May #7

Olivier Zahm, “I think it’s time to break off…” / Hervé Legros, Preface (Documents sur l’art, no 2, 1993) / interview with Olivier Zahm / Stephan Geene, Wishing to be in Paris, led to be in Berlin or different ways to escape the nineties / Axel Huber, visual insert / Catherine Chevalier, interview with Roberto Ohrt / Maija Timonen, Looking the part – The Empty Plan by Anja Kirschner and David Panos / Clara Schulman, Gerard Byrne, “In San Francisco they say, “Flash on it”” / Karl Holmqvist, Ken Okiishi, (Goodbye to) Manhattan / François Aubard, Richard Prince, American Prayer / Rob MacKenzie, Emily Sundblad / Elisabeth Lebovici Henrik Olesen, La maculée conception Henrik Olesen, The Immaculate Conception Karl Holmqvist Rirkrit Tiravanija, The days of this society is numbered / Vincent Romagny, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, The duplication of Dedobbeleer / Scott Portnoy Christopher d’Archangelo, Contrary to Intuition, Let’s Begin with an Image / limited edition: UNITED BROTHERS (Ei Arakawa & Tomoo Arakawa).

Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, quaterly, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.
Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisment typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.

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Someone Cuts My Hair While I Sleep. Todd Fisher.

Todd Fisher´s photography originates from everyday life. He draws inspiration from his immediate surroundings and shoots just at the right moment to capture the mystical momentum rather than the narrative. His motives are of unknown protagonists at non-places. In the moment of taking a picture the situations seem to arise spontaneously, which in combination with his working methods makes Fisher´s photography authentic. Their documentary character is undeniable. Yet there is a clear distinction from photojournalism, because Fisher’s photographs incorporate artistic composition with a shifted and often non-linear focus. Where the street has a clear narrative, his personal view is more abstract and even opaque at times. Context is deliberately absent or left vague, allowing the viewer to create their own reality. His protagonists behave remarkably uniform, staring into nothingness or seem to be engaged in a strange relationship with structural features of their immediate environment. Following Todd Fishers photography is always fascinating, his work is intimate, mysterious, spontaneous, witty, and sad at the same time.

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W – Artist Songs Volume 2. Art Critics Orchestra.

Das Art Critics Orchestra begreift Musik als dialektischen Prozess. Dieser Begriff, der in so postkommunistischen wie postdemokratischen Zeiten auf dem Abstellgleis des Diskurses zu verrotten droht, beschreibt präzise die Arbeit des fünfköpfigen Ensembles, etwa bei der Konzeption ihrer bisher erschienenen CDs: Den „Artists’ Songs“, 2009, und der ein Jahr später folgenden CD „Das Summen der Teile“. Die Logik dieser Abfolge ist die eines dialektischen Umschlages auf mehreren Ebenen. So finden sich auf „Artists’ Songs“ Stücke, die Künstler/Innen der Band geschrieben haben. Z. B. Annika Stroem und Elke Krystufek, die Band setzte deren, meist mit englischen Texten versehenen Vorlagen dann musikalisch um. „Das Summen der Teile“ dagegen addiert sich aus von ACO selbst geschriebenen Liedern, zudem sind die Texte jetzt durchgängig in Deutsch. Die aktuelle Single „W“ präsentiert wiederum Artist-Songs, diesmal von Tom Wesselmann, Peter Weibel und Lawrence Weiner/Peter Gordon. Schon Dietrich Diedrichsen betonte den „konzeptionellen Charakter“ von Popmusik – ACO nimmt den Mann beim Wort.

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Agma Magazine # 5

FEATURES
STUDIO Pino Pascali in his studio in Boccea, Rome, as never seen before
ARCHIVE Mark Rothko’s landmark exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1961
COLLECTION Gian Ferrari Collection in Villa Necchi Campiglio
ADVERTISE Dwan Gallery at its best
DEPICTION Maurizio Cattelan’s pigeons seen through Maurizio Cattelan’s eyes

EXHIBITIONS
SOL LEWITT A Wall Drawing Retrospective, MASS MoCA, Massachussetts
DAMIÁN ORTEGA, Kurimanzutto Gallery, Mexico City
JEFF WALL The Crooked Path, The Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
BILL BOLLINGER The Retrospective, ZKM, Karlsruhe
OLIVER LARIC Kopienkritik, Skulpturhalle Basel
IGNACIO URIARTE Works, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao
SYSTEMS, ACTIONS AND PROCESSES 1965–75, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires
ROY LICHTENSTEIN Entablatures, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

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Commerce By Artists

Commerce by Artists documents a fascinating and sweeping range of artists’ projects produced since the 1950s by Canadian and international artists who have sought to engage, rather than merely represent, the commercial world of which they are a part.

