Art Monthly Newsletter December-January 2012-13
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Art Monthly Dec-Jan Issue  Paul Chan Waiting for Godot in New Orleans 2007 Feature Art & Catastrophe Bob Dickinson charts artists' responses to environmental disasters In the face of recent devastating environmental catastrophes, many of which are man-made, how have artists, from John Fekner and Alan Sonfist in the 1960s through to contemporaries Paul Chan, Dadang Christanto, Jason deCaires Taylor, Peter Fend and Ichi Ikeda, attempted real-world change through their art? 'During the past year in Japan, these pairings between praxis and practice, local and global, tradition and innovation, have again loomed large in new art commenting on natural and man-made disasters.'  Chen Zhen Purification Room 2000/2012 Feature Imaging China Is contemporary art from China packaged for western consumption? asks David Morris The continuing glut of exhibitions in the West focusing on Chinese contemporary art raises interesting questions: how does the work connect to both the western canon and traditional Chinese art, and what is its relationship with the western art market and contemporary China? 'As Chinese art's detractors often point out, the sudden rise of political pop and cynical realist responses to the Mao era in the 1990s is hard to account for except in terms of western art consumption: one Shanghai resident at the discussion pointedly remarked that, while there are countless galleries in the city, there are few Chinese gallerists.'  Abbas Akhavan Fountain 2012 Feature Human Nature Michael Hampton on contrasting views of outdoor art Recent exhibitions, including 'Garden of Reason' and 'Wild New Territories', have presented art in pastoral settings. How have artists, such as Gordon Cheung, Alexandre da Cunha, Kathleen Herbert, Alan Kane, Michael Landy, Simon Periton and Daphne Wright, responded to nature and mankind's determination to shape it? 'Hermit-in-residence Harold Offeh's Arcadia Redesigned, 2012, a seasonal consultancy in a glass-fibre grotto at the bottom of Ham's Kitchen Garden, was supplemented by a series of fantastical spectacles.'  advertisement | Comment Editorial Triple Dip Chancellor George Osborne singled out the arts for cuts in 2010 and the talk is of more pain to come: abolishing the arts in the school curriculum, local councils cutting arts funding and the return of museum entry charges. With talk of a triple dip in the economy, now is emphatically not the time to cut the arts which represent one of the success stories of the past decade at a cost of less than 0.05% of government spend. 'It is interesting that the founders of the British Museum took the intrinsic value of the arts as a given and did not discriminate between scholars and the merely curious.' Artnotes The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is selling off its Henry Moore while another Moore work stands unclaimed outside Parliament; Arts Council England cuts its administrative budget in half; Hurricane Sandy hits Manhattan's Chelsea galleries; Commissions East closes after 20 years following ACE budget cuts; libraries get ACE funding; the French government cuts its arts budget; Venice Biennale pavilions are swapped around; the Armory art fair is looking for a buyer; a Chinese gallerist is arrested for money laundering; galleries open and close; all the latest news on appointments, events, commissions and more. Submissions: Send Artnotes info to artnotes@artmonthly.co.uk  Céline Condorelli Revision – part I 2009 Profile Céline Condorelli Christopher Townsend on an artist of collaboration Céline Condorelli's practice is generous in spirit, inviting others to bring the work to completion, whether through its use as prop in a film, inviting viewer's to connect disparate objects, or a sculpture that solicits book donations to the only public art library in Istanbul. 'Few artists, I think, could meaningfully condense the theme of their practice to a single word; Condorelli can. The word is "support", whether physical, conceptual or institutional.'  