C: International Contemporary Art articles from March 2007

C: International Contemporary Art archives from March 2007

Canada's culture war.(Editorial)
March 22, 2007... Because Canada is at war in Afghanistan, one shouldn't be too careless about throwing war metaphors around. But it doesn't detract from the noble intention of that endeavour to say there is another war happening, and its opening salvo has...

Canadian club: Canadian artists take London.(Views)(United Kingdom)
March 22, 2007... Once the epicentre of the British Empire, London's Trafalgar Square is currently witness to a moment of reverse-colonization. Two major exhibitions by a pair of promising Canadians have invaded the home of Lord Nelson's Column. Tim...

Kenneth Anger Me: the former child Star, Hollywood gossip monger, and underground film legend puts in a 5 hour personal appearance in Toronto.(Views)
March 22, 2007... Toronto played host to a living legend in October with a marathon appearance at Bloor Cinema by Kenneth Anger, probably the most famous of all underground filmmakers. Sporting the customized Rangers hockey jersey he wears to all his public...

Real dirty ethics: an interview with Mika Hannula.(Interview)
March 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I FIRST ENCOUNTERED THE WRITINGS OF FINNISH CURATOR, teacher and art critic Mika Hannula in 2001 in a bookstore in the basement of Kulturhuset in Stockholm. The reason I discovered his writing was perhaps less than...

Between the monument and the ruin: an interview with Lida Abdul the Afghani artist talks.(Interview)
March 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I WAS FIRST INTRODUCED TO LIDA ABDUL'S WORK WHEN she was an artist in residence at the Banff Centre in Alberta. She was later invited to join a group of artists and curators (of which I was a part) on a three-year...

"I believe the solution is panic": an interview with Thomas Hirschhorn.(Interview)
March 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THOMAS HIRSCHHORN GRANTED THIS INTERVIEW to C Magazine in early October, 2006, a few hours before the opening of the 27th Sao Paulo Biennial, whose theme was How to Live Together, referencing Roland Barthes' seminars...

Model for a public space [speaker].
March 22, 2007... inward/outward/beneath/beyond model for a public space [speaker] is designed as a space for public discussion, its specific geometry delineates a terrain of positions along its continuous surface: inward, outward, beneath and beyond....

Representation of a sculptor: an interview with Robin Peck.(Interview)
March 22, 2007... ROBIN PECK IS LIKELY FAMILIAR TO READERS OF C for his insightful articles, notably his travelogues about, for instance, Brancusi's sculpture in the Romanian city of Tirgu Jiu. Using an engaging storyteller's voice, Peck displays a remarkable...

Manifesta destiny: Hedwig Fijen, Director of Manifesta, talks about the Biennial's origins, the cancellation of its 2007 edition, and the future of this roving, cross-disciplinary, pan-European exhibition.(Interview)
March 22, 2007... I meet Hedwig Fijen, executive director of Manifesta, Europe's original itinerant art biennial, when she participated in the Power Talks series of presentations at the 2006 Toronto International Art Fair. Discussing the future of art...

Rodney Graham: Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal.
March 22, 2007... I want Rodney Graham to be a national treasure, I want him to be that eccentric indie rock star art guy who could also teach me how to catch fish and build a fire--I want him to be my quintessential, "brilliantly paradoxical," Canadian artist....

Neo Rauch: Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal.
March 22, 2007... As his name suggests, much about Neo Rauch is New: he is at the vanguard of the new (or at least recent) resurgence of critical interest in painting. And he is arguably the most famous of his so-called New Leipzig School peers. Much is made of...

Deborah Margo: Castings, The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa.
March 22, 2007... Deborah Margo's poetic investigations of everyday spaces and objects are often site-specific and evolve over a long period of time. In 2005 she traced the leafy shadows cast by the trees outside onto the interior walls of the stairwell in the...

Iris Haussler: The Legacy of Joseph Wagenbach curated by Rhonda Corvese 105 Robinson Street, Toronto.
March 22, 2007... If you've ever imagined that one day you would enter the house of a serial killer or an obsessive psychopath, here you are. Going through the door and closing it behind you, this is your first impression. The Legacy of Joseph Wagenbach was...

Al Steiner: John Connelly Presents, New York.
March 22, 2007... At first glance AL Steiner's photo archive is a sexy chronicle of moments in which menstrual blood pours down slender thighs, urine flows into a full-lipped, wanton mouth and a dog's snout confronts its love object in the flesh: a stinky...

Liz Rideal: Fall, River, Snow: Water Drape, Ice Stream, Deer Portrait Compton Verney, South Warwickshire, UK.
March 22, 2007... Fall, River, Snow: Water Drape, Ice Steam, Deer Portrait (2006), an ambitious new film work by UK artist Liz Rideal, was projected outdoors in the expansive grounds of Compton Verney, an estate designed by the eminent 18th-century British...

Scott Treleaven: My dear, my darling, do you hear me where you sleep? Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago.
March 22, 2007... The angry idealism that marks the social and spiritual base of punk subculture forms the core of Scott Treleaven's oeuvre. In My dear, my darling, do you bear me where you sleep?, an exhibition that covers broad emotional territory in film,...

Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection: curated by Stan Douglas, Christopher Eamon, Joachim Jager, and Gabriele Knapstein, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
March 22, 2007... Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection is a solid blockbuster of an exhibition: prominent artists are represented by some of their best works. A well-crafted blockbuster is a rare thing in the Berlin art institutional landscape, which...