched Julie D'Agostino's hypnotic video, Eden Between (1998). The camera remained static...

The shover: the unseen: supernatural politics and the American right.
March 22, 2004... When the Republican Party fucks up it's always God's will or someone else's fault. The recession in America is inherited from the Democrats, the he which started the war in Iraq is the fault of the intelligence community, the War on Terror is a...

Peaches: word to the fatherfucker.(Cover Story)
March 22, 2004... "She boasts of lesbian sex, toasting sessions and anal romps so... Is Peaches the Rudest Pop Babe Ever?" So screams a headline in the Daily Sport, one of those ribald British tabloids that makes the Toronto Sun look like the Wall Street...

Show's over folks, move along: the institutionalization of art and the secret life of the underground.
March 22, 2004... In the 30 years since the apogee of Warhol's Factory, of the subcultures that surfaced these, only the criminal, with certain exceptions, has yet to be taken up as part of art's celebration of difference, still, it can be said that the expanded...

The last revolutionary moment: weather underground director Sam Green in conversation with Rebecca Godfrey.
March 22, 2004... The documentary film The Weather Underground explores the lives of the young Americans who in a series of bombings attempted to make good on their vow to overthrow the American government, before going underground and eluding one of the largest...

Asking the wrong questions: six artists respond.
March 22, 2004... We initiated this project in the hopes that the polemics with which we began would be surpassed by the artists with whom we spoke. "He dodges compulsory military service three times, but gives in on the fourth as his life is becoming too...

All ways lead to Rome--talking to la Cicciolina.
March 22, 2004... Ilona Staller, better known as Cicciolina, is the Diva of Porn, an offensive yet innocently sweet incarnation of porn itself. She could be a creature from a strange star, a visitor who has thoroughly studied the behaviour of the people--and if...

I wanna be a Popstar.
March 22, 2004... I WANNA BE A POPSTAR LOOP--RAUM FUR AKTUELLE KUNST, BERLIN EVA SCHARRER Somehow the 'Everybody is a star' attitude of the 60s has become an 'Everybody wants to be a star' attitude of today. Starsearch and similar TV shows worldwide depict...

Threads of Belonging, Jennifer Montgomery.
March 22, 2004... THREADS OF BELONGING, JENNIFER MONTGOMERY GENE SISKEL CENTER, CHICAGO EMILY VEY DUKE Threads of Belonging is a feature-length experimental video by Milwaukee-based filmmaker Jennifer Montgomery (director of Art for Teachers of Children,...

Collier Schorr.
March 22, 2004... COLLIER SCHORR MODERN ART INC., LONDON FERGAL STAPLETON Things have already happened or are coming to their close in Collier Schorr's photographs of young wrestlers. Livid and depleted bodies standing, slumping, grasping each other. There's...

Siobhan Hapaska.
March 22, 2004... SIOBHAN HAPASKA KERLIN GALLERY, DUBLIN BRYNE MCLAUGHLIN Irish-born, London-based artist Siobhan Hapaska is known for her wilfully enigmatic sculptural and photo works that deal with violence, protest and an ongoing search for an...

Catherine Sylvain, Petites detresses humaines.
March 22, 2004... CATHERINE SYLVAIN, PETITES DETRESSES HUMAINES CIRCA, MONTREAL PASCALE BEAUDET Meditating on the mind-body duality that has travelled down through Western history from the Greeks, Catherine Sylvain constructs a setting that separates the...

Melissa Shiff, Elijah Chair: art, ritual, and social action.
March 22, 2004... MELISSA SHIFF, ELIJAH CHAIR: ART, RITUAL, AND SOCIAL ACTION THE JEWISH MUSEUM, NEW YORK SCOTT MYERS Passover is the most celebrated Jewish holiday, commemorating the emancipation of the Jews from bondage in Egypt 3000 years ago. During the...

Mark Leckey/Tony Romano.
March 22, 2004... MARK LECKEY/TONY ROMANO MERCER UNION, TORONTO CORIN SWORN In the week the final episode of Lord of the Rings opened, I went to see it and found myself sitting in a theatre with 600 people. I spoke to no one, all I shared with the other...

The basement show: Angela Grossmann, Douglas Coupland, Derek Root, Graham Gilmore and Attila Richard Lukacs.
March 22, 2004... THE BASEMENT SHOW: ANGELA GROSSMANN, DOUGLAS COUPLAND, DEREK ROOT, GRAHAM GILMORE AND ATTILA RICHARD LUKACS THE ELECTRA, VANCOUVER SEAMUS KEALY It's been 18 years since Angela Grossmann, Derek Root, Attila Richard Lukacs, Grabara Gilmore...