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May 2020 Issue 436

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AA Bronson and Ryan Brewer, Blue, 2012

Feature

Going Viral

AA Bronson interviewed by Dominic Johnson

In 1970 we were already thinking about this idea of virality. Creating FILE magazine and basing it on LIFE magazine was for us like sending a parasite into the ‘straight world’ of magazine distribution. In our 1979 video Test Tube we talked about injecting deviant ideas about culture and sexuality into the cultural mainstream.


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From the Back Catalogue
FILE
Sally O’Reilly flicks through every issue of General Idea’s FILE magazine from 1972 to 1989



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Adam Lewis-Jacob, Wildcat, 2017

Feature

On Animatics

Jamie Sutcliffe considers the immediacies and intimacies of the animated interface

The metamorphic and mutational fantasies of cartoons are no longer simply metaphorical, but appear to have been drawn into an uneasy proximity with the corporeal bodies that they have commonly sought to distort, disassemble and reconfigure.

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Laurie Simmons, The Love Doll / Day 32 (Blue Geisha Close-up), 2011

Feature

We Are the Robots

Aoife Rosenmeyer asks how should we coexist with robots and intelligent machines

Aleksandra Pryegalinska has recorded children employing the same speech forms used when interacting with Alexa or other smart speakers when talking to their friends – abbreviated, demanding and with few niceties. Conversely, another MIT study recorded children aged 3–10 talking to such digital agents as if they were human.

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Rosanne Robertson, Pissing, 2019

Feature

The Faal

Adam Heardman on art, labour and the fall of the Red Wall

At the very least, the unprecedented Conservative majorities in Bishop Auckland and other parts of County Durham serve as a signal that this part of the country is ready to redefine and reinvent itself. It could well be up to contemporary artistic practice to ensure that this reinvention is a positive one.

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Dora Garcia, Second Time Around, 2018

Profile

Dora Garcia

Louise O’Hare considers the Spanish artist’s examination of regimes of control and coercion

It is worth noting that Dora Garcia has been producing works that utilise the potentials of online platforms since before many of us knew what ‘Web 2.0’ meant.

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Editorial

Doom, Gloom and Boom

Although most of the population is stuck inside doomscrolling through daily charts of the infected and the dead, for some this crisis is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity – Amazon, for example, or those planning to reorient the economy. When the emergency recedes, we must ensure that society wins back control from those who seek to exploit the turmoil.

As violinist Braimah Kanneh-Mason, one of the phenomenally talented family of musicians, put it in an interview, after all this is over, ‘it will be said that health workers got us out of this crisis, but art kept us sane’.

Letters

Decolonising Decolonialism?

Pierre d’Alancaisez questions Morgan Quaintance’s analysis of decolonial imperatives in the art world

In considering art’s contribution to systematic change, however, what the article appears to miss is the distinction between the characteristics of an actor and the actor’s external agency.

Morgan Quaintance responds

One cannot be an advocate of decolonisation while actively partaking in and therefore legitimising systems that are colonial legacies of resource extraction, of which capital flight and tax evasion are central tools. These are not metaphorical leaps or ‘alleged transgressions’, they are actual and admitted activities.

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Artnotes

Postponed, Cancelled, Online

The art world shifts online in the wake of coronavirus; some countries allow a tentative reopening of galleries; RCA students protest at their courses and degree shows going virtual; artists seek support and, to some degree, receive it; US museums shed staff as the lockdown bites; art fairs struggle as galleries embrace online viewing rooms; plus the latest news on galleries, appointments, prizes and more.

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Steve McQueen, Static, 2009
from the exhibition at Tate Modern

Exhibitions

Steve McQueen

Adam Hines-Green

Ian Law: drips the room

Chris McCormack

Judy Price: The End of the Sentence

Rob La Frenais

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Faustin Linyekula, My Body, My Archive, 2020

Performance

BMW Tate Live: Our Bodies, Our Archives

Ellen Mara De Wachter

As they dance and sing to the beat of a drum, a voice advises Europe to look to Africa to know its future. Everyone’s future is fragility, it says, and the unique knowledge and skill Africa has developed – how to survive precarity – is precisely what the world needs now.

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O Yama O performing at the Flatpack Festival in 2018

Books

David Toop: Inflamed Invisible – Collected Writings on Art and Sound 1976–2018

Paul Rekret

Readers familiar with David Toop’s work will recognise the themes that pervade this collection; most of all, they revolve around the question of what sound is, and how it might differ from music.

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Adam Harvey, HyperFace project, 2016–

Books

Being Material

Richard Grayson

We are moving from a world where it was possible that nothing might lie outside language (be this the language of Jacques Lacan or that of computer code) to one where mute matter is conceived as having its own agency – carbon, methane, ice, oil – narrating us.

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Art–Rite magazine spread

Books

Art–Rite

Karen Di Franco

Just as Art–Rite circumvented the traditional structures of art criticism to represent the artists and spaces the editors saw as marginalised by the discourse around art at that particular moment, Primary Information’s re-publication revives the relevancy of this approach for this era as artists, curators and researchers attempt to redefine aspects of the recent past that account for more inclusive narratives.

