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April 2011
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Roman Ondák It Will All Turn Out Right in the End 2005-06
Interview
Time Capsule
Roman Ondák interviewed by Martin Herbert
Slovakian artist Roman Ondák's artwork varies from subtle interventions to large-scale choreographies: from a performance where a man hesitantly looks through a gallery window to the unexpected arrival in a building of a huge crowd. Coinciding with his exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, here he talks about works that open into imaginative spaces, and public collaboration that is as simple as joining a queue.
'I am interested in this kind of performative work that involves a large number of people, sometimes more than you can count, and seeing how people choose to behave in such situations.'
Christopher Williams Cutaway of a SCHNEIDER VARIOGON 5.6/125-250 mm ... 2009
Feature
Art Criticism
Mark Prince on the slippage between the boundaries of art and criticism
Art criticism is hard to pin down because it habitually crosses boundaries with other disciplines. But what happens when artists incorporate models of criticism into the artwork itself? Are they merely creating a stage prop that signals 'objectivity', or does criticism's slippery nature allow artists to dodge the culture industry's simple rules of commodification?
'Critical distance opens up a temporal remove. But a remove from what? The moral implication of the artistic act ratified and objectified by the critical act which qualifies it, is itself qualified by the overlap of the terms.'
PsychoanalYSL The Emaciated Spectator 2011
Feature
Rebel Without a Course
Peter Suchin on the academicisation of art education
The rise of the practice-based PhD raises a number of questions concerning how art is given validation within culture and what kind of art such validation methods are given to produce. After all, what kind of artist would choose to seek approval from the institution?
'Michael Baldwin's view of academia rightly regards certain features of its modus operandi as emasculatory and restrictive rather than emancipatory: "The internally complex artistic products of post-Duchampian times are extraordinarily amenable to administrative priorities. We might even say they are directed at them."'
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Comment
Editorial
Lies, Damn Lies and Spin
With the BBC referring to government funding cuts as 'savings', it is clear that the Tory-led coalition is winning the PR war. But when the mainstream media unquestioningly repeats culture secretary Jeremy Hunt's claim that his cuts to the arts represent a mere 15% reduction in funding, it is time to re-examine the facts.
'Thus by sleight of hand the magical figure of 15% was conjured as though out of the chancellor's hat, while the true scale of the proposed cuts was concealed in his red box.'
Letters
JJ Charlesworth challenges Dean Kenning's championing of the welfare state and its role in art education. Peter Suchin takes issue with Dave Beech's feature on ugliness. Dave Beech responds by clarifying exactly how his and Suchin's positions differ.
Artnotes
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport's £1bn budget is compared against government support for other sectors; Labour MP Tristram Hunt makes a clumsy attack on his party's flagship arts policy of free entry to national museums; Jake & Dinos Chapman support civil disobedience by launching a fund to pay student protestors' fines; anti-BP oil protests continue at Tate and the National Portrait Gallery; artists boycott the Guggenheim due to labour conditions in Abu Dhabi; a new London art fair is cancelled before it even begins; Ikon Eastside closes due to funding cuts while private galleries continue to open; and all the latest news on art world appointments, prizes and more.
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Beatrice Gibson Empty Set, The Future's Getting Old Like the Rest Of Us 2009
Profile
Beatrice Gibson
Christopher Townsend profiles the British experimental filmmaker
Beatrice Gibson uses film to explore the legacies of Modernism. But rather than focus on failures and ruins, Gibson examines the recuperation of rational architecture through pragmatic use, and relishes the fact that Modernism's blank opacity can work to resist marketisation.
'Architecture in Beatrice Gibson's work should not be read only as the language of habitable forms in space. Rather, we are concerned with the architecture of ideas, of rhetoric and the structures it inhabits.'
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Reviews
Exhibitions
Susan Hiller
Tate Britain, London
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Richard Grayson
Douglas Gordon: k.364
Lisson Gallery, London
Maria Walsh
Lindsay Seers: It has to be this way2
Baltic, Gateshead
Paul Usherwood
Michael Fortune
PEER, London
Larne Abse Gogarty
Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc: Foreword to Guns for Banta
Gasworks, London
Omar Kholeif
Melanie Counsell: Lutecia
Works/Projects, Bristol
David Trigg
Robert Orchardson: Endless Facade
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Bob Dickinson
Manfred Pernice: déjàVu
Dundee Contemporary Arts
Rosie Lesso
Lydia Gifford: Its Hurtling Gold
Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Peter Suchin
General Idea: Haute Culture
Musée d'art de la Ville de Paris
Morgan Quaintance
Nancy Spero
Serpentine Gallery, London
Cherry Smyth
Cory Arcangel: Beat the Champ
Barbican, London
Marcus Verhagen
Reviews
Artists' Books
Taryn Simon: Contraband
Colin Perry on the US artist's book of items intercepted at JFK Airport
'In Contraband, where the subjects are mute objects rather than people, it is even possible to read these as traces of something epic – a system that is so vast and ruthless that it might seem sublime.'
Reviews
Books
Listening to Noise and Silence
Mike Watson on Salome Voegelin's book on the philosophy of sound art
'Throughout the text Voegelin admixes philosophical study with close personal analyses of artworks, via a focus upon sound art as a rejection of the hegemonic discourse of retinal art.'
