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Issue 108 Jun-Aug 2007

State of the Art

Hot Topic

What are the environmental costs of publishing a magazine? by James Trainor

Publishing

Title Deeds

The Eloisa Cartonera publishing house’s novel response to the collapse of the Argentine economy by Santiago García Navarro

Informant

Buried Alive

A high-tech cavern is being built in Norway to back-up the Earth’s plant life by George Pendle

View from the Bridge

Type Cast

Academic sculpture can provide a welcome distraction from contemporary concerns by Robert Storr

5:00 AM

Inside Outrage

Do you need to infiltrate a system in order to change it? by Nancy Spector

Life in Film

Hamish Fulton

In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice. This issue: Hamish Fulton

Saturday

Flights of Fancy

The faded glamour of flying, jet lag and a biennial for New Orleans by Polly Staple

Urban Planning

Talk of the Town

A trio of exhibitions about the controversial urban planner Robert Moses has prompted new discussion about regeneration and community activism in New York by Eugenia Bell

This is Planet Earth

Examining literature and cinema's ongoing fascination with tales of ecological disaster and global apocalypse by Brian W. Aldiss

Monograph

Making Do

Tue Greenfort is an artist and environmentalist who drives a bus fuelled by vegetable oil and makes sculptures from recycled materials by Dominic Eichler

Interview

Protest and Survive

An interview with Gustav Metzger, one of the key figures of postwar British art. In a career which has spanned over 60 years, the artist has employed materials including cars, newspapers and photographs to explore personal and social issues surrounding memory, history and ecology by Mark Godfrey

City Report

Sao Paulo

With more than 20 million inhabitants, São Paulo has recently become one of the world’s first ‘hypercities’. In a constant state of transformation, the city has fostered an attitude of improvisation, resourcefulness and cultural cannibalism amongst its artists by Ana Paula Cohen and James Trainor

The Whole Truth

Many artists today recognize that environmentalism needs to embrace political, social and economic factors as well as ecological ones by Max Andrews

Monograph

Trumpets and Turtles

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla’s videos and installations fuse comedy, journeys, music and absurdity to provoke curiosity about social and political issues by Sally O’Reilly

Questionnaire

Paul Chan

Paul Chan’s exhibition ‘The 7 Lights’ is at the Serpentine Gallery, London until 1 July 2007. He lives in New York.

Focus

Marcus Coates

Shamanism and anthropomorphism; public art and 'getting back to nature' by Jonathan Griffin

Focus

Learning Site

Improvisation, networks, mushrooms and walking cities by Lars Bang Larsen

Focus

Alberto Baraya

Colombia, botany and classification; fake flowers and post-colonialism by José Roca

Focus

Raqs Media Collective

Talks, publications and research; whirling dervishes and urban design by Francesco Manacorda

Margarita Gluzberg

Paradise Row, London, UK

By Sam Thorne

Sharjah Biennial 8

Various venues, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

By Christy Lange

Mark Lewis

Spike Island, Bristol, UK

By Sally O’Reilly

The Age of Discrepancies

Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte , Mexico City, Mexico

By Jennifer Josten

Wilhelm Sasnal

Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA

By Claire Gilman

Mike Marshall

Union, London, UK

By Melissa Gronlund

Ambient Tour

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

By Luca Cerizza

Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani

Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, Netherlands

By Douglas Heingartner

Gregor Schneider

K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; Kunsthalle Hamburg,

By Dominic Eichler

Songs of the Humpback Whale

Columbia Records, 1970,

By Kodwo Eshun

Bethan Huws

Kunstmuseum St. Gallen,

By Burkhard Meltzer

London Fieldworks

Beaconsfield, London, UK

By Cameron Irving

Asparagus: A Horticultural Ballet

Conway Hall, London, UK

By Jonathan Griffin

Swetlana Heger

Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, USA

By Katie Kitamura

Encuentro Internacional Medellín

Various venues, Medellín, Colombia

By Olivier Debroise

High Times, Hard Times

National Academy Museum, New York, USA

By Morgan Falconer

Drosscape

Alan Berger, (Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton, 2007),

By Bradley Horn

Synthetic Ecologies

MAK Center, Los Angeles, USA

By Chris Balaschak

Benoît Maire

Hollybush Gardens, London, UK

By Dan Fox

Shrinking Cities

Cranbrook Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, USA

By Julian Myers

Festival of Ghosts / R’out 4,002

Death Sentence: Panda!, (Upset the Rhythm, 2007),

By Dan Fox

Let Everything Be Temporary

apexart, New York, USA

By George Pendle

Robert Beavers

Tate Modern, London, UK

By Andrew Bonacina

Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook

ed. Max Andrews, (RSA/Arts Council, England, London, 2006),

By Brian Dillon

Tom Woolner

Rockwell, London, UK

By Tom Morton

The Last Piece by John Fare

gb agency, Paris, France

By Vivien Rehberg

Sleeping Beauty + Friends

The New Players Theatre, London, UK

By Jennifer Higgie

WACK!

Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, USA

By Julian Myers

Roni Horn

Stykkishólmur,

By Jennifer Higgie

A.L. Steiner & robbinschilds

Taxter & Spengemann, New York, USA

By Kristin M. Jones

Great White Bear

Horniman Museum, London, UK

By Andrew Dodds

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