Issue 109
September 2007

In the September issue of frieze, eleven writers respond to the 52nd Venice Biennale, documenta 12 and Sculpture Projects Muenster 07, three of the most important exhibitions in the international art calendar. With contributions from Diedrich Diederichsen, Jennifer Doyle, Kodwo Eshun, Alex Farquharson, Jörg Heiser, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, Helen Molesworth, Olu Oguibe, Daniel Palmer, Polly Staple and Tirdad Zolghadr.

Brian Dillon reflects on the work of Susan Hiller, whose work over three decades has inhabited a space between knowledge and emotion, exploring histories of Modernism, photography and the occult, whilst Robert Enright talks to Canadian artist and filmmaker Stan Douglas on the occasion of his first major retrospective.

Illustrated with specially commissioned photographs by Nigel Shafran, Emily King visits the Milan studio of Achille Castiglioni, one of the most playful, inventive and audacious designers of the 20th century. Mexican artist Damián Ortega responds to the frieze questionnaire.

From this issue

For over three decades, Susan Hiller’s work has inhabited a space between knowledge and emotion, exploring histories of Modernism, photography and the occult

BY Brian Dillon | 21 SEP 07

Early June saw the opening of the 52nd Venice Biennale, documenta 12 and Sculpture Projects Muenster 07

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

19 SEP 07

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

19 SEP 07

For over three decades, Susan Hiller’s work has inhabited a space between knowledge and emotion, exploring histories of Modernism, photography and the occult

17 SEP 07

Paranoia, hallucination and expectation; making sense of hidden systems

13 SEP 07

Opting out, collaboration and the inappropriate behaviour of bodies

12 SEP 07

A rabbit out of a hat; haptic experiences of cinematic space

BY Vivian Sky Rehberg | 12 SEP 07

From one crowd to another

12 SEP 07

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

12 SEP 07

The demands of blockbuster exhibitions and the space for critical reflection

12 SEP 07

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

12 SEP 07

Shepherd's Bush, London, UK

12 SEP 07

Jacques Rancière, (Verso, London, 2007)

12 SEP 07

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 | 12 SEP 07

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.

12 SEP 07

In praise of the gimmick

11 SEP 07

Wunschkonzerte, Opera 17A & B and 18A & B

BY Ina Blom | 02 SEP 07

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

02 SEP 07

Central Library, Los Angeles, USA

BY Jeffrey Ryan | 01 SEP 07

Mark Fisher attends a symposium at King’s College, London, on Lee Edelman’s challenging and shocking work of queer theory

BY Mark Fisher | 01 SEP 07

Thomas Berghuis (Timezone 8 Editions) 2006

BY Adam Jasper | 01 SEP 07

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

01 SEP 07

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

01 SEP 07