Art Monthly Newsletter April 2010
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Art Monthly #335 April 2010
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Upcoming events: Talking Art at Tate Modern - Tatsuo Miyajima
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Opportunities: Jobs, competitions, commissions etc
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Art Monthly April Issue
Phillida Barlow Split 2010
Interview Why Things Are The Way Things Are
Phyllida Barlow interviewed by Colin Perry
Sculptor Phyllida Barlow studied in London during the early 1960s when the nature of sculpture, and the way it was taught, was up for grabs. Her intensely physical artworks grew in scale over the years, as did her reputation as a teacher, whose students include Bill Woodrow, Rachel Whiteread and Angela de la Cruz. Here she talks about changes in the art world, art schools and her artwork.
'Once something is a named thing, we are all at one with it. But remove the thing that gives it its name and I don't know what it becomes, and that, for me, is where the sculptural object is. It becomes an uncertain object.'
Mark di Suvero & Rirkrit Tiravanija Peace Tower 2006
Feature1965-75 Redux
Francis Frascina on an unevenly remembered decade
Considering his classic Vietnam War film too tame for contemporary audiences in 2001 Francis Ford Coppola re-edited and re-released it as Apocalypse Now Redux. But what happens when the art world remakes its own protest works from that period? And which works are being erased from the art historical canon because of their political content?
'The oppositional critique of the art world produced by the site-specific character of the 1966 Peace Tower was replaced in 2006 by a version pulled deep within an art institution. Displayed at the Whitney Biennial, it was sited in a courtyard well below sidewalk level with only the upper portion visible from Madison Avenue. For Rosler this "antiwar tower" ended up in "the museum's moat".'
Martin Kippenberger Untitled (from the series 'Dear Painter, Paint for Me') 1981
FeatureRemakes
Mark Prince on artists as curators of the self
The self portrait has been a mainstay of art for centuries, but in an age of Hello! magazine and Twitter streams, and within an art market that favours artists with recognisable signature styles, what is the role of autobiography in art? And what does it mean when artists begin to curate, or even recreate, their early works, as seen in Damien Hirst's gold-plated auction and the Chapman brothers' abject Shitrospective?
'Perhaps the curating of one's own past is as close to the obsessive self-circlings of recent literary autobiographical fiction as visual art comes. If it is a symptom of Postmodernism, it might also be seen as its potential remedy.'
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Comment Editorial Those Who Can, Teach
The two most important factors in an art school are the staff and the students. While the rise in student fees might scare off the latter, the increasing academicisation of art schools might do for the former. What has the last half century told us about the best kind of teaching in art schools, and what does the future promise?
'Bureaucrats who think students are attracted by corporate-style buildings with glass and steel atria and a glamorous brand identity should remember the inconvenient location and unprepossessing facilities that clearly didn't deter students from applying to Goldsmiths. As for academic commissars who think that art can be taught according to rigidly imposed academic criteria, they should be reminded that much of the best in art education has emerged from challenging the very idea of imposing fixed criteria.'
Letters
Michael Hampton reiterates what will be lost if Peacock Visual Arts' plans are overlooked in Aberdeen.
Artnotes
The ICA limps on without its director of exhibitions, but not on Mondays and Tuesdays; quango Audiences UK wants the views of the public to be taken into account when arts funding resources are allocated; a Tory thinktank wants to scrap Arts Council England and give everyone £11 culture vouchers instead; Tate loses another director but gains a trustee; UAL staff plan a strike ballot; and all the latest news on art world appointments, events, commissions and more.
Submissions: Send Artnotes info to artnotes@artmonthly.co.uk
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Reviews
Exhibitions From Floor to Sky
P3, London
Colin Perry
Christian Boltanski
Grand Palais, Paris
Deke Dusinberre
Whitney Biennial: 2010
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Morgan Falconer
Star City
Nottingham Contemporary
Jennifer Thatcher
Journeys With No Return
A Foundation, London
Klara Kemp-Welch
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Parasol unit, London
Maria Walsh
Swedenborg House: fourteen interventions
Swedenborg House, London
Peter Suchin
Magic Show
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
Martin Herbert
Crash
Gagosian Gallery, London
Peeping Tom
Vegas Gallery, London
David Barrett
John Smith: Solo Show
Royal College of Art
Sally O'Reilly
Ian Breakwell
QUAD, Derby
David Briers
Kathy Prendergast
Peer, London
David Trigg
Reviews Books
Ch-ch-ch-changes: Artists Talk About Teaching
Kathy Battista on David Mollin and John Reardon's interviews with artists who teach
'Reardon acknowledges the difficulty in according any objective value in the teaching of art in fine art departments. He writes that the interviews "left me more sure that a lot of good work is done by people not so convinced by things".'
Art School
Morgan Falconer on Steven Henry Madoff's attempt to define guiding principles for future art schools
'The problem many schools face is that those in power aren't so keen on the free-and-easy approach, and insist on imposing targets and assessments that are more appropriate to academic humanities such as literature or history. For Michael Craig-Martin, Margaret Thatcher was the root of this evil in the UK, when she set out to transform lowly "colleges" into "universities".'
Seeing Witness
Francis Frascina on Jane Blocker's examination of the ethics of testimony
'For Blocker the figure of the "invisible witness" pervades contemporary culture, including the academy: the irony is that, in the lecture theatre at the UN in 2003, US Secretary of State Colin Powell acted like an art historian, an "imagery specialist", pointing out the salient features of displayed images.'
Reviews A/V Aura Satz
Paul Usherwood on a film and sound installation at the AV Festival
'You enter a semi-lit space where a film is projected on one wall. So far, so familiar. But the room is furnished with a row of old-fashioned Joshua Reynolds-type ear trumpets and an array of early 20th-century gramophone and phonograph horns suspended from the ceiling, some of them bigger than the biggest sousaphone.'
