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ISSUE99/FALL 2008
ART DIASPORAS
VIEWS
Glad the CIA is Immoral: Jacob Wren on Lene Berg, an artist whose work makes unexpected connections between the CIA and globalism
An institution is defined by its ability to ask questions...: A report on the 2008 IKT Congress in Montreal Renegotiating a critical curatorial practice in the face of new challenges.by Heather Anderson
FEATURES
Between Home and Elsewhere Factoring in Brancusi, Cioran and Celan, Romanian artists have had an ousized influence on the modern world. Counting herself a member of this diaspora, Toronto curator Mona Filip reflects on the newest chapter of this history
Global Canadians As Earl Miller notes, leaving the country is something of a tradition for Canadian artists
From Montreal to the World: Parachute Magazine—1975-2006? Tammer El-Sheikh looks at the history of Parachute and talks with the magazine's editor, Chantal Pontbriand, about its future as a publication—and as a brand
From Beijing to Paris to San Francisco: Hou Hanru in Conversation Currently Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and Chair of the Exhibitions and Museum Studies program at the San Francisco Art Institute, the career of Chinese curator Hou Hanru has kept pace with the emergence of a globalized art world by Johan Lundh
Otherwise Unexplained Fires: Joyce Wieland and the Experimental Film scene in 1960s New York A fixture of New York's avant-garde Film milieu in the 60s, Wieland's ultimate subject was Canada by Anne Low
ARTIST CENTERFOLD
United Nations, ISO 216, by Antonia Hirsch, 2008
REVIEWS
John Abrams, Cinema Vernis Curated by RM Vaughan, McMaster University, Hamilton by Heidi Kellett
Orientalism and Ephemera, Curated by Jamelie Hassan, Art Metropole, Toronto; The Art Gallery of Windsor; The Ottawa Art Gallery; Centre A, Vancouver by Miriam Jordan and Julian Jason Haladyn
Geoffrey Farmer: Forgetting Air/ Gareth Moore: As a Wild Boar Passes Water, Witte de With, Rotterdam by Nicholas Brown
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Featuring Marina Abramovic, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, John Bock, Chris Burden, Spartacus Chetwynd, Christo & Jean-Claude, Barbra Hepworth, Luis Jacob, Brian Jungen, Mike Kelley, Piero Manzoni, Andy Warhol, among other artists. Curated by Lydia Yee & Francesco Manacorda, Barbican Art Gallery, London by Jesse McKee
Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, Museum of Modern Art and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Curated by Roxana Marcoci and Klaus Biesenbach by Leah Modigliani
Kevin Rodgers, The Mystics and the Passions, Goodwater Gallery, Toronto by Wojciech Olejnik
Reenactments, DHC/Art, montreal, by Nicholas Brown
Kim Waldron, The Dad Tapes/The Mom Photographs, Galerie Werner Whitman and Articule Special Projects, Montreal, by Jean-Michel Ross, translated from French by Mona Filip
BIG PICTURE
Flourescent Dome, by Michael Bartosik, Photo: Ryan Mallard, 2006 Shown here at Nuit Blanche 2007, Toronto Canada
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