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Circa Issue 119, Spring 2007

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The spring issue of Ireland’s leading magazine for contemporary visual art is now on sale. The 112 full-colour pages include news, feature articles, reviews, projects, a host of images, and advertising from Ireland’s main art spaces.

Feature articles
If you build it, will they come? – and what will they do when they get there? Gemma Tipton looks at new art spaces around Ireland, how they’re functioning, what they’re doing right or wrong | Vox pop: what art would you buy? If money were no object, what art would those questioned want in their collection? | All’s fair? Peter FitzGerald interviews Helen Mason, curator of a new art fair in Dublin this May | Everything is something else Declan Long writes about the work of Patrick Hall | Archive, archive, archive! Julie Bacon on art’s new(ish) interest in the archive |

Reviews
Belfast Felt experience Slavka Sverakova | Belfast / Derry Miriam de Búrca: Stealing weeds and me taken out David Hughes | Cork Niamh Lawlor and partners: Based on a true story: A seminar on mis-information Treasa O’Brien | Derry Christine Mackey: Points of departure Julie Bacon | Dublin Drawing is a verb. Drawing is a noun / The square root of drawing / Getting on mother’s nerves – psychological drama in contemporary drawing Siún Hanrahan | Makiko Nakamura Paintings Donal Maguire | John Gerrard: Dark portraits Paul O’Brien | .all hawaii eNtrées / luNar reGGae Eimear McKeith | Santa’s sweet-shop labour force elves (Nevan Lahart and others): X-mass the spot Tim Stott | Matt Stokes: Lost in the rhythm Chris Fite-Wassilak and David Beattie | Galway Tulca Katherine Waugh | New York Corban Walker: Grid stack Tim Maul | Portadown Victor Sloan and Glenn Patterson : Luxus David Hughes | Sligo Jaki Irvine: In a world like this Aileen Blaney | Book John Onians, edi
tor: Compression vs. expression: Containing and explaining the world’s art Brian Curtin | DVD Gary Coyle and Stephen Gardner: The Sea Aileen Blaney |

Also available for online purchase: Space: Architecture for Art, a Circa book on the theory and practice of art spaces; it includes a comprehensive directory to visual-arts spaces throughout the island of Ireland. More information at http://www.recirca.com/space

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Yokohama Triennale

The 3rd Yokohama Triennale

YOKOHAMA 2008: International Triennale of Contemporary Art
“Time Crevasse”

September 13 – November 30, 2008
Artistic Director: Tsutomu Mizusawa

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As we entered a new millennium in the year 2001, the Yokohama Triennale, an international triennial of contemporary art, was established as a forum for new cultural production. The first Yokohama Triennale, YOKOHAMA 2001: Mega Wave—Towards a New Synthesis, was curated by Shinji Kohmoto, Nobuo Nakamura, Fumio Nanjo, and Akira Tatehata, and a total of 109 artists from 38 nations around the globe participated. Following the success of the first Triennale, visual artist Tadashi Kawamata realized the 2nd Yokohama Triennale in 2005, by adopting the unique concept of “Work in Progress” under the title of “Art Circus (Jumping from the Ordinary).”

YOKOHAMA 2008, Yokohama’s third international triennale of contemporary art, will take place in the autumn of 2008. The organizing committee for the 3rd Yokohama Triennale is pleased to announce that Tsutomu Mizusawa, Chief Curator of the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura and Hayama, has been appointed as the Artistic Director. Through this major art exhibition set in the cosmopolitan port city of Yokohama, Mizusawa aims to reaffirm the boundless energy that art affords us. Together with the international curatorial team, Mizusawa will organize the exhibition under the overall theme “Time Crevasse.”

“Time Crevasse”
Art shakes up our everyday perceptions. It gives us glimpses of the“abysses” we normally fail to notice, or perhaps pretend not to notice. It can horrify us, give us courage, console us, or provide us with what we need to face life. Art arises when we confront those abysses squarely and, by waiting attentively at the edges of “time crevasses,” we can scrupulously register various forms of mutual differentiation—individual or social differences; differences of nationality, gender, generation, ethnicity, religion, and so on—including the particular circumstances in which we ourselves are currently situated.

