Your Weekly Address, April 25, 2009.

Recent & Upcoming Events

Mark Manders: Window with Fake Newspapers and Traducing Ruddle

February 12 – March 28, 2010 / Fillip is pleased to announce a new publication and site-specific installation by Dutch artist Mark Manders.

Co-published by Fillip Editions and Roma Publications, Amsterdam, Traducing Ruddle is the fifth in a series of “fake” newspapers by Mark Manders. Using a nonsensical combination of English words, Traducing Ruddle creates a pretense of legibility that dissolves upon closer inspection. The newspaper is supplemented by Two Connected Houses, a 48 page insert developed in conjunction with the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum.

Manders’ newspaper will be distributed for free through a half dozen newspaper boxes in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside during the months of February and March. Outside of Vancouver, Traducing Ruddle is available for purchase directly from Fillip through Paypal, as well as from Roma Publications, Amsterdam, and Motto Distribution, Berlin. Subscribers to Fillip magazine will receive Manders’ publication free of charge.

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Podcast

Silvia Kolbowski: Dear Silvia... July 2009

January 11, 2010 / Dear Silvia… July 2009 consists of all e-mail messages received by artist Silvia Kolbowski during July 2009 from many non-profit political organizations, exhorting her to attend to a wide variety of urgent issues. These missives, edited down from 16,000 words to 3,000 words, and all opening with the (algorithimically aided) personal address “Dear Silvia,” are read by a 12 year old girl. The work questions the symptoms of US democracy that these exhortations represent.

Dear Silvia… July 2009 was commissioned by Fillip as a limited edition multiple in collaboration with a talk organized by Maria Fusco at Whitechapel Gallery, London, in October 2009 as part of Living Clay: Art Writing Readings. A one-sided acetate LP of the work is available in an edition of 25. A text version of the piece, accompanied by an essay on “indirect speech” by Antonia Hirsch, will be published in Fillip 11, available worldwide in February.

Silvia Kolbowski is an artist based in New York. Her scope of address includes the ethics and politics of history, culture, feminism, and the unconscious. Her most recent project, a video and photo work entitled After Hiroshima Mon Amour (2008), opened as a solo exhibition at LAX>October, teaches in the CCC program at the Geneva University of Art and Design, and in September will begin co-directing a new PhD in Practice program at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

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