December-January Issue
Richard Tuttle I Don’t Know . The Weave of Textile Language 2014
Interview
Equal and Opposite
Richard Tuttle interviewed by Mark Wilsher
One of the most influential postminimalists, US artist Richard Tuttle is renowned for his use of small-scale, fragile works made from wire, paper and fabric. Here, marking his work's dramatic change of scale for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, he discusses the values of art, what the job of the artist is, and his new friend William Hogarth.
'Recently I have been thinking that I'm an example of a kind of artist who is mystical and individualist, and I can see very well that the world tolerates that type for brief periods, but you cannot expect a huge or lasting interest. So in that small window I should do what is appropriate.'
Omer Fast The Casting 2007
Feature
Unreliable Evidence
Francis Frascina on countering histories
Photography is often deployed by politicians and commentators as a claim for truth, yet time and again we suffer the consequences as these apparent facts fail to materialise. How, in the digital age, have artists from Omer Fast and Steve McQueen to Santiago Sierra and Hito Steyerl revealed the mercurial nature of photographic truth?
'To produce critical art on recent and current horrors – not only in the Middle East – artists have to grapple with particularly problematic politics of representation exacerbated by digital surveillance.'
Andy Warhol Kiss the Boot 1966
Feature
Against Judgement
Photography problematises judgement argues
Paul O'Kane
Photography has long had an uneasy relationship with the category 'art' – could it be because by its very nature it undermines the foundations of judgement about art?
'Might photography have newly problematised the act under consideration here, the act of judgement? ... Andre Malraux's description of photography as a "Museum Without Walls" highlights photography's potential for generous inclusivity and thus its innate tendency to judge judgement itself.'
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Comment
Editorial
Black Christmas
As the year comes to a close, it seems that we are increasingly living in the past, as social progress made over recent decades is rolled back by our nostalgic culture and its throwback government. As for the rest of us, we can do our bit for the economy by continuing to shop til we drop.
'While the antics of the rich and super rich fill the pages of glossy magazines and the society pages of newspapers, the poor have become a TV spectacle in programmes like Benefits Street and Skint. Poverty porn or socially engaged documentary – either way they offer ammunition to those, especially in government, who like to blame poverty on the poor.'
Letters
Response to Morgan Quaintance's 'Iniva: Fit for Purpose?'
Former Iniva staff member Grant Watson puts the case for the Friends of Iniva group and its campaign to reform the organisation.
Artnotes
ACE outlines its predictions for arts funding over coming years, and the picture it paints ain't pretty; the final report is published by the Parliamentary select committee looking into ACE's uneven distribution of national arts funds; the Baltic is in line for cuts as local goverment funding continues to feel the squeeze; Creative Scotland announces its new Regularly Funded Organisations; philosopher Bruno Latour calls for a monument to the human-ruled Anthropocene epoch before it is too late; the latest news on galleries, events, appointments, prizes and more.
Obituary
David Hall 1937-2014
Submissions: Send news items to artnotes@artmonthly.co.uk
Erica Scourti Life in AdWords 2012-13
Profile
Erica Scourti
George Vasey on the social-media artist
Erica Scourti utilises social-media networks as raw material, probing and testing their data-processing alogorithms to create self-portraits for a hashtagged age.
'Ultimately, all of Scourti’s work asks a series of fundamental questions. How do institutions seek to define forms of representation? How has technology, and specifically social media, affected our understanding of identity and subjectivity? Where does our agency reside in an online environment where our data is tracked and our behaviour is persistently manipulated?'
Reviews
Exhibitions
Ami Clarke and Richard Cochrane: Low Animal Spirits
Banner Repeater, London
Lizzie Homersham
Show Me the Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Peter Suchin
Twixt Two Worlds
Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
Paul Carey-Kent
Art of the Lived Experiment
The Bluecoat, Liverpool
Niki Russell
Glenn Ligon: Call and Response
Camden Art Centre, London
Daniella Rose King
Yorkshire Round-up
Leeds Arts Gallery • The Hepworth Wakefield • S1 Artspace
Chris Fite-Wassilak
London Round-up
Victoria Miro • Kunstraum • Daiwa Foundation • Hollybush Gardens • Imperial War Museum
Marcus Verhagen
Reviews
Film
John Smith: White Hole
Martin Herbert on the veteran filmmaker's latest work
'We begin in the dark, and we end there too. John Smith's six-minute film White Hole, 2014, starts with a visual and interpretative void, as a black screen is accompanied by backwards speech.'
