November 2013
INTERVIEW
Love Stories: Mark Boulos interviewed by Jonathan Harris
Self-declared Marxist filmmaker Mark Boulos utilises documentary to reinvent political propaganda while implicating the artist, the viewer and the subject in unfolding narratives. Here he discusses the power of love in the face of the alienating effects of capitalism, motivations for terrorism and how not to take it personally when you are threatened with a machete.
FEATURE
Self 2 Selfie: George Vasey on self-portraiture and feminist art
The serial photographic self-portrait was adopted in the 1980s by feminist artists such as Jo Spence and Alexis Hunter in order to rethink ways of acting. How has a newer generation of webcam artists, such as Petra Cortright and Erica Scourti, responded to their legacy and the challenge of new technology?
FEATURE
I Object: Maria Walsh on art and the new objecthood
Artists such as Mark Leckey, Hito Steyerl, Ed Atkins and Andy Holden are keen to dissolve their subjectivity in order to exist in a non-hierarchical network of things. But could this desire ‘to get unalienated’ be seen as an infantile abdication of responsibility and even, paradoxically, a narcissistic impulse?
EDITORIAL
On Time
Jonathan Crary’s book 24/7: Late Capitalism and the End of Sleep shows that capitalism’s evolving work practices have wreaked havoc upon daily rhythms, encroaching on the last zone of resistance to neoliberalism’s assault on individual freedom and privacy.
ARTNOTES
Museum attendance is up, and so are the cuts to their budgets; arts funding from the National Lottery is threatened by a legal-loophole-exploiting upstart; unions push for local government arts funding to be made a statutory obligation; the BBC reaffirms its support for the arts; galleries open, reopen, pop-up and double up; the latest news on events, appointments, prizes and more.
EXHIBITIONS
13th Istanbul Biennial: Mom, Am I Barbarian? various venues – Jennifer Thatcher
Bergen Assembly: Monday Begins on Saturday various venues – Teresa Gleadowe
Bob Cobbing: ABC in Sound Exhibition Research Centre, Liverpool – Jonathan P Watts
Ana Mendieta: Traces Hayward Gallery, London – Joanna Walker
Marisa Merz Serpentine Gallery, London – Martin Holman
Tacita Dean: JG Frith Street Gallery, London – Christopher Townsend
Melvin Moti: Hyperspace The Majestic, Leeds – Adam Pugh
Word. Sound. Power Tate Modern, London – Marcus Verhagen
London Round-up South London Gallery • ICA • Waterside Contemporary • England & Co – Martin Herbert
North-West Round-up FACT • Grundy Art Gallery • Manchester Art Gallery • Bluecoat • Site Gallery – Bob Dickinson
ARTISTS’ BOOKS
Anne Tallentire: Object of a Life
Jaspar Joseph-Lester: Revisiting the Bonaventure Hotel
Chris Fite-Wassilak investigates a new series of 100-page paperbacks.
BOOKS
All This Stuff
David Briers digs through analyses of artists’ archives.
Biennials and Beyond – Exhibitions that Made Art History, Volume II: 1962–2002
Teresa Gleadowe tracks the rise of the professional exhibition maker.
PERFORMANCE
Tyler Coburn: I’m that angel
Cliff Lauson experiences the airlessness of big data.
CONFERENCE / PERFORMANCE
Living World – Animism in the 21st Century
Giulia Smith gets a little unalienated.
CONTRACTS
Material Ephemerality
Henry Lydiate on restoring Chris Burden’s A Tale of Two Cities.
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