“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.” John Cage.
In no particular order, a few things that have caught my eye of this week:
Stan Douglas at The Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh, 7 November – 15 February.
Featuring his film installation Der Sandmann, the just-completed The Second Hotel Vancouver, the video installation Vidéo, a reimagining of both Orson Welles’s film The Trial (itself based on Kafka’s novel of the same name) and Beckett’s film Film; photographs from Midcentury Studio, a recent series of photographs taken by Douglas posing as a fictional North American post-war press photographer; Corrupt Files, a sequence of large, beautiful, abstract images; and Hogan’s Alley a companion piece to The Second Hotel Vancouver.
More information about the Fruitmarket screenings here and the One Minute project here.
e-flux journal issue 59: Harun Farocki
NOW cinema, Greenwich, London, screening 28 November, Capital:Framing including Patrick Keiller Norwood, John Rogers The London Perambulator and Emily Richardson Memo Mori, curated by Gareth Evans.
More information here.
“The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.” Douglas Huebler, 1969.
Tramway Artists’ Moving Image Festival 2014, 15 – 16 November, including Hito Steyerl (see e-flux issue 59 – above – for Hito writing about Harun Farocki), Ryan Trecartin (see also Zabludowicz Collection, London), Hannah Perry,…
More information here.
“On a wall, using a hard pencil, parallel lines about 1/8″ apart and 12″ long are drawn for one minute. Under this row of lines, another row of lines are drawn for ten minutes. Under this row of lines another row of lines are drawn for one hour.” Sol LeWitt instruction for a work, 1969 (taken from Lucy Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialisation of the Art Object, 1973, Praeger, pp. 112-113 by Kenneth Goldsmith, Uncreative Writing, 2011, Columbia University Press p.131).
The Single Road blog curated by Alistair Rider & Thomas A Clark: ‘True art like true life takes a single road’ – Piet Mondrian. Alistair wrote an enlightening essay on Manfred Mohr for his exhibition one and zero at Carroll / Fletcher in 2012: scripted variations.
John Smith in Paris to 13 December – Gargantuan, OM, The Girl Chewing Gum, The Black Tower, Lot Sound, unusual Red cardigan, The Kiss, White Hole.
More information here.
One Minute Volume 8 at Furtherfield, London to 23 November. A new series of shorts curated by filmmaker Kerry Baldry. The screening is accompanied by One Minute Remix pt. 2, a selection of moving images from One Minute Volumes 1-7. The One Minutes contain an eclectic mix of approaches, techniques, media and processes, all having one thing in common – that they have been edited within the time limit of 60 seconds.
More information here.
Videobrasil open call for artworks and artprojects, submission deadline 16 November. The selected artworks will compete for a cash prize of 75,000 BRL and nine residencies.
More information here.