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Heard Museum

“REMIX: NEW MODERNITIES IN A POST-INDIAN WORLD”
Heard Museum
2301 N. Central Ave.
Phoenix, AZ 85004

http://www.heard.org

In Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World, 15 contemporary Native artists have much to say about the modern world. The exhibition presents mixed media work on canvas and in video, photography, sculpture, collage and performance. The artists explore broad themes of class, gender and globalization as well as engage in the more personal territory of family and community. Remix opened October 6, 2007, at the Heard Museum.

In one of several essays in the exhibition catalogue, Heard Museum curator Joe Baker, Delaware poses these questions: “Why are indigenous artists not allowed to celebrate the present as other artists do? Why do we require of Native artists a myth or fantasy, an iconography? What became of the celebrated ideal of multiculturalism, a world composed of ever-changing blends and mixtures?”

In response, Baker and co-curator Gerald McMaster, Cree turn the microphone over to the Remix artists who defy expectations and debunk biased mythology with their smart, complex and often satirical art. Much of the exhibit explores what it means to be of mixed heritage with strong ties — and sometimes absent ties — to Native communities.

Dustinn Craig, White Mountain Apache/Navajo, sees an analogy between skateboarding culture and complex traditions of tribal life. His video, 4 Wheel War Pony, tells the story of young Apache skateboarders. His artist statement explains, “Apache kids with skateboards live with dreams so large they will never dare to tell anyone. Yet those dreams get a little smaller each year, with the death of another friend, or the impossible success of another.”

Franco Mondini-Ruiz, who is a Tejano of Mexican-American and Italian stock, negates stereotypes by humorously embracing them. For Remix, his participation becomes performance as the artist creates and sells 100 paintings in a live marketplace. His paintings and sculptures are created from tchotchkies found in thrift and souvenir shops, and the performance is a statement on the “business” of
collecting art.

Cree artist Kent Monkman appropriates 19th century romantic landscapes to bring out an erotic perversity that underscores pop cultural representations of early relationships between Native Americans and European settlers. In Remix, the artist appears as the “half breed” drag queen, Miss Chief Share Eagle Testickle. This alter ego is also the purported creator of the work, which includes a suggestive video installation called “Shooting Geronimo,” shown inside a 20-plus-foot tipi
created in crystal.

Video games are the territory of Zuni artist Alan Natachu. In his ongoing project, he satirizes stereotyped American Indians myths that dominate the current video gaming industry with images like the blood thirsty Indian Warrior.

Artist Anna Tsouhlarakis, of Navajo and Greek heritage, challenges stereotypes through role reversal. In her video “Let’s Dance,” she struggles to learn diverse steps of other ethnic dances including an Irish jig, line dancing and a Haitian voodoo dance. As student rather than teacher, Tsouhlarakis steps into a new role; no longer is she the “outsider” performing Native traditions for curious strangers.

This exhibition was organized by the Heard Museum, Phoenix, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and co-curated by Joe Baker and Gerald McMaster. Remix will be on view at the Heard through April 27, 2008, and travels to the Smithsonian’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York in May 2008.

Artist bios and images available on request, contact Kate Crowley, kcrowley@heard.org

About the Heard Museum
Since 1929, the Heard has educated visitors from around the world about the art and cultures of Native people of the Southwest. With more than 38,500 artifacts in its permanent collection, an education center and award-winning Shop and café, the Heard remains committed to being a place of learning, discovery and unforgettable experiences.

Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art

Mind Bubbles
2007
Styrofoam, acrylic, wool
Courtesy Galerie Xavier Hufkens
Copyright the artist

Hard Rock Walzer
Contemporary Austrian Sculpture
4.11.2007 - 25.3.2008
curated by Sarah Cosulich Canarutto
Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art
Piazza Manin 10, Passariano, 33033 Codroipo (Udine) Italy
T +39 0432 821211 - f +39 0432 821229
info@villamanincontemporanea.it
http://www.villamanincontemporanea.it

Hard Rock Walzer — Contemporary Austrian Sculpture is an exhibition that confronts the viewer with a play of contrasts emphasised also by the oxymoron of the title: sculpture, often defined as weight and volume, is presented at Villa Manin through many dynamic and unexpected interventions. The works do not merely represent space but they narrate it, and by doing so they bring about situations, create paradoxes, recall memories and emotions.

The title plays with one of the most famous Austrian symbols, the waltz, creating a new unlikely musical genre, but the paradox is also in the play on words that links the lightness of this dance to the firm and concrete presence of the stone, primary element of sculpture. The show features fourteen artists whose works inhabit the villa with their metaphors, in some cases harmonizing with the past and establishing a dialogue with it, on others letting the antithesis encourage a reflection. Through stage illusions and inversions of perspective, the installations of Fabian Seiz play with architecture and the perception of space.

