Art Monthly Newsletter June 2012
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Art Monthly June Issue  Mohamed Bourouissa La République from 'Périphéries' 2006 Interview Protocol Mohamed Bourouissa interviewed by Anna Dezeuze The young Algerian-born French photographer and filmmaker Mohamed Bourouissa was one of the stars of the 2011 Venice Biennale, where he showed Boloss, a film that follows the fortunes of a group of youths in Marseille. Here he discusses making work for specific audiences, his collaboration with prisoners and why he has been taking 3D scans of jobless individuals. 'One of the most emblematic and best-known photographs from the "Périphéries" series, which I titled La République, was staged in Clichy-sous-Bois on 25 December 2005, after the riots had calmed down. I was working above all on the feeling of tension, an invisible tension. That is what I was trying to make visible rather than what happens in riots, because riots are only the visible part of this tension. By the way, I think that we will have new riots in the next three or four years if things don't improve.'  Allan Kaprow Yard 1961 performance with Lucas Samaras Feature The Un-artist What do artists need to know? asks Michael Corris With art education having been privatised and the doctorate in fine art practice becoming ever more entrenched, what is it that artists actually need to know in this deskilled art world? And what do artists such as Allan Kaprow and Ian Burn, or the ill-conceived Artist Placement Group tell us about art knowledge? '"Heuristics", "dithering devices" (a term taken from mechanical engineering) and the "anti-textbook" are but a few of the ways in which the urgent need for unlearning and relearning as artists was articulated during this period.'  Paul B Davis B.Y.O.B.B. (Bring your own Bobby Brown) 2008 Feature Practice Practice is not a counterfeit term argues Morgan Quaintance If the dominance of continental theory in contemporary art has abated, a new generation of artists – from Katie Paterson to Marcus Coates, Catherine Sullivan to Cory Arcangel – are now finding their own esoteric bodies of knowledge to mine. Is this new relationship between doing and thinking not the very definition of 'practice'? 'In contrast to the OED's implied hierarchical relationship in which theory could be seen as a rarefied activity estranged from the actual business of doing, practice in the field of art is locked in a recursive and symbiotic relationship with theory. They are almost one and the same thing.' Comment Editorial Snakes and Ladders The travails of the current Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, Jeremy Hunt, seem to be par for the course. Just what is it about this job title that has derailed so many once-promising political careers over the 20 years since it was first introduced? 'Since it became a cabinet appointment back in 1992, somewhat surprisingly under a Tory government, the post of Secretary of State for the Arts has been something of a poisoned chalice. The first Secretary of State for National Heritage was David Mellor, who left office less than a year later following a kiss-and-tell sex scandal. As scandals go it was more a Whitehall farce than a Profumo Affair, but it was a bad start.' Letters The Whitechapel Gallery's managing director Stephen Crampton-Hayward responds to John Douglas Miller's 'Art Workers' polemic, and Miller replies. Michael Hampton tackles Paul O'Kane's 'Things' feature, and O'Kane replies. Artnotes A protest group details the (non-)payment of artists; the DCMS is in the firing line; the state of artists' employment opportunities declines further; a fundraising appeal successfully acquires a commission by a public agency for a public museum; the Whitney comes under attack again by protesters; Camden's arts organisations cosy up; MAXXI in Rome goes into administration before its second birthday; all the latest news on galleries, people, prizes and more. Submissions: Send Artnotes info to artnotes@artmonthly.co.uk Obituaries David Weiss 1946-2012
Breda Beban 1952-2012  Sarah Pierce The Artist Talks 2012 Profile Sarah Pierce Chris Fite-Wassilak on an artist of dialogue Sarah Pierce makes collaborative performances that rework historical scenarios, folding them into contemporary narratives to create a living archive that reveals the contested nature of history. 'The Artist Talks carries several strands common through Pierce's work: the combined layering of video, performance and installation; the restaging of historical texts; the extensive use of dialogue and interview; theatrical stage settings; students and major art figures as both subjects and performers within her work.' Reviews Exhibitions The Sacred Modernist: Josef Albers as a Catholic Artist Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork Mark Harris Stephen Prina Maureen Paley, London Christopher Townsend Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art various venues Martin Herbert 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: Forget Fear various venues Francis Frascina 11th Havana Biennial: Artistic Practices and Social Imaginaries various venues Klara Kemp-Welch Subversion Cornerhouse, Manchester Bob Dickinson Eric Baudelaire: The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without Images Gasworks, London Nicholas Warner Stan Douglas: Midcentury Studio Victoria Miro, London Christopher Townsend Benedict Drew: GLISS Cell Projects, London Adam Pugh Bouvard and Pécuchet's Compendius Quest for Beauty David Roberts Art Foundation, London Sophie J Williamson Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction Arnolfini, Bristol Omar Kholeif Reviews Books Victor Burgin: Parallel Texts Jennifer Thatcher on collected writings by an artist-educator 'As art schools become more subject to market values, Victor Burgin cites the importance of acting as a citizen rather than as an artist: someone who "makes watercolours of sunsets but stands up to the administration, to the colleague who makes radical political noises in the gallery but colludes in imposing ... disastrous government policies on the department".' The Collected Writings of Jon Thompson Peter Suchin on the collected writings of another artist-educator 'While many of the pieces in the Collected Writings were written as catalogue essays and are thus generally affirmative in import, it is in his observations on teaching or on what he calls "the Luc Tuymans effect" – the influence of market-led fashions upon art school practice – that Jon Thompson is most critically astute.' Reviews Performance Florence Peake: MAKE David Briers watches a performance inspired by art packing 'Three performers are singled out to be "packed", gradually accreted like caddis fly larvae with pieces of cardboard, fragments of polystyrene, styrofoam balls, adhesive tape – the detritus of an exhibition installation.' Report Letter from Cairo 18 Days Maxa Zoller witnesses the art of a revolution 'How to write about the contemporary art scene in a country that is undergoing a revolution, a country in which its people have displayed art on the streets and carried it on their bodies?' Salerooms New York Another Record Bonanza Colin Gleadell reports that many – but not all – artists' prices are booming 'Once again, and in spite of The Scream, it was the contemporary sales that amassed the higher total ($893m to $526m), with 17 works selling for over $10m each and over 30 records broken.' 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 to discuss the current issue on Resonance 104.4 FM. Tune in at 5pm on the second Friday of each month.
