Mousse #41 out now
December 2013–January 2014
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In this issue:
On Purpose and Urgency: Cory Arcangel, Defne Ayas, Angie Keefer, Adam Kleinman, David Levine, Chus Martínez, Seth Price, João Ribas, Carey Young, Akram Zaatari; On Art and the Distributed Spectacle, Kevin Beasley, Caleb Considine, On Cooperation, Thomas Eggerer, GCC, hobbypopMUSEUM, Christina Mackie, Steve McQueen, Alan Moore, Jon Pestoni, Pots on Video, Charles Ray, Tabor Robak, The Artist as Curator, Luke Willis Thompson, The Value of Art Criticism, Dena Yago
THE ARTIST AS CURATOR is a serial publication debuting in this issue*. Every forthcoming issue of Mousse will contain a new examination of the fundamental role artists have played as curators, from the postwar period to the present. The series is edited by Elena Filipovic and made possible by an engaged group of art institutions and foundations, each of which is supporting the research and publication of one installment of the project. WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels has supported the introductory installment, When Exhibitions Become Form: On the History of the Artist as Curator, which inaugurates this two-year unprecedented investigation.
The expansion of art world networks, along with the pressures of social and professional obligations, can lead critics to opt for a more consensus-driven approach to cultural criticism. Vivian Sky Rehberg advocates independent voices.
Often indicated as the best graphic novelist of all time, Alan Moore, the anarchic author of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell, met with Hans Ulrich Obrist to talk about complex narratives and the heat of information.
Traditional crafts reflect a refreshing lack of alienation in the relationship between makers and materials. But as Nick Currie argues here, there’s more than mere moral and political virtue to images of pot-making on film and video…
What formats, approaches, structures or models can be said to be most pressing or needed, or to be grounded by a sense of purpose, beyond the ongoing circulation of contemporary art? Mousse—via curator João Ribas—asked a group of artists, writers and curators to address what issues of purpose and urgency might define current conditions:
–Chus Martínez on El Museo del Barrio’s life in the long tail
–Cory Arcangel on Espenschied and Lialina’s project One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age
–Angie Keefer on desiring what is needed
–Akram Zaatari on practicing multiple writings of history
–Defne Ayas on the challenges of the current conditions of production
–Seth Price on the anxieties of intellectual trends
–David Levine on avoiding designation
–Adam Kleinman on the headless nature of our system
–Carey Young on law as an artistic medium
What has happened to the relationship between art and popular culture as media have evolved over the past few decades? Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter confront the question with a discussion on spectacle, celebrity, and art on the verge of dissolving into mass culture.
Jens Hoffmann analyzes several films about slavery, including Steve McQueen‘s 12 Years a Slave, in the context of the director’s other features (Hunger, Shame) and against the backdrop of his extraordinary artistic innovation.
Charles Ray talks with Zachary Cahill about how sculpture constitutes an intersection between actual space and states of mind.
NICE TO MEET YOU: Sophie von Olfers meets Luke Willis Thompson to talk about displacement and transformation of meaning in his work; Cecilia Alemani interviews Tabor Robak, an artist who operates in the digital realm, but with a craftsman’s focus on material aspects; Kevin McGarry reports on GCC, a collective that promotes itself as an analog to a dubious inter-governmental agency.
Caleb Considine discusses his practice and its relationship to subject matter and contemporary image culture with Alex Kitnick.
John Kelsey met with Thomas Eggerer to investigate the voyeuristic gaze that observes his figures, absorbed in unfathomable actions and immersed in spaces without horizons.
Reporting from:
New York: Kevin Beasley returned to the MoMA with Jenny Schlenzka, one year after having shaken the museum’s atrium with his sound performance I Want My Spot Back.
London: Rhea Dall speaks with Christina Mackie, whose constellations of objects span the natural world, 3D animations, detritus and diamonds.
Los Angeles: Andrew Berardini looks at Jon Pestoni‘s paintings as flags for emotional, psychological, conceptual, and formal states.
Jennifer Allen sets out to examine the present status of different types of partnership, with a special focus on those involving artists, of course, and the growing appeal of interaction with music and its protagonists.
Catherine Wood investigates hobbypopMUSEUM, a collective from the Academy of Dusseldorf who started branding intense collaborative activities, based on the desire to playfully create a total artwork.
These days the field of affection has widened to include objects produced for and by affluent lifestyles and the leisure industry. Speaking with Isla Leaver-Yap, Dena Yago discusses how her work calls attention to critical points of emotional deficit and excess.
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