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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
Reviews
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
'Copy Press this year launched the first six of its "Common Intellect" series. Two books in this initial release combine text and imagery to quietly and effectively create their own ambiguous spaces of subjective physicality.'
Reviews
Books
All This Stuff
David Briers digs through analyses of artists' archives
'This collection reflects not only the rarefied world of formal, institutionally sited artists' archives, but also that of artists who have an unorthodox attitude to their own archives, and others whose work re-frames existing archives or who create their own, taxonomically wayward "un-archives".'
Biennials and Beyond – Exhibitions that Made Art History, Volume II: 1962-2002
Teresa Gleadowe tracks the rise of the professional exhibition maker
'In the introduction to this long-awaited sequel to the first volume of Exhibitions that Made Art History, Bruce Altshuler proposes that, with the beginning of the 1960s, we entered a period of curatorial ascendancy.'
Reviews
Performance
Tyler Coburn: I'm that angel
Cliff Lauson experiences the airlessness of big data
'"I spent an evening in the cloud," is how I have come to describe attending Tyler Coburn's performance in the nearly completed Volta Data Centre in central London.'
Report
Conference / Performance
Living World – Animism in the 21st Century
Giulia Smith gets a little unalienated
'In stark reaction to the old narrative, the new animism does away with anthropocentrism and the imperialist politics it entails. In the past 30-odd years its thinkers have recuperated animism as nothing short of a complex relational ontology for a world in which man features as only one agent among many.'
Artlaw
Contracts
Material Ephemerality
Henry Lydiate on restoring Chris Burden's A Tale of Two Cities
'Increasing numbers of collectors, particularly public institutions which have experienced materiality problems with past acquisitions, now include "what if" terms and conditions in their agreements for acquisition of works directly from today's artists.' |