Friday 16 December 2011

Variant, issue 42, Winter 2011

Variant, issue 42, Winter 2011

...the free, independent, arts magazine. In-depth coverage
in the context of broader social, political & cultural issues.

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Complete issue:
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Front Cover by Jim Colquhoun: Anthropometrie de l'Epoque Nu

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The recent future of Scottish Art
Robin Baillie and Neil Mulholland

An energetic discussion recorded over two sessions, Baillie/ Mulholland get to the crux of the issues raised by Craig Richardson's recently published book 'Scottish Art since 1960: Historical Reflections and Contemporary Overviews', which describes its intention as:
"Providing an analysis and including discussion (interviewing artists, curators and critics and accessing non-catalogued personal archives) towards a new chronology, Richardson here examines and proposes a sequence of precisely denoted 'exemplary' works which outlines a self-conscious definition of the interrogative term 'Scottish art'."

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The Economy of Abolition/Abolition of the Economy
Neil Gray in exchange with Marina Vishmidt

Through the prism of the 'communisation thesis', Gray/ Vishmidt reflect upon: human capital exploited as investment portfolio in 'The Big Society'; affirmation and negation as political potentialities; the fragmentation of the class relation based on waged work; financialisation and the collapse of social democracy; the politics of reproduction; and the imposition of, resistance to, and potential negation of debt. …Not just a change in the system, but a change of the system; not later on, but now.

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"Language is never neutral"
Responses to Variant's interview with Andrew Dixon, CEO of Creative Scotland

"It is difficult to ignore the feeling that we are witnessing the formation of 'legitimate' subjects of art and culture and a re-imagining of what it means to use those very words."
Feeling a heightened imperative following the interview with Andrew Dixon in the spring issue and subsequent developments, Variant has sought to proactively and collectively consider the potential impact of these changes for artistic practice, and, more broadly, for the meaning of art and culture in contemporary Scotland. As a contribution towards such dialogue, Variant has invited a series of responses which here take the form of interview exchanges and written rejoinders.

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Boredom in the Charnel House : Theses on 'Post-industrial' Ruins
John Cunningham

A critical analysis of the aestheticisation in photography of industrial and Fordist ruins using as a starting point Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's 'The Ruins of Detroit'. Is it possible to deconstruct the phantasmagoria of industrial ruins through the images that constitute it? Is it enough to just play in the ruins without developing a politics capable of opposing the capitalism that produces them?

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Art of Protest : On Testing Cultural Forms of Resistance
Katarzyna Kosmala in conversation with Oliver Ressler

An exchange exploring the role of politically engaged art in protest and human rights issues, reflecting on Ressler's recent films: Socialism Failed, Capitalism is Bankrupt. What Comes Next? and Comuna Under Construction:
"I think art can have a crucial function for an analysis of the current political and economic situation, in expressing criticism, connecting to existing social movements and in thinking about alternative ways about how to organise our societies."

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Tales from a River Bank : Bullying, the Arts, and the Production of Museum Space
David Beel

Anne-Marie Quigg's book 'Bullying in the Arts: Vocation, Exploitation and Abuse of Power', reveals for Beel a very different perspective from the romanticised image of 'creative' work with regard to some of the problems faced by individuals negotiating labour practices in the arts, culture and heritage. The issues Quigg brings to the fore are a timely intervention for Beel - faced with institutional silence they may help elucidate a recent internal investigation into bullying and harassment within the curatorial processes of the recently completed Riverside Museum in Glasgow, raising wider questions about the nature of 'outsourced' municipal cultural governance.

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Disposable Women, Not Natasha, and the Economics and Politics of Sex Trafficking
Roberta McGrath

A cogent review of the exhibition and online book 'Not Natasha', which began as a way for Dana Popa to tell the stories of young girls from Moldova sex trafficked across Europe. Popa was then commissioned by the London-based human rights and photography organisation Autograph to develop this work, which was subsequently exhibited in Dublin, augmenting public policy.
"Popa begins her story: At the end of the road as the daylight dims, women are brought and here, and just beyond the middle-class apartments, sex is bought; bodies are sold. Her point is clear. At the end of many streets - just around a corner, just beyond where we care to look - the same story is repeated. We choose, she says, not to look; not to see; and consequently not to think of who is there."

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Anarchism & Sexuality
Tracey McLennan, Gordon Asher in exchange with Jamie Heckert

Heckert is a founding member of the Anarchist Studies Network and the editor of two collections of perspectives on anarchism and sexuality. Starting from the most recent collection of "passionate, provocative papers that incite the reader to recognise the relevance of anarchist ideas to queer and feminist sexual politics", McLennan/ Asher engage Heckert in dialogue concerning making these queerly anarchist contributions to social justice literature, policy and practice.

