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Traducing Ruddle / Two Connected Houses

Mark Manders, Traducing Ruddle
Newspaper, 16 pp., web offset 1/1, 350 x 480 mm
Insert, 48 pp., offset 1/1, 215 x 280 mm
Edition of 3000
ISBN 978-0-9738133-7-1
Published by Fillip Editions, Roma Publications

Traducing Ruddle is the fifth in a series of “fake” newspapers by Dutch artist Mark Manders. Using a nonsensical combination of English words, Traducing Ruddle creates a pretense of legibility that dissolves upon closer inspection. The newspaper is supplemented by Two Connected Houses, a 48 page insert developed in conjunction with the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum.

Sheets from Manders’ Traducing Ruddle form the central element of the artist’s Window with Fake Newspapers project, a site-specific public work on view through March 28th.

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Textfield · 03/02/10

30 Seconds off an Inch

The Studio Museum in Harlem will open the fall/winter season with a major exhibition entitled 30 Seconds off an Inch. This survey will bring together contemporary artworks by a group of artists who, having absorbed the lessons of U.S.-based Conceptual art and identity politics, imbue their respective practices with a critical sense of play and irreverence adopted from Fluxus, Arte Povera, Gutai and Neoconcretism, among other international movements. 30 Seconds takes the singular practices and conceptual methods of black artists active on the West Coast in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a starting point–work that inspired a bodily engagement in conceptual practice.

Presenting approximately one hundred works by dozens of artists, the exhibition will provide an overview of a generation of artists who use a variety of media, including photography, video, large-scale sculpture, figurative painting and site-specific installations. 30 Seconds aims to show how this group of artists engages with the body and race in clever, subtle and astute ways.

Adel Abdessemed, Edgar Arceneux, Jabu Arnell, Kabir Carter, William Cordova,Thierry Fontaine, Charles Gaines, Deborah Grant, Rashawn Griffin, David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Leslie Hewitt, Wayne Hodge, Rashid Johnson, Jennie C. Jones, Jayson Keeling, Simone Leigh, Glenn Ligon, Dave McKenzie, Nicole Miller, My Barbarian, Kori Newkirk, Chris Ofili, Demetrius Oliver, Karyn Olivier, John Outterbridge, Clifford Owens, Akosua Adoma Owusu, William Pope.L, Michael Queenland, Robin Rhode, Jimmy Robert, Nadine Robinson, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Gary Simmons, Xaviera Simmons, Shinique Smith, Soda_Jerk, Kianja Strobert, Stacy-Lynn Waddell, and Nari Ward.

30 Seconds off an Inch
Opening: November 11, 7-9 pm
November 12, 2009 — March 14, 2010
The Studio Museum in Harlem
144 West 125th St
New York, NY

Jonathan · 11/09/09

I Feel Different

Susan Silton, Twister 1, 2003

I Feel Different

20 October 2009 — 24 January 2010

Opening reception: Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 8pm
with performances by resident artist Niña Yhared (1814) and James Luna

LACE is pleased to present I Feel Different, a multi-media group exhibition organized by guest curator Jennifer Doyle. Participating artists: Nao Bustamante, James Luna, Lezley Saar, David Wojnarowicz, Monica Duncan, Lara Odell, Susan Silton, and Niña Yhared (1814).

This provocative project explores both the experience of feeling different from others and the transformational power of art to make one feel differently. Most of the time, we attend museums and galleries with our social armor “up” — approaching art with sophistication, irony, and even a degree of cynicism. This exhibit gathers together artists working in the unusual registers of the sentimental and the sincere — testing the limits of what kinds of emotional expression are possible within art. In doing so, they ask us if tears register as “real” in art (and what happens when they do), what happens when we are asked to take on an artist’s outrage, depression, or pleasure as our own, or how much can an artist can really change how we feel (and if this what we want from them). The show acknowledges that contemporary art is powerfully defined by the relationship between art and the spectator, and asserts that emotion plays a major part in this story.

I Feel Different opens with an evening of moody performance — a reading by Raquel Gutierrez (the text of which is available on the exhibition’s website), and live performances by LACE resident artist Niña Yhared (1814) and James Luna. Niña Yhared will also be performing a special cabaret at Wildness on Oct 13, 2009 (2700 West 7th St., LA 90057).

LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
6522 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Wednesday–Sunday, noon–6pm
Friday, noon–9pm

Jonathan · 10/15/09

The Park City Portfolio

Lewis Baltz
The Park City Portfolio
26 September 2009 — 2 January 2010
Opening Reception: 26 September, 6-9pm

Thirty years ago, in 1979, as he completed his photographs of a ski resort being built in Park City, Utah, Lewis Baltz was in the middle of the middle of his most productive period. Four years earlier he had finished a series on The New Industrial Parks of Southern California, and four years later he would complete his study of San Quentin Point, a dump site where a notorious prison once stood. He thought of the three projects, he said, as a “trilogy”. Where Ansel Adams, Baltz’s most famous predecessor in the photography of Western vistas, had seen the American landscape as pure Romance, Baltz now saw it as a Tragedy, since that is the art form for which the term trilogy is customarily reserved. The photographs of jimcrack “luxury” housing under construction at the foot of ski trails in Park City show us where the tragic flaw lay in the American character.

Textfield · 09/28/09

Miss Read

MISS READ
International publishers and artist/authors show their Artist Books
September 4 to 6, 2009
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststrasse 69 D-10117 Berlin

Opening: Friday, September 4, 2009, 3–7pm
Saturday, September 5 + Sunday, September 6, 2009, noon–7pm

Miss Read invites a number of international publishers and artists to present their artist books at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. An artist book is always an opportunity for an artist to create a very personal and direct artistic form. Artist books also represent the forefront of contemporary innovative publishing, addressing questions of presentation and circulation, and new distribution strategies. Together with KW and the Berlin publishers argobooks and Michalis Pichler, Miss Read has invited around 30 international publishers and independent projects to the first event of this kind in Berlin, which aims to highlight the diversity and innovation in contemporary publishing. Miss Read has organized an accompanying program of lectures and presentations with artists, publishers, and graphic designers. On Saturday, September 5, from 3 to 9 pm and on Sunday, September 6, from 3 to 7 pm there will be discussions every hour with Stuart Bailey (Dexter Sinister, New York), Antonia Hirsch (Fillip, Vancouver), Christoph Keller, Jonathan Monk, Stephan (Pronto) Müller, and others. The full list of participants will be posted at www.kw-berlin.de.

Project management at KW Institute for Contemporary Art: Anke Schleper
Tel.: ++49. 030. 24 34 59.93 - Fax: ++49. 030. 24 34 59.99 - Email: as@kw-berlin.de

In early September there are two further events on artistic publishing:
On September 3, 2009, at 7 pm the exhibition KIOSK – Modes of Multiplication will open in the Art Library Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. KIOSK is a travelling and continually expanding archive on the status of independent publishing in the field of contemporary art since the 1990s. This project was founded by Christoph Keller in 2001 and has been hosted by more than 20 international institutions – including KW in 2005. In 2007 the archive was purchased by the Art Library. www.kunstbibliothek-berlin.de

On September 5, 2009, the magazine store Motto will be staging the event UNTER DEM MOTTO. One Day Self Publishing Fair from noon to midnight. Nieves books, Rollo Pressand Motto have brought together 40 independent publishers who will present their publications at Motto and in the neighboring Chert Galerie. www.mottodistribution.com

Jonathan · 08/28/09

The Sun as Error (Los Angeles Launch)

The Sun as Error

Please join Shannon Ebner and Dexter Sinister at the Mandrake for the Los Angeles book launch of THE SUN AS ERROR by Shannon Ebner, hosted by RAM Publications + Distribution.
Mandrake Bar

2692 S La Cienega Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90034
Wednesday, September 2

7:00–10:00pm
This book was made possible by the generous support of LACMA’s Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, with additional support from LACMA’s Photographic Arts Council. 
The * as E//OR was coordinated by Dexter Sinister, New York.
LACMA, Dexter Sinister, RAM

Jonathan · 08/21/09

THE YOUNG AND EVIL

Tuesday July 14, 7PM
LACMA Bing Theater

Brought to you by tank.tv, the LACMA film program, The Young and Evil, guest-curated by the Tate Modern’s Stuart Comer, features works by filmmakers such as Kenneth Anger, Anna Halprin, Curt McDowell, and Barbara Rubin, and will be followed by an onstage conversation between Stuart Comer and artist William E. Jones.

NOTE: This program contains material of an adult nature, which may be inappropriate for some viewers. Discretion is advised.

On Friday, July 17, Outfest will host the contemporary program at REDCAT, originally commissioned and presented on www.tank.tv.

See www.outfest.org for more information. 

Bing Theater | Tickets required:
$7 general admission,
$5 members, seniors 62+ and students with ID.

