C: International Contemporary Art articles from March 2008

C: International Contemporary Art archives from March 2008

Immersion.(Editorial)
March 22, 2008... "Subjectivity is contagious"--Hadley+Maxwell "Immersion" is the term I am using to describe the work of the artists showcased in this issue. It's not a perfect moniker for the practices it's meant to encompass, but it works. In the art...

David Askevold, 1940-2008.(Obituary)
March 22, 2008... David Askevold, a central figure in early conceptual, narrative, video and digital art, passed away after a long illness in Halifax on January 23, 2008. Askevold is survived by his partner of many years, Norma Ready, and their daughter, Kyla...

On the other side of the couch: an interview with a former mental patient of Felix Guattari.(VIEWS)(Interview)
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 2004, I met a young man at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, where I was studying as an exchange student. Upon finding out that I was interested in philosophy, he mentioned that his mother was a...

Beginning of The End--End of The Beginning: Saskatchewan's Offer of A Province-Wide International Art Project.
March 22, 2008... Saskatchewan. One third of the "prairie pass over" zone buttressed by boom and bust Alberta and frigidly quirky Manitoba, Saskatchewan is located dead in the centre of Canada. With a population of just under one million spread thinly over...

Light magic: the measured structures and time-based illuminations of Samuel Roy-Bois.(Interview)
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Samuel Roy-Bois is a Vancouver-based artist, by way of Quebec City, Montreal and New York. His practice spans architectural installation, drawing, performance, literature and music--each intertwining with and...

Re-Actionism: Austrian artist Kerstin Cmelka explores the way art's icons are alive to the present.(Interview)
March 22, 2008... Kerstin Cmelka is a visual artist who works primarily with photography, film and performance. Her recent works source film stills, film-production stills and documentation of performances, such as those of VAIAE EXPORT. While many of her works...

Artist centrefold.(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] In 2006, I began a work titled Graffiti Removal Project that involved the "removal" of graffiti tags from the streets of former East Berlin. Most of the paints and supplies were acquired by placing an ad in the...

"To be immersed in the experience of now": artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard use music to connect to their audience.(Interview)
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since attending Goldsmiths College in the mid-90s, London-based Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard have collaborated on projects related to rock music. From re-enacting concerts, to producing self-portraits of themselves...

I+I+I on I+I-I: Rodney LaTourelle talks to Vancouver artists Hadley + Maxwell about their collaborative practice, Jean-Luc Godard and the Rolling Stones.(Interview)
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It seems fitting that I first met Hadley Howes and Maxwell Stephens in the Spiegelsaal (Mirror Hall) in Berlin. A pleasantly disorienting space, the room is encircled with large ornate mirrors, many of which were...

Comedy central: in the eclectic art practice of Amy Lam, everything is funny--especially painting.(Interview)
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The world of Amy Lam is a complicated place. Or rather, it is a deceptively simple place. Working either by herself or in collaboration with Jon McCurley as conceptual comedy duo Life of a Craphead, she makes work...

Eoghan McTigue: The Image Screen.
March 22, 2008... Eoghan McTigue The Image Screen Kuttner Siebert Galerie, Berlin. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Eoghan McTigue's exhibition The Image Screen at Kuttner Siebert Galerie in Berlin is composed of large, C-print photographs. Almost...

The Painting of Modern Life.
March 22, 2008... The Painting of Modern Life Various artists, including: Richard Artschwager, Vija Celmins, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Richard Hamilton, Eberhard Havekost, David Hockney, Johannes Kahr, Malcolm Morley, Gerhard Richter, Luc Tuymans, Andy...

Thomas Hirschhorn: Jumbo Spoons and Big Cake.
March 22, 2008... THOMAS HIRSCHHORN JUMBO SPOONS and BIG CAKE Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal First commissioned by and exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000, Thomas Hirschhorn's Jumbo Spoons and Big Cake has been reconstructed at the...

On Being an Exhibition.(collection of works that use humour and self-subversion to point towards a contemporary institutional critique)
March 22, 2008... ON BEING an EXHIBITION Various artists, including: BGL, Conrad Bakker, Isola & Norzi, Germaine Koh and Laurel Woodcock, Curated by Joseph del Pesco, Artists Space, New York Curated by Bay Area-based Joseph del Pesco, On Being an...

Mike Nelson: A Psychic Vacuum.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Mike Nelson A Psychic Vacuum Sponsored by Creative Time, The Old Essex Street Market, New York Once I'd poked my head into the filthy walk-in freezer, carefully pulled the latch handle and stepped inside--far enough to be in but not so...

One, Some, Many: 3 shows by Carsten Holler.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... ONE, SOME, MANY: 3 SHOWS BY CARSTEN HOLLER Shawinigan Space, Shawinigan, PQ Belgian bigwig Carsten Holler's first Canadian solo show was a work of pure spectacle in search of an audience. Approaching the massive Shawinigan Space, it...

UBERleben.
March 22, 2008... UBERleben Various artists, including: Bernadette Corporation, Karl Holmqvist, Elena Kovylina, Rebecca Kressley, Malte Lochstedt, Elke Marhofer Curated by Sophie Hamacher and Louise Witthoft; Exhibition architecture by Nikolai Kaindl,...

Jenny Holzer.
March 22, 2008... JENNY HOLZER The Parliament Street silos, Luminato Festival, Toronto What should have been a landmark event took place on a Saturday night last June in Toronto. The massive Victory Soya Mills silos on the Parliament Slip, just south of...