Christian Eisenberger accumulates disposable materials and realizes crtical and destabilizing installations. For this exhibition the artist constructs a “church” with wood and cardboard investigating the relationship between physical reality and spirituality. Also Elke Krystufek challenges religion, tradition and stereotype through a strongly autobiographical approach. Here a big brain, divided in two parts, talks about beginning, doubt, faith and failed communication.

Like a scientist Nikolaus Gansterer creates real laboratories to examine the world, leaving more possible outcomes open. In the show he exposes some plants to different kinds of music registering how this influence their growth. Inspired by the minimalist tradition Werner Feiersinger creates sculptures that overturn the function of the objects and underline the paradoxes of forms. Heimo Zobernig questions the role of the artwork by playing with illusion and merging a minimal approach with a deep analysis of space. The twins Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler intervene in the villa by generating subtle visual short-circuits between the architecture and their work. Thomas Baumann proposes a dynamic and flexible idea of sculpture that takes different forms adapting to the surrounding space. Leopold Kessler analyzes the dynamics of authority and its public mechanisms presenting a curious interpretation of the Austrian police’s barriers. Hans Schabus contradicts expectations a
nd the order of things questioning at the same time the role of the artist.

With destabilizing irony Erwin Wurm creates works that challenge the static definition of sculpture, transforming everyday objects into anthropomorphic images and personifications of mental states. Also the works of Werner Reiterer play with the concept of precariousness, in an improbable subversion of the real which alternates a striking black humour with an ambiguous optimism. Tragedy or luck, fate or escape, his work condenses in an unpredictable way different answers and interpretations. The contradictions of the contemporary are revealed also in the bizzarre universe of Markus Schinwald who has asked a Chinese tailor to style a peculiar set of clothes. In his work bodies and objects endure strange metamorphosises and the logic of things is questioned. Just as it happens in the paradoxical works of Gelitin who, with spectacular provocations like the giant pink rabbit laying on a mountain, make everyday and history of art collide.

Hard Rock Walzer — Contemporary Austrian Sculpture continues the exploration of the Centre for Contemporary Art of Villa Manin of neighbouring countries, nations whose identities and visions the visitor can further discover. After Instant Europe, which was looking at Eastern Europe, and EurHope 1153, focusing on Turkish art, Hard Rock Walzer talks about the heart of Mitteleurope, in the hope to involve the spectator in an energic and rapid dance on the notes of contemporary Austrian sculpture. This show wishes to present the work of a group of Austrian artists with their different visions and approaches. By doing so it can reveal the reality and the specificity of a country like Austria, or reflect also a broadened, global and shared contemporary world.

The exhibition has been kindly supported by the Austrian Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur and the Austrian Cultural Forum.

List of artists:
Thomas Baumann, Christian Eisenberger, Werner Feiersinger, Nikolaus Gansterer, Gelitin, Christine e Irene Hohenbüchler, Leopold Kessler, Elke Krystufek, Werner Reiterer, Hans Schabus, Markus Schinwald, Fabian Seiz, Erwin Wurm, Heimo Zobernig.

Opening Hours
Tuesday - Sunday
9 - 6 pm
Monday closed

PAWNSHOP

photo credit: Carlos Motta

Upcoming events at PAWNSHOP: Buy Nothing Day, and much much more!
e-flux
53 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002
212 619 3356
pawnshop@e-flux.com
http://www.e-flux.com

November is a busy month! It heralds the beginning of the holiday season, the annual soul-crushing tradition of daylight-savings-time, AND the start of sales at the PAWNSHOP!

Come celebrate with us our customary BUY NOTHING DAY (November 23rd, all day long), and our SPECIAL EVENT (November 26th, 7pm): LADIES NIGHT AT THE PAWNSHOP, a discussion with Julieta Aranda and Liz Linden on ethical consumerism and strategies of reverse-gentrification, with surprise special guests.

Also, don’t forget that PAWNSHOP continues to accept new pawned works every day, and that this Thursday, November 1st at noon select items from PAWNSHOP’s inventory become available for sale for the first time! PAWNSHOP continues to keep its regular business hours Tuesday through Saturday, 12-6 pm. It will remain in operation buying and selling artworks through early 2008.