September: A History Painting by Gerhard Richter
Anna Dezeuze on Robert Storr's analysis of Richter's response to 9/11
'Gerhard Richter knew that it was impossible, for a German, to denounce the US carpet-bombing of German cities. This inability to take sides solidified into a systematic unwillingness, in his oeuvre as a whole, to "accuse" anyone – a quality greatly appreciated by Robert Storr in the context of increasingly Coulterised US politics.'
Salerooms
London
Close to the Top
Colin Gleadell on sales that returned to pre-crash prices
'By the end of the series, Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips de Pury & Co had taken £187.4m, the fourth highest for a series of contemporary art sales in London. The total comfortably exceeded the pre-sales estimate of £111-158m and was a 51% increase on last February's sales. It was also a 335% increase on February 2009.'
Artlaw
Contracts
Sculpture Competitions
Henry Lydiate on a grey area where prizes are commissions
'The competition organisers might think that the winning artist's prize will not be cash but rather a commission from them to execute and install the proposed artwork, in consideration for which the artist will be paid the cash. Say, after choosing and announcing the winner, the organisers for some reason decide not to proceed with the commission. Is the artist entitled to be paid?'
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Opportunities
Jobs Dean of Arts
York St John University | 7 Apr
www.yorksj.ac.uk
Permeate Curatorial Internship (Bursary £16,000 pro-rata)
Aspex, Portsmouth | 4 Apr
www.aspex.org.uk
Lecturer for MA Fine Art
Goldsmiths, London | 24 Apr
www.gold.ac.uk
Lecturer & Teaching Fellow positions in Fine Art
Slade School of Fine Art, London | 15 Apr
www.ucl.ac.uk/slade
Director
Suffolk Artlink, Halesworth | 11 Apr
www.suffolkartlink.org.uk
Senior Officer, Artsmark & Arts Award
ACE, London | 7 Apr
www.artscouncil.org.uk
Part-time Artist Assistants
David Wightman, London | 1 May
www.davidwightman.net
Director
The Arts Council Ireland | 29 Apr
www.artscouncil.ie
Conference Programmer
Engage, Margate | 5 Apr
www.engage.org
Professor of Performance
School of Arts, Northumbria University | 7 Apr
www.workfornorthumbria.co.uk
Grants/Scholarships Masters Studentships in Fine Art
BIAD, Birmingham | 11 Apr
www.biad.bcu.ac.uk
Funding for MA Fine Art in the Northwest
Nadfas, North West of England | 20 Apr
www.nadfas.org.uk
Postgraduate Research Degree Studentships x 4
The University for the Creative Arts | 15 Apr
www.ucreative.ac.uk
12 Fully Funded Ph.D. Scholarships in Arts Technology
Queen Mary University of London | 17 Apr
www.mat.qmul.ac.uk
Various Grants
Faculty of Art, University of Bristol | 30 Apr
www.bristol.ac.uk
2011 Philip Leverhulme Prizes
The Leverhulme Trust | 1 May
www.leverhulme.ac.uk
Grants for Artists
The Elephant Trust | 4 Apr
www.elephanttrust.org.uk
Research Positions in Fine Art
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands | 15 Apr
www.janvaneyck.nl
Competitions/Commissions Two Public Art Commissions
The City and County of Swansea | 4 Apr
www.celfwaith.co.uk
Two Artwork Commissions for Exhibition
Arts Council England | 18 Apr
www.artscouncil.org.uk
The COAL Art Prize
CNAP, Paris, France | 30 Apr
http://coal.blogspirit.com
Residencies/Fellowships Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
British Institute at Ankara, Turkey | 1 May
www.biaa.ac.ukk
Film & Sound Residency
no.w.here, London | 11 Apr
www.no-w-here.org.uk
Sea-Change Moving Image Residency
Picture This, Bristol | 11 Apr
www.picture-this.org.uk
Garfield Weston Residency Award
Aberystwyth Arts Centre | 8 Apr
www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk
Kent Cultural Baton Artist in Residence
Margate Council | 4 Apr
www.kent.gov.uk
Open call for Residency
Nordic Artists' Centre, Dale, Norway | 10 Apr
www.nkdale.no
Autumn Residency with Exhibition
Islington Mill, Salford | 11 Apr
www.islingtonmill.com
Year-long Residency
La Prée, Paris, France | 14 Apr
www.pqev.org
Exhibiting
Call for Film Submissions: OUTPOST OPEN: FILM
Selected by Benjamin Cook, Director of LUX
OUTPOST members can submit up to 3 moving image works for screening and touring exhibition. For inclusion, you must be a member of OUTPOST. Membership is £15 per annum.
OUTPOST, Norwich | 10 May
www.norwichoutpost.org
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Call For Experimental Film Submissions
Tenderpixel, London | 21 Apr
www.tenderpixel.com
Photomedia Group Exhibition
Charlie Dutton Gallery, London | 30 Apr
www.charlieduttongallery.com
Trails Weekends & Film Screening Applications
Wirksworth Festival, Derbyshire |4 Apr
www.wirksworthfestival.co.uk
Exhibition & Film Screening
Holmfirth Arts Ferstival | 18 Apr
www.holmfirthartsfestival.co.uk
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