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October 2014

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Pablo Bronstein Enlightenment Discourse on The Origins of Architecture 2014 installation and performance

Interview

Oddball-ness

Pablo Bronstein interviewed by Jennifer Thatcher

Argentine-born British artist Pablo Bronstein has developed a hybrid practice involving drawing, installation, performance and public work based partly on a postmodern view of 18th-century architecture. Here he talks about lighthouses, loft conversions, extreme interior decoration and the problems of art-school education.

'There is an extremely irritating connection between a liberal, left-wing stance within visual culture and a romanticised, ruinist-modernist aesthetic. It absolutely drives me mad!'

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Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead 2012

Feature

Public Art Attack

Andrew Hunt on the importance of antagonism in public art

Public art is often seen as the worst kind of bland, art-by-committee cultural filler, but haven't recent works by artists such as Bill Drummond, Scott King and Mike Nelson shown how genuinely charged art in the public arena can be?

'Scott King's concept of "de-regeneration" has previously allowed for an emotive deconstruction of regeneration through the proposal of alternative monuments.'

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Liberate Tate Hidden Figures 2014
anti-BP sponsorship protest at Tate Modern

Feature

To Boycott or not to Boycott?

Dave Beech asks the question

Political activism has made an astonishing return to the art world over the past few years, with the threat of artists' withholding their work from exhibitions the most popular recent trend. But what is the nature of these different protest tactics, and how can artists effect change?

'The art boycott is not principally associated with the withdrawal from work but the withdrawal of participation, in which participation is understood to be charged with ethical consent.'

Comment

Editorial

The Ties That Bind

When former Tory minister for universities and science, David Willetts, is arguing that student debt should be sold to universities, thus giving the educational establishments the job of debt-collector, isn't it clear that the policy of introducing student fees has failed by its own, economic, measure?

'David Willetts does concede that there might be "more to university than a graduate's subsequent employment and earnings", but crucially student debt is, in his words, an "increasingly significant asset" that would provide universities with a valuable "income stream". This is an entirely logical view, now that universities are businesses first and only secondarily places of education.'

Letters

Selfie

Michael Hampton feels that the vogue for selfies ties into a longer tradition of the memento mori.

Artnotes

Blackpool councillors questionably use the election purdah rule to postpone a show by Jennet Thomas; artist boycotts and curatorial resignations rock a 'celebratory' show in Gwangju; Russia's Soviet-era public art is reworked by activists; the São Paulo Bienal bows to artist pressure and distances itself from Israeli state funding; Tate Modern and New York's Met play unwitting hosts to environmental campaigners; the latest news on galleries, events, appointments, prizes and more.

Submissions: Send news items to artnotes@artmonthly.co.uk

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Reviews

Exhibitions

Folkestone Triennial: Lookout

Paul Carey-Kent

GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland

Rosie Lesso

Gego: Line as Object

Cherry Smyth

Broomberg & Chanarin: Divine Violence

Bob Dickinson

Lee Bul

Peter Suchin

London Round-up

Eliza Williams

Carlyle Reedy: Icons of a Process

Martin Holman

Sophie Lee: Sugars, Protein and Salt (Perfect Fried I)

Morgan Quaintance

Reviews

Performance

Space-Time: The Future

Nick Warner samples Wysing's annual art-music festival

'After a claustrophobic and, frankly, upsetting hour in which dissonant punk band Woolf nearly destroyed the already precarious Amphis stage, I staggered back into the studio stage and settled down to a screening of Rachael Maclean's films.'

Hester Reeve: YMEDACA

David Briers enrols in Yorkshire Sculpture Park's open-air academy

'Hester Reeve is zooming around the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in a Gator truck dressed in a beige goddess-like artist's smock, hair streaming in the wind. She is dispensing flasks of tea and coffee to outlying groups participating in her project to transform the YSP into a contemporary version of Plato's "Academos", YMEDACA.'

Caroline Bergvall: Drift

Cherry Smyth witnesses a metaphoric storm of language

'In an hour-long performance, Bergvall navigates the vastness, the lure, the connectivity and the dangers of the sea, moving through maritime chronology and topography with great intimacy and awe.'

Reviews

Books

Claire Bishop: Radical Museology

Andrew Hunt finds a future for institutions

'If there is any radical element in this publication, it is most clearly articulated in Reina Sofia's aim: to redefine its collection as an "archive of the commons" by legally recategorising works of art as documentation and thereby increasing accessibility for its visitors.'

Polemic

Institutional Isomorphism

Iniva: Fit for Purpose?

Morgan Quaintance examines the institutional pressures on Iniva

'Looking beyond individual accountabilities, it is clear that Iniva's current fate is a result of institutional forces outside its control, forces that continually push susceptible organisations in the art world towards homogeneity in structure, culture and output.'