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KwieKulik, Open Form – Game on an Actress’s Face, 1972

Books

Klara Kemp-Welch: Networking the Bloc – Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965–1981

David Briers

This indispensable and possibly unrepeatable study provides vivid descriptions of series of provisional but vital art projects that largely emanated from the artists’ private studios, kitchen tables and living rooms in cramped apartments, and yet which were circulated internationally via an inexpensive concatenating distribution process.

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Onyeka Igwe, No Archive Can Restore You, 2020

Film

Artists in the Cinema 2020

Vladimir Seput

Onyeka Igwe instead imagines a place where clocks have stopped and the walls gradually decay, we watch as shadow and light play on cobwebs. Given that the films kept here are mainly unavailable for various reasons – the state they are in, complicated bureaucracy or a political unwillingness to show them – Igwe instead imagines the films based solely on their titles and creates ‘sonic shadows’.

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Sturtevant, Cut & Run Productions Chick Things, 2006
from the exhibition at Air de Paris

Letter from Paris

Palisades

Amy Budd

Exhibitions do not exist in a vacuum, and social relations are constantly undergoing transformation both inside and outside the gallery, underlined at this particular moment by a series of unsettling laminated signs dotted around gallery walls featuring two figures separate by a ‘1m’ arrow.

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Felix Alexander Oppenheim, Acropolis, Athens. The Parthenon. Inner View, 1853, Ludwig Museum collection, Cologne

Letter from Cologne and Neuss

Razed and Rebuilt

Ned McConnell

Not only is this a rare and limited outing for these fragile original prints – they are only allowed into the light for a short period as they deteriorate so rapidly – but also the images themselves are of a silent, deserted Acropolis that speaks to the current moment vividly.

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LeBron James playing for Cleveland Cavaliers in 2014

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Tattoo You

Henry Lydiate

The court went on to explain that ‘the tattooists intended the players to copy and distribute the tattoos as elements of their likenesses, each knowing that the players were likely to appear in public, on television, in commercials, or in other forms of media’.

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David Blandy, How to Fly, 2020
online commission by John Hansard Gallery

Selected Digital Resources

Many venues are focusing on digital programming during the Covid-19 pandemic. So instead of the usual list of events, here are links to some of these online artworks and resources.


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Opportunities

Jobs

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship

Towner Eastbourne | 1 May
www.sussex.ac.uk

Gallery Operations Co-ordinator

Absolutely Cultured | 3 May
www.absolutelycultured.co.uk

Trustees

Artsadmin | 8 May
deborah@artsadmin.co.uk

Chair of the board of trustees

Deptford X | 1 Jun
www.deptfordx.org

Trustees

Cubitt | 8 Jun
trusteesearch@cubittartists.org.uk

Members of the Board of Trustees

Arts Catalyst | 1 Jul
www.artscatalyst.org


Competitions/Commissions

Interstices – A New Open Call for Submissions

Bookworks, London | 25 May
www.bookworks.org.uk

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize

Trinity Buoy Wharf | 24 Jun
www.trinitybuoywharf.com

The Lumen Prize 2020

Lumen Art Projects | 8 May
www.lumenprize.com

FVU: BEYOND Commission

Film and Video Umbrella | 18 May
www.fvu.co.uk

The Hopper Prize 2020

Hopper Prize | 19 May
www.hopperprize.org

The Sunny Art Prize

Sunny Art Centre | 30 Jun
www.sunnyartcentre.co.uk

Woon Foundation Painting & Sculpture Prize

Baltic, Gateshead | 31 Jul
www.baltic.art

WAC Awards

Wells Art Contemporary | 1 Aug
www.wac.artopps.co.uk


Residencies/Fellowships

Stanley Picker Fellowships in Design & Fine Art 2020

2 x £16,000 plus access to workshops & resources at Kingston School of Art to support a practice-based, innovative research project.
Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University | 22 Jun
www.stanleypickergallery.org

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Curatorial Fellowship

LUX | 1 May
www.lux.org.uk

The FLAMIN Fellowship

Film London | 5 May
www.flamin.filmlondon.org.uk

Think Tank Residencies

Pacitti Company, Ipswich | 16 Jul
www.pacitticompany.com

ARC Getaways

Stockton Arts Centre | Rolling
www.arconline.co.uk


Scholarships/Grants

Developing your Creative Practice

Arts Council England | 7 May
www.artscouncil.org.uk

Studio Prize

Artists’ Collecting Society | 30 Jun
www.acsstudioprize.com

Hardship Fund

Axisweb | 1 Aug
www.axisweb.org

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants

Pollock-Krasner Foundation | Rolling
www.pkf.org


Exhibiting

Wells Art Contemporary

Waterfront Gallery | 1 Aug
www.wac.artopps.co.uk

Open Call

Truth to Power Café | 1 Aug
www.truthtopower.co.uk

Wales Contemporary

Waterfront Gallery | 1 Sep
www.walescontemporary.artopps.co.uk

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

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