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Tuesday 13 December 2011

Residencies at Cove Park in 2012

Opportunities for artists at Cove Park 2012

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Katrina Palmer, Artist Talk - Wednesday 14 December

Katrina Palmer - Artist talk
EMBASSY PDP Session 7

Hunter Lecture Theatre
Wednesday 14 December, 1.30pm

Katrina Palmer is an artist and writer. Palmer's texts feature objects in the imagination
and amidst the neurosis, paranoia and social/sexual dynamics of art spaces and the everyday.
Ordinary things appear alongside discourse and sculpture (the subject in language and the
object in action).

The work is disseminated through publications, readings and aspects of
installation. Recent work includes the book, The Dark Object, published by Book Works in 2010.

Her talk will cover her development whilst at art college, the difficulty of combining language and
sculpture, and include a reading.

Free. All welcome.

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Thursday 8 December 2011

Kendall Koppe / LAYING DOWN AND KISSING THE LOVE IN THE MIST, Part 1 - curated by Laura Aldridge / Preview 15 Dec 7-9pm

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LAYING DOWN AND KISSING THE LOVE IN THE MIST
Part 1 - Ree Morton
15th December - 14th January 2012

Preview: Thursday 15th December 7-9 pm - Join us for drinks and mince pies
Gallery will be closed for the holidays between 24th Dec - 7th January 2012

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I want to make a presentation that draws on the American artist Ree Morton, whose work and writings about her work I have been invested in over the last several years. Fragments of her writings and her emotionally changing and critically honest relationship to her work have held something of me in them at times. She makes space within the work for her relationship to others and her relationship to places within language to unfold, but with a certain hard fought ease or lightness. At the same time the work does not explain itself away, you have to come to it. These are things I admire.

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Kendall Koppe is pleased to present Laying down and kissing the love in the mist , part 1 & 2 . The exhibition takes the performance work made by American artist Ree Morton in 1976 as its catalyst. Morton worked throughout the 1960s and 70s developing her own critical and artistic trajectory in relation to structuralist theory, surrealist literature and emotional experience. Armed with her own directness of attitude Ree Morton's work offers a distinctive framework to contemporary visual art practices today. Her insistence on the intuitive as part of a rigorous and theoretical approach makes her work relevant to current practices that explore spaces within the subjective, and their possible reflection on embedded behavior and habitual relations of knowledge and power.

The exhibition curated by artist Laura Aldridge seeks to develop a creative space where moments within the work of Morton and the participating artists may be expanded and held open as a possibility. Laying down and kissing the love in the mist will take place in two parts. The first presents the documentation of Morton's The Maid of the Mist performance at ArtPark , New York with an exhibition design by Laura Aldridge. Part 2, opening on the 20th of January will feature newly commissioned art works and performance by Neil Bickerton, Kathryn Elkin, Anna Mayer, Jess Flood-Paddock and Louise Shelley, anchored by an existing piece by Caroline Achaintre. This gradual reveal of the exhibition's distinct chapters will allow these works to sit alongside one another while encouraging a reading of the different relationships at work within each practice. The careful handling of these, often intuitive, relationships is key to the exhibition.
About the artists:

Laura Aldridge (b. 1978) lives and works in Glasgow. She graduated from the MFA programme at Glasgow School of Art in 2006. Recent solo exhibitions include Cairn, Pittenweem, Fife; Studio Voltaire, 2011; Cat's are not important, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2010); The workshop survived because we love each other, Glasgow Sculpture Studio, Glasgow (2007); and Social Dynamism, Calarts, Los Angeles (2005). She has a forthcoming solo exhibtion at the CCA, Glasgow in February 2012.

Caroline Achaintre (b.1969 Toulouse) lives and works in London. She graduated from the MFA programme at Goldsmiths College in 2003. Recent solo exhibitions include Couleur Locale, Arcade, London; Novelty, Mirko Mayer, Cologne and Visor Visitor, Fake Estate, New York. She has also participated in group exhibitions in LOG, Bergamo; Oechsner Galerie, Nuremberg; Waltraum, Munich; Timothy Taylor Gallery, London and The Saatchi Gallery, London.

Neil Bickerton lives and works in Glasgow

Kathryn Elkin (b.1983) lives and works in London. Her research is most commonly realized through live performance, video or writing as proposed performance. Recent exhibitions include 21st Century program at Chisenhale Gallery, (London, 2011), The Hole, (London, 2011), with Sue Thompkins and Oliver Rees and 'What we Make With Words' at CCA (Glasgow, 2011). Her work has been published by Sternberg Press, 2HB and gnommero.

