ART PAPERS 37.05 - Sept/Oct 2013

“I bought the theatre ticket, was not given it -- and that I have tormented myself for two days with the idea of going to the theatre, of watching a theatrical performance, actors and behind all these actors to scent a miserable and stinking director (Mr. T.H!) and so on...but, above all, that I had changed for the theatre.” - Thomas Bernhard, Is it a Comedy? Is it a Tragedy?

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

No One Is Less Dead than Franz - Gelitin and Sarah Lucas
in conversation with Kathy Noble
Kathy Noble acts as ringmaster for a zany and touching discussion about the influence of Franz West on the lives of Sarah Lucas and the artist collective Gelitin: the artists discuss alignments between their practices and the late Austrian artist, collaborations they undertook with him, and the Lucas/Gelitin collaboration at the Kunsthalle Krems in 2011.

Farming in Europe: Four Character Studies
- Calla Henkel, Pablo Larios, Max Pitegoff and Dena Yago
Calla Henkel, Pablo Larios Max Pitegoff, and Dena Yago devise four character sketches for the debut play at New Theater, a Berlin theater space run by artists Henkel and Pitegoff that opens this fall: a story revolving around a failing restaurant, the figures who surround it, and their oblique acts of self-representation.

Victory Against Time: Demonstrative Urgency of Performance in the State of Resistance
- Sandra Skurvida
Sandra Skurvida weaves a shimmering and lyrical portrait of performance and video practices in Iran and the wider Middle East, questioning the postion of artists and their work in a social framework where cultural institutions are perceived as, and probably are, instruments of repression and control.

Six short plays about art and performance
- Tim Etchells
Artist and writer Tim Etchells shares six new dialogues involving performance makers and podiums, invigilators and low budgets, things that disappear, the concrete floor, a Korean karaoke machine, and artists who would like to make a performance.

A Theatrical Swirl
Monika Lipchitz
Curator Monika Lipchitz spins the tale of an onstage exhibition, featuring trips to a Baltic supermarket, a stage light, her uncle and a fall from a Lithuanian proscenium.

18 down, 17 up: a pause with Maria Hassabi
Chris Fitzpatrick
Chris Fitzpatrick speaks with Maria Hassabi on a vaporetto about her Venice Biennale performance Intermission and intermissions- ending up two and a half hours away, thirty minutes later.

Body Sketches for a Universal Stage
Jennifer Teets
Virtual spirals, useful faking, and head-body banging are just a few of the metafictional conceits explored by curator and writer Jennifer Teets in a text that scrolls through recent performances by Darius Miksys, Ieva Miseviciute, Bouchra Ouizguen, and the farther reaches of the internet.

Artist Projects
KroOt Juurak
Tyler Coburn
Sarah Lucas

Reviews

Santiago Sierra - Raimar Stange
Allen Ruppersberg - Chris Sharp
Oscar Tuazon - John Beeson
Elemental - Lars- Erik Hjertstrom Lappalainen
Jogging -  A.E Benenson
Korakrit Arunanondchai - Post Brothers
Li Ran - Venus Lau
Kristine Kemp - Laura McLean-Ferris
Richard Hawkins - Andrew Berardini
Math Bass & Leidy Churchman - Olivian Cha
Channa Horwitz - Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Jose Leon Cerrillo - Gabriela Jauregui
Mike Kelley - Filipa Ramos
Jack Goldstein - Jon Bywater
Substance - Sabrina Tarasoff
Jesper Just - Gitanjali Dang
SubTehran - Vakhtang Urushadze
oO - Fatos Ustek