Report Letter from LA Past and Present
Kathy Battista on the major changes in the Los Angeles art scene
'The most significant project to take place, and certainly a litmus test for the entrepreneurial spirit and renewed energy in LA at the moment, was the restaging of the legendary Ferus Gallery in its original site at 736 N La Cienega Boulevard.'
Salerooms London Vendors Return
Colin Gleadell on what a difference a year makes in the art market
'After the abysmal £42.7m the London salerooms took for contemporary art in February 2009, they bounced back this year with a £124.3m series in February. Experts attributed a much healthier level of supply in London to the positive results achieved in New York last November, which gave potential vendors the confidence to sell.'
Artlaw Contracts Polaroid: The Gift That Doesn't Keep Giving
Henry Lydiate on whether the works in the Polaroid Collection are gifts
'Artists have always donated their artworks to worthy recipients: family, friends, fellow practitioners, potential buyers and collectors, or charitable and other good causes. Motives for their doing so vary widely from, say, altruism or love and kindness at one extreme to bribery and corruption at the other. Clear and unambiguous documentary evidence of such gifts is needed for the recipient to be sure that the object received was a gift after all – and the reason it was given.'
Listings Exhibitions Exhibition listings
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Events
Tatsuo Miyajima Counter Coal 2008
Talking Art Tatsuo Miyajima interviewed by Marcus Verhagen
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
Saturday 24 April 2pm
Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima rose to prominence in the late 1980s with his distinctive use of glowing LED numerical counters. In later works these counters were attached to moving devices or embedded in natural materials, such as piles of coal or submerged underwater. Miyajima describes his practice as addressing humanist ideas within a Buddhist philosophy: 'keep changing, connect with everything, continue forever'. He has work in the Tate Collection, has twice exhibited in the Venice Biennale and earlier this year he presented a solo show at London's Lisson Gallery.
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Opportunities
Jobs Tutor in Art Criticism
Royal College of Art | 12 Apr
www.rca.ac.uk
Lecturer in Fine Art
University of Salford | 8 Apr
www.hr.salford.ac.uk
Director
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich | 7 Apr
www.uea.ac.uk
Head of Sculpture Studies
The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds | 9 Apr
www.henry-moore.org
Exhibition Organiser
Whitechapel Gallery, London | 12 Apr
www.whitechapelgallery.org
Artist Programme Manager
Bedford Creative Arts | 9 Apr
www.bedfordcreativearts.org.uk
Arts Manager 9 month contract
Croydon Council | 5 Apr
http://jobs.croydon.gov.uk
Professor/Reader in Painting
University of Ulster | 28 May
www.ulster.ac.uk/jobs
Freelance Curator
Eastside Community Heritage, London | 23 Apr
www.hidden-histories.org.uk
Grants/Scholarships 2010 Art Awards
The Wellcome Trust, London | 30 Apr
www.wellcome.ac.uk
Grant for artist & non-profit institution
Harpo Foundation | 15 Apr
www.harpofoundation.org
Artist Grant
The Elephant Trust | 13 Apr
www.elephanttrust.org.uk
Researcher
The Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht | 15 Apr
www.janvaneyck.nl
2010 Production Programme $100,000 grant
The Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE | 30 Apr
www.sharjahart.org
Competitions/Commissions
Artrwork commission for new building - up to £50,000
The University of Bolton, Bolton Council and NHS Bolton are seeking to commission an artist to create artwork to be integrated into the design of a new building.
Bolton One: Health, Leisure and Research Centre | Deadline: 30 April
www.bolton.ac.uk | Call 01204 903378 or email ab8@bolton.ac.uk
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Curatorial Propositions for Venice Biennale 2011
Arts Council of Wales | 16 Apr
www.artswales.org.uk
Future Generation Art Prize
Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine | 18 Apr
www.futuregenerationartprize.org
Tethervision online commission
Tether, Nottingham | 15 May
www.tether.org.uk
Commission for temporary pavilion
Wirksworth Festival | 5 Apr
www.wirksworthfestival.co.uk
Digital Art Commission
Exeter Phoenix | 14 Apr
www.exeterphoenixdigital.org.uk
Residencies/Fellowships Site Platform 2010 & Site Web Commissions
Site Gallery, Sheffield | 26 Apr
www.sitegallery.org
Artist in Residence
St John's College, Oxford | 14 May
www.sjc.ox.ac.uk
Artist in Residence
The Rea Garden, Birmingham | 13 May
www.behindcloseddoors.org.uk
Art workshop directed by Mona Hatoum
The Marcelino Botin Foundation, Spain | 16 Apr
www.fundacionmbotin.org
Residency in France
Artistay, France | 30 Apr
www.artistay.org
International Curatorial Programme
FRAME & HIAP, Helsinki | 1 May
www.hiap.fi
Residency in the US
McColl Centre for Visual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina | 3 May
www.mccollcenter.org
Exhibiting Fundada Artists Film Festival
Square Chapel, Halifax | 31 May
www.fundadaartistsfilmfestival.blogspot.com
Mill 24
Islington Mill, London | 29 May
www.mill24.blogspot.com
Emergeandsee festival 2010
Emergeandsee, Berlin | 15 Apr
www.emergeandsee.org
Sculpture in Context 2010
National Botanic Gardens, Dublin | 16 Apr
www.sculptureincontext.com
Lines of Desire
Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown | 30 Apr
www.orieldavies.org
Open Here 2010
Hereford Photography Festival | 31 May
www.photofest.org/openhere
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