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May 2010


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Edgar Arceneaux et al Philosophy of Time Travel 2007

Feature

It Was What It Was: Modern Ruins

Gilda Williams on the politics and aesthetics of ruins

If there is a difference between derelict buildings and ruins, could the distinction relate to the oppressive systematisation inherent in modernist architecture? And how have artists explored the difference between the two terms?

'Ever since Italian Renaissance writers fantasised about reviving the glories of Ancient Rome evidenced in their grand and broken antiquities, ruins have been put to work for politico-cultural causes.'

 

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David Maljkovic Retired Form 2008

Feature

The New Transcendentalism

Mark Prince on the rejection of relativism

One of the defining factors of postmodern pluralism is its rejection of earnest credulity in favour of ironic detachment. But increasingly artists such as Richard Wright, Isa Genzken and Richard Hawkins are tackling mystical subject matter without being obviously dismissive. Does this mark the return of art that means what it says about the transcendental?

'Rather than a wholehearted affirmation of superstition or transcendental value, it is more a matter of defying the convention that relativism has become.'

 

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Jacques Rancière's The Emancipated Spectator book cover

Feature

Encountering Art

Dave Beech critiques Jacques Rancière's concept of the 'emancipated spectator'

Jacques Rancière's new book argues against a social experience of art and defends the role of the spectator. But is he not defending the privileged? And in this view of art's encounter, who is left out?

'Although Rancière's politics takes sides with the systemically impoverished, excluded and denigrated, when it comes to the question of cultural politics he takes sides with art's empowered subject - the spectator - rather than culture's impoverished, excluded and denigrated subject: the philistine.'

Comment

Editorial

All Washed Up

In a move trumpeted as protecting and stimulating the creative industries in the internet age, a new law effectively allows corporations to shut off online access unless individuals prove themselves innocent.

'In politics as in comedy timing is everything, especially when it comes to passing unpopular legislation. Thus it was that, in what is known as the 'wash-up' period of a parliament, fewer than 40 MPs turned up to debate the controversial Digital Economy Bill, which has now become law.'

Letters

Artist Gillian Cook responds to Colin Perry's review of the 'From Floor to Sky' exhibition at P3 in London, and Colin Perry replies.

Artnotes

Boris Johnson unveils his 'something' by Anish Kapoor; a final round of ACE Sustain grants is announced; artists and photographers sue Google; Pipilotti Rist is the world's most popular contemporary artist; galleries are launched, refurbished and closed; new studios open; and all the latest news on art world appointments, events, commissions and more.

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Mirza & Butler The Exception and the Rule 2009

Profile

Mirza & Butler

Maxa Zoller profiles the London-based duo Karen Mirza & Brad Butler

Mirza & Butler's recent project, the Museum of Non-Participation, is an open-ended series of actions inspired by a residency in Islamabad. The project's first instance took place behind a barbershop in East London and included meetings, workshops, screenings, Urdu language courses and a special edition of a Pakistani newspaper edited by the artists.

'More event and idea than exhibition or object, the Museum of Non-Participation proposed an open relationship between artwork and audience, one that stretched beyond the control of the artists.'

Reviews

Exhibitions

Richard Hamilton: Modern Moral Matters

Mark Prince

Robert Morris

Alex Coles

IRWIN: The Eye of the State

Daniel Miller

MyWar

Omar Kholeif

Jenny Holzer

Paul Usherwood

A History of Irritated Material

Eliza Williams

Martin Honert

Coline Milliard

Jennet Thomas: All Suffering SOON TO END!

David Trigg

Angela de la Cruz: After

Anna Maria Maiolino: Continuous

Klara Kemp-Welch

Art Sheffield - Life: A User's Manual

David Briers

Animism

Chris Clarke

Mark Francis

Bob Dickinson

Jyll Bradley

Gill Hedley

Reviews

Books

The Fall of the Studio: Artists at Work

Alex Coles on Wouter Davidts and Kim Paice's examination of the changing role of the artist's studio

'The contributors have been selected on the basis that their research heeds the editors' premise that "instead of upholding the accepted wisdom or narrative that the studio has fallen", the present task of scholarship on the studio is to "ambitiously question ... assumptions that underlie the popular and international discussion of the 'post-studio'". An obvious danger would have been to fall back on a more conservative plea for a return to the studio - something the editors avoid.'

Reviews

Film

Hannah Sawtell

Maria Walsh on the artist's contribution to Serpentine Cinema

'The baroque-style interior and intimate setting of The Gate cinema provided a fitting frame for Hannah Sawtell's Entroludes 1-6, 2010, six short films whose imagery, mainly culled from the internet, enfolds to create semi-abstract assemblages that perform in virtual space with uncanny alacrity.'

