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Issue 458, July–August 2022

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Céline Condorelli, After Work, 2021

Feature

Work and Play

Céline Condorelli interviewed by George Vasey

I am fascinated by the hierarchies of labour and the presence of bodies in museum spaces. Institutions reify particular types of artistic labour while deleting other forms of technical labour.

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Jana Romanova, Untitled, 2022

Feature

The Future Eaters

Sophie J Williamson discusses how the present disaster caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exends to other colonised communities in the region

European colonisers in Australia were dubbed by some aborigines ‘the future eaters’ because they consumed in abundance from the land without replenishing it, bereft of foresight.

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From the Back Catalogue
Art & Activism
Gavin Grindon reports on the crisis in Copenhagen at COP15. First published 2010, now free online

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YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRESENTS: DOWN IN FUKUOKA WITH THE BELARUSIAN BLUES, 2010

Feature

Information v Experience

Mark Prince asks whether the tension between the apparent democratic reach of mass-media versus intimate forms of storytelling in our post-truth era might be resolved in art

If Down in Fukuoka’s dancing fragment of rogue narrative, put through a string of digitally animated variations, is not literally a form of storytelling, it is at least a commentary on the loss of its potential.

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Nikhil Vettukattil, Amnesia, 2022

Profile

Nikhil Vettukattil

Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe

Amnesia uses a techno soundtrack: the high bpm of hard electronic music brings you further into your own bodily rhythms.

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Editorial

Moral Maze

The UK government’s Rwanda policy may be mostly performative, but it is unethical, unrealistic, costly – in every sense – and reeks of colonial attitudes that must be confronted.

Collective action is required to address the underlying causes of mass migration, and wealthier nations, many of which grew rich through colonial extraction and exploitation, have a duty of care.

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Artnotes

Museum Meddling

An international report on museum governance slams today’s absurd levels of political interference; the V&A is picketed as it hosts the Tory Party’s fundraising ball; Documenta is targeted in racist attacks; artists suffer mass arrests over land rights protests in the Philippines; talks are announced between Greece and the UK over the future of the Parthenon Marbles; celebrated British artists plan to become German citizens in protest over Brexit; plus the latest on galleries, people, prizes and more.

Obituary

Hunter Reynolds 1959–2022
aka Patina du Prey 1989–2000

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Alex Cecchetti, Sentiero (Path), 2022, Biennale Gherdëina

Exhibitions

Sylvie Fleury: Turn Me On

Juliet Jacques

Filippo Caramazza: Guston Reloaded

Peter Suchin

Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS

Luisa Lorenza Corna

Jitish Kallat: Covering Letter

Tangled Hierarchy

Adam Heardman

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Rajni Perera: Traveller

Thomas Ellmer

Berlin Biennale: Still Present!

Mimi Howard

Biennale Gherdëina: Persones Persons

Lucia Farinati

Whitstable Biennale: Afterwardness

Sara Quattrocchi Febles

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Gran Fury, Read My Lips, 1988

Books

Jack Lowery: It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful – How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

Chris McCormack

The book centres on the visual material produced by the collective Gran Fury as part of the multiheaded fight against the political hostility of two successive Republican governments – and beyond – for those dying of HIV/AIDS.

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Daisuke Kosugi, A False Weight, 2019

Film

Daisuke Kosugi: Somewhat Infrequently

Maria Walsh

Near the end, a black screen is punctuated by a circular dot that sways like a pendulum from one side of the screen to the other, its frame showing different fragments from the film. It is as if, in the back-and-forth motion, the film is recalling and erasing itself.

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Anja Kirschner, UNICA, 2022

Film

Anja Kirschner: UNICA

Sam Dolbear

One point becomes clear: work is boring and repetitive, and involves a sort of reproduction of the self and a division of labour that also relies on the division of other people’s labour that is probably also boring and repetitive.

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Maria Kulikovska, 254, 2014/22, Neue Nationalgalerie

Reports

Letter from Berlin

Brian Hatton

Maria Kulikovska first enacted 254 in July 2014, in protest against the Russian annexation of Crimea, her home, and the destruction of her works in Donetsk by the pro-Russian militia. Looting the Isolatsia gallery, they dragged out the statues she had cast of her own body in soap and, aiming their guns, shot them to pulp.

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Rugile Barzdziukaite, Vaiva Grainyte, Lina Lapelyte, Sun & Sea, 2017/21

Reports

Letter from Luckenwalde

Greg Thomas

Located in the once-notorious state of Brandenburg, Luckenwalde was a site of neo-Nazi agitation during the 1990s and 2000s. That threat was seen off but the more insidious growth of mainstream nativist nationalism in the late 2010s has troubled the area.

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Simone Leigh, Birmingham, 2012, estimated at $150,000, sold for $2.2m

Reports

Salerooms

Colin Gleadell

The May sales of Modern and Contemporary art in New York, which used to be packed into one week, were spread out over two this year and these bumper sales posted their highest ever total for a series of Modern and Contemporary art auctions at $2.785bn.