PAWNSHOP’s current inventory is comprised of the work of over 70 artists, including: Lucas Ajemian, James Angus, Julieta Aranda, Julie Ault, Fia Backström, Steven Baldi, Julien J. Bismuth, Bengala, Mike Bouchet, Ethan Breckenridge, Kadar Brock, AA Bronson, François Bucher, Paul Chan, Jan Christensen, Heman Chong, Keren Cytter, Marcelline Delbecq, Wilson Diaz, Nico Dockx, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jakup Ferri, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Claire Fontaine, Rene Gabri, Nikolas Gambaroff, Mario Garcia Torres, Andrea Geyer, Simryn Gill, Liam Gillick, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Diango Hernández, Ralf Homann, Karl Holmqvist, Sejla Kameric, Matt Keegan, Christoph Keller, Brandon Kennedy, Gabriel Kuri, Adriana Lara, Annika Larsson, Francine LeClercq, Gabriel Lester, Liz Linden, Esther Lu, Rodrigo Mallea Lira, Aleksandra Mir, Naeem Mohaiemen, Lucas Moran, Carlos Motta, neuroTransmitter (Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere), Olaf Nicolai, Ernesto Neto, Ylva Ogland, Yoshua Okon, Joe Pflieger, Lisi
Raskin, Fay Ray, Martha Rosler, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Anri Sala, Eduardo Sarabia, Aaron Simonton, Matt Sheridan Smith, Michael Smith, Nedko Solakov, Kimsooja, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Costa Vece, Anton Vidokle, Lawrence Weiner, Florian Wüst, and Andrea Zittel.

PAWNSHOP is a project by Julieta Aranda, Liz Linden and Anton Vidokle.

At the end of the project, all profits generated by PAWNSHOP will be donated to charity. For further information please write to pawnshop@e-flux.com or call 212 619 3356.

EFA Gallery

Dan Graham, Performer/Audience/Mirror (1975)

November Events at EFA Gallery

Performance on Demand, and Brian Dewan and Natalie Weiss
EFA Gallery
EFA Studio Center
323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10018
between 8th and 9th AvenuesGallery Hours: Wed through Sat, 12-6 PM

http://www.efa1.org

Performance on Demand
EAI Viewing Room at EFA Gallery
Organized by Josh Kline for Electronic Arts Intermix

November 2-17, 2007
Opening reception Friday, November 2, 6-8 PM

Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Phyllis Baldino,
Lynda Benglis, Ante Bozanich, Chris Burden, Cheryl Donegan,
VALIE EXPORT, Dan Graham, Ursula Hodel, Joan Jonas,
Mike Kelley, Kristin Lucas, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy,
Ana Mendieta, Charlotte Moorman, Shana Moulton, Bruce Nauman,
Dennis Oppenheim, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik,
Charlemagne Palestine, Alix Pearlstein, Martha Rosler,
Carolee Schneemann, Stuart Sherman, Michael Smith,
Hannah Wilke, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, and others

November 2-17, 2007
Opening reception Friday, November 2, 6-8 PM

Brian Dewan and Natalie Weiss
an evening of words, music and pictures

November 14 and 15 at 7pm
Tickets available through Smarttix: smarttix.com or 212-868-4444

Performance on Demand
EAI Viewing Room at EFA Gallery

EFA Gallery is pleased to offer, during the Performa07 performance biennial, Performance on Demand: EAI Viewing Room at EFA Gallery. EFA Gallery will be transformed into a video lounge to host Electronic Arts Intermix’s Viewing Room, a program that provides free public access to one of the foremost collections of video art in the world. Visitors to EFA Gallery will be able to choose from a curated selection of major performance-based video works by over 30 artists from the EAI Collection. Viewers may watch these seminal performances and contemporary classics at their own pace in a comfortable viewing environment. During the opening reception on Friday, November 2nd, programs featuring selected works will be installed throughout the gallery.

Since the advent of affordable and portable video cameras, video has been a vital tool for artists working in performance. The history of performance art and the history of video have become inseparable. Through video, artists can capture the fleeting and ephemeral, preserving unrepeatable actions as electronic moving images, and audiences that could not be present in the flesh are able to access the rich and dynamic history of performance.

The works available for viewing at EFA Gallery will include rarely-seen video documentation of ground-breaking performances by artists including Chris Burden, Dan Graham, and Carolee Schneemann; extraordinary videos in which performance was carefully crafted for the camera by artists such as Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, Joan Jonas, Martha Rosler and William Wegman; conceptual masterpieces by John Baldessari, Bruce Nauman, and Lawrence Weiner; as well as important works by many other key artists who have explored the profound consequences of combining performance and video.

EFA Live presents
Brian Dewan and Natalie Weiss
an evening of words, music and pictures

EFA Live: music and performances
November 14 and 15 at 7pmTickets available smarttix.com or 212-868-4444

EFA Live, in association with PERFORMA07 performance biennial, is delighted to present Brian Dewan and Natalie Weiss. Both artist/musicians will offer musically based performances with visual art elements at 7pm on Wednesday, November 14 and Thursday, November 15, at EFA Gallery. There will be an intermission between performers.

