C: International Contemporary Art articles from March 2006

C: International Contemporary Art archives from March 2006

Case histories.
March 22, 2006... The art gallery has long been considered a site of political meaning, in spite of the fact that its purpose is to exhibit art. Art making carries with it a certain burden of responsibility for the artist, the symbolic power of the artwork being...

Wake: January 9, 2006, Puerto Angel, Oaxaca, Mexico.
March 22, 2006... I've been here five or six days. Each day is one more in a succession of perfect days, the temperature hovering at f degrees, the sweet-smelling air, bougainvilleas tumbling down garden walls, vines twisting around orchid trees. There's just...

Chris Marker's Owl's eye view.
March 22, 2006... For more than 50 years, under various guises and pseudonyms, Chris Marker has considered topics as intricate as the paradoxes of time, the selectiveness of memory and the weight of social history. Now, with his latest project, Owls at Noon,...

Ken Lum: the short interview.(Interview)
March 22, 2006... I wanted to speak with Ken Lum for this inaugural Short Interview in C Magazine mainly because of a slide talk he did at NSCAD in fall 2002. I admired the works he presented, particularly his furniture pieces. The Q & A that followed was a...

My fuzzy valentine: Allyson Mitchell.
March 22, 2006... Is craft to the avant-garde as pornography is to cinema? Commonly dismissed as formulaic, repetitive and cheaply made, craft and porn are often produced by amateurs at home. Yet despite or perhaps because of this, interest in both craft and...

Art drug centre: Jacob Wren on Kaoru Arima: things we don't understand are electrifying.(Column)
March 22, 2006... I work in theatre and much of my life is spent travelling. The more time I spend on the road, the more fascinated I become with the destabilized yet coherent mental states that a life of constant movement entails: wandering around cities where...

"A plot with a single type of grass with no intruding weeds, kept mown at a height of an inch and a half, uniformly green, and neatly edged." Anne Low on Andrew Dadson.
March 22, 2006... Every city has its boundaries between private and public space, between nature and the urban world. The delimitations between them can be solid or permeable, opaque or imagined. Andrew Dadson makes the space of these invisible distinctions...

Theodore Saskatche Wan, or posing with another.(LIFE AFTER ART AND LIFE)(Cover story)(Biography)
March 22, 2006... I came to Theodore Wan's work as if by chance; but then, perhaps not at all by chance. The Chinese-Canadian artist and photographer died in 1987 the young age of 33. Despite the brevity of his life, his work has managed to leave an...

Brian Jungen interviewed by Terence Dick.(Interview)
March 22, 2006... Despite his relatively young age of 35, Vancouver artist Brian Jungen has already established himself as an important figure on the international art scene. A survey of his work to date is currently touring North America. Brian Jungen premiered...

Yang Fudong Stedelijk Museum, Amstersdam.
March 22, 2006... A man stands in the streets of Shanghai, dishevelled, wounded and dripping blood. He drops his briefcase, looking for somewhere to aim the brick he clutches in his right hand. He does not know what has happened to him or where to retaliate. The...

Erik Goengrich: everything else is inside Berlin sculptures and other announcements Platz der Vereinten Nationen 27, Berlin.
March 22, 2006... Among the dushbins of history, Berlin is a trashcan par excellence. The city reads like a collection of smashed utopias failed dreams and spent ideologies; the traumatic consequences of total system failure. The remains of two world wars, which...

Pattern Fields: Jeannie Thib Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University Lennoxville, Quebec.
March 22, 2006... The work of Jeannie Thib was the focus of the solo exhibition Pattern Fields at the Foreman Art Gallery this past fall. This wonderful exhibition, overdue in Quebec, featured Thib's exquisite work from 2001 to 2004, revealing both its technical...

Jessica Thompson: Soundbike Glowlab: OpenLab Art Interactive, Boston.
March 22, 2006... You remember your first bike? iDid it have a basket? Maybe tassels? If you were a suburban kid like myself, do you remember that first rush of freedom you felt as your neighbourhood suddenly expanded under your pedals? The joy of an...

Theo Sims: 'Splace Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.
March 22, 2006... Playfulness and gravitas, entertainment and critique, habitual thinking and its subversion reoccur in Theo Sims' 'splace, an 80-foot-long set of computer-aided digital photographic prints, each smaller than a postcard. They are viewed on a...

Lisi Raskin: Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.
March 22, 2006... The life of a submariner is very much a hidden one; manifestations of their curious crafts are more like UFO sightings. Rarely do we get the movie image of the inquisitive periscope turning this way and that. In the Beatles' Yellow Submarine...

Jeff Wall: Photographs 1978-2004 Tate Modern, London.
March 22, 2006... This year, a comprehensive survey of Jet Wall's photographs travelled from Schaulager Basel in Switzerland to the Tare Modern in London. Jeff Wall's Cibachromes mounted in light boxes blend cinematic spectacle with the dramatic compositions of...

Ilya and Emila Kabakov: The House of Dreams Serpentine Gallery, London.
March 22, 2006... Ilya and Emilia Kabakov's latest collaboration The House of Dreams, offers an uncanny experience into a parallel universe where all the social codes of conduct become unfamiliar. The Rusian artists claim that this installation offers a unique...

Lori Newdick: Lucky Corkin Shopland Gallery, Toronto.
March 22, 2006... Lucky is the title of Lori Newdick's new suite of colour photographs, showing fleeting and sometimes uncomfortable glimpses of the interaction between the photographer and her model. The artist's role-reversing photo series (2004-05), on view...

Stephanie Aitken: Headlands: New Paintings Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver.
March 22, 2006... It seems the task of much image-based painting today is to translate what the camera sees into the sticky material of paint. How many prominent contemporary painters paint directly from life as opposed to the far more popular strategy of...