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Maurizio Cattelan, La Nona Ora, 1999

Artlaw

The Unasked Question

Henry Lydiate

Rarely do artists issue author-recognition writs against fellow artists, but in May 2022 the chief intellectual property court in France heard such a lawsuit against Maurizio Cattelan.

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Zineb Sedira, Saphir, 2006
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  • Jun: Chris Hayes argues against artist’s basic income schemes and Maria Walsh profiles filmmaker Suki Chan.
  • May: Chris Clarke on the 59th Venice Biennale, and Anne Massey on the Barbican’s ‘Postwar Modern’.
  • Apr: Bob Dickinson discusses the ways in which artists have attempted to engage with the legacies of trauma.

Opportunities

Jobs

Deputy Director

The Deputy Director supervises administration, site and resource management, financial management, staffing, and governance at Wysing.
Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridgeshire | 22 Jul
wysingartscentre.org

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Part-time Communications Manager

Centre For Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester | 8 Jul
cfcca.org.uk

Campaigns & Partnerships Manager

Whitechapel Gallery, London | 8 Jul
recruitment@whitechapelgallery.org

Editorial Manager

Whitechapel Gallery, London | 8 Jul
recruitment@whitechapelgallery.org

Internal Communications Manager

Serpentine, London | 10 Jul
serpentinegalleries.com

Adminstrator & Studio Programme Manager

Kingsgate Workshops Trust, London | 10 Jul
kingsgateworkshops.org.uk

Senior Development Manager, Trusts & Foundations

Whitechapel Gallery, London | 14 Jul
recruitment@whitechapelgallery.org

Head of Neighbourhoods

New Art Exchange, Nottingham | 17 Jul
nae.org.uk

Relationship Manager, Visual Arts

Arts Council England | 18 Jul
artscouncilengland-my.sharepoint.com

Head of Development

Artangel, London | 21 Jul
artangel.org.uk

Managing Director

Artangel, London | 21 Jul
artangel.org.uk

Marketing and Communications Manager

Collective, Edinburgh | 22 Jul
recruitment@collective-edinburgh.art

Technical Manager (Programming)

Milton Keynes Gallery | 29 Jul
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Trustee

The Art Station, Saxmundham | 1 Oct
info@theartstation.uk


Residencies/Fellowships

Palazzo Monti Residency

Brescia, Italy | Rolling
palazzomonti.org

Artist Research Residency

Two Temple Place & Thorp Stavri | 3 Jul
twotempleplace.org

Shifting Perspectives

V&A London | 6 Jul
vam.ac.uk

Residency and Bursary for Emerging Disabled Artist

BALTIC X Shape | 10 Jul
shapearts.org.uk

Open Call: Artist Residency

Outpost, Norwich | 11 Jul
norwichoutpost.org

New Contemporaries Research Residency with British School at Rome

Rome, Italy | 18 Jul
newcontemporaries.org.uk

Unlocking the Collections Residency

Museum of the Home, London | 3 Aug
artquest.org.uk


Competitions/Commissions

The 8th International Awards for Art Criticism

Entrants are required to submit a piece of critical writing about a contemporary art exhibition held anywhere in the world or on-line between 1st January 2021 and 31st August 2022, for a chance of winning one of four prizes totalling over 20k Euros.
IAAC, Royal College of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, Minsheng Art Museum, School of Philosophy Fudan University, AICA
31 Aug
iaac-m21.com

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Call for Entries – East London Art Prize

Open to artists living or working in an ‘E’ or ‘SE’ postcode. The winner receives £15,000 and an exhibition at the Nunnery Gallery. Second prize: Studio space with Bow Arts for one year.
Bow Arts, London | 31 Aug
bowarts.org

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FLAMIN Animations

Film London | 5 Jul
filmlondon.org.uk

Public Art Commission

Opera Square, Limerick | 15 Jul
operasquarecommission.submit.com

Faena Prize for the Arts

Miami | 1 Aug
faenaart.org


Scholarships/Grants

Académie Des Beaux-Arts European Award 2022

Art Explora | 31 Aug
artexplora.org

Black Artists Grant

Creative Debuts | Rolling
creativedebuts.co.uk

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants

Pollock-Krasner Foundation | Rolling
www.pkf.org

National Lottery Project Grants

Arts Council England | Rolling
artscouncil.org.uk

Grant Programme

ARTCRY | Rolling
artcry.co.uk

The Digital Artists Grant

The Moniker Foundation, Creative Debuts | Rolling
avnode.net


Exhibiting

AWARD 2023: Call for UK-based Artists

BCB invites submissions from artists who use clay as their primary material. £10,000 prize & leading contemporary ceramics exhibition.
British Ceramics Biennial | 12 Oct
britishceramicsbiennial.com

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Courses

Royal College of Art: Contemporary Art and Curating Summer Schools 2022

RCA live online summer schools attract a global mix of artists, critical thinkers, curators and writers from over sixty countries. Apply now!
RCA Short Courses | 8 Jul
rca.ac.uk

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Workshops

One To One

Artquest | Rolling
artquest.org.uk

Interfaces Monthly

Barbican & The Trampery | Rolling
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