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Issue 453, February 2022
Howardena Pindell, Separate but Equal Genocide: AIDS, 1991–92
Feature
Colour it Black
Howardena Pindell interviewed by Ellen Mara De Wachter
The black community wanted works about the black experience. That was in the 1960s and 1970s. I want the works to be positive experiences. I feel the weight of this beauty. I enjoy using materials that are in a sense taboo in terms of serious art-making. I was criticised for it mainly by white male art critics.
Tam Joseph, The Spirit of the Carnival, 1982
Feature
Centre. Margin. Other.
Morgan Quaintance assesses Tate Britain’s new blockbuster exhibition ‘Life Between Islands’
At best, ‘Life Between Islands’ feels like a missed opportunity. At worst, it is symptomatic of a more serious condition: the systematic defanging and co-option of Caribbean-British culture, and a wider attempt to define and legitimise a narrow, and institutionally unthreatening, conception of black identity.
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From the Back Catalogue
Inverted Racism?
Rasheed Araeen delivers a polemic on the cultural policies of positive discrimination. First published 2007, now free online
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SERAFINE1369, from darkness into darkness, 2021
Profile
SERAFINE1369
Tom Hastings enters the London-based dancer’s ‘immersive spaces of potential’
SERAFINE1369’s work presents a nuanced critique of the avant-garde, redrawing attention to the racist violence of existing conditions that underlie sumptuous forms of display.
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Editorial
The Tipping Point
Analysis of complex systems show that numerous small factors feed into moments of sudden dramatic change, a situation the PM might well be about to experience.
In the UK, all the factors listed in the case of the Baltimore epidemic were in place, in one form or another, especially in terms of unequal access to an overstretched health service, which could be said to have represented the tipping point in the UK’s Covid-19 crisis.
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Artnotes
Diversity of Diversity
The culture secretary outlines her personal priorities for arts diversity; Eric Gill’s sculpture at the BBC is attacked; the Colston Four are exonerated; Ireland begins a universal basic income scheme for artists; Slade School of Art students occupy the building; plus the latest on galleries, people, prizes and more.
Obituaries
Lawrence Weiner 1942–2021
Etel Adnan 1925–2021
Anthony Gross 1968–2022
Roger Hiorns, ‘The retrospective view of the pathway’, 2017–, ‘Post-Capital’, Mudam, Luxembourg
Exhibitions
Post-Capital: Art and the Economics of the Digital Age
Mudam, Luxembourg
Louis Hartnoll
Documents from the Edges of Conflict
James Hockey Gallery, Farnham
Julian Stallabrass
Exhibition as Image
80WSE, New York
Tim Steer
With a view to a later date, or never
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Lizzie Homersham
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Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: She Keeps Me Damn Alive
Arebyte, London
Jack Smurthwaite
Jöelle Tuerlinckx: PLAN B – série b
Large Glass, London
Chris Fite-Wassilak
Nina Chua: Permanent Marker
Workplace Foundation, Newcastle
Pavel Büchler
Terry Atkinson
Josey, Norwich
Peter Suchin
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Caroline Bergvall, Nattsong, 2021
Performance
Caroline Bergvall: Nattsong
Lucia Farinati
Nattsong marks the culmination of ‘Sonic Atlas’, a cycle of live works by Bergvall built on research titled Language Stations that centred on landscapes, time zones, trans-locality and writing in context, and the records of voices of migrant poets, transla- tors, academics and activists, to capture the shifting array of languages in the UK and the EU.
Books
Sara Ahmed: Complaint!
Maria Walsh
The idea for the book preceded Ahmed’s resignation as director of the Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) at Goldsmiths in 2016 as a direct result of the obstacles she encountered in her role as an invited supportive academic on a formal complaint mediation process.
Books
Re-Assembling Motherhood(s): on Radical Care and Collective Art as Feminist Practices
Maxa Zoller
Picture this: nine adults and 11 children, ranging from newborns to eight-year-olds, at an art residency in north Germany. The communal art – from performance and photography to prop-making – takes place in the middle of all of this, it happens at the threshold between child- care and art production.
Simon Fujiwara, Once Upon a Who?, 2021
Film
Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement: A Goodbye Letter, a Love Call, A Wake-Up Song
João Laia
The exhibition dramatically reconfigured the CAC’s building, partitioning each floor into a succession of rooms that isolated the presentation of each artwork, a gesture which productively highlighted digital culture’s paradoxically fragmented and integrated features.
Renée Akitelek Mboya, A Glossary of Words My Mother Never Taught Me, 2021
Film
Renée Akitelek Mboya: A Glossary of Words My Mother Never Taught Me
Tom Denman
Renée Akitelek Mboya interweaves history and autobiography, the political and the psychic, relating her perspective on Kenya’s recent past with diaristic intimacy.
Ruth Ewan, How Many Flowers Make the Spring?, 2021
Reports
Learning to Unlearn
Greg Thomas
We are transported across historical and contemporary sites of egalitarian creation, from the Hornsey Sit-In to the Womanifesto series of gatherings in Thailand. As these examples might suggest, the exhibition ‘To Be Potential’ is both geographically and historically far-reaching.
Ragnar Kjartansson, Santa Barbara: A Living Sculpture, 2021
Reports
Letter from Moscow
Chris McCormack
The price of being so visible to the Kremlin raises the question of what is culturally permissible in the current political climate, and what protections the institution might feasibly offer the artists it invites.
Zhang Huan, Ash Life No 6, 2008, estimated at £1,000–1,500, sold for £800
Salerooms
Expanding Horizons
Colin Gleadell
After the sale, a PR was hired to write a press release highlighting the few works that had sold above estimate – estimates that were so low it would have been hard not to exceed them.
Artlaw
Get Minted
Henry Lydiate
The past year has seen many artists report via social media that their original copyright works have been minted by others as NFTs without their having obtained prior permission to do so from the artist-copyright owner.
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