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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Andy Warhol Foundation Announces Inaugural Arts Writing Grants

For project descriptions and the 2007 grant calendar for individual writers, please visit http://www.artswriters.org.

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is pleased to announce the first round of grants through its Arts Writing Initiative, a three-year, three-million-dollar program to support independent, progressive arts publications and individual arts writers. Designed to encourage and reward writing about art that is both intellectually rigorous and creatively generative, the program aims to strengthen the field as a whole and to insure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging the visual arts.

Selected through a nomination-based process for their ambition, commitment and strong editorial vision, each of the eight non-profit journals listed below will receive capacity-building grants of approximately $100,000 intended to stabilize business practices, increase audiences, and encourage the exploration of new partnerships and distribution channels. The grants are meant to enable journals to take creative risks and to showcase ambitious, intellectually committed writing.

Afterall, Los Angeles
Art Papers, Atlanta
Bomb Magazine, New York
The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn
Cabinet, New York
Esopus, New York
Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Ithaca
X-tra, Los Angeles

Improving the viability of independent, progressive art publications goes hand in hand with sustaining the work of individual arts writers. Administered by the Creative Capital Foundation, the Arts Writing Initiative’s grants to individuals range from $8,500 - $50,000 and were selected by a six-person national panel of distinguished professionals in the field: Douglas Crimp, Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester; Anthony Elms, Editor of WhiteWalls and Assistant Director of Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Okwui Enwezor, Dean of Academic Affairs at San Francisco Art Institute and Adjunct Curator at International Center of Photography; Sylvie Fortin, Editor-in-Chief of Art Papers; Tim Griffin, Editor-in-Chief of Artforum; and Judith Rodenbeck, Editor-in-Chief of Art Journal and Noble Foundation Chair in Art and Cultural History at Sarah Lawrence College.

Representing a broad range of genres from scholarly studies to experiments with new and alternative media, the eighteen selected projects (listed below) are united by their dual commitment to the craft of writing and the advancement of critical discourse on contemporary visual art.

Julia Bryan-Wilson, Art Works: Artistic Labor in the Vietnam War Era (book), Providence

Susan Cahan, The Politics of Race in American Museums, 1968-1972 (book), St. Louis

Eda Cufer, Art as Mousetrap (book), Portland

Catherine de Zegher, Drawing Book (book), Kortrijk

T.J. Demos, The Document Between Fact and Fiction: Contemporary Art in Beirut (article), London

Grant Kester, The One and the Many: Agency and Identity in Collaborative Art (book), San Diego

Tan Lin, Warhol Writer (article), New York

Mary Warner, Documentary Photography: Episodes in the History of Image-Making and Ideas (article), La Fayette

Tom McDonough and Nancy Davenport, Inhabiting Authoritarianism: Students in the Iranian Pavilion in Paris, 1961-1979 (new and alternative media), Binghamton and New York

Judd Morrisey, The Last Performance (new and alternative media), Chicago

Eileen Myles, The Importance of Being Iceland (book), San Diego

Margaret Nelson, Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractionists (book), Los Angeles

Molly Nesbit, The Tempest Essays (book), New York

John Peffer, The Struggle for Art at the End of Apartheid (book), Lakewood

Frances Richard, Physical Poetics: The Writings of Gordon Matta-Clark (article), Brooklyn

Reiki Tomii, Collectivism in 20th-Century Japan: A History of Strategic Alliances (article), New York

Kenneth Wark, The Situationists: A Users’ Guide (new and alternative media), New York

Gene Youngblood, George Kuchar’s Video Diaries (article), Santa Fe

For project descriptions and the 2007 grant calendar for individual writers, please visit http://www.artswriters.org.

For more information go to: http://www.artswriters.org

Stroom Den Haag

‘After Neurath:
Like sailors on the open sea’
Gerd Arntz, Bureau d’études, Alice Creischer & Andreas Siekmann, Stephan Dillemuth, Chad McCail, Oliver Ressler, Thomson & Craighead

February 25 thru April 8, 2007
Opening hours: Wednesday thru Sunday 12-5 pm

Stroom Den Haag
Hogewal 1-9
2514 HA The Hague
The Netherlands
T +31-70 3658985
info@stroom.nl
http://www.stroom.nl

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the work of the Austrian utopian philosopher Otto Neurath (1882-1945), in fields as various as fine art, design, philosophy, cultural theory and urban studies. With the ‘After Neurath’ project Stroom poses the question what Neurath, this architect of modernity, this social engineer, can teach us today. The exhibition brings together a group of artists whose work engages with the implications of the work of Neurath. They investigate the possibilities of collectively building a better future, the unification of different fields of knowledge and emancipation through organisation. Subjects closely linked to the social-democratic ideals from the past, which now, at the start of the 21st century tend to be submerged in a culture of individualism, consumerism and indifference.

Gerd Arntz (G/NL) who collaborated with Otto Neurath and Marie Reidemeister (AUT) on the development of Isotype. The exhibition also shows examples from the International Foundation for Visual Education in The Hague, founded by Neurath during the years he lived in The Hague (1934-‘40).

The Bureau d’études (F) shows the latest in a series of works that make the usually invisible links between the institutions that shape our lives (industry, governmental agencies) visible.

Alice Creischer & Andreas Siekmann (USA/G) show a series of collaborative works that use the forms and language of Neurath and Arntz to ask questions of contemporary relevance.

Stephan Dillemuth’s (G) recent work is concerned with groups that came to be collectively known as the Life Reform Movement. Within them they held the kernel of contradictory ideas, like bohemianism, modern socialism and nazism.

Chad McCail (UK) puts up a discussion about a money-driven world using cartoon-like imagery.

Oliver Ressler (AUT) engages with concepts and models for alternative economies and societies, which all share a rejection of the capitalist system.

Thomson & Craighead (UK) question the idea that the use of templates – for example for the web - generates knowledge.

The curator of ‘After Neurath’ is Steve Rushton.

For more information check out the ‘After Neurath web dossier’ on http://www.stroom.nl. Here you will find a comprehensive biography and bibliography of Otto Neurath, texts relating to the After Neurath symposium which took place in 2006, background information on the artists in the exhibition and various web links.

The exhibition is made possible in part by: Mondriaan Foundation, city of The Hague, Embassy of Austria, Goethe-Institut Rotterdam, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.

Stroom Den Haag focuses on the urban environment from the viewpoint of visual arts, architecture, urban development and design.

For more information go to: http://www.stroom.nl