December-January Issue
Jenny Holzer ON WAR 2017
Feature
Blowback
Can radical art survive any context asks Francis Frascina
When the context is Blenheim Palace, can even an artist like Jenny Holzer, known for her critiques of power, resist being co-opted?
Lucy Lippard long ago cited Jenny Holzer as an example of an artist employing double coding, with one version of her work acting as a 'Trojan horse'.
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From the Back Catalogue
Context Kunstlers Liam Gillick worries about the art of context
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Sherrie Levine After Russell Lee 2016
Feature
Proxies
What you see is not what you see argues Mark Prince
Artists as different as Jasper Johns and Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman and Pilvi Takala have all adopted various guises to challenge assumptions about reality and image, original and copy, truth and fiction.
Pilvi Takala pitches herself as presuming the world is a safer, more tolerant, less bigoted place than it proves to be. But the cameras which capture her intervention are placed there by her, in the knowledge that she is a minnow among piranhas; that the assumptions on which her character is based are naive.
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Comment
Editorial
Vozhd
It is notable that, at a time when more and more nationalists are being elected to power, the centenary of the overthrow of the last tsar was barely marked in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Are we handing hard-won democratic power back to repressive authoritarians?
As world politics continue to shift to the extreme right, there has been much talk of the need for 'strong leadership'.
Letters
What is Happening?
Laure Genillard asks why won't more galleries voice the fact that art fairs are rapidly eroding their viability.
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Artnotes
Occupied
Artforum publisher Knight Landesman resigns over sexual harassment allegations; Armory director Benjamin Genocchio is sacked over sexual harassment allegations; Berlin's prize for young artists is criticised by its shortlisted artists; journalists are detained for trying to report on the labour issues behind the Louvre Abu Dhabi; a sculpture by Ron Mueck is attacked by a mob of religious nationalists in Istanbul; LA anti-gentrification campaigners take their protests to East Coast museums; Marina Abramovic cancels her plans for her performance institute; plus the latest news on galleries, appointments, prizes and more.
Terre Thaemlitz Lovebomb/Ai No Bakudan 2003-05
Profile
Terre Thaemlitz
Larne Abse Gogarty on the Minnesota-born, Kawasaki-based artist, writer, DJ and composer who explores gender and systolic systems, and argues against reconciliation.
Closing with a 30-hour canto entitled 'Meditation of Wage Labor and the Death of the Album', Soulnessless also stands as a response to the increasing demands for endless content, often freely provided, within online commerce and culture.
Hannah Black Anxietina (The Situation) 2017
Profile
Hannah Black
Lizzie Homersham on the Manchester-born, New York-based artist, writer and activist who addresses the legacies of slavery, censorship and collectivity.
On a Sunday afternoon I observed a few different interpretations of the unstated rules of the show. Nowhere did it say that you could take a copy of the book; some visitors asked at the front desk whether this was allowed, others gave themselves permission to pick up a copy, reading parts of it in situ or tearing pages out for shredding before tossing a remainder back on the pile.
Micol Hebron Gallery Tally 2013-
at Baltic
Exhibitions
Alfredo Jaar: The Garden of Good and Evil
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton
Virginia Whiles
Alina Szapocznikow: Human Landscapes
The Hepworth, Wakefield
Maria Walsh
David Dye: Devices
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
George Vasey
14th Lyon Biennale: Floating Worlds
various venues
Andrew J Stooke
Rachel Whiteread
Tate Britain, London
David Trigg
John Akomfrah: Purple
Barbican, London
Jack Smurthwaite
David Panos: Time Crystals
Pump House Gallery, London
Paul Clinton
Orla Barry: Breaking Rainbows
Wexford Arts Centre
Cherry Smyth
Seth Price Circa 1981
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Neil Zakiewicz
Raqs Media Collective: Twilight Language
The Whitworth, Manchester
Tom Emery
Newcastle Round-up: Freedom City 2017
Side Gallery • Great North Museum: Hancock • Baltic
Elisabetta Fabrizi
London Round-up
Tintype • Maureen Paley • Parasol Unit
John Douglas Millar
London Round-up
The Room • One Paved Court • Simon Lee
Peter Suchin
Reviews
Film
Karrabing Film Collective: Saltwater Dreams
Maria Walsh
Here the community become Spect-actors in the Boalian sense of seeing and forming themselves through acting out their everyday conflicts.
