arChiteCtUre, DISPATCHES art, MUSiC, arChiteCtUre, filM, ShoppinG, newS and thinGS to Make and do… art, MUSiC, arChiteCtUre, filM, ShoppinG, newS and thinGS to Make and do…
top five: what to See thiS Month
By Mark Sladen
director of exhibitions, iCa, london
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the subject of this exhibition is the relation
between art and social change, looking in particular
Julian opie is curating this
at the notion of resistance. the show combines
show of hiroshige, one of
artworks with more documentary material, and the
the masters of nineteenth-
curators include the van abbe’s director, Charles
century Japanese woodblock
esche, whose 2005 istanbul Biennial was notable
printing – a form of printing
for its deft combination of art and politics. this
famous as an influence on
show has a bigger historical sweep, though, with
artists such as Manet, van
four focal points: the french Commune of 1871; the
Gogh and whistler. the works
russian revolution and the first world war; the
of hiroshige are particularly
events of May 1968 and the activism of the 1970s;
fine, and endlessly modern.
and then our own time and the post-9/11 context.
opie’s involvement in this
any show that manages to bring together william
show makes complete sense, as
Morris and Martha rosler is great in my book.
the two artists share a pared-
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he might trash the building performance is particularly
– he is known as a master of dynamic at the moment – see
excess! one project being The World as stage at tate
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shown for the first time Modern and performa 07 in new
is The African Twintowers, york. Playground’s use of a filM aS a
a staging of the 9/11 story festival format includes a
shot and staged with the number of fascinating-sounding
CritiCal praCtiCe
help of a machine called projects. one such is living
a cinematograph. this 80- currency, described as ‘a play
this is just the latest in a series of symposia which
minute work was filmed in and exhibition with works and
have been programmed by the office of Contemporary
namibia, using elements from performances’, and which over
art norway in recent times. director Marta kusma
nordic sagas and african a three-hour period features
has refocused oCa, expanding out from its traditional
shamanism, and features music pieces by the likes of Cerith
grant-giving function and generating a very
by patti Smith. wyn evans and artur Zmijewski.
impressive discursive programme. i’m particularly
other projects include a interested to hear kodwo eshun’s paper on the Black
ChriStoph SChlinGenSief performance by yael davids, audio film Collective, while other speakers include
3 noveMBer – 3 feBrUary
which develops a work first hito Steyerl (whose work was one of the highlights
MiGroS MUSeUM, ZUriCh
presented in the recent iCa of documenta this summer) and the film theorist laura
www.MiGroSMUSeUM.Ch
show Memorial to the iraq War. Mulvey. the event is accompanied by a film programme
curated by ian white.
Christoph Schlingensief, Manaus
playGroUnd feStival, 3–10
loops, 2007, film still.
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noveMBer, StUk artCentre, filM As A criTicAl PrAcTice, 8–10 noveMBer,
leUven, www.StUk.Be offiCe of ConteMporary art, oSlo, www.oCa.no
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