ART PAPERS 36.01 - Jan/Feb 2012

Making our publication’s 36th anniversary, this issue of ART PAPERS delves into technology and sound. Niels Van Tomme’s interview with Larissa Sansour looks at the use of fiction to provide new answers to the Palestinian question. Technological advance, sustained by sound, is at the core of Sansour’s investigation. Andrew Bucksbarg’s work mobilizes bodies and technology to provide new models of sociality and democracy. David Zink Yi models his artistic experiments on Afro-Cuban polyrhythms and structuralist and cinema. The voice figures prominently in all of their projects.  --Sylvia Fortin, excerpt, Letter from previous Editor

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

You think you know, but you are lost: on the peculiar power of the irreconcilable

In Gean Moreno’s interview, David Zink Yi discusses cultural fluency, structuralist cinema, and Cuban music.

Hi, Lo + No Tech: Andrew Bucksbarg Experiments in Participation, Sociality, and Democracy

Brett M. Levine assesses Andrew Bucksbarg’s “social system art,” a realm programming, product design, performance, and olfaction.

Space Oddity: The Possibility of a Palestinian Space Program: Larissa Sansour

Larissa Sansour talks to Niels Van Tomme about the role of fiction in creating a new conceptual framework for the Palestinian question.

Crossroads: Two Critics’ Assessments

Dublin Contemporary 2011

Dublin

John Gayer

Dublin Contemporary 2011

Dublin

William Morrow

Untitled (The 12th Istanbul Biennial)

Istanbul

Berin Golonu

Untitled (The 12th Istanbul Biennial)

Istanbul

Nat Muller

Noteworthy: the editor’s pick of notable shows

Ostalgia

New York

Julia Friday

The Québec Triennial

Montréal

Anja Bock

Future Anterior: an index to contemporary art’s imminent history

Glexis Novoa

Atlanta

Dianna McClintock

Goran Djordjevic

Belgrade

Melissa Potter

Seeing is believing

Berlin

Johan Lundh

Victoria Sambunaris

Buffalo

1. Stuart Keeler

Wendy White

Chattanooga

Denise Stewart-Sanabria

Play Van Abbe, Parts 3 + 4

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Rebecca Uchill

Words

Fort Worth

Charissa N. Terranova

Donald Moffett

Houston

Kate Green

Luis Tomasello

Kansas City

Heather Lustfeldt

Duncan Campbell

London

Pil + Galia Kollectiv

The Peripatetic School

London

Chris Fite-Wassilak

Ryan Gander

London

Pil + Galia Kollectiv

Michael E. Smith

Los Angeles

Sharon Mizota

Antonia Wright

Miami

Annie Hollingsworth

Wayne Gonzales

New Orleans

1. Eric Bookhardt

Yamini Nayar

New York

Daniel McGrath

Matthew Northridge

New York

Adam Thompson

Boris Mikhailov

New York

Julia Friday

Iain Ball

Philadelphia

Becky Hunter

Blowing on a Hairy Shoulder

Philadelphia

Becky Hunter

Cathy Wilkes

Pittsburgh

Grant Johnson

Adrian Kellard

St. Louis

Jessica Baran

Janet Biggs

Tampa

Cathy Byrd