Recently added articles from C: International Contemporary Art:

Fabrique en Canada: Heyd Fontenot and Patrick DeCoste at Pouch Cove Gallery, Newfoundland.(Views)

Jun 22, 2008; Kraus, Chris ... For awhile, the shed was going to be part of the show. Then, the shed was going to be the show. The shed was an 8 x 12 green-shingled thing behind the small green-shingled house where we were staying. Since there was nowhere to sit in the house (the living room was being used as a ...

Montreal's DHC/Art and the changing climate of arts patronage in Canada.

Jun 22, 2008; Lloyd, Chris ... Philanthropy, the donation of money to good or worthy causes to the benefit of all, is alive and well in Canada, though almost invisible in the world of visual arts. As our relatively affluent society continues to grow, putting more strain on public resources, health care and education get ...

Objects on stage (notes from pre-and post-): in this context 'object' should be understood in relation to the concept of 'fractionality'; i.e., the contemporary condition under which most of our experiences are neither real nor imaginary.

Jun 22, 2008; Tupitsyn, Victor ... To begin, I will focus on the Law of Unity and Conflict of Opposites as applied to a variety of constructs, including totality and incompleteness, androgyny and hermaphroditism. (1) These terms should not be confused with one another: whereas androgyny is offered here as a triumph of unity ...

Art and politics: on the critic Hal Foster: do the ideas of the avant-garde still make sense in a multi-polar artworld?

Jun 22, 2008; Perovic, Lydia ... The last ten years have witnessed an extraordinary boom in the art market. An emphasis on money or spectacle overshadows all other types of conversations about the value of contemporary art. For those in search of a different approach, Hal Foster has always been a voice to heed. In his ...

Artist centrefold & big picture.

Jun 22, 2008; Borsato, Diane ... In response to instructions by The Critical Art Ensemble to commit a crime with a humanitarian outcome, I stole a selection of flowers from my neighbour's garden. When I finally accumulated a nice combination of colours and varieties of flowers, I arranged the stolen ...

Props to the fairy people: Jon Davies on the autarkic art practice of FASTWURMS.

Jun 22, 2008; Davies, Jon ... Active since the early 80s, the Creemore, Ontario-based couple FASTWORMS (Dai Skuse and Kim Kozzi) have evolved an art/life cosmology that unites every creature, scrap of cultural detritus and social scene into one harmonious and hedonistic union. The arena for their aesthetic alchemy is ...

Cat thinks people not living life to the full: but I think we still need each other.

Jun 22, 2008; Wren, Jacob ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the book Recording Conceptual Art (University of California Press, 2001), a series of interviews with key conceptual artists all conducted in 1961 but unpublished until 2001, Robert Barry speaks about his now well-known projects involving ...

Brice Marden.

Jun 22, 2008; Krishtalka, Sholem ... BRICE MARDEN Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin The surest way to spot a bullshitter in an art museum is to look for someone standing roughly three feet away from an art object, sliding their hands alternately back and forth, and using phrases like "give and take" or talking ...

Pablo Bronstein.

Jun 22, 2008; McKee, Jesse ... PABLO BRONSTEIN Paternoster Square, Herald St., London Pablo Bronstein's most recent solo exhibition, Paternoster Square, continues the artist's dialogue with the formal vocabularies of dance and architecture. Bronstein's books, drawings, paintings, performances and ...

Oscar Munoz: Imprints for a Fleeting Memorial, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art in association with YYZ Artists' outlet.

Jun 22, 2008; Toledo, Tamara ... Imprints for a Fleeting Memorial revealed glimpses of both inevitable death and the everlasting modernist quest for attempts at commemoration. Curated by Jose Roca, the exhibit includes 12 of Colombian artist Oscar Munoz' celebrated works. Munoz participated in the 5 2nd Venice Biennale in ...

Exponential Futures: Tim Lee, Alex Morrison, Isabelle Pauwds, Kevin Schmidt, Mark Soo, Corin Sworn, Althea Thauberger and Elizabeth Zvonar, Morris and Helen Bdkin Art Gallery, Vancouver.

Jun 22, 2008; Bornowsky, Eli ... In preparing to write this review, I discovered a reservoir of information about each of the works in the exhibition, which is only indirectly accessible but nonetheless integral to the functioning of the show. For example, I learned of Althea Thauberger's work with young men in Berlin who ...

Reconstitutions/re-Enactments: Nancy Davenport, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ann Lislegaard, Paul Pfeiffer, Kerry Tribe, DHC/Art, Montreal.

Jun 22, 2008; Brown, Nicholas ... The past several years have seen major international survey exhibitions devoted to the vast and varied subject of re-enactment in contemporary art. C magazine looked at the phenomenon in its previous issue, albeit in the more expanded context of immersion. It's not just artists and ...

Valerie Blass: Parisian Laundry, Montreal.(The Quebec Triennial)

Jun 22, 2008; Ross, Jean-Michel ... While visiting the Darling Foundry studios in Montreal, I came across Valerie Blass' new artistic production. At the time, she was working on the pieces she will present this summer at the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal's Quebec Triennial, an event curated by Josee Belisle, Mark ...