C: International Contemporary Art articles from September 2002

C: International Contemporary Art archives from September 2002

Salon des refuses: the narrative subtractions of three Canadian fiction writers.
September 22, 2002... Here are three fiction writers who, in a very precise and measured, yet not experimental or radical way, play with the restriction of common analphabetic symbols -- the question mark, the apostrophe, the quotation mark -- as well as proper...

Outlaw woman. (Torpor, Los Angeles).
September 22, 2002... It was such a hostile thing for her to do, is how an artist friend described the recent suicide of another. And there you have it: you might think by cutting your wrists or hanging your. self by a sash from the edge of a loft bed that you will...

Toom much: the triumph of high production values.
September 22, 2002... Solemn Gerhard Richter came to New York this spring with a ponderous retrospective at MoMA so staggeringly fraught as to scare the bejesus out of anyone with a regard for the depth of their own experience and a pair of functioning eyeballs. I...

Self-criticism (Medea & Marsyas). (Projects).
September 22, 2002... Made from golden Silly Putty, this Rorschach-like silhouette is of the artist, seen from the front and back. It alludes to two cautionary tales. A scorned wife, Medea, offers her rival a deadly gift of golden garments. As further vengeance...

The other side of the clock: the 2002 Biennale of Sydney.
September 22, 2002... Biennials offer the promise of a clean slate: the crackling vision of the director meshing seamlessly with a zeitgeist. But too often they are like movie franchises, the same cast or lookalikes, a few plot twists, some thrills and spills, and...

AD HOC. (Project).
September 22, 2002... In general, we go through life ignoring ads, but when it comes to art magazines, advertising is privileged. In the art context it's the ads that tell us what's going on and who's showing where. This may be the only place where advertisers...

Private public art venues & the untamed audience.
September 22, 2002... If a tree lives for 100 years it is because it obeys the logic of its own being. In the same way a building is built to facilitate commerce, and a house to put a roof over one's head. Amongst this economy of purpose, within which each part...

The unreadable present: Nadia Myre & Kent Monkman.
September 22, 2002... Not all of the Cree phrases that my mother knew were insults, but my favourite was. I can't recall the complete phrase anymore. I remember one word: mistahi-muskwa or big bear. For a long time I didn't know what this phrase meant, only that my...

Rat-drifting music / detouring around the map. (The Invisible Arts).
September 22, 2002... If you have a toddler in the notorious incessant-question stage, you immerse yourself in the reference section to become an instant expert on the wherefores of the blueness of the sky, the friendship of thunder and rain, the criminal...

Documenta: ein echo. (Project).
September 22, 2002... This project is built, around Hansjurgen Hafner's essay on Documenta XI. The original German text is presented here alongside a Babelfish translation by Paul de Guzman. (Babelfish is a software program available on the Internet that translates...

Twitching & scratching: the videos of Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby.
September 22, 2002... Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby are a couple from Canada, now living in Chicago. They make videos that are poetic and goofy. Critics call them "video anthems." They do have an anthem feel, like stoner songs. Little lo-fi films you can...