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Issue 459, September 2022

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Harun Morrison and Clara Saito, Defences of Animals (Camouflage), 2022, Horniman Museum

Feature

Staying Afloat

Harun Morrison interviewed by Chris McCormack

The sales of the caps and T-shirts will support the conservation of the swallowtail butterfly in Jamaica. I try to question what it could mean to extract from a symbol of extraction. Can this ecology of images aid the biological web in an environment such as Jamaica?

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Suzanne Lacy, The Circle and the Square, 2015–17

Feature

Art Engagement

Lizzie Lloyd asks whether an artist needs to describe themselves as socially engaged in order to engage socially

The assumption remains that work made with people is, almost by definition, an act of social goodness, moral altruism and political upstanding. But how these artworks communicate, not just what these artworks communicate, needs greater attention.

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From the Back Catalogue
Encountering Art
Dave Beech critiques Jacques Rancière’s concept of the ‘emancipated spectator’. First published 2010, now free online

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Oona Doherty, Hard to be Soft – A Belfast Prayer, 2017

Feature

Art/Class

Bob Dickinson wonders whether working-class culture can survive in the UK after continuous attack under successive Conservative governments

In this country, where many formerly strong, working-class communities have gone into decline, despite the very workplaces that neighbourhoods were built around having been long closed down or in need of drastic repair, working-class speech and imagination still survives and evolves.

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Zach Blas, Facial Weaponisation Suite, 2012–14

Profile

Zach Blas

Camille Intson

Throughout his diverse film and installation work, Zach Blas seeks to critique AI’s predictive policing, techno-security, and the progressivist philosophical underbelly of Silicon Valley through a celebration of queer resistance, escape and futurity.

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Zinzi Minott, Bloodsound, 2022

Profile

Zinzi Minott

Greg Thomas

‘Bloodsound’ included a transparent sound-system constructed of clear acrylic speakers half-filled with glycerine and red food colouring that pumped out a jarring, glitch-filled, bass-heavy form of avant-garde dancehall.

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Editorial

Rights and Wrongs

The recent attempt on Salman Rushdie’s life highlights shocking intolerance around freedom of speech, an issue which is increasingly polarising and misunderstood even by its so-called champions.

John Le Carré thought it ‘impertinent’ to believe that those who wrote literature had special claims to free speech. Artists, in other words, have responsibilities as well as rights. Le Carré and Salman Rushdie were later reconciled, but the debate remains unresolved; at least the debate is still being had.

Letter

The End of Critical and Historical Studies

The Royal College of Art is cancelling its entire Critical and Historical Studies programme as part of the most extreme wave of redundancies at the college’s history.

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Artnotes

Documenta Disarray

The premier international art exhibition loses its director after persistent accusations of anti-Semitism against the show; Iraqi artists pull their work from the Berlin Biennale after artist-curator Kader Attia insensitively placed their work alongside photos of Abu Ghraib victims; the Museums Association warns that rising inflation will devastate the museum sector; ACE publishes its guidance on the restitution of artefacts, just as UK museums make moves to return looted Benin Bronzes; anti-oil activists glue themselves to artworks across the UK and Italy; plus the latest on galleries, people, prizes and more.

Obituary

Claes Oldenburg 1929–2022

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The Otolith Group, Sovereign Sisters, 2014, IMMA

Exhibitions

Elsa James: Othered in a region that has been historically Othered

Matthew Bowman

Brent Biennial: In the House of my Love

Gwen Burlington

The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis

Hana Noorali

Lou Lou Sainsbury: Earth is a Deadname

Francis Whorrall-Campbell

Tenant of Culture: Soft Acid

Luisa Lorenza Corna

Moi Tran: Civic Sound Archive

Peter Suchin

Someone Else: The foreignness of children

Agnieszka Gratza

Dayanita Singh: Dancing with my Camera

Nicola Jeffs

Transcultural Art Histories in the GDR

Sara Blaylock

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Angus Fairhurst, A magazine – everything removed except 1cm border, 2005, cover image for Against Decorum

Books

Michael Hampton: Against Decorum

Cherry Smyth

Soon, you will find yourself asking if you dog-ear, underline in pencil, biro or not at all, and if you have a visceral aversion to bending back the front cover to hold the book in one hand. Do you attempt to remove the price sticker and risk a tacky patch of glue or, worse, a torn, resolute label in grubby spot?