Mark · 07/13/09

WALID RAAD @ REDCAT

Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History Of Modern and Contemporary Art In The Arab World / Part I_volume 1_chapter 1 (Beirut: 1992-2005)

A Project By Walid Raad

On view at REDCAT
April 10 - June 14, 2009

Mark · 05/12/09

Spilling Hot Gossip

Printed Matter is pleased to announce a signing with Charlie White for his new publication American Minor, a photographic exploration of the American teen as a fabricated subject and idea. The signing will take place at Printed Matter’s storefront at 195 Tenth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd Street) in New York City.

Aiming for the jugular of the American unconscious, the photographs of Los Angeles-based artist Charlie White inspect the culture’s fictions through staged artifice, reminiscent of, say, Jeff Wall or Gregory Crewdson. American Minor delves into an important and ongoing theme in White’s work–the American teen, and all that goes into its manufacture.

Having approached this theme with an earlier project whose protagonist was a hairy, fragile doll named Joshua, here White tackles the taboos of nascent sexuality in the American teen girl–both the vulnerability of that sexuality as a topic and the ruthlessness with which it is exploited when it goes unexamined. Cataloging studio archives, film stills, animation stills, and scripts, and using images culled from White’s two-year study of one teenager, archives of magazine covers featuring iconic blonde models, stills from his first 35mm film and his photographic comparative study of teens and transgendered people, American Minor presents White’s ongoing and never-before-seen studies of the American teen subject as both image and idea. American Minor is a bold excavation of the sociosexual forces that surround us all.

Based in Los Angeles, White is Associate Professor at the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts, where he is also director of the MFA program.

White’s work has been exhibited internationally in museums such as the Center of Contemporary Art of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain; ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany; Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, China; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Oberösterreichisches Landesumuseum, Linz, Austria; Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; and ICA Philadelphia, PA. Most recently White was included in Art in America NOW, organized by the Guggenheim and presented at the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art. White’s work was included in “The Puppet Show” at the ICA Philadelphia and “The Old Weird America” at Houston Contemporary Art Museum, and is included in “Nine Lives: Visionary Artists in Los Angeles,” curated by Ali Subotnik, now on view at the Hammer Museum in March 2009.

American Minor was edited by Christoph Doswald and Dorothea Strauss and published by JRP/Ringier. The publication is hardcover and 144 pages with 80 color images. It retails for $65 and can be purchased at Printed Matter’s storefront or at www.printedmatter.org. The first 50 books purchased through Printed Matter will come with a limited edition poster signed by the artist from his forthcoming exhibition at the Oslo Kunstforening, Spilling Hot Gossip a selection from The Girl Studies.

via Printed Matter

Jonathan · 04/14/09

OMG BFF LOL

An excerpt from Nine Lives artist Charlie White’s cartoon OMG BFF LOL from his project “Girl Studies”, 2008. (Run Time: 3 min., 16 sec.)

Jonathan · 03/18/09

suddenly: where we live now

suddenly

suddenly: where we live now
24 January — 12 April 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, 24 January, 5-7 pm

suddenly was born of German urban planner Thomas Sieverts’s observation that “the shaping of the landscape where we live can no longer be achieved by the traditional resources of town planning, urban design, and architecture. New ways must be explored, which are as yet unclear.”

In response to Sieverts’s observation, the exhibition—which is global in its scope and reach–seeks to imagine the possibilities of spaces and experiences that have an indigenous history (the parking lot, for instance), but that exist beyond historical definitions of city and countryside, and conventional material cycles of development and disuse. Through a myriad of representations, texts, and activities that offer far reaching symbolic and strategic alternatives to capitalism’s functionalist agendas, the artists and writers in this expansive global project are re-imagining the landscape where we live now as an independent identity to be reshaped in the hands and minds of its occupants.

suddenly includes a range of projects and media such as painting, photography, and video, and also includes community-based activities such as communal dinners, spontaneous public lectures, and a city-wide poster initiative. The exhibition will evolve as it tours the world through 2012.

