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“It’s impossible not to think of migrant subjects and histories: of small bodies washed up on beaches far from home, or of homes in Gaza ripped apart by bombs – children forced to become adults to care for even smaller children.”
‘Permindar Kaur: Nothing is Fixed’, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton – Amna Malik
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[image: Permindar Kaur, ‘Ten Teddies & Barrier’, 2017]
“The uncanny parallels between the ‘dark times’ chronicled by Bertolt Brecht and our own historical moment are made clear by the exhibition’s productive staging and activation of Brecht’s archive.”
‘brecht: fragments’, Raven Row, London – Alex Fletcher
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[image: performance of part of Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Fatzer’ within ‘brecht: fragments’]
“The artworks focus on the life of the artist’s mother, who at the age of nine disappeared, returning almost three years later with little memory of what had happened in the interim.”
‘Soumya Sankar Bose: Braiding Dusk and Dawn’, Delfina Foundation, London – Vaishna Surjid
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[image: Soumya Sankar Bose, ‘A Discreet Exit Through Darkness’, 2020–]
“Despite the horrific stories that unfold via artworks in the exhibition, there is some hope: chiefly the ability of communities to come together and rebuild, remember and resist.”
‘Glasgow International’ – Cole Collins
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[image: Alexis Kyle Mitchell, ‘The Treasury of Human Inheritance’, 2024]
“The artist’s signature technique was to deploy sunlight as a drawing medium, focusing the sun’s rays with a magnifying glass so as to burn neat linear configurations into the surface of the support.”
‘Roger Ackling: Sunlight’, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery – Peter Suchin
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[image: Roger Ackling, ‘Orkney, Voewood’, 2008]
“Stuart Hall wrote about how racism works like Sigmund Freud’s concept of displacement: it operates at the level of the unconscious, where the ‘fears and anxieties’ are displaced on to another social group. Donald Rodney’s works recognise this process and reflect them back to us with cutting eloquence and playfulness.”
‘Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker’, Spike Island, Bristol – Tim Steer
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[image: Donald Rodney, ‘In the House of My Father’, 1996–97]
“For a Hong Kong-born artist like Tiffany Sia, the production of printed words comes at a high cost. Sia’s mother tells her, bluntly: ‘You’ve written a book. They’re particularly sensitive about printed materials.’”
Tiffany Sia – Profile by Mimi Howard
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[image: Tiffany Sia, ‘The Sojourn’, 2023]
8pm Monday 8 July: Art Monthly Talk Show
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• Amna Malik reviews Permindar Kaur’s exhibition ‘Nothing is Fixed’ at John Hansard Gallery in Southampton.
• Henry Broome reports on public art in relation to homelessness and sanitation.
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[image: Soumya Sankar Bose, ‘A Discreet Exit Through Darkness’, 2020–]
“As always, fair treatment for artists is almost inevitably an ‘add on’ to the main agenda, dependent first and foremost on arts organisations being financially resilient.”
‘A New Deal?’ – Susan Jones argues that there is too much focus by all political parties on the funding of arts institutions and too little on freelance artists who are fundamental to the whole art ecology
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[image: garden party at Buckingham Palace to support the creative industries in the UK, May 2024]
“At worst, restorative nostalgia is easily instrumentalised for nationalism, genocide and war. At best, reflective nostalgia can inspire us to form better futures.”
‘Yugonostalgia’ – Jasmina Tumbas on the pull of nostalgia as both a poison and a cure
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[image: Milica Tomic, ‘One day, instead of one night, a burst of machine-gun fire will flash, if light cannot come otherwise’, 2009]
“It has long been apparent that the rise of right-wing political narratives, not just in the EU and the UK but worldwide, increasingly trade on a yearning for lost security, transforming the future into a zone of fear.”
‘Against Nostalgia’ – Bob Dickinson looks at the ways in which artists have sought to address the threat to our future posed by the right’s nostalgic appeals to the past
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[image: Tomás Dzadon, ‘Is it an attraction or is it tumbling down?’, 2010]
“My interest in the dynamics of extraction comes from just living in it. It’s our reality, and there is no way to get out of it.”
Otobong Nkanga interviewed by Ellen Mara De Wachter
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[image: Otobong Nkanga, ‘Wetin You Go Do?’, 2015]
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[image: Lis Rhodes, ‘Hang on a Minute’, 1983, screenings, 7pm Thu 18 July, Arnolfini, Bristol]
Art Monthly, Issue 478, July–August 2024
Otobong Nkanga interviewed by Ellen Mara De Wachter
Against Nostalgia – Bob Dickinson
A New Deal? – Susan Jones
Tiffany Sia – Profile by Mimi Howard
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[cover: Cameron Rowland, ‘Obstruction’, 2024]
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“Stéphane Mallarmé’s interrogation of the relationship between words and their spatial form has acted as a starting point for many key 20th-century artists but, rather than focus on Mallarmé’s continuing influence, exhibition curator Michael Newman here adopts a more nuanced approach to ‘read’ the work of selected contemporary artists through Mallarmé.”
‘After Mallarmé: Part One’, Large Glass, London – Deborah Schultz
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[image: Peter Downsbrough, ‘SHIFT/ AND, AS, THE, THEN’, 2018]
“On 1 May 1960, during the Algerian War of Independence, the French military tested a nuclear bomb close to a village in the Saharan desert. Samia Henni’s show is based almost entirely on the secret documents that reveal this fact.”