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Books

Annette Gilbert: Literature’s Elsewheres – On the Necessity of Radical Literary Practices

Mark Prince

Discussing Heinz Gappmeyer’s Raum, 1977 – an empty pamphlet with the artist’s name and title in elegant sans-serif – Annette Gilbert quotes the artists’ book historian Anne Moeglin-Delcroix’s obtuse comment that ‘the emptiness of a book makes it more conceptual’, missing how the book’s loss of textual content is in inverse proportion to its gain as an object of decor or design, qualities which might be the opposite of ‘conceptual’.

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Books

Susan Schuppli: Material Witness – Media, Forensics, Evidence

Mitchell Anderson

From the discovery of radiation and photographic processes a century and a half ago, the reader encounters events, topics and technologies with varying depth: ice cores, Chernobyl, oil spills, histories of analogue recording, Watergate, Tamil Massacres, the IRA, the atrocities of the Yugoslav wars. Schuppli demonstrates that countless horrors shape our possible understandings of wider events.

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Han Ok-hee, Untitled 77-A, 1977

Film

No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image

Mimi Howard

‘No Master Territories’ features nearly 90 non-fiction films made by feminist filmmakers from the 1970s to the 1990s. If the ‘unearthing’ of artworks implies a kind of scarcity, here, feminist filmmaking of the late-20th century appears – to the contrary – proximate, abundant and continuous.

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visitors to Jackson Pollock’s barn

Reports

Letter from the Hamptons

Daniel Neofetou

In Southampton and East Hampton, every punter who chances through the door is a potential client; outside galleries there are racks of free magazines, one of which is a real-estate brochure listing properties priced up to $45m.

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Ashmina Ranjit, Happening: Present Situation, 2004/22

Reports

Letter from Kathmandu

Beatriz Cifuentes Feliciano

The visual narratives in contemporary Nepali art often draw from folk and tantric art, and reflect on social and political issues, including freedom of expression and the rights of women and indigenous peoples.

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Claudia Comte, Heart of a Star (Zigzag/Jungle Series), 2022, included in the 'Women – Art in Times of Chaos’ auction

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Selling Art Now

Henry Lydiate

Simon De Pury’s new model subverts that customary division of selling roles by offering a symbiotic market relationship between auction houses and gallerists together conducting primary sales.

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Michael O’Pray Prize

An award for new writing on moving image and artists’ film


The Prize is aimed at writers starting out in their careers with no more than four articles previously published.

• £500 first prize
• £250 prize for two special mentions
• Each published by Art Monthly and FVU

Deadline: noon 26 September 2022
Apply: www.fvu.co.uk

The Michael O’Pray Prize is a Film and Video Umbrella initiative, in partnership with Art Monthly. Supported by University of East London and Arts Council England.

Art Monthly Calendar

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Alberta Whittle, Lagareh – The Last Born, 2022
Lux Scotland

Selected Events

  • Round table: Play in Public Space
    Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, Fri 2 Sep 12.00pm
  • New Gestures – A Showcase of Performance Art
    Site Gallery, Sheffield, Fri 2 Sep 6.00pm
  • Sonic Intervention by Aniruddha Das
    Goldsmiths CCA, London , Fri 2 Sep 7.00pm
  • Exhibition Tour of My Garden, My Sanctuary
    Fact, Liverpool, Sat 3 Sep 1.00pm
  • In Conversation with Bo Wang and George Clark
    LUX, London, Sun 4 Sep 4.00pm
  • Thursday Lates
    Humber Street Gallery, Hull, Thu 8 Sep 7.00pm
  • Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics
    Courtauld Institute, London, Fri 9 Sep 9.45am
  • Book launch: This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century with Rebecca Birrell
    Tate St Ives, Saint Ives, Fri 9 Sep 6.30pm
  • Sonic Intervention by Gary Stewart
    Goldsmiths CCA, London , Fri 9 Sep 7.00pm
  • Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme – ‘an echo buried, buried, but calling still’
    The Common Guild, Glasgow, Sat 10 Sep 7.00pm
  • Himali Singh Soin, Static Range: Body of Light
    Serpentine Gallery, London, Sat 10 Sep 8.00pm
  • Jack Tan: Performing Boardness
    Fact, Liverpool, Tue 13 Sep 7.00pm
  • Lolz Mixtape Film Club
    Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, Fri 16 Sep 6.30pm
  • Ain Bailey and Trevor Mathison in Conversation
    Goldsmiths CCA, London , Fri 16 Sep 7.00pm
  • A Gathering in the Witches’ Institution
    The Tetley, Leeds, Sat 17 Sep 10.00am
  • Bones Tan Jones: Fertile Souls
    Serpentine Gallery, London, Sat 17 Sep 3.00pm
  • Hadi Fallahpisheh: House Animals
    Goldsmiths CCA, London , Sun 18 Sep 6.00pm
  • Alberta Whittle – ‘Lagareh - The Last Born’
    LUX Scotland, Glasgow, Tue 20 Sep 6.00pm
  • Thursday Tour & Tea
    Primary, Nottingham, Thu 22 Sep 11.00am
  • Art + Social No. 6
    MIMA, Middlesbrough, Thu 22 Sep 4.30pm
  • Differencing the Canon: Methods of Researching and Archiving Women’s Sculptural Practices
    The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, Fri 23 Sep 9.30am
  • The Autobiographical Trilogy & Introduction
    Barbican, London, Fri 23 Sep 6.30pm
  • Curator Tour of My Garden, My Sanctuary
    Fact, Liverpool, Sat 24 Sep 1.00pm
  • K-Pop Celebration
    Fact, Liverpool, Sat 24 Sep 5.30pm
  • Bloomberg New Contemporaries Guided Tour
    Humber Street Gallery, Hull, Sun 25 Sep 1.00pm
  • Chimera: Nashashibi/Skaer, in Conversation
    Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Thu 29 Sep 5.30pm
  • Expressive Landscapes Printmaking Course
    Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, Fri 30 Sep 10.00am
  • Howardena Pindell: New Perspectives
    Courtauld Institute, London, Fri 30 Sep 10.00am

