We are looking forward to the opening of Points of Departure at the ICA on the 26th June.
This image is taken from Olivia Plender’s work on residency in Palestine, she will be presenting a two-channel video installation at the ICA, which explores questions of visibility in relation to the narration of history.
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Have you entered Dazed and Confused’s Emerging Artist Award yet? The deadline is the 23rd June.
Here is an image from Samara Scott, who won the award last year.
“This is The Artists Institute. Welcome. Here we divide the year into two seasons and dedicate each one to a single artist. This also leads us to different types of contributions by other artists and thinkers.”
The current season at The Artist’s Institute is dedicated to the work of the influential artist Thomas Bayrle. The season develops ideas around the work of Bayrle through a programme of discussion, events and an accumulating exhibition programme which includes the work of Bayrle and of other artists. Currently showing is a sculpture by Bayrle alongside works by Andrei Koschmieder and Lena Henke.
Image: Thomas Bayrle at Wiels
Film still from Warm, Warm, Warm Spring Mouths, Ed Atkins (2013)
I don’t want to hear any news on the radio about the weather on the weekend. Talk about that.
Once upon a time a couple of people were alive who were friends of mine.
The weathers, the weathers they lived in! Christ, the sun on those Saturdays.
Ed Atkins speaks Gilbert Sorrentino’s (1929–2006) lines from The Morning Roundup, 1971, as a spoken chorus in his new film, Warm, Warm, Warm Spring Mouths, 2013 – or rather the computer-generated body/ (non)person/ puppet-protagonist of Atkins’s film speaks Sorrentino’s words. There he sits, alternatively at the bottom of the ocean, in pink non-space, in dark non-space and in torture room white-space surrounded by his incessantly waving hair, which grows on and on despite his ostensible death (his life at the bottom of the sea).
Plate 23 from War Primer 2 by Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg
War Primer 2 is a limited edition book that physically inhabits the pages of Bertolt Brecht’s remarkable 1955 publication War Primer.
The original is a collection of Brecht’s newspaper clippings, each accompanied by a four-line poem that he called Photo-epigrams. It was the culmination of almost three decades of intermittent activity. The title deliberately recalls the textbooks used to teach elementary school children how to read; Brecht’s book is a practical manual, demonstrating how to “read” or “translate” press photographs. Brecht was profoundly uneasy about the affirmative role played by the medium within the political economy of capitalism and referred to press photographs as heiroglyphics in need of decoding.
War Primer 2 is the belated sequel. While Brecht’s War Primer was concerned with images of the Second World War, War Primer 2 is concerned with the images of conflict generated by both sides of the so-called “War on Terror”.
“Don’t start with the good old things but the bad new ones” Brecht famously said, and in this spirit Broomberg and Chanarin have gathered their material from the internet - compressed, uploaded, ripped, squeezed, reformatted, re-edited and often anonymous images - rather than sifting through newspapers with a pair of scissors.
Heiner Müller once said that to use Brecht without changing him is an act of betrayal. With War Primer 2 Broomberg and Chanarin have appropriated Brecht’s original, giving us their critique of images of contemporary conflict, which is simultaneously a betrayal and a homage.
War Primer 2 is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and was awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013.
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, I.D. 25 (Polaroid), 2013
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, I.D. 4, (Polaroid) 2013
