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front cover: Laura Gannon: A house in Cap-Martin, 2007, film stills; courtesy the artist

Circa Issue 122, Winter 2007
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The winter issue of Ireland’s journal of record for contemporary visual art is now on sale. The 112 full-colour pages include news, feature articles, reviews, a host of images, and advertising from Ireland’s main art spaces.

Feature articles

Artist-writers, writer-artists: An anonymous vox pop - how do artists who also write about art think and feel about working in those two differing domains? Anonymous | Space, time, and a house by the sea - an interview with Laura Gannon, whose recent work explores Eileen Gray’s E.1027 Vincent Honoré | James Coleman: Absent works - two extraordinary takes on site-specificity Chris Clarke | “2, 3, 4…” Garrett Phelan - an examination of the artist’s recent output Graham Parker | Who makes place? Architecture and public sculpture (whose job is it anyway?) - the new Anthony Gormley commission prompts speculation on the role of ‘signature’ sculpture Gemma Tipton | Postcards from everywhere - a look at a Circa competition | Letter from St Louis - art in a city with some remarkable demographics Sydney Norton |

Reviews

Antrim Sandra Kerr: Pain in the neck David Hughes | Belfast Belfast 3-13 September 2007 Slavka Sverakova | The double image David Hughes | Berlin Art fairs in Berlin David Ulrichs | Birr Synesthesia sat Jason McCaffrey | Cork Cicada Elaine O’Sullivan | Radio ON Matt Packer | Dublin Play safe: Battlefields in the playground Tim Stott | Ronan McCrea: Medium (the end); Medium (upside down) Tim Stott | Marcel Van Eeden: The archaeologist - the travels of Oswald Sollmann Chris Fite-Wassilak | Karl Grimes: Dignified kings play chess on fine green silk Sherra Murphy | Alice Maher: Bestiary Jennie Guy | Galway Women war photographers Aileen Blaney | Kassel Documenta XII Fergal Gaynor | Limerick Michael Minnis: Here, and nowhere else Karen Normoyle-Haugh | Linz Ars electronica Paul O’Brien | London Mamma Andersson Cherry Smyth | Venice Sophie Calle: Prenez soin de vous Susan Thomson | Wexford Mary Ruth Walsh: Still life Gemma Tipton | Book Critical mess: Art critics on the state o
f their practice Brian Curtin |

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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Circa is supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and Culture Ireland.

Stroom Den Haag

Marcel van Eeden, Untitled, 1993,
oil on canvas.

EMPIRE OF ISLANDS
until January 27, 2008
Stroom Den Haag
Hogewal 1-9
2514 HA The Hague
The Netherlands
Opening hours: Wednesday-Sunday 12-5 pm
T +31-70 3658985
info@stroom.nl

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Stroom Den Haag sets out on a quest for the cultural soul of a city and presents the true atmosphere and character of The Hague through the eyes of both its well-known and its unsung artistic heroes. Some of the highlights of the exhibition include a number of never before shown large paintings by Marcel van Eeden, internationally known for his oeuvre of drawings. Philip Akkerman, on the other hand, who is acclaimed for his impressive oeuvre of painted self-portraits, presents a collection of black and white pencil drawings he made of special places in The Hague at the start of his career in the
early 1980s.

The art scene of The Hague is often described as a conglomerate of separate entities. Nevertheless this particular artistic constellation has given birth to various important artists. Some of them are deservedly well-known, some of them most certainly deserve wider recognition. Together they form an Empire of Islands. Other artists in the exhibition include a.o. Livinus van de Bundt, Marius Quee, Willem Hussem and Pieter Ouborg. Special attention is paid to the underground movement in The Hague in the period 1965-1975.
Curated by Gerrit Jan de Rook.

The exhibition was made possible in part by the Mondriaan Foundation.

COMING SOON:
‘After Neurath: The Global Polis’, February 9 thru April 6, 2008
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 this new installment in its ongoing ‘After Neurath’ project, Stroom Den Haag poses the question what Neurath meant for the concept of the ‘global polis’ — its meaning, its presuppositions, and its history.
Curated by Nader Vossoughian.

The exhibition program of Stroom Den Haag is made possible in part by the
Mondrian Foundation.

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

Best Art Practices

Frontera project
René Hayashi, Eder Castillo, Antonio O’Connell
guatemex, 2006
Installation view

Best Art Practices
International award for young curators

First edition theme
projects in non-conventional spaces

Announced by
Italian Cultural Office of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano — South Tyrol

Curated by
Denis Isaia
http://www.bestartpractices.it

The first edition of Best Art Practices for young curators has come to an end. The purpose of the Award, announced by the Italian Culture Department of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano (South Tyrol), is to reward the best contemporary art projects that have been completed in the last five years by curators under forty years of age in non-conventional spaces.

The Award has achieved excellent international success with 132 participants from the five continents.

The project selection process was carried out collegially by an international Jury, which, besides indicating the reasons for choosing the winning projects, has provided some preliminary considerations on the status of young curatorial projects, of which the Award has proved to be the first catalyst.
The general considerations are as follows: among the critical points observed in many of the submitted projects was the lack of a solid theoretical foundation, which has driven many curators in the last five years to tune their research to the requirements of the cultural industry. This approach, judged negatively, was counterbalanced by the active position of many curators, who, through different types of public involvement, share an interest for activities that fit into the respective social and political contexts.

The jury, composed of Carlos Basualdo (curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art), Marion Piffer Damiani (art critic and independent curator), Letizia Ragaglia (curator of the Museion of Bolzano), Montse Romaní (independent curator), Anton Vidokle (artist and founder of e-flux), Andrea Villiani (curator of the Mambo of Bologna), assigned the prizes as follows:

1st prize (10,000 Euro) to: FRONTERA - Laboratorio Curatorial 060, for the complexity of the themes touched upon and its innovative articulation. Special appreciation was expressed for: social relevance; the ability to involve tradition and the local population in the process of creation and fruition of the submitted works; the innovative nature aimed at surpassing public art practices of the Nineties; the theme and, in particular, the investigation on the frontier question in an area with scarce media attention; the unusual ability to arouse feelings of freedom, imagination and poetry.

2nd prize (3,000 Euro) to: THE PAINTING MUSEUM - Florin Tudor, for the clarity of the curatorial assumptions with respect to the contents proposed, their historic and geographic contextualization and the results achieved. Special appreciation was expressed for: the strong public impact and great media attention; the political and cultural importance in a rapidly evolving social context and the innovative approach to the work that investigates the relation between power and
art institutions.

3rd prize (2,000 Euro) to: LIMINAL SPACES - Eyal Danon, Philipp Misselwitz, Galit Eilat, Reem Fadda, for the curators’ ability to organise projects shared in highly problematic areas such as that between Israel and Palestine. Particularly appreciated was the project’s intent to create a discussion platform involving writers, artists and curators from Palestine, Israel and other parts of the world, as well as the curators’ ability to find support for other phases of the project in Europe.

Five mentions awarded ex aequo:
Wilson Diaz Polanco, Ana Maria Millan Strohbach, Jaime Andrés Sandoval Alba, Claudia Patricia Sartia Macias, Juan David Medina Jaramill with the project VI Festival de performance de Cali - Colombia.
Adam Carr with the project En Route: via another route. Jacob Fabricius with the project Sandwiched. Anna Colin with the project Radio Gallery. Emeka Udemba with the project Lagos Open.

Info: http://www.bestartpractices.it

Press office Best Art Practices, Carlo Simula, +39 0577 22 07 21, press@bestartpractices.it