Selected Exhibition Openings


Selected Digital Resources

Gallery Maps

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Podcasts

Art Monthly Talk Show

 

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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

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Art Monthly | 12 Sep
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Operations Manager

A key role within the Primary team, taking a lead on operations, building management and capital development, for our site in Nottingham.
Primary, Nottingham | 6 Oct
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Events Officer

Pallant House Gallery, Chichester | 7 Sep
pallant.org.uk

Freelance Painting Assistant

Lakwena, London | 8 Sep
studio@lakwena.com

Technician - Art, Building Maintenance & Instrastructure

October Gallery, London | 11 Sep
octobergallery.co.uk

Adult Learning Coordinator

Pallant House Gallery, Chichester | 16 Sep
pallant.org.uk

Open Eye Hub Supervisor & Volunteer Coordinator

Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool | 23 Sep
openeye.org.uk

Graphic Designer

Freelands Foundation, London | 25 Sep
freelandsfoundation.co.uk

Trustee

The Art Station, Saxmundham | 1 Oct
theartstation.uk

Curator

Impressions Gallery, Bradford | 10 Oct
impressions-gallery.com


Residencies/Fellowships

Gallery Manager

Guts Gallery, London | 11 Sep
gutsgallery.co.uk

Artists Access to Art Colleges

aa2a | 23 Sep
aa2a.biz

V&A DesignLab Nation x Ceramics Residency

V&A Museum, London | 23 Sep
vam.ac.uk

Artist at Soane

Sir John Soane's Muesum, London | 4 Oct
soane.org

Palazzo Monti Residency

Brescia, Italy | Rolling
palazzomonti.org


Competitions/Commissions

Académie des beaux-arts European Award 2022

The Art Explora Foundation | 7 Sep
artexplora.org

Climate Action Commission

Aspace Arts, Southampton | 26 Sep
aspacearts.org.uk

Foundwork Artist Prize

Foundwork | 31 Dec
foundwork.art


Scholarships/Grants

Omni Artist Award

Omni Colour, London | 5 Sep
omnicolour.com

The Elephant Trust

The Elephant Trust, London | 9 Oct
elephanttrust.org.uk

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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Art for Change Prize

M&C Saatchi Group & Saatchi Gallery, London | 31 Jan 23
mcsaatchi.com


Studios

Graduate Award Scheme

Lewisham Art House, London | 11 Sep
lewishamarthouse.org.uk


Courses

New RCA Curating Short Courses, Apply Now!

Two new online RCA Short Courses are open for applications, apply now to Curating Contemporary Art and Design: Writing Intensive and/or Archives and Collections.
Royal College of Art, London | 4 Nov
rca.ac.uk

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Workshops

One To One

Artquest | Rolling
artquest.org.uk

Interfaces Monthly

Barbican & The Trampery | Rolling
docs.google.com


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

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