Experimenta
Dan Ward
The Experimenta strand of the London Film Festival showed over 30 artist films intended to 'transform our experience of seeing moving images' with a programme that functioned like an audit of what the experimental constitutes.
Reviews
Artists' Books
Tania Kovats: Dirty Water
Michael Hampton
Adhering to the classic newspaper format, Dirty Water's contents become more prosaic as you get into the back pages.
Books
Erika Balsom: After Uniqueness
Seth Pimlott
After Uniqueness foregrounds the infrastructures of distribution and the trajectories of circulation that moving-image work has historically taken: processes that are fundamental to the production of meaning and value in the field.
Reports
Charles Lim Sea State 9: Proclamation 2015
Letter from Barcelona
Dark Ecology
Rob La Frenais
As I left Catalonia by road hours before the declaration of independence on Friday, the Spanish border had a heavily armed roadblock manned by masked Guardia Civil, something I have only ever seen in rural Mexico.
Slavs and Tatars Society of Rascals 2017
Letter from Budapest
The Castle and the City
Maja & Reuben Fowkes
'You hold the castle, but we have the city' was the combative slogan with which the second Off Biennale Budapest was launched this autumn, a grassroots biennale organised on the principle of preserving artistic independence by eschewing government funding and avoiding state-run venues.
Martha Araújo For a body in its impossibilities 1985
Letter from Los Angeles
LAX ART
Catherine Spencer
The works in 'Radical Women' are not quiet and their feminisms are not necessarily aligned: this literal and conceptual noise is one of the show's most powerful effects.
Artlaw
Ways of Working
Digital Drivers
Henry Lydiate
A dealer-signed certificate has little or no value in the wider art market to prove to subsequent purchasers (on resales) that the work is authentic. Similar credibility problems surround authenticity certificates signed and issued by executors or trustees of a deceased artist's estate.
Listings
Events
Calendar
This month's highlights include:
- LUX Critical Forum: Discussions for moving image artists CCA 6.30pm Tue 5 Dec
- Story Telling for Earthly Survival screening Open School East 7.30pm Thu 14 Dec
- Larry Achiampong screening Tate Liverpool 10.00am Mon 15 Jan
The updated events and exhibitions calendar can be viewed online.
Exhibitions
Exhibition Listings
Art Monthly's exhibition listings can be viewed online.
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Recent additions:
- Nov: Bob Dickinson, Giulia Smith & Virginia Whiles on art, life and the algorithm, the upsurge in art about sickness, and Manchester's New North and South exhibition marking 70 years of independence for India and Pakistan. Presented by Matt Hale.
- Oct: Isobel Harbison, Richard Hylton & Maria Walsh on the Gothenburg Biennial, the rise in thematic shows of black artists, and Leon Wainwright's book 'Phenomenal Difference'. Presented by Chris McCormack.
- Sep: Lisa Le Feuvre discusses the crisis in public sculpture highlighted by this year's Münster Sculpture Project. Presented by Matt Hale.
Opportunities
Opportunities
Jobs
Director / Chief Curator
Experienced leader for active, evolving organisation including contemporary art collection and UK-wide programme of exhibitions, performances and research.
DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation), London 3 Dec
www.davidrobertsartfoundation.com
promoted
Producer, Radar
Radar is a commissioning programme that actively engages with research and uses it as a stimulus to inform and develop new projects. Up to £28,936 pro rata 22.5 hrs pw
Loughborough University 12 Dec
www.lboro.ac.uk
promoted
Site and Technical Manager
This exciting role is essential in the delivery of projects within Wysing's busy artistic programme and is responsible for the effective management of the buildings and grounds.
Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridgeshire | 15 Jan
www.wysingartscentre.org
promoted
Visual Arts Manager (Curator)
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales | 3 Dec
www.jobs.aber.ac.uk
Convenor, Public Programme
Tate Galleries, London | 3 Dec
www.tate.org.uk
Participation Programme Producer
Studio Voltaire, London | 4 Dec
www.studiovoltaire.org
Operations & AV Coordinator
Whitechapel Gallery, London | 6 Dec
www.whitechapelgallery.org
Visitor Experience Manager
The Hepworth Wakefield | 11 Dec
www.hepworthwakefield.org
Head of Programme
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead | 11 Dec
www.balticmill.com
Curator for Local Audiences
PEER, London | 11 Dec
www.peeruk.org
Programme Assistant
Whitstable Biennale | 11 Dec
www.whitstablebiennale.com
Arts Administrator
Metal Liverpool | 11 Dec
www.metalculture.com
Assistant to Senior Director
Hauser & Wirth, Somerset | 13 Dec
nicola@hauserwirth.com
Development & Events Coordinator
Arts Catalyst, London | 18 Dec
www.artscatalyst.org
Convenor
Aspex, Portsmouth | 18 Dec
www.aspex.org.uk
Assistant Professor in Critical Studies & Studio Art
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA | 2 Jan
www.art.cmu.edu
Gallery Manager
Fabrica, Brighton | 3 Jan
www.fabrica.org.uk
PhD Studentships
University of East Anglia | 10 Jan
www.uea.ac.uk
Technical Manager
New Art Exchange, Nottingham | 28 Jan
www.nae.org.uk
Competitions/Commissions
The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize
The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers and the Lynn Foundation | 6 Dec
www.lps.artopps.co.uk
New Wear Crossing Commission
Sunderland Culture | 14 Dec
www.sunderlandculture.org.uk
A Range of Awards for Selected Artists
Arte Laguna, International | 18 Dec
www.premioartelaguna.it
Rome Scholarship 2018
Royal Society of British Artists, Rome | 6 Jan
www.royalsocietyofbritishartists.org.uk
Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize
London | 14 Jan
www.artprize.co.uk
Write for Art Worlds
Art Quest | Rolling
www.artquest.org.uk
Residencies/Fellowships
Tate Intensive Programme
Tate Modern, London | 1 Dec
www.tate.org.uk
Art for the Environment Residency Programme
Bow Arts, London | 8 Dec
www.bowarts.org
Lifeboat Award Residency
Art Quest & ACAVA, London | 18 Dec
www.artquest.org.uk
Moving Image Residency
Berwick Visual Arts | 18 Dec
www.berwickvisualarts.co.uk
Goethe-Institut Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Haus der Kunst, Munich | 14 Jan
www.hausderkunst.de
Roman J Witt Residency
University of Michigan, USA | 14 Jan
www.stamps.umich.edu
Curatorial Scholar Awards
Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, USA | 15 Jan
britishart.yale.edu
ARC Getaways
Stockholm Arts Centre | Rolling
www.arconline.co.uk
Scholarships/Grants
Open call application – Freelands Artist Programme
Submissions are invited from arts organisations to apply for a UK-wide initiative designed to support artists, arts organisations and regional arts ecosystems.
Freelands Foundation 28 Feb
www.freelandsfoundation.co.uk
promoted
Grant to Examine the Development of Beijing
Beijing 22, Goethe-Institut China, Beijing | 15 Jan
www.en.beijing22.org
Step Beyond Travel Grants
European Cultural Foundation | Rolling
www.culturalfoundation.eu
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants
Pollock-Krasner Foundation | Rolling
www.pkf.org
Exhibiting
Projects on the Theme of 'Solitude'
Belluard Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland | 10 Dec
www.2018.belluard.ch
Works in response the Theme of 'Hustle'
Science Gallery Lab, Detroit | 15 Dec
www.sciencegallery.com
The Liverpool Plinth Sculpture
Dot-art, Liverpool | 7 Jan
www.dot-art.co.uk
Open Call for Filmmakers
Real to Reel, London | 15 Jan
www.craftscouncil.org.uk
Submissions: Send opportunities to opportunities@artmonthly.co.uk
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