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Issue 109 September 2007

From one crowd to another by Robert Storr

Life in Film: Steve McQueen

In ‘Life in Film’, an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice.

State of the Art

Think for a Minute

The demands of blockbuster exhibitions and the space for critical reflection by Dominic Eichler

Politics

Below the Waterline

How are artists chosen to represent their country at the Venice Biennale? And to whose advantage? by Martin Herbert

Events

Devo

Shepherd's Bush, London, UK by Dan Fox

Books

The Future of the Image

Jacques Rancière, (Verso, London, 2007) by Brian Dillon

Criticism

Art in Theory

How a best-selling guide to talking about books you haven’t read can help you discuss the art you haven’t seen by Jennifer Allen

More Than A Feeling

Cheap Tricks

In praise of the gimmick by Tirdad Zolghadr

Music

Hanne Darboven

With her solo show on until 18 March at Camden Arts Centre, London, a review of Hanne Darboven's Wunschkonzerte, Opera 17A & B and 18A & B from issue 109, Sept 2007. by Ina Blom

Music

If the Route

Beatrice Gibson and Jamie McCarthy (resonanceFM & Studio Voltaire, 2007) by Dan Fox

Events

An Evening with Chip Kidd

Central Library, Los Angeles, USA by Jeffrey Ryan

Events

No Future Together

King’s College London, UK by Mark Fisher

Books

Performance Art in China

Thomas Berghuis (Timezone 8 Editions) 2006 by Adam Jasper

Books

The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp

T.J. Demos (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2007) by Belinda Bowring

Laughter, Tears and Rage

Pastures New

A resurgent wave of British nature writers owe as much to Land art and science fiction as traditional environmentalism by Brian Dillon

Survey

Trans-Europe Express

Early June saw the opening of the 52nd Venice Biennale, documenta 12 and Sculpture Projects Muenster 07 by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith

Survey

Venice: The Edge of the World

Robert Storr’s Biennale was characterized by conscientiousness and fairness rather than provocation by Alex Farquharson

Interview

Double Take

The first major retrospective of Canadian artist Stan Douglas opens this September in Stuttgart. He talks about history and landscape, puzzles and storytelling by Robert Enright

Survey

Marketing the City

Muenster by Diedrich Diederichsen

Focus

Emily Wardill

Paranoia, hallucination and expectation; making sense of hidden systems by Melissa Gronlund

Focus

Judith Hopf

Opting out, collaboration and the inappropriate behaviour of bodies by Kirsty Bell

Focus

Gabriel Lester

A rabbit out of a hat; haptic experiences of cinematic space by Vivian Rehberg

Questionnaire

Damián Ortega’s exhibition ‘Nine Types of Terrain’ is at White Cube, London until 8 September 2007. He is also nominated for the National Gallery Prize for Young Art, on show at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin from 14 September – 4 November 2007. He lives and works in Berlin.