advertisement | Reviews Exhibitions 30th Sao Paulo Bienal: The Poetics of Imminence Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion Teresa Gleadowe Materializing 'Six Years': Lucy R Lippard and the emergence of Conceptual Art Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York Kathy Battista Mel Bochner: If the Colour Changes Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Mark Prince Moral Holiday Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland Paul Usherwood Jeff Keen: Shoot the Wrx Brighton Museum and Art Gallery Morgan Quaintance Gary Stevens: Now and Again Southampton City Art Gallery David Trigg The Tanks: Art in Action Tate Modern, London Larne Abse Gogarty Richard Hughes: Where It All Happened Once Tramway, Glasgow Bryony Bond Berlin Round-up daadgalerie • Blain|Southern • Plan B • Supportico Lopez • Galerie Buchholz • Johnen Galerie • Hamburger Bahnhof Martin Herbert Reviews Artists' Books Aspen Magazine 1965-71 Ajay Hothi opens the magazine that was a box 'Questioning the successes, or otherwise, of its own form allowed Aspen to become a series of individual art objects.' Winter Round-up Stephen Bury finds that digital technologies have boosted artists' books 'Greg Allen reproduces the 54 PDFs of the Patrick Cariou versus Richard Prince case, including Prince's seven-hour court deposition. Ironically, this artist's book constitutes the most complete interview with Prince and amounts to the most informative monograph on the artist.' Reviews Books Critical Art Ensemble: Disturbances Colin Perry on the group whose homebrew laboratory is a site of dissent 'Much of the CAE's activities were directed at demonstrating how the establishment power nexus (the state and large corporations) was wedded to a fundamentally undemocratic and repressive pattern of behaviour. Becoming the object of his own insights, on the evening of the death of his wife of 25 years, Steve Kurtz found himself a prime suspect of the Joint Terrorism Task Force.' What We Are Fighting For: A Radical Collective Manifesto John Douglas Millar ponders the future of the Occupy movement 'The Occupy movement currently takes the form of a question mark. Actions in New York to mark its anniversary were throttled by a significant police presence and a largely uninterested media, while those in London failed to spark at all. The worry for the movement's supporters might be that it has slid into the realm of the symbolic – the realm of art – and ceded momentum as a potential mass movement.' Reviews Sound Mark Peter Wright: 30 Minutes of Listening Cherry Smyth discovers the transformative power of sound 'The experience of any exhibition is also the altered perception and receptivity after the looking and the listening, when something of the artist's distinct sensibility lingers, determining the sequence of the viewer's reality, sometimes for minutes, occasionally for days.' Reviews Film Kimi Conrad: Birth & Health Nicholas Warner watches the art duo's quotidian feature film 'Birth & Health follows Paul, a quiet and humble art-school technician who, throughout the course of the film, navigates his way through the intricate social landscape of everyday life: negotiating the potential of having a child with his partner, struggling to keep his job against arts cuts and trying to find time to maintain the active social life of his youth. These are the sufferings of Paul.' Reports Symposium Rogue Game Daniella Rose King encounters a participatory exhibition and symposium 'Immersed in a "broadcast" setting, the symposium attendees were followed by cameras, with footage projected around the space as the event unfolded throughout the gallery.' Zurich Home to the Absurd Aoife Rosenmeyer on the Swiss art scene's ludicrous political wranglings 'A day after the initial publicity for the Art and the City festival, the Swiss People's Party (SVP) suggested that the politician responsible had previously understated the budget, not to mention that it wasn't in the city's remit to install "an accessible rubbish tip" (exactly which work this was a critique of was not immediately evident).' Artlaw Public Policy Endangered Public Sculptures Henry Lydiate suggests a legal approach to protecting public artworks 'Leaving aside public policy and ethical issues, did the London Borough of Tower Hamlets have the legal right to relocate Henry Moore's Draped Seated Woman from East London and can it legally be sold?' Listings Exhibitions Exhibition listings Art Monthly's exhibition listings can also be viewed online. Submissions: Send Listings info to listings@artmonthly.co.uk Art Monthly audio Art Monthly on the radio Art Monthly hosts a talk show, presented by Matt Hale, to discuss the current issue on Resonance 104.4 FM. Tune in at 5pm on the second Friday of each month.
