C: International Contemporary Art articles from September 2008

C: International Contemporary Art archives from September 2008

Art diasporas.(Editorial)
September 22, 2008... The French philosopher Henri Bergson defines the present as "ungraspable... the past devouring the future: It's a conceptualization that suggests turmoil, flux and the idea of "a gap"; or maybe, not a gap so much as the impression of what we...

Bruce Conner, 1933-2008.(Obituary)
September 22, 2008... Bruce Conner, who died in San Francisco on July 7, led more lives in his 74 years than most of us could begin to imagine. An unpredictable and inveterate trickster, he made sculptures, collages, films, prints, drawings, paintings, photos and...

Glad the CIA is immoral: Jacob Wren on Lene Berg, an artist whose work makes unexpected connections between the CIA and globalism.(VIEWS)
September 22, 2008... Lene Berg's artist's book arrives in the mail in a zip-lock bag. On the front of the bag is a large green sticker with a text in white letters. The heading reads INSTRUCTION MANUAL, and it begins as follows: Gentlemen & Arseholes...

An institution is defined by its ability to ask questions ... a report on the 2008 IKT congress in Montreal: renegotiating a critical curatorial practice in the face of new challenges.(International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art)
September 22, 2008... When some 140 contemporary art curators met in Montreal for the 2008 International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT) Congress in May, it was the organization's first meeting outside Europe. IKT exists to stimulate innovation and...

Between home and elsewhere: factoring in Brancusi, Cioran and Celan, Romanian artists have had an outsized influence on the modern world. Counting herself a member of this diaspora, Toronto curator Mona Filip reflects on the newest chapter of this history.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... As a young teenager in Bucharest in the 80s, I would fall asleep every night to Voice of America or Free Europe playing on my grandmother's radio, louder and louder as she grew increasingly deaf. Certain things that had to do with the politics...

Global Canadians: as Earl Miller notes, leaving the country is something of a tradition for Canadian artists.
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On a climate-change-driven balmy evening last September, I attended a launch party for C Magazine on the patio of that Toronto club with the Canadiana name: the Beaver. Performing a quick count, I calculated that...

Artist Centrefold: United Nations, ISO 216.(Company overview)
September 22, 2008... Parachute was co-founded in 1975 by Chantal Pontbriand and France Morin, in the wake of what Marie-Eve Charron calls "Quebec's May 1968." (1) Between 1968 and 1975, students and cultural workers in Montreal sought to secure a social function...

From Montreal to the world: Parachute Magazine--1975-2006? Tammer El-Sheikh looks at the history of Parachute and talks with the magazine's editor, Chantal Pantbriand, about its future as a publication--and a brand.
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The magazine's ambition "to develop a critical language" (5) for a borderless discourse on current art practices was signalled by Poulin's design for the craft-paper cover of Issue 1: a reproduction of Vladimir...

From Beijing to Paris to San Francisco: Hou Hanru in conversation: currently Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and Chair of the Exhibitions and Museum Studies program at the San Francisco Art Institute, the career of Chinese curator Hou Hanru has kept pace with the emergence of a globalized art world.
September 22, 2008... Recently, I had an opportunity to speak with Hou Hanru, a prolific curator and writer who has been inventing and reinventing himself and his profession for two decades. In 2006 he was appointed Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and...

Otherwise unexplained fires: Joyce Wieland and the experimental film scene in 1960s New York: a fixture of New York's avant-garde film milieu in the 60s, Wieland's ultimate subject was Canada.(sailboat)
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the spring of 1971, Joyce Wieland sat down with her close friend and occasional collaborator, American filmmaker Hollis Frampton, and recorded a discussion about their respective art practices. Frampton took on...

John Abrams: Cinema Vernis.
September 22, 2008... JOHN ABRAMS: CINEMA VERNIS Curated by RM Vaughan, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton John Abrams' solo show Cinema Vernis at the McMaster Museum of Art uses film images, which the artist translates into paintings ranging in size and...

Orientalism and Ephemera.
September 22, 2008... ORIENTALISM AND EPHEMERA Curated by Jamelie Hassan, Art Metropole, Toronto; The Art Gallery of Windsor; The Ottawa Art Gallery; Centre A, Vancouver Orientalism and Ephemera, curated by London, Ontario-based artist and activist Jamelie...

Geoffrey Farmer: Forgetting Air/ Gareth Moore: As a Wild Boar Passes Water.
September 22, 2008... GEOFFREY FARMER: FORGETTING AIR (1)/ GARETH MOORE: AS A WILD BOAR PASSES WATER Witte de With, Rotterdam It's no secret that Vancouver artists enjoy special status in Europe. Recent programming at Rotterdam's Witte de With provides...

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art.
September 22, 2008... MARTIAN MUSEUM OF TERRESTRIAL ART Featuring Marina Abramovic, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, John Bock, Chris Burden, Spartacus Chetwynd, Christo Jean-Claude, Barbara Hepworth, Luis Jacob, Brian Jungen, Mike Nelson, Piero Manzoni,...

Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson.
September 22, 2008... TAKE YOUR TIME: OLAFUR ELIASSON Curated by Roxana Marcoci and Klaus Biesenbach, Museum of Modern Art and PSI Contemporary Art Center, New York Take your time is a grand staging of 38 Olafur Eliasson sculptures and installations at the...

Kevin Rodgers: the Mystics and the Passions.
September 22, 2008... KEVIN RODGERS: THE MYSTICS AND THE PASSIONS Goodwater Gallery, Toronto In March 2007, the United Nations Plaza in Berlin hosted five short talks by Liam Gillick. They mostly dealt with the relationship between politics and art, but...

The Dad Tapes/the Mom Photographs: Kim Waldron.
September 22, 2008... THE DAD TAPES/THE MOM PHOTOGRAPHS: KIM WALDRON Co-production of Galerie Werner Whitman and Articule Special Projects, Montreal After being shown at, the Eastern Edge Gallery in St. John s, Newfoundland, Kim Waldron's exhibition The Dad...

In regards to the review in C98 of Brice Marden.(LETTER to the EDITOR)
September 22, 2008... In Regards to the Review in C98 of Brice Marden, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, by Sholem Krishtalka Krishtalka's critique of Brice Marden's work (by ironically advocating his supposed naivety) provides evidence of a greater trend in...