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Afterall Issue 16
Autumn/ Winter 2007
http://www.afterall.org

Y to Barrada
Essays: Rasha Salti and Nadia Tazi
Gillian Carnegie
Essays: Barry Schwabsky and
Monika Szewczyk
Ulrike Ottinger
Essays: Hildegund Amanshauser,
Homay King and Eva Meyer
Christopher Williams
Essays: Martin Prinzhorn and Mark Godfrey

Essays:
Jeff Wall on depiction, object and event
Anthony Huberman against information

Events, Works, Exhibitions:
Peter Osborne on Chris Gilbert’s resignation
Claire Barliant on Jenny Perlin’s Transcript
Lars Bang Larsen on Palle Nielsen’s The Model

Asian Contemporary
Art Fair New York

Noriko Yamaguchi
Keitai Girl No.1
Digital C-Print
2004
Courtesy of MEM Inc.

Asian Contemporary Art Fair New York
November 8-12, 2007
Pier 92
52 St & 12 Ave, NYC

http://www.acafny.com

ACAF NY debuts November 8-12, 2007 at Pier 92 with new works by a stellar front line of contemporary masters and will showcase a fascinating selection of work by emerging artists who are consistently setting tomorrow’s trends. ACAF NY brings to New York a vibrant, international art market that is slated to be the modern-day World’s Fair for an Asian art collection. ACAF NY will provide special opportunities for an open dialogue with key figures of the art world. The five day event will become a point of convergence where some of the most respected dealers of contemporary Asian art will engage collectors, curators, and the general public alike.

- 80 exhibitors from over 10 countries
- 350 international artists
- Curated special exhibition
- Cultural and educational programs
- Expert collecting advice
- VIP lounge
- Visitors lounge café
- International Media and Publications

Special Exhibition
Simulasian: Refiguring “Asia” for the 21st — Century
Curated by Eric C. Shiner and Lilly Wei

In the first decade of the 21st-century, the idea of “Asia” has become increasingly amorphous: is it a continent, a mindset, a physical body, a conceptual identity? Today, the contemporary art of any region is as informed by its neighbors, near or far, as it is by local traditions and histories. For the inaugural Asian Contemporary Art Fair, the work of 27 artists whose work explores this diverse “idea of Asia” will show how many artists are moving beyond–and often times deconstructing and decoding–the stereotypical Asia in favor of one that is more complex and inclusive. The exhibition will thus make visitors question their own perceptions of what Asia is, and urge them to “de-Orientalize” the notion of Asia, viewing it not only as a place, but as a truly global philosophy that infects, informs and encourages artistic production around the world.

Participating artists: Bani Abidi / Ilona Rozeal Brown / Emily Cheng / David Diao / Brendan Fernandes / Chitra Ganesh / Max Gimblett / Ran Hwang / Chen Chieh-Jen / Ranbir Kaleka / Kazim / Terence Koh / Emiko Kasahara / Jeremy Kost / Tracey Moffatt / Susan Norrie and David Mackenzie / Hung-chih Peng / Cai Qing / Ataru Sato / Ai Weiwei / Saya Woolfalk / Noriko Yamaguchi / Miwa Yanagi /
Masayuki Yoshinaga

Lecture Series
Throughout the fair, ACAF NY will have a Panel & Lecture Series featuring preeminent scholars, curators, and artists debating significant issues in Asian contemporary art.

Friday November 9
11:00am — Panel Discussion Asian Contemporary Art: History & Popularization
2:30pm — Guest Speaker

Saturday November 10
12:00pm — Panel Discussion Asian Contemporary Art: Venues & Mainstream Collections
2:30pm — Guest Speaker

Sunday November 11
12:00pm — Guest Speaker

Monday

*Please check http://www.acafny.com for updates on speakers and schedules.

Opening Night Preview info:
5pm - 9pm Invitation only / VIP preview, Cocktail Reception, Special Performances

Performance Schedule
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Sincha Hong
Second Hand Rose

Hours:
November 8
VIP Preview 5pm - 9pm, invitation only

November 9
11am - 7pm

November 10
11am - 7pm

November 11
11am - 6pm

November 12
11am - 5pm

Phone #:
212.563.3360

Admission fee info:
Fees apply
Monday Free

Map/Direction
Pier 92 is located on Manhattan’s far West side on the Hudson River (Twelfth Avenue) at 52nd Street in the Passenger Ship Terminal complex. The pier is easily accessible by public transportation, taxi, and private vehicle. The nearest subway stop is four cross-town blocks east at 50th Street and Eighth Avenue.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
Pier 92 can be reached by public transportation via the Eighth Avenue subway, E or C trains to 50th street, then via M50 bus line. The M50 bus runs West on 49th Street (to the pier) and East on 50th Street (from the pier) connecting at Eighth Avenue (E or C subway) and at Seventh Avenue
(1 or 9 subway).

