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Issue 103 November-December 2006

‘That was the day I stopped believing in the wild ardour of things. Perhaps in love … the love in books and films … that tells us to abandon our lives and plans all for one brief touch of Venus… The world just seems too fragile a place for it … Perhaps it’s just we who are too fragile.’

More Than A Feeling

Shop of the New

Zurich’s legendary Dada venue, Cabaret Voltaire, now includes a shop selling ‘Fair Trade’ T-shirts by Tirdad Zolghadr

View from the Bridge

Dumb and Dumber

Have visual rants been turned into jingles? by Robert Storr

Design

We Have Standards

Designers Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have curated an exhibition that celebrates the idea of the ‘Super Normal’ by Emily King

State of the Art

Please Release Me

Why do so many galleries and museums describe art in language that sucks the life out of it? by Jennifer Higgie

Laughter, Tears and Rage

Down in the Dump

Three recent publications reveal detritus and decay as improbable obsessions in Western culture by Brian Dillon

Questionnaire

Pawel Althamer

Pawel Althamer lives and works in Warsaw. In 2004 he was awarded with the Vincent Prize and his work was included in the Carnegie International with Real Time Movie, a performance with Peter Fonda. He recently participated in the 4th Berlin Biennale with the project Fairy Tale, which followed the story of Besir Olcay, a Kurdish immigrant to Berlin. His exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, entitled ‘At the Centre Pompidou’ is on until 27 November, 2006.

Interview

Inside Out

Maria Lassnig by Jörg Heiser

Monograph

Classified Information

Over the past decade Peter Piller has compiled hundreds of groups of images – from unspectacular newspaper photographs to old postcards and abandoned archives by Dominic Eichler

Monograph

The World’s a Stage

An interview with a dead novelist about truth, fiction and representation in the films and photographs of Irish artist Gerard Byrne by Dan Fox

Focus

Katya Sander

Privet hedges, capitalist rashes, toilets and feminist graffiti by Lars Bang Larsen

Monograph

Reference Material

Helen Mirra’s works in sound, fabric, film, photography, text and sculpture are rich with allusions and overlaps across a range of subjects by Peter Eleey

Focus

Mick Peter

Phrygian bonnets and dunces’ caps; dice, cards and concrete by Tom Morton

Film

Ghost World

Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s compelling films have often delved into the realms of popular folklore and the supernatural. His latest project, Syndromes and a Century, is no exception by Bert Rebhand

Monograph

Days of Our Lives

Since the early 1980s Jutta Koether has been active as a painter, writer and musician, her work in each discipline exerting its influence over the others by Jan Verwoert

Focus