Cmagazine #107 – ANIMALS
Automn 2010.

EDITORIAL

Among Animals by Amish Morrell

FEATURES

-The Lives and Deaths of Carolee’s Cats by Carla Benzan
-Infinite, Indifferent Kinship by Karen Houle
-On Year of the Dog by Jon Davies
-Touching Animals by Helena Reckitt

ARTIST PROJECT

-Bill Burns: Bird Radio for Afghanistan, 2010
Accompanying text: Of Fauna and Manufactured Derivatives: Bill Burns and the Lucrative Didactics of Environmental Stewardship by Gentiane Bélanger

EXHIBITION REVIEWS

-Kristan Horton: The Echo Chamber by Dan Adler
-Adrian Blackwell: Model for a Public Space [knot] by Alex Snukal
-Carlos Garaicoa: Overlapping by Leah Modigliani
-Timeland: 2010 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art by Leah Turner
-David Hoffos: Scenes from a House Dream by Meredith Dault
-Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present by Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh
-Christian Boltanski: Personnes by Zoë Chan
-Marion Wagschal: Private Views and Paintings by James D. Campbell
-Stephen Kelly: Open Tuning (WaveUp) by Quyen Hoang
-Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever by Nadja Sayej
-Daryl Vocat: The Secret of the Midnight Shadow by Sally Frater

NOTEWORTHY

-by Jovana Jankovic and Maxine Proctor

BOOK REVIEWS

-Trash, Jon Davies by Jovana Jankovic
-Emergence: Contemporary Photography in Canada, edited by Sarah Parsons by Amish Morrell

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Der Baum
Erik van der Weijde

Opening reception @ Chert gallery. 2 October. 7pm

http://www.chert-berlin.com/

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Der Baum (book)

Der Baum shows 44 photographs of trees, taken by Van der Weijde over the past few years.

The list of places where the photographs were taken includes different locations in Europe and Brazil. Their descriptions range from specified historical sites, such as the elementary school Adolf Hitler attended, or the street where kidnap victim Natasha Kampusch was held, to unidentified places as for example ‘school’, ‘road’ or ‘park’.

First edition , 2010
ISBN 978-94-91047-01-5
48 pages
17×24 cm
offset printed in the Netherlands
€ 18,00

To Make Oneself Similar in this Sense by Tanja Widmann

“Based on the approaches taken up until now, which have been characterized by mimetic actions and questions of appropriation in the sense of a translation of what’s there, by paradox, feeble humor and inertia, here text and movement are once again to be delayed, to be opened up and ultimately cheerfully usurped. Because the space is still open and the game must first be invented.” TW

Published by Westphalie Verlag

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The Portable John Latham.
Edited and introduced by Antony Hudek and Athanasios Velios
Published by Occasional Papers.

Size 17 x 25cm, 112 p, soft cover

This book features a selection of documents from the personal archive of the late British artist John Latham, presently maintained in his last home and studio in Peckham, South London. Through reproductions of letters, invitation cards, exhibition reviews, performance scripts and images, the publication retraces Latham’s pioneering practice over six decades, from the late 1940s to his death in 2006. Published on the occasion of John Latham: Anarchive in association with Whitechapel Gallery, the book also includes an interview by Charles Harrison from 1968 and a glossary section.

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(80*81 vol. 1-7 presentation @ Motto Zürich / Perla-Mode. Saturday 24.09.2010)

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart 1-30.10.2010
Opening on Thursday, September 30, 2010, 7pm

In the Middle of Affairs
Aesthetics of Distribution

Nairy Baghramian, Ulises Carrión, Nicolas Ceccaldi, IFP, Nina Könnemann, John Knight, Silvia Kolbowski, Louise Lawler, Hans-Christian Lotz, Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Bonny Poon, PROVENCE, Readymades Belong to Everyone/Philippe Thomas, Udio

Curated by Egija Inzule, Tobias Kaspar and Axel J. Wieder
Reader and showcases in collaboration with Maja Wismer

The exhibition “In the Middle of Affairs” presents works, projects and documents, which share an interest in forms of distribution and alternative fields of activities for artistic practice, and investigates them as an inherent part of the production of meaning and value. The works in the exhibition consciously relate to the language of design and advertising, operate in commercial media and adopt or reflect its methods and techniques.

A series of works from the last 30 years, by artist Louise Lawler and the agency Readymades Belong to Everyone for example, are presented as historical points of reference, as well as a collection of archival material from the Paris-based collector Ghislain Mollet-Viéville. New works, partially produced specifically for the exhibition, continue and re-adjust the investigation about distribution and self-positioning.

“In the Middle of Affairs” is not only the title of the exhibition, but also describes its working method, in which one’s own involvement determines the viewing direction to enable a research in proximity of its subject. The exhibition, which has been developed together with the curator Egija Inzule and the artist Tobias Kaspar, combines different approaches and documents into a fragmentary “narrative” with changing perspective.

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Events during the exhibition:

Thursday, September 30:
8.30pm: Presentness is Grace, Performance by Udio

Friday, October 1:
5pm: (Goodbye to) Manhattan (2010, 110 min.), film presentation by Ken Okiishi
7pm: Displaying footnotes, presentation by Maja Wismer
8pm: Cocktails
9pm: Bruno & Michael are smiling and Skipperrr, concert

Sunday, Oktober 31:
7pm: Lilia Prado Superstar Film Festival, Ulises Carrión 1984

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Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Reuchlinstrasse 4b, D – 70178 Stuttgart
Phone: +49 (0)711 617652, fax: +49 (0)711 613165
http://www.kuenstlerhaus.de
Hours: Wed. – Sun. 3 – 7pm

Queen Ann. P.S. Belly cut off. Mariken Wessels.
Published by alauda publications.
80 pages full color (Dutch/Eng). 24 x 33 cm.
Including glassine envelope containing photos.