Reviews
Books
Boris Groys: On the New
Dave Beech finds this polemic about the new unconvincing
'In legal parlance, Boris Groys is an unreliable witness. Like Friedrich Nietzsche, whose genealogies are fabricated to unseat orthodoxy, Groys holds a distorted mirror to history in order to upturn conventional thinking. His paradox-riddled style is charismatic. He writes fireworks.'
Round-up: Transgressions and Transmissions
Peter Suchin enjoys a dig through recent releases
'Many of the scripts collected here for the radio broadcasts Walter Benjamin made in the late 1920s and early 1930s were written with children in mind. The topics discussed are impressively wide, among them Berlin and its dialects, street vendors and toys, witch trials, postage stamp swindles, Pompeii and the Tay Bridge disaster. There are also several radio plays for children, supplemented by five theoretical accounts of radio as a medium. Throughout, Benjamin's diamond prose glitters with numerous questions aimed at his young listeners' hopefully inquiring minds.'
Reports
Cold War Utopia
The Family of Man: Then and Now
Deborah Schultz revisits the controversial exhibition
'When the exhibition first opened, the accessibility of the photographic image attracted a wide audience that was at best unfamiliar with, and, at worst, hostile to, the challenging abstraction of the time. The exhibition made the institutional space of high Modernism accessible.'
City of Dreams
Letter from New Orleans
Morgan Quaintance finds a city for artists
'There is, however, another spectre haunting the city: gentrification. For once, artists are not necessarily part of the problem. Here, New Orleans-based artists have an edge over their counterparts in New York and London. While artists and arts-based initiatives in both world cities often struggle to integrate with and support their respective resident communities (the unchecked transformation of Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Hackney and Peckham into expensive enclaves for hipster aspirants is testament to this), artists in New Orleans are an integral part of theirs.'
Artlaw
Copyright
Orphan Works
Henry Lydiate on recent legislation changes
'Orphan artworks are those where copyright owners are unknown and impossible to locate after diligent search by would-be reproducers and/or merchandisers. Authors in all creative fields have been worried that these regulations would significantly erode their copyright protection by making it easier for rip-off merchants to claim ignorance of a copyright owner's identity and to carry on regardless. How do the new regulations operate and are artists' concerns justified?'
Listings
Events
London Art Calendar
This month's highlights include:
- Renzo Martens talk ICA 1.00pm Fri 12 Dec
- Benedict Drew performance Chelsea College of Art 6.00pm Wed 17 Dec
- Glenn Ligon exhibition tour by Sophie Williamson Camden Arts Centre 3.00pm Sun 11 Jan
The updated London events calendar can also be viewed online.
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Exhibitions
Exhibition Listings
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Opportunities
Opportunities
Jobs
Managing Director
Whitechapel Gallery, London | 18 Jan
www.whitechapelgallery.org
Artistic Director
Beirut, Cairo | 13 Dec
http://beirutbeirut.org
Curatorial & Exhibitions Manager
Leeds College of Art | 12 Dec
www.leeds-art.ac.uk
Assistant to Director, Archive & Press Assistant
Carlos Ishikawa, London | 15 Dec
www.carlosishikawa.com
Call for Applications: Five Artistic Professors
University of Gothenburg | 8 Dec
www.konst.gu.se
Creative technologist teachers
Blue Shift Coding, London | 11 Jan
http://blueshiftcoding.com/jobs
Gallery Assistant
Thomas Dane, London | 5 Dec
www.thomasdanegallery.com
Art Technician
Art Move, London | 18 Dec
http://artmove.co.uk
Operations Manager
Spike Island, Bristol | 12 Jan
www.spikeisland.org.uk/opportunities
Bookshop & Information Assistant
Camden Arts Centre, London | 17 Dec
www.camdenartscentre.org
Lecturer in Art
University of Reading | 11 Jan
www.reading.ac.uk
Operations Manager
Centre of Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester | 9 Dec
www.cfcca.org.uk
Artist Educators for Isle of Dogs Consortium
Bow Arts, London | 10 Dec
www.bowarts.org/education
Centre Director
Tacchi-Morris Art Centre, Taunton | 11 Dec
http://tacchi-morris.com
Patrons Administrator
Tate Britain, London | 7 Dec
http://workingat.tate.org.uk
Curator
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh | 31 Dec
www.warhol.org
Competitions/Commissions
Mark Tanner Sculpture Award
Submissions are invited from sculptors in the UK. The award is £8,000 plus a solo show. Guest selectors: Laurence Sillars, Chief Curator at the Baltic, Gateshead & British sculptor Richard Wilson. Applications will open on the 20th December.