Artist, musician, poet and instrument designer, Brian Dewan, offers a solo performance featuring song, spoken word, autoharp, zither and instruments of his own invention. Dewan’s music references folk music, hymns, century-old popular music and rock music to weave eccentric and anachronistic tales. As an added treat, Dewan will present selections from his series of “I Can See” filmstrips which use the technology of the educational filmstrips from the mid-twentieth century as a point of departure for satirical and surreal narratives.
myspace.com/briandewan

Natalie Weiss wields an accordion, keyboards, circuit-bent children’s toys, traditional African instruments and armfuls of samplers, electronics, and props in her eclectic performances. Self-described as a musician/DJ/puppeteer/playwright/performance artist, the energetic Ms. Weiss’ indescribable performances reference the noise scene, contemporary visual art, musical theater and, most recently, the Christian church, with refreshing wit and complexity.
myspace.com/unicornicopia

These events are presented by EFA Gallery, a program of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. EFA Gallery is supported in part by public funds from the New York Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts. Private funding for the Gallery has been received from The Carnegie Corporation Inc., The Foundation for Contemporary Art, The Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation, Peter C. Gould, Materials for the Arts, and many other generous individuals.

ABOUT EAI
Founded in 1971, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is one of the world’s leading nonprofit resources for video art and interactive media. EAI’s core program is the international distribution of a major collection of new and historical media works by artists. EAI’s activities include a preservation program, viewing access, educational services, online resources, and public programs such as exhibitions and lectures. The Online Catalogue provides a comprehensive resource on the 175 artists and 3,000 works in the EAI collection, including extensive research materials.
http://www.eai.org

ABOUT EFA GALLERY
EFA Gallery is a multi-arts curatorial project space. Through the gallery, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts supports the creative work of independent curators. Curators build the framework in which we understand artists and the art they make. At their best, they redefine how we look at culture. The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts believes in the essential importance of art in a civil society, and that the value of the artist’s creative spirit is not limited by age, race, nationality or acceptance by others. http://www.efa1.org

ABOUT PERFORMA07
PERFORMA07 (October 27-November 20, 2007) is the second biennial of new visual art performance presented by PERFORMA, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century.
http://www.performa-arts.org

ABOUT PERFORMA
PERFORMA is a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. Part of PERFORMA mission is to present a biennial of visual art performance in New York City that illuminates the critical role of performance in the history of art as well as its enormous significance in the international world of contemporary art.
http://www.performa-arts.org

The PERFORMA05 biennial offered an exciting program of performances, exhibitions, symposia, and film screenings organized in collaboration with a consortium of leading museums, galleries, alternative spaces, and independent curators in New York. The first of its kind, PERFORMA05 was an enormous critical and popular success and set a new standard for the positioning of live performance in the international contemporary art world. Over 25,000 people attended sold-out and filled-to-capacity events at more than 20 venues across the city, activating and animating all of New York, from Harlem to Wall Street. PERFORMA was founded in 2004 by art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg. PERFORMA07, the second biennial of new visual art performance, will take place in New York City from October 27- November 20, 2007.

For further information:
Elaine Tin Nyo, Director
T. 212-563-5855 x203, F. 212-563-1875
elaine@efa1.org

ARTISSIMA 14

ARTISSIMA 14
9 - 11 November 2007
11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Lingotto Fiere, Turin
Vernissage November 8, 2007
http://www.artissima.it

ARTISSIMA 14: A NEW TYPE OF CULTURAL EVENT

Artissima takes place in Turin, Italy, from the 8th to 10th of November, 2007. A project by Andrea Bellini, director of the Fair from 2007, Artissima 14 is a window on emerging art worldwide. 131 galleries from 17 countries: a launch-pad for the best research in the field of visual arts on an international scale. The galleries will be showing outstanding works by both renowned established artists and cutting-edge newcomers. The New Artissima is a marketplace of the highest quality, but it is also a flexible tool, a container of art exhibitions, parties and crossover events. At the Fair, together with the traditional booths, there will also be two sections — Constellations and Present Future — designed as authentic exhibitions.

PRESENT FUTURE is a special section of the Fair in collaboration with illycaffè, which will include this year 15 projects by artists emerging on the national and international art scene, selected by a team of three curators: Cecilia Alemani, art critic and independent curator, New York; Luca Cerizza, curator BSI Collection and art critic, Berlin; Raimundas Malasauskas, curator Artists Space, New York / Advisor, California College of Arts, San Francisco. Present Future will introduce an exciting new feature for Artissima 14: the artists have been invited to display their works in a separate and independent area devoted exclusively to this section, designed like a real exhibition, enhancing the dialogue between the works whilst creating an itinerary with constant and stimulating surprises. During the Fair, a jury composed by Corinne Diserens, Director, MUSEION, Bolzano, Francesco Manacorda, Curator, Barbican Art Gallery, London, and Susan Pfeffer, Curator, KW Institute for Con
temporary Art, Berlin will meet to assign the illy Present Future Award to the most significant work. The winning artist will receive a 10,000-euro prize from the event partner, illy, and will have the opportunity to present a design for the “illy Art Collection” of auteur coffee cups