BY CAR
From the Lincoln Tunnel, take 42nd Street west to Twelfth Avenue. Continue north on Twelfth Avenue to Pier 92 / Passenger Ship Terminal.

From the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, go west via 34th Street to Twelfth Avenue. Continue north on Twelfth Avenue to Pier 92 / Passenger Ship Terminal.
Access to the pier for private cars at 52nd Street and Twelfth Avenue.
Parking is available on the upper deck and neighboring lots.

TICKETING AND GENERAL INFORMATION
Tickets are available at the door; no advance purchase necessary. For further information visit http://www.acafny.com or call 212 563 3360

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The Fruitmarket Gallery

Roman Signer
Office Chair (Bürostuhl) 2006
DVD, 1′03″
Camera: Tomasz Rogowiec
Editing: Aleksandra Signer
Courtesy the artist

Roman Signer
2 November 2007 - 27 January 2008
The Fruitmarket Gallery
45 Market Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1DF
P +44 (0) 131 225 2383
F +44 (0) 131 220 3130
info@fruitmarket.co.uk
Mon - Sat 11am - 6pm,
Sun 12 - 5pm

http://www.fruitmarket.co.uk

The Fruitmarket Gallery’s winter exhibition is a solo presentation of the work of Swiss artist Roman Signer. A major figure in international contemporary art since the early 1970s, Roman Signer makes sculptures, installations and films that bring everyday objects together in unexpected ways.

This, his first exhibition in Scotland, presents new work made since 2000 in the context of Installation (2006), a reworking of classic film works from as far back as 1975. Selected by the artist for The Fruitmarket Gallery, the exhibition provides both a snapshot of his current preoccupations and an insight into the themes and ideas that have inspired him throughout his long career.

The works in the exhibition present curious combinations of objects, forces and effects. Inflatable armbands are attached to snow skis; an umbrella blasts through a briefcase; suspended from the ceiling, a bottle of whisky rotates over a fan. All of Signer’s sculptures and films are art works, but they are also radical experiments. Signer makes them in order to see what will happen when objects are used against our expectations of them.

Signer’s works challenge our ideas about familiar objects and how we experience them in time. Fireworks, gunpowder, wind, fans and gravity are harnessed as animating forces, making possible his strange assemblages.

The film Office Chair (Bürostuhl) (2006) shows Signer sitting in a swivel chair spun round by two fireworks he hold in his hands, releasing the chair from its desk-bound mundanity and turning it into a revolutionary fun ride. To make Easter Bunny with Rocket (Osterhase mit Rakete) (2006) the artist shot a chocolate rabbit with a firework through a small cannon at close range. The result, a damaged representation of a rabbit, elicits more sympathy than its accepted fate as an edible confection. The works are paradoxes: serious and humorous; technically difficult but visually simple, even elegant; absurd in their conception but supremely logical in their execution.

Talks and Events

Jeremy Millar: Wanderweg
Wednesday 21 November 2007, 6.30pm. Free
In March 2005, Millar walked with Roman Signer from Appenzell to St. Gallen, retracing the route of the artist’s 1989 work Action with a Fuse. Millar, artist and AHRC Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts, University of Oxford, talks about this journey, and his work with Signer over the past decade. Millar’s exhibition at Sleeper in Edinburgh opens on 24 November 2007.

Rachel Withers: Roman Signer’s Time Sculptures
Wednesday 12 December 2007, 6.30pm. Free
Art critic and lecturer at Wimbledon College of Art, Withers discusses Signer’s work in relation to questions of time.

Richard Clay: Sign(er’s) Transformations
Wednesday 23 January 2008, 6.30pm. Free
Richard Clay, lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Birmingham, explores how Roman Signer’s blurring of boundaries between making and breaking relates to historical understandings of iconoclasm.

Seminar: Experiments and Experience:
Getting inside the work of Roman Signer and Monika Sosnowska
Tuesday 6 November 2007, 2-7pm
Free to students (with proof of status)
Seminar Venue: Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh
Evening Reception: The Fruitmarket Gallery
Organised in collaboration with Talbot Rice Gallery, whose Monika Sosnowska exhibition runs from 27 October to 8 December, this seminar brings together a range of critical perspectives on the experiential and experimental qualities of the two galleries’ current exhibitions. Speakers include Monika Sosnowska, Isla Leaver-Yap (curator at Baltic in Newcastle), and University of Edinburgh lecturers Richard Coyne (Architecture), Angela Dimitrakaki (History of Art) and Tamara Trodd (History of Art). Chair: Moira Jeffrey (arts writer and journalist).

To book for any of these events please contact The Fruitmarket Gallery bookshop on +44 (0) 131 226 8181 or bookshop@fruitmarket.co.uk