The Pomona College Museum of Art iteration of suddenly includes the following artists: photographer Marc Joseph Berg, New York; photographer Zoe Crosher, Los Angeles; filmmaker Michael Damm, Oakland; painter Molly Dilworth, Brooklyn; architect, landscape designer, and social practice artist Fritz Haeg, Los Angeles; sculptor and glass artist Elias Hansen, Tacoma; social practice artist Michael Hebb, Seattle; sculptor and photographer Frank Heath, Brooklyn; conceptual artists Hadley+Maxwell, Berlin; new media artist Michael McManus, Portland; social practice artist Mike Merrill, Portland; the collective Mostlandian Citizens Lady O and Junior Ambassador, Portland; photographer Shawn Records, Portland; painter Storm Tharp, Portland; and sculptor and author Oscar Tuazon, Paris.

suddenly comprises a set of exhibitions curated by Stephanie Snyder, director of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, with an annotated reader edited by author Matthew Stadler, and a series of public events that attempt to re-imagine cityscapes with contemporary art, literature, and the conversations they spark. For more extensive project information, including event listings, audio recordings, and to order project publications, visit: www.suddenly.org.

suddenly

Jonathan · 03/17/09

This Long Century

Fellow TheBlowUp alumnus Kate Sennert is a founding member of this [currently] web project. I hope they update frequently.

THIS LONG CENTURY is an evolving index of passing thoughts, recommendations and personal observations. Represented are individuals working across highly imaginative fields: art, design, literature, science, theory, etc. This project seeks to expand the notion of creative discipline and provoke verbal and aesthetic exchange.

Harsh · 02/05/09

Mirko Martin

Mirko Martin, from the L.A. Crash series, 2008

Mirko Martin, Tales from the West Side
9 November 2008 — 11 January 2009

Museum Goch
Kastellstr. 9
47574 Goch

Tuesday — Friday 10-5
Saturday — Sunday 11-5
Closed Monday

Jonathan · 01/04/09

Post-America

032c, 16th Issue — Post-America

“A new world is coming into being almost unnoticed.” John Gray tells Hans Ulrich Obrist about the political and financial unrest in the “Post American Age;” Steven Meisel reveals fashion’s cruel and beautiful in a rare interview (plus a seven-page foldout madness of all his Vogue Italia covers); Wes Jones illustrates Dubai and the effects of superabundance; artist Sturtevant tackles copy, copyright, and the ready-made; architect Jürgen Mayer H., and artists Ralf Ziervogel and Roth Stauffenberg form a cluster of 3-4 Fantastic Germans (with 032c’s Architectural Digest visit to Mozambique’s Grand Hotel gone bad); Photographers Max Farago and Alasdair McLellan bring on “The Nudes;” and so much more on 246 pages.

032c, 16th Issue now available through Textfield Distribution or contact your local bookshop.

Textfield · 01/03/09

Sack of Bones

Andrew Rogers, Untitled, 2006

The group exhibition Sack of Bones comes from a viewing of Paul Rachman’s 2006 film, American Hardcore, in which Mark Flood appears as an interviewee on the topic of 1980s punk rock. The tone of the film is reverent, to be sure, but more than an ode, the voices in the film present conflicting parts pride, humor, fraternity, anger, bitterness, nostalgia, and what are often doleful mechanisms for dealing with the here-and-now. That Flood was both part of Hardcore as it existed musically (in 1980 his band, Culturcide, put out their first 7-inch: Another Miracle/Consider Museums as Concentration Camps) and has been practicing visual art for over 30 years poses an interesting question: how, if at all, can art be hardcore? By embodying adolescent punk obsession? By miraculous use of irony? By a simple withdrawal from popular territory?

Jack Goldstein, Dan Colen, Tara Delong, Neil Jenney, Dash Snow, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Mark Flood, Bill Hayden, George Herms, H.C. Westermann, Rosy Keyser, Richard Lidinsky, Bruce LaBruce, Daniel McDonald, Andrew Rogers, Arsen Roje, Agathe Snow, William C. Taylor, Donald Urquhart, Oscar Tuazon, Kaari Upson, Sebastian Mlynarski and Banks Violette.

Sack of Bones, curated by Blair Taylor and Ellen Langan
20 November — 20 December 2008
Opening reception: 20 November 2008, 6-9pm
Peres Projects, Los Angeles

Jonathan · 11/17/08

To Illustrate and Multiply

To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book examines how sequencing manifests itself within artists’ books, highlighting a diverse range of conceptual strategies and formal processes. The exhibition constitutes the first large-scale museum survey of artists’ books in Los Angeles since 1978, presenting work by a range of artists, from emerging artists who have begun to experiment with this genre to established artists who view bookmaking as an integral part of their practice. Borrowing its title from a limited-edition ’zine by Raymond Pettibon, To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book presents many different book forms, some with corresponding wall-mounted works that suggest the relationship of books to other aspects of an artist’s practice.

MOCA
Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Ave
West Hollywood CA 90069

Thanks Michael

Jonathan · 10/21/08

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Jonathan · 09/17/08