Report

Symposium

PhotoFilm: Stillness and Movement

Sophia Phoca on Tate Modern's film conference

'In the opening address Sigune Hamann explained that the event would concentrate on how we conceive and experience time and movement. This was a refreshing focus on the way the image is experienced phenomenologically, rather than the heavily trodden path of structuralist analysis of the image.'

Report

Report

What looms for the Henry Moore Institute?

Axel Lapp has his concerns about the changing focus of the Henry Moore Institute

'Even though the HMI has since done its utmost to defuse all concerns, asserting that "there are no plans to close the Institute or reduce its activities", the reality seems to tell a slightly different story.'

Artlaw

Copyright

Street Legal

Henry Lydiate on the copyright status of street art

'Does copyright law permit publicly sited artworks to be filmed or photographed, and the resulting images merchandised commercially, without the prior consent of the copyright owner of that public art?'

Listings

Exhibitions

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Opportunities

Jobs

Director

Seeking candidates with a proven record of success at a managerial level, with the skills to develop its public programmes, artists' studios and commercial potential.
Spike Island, Bristol | 7 May
www.spikeisland.org.uk

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Curator £27,000

Developing and managing projects with three years curating for a photography organisation, a good understanding of race, representation and human rights.
Autograph ABP | 26 May
www.autograph-abp.co.uk

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Exhibition Manager

Royal Academy of Arts, London | 10 May
www.royalacademy.org.uk/careers

Professor/Reader in Painting

University of Ulster | 28 May
www.ulster.ac.uk/jobs

Professor of Fine Art

University of Kent, Medway Campus | 14 May
www.kent.ac.uk/jobs

Assistant Director - Arts, Heritage & Libraries

London Borough of Ealing | 11 May
www.ealing.gov.uk

Director

Annely Juda Fine Art, London | 18 May
ajfa@annelyjudafineart.co.uk

Head of Education & Learning

Bow Arts Trust, London | 10 May
www.bowarts.org

Director

The Chinati Foundation, USA | no deadline
www.chinati.org

Grants/Scholarships

Visual Arts Grant

Marcelino Botín Foundation, Spain | 7 May
www.fundacionmbotin.org

PhD Studentships in Creative & Cultural Studies

University of the West of Scotland | 31 May
www.uws.ac.uk/research

Phd Studentship

Edinburgh College of Art | 14 May
www.eca.ac.uk

$100,000 grant for individual projects

Sharjah Art Foundation | 1 Jun
www.sharjahart.org

Call for research projects on artistic theory

CA2M, Madrid | 21 May
www.ca2m.org

Conservation Research Fellowship

The Clothworkers's Foundation, London | 21 May`
www.clothworkers.co.uk

Competitions/Commissions

Win an Art Break to Holland!

Enter the quiz for the chance to win an art break for two to Amsterdam with KLM and Holland Art Cities.
Holland Art Cities | 31 May
www.winahollandartbreak.co.uk

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Six individual art work commissions

Métamatic Research Initiative, Amsterdam | 1 Jun
www.metamaticresearch.info

The Mark Tanner Sculpture Award

Standpoint Gallery, London | 31 May
www.standpointlondon.co.uk

The Threadneedle Prize

Mall Galleries, London | 1 Jun
www.threadneedleprize.com

Residencies/Fellowships

Visual Arts Creative Development Programme

Cove Park, Cove | 14 May
www.covepark.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

Going Dutch Residency Opportunity

Artquest, Amsterdam | 4 May
www.artquest.org.uk

Virtue & Industry professional development

Picture This, Bristol | 15 May
www.picture-this.org.uk

1 month summer residency

Meltdowns, Ramsgate | 28 May
www.meltdowns.co.uk

Résidences secindaires - three month residency

Centre d'Art Contemporain Parc St-léger, France | 31 May
www.parcsaintleger.fr/residences

Residency available in America

McColl Centre for Visual Art, Charlotte | 3 May
www.mccollcentre.org

Exhibiting

Fundada Artists Film Festival

Square Chapel, Halifax | 31 May
www.fundadaartistsfilmfestival.blogspot.com

Visions in the Nunnery 2010

Nunnery Gallery, London | 24 May
www.openvisions.org

Guest Projects Open Submissions

Guest Projects, London | 28 May
www.guestprojects.com

Mill 24

Islington Mill, London | 29 May
www.mill24.blogspot.com

All That Glitters is Not Institution

The Whitechapel gallery, London | 30 May
www.scareinthecommunity.com

Open Here 2010

Hereford Photography Festival | 31 May
www.photofest.org

Call for drawing submissions

Pilsen International Biennial of Drawing, Czech Republic | 30 May
www.bienale-plzen.cz/en

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