Recently added articles from C: International Contemporary Art:
Off grid.(EDITORIAL)
Sep 22, 2009; Morrell, Amish ... This issue is organized around the idea of "art infrastructure," or the systems and structures that facilitate the production and presentation of contemporary art. They include galleries, artist-run centres and temporary exhibition spaces, public art initiatives such as Toronto's Nuit ...
Beyond the hype: Nuit Blanche in the "Creative City".
Sep 22, 2009; Banh, Joseph ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The "Creative City" has become a common byword in today's increasingly globalized world. Metropolitan centres the world over are mobilizing their cultural resources in a bid to brand themselves as global "cultural" cities, with hopes that this strategy ...
A sea of contingencies: Vancouver's domestic interventions.
Sep 22, 2009; Birch, Jesse ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Federal elections, Olympic ceremonies, the actions of a unit of sharp shooters, a theater premiere--all count as public events. Other events of overwhelming public significance, such as child rearing, factory work, and watching television within one's own ...
Everything all at once.
Sep 22, 2009; Hutton, Jen ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Creating a gallery based on inclusivity is thus in some sense creating a space that is already doomed to fail according to a certain set of standards. The underlying paradoxical, democracy-negating idea is that if a space lets everybody in nobody will want ...
Call to order.(ARTIST CENTREFOLD)
Sep 22, 2009; Ritter, Kathleen ... Call to Order is the musical sound of an artist-run centre. Using the minutes from board meetings as the harmonic framework for a potential musical score, Call to Order is a proposition: What might an artist-run centre sound like if it operated in the minor mode? An artist-run ...
Fire watcher.(Cover story)
Sep 22, 2009; Uzelman, Kara ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Strathcona is a working class neighbourhood in Vancouver. Bordering China Town, it has always been an ethnically diverse area and is home to a vibrant art community. Containing much of ...
The mystical language of the everyday: Jamelie Hassan's At the Far Edge of Words.(2009)
Sep 22, 2009; Root, Deborah ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Imagine the 80s: those were the days of high theory and cold hearts, graduate students drunk on fantasies of intellectual stardom, ardent talk of master narratives and intertextuality. I returned to Toronto after a hard year in North Africa and was lost in ...
Younger than Jesus.
Sep 22, 2009; McKee, Jesse ... YOUNGER THAN JESUS The New Museum, New York JESSE MCKEE: In the early autumn of last year Tate Modern hosted the symposia Landmark Exhibitions--Contemporary Art Shows Since 1968. Sitting through two clays of papers, panel discussions, debates and Q & As by ...
Zin Taylor: The Bakery of Blok.
Sep 22, 2009; Adler, Dan ... ZIN TAYLOR: THE BAKERY OF BLOK Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto At turns haunting and hilarious, Zin Taylor's recent exhibition The Bakery of Blok explores the production and promotion of a television series about making bread in an abandoned bakery. The ...
Annie Pootoogook's Drawings of Contemporary Inuit Life.
Sep 22, 2009; Modigliani, Leah ... ANNIE POOTOOGOOK'S DRAWINGS OF CONTEMPORARY INUIT LIFE National Museum of the American Indian, New York This summer's solo exhibition of 39 of Annie Pootoogook's drawings at the National Museum of the American Indian is a rare opportunity to see a large group of this ...
Mika Rottenberg.
Sep 22, 2009; Bethune-Leamen, Katie ... MIKA ROTTENBERG Maison Rouge, Paris In 2006, artist Mika Rottenberg was awarded the inaugural Cartier Prize to produce a commissioned piece for London's Frieze Art Fair. The result was Chasing Waterfalls: The Rise and Fall of the Amazing Seven Sutherland Sisters, ...
Aleesa Cohene: Something Better.
Sep 22, 2009; Davies, Jon ... ALEESA COHENE: SOMETHING BETTER YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto Through a small number of short videos crafted over less than a decade, Toronto-based artist Aleesa Cohene has achieved a remarkable maturity in her work. At first, I was misled by its apparent simplicity: ...
Sara Angelucci: Regular 8.
Sep 22, 2009; Hartog, Kristen Den ... SARA ANGELUCCI: REGULAR 8 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto Regular 8, a new series of photographs by Toronto artist Sara Angelucci, was a natural fit with Contact's 2009 theme of "Still Revolution" in that it examines the relationship between film and photography, and ...
Michael A. Robinson: Throw Genre.
Sep 22, 2009; Dube, Peter ... MICHAEL A. ROBINSON: THROW GENRE Quarter Ephemera: Fond Erie Darling, Montreal In a sense, any experience of art is an experience of "doubleness": you encounter both the object and the space containing it, and must process both the material and the marks of a ...
Decentre: Concerning Artist-Run Culture/A Propos de Centres d'Artistes.
Sep 22, 2009; Maranda, Michael ... DECENTRE: CONCERNING ARTIST-RUN CULTURE/A PROPOS DE CENTRES D'ARTISTES Edited by Elaine Chang, Andrea Lalonde, Chris Lloyd, Steve Loft, Jonathan Middleton, Daniel Roy, and Haema Sivanesan YYZBOOKS, 2008 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At face value, ...
Vancouver Art & Economies.
Sep 22, 2009; Turner, Leah ... VANCOUVER ART & ECONOMIES Edited by Melanie O'Brian Artspeak and Arsensal Pulp Press, 2007 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since the 80s, Vancouver, once a resource-dependent economy, has been evolving into an internationally lauded centre for ...
Artists with PHDS: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Arts.
Sep 22, 2009; Moser, Gabrielle ... ARTISTS WITH PHDS: ON THE NEW DOCTORAL DEGREE IN STUDIO ARTS Edited by James Elkins New Academia Publishing, 2009 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Monstrous, baffling and trivial. These are just a few of the ways that burgeoning doctor of philosophy (or ...
Hans Belting and Andrea Buddensieg, eds., Global Art World: Audiences, Markets and Museums.(NOTEWORTHY)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Hans Belting and Andrea Buddensieg, eds., Global Art World: Audiences, Markets and Museums (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Make up of papers presented at the 2007 conference, Where is Art Contemporary?, held at the ZKM in Karlsruhe ...
Lauren Cornell, et al., eds., Younger than Jesus: The Generational Book.(NOTEWORTHY)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Lauren Cornell et al. eds. Younger than Jesus: The Generational Book. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Intended as a companion to the Younger than Jesus Artist Directory, The Generational Book is made up of recently published articles from popular periodicals including The ...
Stan Douglas, ed., Vancouver Anthology.(NOTEWORTHY)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Stan Douglas Vancouver Anthology (Talon Books 2009) To be re-released in a new format this autumn, Stan Douglas' 1990 Vancouver Anthology compiles papers that were initially presented as part of a forum on alternative art practices, and then revised as a result of discussions ...
