Current Issue 147 May 2012
Open Eyes
Online or in person? The different ways of paying attention today
Write of Spring
Life is a quotation. Sort of.
There, Not There
How our attitudes betray us
Made in Pyongyang
The controversial history of the $28-million African Renaissance Monument in Dakar
Right & Wrong
Have American conservatives taken over transgression?
Do It Yourself
New York’s energetic community of experimental music and film venues
Every Day is Good
One hundred years of John Cage
Ideal Syllabus
In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them
On Your Marks
The conflicted cultural legacy of the London 2012 Olympics
Towers of Babble
The ArcelorMittal Orbit and the recent history of large-scale folly
Books
Non-linear reading
Music
A voyage of discovery to Belgium’s Popcorn clubs
Coming to Life
Spirits, objecthood and the ‘Black Forest voodoo’ of Geoffrey Farmer’s mirages and micro-events
Picture Piece: Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt was my life-model
The Middle of the Day
On the occasion of a year- long exhibition at Tate Britain, Frank Bowling talks about the ‘poured paintings’ he began making in the early 1970s, getting advice from Clement Greenberg and the importance of improvisation
Infuences: Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
For the first time in the new series, frieze invites artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige to write about the images that have informed their practice
Social Spaces
On the occasion of his exhibition at Protocinema in Istanbul, Dan Graham discusses sci-fi, dance, model-making and the ‘just-past’ with Turkish artist Can Altay
Focus: Alicja Kwade
The language of cinema and the psychology of sculpture
Case Study: Trisha Baga
The New York-based artist’s latest video installation, Plymouth Rock.
Body Politics
Comprising installations, actions, performances, conferences and moving-image projections, the work of Fabio Mauri was a life-long enquiry into the relationship between art, ideology and totalitarianism.
Woman of Letters
Moyra Davey’s films, photographs and writing are a sustained meditation on her family, literary influences, travels and environment
Future Memories
Dominik Lang’s work is deeply influenced by both the legacy of Czech conceptual art and his intimate relationship to his family home in Prague
Studio Visit: Eddie Peake
The London-based artist’s recent performance work
Focus: Pilvi Takala
The Finnish artist’s subtly transgressive video performances
Sculptors Discuss Sculpture
Leonor Antunes, Alice Channer, Thea Djordjadze, Liz Glynn, Charles Long, Christina Mackie, Karin Ruggaber, Kilian Rüthemann, Bojan Šarčević and Nicole Wermers are asked about the ways in which they feel meaning is controlled and conveyed in their work
Ming Wong
REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA
By Erik Morse
Claes Oldenburg
MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
By Kirsty Bell
Nina Canell
Cubitt, London, UK
By Martin Herbert
Wallace Berman & Robert Heinecken
Armory Center for the Arts , Pasadena, USA
By Ian Chang
The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial
New Museum, New York, USA
By katie kitamura
Jordan Wofson
Alex Zachary Peter Currie , New York, USA
By Dan Fox
Klara Lidén
Reena Spaulings Fine Art , New York, USA
By David Everitt Howe
Breyer P-Orridge
Invisible-Exports , New York, USA
By Joseph Akel
Jesús Soto
Grey Art Gallery , New York, USA
By Agnieszka Gratza
Dan Flavin
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, USA
By Perrin Drumm
Fred Wilson
New York Historical Society, New York, USA
By A.M. Weaver
Sanya Kantarovsky
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA
By Jonathan Griffin
Chris Curreri
Daniel Faria Gallery,, Toronto, Canada
By Charles Reeve
Robert Morris
Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
By Mark Prince
Human Capsules
Lokremise, St Gallen, Switzerland
By Raphael Gygax
Daniel Gustav Cramer
Kunsthaus , Glarus, Switzerland
By Aoife Rosenmeyer
Runo Lagomarsino
Index, Stockholm, Sweden
By Matthew Rana
Christoph Weber
Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, France
By Lara Sarcevic
Into the Woods
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris, France
By Cristina Ricupero
Joachim Koester
Institut d’art contemporain , Villeurbanne, France
By Raphael Brunel
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
By Emily King
Spirits of Internationalism
M HKA & the Van Abbemuseum,
By Sam Thorne
The Grand Domestic Revolution
Various venues, Utrecht, Netherlands
By Nick Aikens
Denisa Lehocká
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
By Matthias Dusini
Alicja Bielawska
Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, Poland
By Krzysztof Kosciuczuk
D’après Giorgio
Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome, Italy
By Barbara Casavecchia
Daniela Ortiz
àngels , Barcelona, Spain
By Rebecca Close
Known, Unknown, Anonymous and On Death Row
Qbox Gallery, Athens, Greece
By Cathryn Drake
How Physical
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
By Michael Famighetti
Ding Yi
Minsheng Art Museum , Shanghai, China
By Carol Yinghua Lu
Spaced: Art Out of Place
Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth, Australia
By Nicola Harvey
Alicia Frankovich
Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
By Emily Cormack
Jeremy Deller
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
By Brian Dillon
Recto/Verso
The Approach, London, UK
By Sam Thorne
Hanne Darboven and Raphael Hefti
Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
By Emma Cocker
Paloma Varga Weisz
Sadie Coles, London, UK
By Amy Sherlock
The Curator’s Egg
Anthony Reynolds Gallery , London, UK
By Eleanor Nairne
AV Festival
Various venues, Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, UK
By Sam Thorne
Rashid Rana
New Art Exchange Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
By Omar Kholeif
Alex Dordoy
The Modern Institute , Glasgow, UK
By Chris Sharratt
Jane and Louise Wilson
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
By Chris Sharratt
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