‘Samia Henni: Performing Colonial Toxicity’ at Mosaic Rooms, London – Amna Malik
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Mark Prince argues that digitalisation adds another dimension to debates about intention and production in a discussion that covers photography, painting and sculpture and artists ranging from Marcel Duchamp and Robert Ryman to Jon Rafman.
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[image: Robert Ryman, ‘Medway’, c1968]
“In relation to the carceral and environmental trauma, Rory Pilgrim’s reparative interventions can only be provisional, but his insistence that activism can come from a space of joy is a necessary correlate to the punitive and discriminatory laws and empty promises made by government leaders of futures yet to come.”
Rory Pilgrim – Profile by Maria Walsh
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[image: Rory Pilgrim, ‘RAFTS’, 2020–22]
“By turning to what he interpreted as an internal ‘third world’ in Italy, which highlighted the uneven development of that society, Pasolini sought to interrogate the anti-modern remnants of Italian culture, which refused integration in the country’s new vision of itself.”
‘Sacred and Profane’ – Andrew Key considers the continuing influence of the radical Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini with those of the Arte Povera movement and beyond
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[image: Teorema, 1968, film, dir Pier Paolo Pasolini]
“The amenability of digital images to modification does not appear to have fundamentally weakened our belief in their veracity, at least not yet; it has only made us seem more credulous of what was always an illusion, and is now only more likely to be one.”
‘Production Protocols’ – Mark Prince argues that digitalisation adds another dimension to debates about the gap between intention and processes involved in the production of art
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[image: Michael Snow, La Région Centrale, 1970, production photo]
“The Colouring Book was already published and when I showed it at the Hamburg Art Academy German secret police tried to arrest me and extradite me on the orders of the South African secret police. I only managed to avoid it because of being active in the student protest movement.”
Gavin Jantjes interviewed by Virginia Whiles
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[image: Gavin Jantjes, ‘Freedom Hunters’, 1977]
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[image: Ariel William Orah of Sōy Division, performance 6.30pm Sat 14 June, Nottingham Contemporary]
Art Monthly, Issue 477, June 2024
Gavin Jantjes interviewed by Virginia Whiles
Production Protocols – Mark Prince
Sacred and Profane – Andrew Key
Rory Pilgrim – Profile by Maria Walsh
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[cover: Gavin Jantjes, ‘Freedom Hunters’, 1977]
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“The central question and fascination in this film – and one that permeates most of our lives – seems to be: ‘Are you recording this?’”
‘Mathew Wayne Parkin: I can fit a fist in my mouth’, Cubitt, London – Hannah Wallis
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[image: Mathew Wayne Parkin, ‘I can fit a fist in my mouth’, 2024]
“In the video ‘Daughter of Dog’, black German Shepherds painted like skeletons are juxtaposed with a Boston Dynamics robot dog which is repeatedly kicked around – this being the standard method of training and testing the robot’s abilities, embedding hostility into machine learning.”
‘Revital Cohen & Tuur Van B***n: Daughter of Dog’, Mostyn, Llandudno – Elisa Adami
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[image: Revital Cohen & Tuur Van B***n, ‘Daughter of Dog’, 2024, installation detail]
“The upper floors of Talbot Rice Gallery are bathed in seedy red light. In one gallery is a rotating screen that features an anthropomorphised cat, luridly describing its bowel movements. Metres away, a dog collar, designed to fit a human throat, dangles ominously in the near-darkness.”
‘Candice Lin: The Animal Husband’, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh – Daniel Culpan
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[image: Candice Lin, ‘The Animal Husband’, 2024]
“A native New Yorker, Jenna Bliss is an archaeologist/sociologist of the very recent past, an era upon which the dust has yet to settle or consensus be found. Using video and photography, she illuminates ambient forces and events that have come to shape our lives without our being able to clearly understand how, due to speedy and sometimes mendacious normalisation.”
‘Jenna Bliss’, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin – Martin Herbert
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[image: Jenna Bliss, ‘Professional Witnesses’, 2021]
“Working covertly as a security guard within a global security company in one of Finland’s largest shopping malls, Pilvi Takala is simultaneously working with her fellow guards and exerting a recursive hidden power to, in effect, ‘watch the watchmen’.”
‘On the other side’, FACT, Liverpool – Niki Russell
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[image: Pilva Takala, Close Watch, 2022]
“This iteration of the Whitney Biennial begins to show us what it might mean to lose the plot. The implications are possibly productive: the very idea of presenting an image of the contemporary, as biennales must, is rendered farcical.”
‘Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing’, Whitney Museum, New York – Mimi Howard
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[image: Kiyan Williams, ‘Ruins of Empire II or The Earth Swallows the Master’s House’, 2024]
“Rather than demystifying filmmaking – as structural film sought to do by subordinating content to form – Kobby Adi does the opposite, drawing an imperfect equivalence between the medium and his sculptures and positing the cinematic image as an immaterial presence magicked out of materials.”
‘Kobby Adi’ – profile by Tom Denman
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[image: Kobby Adi, Lesson, 2023–24]
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