As the Yokohama Triennale prepares to unfold for the third time, it will offer an opportunity for honest reevaluation and reaffirmation of art’s essential value and power today and in the future. This forum for artistic expression will be maintained not only for the sake of mere novelty to be consumed like information, but rather so that, by confronting and accepting the myriad “crevasses” etched in their histories, people can work toward achieving a better mutual understanding of a deep and far-reaching kind.

Outline of the Exhibition

Period
September 13–November 30, 2008

Venues
Central and Waterfront Sites in Yokohama

Organizers
The Japan Foundation, The City of Yokohama, NHK, The Asahi Shimbun, The Organizing Committee for the Yokohama Triennale, et al.

Artistic Director
Tsutomu Mizusawa (Chief Curator, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura and Hayama)

Artistic Director
Tsutomu Mizusawa
Born in Yokohama in 1952. Obtained an MA from Keio University (Japan) and joined the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, as curator in 1978. Curated many exhibitions, including “MOBO, MOGA / Modern Boy, Modern Girl: Japanese Modern Art 1910–35” (1998), “Isamu Wakabayashi”(1997), “Antony Gormley: Still Moving”(1996), and “Katsura Funakoshi”(1993). He was appointed the Japanese commissioner of the “Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh” in 1993 and 1997, and of the São Paulo Biennale in 2004.

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‘Paola Pivi is uninterested in using art to make direct points. She sets intensities in play and then steps back, trusting the cultural cargo her subjects carry to keep meaninglessness at bay.’ Martin Herbert

‘What is painting? An attempt to depict consciousness in something that can’t possibly be conscious. And an attempt to answer ridiculous questions.’ Steven Stern

In the April issue of frieze, Martin Herbert is captivated by the work of Paola Pivi, an artist who uses art as an experiential playground. Steven Stern is intrigued by Dana Schutz’s paintings, which use diverse subject matter to explore what it means to be a painter.

Tom Morton looks back at the career of Stephen Willats, who, since the 1960s, has explored social networks and systems of community, while The Otolith Group reflects on the work of the Black Audio Film Collective, whose collaborative films, essays and ‘slide-tape texts’ opened up new space in British art, film and theory through the 1980s and 1990s.

In other features, Melissa Gronlund discusses the evocative films, photographs and installations of artist Matthew Buckingham, and Lars Bang Larsen investigates the art world’s current fascination in the occult. On the back page, Mark Wallinger responds to the frieze questionnaire.

Plus Chris Evans by Andrew Bonacina, Ulla von Brandenburg by Kirsty Bell, San Keller by Tirdad Zolghadr and Peter Coffin by Peter Eleey.

In the front section Robert Storr reflects on being an American in Europe, while George Pendle explores the current enthusiasm for online databases. Nancy Spector asks why the art world is so fascinated with ‘bad boys’, and Dan Fox considers the issues raised by Abderrahmane Sissako’s new film Bamako.

Also, Aaron Schuster talks to Raimundas Malasauskas about the TV show produced by Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, and in ‘Life in Film’, the renowned Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke lists the movies that have influenced him.

The back section includes reviews of: Christopher Williams, Lucy McKenzie, Rudolf Stingel, ‘If I Can’t Dance… Part II’, Tino Sehgal, Siobhan Hapaska, Daniel Buren, Hans Haake, ‘Tropicália’, Harun Farocki, ‘May the Twelfth’, Superflex, Eleanor Antin, Alan Kane & Humphrey Spender, ‘Pigment Piano Marble’, Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev, Imogen Stidworthy, Victor Grippo, ‘Music Is A Better Noise’, Andreas Fogarasi, Phillip Lai, Thomas Kvam, Tomory Dodge, ‘Ice Trade’ and Tony Conrad.

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