Table of Contents
Fillip 3 (Summer 2006)
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Tower Ghosts and Swing Shifts /
Within Corin Sworn’s exhibition, accounts of paranormal encounters in built-space counter-weigh the problem of how to narrate the subjective experiences of tower occupants, their relationships with the building in time and space, their erasure from forms of representation that work to objectify.
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Reiterative Revolution /
Vancouver artist Stan Douglas’ recent art installation Inconsolable Memories offers a 16mm film based on Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s 1968 film Memorias del subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment) and a series of photographs from Havana.
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The Ghost Whisperer: Myfanwy's Time in the Woods /
For an artist as acutely conscious of (and thus, perhaps, more acutely subject to) the tropes of popular culture as Myfanwy MacLeod, her three month Glenfiddich-sponsored residency in the semi-wilds near Dufftown north of Aberdeen in Scotland was a ready-made scenario, impossible to avoid…
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Through a Mirror, Darkly /
A pioneer in the exploration of digital media, Lynn Hershman Leeson has produced artworks that disturb the psyche even as they delight the imagination. For more than thirty years, her art practice reveals how the constructions and reconstructions of self correspond with the novelties and upheavals of technological invention.
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A Brief Account of Two Artist-Run Spaces /
There is a contradiction implicit in the idea of the alternative or artist-run space as a phenomenon specific to developed countries or contexts in which a highly organized, sophisticated cultural infrastructure is clearly not lacking.
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Affirmations and Refusals /
The concept of the mid-career retrospective seems somewhat unusual to me. As opposed to the solo exhibition, the retrospective seems to imply a degree of closure. One might think of it as considered rather than urgent, generalizing rather than specific, or appreciative rather than critical.
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Surface, No Support /
When art tries to build a relationship with science the greatest failure it can risk is to become an illustration of a scientific principle. At its best, when it avoids the illustrator’s role, modern art plays freely with images provided by science, and so its relationship with science is metaphorical, properly improper, and not bound by any correct understanding of the matter it takes up.
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Conversationally Arresting: Ethics, Empathy, and Identification /
Yet again there have been deficiencies in the discourse addressing issues surrounding art production and the representation of inner city neighbourhoods afflicted with a high degree of economic and social hardship, a fact made painfully aware to me during my participation in a recent panel discussion on art and Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
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Fetishism, Curiosity, and the Work of Brian Jungen /
It may have been my imagination, but the crowds thronging the halls of the Vancouver Art Gallery on the evening of February 3, 2006 seemed slightly more animated than usual, the atmosphere more charged, conversation more electric.
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The State of Refuge in Vancouver /
It is the beginning, it is the home. It is the most literal materialization of limit, the enclosure of presence. As one takes to the city it is: at one’s back, a shell, an expression or manifestation.
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General Practitioner: An Interview with Robert Kleyn /
My real interest in film started here. I was friends with other young artists like Rodney Graham, Ian Wallace, Duane Lunden. Film was part of our vocabulary in terms of rethinking the image. This was during the rule of minimalism. There wasn’t supposed to be anything imagistic: no formal content, no direct narrative, and no theatricality.
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Work in Progress? /
In a rare nod to the ever-worsening war in Iraq, Artforum recently featured an artwork of “unprecedented collaboration” and “defiant protest” on its front cover: The Peace Tower constructed and organized by Rirkrit Tiravanija and Mark di Suvero for the current Whitney Biennial.
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- Editorial Board: Jordan Strom, Kristina Lee Podesva, Jeff Khonsary, Jonathan Middleton, and Paloma Campbell
- Editor: Jordan Strom
- Managing Editor: Jeff Khonsary
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