September Issue
Yvonne Rainer Chair Pillow 1969
dancers in training with Pat Catterson and Yvonne Rainer, July 2014
Interview
Running Dance
Yvonne Rainer interviewed by John Douglas Millar
Yvonne Rainer immersed herself in the vibrant San Francisco and New York art scenes of the late 1950s and early 1960s and, inspired by John Cage's compositions and the dance innovations of Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham, she brought Minimalism to contemporary dance. Here, she talks about developing experimental works that were not recognised as dance by the medium's authorities, and the dangers of democracy in art.
'I used cinematic techniques for creating empathy and then destroying it. So there is this push and pull, this unpredictability where the audience has to stay on its toes, not send their minds away. As a spectator you have to keep hold of your critical faculties.'
Ed Atkins Even Pricks 2013
Feature
Hand Signals
Laura McLean-Ferris on reading the manual
In this digital age, the digits of the hand have come to the fore in work by artists such as Cécile B Evans, Ed Atkins, and Nina Beier and Simon Dybbroe Møller. What does this trend tell us about the hand of the artist in the age of the touchscreen?
'While humans share opposable thumbs with the chimp, it is the thinking thumb that separates us. But what is that thumb – waggling in the air, liking things – thinking, precisely?'
Cécile B Evans AGNES 2014
Feature
Lonely Arts
Ajay Hothi philosophises about art on the web
While recent discussion around networked art has tied it to relational practices, works by Cécile B Evans and Yuri Pattison have positioned themselves as proxies between the viewer and the wider internet in order to block social interaction. Isn't it time that the essentially lonely, impoverished and atomised nature of the browsing experience was fully acknowledged?
'From Edward Snowden's leaks, to David Cameron's proposed ISP filtering systems and to net neutrality and its corporatisation, web scrutiny is now more than ever an identifiable social concern.'
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Comment
Editorial
Anti Social Media
When the National Gallery joined Tate recently in lifting its ban on photography, it brought itself in line with the lastest cultural fad: the public presentation of an individual mediation of all lived experience. Will art engagement now be measured in gallery selfies?
'In our rampantly consumerist age it is difficult to distinguish between genuine engagement with social media and mere consumption, between what is real and what is virtual, between political empowerment and exploitation.'
Letters
Teaching the Unteachable
Michael Corris again takes issue with Dave Beech's thoughts on art education; Dave Beech responds.
Against Political Art
Manchester Left Writers address Daniel Miller's polemic about the art world's left-wing rhetoric; Daniel Miller responds.
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Artnotes
ACE announces its £340m National Portfolio funding for the next three years, with some notable winners and losers; the Arts Council of Northern Ireland implements immediate cuts, lopping 10% off its client organisation's budgets for the remainder of the year; ACE hands out £77m in capital grants for major building work, with more than a dozen galleries among the recipients; the latest news on galleries, events, appointments, prizes and more.
Obituaries
Harun Farocki 1944-2014
On Kawara 1932-2014
Submissions: Send news items to artnotes@artmonthly.co.uk
Alice Theobald They Keep Putting Words in My Mouth! An Operetta of Sorts 2013
Profile
Alice Theobald
Anna Gritz on the video/performance artist
Alice Theobald borrows tropes from acting and group therapy methods in order to question the idea that the self is a controlled, linguistic construct.
'Both the performances and films are drenched in a heightened, almost caricatured sense of awkwardness not dissimilar to certain mannerisms common in method acting and retrieved by Theobald as a way to access a type of unaffectedness generally uncommon in performance art.'
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Reviews
Exhibitions
Giulio Paolini
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Martin Holman
Liverpool Biennial: A Needle Walks into a Haystack
various venues
Bob Dickinson
Phantom Limbs
Pilar Corrias, London
Martin Herbert
London Round-up 1
Vilma Gold • Supplement • Laura Bartlett Gallery
Chris Fite-Wassilak
London Round-up 2
Gimpel Fils • Simon Lee • Blain|Southern • Breese Little
Paul Carey-Kent
London Round-up 3
Fold Gallery • Wilkinson Gallery • Legion TV • Chisenhale
Nick Warner
Last Seen Entering the Biltmore
Julia Crabtree & William Evans: Antonio Bay
South London Gallery
Galit Mana
Magic Touch
CCA Derry – Londonderry
Chris Clarke
A Modern Panarion: Glimpses of Occultism in Dublin
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
Chris Clarke
Fieldworks: Animal Habitats in Contemporary Art
Lewis Glucksman Gallery Cork City
Ewa Partum: Installations and Provocations
Dennis McNulty: Prototypes
Limerick City Gallery of Art
Joanne Laws
Reviews
Performance
Ann Hirsch: Playground
Morgan Quaintance on 'a landmark for internet-aware art'
'Brechtian distanciation or some other avant-garde strategy of spectator activation might have satisfied a conservative desire for an oblique and austere denial of pleasure, but it would have been entirely inappropriate. In order to hit home the two-step message that affect leads to emotion and emotion leads to action (in "real" life), Hirsch had to utilise the most affective strategies theatre had to offer.'
