C: International Contemporary Art articles from September 2004

C: International Contemporary Art archives from September 2004

Traumatophilia.(Editorial)
September 22, 2004... In his book of critical essays on art, Design and Crime (2002), Hal Foster uses the word traumatophilic to describe the times we live in. In using the term--which means, presumably, being enamored with trauma--Foster opts for a kind of voodoo...

Solutions to problems that don't exist.(Slant)
September 22, 2004... The first time I met Daniel Mendel-Black, he was at art school. I looked at his work and did not understand it. He was very enchanted with grids. He said all the things people say when they're re-inventing the minimalist wheel, and the logic of...

The Father of the Raven and the New Jersey Turnpike at Night.(The Shover)
September 22, 2004... THE COURSE OF DEVELOPMENT: SCULPTURE AS FORM SCULPTURE AS STRUCTURE SCULPTURE AS SITE CARL ANDRE, 1966 The Abu Ghraib photographs, a sublime cattle car in the Bush choo choo, are a monument to the exploits of a bastard presidency that...

Letter from Halifax.
September 22, 2004... I'm holding in my mind these two concerns, which have created a strange balance of pressure, like I'm holding in my hands two ingots-of-worry: India rubber and wood, brass and pig-iron, hashish and ground glass. When I first decided to be...

Take your balls and go: Bruce La Bruce on Jackie Curtis.
September 22, 2004... One of the fortunate bi-products of the Reality TV craze has been the resurgence of interest in the documentary form which, kids are discovering, is kind of like Reality TV only without the cash prizes. This renaissance seems to have given...

Becoming Minor: revenge of the cradle Keceburnu art space and Diyarbakir Sanat Merkezi; Diyarbakir, Turkey.
September 22, 2004... Diyarbakir's walls are synonymous with the city itself. Built by Romans on a site that had already been occupied for 3000 years, extensively restored by the Turkmen Akkoyunlu dynasty in the 12th Century, they stand 10 to 12 meters tall and...

Trip into the unknown Berlin's full-blown disco perversion: the Honey-Suckle Company.
September 22, 2004... For almost a decade now, the Honey-Suckle Company have been deeply influenced by the rough landscape of underground Berlin, and for almost a decade now, they have been recreating it. Founded with a sensational nightclub debut in 1995, they have...

Daniel Richter: Optimistic Dystopian.
September 22, 2004... I like German painter Daniel Richter's work. I'm not often compelled by contemporary, figurative painting, which is a shame because I am a figurative painter. Despite what many think, and because of what many people think, painting is a...

John Bock: Multiplexkomplex Petit-Four Transmits the Beworldmigrainesolution Through the Metallic Noseairhairperiscope + Gast.
September 22, 2004... JOHN BOCK MULTIPLEXKOMPLEX PETIT-FOUR TRANSMITS THE BEWORLDMIGRAINESOLUTION THROUGH THE METALLIC NOSEAIRHAIRPERISCOPE + GAST KLOSTERFELDE GALLERY, BERLIN RODNEY LATOURELLE The work of John Bock has undergone continual transformation,...

Bill Burns: Safety Gear for Small Animals.
September 22, 2004... BILL BURNS SAFETY GEAR FOR SMALL ANIMALS SAIDYE BRONFMAN CENTRE, MONTREAL STACEY DEWOLFE At this very moment, somewhere in sub Saharan Africa, a young giraffe, testing its legs for the first time, stumbles over a heap of carelessly...

Euan Macdonald: Eclipse + Other Chance Experiences Robert Smithson: the Spiral Jetty.
September 22, 2004... EUAN MACDONALD: ECLIPSE + OTHER CHANCE EXPERIENCES ROBERT SMITHSON: THE SPIRAL JETTY CURATED BY HANS-JURGEN HAFNER KUNSTBUNKER, NOREMBERG, GERMANY SYBRANDT VAN KEULEN For me, the allure of this exhibition lies in its invitation to envision...

Rachel Harrison: Latka/Latkas.
September 22, 2004... RACHEL HARRISON: LATKA/LATKAS GREENENAFTALI GALLERY, NEW YORK LISI RASKIN Some art is so cunning it winks at its audience like a used car salesman, reinforcing prevailing taste in an effort to force consensus. People really like this kind...

11th Biennial of Visual Arts Values.
September 22, 2004... 11TH BIENNIAL OF VISUAL ARTS VALUES PANCEVO, SERBIA BERNARD SCHUETZE A biennial under the theme of Value set in Pancevo on the outskirts of Belgrade promised to be something different from the plethora of arts biennials that have cropped...

Jeremy Blake.
September 22, 2004... JEREMY BLAKE ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY, TORONTO RANDY GLADMAN In the late 19th Century in San Jose, California, William Winchester, the heir to the Winchester rifle fortune died of tuberculosis shortly after the death of Annie, his...

Together Forever: Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Massimo Guerrera and Revolutions on Request.
September 22, 2004... TOGETHER FOREVER ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS, MASSIMO GUERRERA AND REVOLUTIONS ON REQUEST CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER CURATED BY JENIFER PAPARARO KYLA MALLETT In her essay for Together Forever at Vancouver's Contemporary Art Gallery,...

Dax Morrison: Day by Day.
September 22, 2004... DAX MORRISON: DAY BY DAY ART GALLERY OF WINDSOR ALLAN ANTLIFF In Day by Day, Dax Morrison addresses the status of art as commercial product and the artist's role as producer in the process of production. He points up the absurd fissures...