Report

Letter from Dawson City

Gold Rush

Nick Warner finds an unlikely cultural scene in Yukon

'The installations are an unapologetically confusing yet disarmingly delightful mash-up of adolescent profanities, ridiculously conceived products and highly unlikely characters. I mentally punished myself for expecting to walk into a room full of baskets and totems.'

Report

Conference

Identity Politics Redux

Daniela Rose King is asked 'Who do you think you are?' in Antwerp

'As a somewhat incoherent set of provocations, the forum could be understood as an experimental manifestation of the inconsistencies of identity politics and the "self" in art and wider culture today.'

Listings

Events

London Art Calendar

This month's highlights include:

  • Writing on Art Today seminar Drawing Room 6.30pm Fri 10 Oct
  • Oreet Ashery performance Swedenborg House 7.00pm Thu 16 Oct
  • Joseph Kosuth in conversation with Hans-Ulrich Obrist Royal College of Art 6.30pm Tue 28 Oct

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

Director

Arnolfini, Bristol | 10 Oct
www.arnolfini.org.uk

Deputy Director

Chisenhale Gallery | 1 Oct
www.chisenhale.org.uk

Arts News Editor

Christie's, London | 5 Oct
www.christies.com

Gallery Technician

Galerie Gmurzynska, Switzerland | 31 Oct
www.gmurzynska.com

Site & Technical Assistants

Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge | Ongoing
www.wysingartscentre.org

Lecturer in Fine Art

De Montfort University, Leicester | 3 Oct
www.dmu.ac.uk

Production Assistant

Arnolfini, Bristol | 2 Oct
www.arnolfini.org.uk

Assistant Conservator, Frames and Furniture

The Wallace Collection | 3 Oct
www.wallacecollection.org


Competitions/Commissions

Call for entries – Jerwood Makers Open

An opportunity for artists and collaborative practices working across craft and design disciplines. Five awards of £7,500 and support to develop new work for exhibition.
Jerwood Visual Arts | 4 Nov
www.jerwoodvisualarts.org

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Breese Little Prize for Art Criticism Volume X – Dec 2014

For aspiring art critics aged 21 and over. £1,000 prize and publication in Elephant magazine. New judges, rules and supporters online.
Breese Little Prize | 12 Dec
www.breeselittle.com

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The Bar Tur Photobook Award

The Photographers' Gallery | 30 Oct
www.barturphotobookaward.org.uk

BRASS: Pitch

Brass: Durham International Festival 2015 | 13 Oct
www.artsjobs.org.uk

Short Film Award

Flatpack Film Festival | 22 Nov
www.flatpackfestival.org.uk

Call for entries

KINO DER KUNST Film Festival, Munich | 15 Nov
www.kinoderkunst.de

Open Call

FORMAT International Photography Festival | 1 Oct
www.formatfestival.com


Residencies/Fellowships

Standpoint Futures 2015

Development residencies for visual artists based in regional UK, providing tailored interaction with the London art world. 4-6 weeks working in Hoxton, London.
Standpoint, London | 3 Nov
www.standpointlondon.co.uk

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Borough Road Gallery Artist Residency

London | 20 Oct
www.boroughroadgallery.co.uk

Akademie Schloss Solitude

Stuttgart, Germany | 31 Oct
http://application.akademie-solitude.de

RUD AIR

Dalsland, Sweden | 15 Nov
http://rudair.tumblr.com

Acme Studios Fire Station Work/Live Residency

London | 31 Oct
www.acme.org.uk

Artists Unlimited Residency

Bielefeld, Germany | 1 Oct
www.artists-unlimited.de

London Summer Intensive 2015: Residency Programme

London | Feb 15
www.londonintensive.org

Platform Residencies: Open Call

Site Gallery | 31 Oct
www.sitegallery.org

International Artist Residency

The NARS Foundation, USA | 1 Oct
www.narsfoundation.org

Archisle: International Photographer in Residence Programme

The Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme | 15 Oct
www.archisle.org.je


Scholarships/Grants

Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowships 2015/16

Call for applications: Fellowships and Senior Fellowships offered annually to artists, scholars and curators who can make use of the Institute's resources.
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds | 12 Jan
www.henry-moore.org

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Free Study programme: 2015 call for associate artists

Open School East, London | 6 Oct
www.openschooleast.org

UK Artist at Penland Fellowship 2015

Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina, USA | 31 Oct
www.penland.org


Exhibiting

Call for Artists

Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil | 16 Nov
www.videobrasil.org.br

Call for Submissions

Outpost Members’ Show, Norwich | 13 Oct
www.norwichoutpost.org

Call for Curatorial Proposals

Salisbury Arts Centre | 2 Oct
www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk

Curatorial Opportunities

Fringe Art Festival, Bath | 18 Oct
www.fringeartsbath.co.uk

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

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