Reviews
Books
Internet Round-up
Morgan Quaintance sorts a crop of internet art publications
'This is invaluable stuff in a field awash with anecdotal reflections on digital media that oscillate between entreaties for the field to be taken seriously and weak assertions that ironic tendencies have cultural value (the dreadful narcissism of artists using Facebook as a "platform for performance" being one).'
Report
Letter From Sweden
Art/Life
Sophie J Williamson witnesses the Nordic independent spirit
'While publicly funded art always entails a certain amount of political negotiation, the government is introducing a new policy that will force all creative projects – including exhibitions and residencies as well as commissions – to follow open competition procedures in line with commercial industries, with each opportunity open to submission and ending collaborations through invitation.'
Salerooms
London and New York
Flipping
Colin Gleadell sees the odd flip go flop
'The sales also witnessed the growing trend of "flipping", ie buying young artists in demand at gallery shows and reselling for big profits at auction within a year or two. This is a practice in which the auctioneers become willing instruments in a more complex price-ramping procedure.'
Artlaw
Art After Death
Post-Mortem Fees
Henry Lydiate examines the case of the Rauschenberg trustees
'Having already been paid $8m by the Robert Rauschenberg Revocable Trust for their work over four years, the court awarded the three trustees a further $16.6m, making their "reasonable fee" a total of $24.6m. The very size of these payments and the detailed unpacking of the work involved is a valuable wake-up call.'
Listings
Events
London Art Calendar
This month's highlights include:
- Andrea Büttner talk Tate Britain 6.30pm Mon 15 Sep
- Antonia Hirsch talk Whitechapel Gallery 12.00pm Sat 27 Sep
- Lawrence Weiner & Gilda Williams in conversation South London Gallery 7.00pm Sat 27 Sep
The updated London events calendar can also be viewed online.
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Opportunities
Opportunities
Jobs
Exhibition Curator
The Sanger Institute, Hinxton | 7 Sep
www.sanger.ac.uk
Exhibition Coordinator
The V&A, London | 7 Sep
www.vam.ac.uk
Head of Research
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London | 8 Sep
www.courtauld.ac.uk
Tutors in Curatorial Practice & Curatorial Theory
The Royal College of Art, London | 12 Sep
www.rca.ac.uk
Associate Curator – Modern Contemporary Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA | 12 Sep
www.metmuseum.org
Deputy Director
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool | 15 Sep
www.openeye.org.uk
Community Programmer
Nottingham Contemporary | 15 Sep
www.nottinghamcontemporary.org
Sculpture & Workshop Manager
The Royal Academy of Arts, London | 17 Sep
www.royalacademy.org.uk
Curatorial Assistant
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge | 17 Sep
www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Managing Director
Whitechapel Gallery, London | 21 Sep
www.whitechapelgallery.org
Competitions/Commissions
Jerwood Encounters: 3-Phase
Eastside Projects, Birmingham | 15 Sep
www.eastsideprojects.org
Szpilman Award
Szpilman, Cimochowizna, Poland | 30 Sep
www.award.szpilman.de
Residencies/Fellowships
Kingsgate Open Call
Kingsgate Workshop Trust, London | 8 Sep
www.kingsgateworkshops.org.uk
Time and Space Residencies
Metal, Southend, Liverpool & Peterborough | 15 Sep
www.metalculture.com
Research Fellowships
St John's College, Cambridge | 30 Sep
https://research-fellowships.joh.cam.ac.uk
Artists Access to Art Colleges
AA2A | 2 Oct
aa2a.org
The Andrew W Mellon postdoctoral Fellowship
The Courtauld Institute | 2 Oct
www.courtauld.ac.uk
Platform Residencies
Site Gallery, Sheffield | 31 Oct
www.sitegallery.org
Scholarships/Grants
Curatorial Scholarships
Independant Curators International, Beijing, China | 12 Sep
www.curatorsintl.org
New Graduate Award
London Print Studio | 27 Sep
www.londonprintstudio.org.uk
Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2015
Daiwa Foundation, London | 30 Sep
www.dajf.org.uk
The Artward Award
Artward, ICAA, Munich, Germany | 30 Sep
www.artward.de
Exhibiting
ING Discerning Eye Exhibition
Mall Galleries, London | 6 Sep
www.parkerharris.co.uk
Call for Curatorial Projects
Nasui Collection & Gallery, Bucharest, Romania | 10 Sep
www.cosminnasui.com
Vulpes Vulpes Open 2014
Vulpes Vulpes, London | 14 Sep
www.vulpesvulpes.org
Bad Behaviour Open Call
Brixton East Gallery | 28 Sep
www.bbehaviour.com
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