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ProjectDirectorLondon@gmail.com Head of Programme & Senior Tutor: Curating Contemporary Art Royal College of Art, London | 5 Jun
www.rca.ac.uk Course Leader: Foundation Art & Design Colchester Institute | 5 Jun
www.colchester.ac.uk Director Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal | 6 Jun
www.serralves.pt Lecturer in Art University of Reading | 11 Jun
www.reading.ac.uk Conservator & Registrar Mima, Middlesbrough | 11 Jun
www.northeastjobs.org.uk Assistant Curator Firstsite, Colchester | 12 Jun
www.firstsite.uk.net Stanley Picker Traineeship Matt's Gallery, London | 12 Jun
www.mattsgallery.org Project Manager Tate Britain, London | 12 Jun
http://workingat.tate.org.uk Principal Lecturer/Professor University of Hertfordshire | 13 Jun
www.jobs.herts.ac.uk The Slade Professorship of Fine Art University of Cambridge | 24 Jun
www.admin.cam.ac.uk Competitions/Commissions Hostings Commission A Million Minutes, London | 14 Jun
www.amillionminutes.org Moving Image Commission Great North Run Culture | 14 Jun
www.greatnorthrunculture.org The John Gingell Award g39, Cardiff | 15 Jun
www.g39.org The Marmite Prize for Painting The Marmite Prize touring exhibition | 1 Jul
www.marmiteprize.org Residencies/Fellowships Artist Residencies SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland | 5 Jun
www.sim.is Artist Village Warp, Genk, Belgium | 8 Jun
www.warp-art.be Post-doctoral Research Fellowships Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds | 11 Jun
www.henry-moore.org 5 Visual Art Residencies Maumau, Istanbul, Turkey | 14 Jun
www.maumauworks.com Residency for Printmaking Artist South Hill Park, Bracknell | 15 Jun
www.southhillpark.org.uk International Residency Couvent des Recollets, Paris, France | 17 Jun
www.international-recollets-paris.org Development Residencies Standpoint, London | 25 Jun
www.standpointlondon.co.uk Artist-in-Residence Programme Kyoto Art Centre, Japan | 30 Jun
http://en.kac.or.jp Scholarships/Grants Dartmoor Arts Project Summer School 22-28 July 2012 Over 120 artists meet for a week of workshops and critical debate, plus a programme of talks by leading contemporary artists, writers and thinkers. BURSARIES AVAILABLE | 30 Jun
www.dartmoorarts.com advertisement | Fine Art Scholarships Braunschwieg University of Art, Germany | 6 Jun
www.hbk-bs.de Studentships in Fine Art University of Brighton | 11 Jun
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk 25 Travel Grants to attend CIMAM's Annual Conference CIMAM, Istanbul, Turkey | 1 Jul
www.cimam.org International Grant Programme Lespien Art Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany | 1 Jul
www.lepsien-art-foundation.com International Research Scolarships University of Leeds | 4 Jul
http://scholarships.leeds.ac.uk Exhibiting Factory Nights Red Nile, Stoke-on-Trent | 4 Jun
www.rednile.org RE Open 2012 Royal Soiety of Painters Printmakers, London | 6 Jun
www.parkerharris.co.uk Call for Curators Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands | 11 Jun
http://impakt.nl Alpha-ville, Call for Submissions Alpha-ville festival, London | 22 Jun
www.alpha-ville.co.uk Call for Films & Videos Instants Videos, Marseille, France | 22 Jun
www.instantsvideo.com Open Call for Proposals Sculpture Centre, New York, USA | 24 Jun
http://sculpture-center.org Photo Project Call Pump House Gallery, London | 30 Jun
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