Anna Mayer lives and works in Los Angeles, where she received her MFA from CalArts in 2007. Moving between collectivity and introspection, Mayer attempts to establish an "outcantatory" practice that uses language, fire, and intention to propose relationships encouraging embodiment and the rejection of discreet, linear modes of reception. In 2010 Mayer had a solo exhibition at Sea and Space Explorations in Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include Night Gallery (CA), Cerritos College Art Gallery (CA), A.I.R. Gallery (NY), Karen Lovegrove (CA), and Klaus Von Nichtssagend (NY). Mayer recently completed her WORD THE WORD series of guided listening sessions at the Experimental Meditation Center of Los Angeles. In addition to her solo practice, Anna works with Jemima Wyman as part of the collaborative duo CamLab. In the first part of 2012, CamLab will stage three events at MOCA in Los Angeles as part of its Engagement Party series.

Ree Morton (b.1936 - 1977) , an artist who is virtually unknown in Europe and has recently been rediscovered by a growing American audience, was of the generation of Eva Hesse and Paul Thek. Not unlike them, she challenged conceptual art and the orthodoxy of 1970s minimalism by fusing elements of historic art, aspects of ritual, and decor with the analytical rigor of a structural mapping of space. Her thinking drew on a great variety of literary, philosophical, and ethnological sources

Jess Flood-Paddock (b.1977, London) lives and works in London. Educated at The Slade and The Royal College of Art. Forthcoming projects include a solo show at Grimm Gallery Amsterdam and Britain Creates 2012 a collaboration with fashion designder Jonathan Saunders.Recent exhibitions include Gangsta's Paradise at the Hayward GalleryProject Space, London (2010, curated by Tom Morton), The Grid System A Regime: SpartacusChetwynd & Jess Flood-Paddock at MCA, Malta (2010), Sacrifice at Swallow Street, London (2010,curated by Sarah McCrory), Phyllida Barlow & Jess Flood-Paddock at the Russian Club, London (2009)and Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2006). She was commissioned to make a short film for Channel 4and Frieze Foundation Film Commissions 2010.

Louise Shelley (b.1982) lives and works in London. Co-editor of 2HB she also works at The Showroom coordinating the Communal Knowledge programme and as Education Curator at Studio Voltaire. She occasionally produces work in collaboration with other artists, these have included; Laura Aldridge, Giles Bailey, Kate Morrell and Kathryn Elkin

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Wednesday 7 December 2011

Katrina Palmer, Artist Talk - Wednesday 14 December

Here is information about next Wednesday's Embassy PDP Session. Could you send it around to students, etc.?

Katrina Palmer - Artist talk
EMBASSY PDP Session 7

Hunter Lecture Theatre
Wednesday 14 December, 1.30pm

Katrina Palmer is an artist and writer. Palmer's texts feature objects in the imagination
and amidst the neurosis, paranoia and social/sexual dynamics of art spaces and the everyday.
Ordinary things appear alongside discourse and sculpture (the subject in language and the
object in action).

The work is disseminated through publications, readings and aspects of
installation. Recent work includes the book, The Dark Object, published by Book Works in 2010.

Her talk will cover her development whilst at art college, the difficulty of combining language and
sculpture, and include a reading.

Free. All welcome.

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Tuesday 6 December 2011

VAGA news...

REMINDER: a new agency for the visual arts in Scotland?

The VAGA Scotland Development Group has been working, over the last nine months or so, to consider how best to support the visual arts sector in Scotland. Following a 'mail out' over the summer which resulted in positive support for an independent visual arts agency in Scotland, the Development Group is proposing to set up a new organisation. Come along to this networking event to hear about the objectives of the new agency, contribute to the plans and then join us for a drink afterwards: City Art Centre, Edinburgh; Tuesday 13th December 5.30-7.00pm BOOK NOW directly to: ben@vaga.co.uk<mailto:ben@vaga.co.uk>

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Thursday 1 December 2011

Castles of Illusion

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Castles of Illusion

Laurence Figgis
Brin Frost
Zoe Williams

Intermedia Gallery, The CCA:, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD

Private View: Friday 2 December 6-9pm
Saturday 3 December - Saturday 17 December 2011
12:00pm - 6:00pm: FREE


An exhibition of new work by Laurence Figgis, Brin Frost and Zoe Williams. The artists have in-common an interest in the creation of internalised worlds, drawing on aspects of the surreal, the uncanny, the precious and the abject, and mobilising a diverse range of mediums to explore these themes including ornamental sculpture, collage and film. The objects and two-dimensional works on show in this exhibition appear on first glance to be drawn from a rich concoction of soap-opera, luxury commodity and primal myth. However on closer inspection, these isolated signifiers, divorced from their original context, often reveal darker, more disturbing undertones.

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