Issue 108 Jun-Aug 2007
Hot Topic
What are the environmental costs of publishing a magazine?
Title Deeds
The Eloisa Cartonera publishing house’s novel response to the collapse of the Argentine economy
Buried Alive
A high-tech cavern is being built in Norway to back-up the Earth’s plant life
Type Cast
Academic sculpture can provide a welcome distraction from contemporary concerns
Inside Outrage
Do you need to infiltrate a system in order to change it?
Hamish Fulton
In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice. This issue: Hamish Fulton
Flights of Fancy
The faded glamour of flying, jet lag and a biennial for New Orleans
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
This is Planet Earth
Examining literature and cinema's ongoing fascination with tales of ecological disaster and global apocalypse
Making Do
Tue Greenfort is an artist and environmentalist who drives a bus fuelled by vegetable oil and makes sculptures from recycled materials
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
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
The Whole Truth
Many artists today recognize that environmentalism needs to embrace political, social and economic factors as well as ecological ones
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
Paul Chan
Paul Chan’s exhibition ‘The 7 Lights’ is at the Serpentine Gallery, London until 1 July 2007. He lives in New York.
Marcus Coates
Shamanism and anthropomorphism; public art and 'getting back to nature'
Learning Site
Improvisation, networks, mushrooms and walking cities
Alberto Baraya
Colombia, botany and classification; fake flowers and post-colonialism
Raqs Media Collective
Talks, publications and research; whirling dervishes and urban design
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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