The photographs in this book are sourced from an existing person, a middle-aged woman wringing with her self-image in an endless stream of manipulated photographs of herself, making them into a true cabinet of curiosities. The authentic arrangement of the discovered material, with its strange mixture of old and new photographs, film material and collages is strikingly deceptive. In fact, both in Elisabeth – I want to eat – as well as in Queen Ann. P.S. Belly cut off, it is the hand of the fine craftswoman Mariken Wessels at work. The suggestive, intimate force of the ‘found’ photographic material and other personal documents, as well as the sequencing of the images as a whole, are both deliberately arranged with great precision. Wessels sensitively appropriates the photo and film material by newly photographing, editing, and re-organizing them, often incorporating other material in a complementary gesture. In doing so, she constructs a narrative, weaving together images in the medium of the book.

In Queen Ann. P.S. Belly cut off it is the unfolding of a melancholic narrative of a woman, whose life seems to be dominated by her obesity. Yet the reader is never turned into a voyeur. ‘Queen Ann’s’ peculiar and touching photo collages of herself, expressing a longing for another ‘being’, are fused with the image that the book evokes around her persona. In the contrast which the arrangement of the photos make all too evident, an uncomfortable incompatibility emerges between the present and the past life of Ann and the status of being beautiful. Wessels breathes new life into her protagonist, blurring the lines between fiction and reality, giving way in the process to a seemingly ‘higher’ reality.

D 35€

LIMITED EDITION

75 copies numbered and signed. With two unpublished photos on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
In handmade box.

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Elisabeth – I want to eat. Mariken Wessels.
Published by alauda publications.
80 pages full color (Dutch/Eng). 24 x 33 cm.
Including six thin colour-paper inserts.

The book was initially self-published by the artist in 2008 in a small edition and was widely acclaimed. It won the Silver Medal Book Award at the Fotofestival di Roma and was recently acquired by the MoMA collection in New York.

Elisabeth – I want to eat – consists of a collection of anonymous photographs, letters and postcards belonging to a young woman, which the artist stumbled upon in a shop in the Hendrik Jacobszstraat in Amsterdam. Wessels appropriates the found material in her own way, by photographing the images, creatively processing and arranging them, as well as occasionally adding her own material. The intensity and sensuality of the photographs are reminiscent of the work of master photographers like Gerard Fieret and Miroslaw Tichý. They depict a young woman defiantly posing in front of the camera, both figuratively and literally exposing herself. The black and white photographs are worn out, frayed by numerous scratches and dust particles, blending together both the exaltation and melancholy recorded in them. Apart from the photographs, the book carries a series of printed postcards and letters addressed to Elisabeth, from which the reader gradually infers that her life was thrown off track in some way. ‘Religion, order, discipline, detachment from the quest for ambition’ – these are, in brief, the ingredients of advice, with which a family member proposes to ‘heal’ her. Yet the person giving her advice himself tells no straightforward story. One is in fact left wondering which of the two people is more bizarre. There is a stark contrast in the book between the idyllic landscapes in the postcards painted in sweet watercolour and the disarming directness of Elisabeth’s gaze in to the camera. The book contains thin colour-paper inserts, on which the letters and postcards to Elisabeth almost transform into a direct appeal to the reader. The title of the publication is taken from the only letter in the book penned by Elisabeth herself, addressed to an unknown friend:
‘(…) The last time I saw you it was nice and I felt much better. Are you still in Brussels? I don’t know but I liked the house you lived and the streets there. I want to eat.’

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75 copies numbered and signed. With two unpublished photos on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
In handmade box

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Bad Day #8 – Ariel Pink

Featuring:
Ariel Pink, CEO, Hanna Liden, Scott Sternberg, Niall McClelland, Alex Wolfson, Michael Snow, Julie Doiron and a joke by SANY

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Wild Flowers – Joel Meyerowitz (New York, USA)

18.6 x 23.5 cm
32 Pages
27 Images
Softcover
Full color Offset
Limited edition of 500

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Redheads – Joel Meyerowitz (New York, USA)

18.2 x 25.6 cm
32 Pages
17 Images
Softcover
Full color Offset
Limited edition of 500, 2009

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Stravinsky Overdrive – Osamu Kaneruma (Tokyo, Japan)

16 x 22.5 cm
24 Pages
11 Images
Softcover
Full color Offset
Limited edition of 500

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Night Rider – Tomonori “rip” Tanaka (Tokyo, Japan)

18.2 x 25.6 cm
18 Pages
9 Images
Softcover
Black and White Offset
Limited edition of 500

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Ash Wednesday, New Orleans – Alec Sloth (Minnesota, USA)

18.2 x 25.6 cm
32 Pages
39 Images
Softcover
Full color Offset
Limited edition of 500

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Nympho Daughters – Todd Hido ( San Francisco, USA )

18.1 x 25 cm
32 Pages
22 Images
Soft Cover
Full color offset
Limited edition of 500

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