C: International Contemporary Art articles from September 2005

C: International Contemporary Art archives from September 2005

Terence Koh: Koh agreed to talk so long as I did not ask too many questions.(Interview)
September 22, 2005... When I spoke to him in late July of 2005, Terence Koh was on holiday in Salzburg. He was reluctant to do an interview, busy with his show over, yet still at the Vienna Secession. Koh agreed so long as I did not ask too many questions. MB...

Andrew Pollock: Andrew Pollock has been my best friend since 1991. This interview is dedicated to Jess Zorn and Josh Beckman.(Interview)
September 22, 2005... AB I hate my friends. I mean the people, the fucking assholes I ran the gallery CANADA with in New York City. I want to interview you about losing friends. AP You want to write what you know. AB Yes, about the douchebags, you know that...

Glenn Ligon.(Interview)
September 22, 2005... "Make of me always a man who questions!" These axe Franz Fanon's final words in his important book about anti-colonialism, Black Skin, White Masks (1952). For African-American artist Glenn Ligon, asking questions, the ones that linger and...

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller.("Road Trip" installation)(Interview)
September 22, 2005... I first met Janet and George in 2000, when I was editorial assistant on their first monograph, edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev on occasion of their big 2001 survey exhibition at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. This...

Gregory Burke: Karl Popper described New Zealand as the last stop before the moon.(Interview)
September 22, 2005... This August, Gregory Burke, director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, New Zealand, got on a plane and flew to Toronto. Burke made the trip to assume directorship of the Power Plant, Toronto's premiere non-collecting...

Robert Storr: one should always look at new art.(Interview)
September 22, 2005... Curator, critic and teacher Robert Storr has long been recognized as one of the most active and engaging advocates of modern art in the world today. He was curator of painting and sculpture at New York's Museum of Modern Art from 1990 to 2002,...

Noam Gonick.(Interview)
September 22, 2005... True confession: Before I saw his recent feature film Stryker at the Ontario College Of Art And Design earlier this year, I didn't know a lot about Noam Gonick. After interviewing him by phone-me at a sweltering, heat wave---cramped desk in...

BGL: Jasmin Bilodeau, Sebastien Giguere, Nicolas Laverdiere.("Need To Believe," Mercer Union gallery, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal)(Interview)
September 22, 2005... Used plastic glasses litter the entrance of the Mercer Union gallery in Toronto, brown water drips on torched office furniture, a gas canister sits nearby. A limbo of office detritus, coffee maker, photocopier, distracts me from the tools...

Emotion Pictures: Bas Jan Ader, Loulou Cherinet, Lili Dujourie, Daniel Guzman, Nestor Kruger, Mark Lewis, Maria Lusitano, Sophie Nys, David Shrigley, Jari Silomaki, Lily Van Der Stokker, Althea Thauberger, Gitte Villesen & Lars Erik Frank, Stephen Waddell, Tom Zummer Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen.
September 22, 2005... EMOTION PICTURES BAS JAN ADER, LOULOU CHERINET, LILI DUJOURIE, DANIEL GUZMAN, NESTOR KRUGER, MARK LEWIS, MARIA LUSITANO, SOPHIE NYS, DAVID SHRIGLEY, JARI SILOMAKI, LILY VAN DER STOKKER, ALTHEA THAUBERGER, GITTE VILLESEN & LARS ERIK FRANK,...

Gregory Crewdson: Beneath The Roses.(White Cube Gallery, London, United Kingdom)
September 22, 2005... GREGORY CREWDSON BENEATH THE ROSES WHITE CUBE GALLERY, LONDON, UK The opening of Gregory Crewdson's Beneath The Roses exhibition in London's Hoxton Square had an atmosphere of carnival as more than a thousand revellers swarmed the pavement...

Toby Paterson: After the Rain.(Curve Gallery, Barbican, London, United Kingdom)
September 22, 2005... TOBY PATERSON AFTER THE RAIN BARBICAN GALLERY, LONDON UK It is impossible to ignore the brutalist labyrinth that is the Barbican. Toby Paterson's recent installation After the Rain resonates in this architectural anomaly in the centre of...

Ana Rewakowicz: Dressware: SleepingBagDress.
September 22, 2005... Ana Rewakowicz's SleepingBagDress is an attractive shiny, full-length garment that can be inflated into a transparent one-person tent and refuge. This fragile nomadic shelter suggests many contexts: ancient archaeological sites, rainy city...

Marlena Kudlicka: The Image That Emits No Shadow.(Location One, New York)
September 22, 2005... MARLENA KUDLICKA THE IMAGE THAT EMITS NO SHADOW LOCATION ONE, NEW YORK Polish artist Marlena Kudlicka presented The Image That Emits No Shadow this May at Location One. On a large wall of a dark room the word "sunset" is projected twice:...

Susanna Heller: City Watch.(Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada)
September 22, 2005... SUSANNA HELLER CITY WATCH OAKVILLE GALLERIES, ONTARIO Before the events of 9/11, Susanna Heller had a studio at the World Trade Center in New York City. Her latest work looks at the architectural loss of the twin towers, and their...

Luis Jacob: Open Your Mouth and Your Mind Will Follow.(AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada)
September 22, 2005... LUIS JACOB OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND YOUR MIND WILL FOLLOW AKA, SASKATOON My partner Tim and I run an artist-in-residence program from our home because we crave contact with artists, specifically in a domestic setting where we can eat together,...

Kathryn Walter: Remnants.(Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto, Canada)
September 22, 2005... KATHRYN WALTER REMNANTS ZSA ZSA GALLERY, TORONTO Virtual capitalism assures us that economic production is now dean. Industrial spaces are transformed into expensive lofts or tourist centres, supply shops become art galleries, manufacturing...

Robert Lee: Minima Moralia.(Images Festival 2005, Toronto, Canada)
September 22, 2005... ROBERT LEE MINIMA MORALIA IMAGES FESTIVAL 2005, TORONTO "Every visit to the cinema leaves me against all my vigilance, stupider and worse."--Theodor Adorno I suspect Robert Lee must approach his own images with a reluctance similar to...

Dedicated To You, But You Weren't Listening.(The Power Plant gallery, Toronto)
September 22, 2005... DEDICATED TO YOU, BUT YOU WEREN'T LISTENING DAVE ALLEN, JENNIFER ALLORA AND GUILLERMO CALZADILLA, ANDREW DADSON, JEREMY DELLER, G.L.N. (MAURA DOYLE AND TONY ROMANO), DAN GRAHAM, JONATHAN MONK, DEREK SULLIVAN, ZIN TAYLOR, TERCERUNQUINTO CURATED...