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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.'

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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.'

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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

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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

Lizzie Homersham

Show Me the Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present

Peter Suchin

Twixt Two Worlds

Paul Carey-Kent

Art of the Lived Experiment

Niki Russell

Glenn Ligon: Call and Response

Daniella Rose King

Yorkshire Round-up

Chris Fite-Wassilak

London Round-up

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.

Submissions: Send event info to calendar@artmonthly.co.uk

Exhibitions

Exhibition Listings

Art Monthly's exhibition listings can also be viewed online.

Submissions: Send listings to listings@artmonthly.co.uk

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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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