Encompassing canonical works such as Yves Klein’s Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility (1958), Seth Siegelaub’s Artist’s Contract (1971), and Lee Lozano’s Strike Piece (1969) — as well as innovative and rarely-documented works like Keith Obadike’s Blackness for Sale (2001), Kelly Mark’s In & Out (1997-ongoing until 2032), and Ben Kinmont’s Sometimes a Nicer Sculpture Is to Be Able to Provide a Living for Your Family (1998-ongoing) — Commerce by Artists is a comprehensive document of artworks that take the form of transactions and exchanges of value.

Edited by Luis Jacob

Includes contributions by:
agent.NASDAQ aka Reinhold Grether, Zeigam Azizov, Clegg & Guttmann, Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge, Isabelle De Baets and Hendrik Tratsaert, Jorge di Paola, Hu Fang, Elizabeth Ferrell, Gerald Ferguson, Andrea Fraser, Coco Fusco, Hans Haacke, Jens Hoffmann, Luis Jacob, Mary Kelly, Yves Klein, Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi, Jane Crawford, Frances Richard, Richard Manning, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Helen Molesworth, Keith Obadike, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Beatrix Ruf, Andrea Rosen, Martha Rosler, Reid Shier, Julian Stallabrass, Julia Steinmetz, Heather Cassils, Clover Leary, Neil Thomas, Calvin Tomkins, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Cédric Villate

2011
Art Metropole Toronto Canada
386 pp.
26.5 x 20.5 x 3 cm.
1.674 Kg
softcover
ISBN 978-0-9809184-4-1

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Nina Beier. Charlottenborg.

This publication accompanies an exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen by the Danish artist Nina Beier. The exhibition – which is the artist’s first major solo show in the Scandinavian region – consists of an entirely new body of work.

The book is the third in a series of publications related to the exhibitions in Charlottenborg’s North galleries (the first editions featured Clemens von Wedemeyer and Pablo Bronstein). It is designed by Sara De Bondt studio in London and features an introductory essay entitled Demonstration by Charlottenborg’s curator and editor of the publication, Rhea Dall, together with an essay by the writer and curator Dieter Roelstraete. The latter text was generated by Roelstraete together with Beier as a result of their conversation and, rather than explaining the exhibition, it heads straight into an exploration of its conceptual span. The text weaves into and expands upon the art works, which is also why it is presented with a range of photographic footnotes – many of which document or relate to Beier’s practice. This essayistic stream of consciousness functions as an integral part of the show, one that does not separate the object (the exhibition) from its illustration (the catalogue).

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Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, Volume 1. Triple Canopy.

The book, designed in collaboration with Project Projects, is at once an archive of Triple Canopy’s widespread publishing activities and a translation into print of projects that originally appeared in other forms. The design of Invalid Format reflects this problem: How might works produced for the screen be transposed to the codex in a way that recalls that former context, though not slavishly, and while also fully inhabiting the page? How can the form and function of interactive, audiovisual works be degraded elegantly, without disappearing entirely, in print?

Invalid Format will be published at least annually, and will be available at select bookshops worldwide as well as on Triple Canopy’s website. The initial volume of Invalid Format includes artist projects and literary work published in the first year of Triple Canopy’s existence, documentation of public programs, and a sampling of foundational correspondence. Contributors include Lene Berg, Joseph Clarke, Rivka Galchen, Adam Helms, Sheila Heti, Dan Hoy, the International Necronautical Society, Craig Kalpakjian, Jon Kessler, Wayne Koestenbaum, Rachel Mason, Amir Mogharabi, Rachel Owens, Ed Park & Rachel Aviv, the Poetic Research Bureau, John Powers, Emily Richardson & Iain Sinclair, Michael Robinson, and Diane Williams.

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Little & Large Editions @ Motto Berlin. 1.12.2011
Art Critics Orchestra live
Start 8pm

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W – artist songs volume 2
performed by the Art Critics Orchestra
Micz Flor (guitar, vocals), Laura Oldenbourg (keys), Judith Raum (vocals, guitar), Andreas Schlaegel (drums, vocals) und Raimar Stange (bass)

Mixing, mastering: Alexander Ott, Paul-Lincke-Studio
Cover artwork © 2011 Silke Wagner
Edition of 500
Published by Little & Large Editions, 2011

http://www.artcriticsorchestra.com/
http://littleandlargeeditions.com/

Hektor Works.

Invented together with engineer Uli Franke, Hektor made its debut as Jürg Lehni’s diploma project at the Ecole Cantonale d’Art De Lausanne (ECAL) in 2002, performing regularly since until 2009. Often created in collaboration with others, the works are explorations of the limitations and expression of this delicate yet wilful output device.

http://hektor.ch/

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