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MOMENTARY MOMENTUM: ANIMATED DRAWINGS
3 March - 5 May, 2007
Private View: Friday 2 March 2007, 6-8pm

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MOMENTARY MOMENTUM: ANIMATED DRAWINGS an exhibition devoted to animated drawings, comprising a dozen installations and a film loop with the participation of Francis Alÿs, Robert Breer, Paul Bush / Lisa Milroy, Michael Dudok de Wit, Brent Green, Takashi Ishida, Susanne Jirkuff, William Kentridge, Avish Khebrehzadeh, Jochen Kuhn, Zilla Leutenegger, Arthur de Pins, Qubo Gas, Christine Rebet, Robin Rhode, Georges Schwizgebel, David Shrigley, Tabaimo, Naoyuki Tsuji & Kara Walker

Momentary Momentum: Animated Drawings has been co-curated by Ziba de Weck Ardalan and Laurence Dreyfus.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication that comprises a booklet and a DVD. It will distributed worldwide by JRP| Ringier.

Parasol unit will be open on Easter Saturday 7 April but will be closed for Good Friday 6 April and Easter Sunday 8 April, 2007.

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frieze

frieze issue 105 out now

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‘People say, “How come you don’t take pictures of girls?” And I say, “Well I do, I just use boys to do them.”’ Collier Schorr

‘I can understand young artists saying their practice isn’t feminist, but saying you’re not a feminist, that’s just tragic, I think, and misguided. Whether you are a man or a woman.’ Connie Butler

The March issue of frieze is themed around Feminism. Connie Butler discusses her forthcoming exhibition ‘WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution’ with Amelia Jones, and Dominic Eichler considers the themes explored by Collier Schorr in her photographs and collages.

‘Cinema’s unique capacity lies in its ability to, as Maya Deren writes memorably, “put real toads in imaginary gardens.”’

Melissa Gronlund looks back at the career of Maya Deren, whose radical and influential films are the subject of a new book published by Anthology Film Archives. Will Bradley is intrigued by Cathy Wilkes’ psychologically and socially evocative installations, while Christy Lange reflects on the videos, performances and events staged by Annika Eriksson.

From Mexico to Egypt and Senegal, Jennifer Doyle, Gilane Tawadros and N’Goné Fall examine diverse approaches taken by women to art-making. Jan Verwoert unearths alternative histories in the work of Michaela Melián. Eleanor Antin responds to the frieze questionnaire.

Plus Mathilde ter Heijne by Catrin Lorch, Claire Fontaine by Vivian Rehberg, Josephine Meckseper by Julia Bryan-Wilson and Kan Xuan by Douglas Heingartner.

In the front section Robert Storr reflects on the changes made by Feminism on the art world, while Brian Dillon is absorbed by two books about the mysteries posed to historical anatomy by women’s bodies. Tirdad Zolghadr explores the thresholds of Feminism in two new European exhibitions, and Jenni Sorkin has misgivings about the hotly anticipated Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.

Also, renowned sociologist Saskia Sassen talks to Roland Kapferer about the role of women in society today. In ‘Life in Film’, Runa Islam lists the movies that have influenced her and her work.

The back section includes reviews of: ‘Cooling Out’, Barbara Visser, Brice Marden, ‘USA Today’, Elke Krystufek, ‘How to Build a Universe’, ‘Riflemaker Becomes Indica’, ‘The Secret Public’, ‘The Perfect Man Show’, Alexis Hunter, ‘Academy’, Mel Bochner, ‘This Will Not Happen Without You’, Gardar Eide Einarsson, ‘Clip/Stamp/Fold’, ‘The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial’, ‘When the Moon Shines on the Moonshine’, Jennifer Bornstein, ‘Ruby Satellite’, Suzanne Treister, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Brian Fahlstrom, Conrad Shawcross, ‘Semina Culture’ and ‘I Like America’.

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Artforum

March 2007 in Artforum

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This month: “Regime Change: Jacques Rancière and Contemporary Art.”

So many of the questions posed by the French thinker Jacques Rancière are of singular importance to contemporary art now: What is, after all, the relationship between art and politics? Where does art’s greatest potential rest, taking into account its engagements and affiliations with market forces? How should one think about various artists’ stagings of social interaction, or even of the self?

In this issue, Artforum takes an extended look at Rancière in light of these matters: Artists and critics Fulvia Carnevale and John Kelsey sit down with the philosopher in Paris to compare notes on contemporary art; adding brief testaments to his significance for their own work are Paul Chan, Liam Gillick, and Thomas Hirschhorn, while Roe Ethridge presents a pair of portraits. Also appearing, for the first time in an American magazine, is Rancière’s “The Emancipated Spectator,” his famous 2004 lecture on performance, originally given at the opening of the Fifth Summer Academy of Arts in Frankfurt. Finally, providing an overview of his ideas is comparative literature professor Kristin Ross, while critic Bettina Funcke concludes the publication’s special focus by examining the pronounced, mutual interest between contemporary artists and Rancière today.

“Jacques Rancière never left the gambling table of politics, where everything is played out. On the contrary, he is redistributing the cards.” —Thomas Hirschhorn

Also: Cover artist Allen Ruppersberg curates “First Thought Best Thought—Allen Ginsberg,” a meditation on poetics populated with artworks by Marcel Broodthaers, Jef Geys, Guy de Cointet, and many others.

“‘If I were to think like an art critic, I would approach the work through the language of art, and if I were to try and express a similar idea speaking about language as art—or literary criticism—I would be talking about the laws of poetry.’ Oh, no, I sighed to myself. The laws of poetry? What is wrong with you?”—Allen Ruppersberg

Also: Rachel Kushner looks at the perverse fairy tales and twisted social commentary of Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg’s short Claymation videos; Branden W. Joseph talks with Tony Conrad about the “rescreening” of his “Yellow Movies” from the early ’70s; David Joselit reflects on Manet’s Maximilian paintings and the execution of Saddam Hussein; Damon Krukowski reads the contradictory writings of late composer Cornelius Cardew; T. J. Demos surveys Okwui Enwezor’s 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville; Jordan Kantor reflects on contemporary curators leaving the museum for academia; and art historian Linda Nochlin, Artforum editor at large Jack Bankowsky, and writer Brooks Adams remember the late Artforum contributing editor Robert Rosenblum.

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