CONSTELLATIONS is devoted to large museum-quality works, exhibited for the first time at Artissima in a museum-style exhibition. 10 artworks from more than 90 projects submitted by the galleries taking part in the Fair have been selected by Daniel Birnbaum, Director of Portikus, Frankfurt, and Marc-Olivier Wahler, Director of of Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

NEW ENTRIES will present 17 emerging avant-garde galleries from 8 countries at the Fair for the first time, selected by the Board of Directors and Consulting Committee of Artissima. The Guido Carbone Award, devoted to the galleries taking part in this section, will be assigned by an international Jury that will consider, as a primary selection criterion, the work of research and promotion of young artists carried on by galleries. The jury is composed by Fabio Cavallucci, Director, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento / Coordinator, Manifesta 7, Vasif Kortun, Director, Platform Garanti, Istanbul / Founding director Project Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art, Anton Vidokle, Artist, curator, founder and director of e-flux, New York, and Laura Viale, jury’s permanent member on behalf of the Award Promoting Committee.

The VIDEO LOUNGE, curated by Cecilia Alemani, is devoted to the latest trends and the most recent creations of artists who work with film, video and animation. Mixing together documentaries, visions and digital perceptions of about sixty international artists, the Video Lounge opens a window onto the world of contemporary art, guiding the audience on a journey through possible worlds and new landscapes of imagination. The program revolves around the themes of “War, Peace, and Ecstasy” which have been chosen as the key concepts for an exploration of today’s art. The artists have been selected among those working the galleries taking part in Artissima.

The SEMINAR ON CURATORIAL PRACTICE, curated by Måns Wrange (CuratorLab, Konstfack, Stockholm) consists in two days of intense debate and dialogue, with the participation of twelve leading international curators and artists: Ute Meta Bauer, Luca Cerizza, Caroline Corbetta, Meg Cranston, Joshua Decter, Ronald Jones, Yu Yeon Kim, Vasif Kortun, Marysia Lewandowska, Francesco Manacorda, Chus Martinez, Anton Vidokle. Three emerging curators from Colombia, Ethiopia and India will be guest speakers at the seminar, in cooperation with illycaffé, thus offering evidence of the new frontiers of contemporary art: Meskerem Assegued, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Mariangela Mendez Prencke, Bogotà, Colombia, Suman Gopinath,
Bangalore, India.

Artissima will also extend beyond the borders of the fair, exploring the city and its most significant centers of artistic and cultural production.

ARTISSIMA CINEMA will present “Shanghype!”, a video program featuring the new chinese art scene, curated by Davide Quadrio, BizArt/Arthub, Shanghai.

ARTISSIMA VOLUME is a high-impact performances and events with the participation of some of the greatest names in neo-avantgarde music, curated by Nero magazine, Roma.

ARTISSIMA COMICS is an anthological exhibition of GIPI, one of the most notorious Italian cartoonists within the international art scene, curated by Daniele Ratti and Sergio Pignatone, Torino.

NIGHT OF CONTEMPORARY ART - As part of the project “Contemporary Arts Torino Piemonte”, and on the occasion of Artissima, museums, foundations, and art institutions will propose openings and exhibitions of international appeal whilst the streets of Turin will be illuminated by Luci d’artista, light installations designed by artists. The “night of contemporary art” on Saturday the 10th will feature special openings of galleries, museums and other art spaces, concerts and performances throughout the city, followed by a closing party in collaboration with Club to Club, The International Festival of Electronic Music and Arts.

For additional information and the complete list of galleries, please visit our website http://www.artissima.it

Project Arts Centre

BLACKBOXING
NOV 2 - DEC 1, 2007
OPENING NOV 1, 6PM
Project Arts Centre
39 East Essex Street
Temple Bar
Dublin 2, Ireland

http://www.project.ie

Mariana Castillo Deball, L Budd et al., Rene Gabri & Ayreen Anastas, Peter Galison & Robb Moss, Bea McMahon, Garrett Phelan, Grace Weir and Mick Wilson
Curated by Tessa Giblin

If the term blackboxing means to accept a function or an application but not a method(ology), what is it - both scientifically and socially - that compels us to peer inside black-boxes?

Brought together in the exhibition Blackboxing are a number of artists and intellectuals who have at the core of their practice a hunger for knowledge, and from whom this term has emerged.

Our open curiosity and defiance in the face of evidence has seen the term blackboxing expand from its origins in information technology. It has become a broadly compelling rallying point for those hoping to enable independence in an individual’s experience of fact, truth, absolute ideas and beliefs. By looking inside blackboxes, artists can activate discreet bodies of knowledge — finding concrete ways to address the increasing abstraction of complex mathematics and physics, and building back roads into politically unstable global scenarios where international reportage is diffused by popularising rhetoric and
smoke-screens.

