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Issue 459, September 2022
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?
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.
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.
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
The Otolith Group, Sovereign Sisters, 2014, IMMA
Exhibitions
Elsa James: Othered in a region that has been historically Othered
Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
Matthew Bowman
Brent Biennial: In the House of my Love
various venues, London
Gwen Burlington
The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis
IMMA, Dublin
Hana Noorali
Lou Lou Sainsbury: Earth is a Deadname
Gasworks, London
Francis Whorrall-Campbell
Tenant of Culture: Soft Acid
Camden Art Centre, London
Luisa Lorenza Corna
Moi Tran: Civic Sound Archive
Peer, London
Peter Suchin
Someone Else: The foreignness of children
Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg
Agnieszka Gratza
Dayanita Singh: Dancing with my Camera
Gropius Bau, Berlin
Nicola Jeffs
Transcultural Art Histories in the GDR
Albertinum, Dresden
Sara Blaylock
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?
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’.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Claudia Comte, Heart of a Star (Zigzag/Jungle Series), 2022, included in the 'Women – Art in Times of Chaos’ auction
Artlaw
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.
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Art Monthly Calendar
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
- Spaces of (dis)connection: Migrant Essential Workers
Grand Union, Birmingham, opens Fri 2 Sep
- Norman Gilbert
Tramway, Glasgow, opens Sat 3 Sep | PV 2 Sep
- Permindar Kaur
The Art House Wakefield, Wakefield, opens Sat 3 Sep
- Painting in a Painting of Itself
Trace, Nottingham , opens Sat 3 Sep
- Bo Wang
LUX, London, opens Mon 5 Sep | PV 4 Sep
- Carolee Schneemann
Barbican, London, opens Thu 8 Sep
- Sturtevant
Thaddaeus Ropac, London, opens Thu 8 Sep
- Airship Orchestra
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, opens Thu 8 Sep
- Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme
The Common Guild, Glasgow, opens Fri 9 Sep
- Otto Volte Due
Large Glass, London, opens Fri 9 Sep
- Mayunkiki
Ikon, Birmingham, opens Fri 9 Sep
- Farwa Moledina
Ikon, Birmingham, opens Fri 9 Sep
- Edward Lear
Ikon, Birmingham, opens Fri 9 Sep
- Natasha Tontey
Auto Italia, London, opens Thu 15 Sep
- Paul Barlow
Karsten Schubert, London, opens Thu 15 Sep
- Jadé Fadojutimi
The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, opens Fri 16 Sep
- Olivia Plender
Maureen Paley, London, opens Fri 16 Sep
- Carolee Schneemann
Hales Gallery, London, opens Sun 18 Sep | PV 17 Sep
- Miko Veldkamp
Southwark Park Galleries, London, opens Sun 18 Sep | PV 17 Sep
- Maria Bartuszová
Tate Modern, London, opens Wed 21 Sep
- From The Dark Soil
Blyth Gallery, London, opens Wed 21 Sep | PV 20 Sep
- In-Side-Out-Side-In
Site Gallery, Sheffield, opens Fri 23 Sep
- Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022
Humber Street Gallery, Hull, opens Fri 23 Sep
- Sean Burns
Vivid Projects, Birmingham, opens Fri 23 Sep
- Billy Dosanjh
New Art Exchange, Nottingham, opens Fri 23 Sep
- Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, opens Sat 24 Sep
- Marina Abramović
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, opens Sat 24 Sep
- Estate
Matt’s Gallery Nine Elms, London, opens Mon 26 Sep | PV 25 Sep
- Dark Waters
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, opens Tue 27 Sep
- Agnes Varnai, Tina Kult & Lucy Hutchinson
Fact, Liverpool, opens Wed 28 Sep
- Hybrid
Arebyte, London, opens Fri 30 Sep | PV 29 Aug
- Chimera
Cooper Gallery, Dundee, opens Fri 30 Sep | PV 29 Sep
- Dani and Sheilah ReStack
Camden Arts Centre, London, opens Fri 30 Sep
- Forrest Bess
Camden Arts Centre, London, opens Fri 30 Sep
- From the Volcano to the Sea: Part II The Feminist Group Le Nemesiache in 1970s and 1980s Naples
Chelsea Space, London, opens Fri 30 Sep | PV 29 Sep
Selected Digital Resources
- Constant Violins, Arcadia Missa
- Online Exhibitions, Art at a Time Like This
- Shahin Entezami aka TEGH: Sink, Beaconsfield
- Human Conditions of Clay, Chapter
- Joy Labinjo, Chapter
- Collective Observations, Collective
- Alison Scott: open-weather, Collective
- Archive of Destruction, Flat Time House
- FPG Sounds, Focal Point Gallery
- New Histories: George Morl and Damien Robinson, Focal Point Gallery
- Ravi Deepres: Origin, FVU Watch
- Bloomberg New Contemporaries Artist Talk, Humber Street Gallery
- IMMA Talks Online, IMMA
- London’s Arts Laboratories and the 1960s Avant-Garde, LUX
- Online Discussion with Rehana Zaman, LUX Scotland
- MattFlix 41: Benedict Drew, Matt’s Gallery
- Versions, Open Eye Gallery
- Artists’ Moving Image Network, Pavilion
- Relief/releaf, The NewBridge Project
- Yannis Maniatakos: The Sea Said Yes by Chus Martinez, Rodeo
- Sonia Boué: The Artist is Not Present, Site Gallery
- Out of SPACE Podcast, SPACE
- What We Inherit, Transmission
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