21 Jan 2013

ART PAPERS Magazine Issue Launch

For the January/February issue of ART PAPERS, guest editor Niels Van Tomme invited a broad range of international contributors to reflect on the topic of temporality. Addressing ways in which the experience of time resonates and changes throughout diverging geographies and socio-political contexts, the publication highlights artistic practices that bypass straightforward mediations of time while offering critical reflections on notions of past, present and future.

Launch:
Wednesday January 30, 2013, 6:30 pm at Art in General, New York
Introduced by ART PAPERS executive director Saskia Benjamin, this event features a presentation by guest editor Niels Van Tomme and a special screening of recent videos by Raqs Media Collective and Société Réaliste.


ART PAPERS 37:01: On Temporality

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
Gregory Zinman critically considers Christian Marclay's The Clock, situating it in a broader art historical context.

It's About Time
Curatorial office Rivet offers an exercise in simultaneity, dialoguing between São Paulo, Quito, New York, and Paris.

In Another Time: Nostalgic Pasts and Utopian Futures in Yael Bartana's ...and Europe will be Stunned
Laliv Melamed looks at the Israeli artist's controversial trilogy of works depicting the imagined Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland.

Artist Project:
How to Seize It?
Raqs Media Collective

African Art in Time
Karen E. Milbourne addresses time as a concept, method, and practice in African contemporary art, exploring the work of British-born Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare.

On being contemporary: re-activating the present
Nat Muller in conversation with Lebanese artists Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige and the ways in which they defy notions of nostalgia while investigating the present moment.

Again For Tomorrow: On temporality, lost future and static journeys in the works of David Maljković
Jelena Vesić finds in the work of Croatian artist David Maljković new possibilities for altering the present reality.

Cyclical Time: the Trap
Gridthiya Gaweewong explores the Buddhist notion of cyclical time in the framework of diverging artistic practices in Thailand.

Artist Project:
New Alphabetical Order
Société Réaliste

Future Perfect: Artist-Run Spaces in New Orleans
Amy Mackie surveys the brief history of three artist-run spaces and the challenges they face confronting New Orleans's endless historicity.

The Politics of Making Uncanny: Two Recent Experimental Films from India
Debashree Mukherjee discusses two films that engage with a familiar recent past, posing provocative questions about time and representation.

Gambian Mean Time (GMT); It irks, but it works all the same
Hassoum Ceesay reflects on the Gambian society's view on time, defined as the moment when it is most appropriate to start.

Reviews:

Alexander Brodsky by Sophie Arkette; The Clock, or, 89 Minutes of 'Free Time' by Sonja Simonyi; Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov by David Markus; BUSY Exhausted Self / Unlimited Ability by Myrta Köhler; The End of Time: On Nicolas Rey's anders, Molussien by Rachael Rakes; The Nightclub by Catherine A. Hollingsworth


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