C: International Contemporary Art articles from March 2005

C: International Contemporary Art archives from March 2005

Twenty years of C Magazine.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2005... Dear C, This is C's 21st year. C started in 1984 in my studio on Duncan Street. Many of the first artists to make artist projects for C also became members of Cold City Gallery. Cold City was located next door to my studio and C...

Pro Americanism.(Editorial)
March 22, 2005... This issue of C is not pro- (or anti-) American. It's a joke. To further clarify, we have not entered a new era of realpolitik. Unlike the geopolitical world, C is just a magazine, not a country, and so does not have to commit to getting along...

Postscript to "an interview with Michael Snow" in issue #84 Winter 2004: apologies and corrections/clarifications.(Correction Notice)
March 22, 2005... Unfortunately, I was increasingly horrified as I first struggled to read this interview. Equally unfortunately, what is wrong with it is largely my fault. Much of what I apparently said is incomprehensible. However, sometimes this...

Boy, your lovin: suffering, empathy, art and the greater good.
March 22, 2005... Art is for empathy, and empathy is for the reduction of suffering. That's the way I've always justified it as my vocation. Otherwise, what's it for? What else does it do for humanity? On the one hand, I feel that the artist has a...

Waiting for the one.(The Shover)
March 22, 2005... In my disappointment following the election I was morbidly drawn to news tickers and headlines. I craved scandal, failure, resignation, controversy--anything to break the appalling gloating and ecstatic homophobia of the religious right and the...

I want more life fucker: Arnaud Desjardin talks to the UK's inventory.
March 22, 2005... "The empty quarter is a solemn terrain although not outside a grey humour, a burst of laughter that rattles the soul. The inhabitants of the empty quarter can be found all over the world, individually and in small cells, carrying out small...

Body politics: a letter to Terry Eagleton.
March 22, 2005... Dear Mr. Eagleton, I am writing in order to tell you how moving and helpful I found your most recent book, After Theory. If you have a moment I just wanted to explain why I, in particular, felt so moved. I am an artist living in New...

Elke Marhofer get out of here and think we: representation is of course a key notion in democratic decision-making and is essential to the inner workings of political power. And, it is precisely the idea of representation that intimately binds art and politics.
March 22, 2005... German artist Elke Marhofer's practice occupies a zone of colliding images, media and formats. Her work employs drawing, sculpture, fly-posters, hip-hop music, video, photography, clothing, published text and found objects, among other media....

Nice Nihilism: the art of Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg: Nihilists, Hanson/Sonnenberg portray object making as nothing more than a compulsive desire to build and sculpt and mould what doesn't really need to exist.
March 22, 2005... I'm forever on the lookout for art concerning the mundane. It's a hangover from having come of age in the 80s when I was shell-shocked by bombastic Schnabels, Longos, Immendorfs and their now obscure epigones. Please--I need a permanent...

Paper Rad: the rainbow graffiti will fade!
March 22, 2005... "If Santa Witch finds out they're missing, the rainbow graffiti will fade. It will fade!" There's a grave urgency in Gumby's voice as he screams into his two-way radio at Pokey, who's supposed to be guarding Echo Cove. Gumby was awoken by...

Eli Langer: Twelve Years from Earth.
March 22, 2005... ELI LANGER TWELVE YEARS FROM EARTH DANIEL HUG GALLERY LOS ANGELES Twelve Years from Earth, Eli Langer's first LA solo show since relocating from Canada, exhibited polychromatic oil paintings rendered in matte pinks, purples, greens, blues...

Gu Xiong and Xu Bing: Here Is What I Mean.
March 22, 2005... GU XIONG AND XU BING: HERE IS WHAT I MEAN CURATED BY PATRICK MAHON MUSEUM LONDON, LONDON, ONTARIO THE DORIS MCCARTHY GALLERY, SCARBOROUGH, ONTARIO China's Cultural Revolution insisted on the total integration of the artist with the...

Gregor Schneider: Die Familie Schneider.
March 22, 2005... I ran. I turned around, sprinted up two flights of stairs and ran out the front door. I ran from Die Familie Schneider, the latest project from German artist Gregor Schneider, produced in conjunction with Artangel. Die Familie Schneider...

White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art.
March 22, 2005... WHITE: WHITENESS AND RACE IN CONTEMPORARY ART MAX BECHER AND ANDREA ROBBINS, NAYLAND BLAKE, NANCY BURSON, WENDY EWALD, WILLIAM KENTRIDGE, BARBARA KRUGER, NIKKI S. LEE, PAUL MCCARTHY AND MIKE KELLEY, CINDY SHERMAN, GARY SIMMONS INTERNATIONAL...

Sandra Meigs: the bump and Ride Paintings.
March 22, 2005... SANDRA MEIGS THE BUMP AND RIDE PAINTINGS SUSUAN HOBBS Gallery Toronto I do not want to use the word "strange" when describing Meigs' work; it would diminish its impact. Nor would the word "childish" do justice to its complexities (though...

Flipside.
March 22, 2005... FLIPSIDE NUMEROUS ARTISTS (INCLUDING VADIM FISHKIN, JOAN JONAS, KAI KALJO, CHARLES KRAFFT, YURI LEIDERMAN, AURDRIUS NOVICKAS, TONY OURSLER, ANTHONY AND KATYA PEMBERTON, IGOR SAVCHENKO AND STEPHEN SHANABROOK) CURATED BY KATHERINE CARL ARTISTS...

Paul P.
March 22, 2005... PAUL P. GALERIE LISA RUYTER VIENNA Young Canadian artist Paul P.'s first European solo show in Europe of highly crafted, romanticized head-and-shoulder portraits, accompanied by a single landscape in oil, reversed several expectations...

3 Objects.
March 22, 2005... 3 OBJECTS DANIEL YOUNG AND CHRISTIAN GIROUX ACE ART INC. WINNIPEG 3 Objects immediately calls to mind a cube, a sphere and a cone--basic volumetric shapes that form the common denominators of our built environment. Fullerene (2003) is an...