This exhibition catalogue disguised as an artist’s book presents recent work by the Los Angeles artist, writer and all-around favorite, Frances Stark. Taking as her starting point the novel “Ferdydurke” by the esteemed Polish author Witold Gombrowicz, Stark explores two key aspects of the novel, according to Andras Palffy, President of the esteemed Viennese exhibition space, Secession–”the individual’s right to uncertainty or immaturity and all possible forms of masquerade” and “deception towards one’s environment.” Whereas Gombrowicz took on the sinister political developments of 1930s Poland, Stark aptly and humorously attacks the hierarchies, systems and pigeon holes of the contemporary commercial art world. Of special note are the very effective optical illusions embedded in the images reproduced here. Frances Stark was born in 1967 in Newport Beach, California. She has had recent one-person exhibitions at Marc Foxx gallery, Los Angeles, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and CRG Gallery, New York.
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- Frances Stark - A Torment of Follies
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Dot Dot Dot 19
is assembled from PDFs of THE FIRST/LAST NEWSPAPER (TF/LN)
which was issued from Port Authority in New York CIty
every Wednesday & Saturday during the first 3 weeks
of November 2009
- Editorial, Sinister to establish “First/Last” newspaper
- Rob Giampietro, Newspaper tax levied: few can afford daily 6 pence
- Richard Rodriguez, Review: museum piece
- Steve Rushton, How media masters reality #1: Picture an image of a photograph
- Anon., Publick occurrences both forreign and domestick
- Dan Fox, Circulation +2.7%/-0.2%
- Bruno Munari, Culture today becoming mass affair
- Francis McKee, Headless body, topless bar pt. 1
- Angie Keefer, Large Hadron collider expected to fail due to backwards causation
- Editorial, Two men describe “bloody good elephant”
- Rob Giampietro, Time captcha’d for global good?
- Anthony Huberman, Blind man in dark room looking for black cat that’s not there
- Steve Rushton, How media masters reality #2: They came to see who came
- Angie Keefer, Icons govern action
- Francis McKee, Headless body, topless bar pt. 2: More news from nowhere
- Jan Verwoert, Gonzo pragmatism
- Nick Paumgarten, The pits
- Editorial, Fifth wall of fifth estate collapses
- Rob Giampietro, New legislation combats chicken-egg problem
- Angie Keefer, Exception that proves rule, wrong
- Graham Meyer, Classic pyramid inverted
- Steve Rushton, How media masters reality #3: How television stopped delivering people
- Francis McKee, Headless body, topless bar pt. 3: Wild time in Florida
- Frances Stark, No values
- E.C. Large, The semantic discipline
- Ryan Holmberg, Imperial typepicter
- Editorial, Engineer & tinkerer caught in bricolage
- Rob Giampietro, “Puissant god” reviewed: “man, after all”
- Joe Scanlan, Where does your money come from?
- Albert Sukoff, Record bites dust
- Steve Rushton, How media masters reality #4: “You are not a very nice girl …”
- Dan Fox, May need rewrite
- Francis McKee, Headless body, topless bar pt. 4: Some die, some get hurt, some go on
- Jan Verwoert, Socrates: guard up, pants down
- Seth Price, First/Last taken from commons
- Angie Keefer, Non-existence neither proved nor disproved
- Paul Elliman, Rider four seven communicate
- Editorial, Mass innoculation against bacteria of doubt
- Rob Giampietro, Cap’n Sellers’s pen name stolen
- Tom McCarthy, How Marinetti taught me how to write
- Steve Rushton, How media masters reality #5: Spiderman in world wide web
- Francis McKee, Headless body, topless bar pt. 5: The bastards are making it up!
- Paul Elliman, Looking for male blue jeans black jacket
- Angie Keefer, Two temporal logics tried, tested
- Walead Beshty, Itself feels like end of something
- Editorial, Prior temporal logic, tired
- Rob Giampietro, Remington launches ghostwriter
- Paul Elliman, Hey Manhattan
- Snowden Snowden, Much fussed over pussy
- Steve Rushton, How media masters reality #6: Correct me if i’m wrong
- Graham Meyer, 0 ÷ 0 → 0
- Dan Fox, Patience, fortitude remain lions
- Angie Keefer, Twenty questions inverted
- Frances Stark, Corduroy pillows make headlines
- Francis McKee, Headless body, topless bar pt. 6: Whose throat can i eat?
- Jan Verwoert, Unicorn: “I exist”
- and throughout: Will Holder, The Middle of Nowhere Chapter 9 cont’d
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Frances Stark
My Best Thing
My Best Thing. This intimate publication focuses on Frances Starks pivotal feature length video My Best Thing, premiered at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011 a digital video animation, which traces the development of two sexual encounters that progress into conversations about film, literature, art, collaboration and subjectivity.British curator Mark Godfrey captures the density of this recent work by Stark with an in-depth essay considering the artists use of online sex-chat rooms as vehicles for her creative process.
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From Berkeley to Berkeley – Objectif Exhibitions, 2008-2010
Mai Abu ElDahab (Ed.)
Interviews: Mai Abu ElDahab by Will Holder, Guy Ben-Ner by Jan Verwoert, Mariana Castillo Deball by Giovanni Carmine, Sancho Silva by Luca Cerizza, Michael Smith by Larissa Harris, Yael Davids by Frédérique Bergholtz, Mark Aerial Waller by Mike Sperlinger, Anne Daems by Ronald Van de Sompel, Chris Evans by Francesco Manacorda, Antonio Ortega by David G. Torres, Sharon Hayes by Roger Cook, Christian Jankowski by Raimundas Malašauskas, Michael Stevenson by Esperanza Rosales; glossary by Dexter Sinister
The publication includes a series of interviews with artists who exhibited at Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, over a two-year period, along with a collection of secondary and parallel material produced in collaboration with each artist. Ranging from the humorous to the pseudo-scientific, the artists discuss the methods by which their research is transformed into practice. Both the artists and the interviewers constitute a community of active and concerned arts practitioners who, through art-making, writing, curation and teaching, deal with issues of representation, behavioral patterns and historical legacy.
Co-published with Objectif Exhibitions
Design by Will Holder
Inside cover design by Frances Stark
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