Frieze Magazine | Archive

Issue 85 September 2004

‘And it seems to me that it’s up to all of us to try to tell the truth, to say what we know, to say what we don’t know, and recognize that we’re dealing with people that are perfectly willing to lie to the world to attempt to further their case.’ Donald Rumsfeld by George Pendle

Books

The Vanishing

Georges Didi-Huberman’s new book examines the use of photography as evidence, and the way images of violence and trauma are understood by Brian Dillon

Interview

Looking at the Overlooked

A recent exhibition at MoMA in New York included masterpieces of everyday design such as Post-It notes, tea-bags and the Chupa Chups lollipop wrapper created by Salvador Dalí; Paola Antonelli in conversation by Emily King

View from the Bridge

This Mortal Coil

As a recent retrospective made clear, the playful and visceral work of Dieter Roth is a vivid reminder of human fragility by Robert Storr

Focus

Killu Sukmit & Mari Laanemets

Identity is something you perform – a performance restrained by norms and expectations by Jan Verwoert

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Christian Holstad

Imagine your state of mind if, up late one night in a halcyon Ecstasy haze, you channel-surfed between documentaries on Glam Rock, Stonewall and Studio 54 by Christopher Miles

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Emma Hedditch

Distribution, social movements and political activism are not just the content of Emma Hedditch’s art, but also its form by Sally O'Reilly

Monograph

Road to Ruin

The real, the social and the surreal merge in sculptures that reference or employ what Ed Ruscha once described as the ‘unreported artefacts’ of the urban landscape by James Trainor

Interview

A Kind of Musical Space

An interview with John Ashbery by Craig Burnett

Monograph

Mata Hari takes a Picture

From issue 85, September 2004, Bruce Hainley writes on Louise Lawler who has a solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers, London until 23 December 2011 by Bruce Hainley

City Report

Warsaw

Increased international interest in Polish art coincides with the country joining the European Union. How do the economic and social changes affect making and showing art, and Warsaw’s urban environment? by Jan Verwoert and Lukasz Gorczyca

Criticism

Energy Fools the Magician

The artist explores themes of loss and conservation with archaic machines, extinct bird-songs, lost sounds, failed speeches, a stuffed bear, melting money, ticker tape machines, marching music and 86 car horns by Peter Eleey

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