Fillip’s Spring 2010 issue, no. 11, features Lawrence Rinder on painting and politics, Keith Bormuth on Jean-Luc Godard’s 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle, and Berlin-based artist Haris Epaminonda in conversation with Danish curator Jacob Fabricius. Other long form reviews and essays are provided by Liz Park, Renato Rodrigues da Silva, and Arni Haraldsson, amongst others.

The issue also features Dear Silvia…July 2009, an artist pamphlet by Silvia Kolbowski that compliments the artist’s audio work of the same name commissioned by Fillip for the Living Clay Art Writing Readings series at Whitechapel, London, last Fall.

Launch Event:
Vancouver April 28, 7pm: Organized in conjunction with a talk on Paul McCarthy by John C. Welchman, Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego, co-presented with the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. The event is being held at 3092 Fraser Street at 7pm, with a reception to follow.

Fillip 11
120 pages
17 × 24.5cm
Paper: Munken Print White
Edition: 2000

Available at Textfield, Inc.

While ostensibly fulfilling and bringing to a close the initial aesthetic criteria he created during the rise of the French New Wave in the 1960s, Jean-Luc Godard shifts his gaze more intently onto the climate of design and branding in his 1967 film 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her. Whereas Godard’s dozen or so films in the early 1960s interrogated the impressions from the dominance of the Hollywood image onto cultural consciousness, the meat of 2 or 3 Things is branding, identity, and the rise of the corporate spirit.

Continue Reading…