The mimicry, blind faith and increasing dependence on ever-more complex systems is changing the way we comprehend our world; although we slavishly attempt to regenerate our systems at the rate of development, we are at the same time loosening our conceptual grasps on the functioning realities of these systems and cornering ourselves into a state of acceptance.

In an interview with artist Rene Gabri, theorist Manuel de Landa recalled his earlier experiments with code-writing, hacking and what he now refers to as blackboxing. Applying a technique widely used in everyday activity, he would copy a body of computer code which he knew to function a certain way into another system in order the replicate that function, yet utilise it towards a different end. As Bruno Latour explains, blackboxing accounts for the moment whereby ‘technical work is made invisible by its own success’.

“As a realist… I have to open as many blackboxes as I can. I have to give accounts in terms of mechanisms.” Manuel de Landa

Mariana Castillo Deball’s (MEX) film Blackboxing, introduces us to The Escape Artist, The War Magician and an inventor blinded by the complexity of his own eye. Tracking a series of observations, descriptions and definitions, the film illustrates the wonder of what it is to be curious. L Budd et al. (NZ) maximise the conditions in which telepathic exchange might occur. In an attempt to engineer a telepathic device, four suitcases perched on top of four grey stools conduct a quasi-conversation, while the suitcases’ strange songs compel us to ponder the possibility of such a device. Rene Gabri (IRN) & Ayreen Anastas’ (PLE) video works, What Everybody Knows, is a play on what everybody possibly ignores or hides from themselves. Their research and experiences in Palestine and Israel resulted in a series of videos where characters emerge and lead us towards a deeper awareness of the situation in Palestine, punctuated by poignant and alarming personal stories. Co-directors Pe
ter Galison (USA), Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University and cinematographer Robb Moss’ (USA) trailer to their film Secrecy, explores the relationship between secrecy and security — ‘We live in a world where the production of secret knowledge dwarfs the production of open knowledge’. With the film ready for release in January of 2008, the trailer acts as another Pandora’s Box. Bea McMahon’s (IRL) background in maths and mathematical physics is used to great effect to illustrate complex theories involving space and time. In a new film featuring two turtles attempting to understand the numerical relationships between their own, animated beings, and the coded figures displayed above them, McMahon introduces everyday signifiers such as car number plates in a didactic and humorous animation. Garrett Phelan’s (IRL) spray-painted black void looms over the gallery. Trapped in the dense blackness is an object for communication, a receiver, or nothing at all. In recent years Phelan has focussed his practice around extensive explorations into ‘the formation of opinion’ and ‘the absolute present’. The Penrose non-periodic tile is the subject of Grace Weir’s (IRL) installation, and we are treated to the evidence of her own efforts to complete the unsolvable puzzle. It is a mathematical certainty that the repetition of these specific tiles will never result in a repeating pattern — while they may lock in together, which is in itself a formidable challenge – the closer one comes to solving the puzzle the closer they more they activate its futility. As Weir says — ‘is that not a portrait of the universe?’. Mick Wilson (IRL) splices together a number of disparate voices, asking what it is about their representation which causes them to evoke such irrefutable origins in our minds. In a sound work the various iterations of Hallelujah are cast adrift of their defining properties, while in a publication texts are compiled, speaking of a variety of different ideas — one of which is a proposition for a code of behaviour in interdisciplinary practice. While we sample other fields of knowledge, do we take care to understand the research that the knowledge is constructed from?

Tessa Giblin

FRIDAY, 16 NOV
Rene Gabri and Ayreen Anastas present an extended screening of What Everybody Knows, and will be joined by Mariana Castillo Deball, Mick Wilson, Bea McMahon, Garrett Phelan and Tessa Giblin to publicly discuss the ideas and artworks within Blackboxing.

Please contact Publicist, Aisling McGrane for further information and images: aisling@project.ie or Curator, Tessa Giblin by contacting the gallery.

Forthcoming exhibitions at Project Arts Centre:
Aurélien Froment, Calling the Elephant 14 DEC - 26 JAN 2008
Rosa Barba & David Malkjovic, 7 FEB - 15 MARCH 2008

Project Arts Centre is funded by the Arts Council - An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Dublin City Council.

ball-point pen on paper, 26 x 25.5 inches. Right image, David Ostrowski, Untitled, 2007, oil on cotton, 31.5 x 23.6 inches.

Shut Up Shut Up Shut Up Shut Up
Erica Eyres

How to Look at Homegrown Terror
David Ostrowski

November 2 - December 22, 2007.
Opening Reception | Friday, November 2, 2007, 6-9 pm.
Both artists will be present.

fette’s gallery
http://www.fette-gallery.com
contact@fette-gallery.com
+001 310 559-7733
4255 Baldwin Ave.
Culver City, CA 90232

fette’s gallery is delighted to present the double-solo show of Erica Eyres (ca/uk) and David Ostrowski (de).

