C: International Contemporary Art articles from September 2003

C: International Contemporary Art archives from September 2003

The foreign issue.(Editorial)
September 22, 2003... The idea behind this issue is that some places in the world really are foreign to you. Edited from Moscow and Istanbul, it suggests that other cultures can be chasms of inaccessibility, but the art issuing from them can nonetheless be fully...

Lee & Elaine: by Ann Rower.
September 22, 2003... As reviewers from Art in America to The Advocate to The New York Times have observed, Ann Rower's Lee & Elaine has very little to do with Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning. This pisses them off. Hoping for what--a painstaking work of feminist...

The invisible arts: through Frog Eyes and a glass, darkly.
September 22, 2003... It's damned difficult to write soberly about the music Victoria's Carey Mercer makes. The calliope roar of his band Frog Eyes would best be understood in the Pacific, between Vancouver and Vancouver Island--not riding the ferry but rolling...

Interview with Gus Van Sant.
September 22, 2003... GVS Hold on a second.... Hi. BLB Do you have a visitor? GVS No, it was a phone call--we're scouting punk rockers. BLB You're what? GVS Scouting for punk rockers. BLB For your next movie? GVS Yeah. BLB Oh, cool....

Corporate Kufic.
September 22, 2003... Just as the initial spread of Islam in the seventh to ninth centuries AD was accompanied in most places by the adoption of Arabic, the holy language of the Qur'an, so too is the spread of capitalism bringing English to the world. Yet despite...

Foreign as us.
September 22, 2003... After lingering enough on the social traumas that have penetrated the deepest cells of the Self--sometimes out of therapeutic hopes, sometimes through a process of self-exoticisation--the focus of the Istanbul art scene has recently started to...

Virgorabbit, virgodeer.
September 22, 2003... If I die and come back I want to come back as a deer at Treblinka--a glorious life. Thank god for the anonymity of correspondence and if you try to prove I wrote this to you I will deny most of it. But lucky or not at 2am on 6 December 2002,...

Kaliningrad's luminous cacti.
September 22, 2003... From projects to transform the ecosystems of a continent, to orbiting mirrors capable of turning night into day, playing God with nature has always been the realm of the state in Russia. But with his plan to create a genetically engineered...

GMO art.
September 22, 2003... Ars Genetica--the precursor to Ars Chimera had humble beginnings with a flower show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1936, when photographer Edward Steichen exhibited newly created varieties of Delphinium flowers. According to a...

Will ideology pay the rent? Some text for taste.
September 22, 2003... Your Majesty, the Minister of Finance from Bonn has arrived. + Was he washed? + Quite, your majesty. + Show him to the Gold Room. + Good evening, Herr Glint. And how is the weather in Bonn lately. + Ah, your majesty, everything is under...