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Issue 124 June-August 2009

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Music

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors (Domino, 2009) by Sam Thorne

Music

Picking O’er the Bones

Various Artists (Mordant Music, 2009) by Daniel Trilling

Books

Frames Of War: When Is Life Grievable?

Judith Butler (Verso, London, 2009) by Mark Fisher

Ideal Syllabus

Mark Pilkington / Strange Attractor

In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them

Old Haunts

Traditional ghosts in popular culture are being replaced by images of pathology and bodily decay. What does this reveal about our changing attitudes to death? by Sarah Khan

Curating

Club Rules

A recent performance about masculinity and sport revealed cultural exclusion within the art world by Christopher Bedford

Pretty, Pretty Good

Being Jennifer Allen

What it means to have countless namesakes on Google by Jennifer Allen

Informant

The Numbers Game

The intertwining of business, finance, art and numerology by George Pendle

View from the Bridge

The Unfunny Pages

Panoramic historical narratives are alive and well in the world of comics by Robert Storr

State of the Art

The Wrong Words

When wall texts in museums and galleries are meant to elucidate and educate, why are most of them badly written, full of jargon, and painfully reductive? by Tom Morton

Music

Inspiration Information 3

Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics (Strut Records, 2009) by Dan Fox

Books

Mercury Station

Mark von Schlegell (Semiotext(e), Los Angeles, 2009) by Colin Perry

Books

Militant Modernism

Owen Hatherley (Zero Books, Winchester, 2009) by Oliver Wainwright

City Report

Dublin

Despite the decline of Ireland’s ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy, Dublin’s artist-run and institutional spaces are thriving by Brian Dillon and Maeve Connolly

Secret Society

Cracking the codes of Conceptual art by Jan Verwoert

Alone Again, Or

The persistent and enigmatic subject of women turning away by Jennifer Higgie

Monograph

Remember Me

Human cameras, fortune tellers, fake archives, unreliable memories – in Lindsay Seers’ films and installations, the truth is not what it seems by Tom Morton

Interview

Since the 1960s, Joan Jonas has been exploring the possibilities of video and performance art. She talked about the evolution of her work and the importance of myth, music and history to her thinking by Alvin Curran

Focus

Julian Göthe

Parody, intrigue and innuendo; time travel, referentiality and social comedy by Jörg Heiser

Questionnaire

Sophie Calle

Sophie Calle is an artist who lives in Paris, France. She currently has solo shows at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA, and at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, and has forthcoming exhibitions at Videobrasil, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil; Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil; Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK; and De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Focus

Olivia Plender

Bohemianism, grass-roots activism, urban regeneration and the voices of the dead by Melissa Gronlund

Focus

Giuseppe Gabellone

Enigmas, paradoxes and riddles: photographs of sculptures and sculptures of photographs by Vivian Rehberg

Monograph

Social Fabric

Thomas Bayrle’s long and varied career as an artist reveals a sensibility shaped in equal parts by humour, absurdity and social criticism by Dominic Eichler

Interview