Born 1980 in Winnipeg, Canada, Erica Eyres received her BFA with honors from the University of Manitoba in 2002. In 2004 she completed her MFA at the Glasgow School of Art.
Her recent solo exhibitions include Erica Eyres at Rokeby, London, I Love You But I Hate You at The Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow and most recently, Erica Eyres at the Kunsthaus Erfurt in Germany. Her video work has been screened internationally and has most recently been featured during Cinematique, Winnipeg, Birdo Flugas in Japan, the Festival International du Film sur l’Art, Montreal, the Media Waves Film Festival, Akureyri in Iceland, and the Media Waves Film Festival, Gyor, Hungary.

David Ostrowski was born 1981 in Cologne, Germany. In 2003 along with artist Ali Khashaei he founded the artists collective We Are Porn which features european based artists discussing the aesthetics of pornography. Since 2004, he has been studying at the Academy of Fine Art, Düsserldorf, Germany.
Ostrowski has been shown prominently all throughout Germany. His recent solo exhibitions include 15 Minuten at Alexa Jansen Galerie, Cologne which published a catalogue for the occasion and Hulk vs. Hulk at Acapulco, Düsseldorf, with Max Frintrop. His work was featured at the 2007 Auction of the Neuer Aachener Kunstberein in Aachen, Art Rotterdam and Art Brussel.

This is the art

LABoral Centro de Arte

Mariela Yeregui (Argentina) Proxemia, 2005
Interactive Robotic Installation

EMERGENTES
10 projects by Latin American artists / Works in progress
Opening date: 16.11.07
LABoral Centro de Arte y
Creación Industrial
Los Prados, 121
33394 Gijón (Asturias) Spain
Tel: +34 985 185 577
info@laboralcentrodearte.org
Wednesday to Monday, 12 noon - 8 pm

http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org

CONCEPT : EMERGENTES explores cultural developments using science and technology with a view to creating a new kind of socio-cultural interaction. The works focus on the work-in-progress and research associated with scientific and technological issues with an impact on society. EMERGENTES endeavours to offer a new approach to Latin American media art through a wide range of critical perspectives, both established and incipient.

CURATOR: José-Carlos Mariátegui

PROJECT COORDINATOR: Victoria Messi

ARTISTS: Lucas Bambozzi (Brazil), Mariana Rondón (Venezuela), Rejane Cantoni & Daniela Kutschat / OP_ERA (Brazil), Rodrigo Derteano (Peru/Switzerland), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Mexico/Canada), José Carlos Martinat & Enrique Mayorga (Peru), Fernando David Orellana (El Salvador/USA), Santiago Ortiz / Bestiario (Colombia/Spain), Mariano Sardón (Argentina) and Mariela Yeregui (Argentina).

DATE: 16.11.2007 / 12.05.2008

EXHIBITION DESIGN: Fernando Muñoz y Sergio Sebastián arquitectos

A Coproduction by LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial and Fundación Telefónica

RELATED ACTIVITIES

Design of content and cultural extension: Victoria Messi

16.11.2007 - 5:30 to 6:30 pm
GUIDED VISIT OF EXHIBITION. José-Carlos Mariátegui, curator of exhibition, will explain the show’s concept and give a guided tour of the works on view.
Venue: Hall of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón
Free entrance (limited capacity)

CONFERENCES
Venue: Paraninfo of Universidad Laboral, Gijón
Free entrance (limited capacity)
17.11.2007
INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS
Speaker: Daniela Kutschat
YOU CAME WITH THE BREEZE
Speaker: Mariana Rondón

WORKSHOPS
Venue: Laboratories of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón
Participants: max. 15 persons
Courtesy registration
Registration: labworkshops@laboralcentrodearte.org
17-18.11.2007
INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTS
Led by Rejane Cantoni
01-02.12.2007
BIO-COLLAGE CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP
Led by Santiago Ortiz and Belén Adamo
09-10.02.2008
RECOMPUTING SPACE
Led by Rodrigo Derteano

LABoral PROGRAMME

EXHIBITIONS

Gameworld Expansion Pack: PLAYWARE

CURATORIUM: Ars Electronica Linz & Museum of the Moving Image (New York)

WORKS AND ARTISTS
Multiplayer Installations: Bump; Freqtric Project; Iamascope; Jam-O-Drum CircleMaze; metaField Maze; Perfect Time; PingPongPlus; Reactable; Small Fish; Tug of War
Art Games: Armadillo Run; Electroplankton; flow; Golf?; Line Rider; LocoRoco; Mono; Neon; Ökami; Rez; Shift; Toribash; vib-ribbon