Next broadcast: 5pm Friday 14 December Art Monthly on iTunes The Art Monthly Talk Show is available as a free podcast on iTunes – subscribe for free automatic downloads. Art Monthly audio online Audio recordings of many of Art Monthly's events are available free in the Events section of the Art Monthly website. Recent additions: Listen now: www.artmonthly.co.uk/events | Opportunities Jobs Focal Point Gallery Operations Manager To coordinate the gallery's move into its new building in late-September 2013 and oversee a programme of events, activities and promotion.
Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea | 31 Dec
www.workingforessex.com advertisement | Programme Manager – White Building SPACE, London | 3 Dec
www.spacestudios.org.uk Three Programme Directors Central St Martins College of Art & Design, London | 4 Dec
www.jobs.arts.ac.uk Producer Situations, Bristol | 17 Dec
www.situations.org.uk Director The Belluard Bollwerk Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland | 31 Dec
www.belluard.ch Festival Director Salisbury International Arts Festival | 7 Jan
www.salisburyfestival.co.uk Head of School of Art & Design University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham | 9 Jan
www.resources.glos.ac.uk Festival Director Edinburgh International Festival | 25 Jan
www.eif.co.uk Competitions/Commissions Artist – Fete Alleyway Project Arts in Colchester is seeking an artist to work with the community to rejuvenate an alleyway in the St Anne's area of the town.
Arts in Colchester | 10 Dec
www.firstsite.uk.net advertisement | Moving Image Commission Flamin, London | 5 Dec
www.flamin.filmlondon.org.uk Exhibition & Film Festival Kino Der Kunst, Munich, Germany | 15 Dec
www.kinoderkunst.de Contemporary Talents François Schneider Foundation, Wattwiller, France | 15 Dec
www.fondationfrancoisschneider.org Open Call – Public Art Commissions 17Zwei, Zurich, Switzerland | 16 Dec
www.17zwei.ch Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize The Mall Galleries, London | 11 Jan
www.lynnpainterstainersprize.org.uk Public Commission Leeds Inspired | 11 Jan
www.leedsinspired.co.uk Residencies/Fellowships Three-month Residency PEER, London | 5 Dec
www.peeruk.org Residency Opportunities Cove Park, Argyll and Bute | 7 Dec
www.covepark.org Call for Applications Gyeonggi Creation Centre, Seoul, South Korea | 14 Dec
www.gyeonggicreationcenter.org Convention T – Residencies Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge | 7 Jan
www.wysingartscentre.org The Island Residency Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA | 11 Jan
www.imamuseum.org Research Fellowships Henry Moore Institute, Leeds | 14 Jan
www.henry-moore.org Terra Foundation Fellowships The Courtauld Institute, London | 15 Jan
www.courtauld.ac.uk RSA Residencies for Scotland Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh | 21 Jan
www.royalscottishacademy.org Scholarships/Grants Futures Fund Sky Arts Ignition | 19 Dec
www.ideastap.com Grants for Artists & Small Organisations The Elephant Trust | 14 Jan
www.elephanttrust.org.uk Scholarships in Painting Abbey Awards, Bristish School of Rome, Italy | 14 Jan
www.abbey.org.uk 3 fully-funded PhD Scholarships University of St Andrews | 20 Jan
www-ah.st-andrews.ac.uk Exhibiting Intervention/Live Art Performance Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, The Cube, Corby | 7 Dec
www.fermynwoods.co.uk Switch – Call for Video Art Switch, Nenagh, Ireland | 7 Dec
www.s-w-i-t-c-h.org Altered Space Exhibitions Globe Gallery, Newcastle | 7 Dec
www.globegallery.org Soft Control MMSU, Rijeka, Croatia | 9 Dec
www.mmsu.hr Exhibition Proposals The Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge | 14 Dec
www.anglia.ac.uk Call for Film & Video The Public, West Bromwich | 13 Jan
www.thepublic.com Open Submission Summit Gallery, London | Rolling Deadline
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