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frieze 113: Out Now

Additional exclusive content online at frieze.com

- Co-editor Jörg Heiser pits Marcel Duchamp against screen hero Rocky in a struggle over the American Dream and Jan Verwoert explores the history of gesture in art and politics. Rocky’s finer moments are relived on frieze.com.

- Peter York remembers the artistic and intellectual milieu of Roxy Music’s early days as explored in Michael Bracewell’s new book on the band.

- Curator James Rondeau surveys the career of Michael Asher, an artist who, for over 40 years, has critiqued the structures of major art insititutions.

- Christy Lange considers the work of Tehran-born photographer Shirana Shahbazi, whose photographs play with ideas of genre and cliché.

- Jenni Sorkin reflects on the work of Zoe Leonard, whose artistic coming-of-age in 1980s New York inspired her exploration of wonder and loss.

- Noemi Smolik discusses the actions and installations of Czech artist Jirí Kovanda, while artist Ján Mancuska talks to him about his pioneering work of the 1970s.

- Peter Doig talks about the ‘StudioFilmClub’ he runs in Trinidad with fellow artist Che Lovelace.

- Dan Fox responds to British artist Simon Martin’s films, paintings and sculptures.

- Director of the 2007 Venice Biennale, Robert Storr, berates his critics for choosing to ignore some essential facts.

- Matthew Brannon responds to the frieze questionnaire.

And

- Tirdad Zolghadr asks why we dare not speak the name of ‘class’, the perennial coversational icemaker.

Reviews include Lawrence Weiner at the Whitney, Valeska Soares in Sao Paulo and artist Steven Claydon’s first foray in curating in London, plus more from Australia, Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA.

Exclusively online at frieze.com this month:

- New York base design critic Jennifer Kabat kicks off her regular design column.

- frieze editors engage online with readers in the Comment section

- Weekly reviews of exhibitions from around the world, including current shows from Yokohama, Paris, Rotterdam and New York.

- Listen to sample tracks from albums reviewed in the magazine’s regular music section.

Brandon Ballengée, Malamp UK, 2008

E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions)
Opening: Saturday March 15, 7-9pm
March 15 – May 3, 2008

Exit Art
(Exit Underground)
475 Tenth Avenue
A,C,E to 34th Street
212-966-7745

Exit Art is pleased to announce the opening of E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions), the first project of S.E.A, a large-scale program dealing with current environmental concerns and the way artists respond to them. E.P.A is a group exhibition surveying recent performance work from around the world that addresses current environmental crises. The exhibition will consist of videos, photographs, texts, related ephemera and a film program documenting recent performances. For this opening project we have invited Amy Lipton, co-curator, and Patricia Watts, co-curator and founder, of ecoartspace, a leading international environmental arts organization, to collaborate with Exit Art on the organization and presentation of this material.

Participating artistst include, Brandon Ballengée, Vaughn Bell/Sarah Kavage/Nicole Kistler, Mark Brest van Kempen, Carissa Carman/ Joanna Lake, Susanne Cockrell/Ted Purves, Xavier Cortada, Carrie Dashow/Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg, Erica Fielder, Ozzie Forbes, Futurefarmers, Aaron Gach, Fritz Haeg, Amy Howden-Chapman, Basia Irland, Scot Kaplan, Carolyn Lambert, Robin Lasser, Kathryn Miller, Miss Rockaway Armada, Matthew Moore, Eve Mosher, EcoArtTech: Cary Peppermint/ Christine Nadir, Andrea Polli and Joe Gimore with Dr. Patrick Market, Rapid Response (Cobb/Fend/Fischer/Meyer), James Reed and Social Sculpture Research Unit/Earth Agenda Projects, Austin Shull, Brooke Singer/Brian Rigney Hubbard, Anne-Katrin Spiess, Chris Sollars

Aperture

Aperture magazine

Spring 2008 in Aperture

To subscribe, visit http://www.aperture.org/magazine

The spring issue of Aperture (issue 190) features:

• Colour Before Color
Martin Parr discusses six important but overlooked European practitioners of color photography.

• The Shadow of the World: James Welling’s Cameraless and Abstract Photography
Abstraction and photograms have been a consistent part of Welling’s work. Noam M. Elcott traces these essential aspects.

• From Ecstasy to Agony: The Fashion Shoot in Cinema
David Campany considers the portrayal of the fashion photographer in films, from Funny Face
to Blow-Up.

• JH Engström: Looking for Presence
Martin Jaeggi on this Swedish photographer’s enigmatic photographs.

• Presence of Mind: The Photographs of Philip Jones Griffiths
Famed war photographer Griffiths discusses his shattering work in Vietnam and Cambodia.

• Muzi Quawson: Pull Back the Shade
A selection of images from this emerging photographer’s debut series.

• Of Other Times and Places
In the first of an ongoing series of articles, Fred Ritchin considers the “postphotographic” landscape.

• In a Lonely Place
Gregory Crewdson reflects upon the films, paintings, and photographs from which he draws inspiration, and shows a few new works of his own.

PLUS: Exhibition reviews from New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, and China. Book reviews of new titles by Bob Richardson and Boris Mikhailov.

The Showroom

Bianca Hester
projectprojects

5 March - 13 April 2008

Opening Tuesday 4 March
19.00 - 21.00 hrs
First Thursdays Late Night Opening 6 March until 20.30 hrs
Special weekend of activities
15 - 16 March

http://www.theshowroom.org

The Showroom is delighted to announce that it has invited Melbourne-based artist Bianca Hester to present her first solo show in London between March and April this year. In Australia, Hester is gaining a reputation for her collaborations and projects that collect activity around temporary structures, public situations and live events. Using a range of prosaic materials (such as plasticine, carpet and miscellaneous building supplies) she creates scattered installations of partial-objects and quasi-architectural constructions.

Hester has been in residence at The Showroom since January forming projectprojects, an evolving sculptural installation that has transformed the gallery into a base-camp for the generation and presentation of collaborations with a range of practitioners from Melbourne and London. projectprojects experiments with constructing situations that provide opportunities for the viewer to have a variety of different levels of engagement with the work. Hester approaches art as a ‘proliferating event’; a fragmentary, multi-layered and unfolding process that is context specific. For projectprojects she has plugged into the local knowledge and practices in Bethnal Green and as the project has developed, the installation has functioned as a setting for a series of events ranging from the planning of a raft to navigate Regent’s Canal to the recording of experimental performances on home-made
musical instruments.

Bianca Hester is a founding member of CLUBSproject Inc, Melbourne, an artists initiated project and has shown in group projects at ACCA and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne and MCA, Sydney. In addition she has been awarded a number of residencies and prizes across Australasia. For more information see http://www.biancahester.net

As part of projectprojects a special weekend of activities has been planned for 15 and 16 March, including a panel discussion, plus an event culminating at Laburnum Boat Club. For further information please contact Natasha Tebbs at The Showroom on 020 8983 4115 or by email at natasha@theshowroom.org

The Showroom is financially assisted by Arts Council England, Moose Foundation for the Arts and the many members of the gallery’s Friends Scheme. Bianca Hester’s commission is supported by Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Victoria. Bianca Hester would like to thank Olivia Barrett, Phillipe Ciompi, Ari Dyball, Ella Gibbs, Kris Kimpe, Daniel van Cleemput, Jude Walton and Paeces whose participation has formed parts of projectprojects.

The Showroom
44 Bonner Road
London E2 9JS
T. +44 (0)20 8983 4115
E. tellmemore@theshowroom.org
W. http://www.theshowroom.org
F. +44 (0)20 8981 4112
Wednesday - Sunday 13.00 - 18.00 hrs