DATE: From 21.09.2007 / 21.03. 2008

WORKSHOPS

Streaming with free software
Concept: Hangar
Organised by: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Dates: 3rd-7th December 2007
15 participants, age +18, selected by CV and cover letter
Fees apply
Registration: http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial is a space for artistic exchange. It is set up with the purpose of establishing an effective alliance between art, design, culture, industry and economic progress and the goal of becoming a space for interaction and dialogue between art, new technologies and industrial creation. It throws a special spotlight on production, creation and research into art concepts still being defined

The Kitchen

Garth Weiser, Jose Alvarez, Doug Aitken, and AdamPendleton

The Kitchen’s Benefit Art Auction
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
http://www.thekitchen.org

7:00 - 9:00pm Cocktails and Silent Auction
8pm Live Auction with Eliza Osborne of Sotheby’s

To purchase tickets or to view all 70+ artworks, please visit: http://www.thekitchen.org/auction2007

To place a proxy bid or to charge tickets by phone, please contact Kerry at 212.255.5793 ext. 20 or kerry@thekitchen.org

Participating Artists Include:

Doug Aitken, Jose Alvarez, Tauba Auerbach, Walead Beshty, Carol Bove, Cecily Brown, Jessica Craig-Martin, Roe Ethridge, Luis Gispert, Karl Haendel, Adam Helms, Jim Hodges, Christian Jankowski, Karen Kilimnik, David Kramer, Kalup Linzy, Nate Lowman, Andrew Moore, Elizabeth Neel, Adam Pendleton, Michael Phelan, Jack Pierson, Robert A. Pruitt, Walid Raad, Jessica Rankin, Matthew Ritchie, Sterling Ruby, Dana Schutz, Marc Swanson, Kelley Walker, Garth Weiser, James Welling, Jonas Wood.

and many, many more.

About The Kitchen

The Kitchen is one of New York City’s oldest multidisciplinary, nonprofit performance and exhibition spaces, showing experimental work by innovative artists, both emerging and established. Programs range from dance, music, and theatrical performances to video, film, and digital art installations to literary events, artists’ talks, and lecture series. Since its inception in 1971, it has been a powerful force in shaping the cultural landscape of this country and has helped launch the careers of many artists who have gone on to worldwide prominence.

This event is sponsored by Cristina Enriquez-Bocobo and Sotheby’s.

Catering by Taste Caterers
Special thanks to Rhum Clement, Dumante Verdenoce, Charbay Vodka, St. Germain, and Francis Ford Coppola Winery

Circa Art Magazine

front cover: Kevin Cosgrove: Survey, 2007,
Oil on canvas, 120 x 145 cm.
From National College of Art and Design Degree Show; courtesy the artist

Circa Issue 121, Autumn 2007
Circa Art Magazine
43 / 44 Temple Bar
Dublin 2
Ireland
Phone: +353 1 67 97 388
editor@recirca.com
http://www.recirca.com

subscriptions / purchase / PDFs:
http://www.recirca.com/subscribe

The autumn issue of Ireland’s journal of record for contemporary visual art is now on sale. The 120 full-colour pages include news, feature articles, reviews, a host of images, and advertising from Ireland’s main art spaces.

Feature articles

Degree shows: Critics’ choices - Circa asked a number of writers to pick out specific artists from this year’s round of degree shows | I am a monster: The indefinite and the malleable in contemporary female self-portraiture - on the use of transgressive (self-) images by artists such as Janine Antoni, Jenny Saville and Catherine Opie Loren Erdrich | Not saying no: Perverts, melancholics and Bartleby - How do you protest through art? Tim Stott | Paint and politics: Between Argentina and Northern Ireland - A look at the work of Rita Duffy and Daniel García, two artists who have addressed violence in their own countries Vikki Bell | To the waters and the wild: The Burren College of Art - A look at a remarkable third-level college in an unlikely location Eimear McKeith |

Reviews

Belfast The Birth exchange project Slavka Sverakova | Cork Colin Crotty / Megan Eustace / Sibyl Montague Treasa O’Brien | Derry Cathy Wilkes Pádraig Timoney | Dublin Follow the light Eimear McKeith | Art 2007 Gemma Tipton | The Important thing is that tomorrow is not the same as yesterday Chris Fite-Wassilak | Galway Vivienne Dick: The True centre is always new Michaële Cutaya | Eilís Murphy: Work of the devil / Ciara Healy: Stories of displacement Katherine Waugh | Kilkenny Frances Hegarty and Andrew Stones: Tactically yours Brian Hand | Limerick The Colour of surprise Karen Normoyle-Haugh | Portadown Nick Stewart: no-one’s not from everywhere David Hughes | Venice Willie Doherty / Gerard Byrne Judith Wilkinson | Cinema spaces and structures at the 52nd Venice Biennale Maeve Connolly | Waterford Titled/untitled Gemma Tipton | (Magazine) Sarah Browne: Sweet futures Charlotte Bonham-Carter |

Project

Gathered light Tony McAteer