Standpoint Gallery, London | 20 Jan
www.standpointlondon.co.uk
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Public Artwork Open Call
Peckham Platform is pleased to announce an open call for public artwork. The artist will provide creative leadership for the delivery of a new public artwork which will explore the cross-cultural trading communities on Peckham's Rye Lane.
Peckham Platform, South East London | 15 Dec
www.peckhamplatform.com
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Frieze Artist Award 2015
Frieze Projects, London | 10 Feb
http://friezeprojects.org
Emerging Artist Award
The Converse x Dazed 2015 | 11 Jan
http://staging.dazeddigital.com
The London Open
Whitechapel Gallery, London | 12 Dec
http://thelondonopen.org
Cultural Innovation International Prize
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona | 5 Feb
www.innovationcccb.org
International Sound Art Competition
The Engine Room, London | 15 Feb
https://engineroomlondon.org
Prize for Art Criticism
Breese Little Prize | 12 Dec
www.breeselittle.com/prize-for-art-criticism
Public Art Commission
Rogers Place Arena, Canada | 14 Jan
http://publicart.edmontonarts.ca/calls
International Sculpture Symposium Open Call
Assens Shipyard, Denmark | 1 Feb
www.sculpturesymposium2015.dk
Call for Entries
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2015 | 8 Dec
www.lynnpainterstainersprize.org.uk
Public Art Commission
East Sussex County Council | 8 Dec
http://tinyurl.com/m5d7btr
Applications Open
Art Rio 15 | 13 Feb
www.artrio.art.br
Call for Entries
KINO DER KUNST Film Festival, Munich | 15 Dec
www.kinoderkunst.de
Residencies/Fellowships
Painting Fellowship 2016
Jerwood Visual Arts | 15 Jan
http://jerwoodvisualarts.org
De Ateliers Residency
Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 1 Feb
www.de-ateliers.nl
Immigration / Emigration Thematic Residency
Santa Fe Art Institute | 15 Jan
http://sfai.org
Digital Art Studio Residencies
Belfast, Ireland | 15 Dec
http://digitalartsstudios.com
Residency Open Call
Delfina Foundation, London | 18 Dec
http://delfinafoundation.com
Cove Park Visual Art Residency
Cove Park, Scotland | 24 Nov
http://covepark.org/residencies
Sculpture Space Funded Residency
New York, USA | 31 Dec
www.sculpturespace.org
Production & Exhibition Residency
La Blande Video, Canada | 19 Jan
www.labandevideo.com
Works.io Artist-in-Residence Call Out
AQB, Budapest | 19 Dec
www.works.io
2015 Residencies Open Call
Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge | 22 Dec
www.wysingartscentre.org
Roman J Witt Artist Residency
The Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design, Michigan, USA | 15 Jan
http://stamps.umich.edu/witt
Residency Opportunity for Scottish Nationals
The Royal Scottish Academy | 21 Jan
www.royalscottishacademy.org
Scholarships/Grants
Art Master Studies in Italian Cities of Art
IED - Istituto Europeo di Design offers a Master in Business Administration for Arts and Cultural Events in Venice + a Master in Arts Management with an itinerant formula (Florence / Rome + a workshop in Venice) from March 2015. Taught in English.
IED - Istituto Europeo di Design | 28 Feb
www.ied.edu
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Open Call for New Students
The School of the Damned, London| 15 Dec
http://theschoolofthedamned.com
Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowships 2015/16
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds | 12 Jan
www.henry-moore.org
Call for Applications
International Fellowship Programme, Austria | 30 Jan
http://buchsenhausen.at
Exhibiting
Open Call
WRO Media Art Biennale, Poland | 1 Jan
http://wro2015.wrocenter.pl
Call for Submissions
Asia Art Archive Open Platform, Hong Kong | 9 Jan
www.aaa.org.hk
Call for Artists
ARTMUC, Munich | 15 Jan
www.artmuc.info
2016 Conference Proposals
TransCultural Exchange, Boston | 10 Jan
www.transculturalexchange.org
Open Submission
Studio Voltaire, London | 12 Dec
www.studiovoltaire.org
Members Open Selected by Adam Chodzko
Limbo, Margate | 16 Feb
www.limboarts.co.uk
Call for Submissions
The Happy Hypocrite, Annual journal | 1 Feb
www.bookworks.org.uk
Invitation to Contribute
HOAX Publication Issue 5 | 4 Jan
www.hoaxpublication.co.uk
Call for Submissions
SALT Issue 7: Heterophobia | 31 Dec
http://saltmagazine.tumblr.com
Submissions: Send opportunities to opportunities@artmonthly.co.uk
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