Page 44 - Studio International - September 1974

Contributors Feedback leaf on this piece of English furniture. leap-frogging over each other, the
Page 2 tells one that it is published and results being shown side by side. He
Clive Phillpot is Librarian at Art-Language is alive and well and edited by Edit deAk, Joshua Cohn has also done some work where the
Chelsea School of Art, London ... issuing forth from Art and Language and Walter Robinson, that it is projector is used as a direct analogue
Malcolm Le Grice is a film-maker and Press, 13 Milverton Crescent, published irregularly by Art-Rite for the camera, a possibility assisted
teaches at St Martin's School of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. Publishing Company, 149 Wooster by the lightness of an 8 mm projector.
Art, London... John A. Walker is I missed volume 2 number 3 Street, New York, NY 10012, that This was particularly interesting in a
an artist, writer and art librarian September 1973 (£0.75) when it was subscriptions cost $5.00 per year, film which explored the possibilities
... Paul Martin is an artist and published, but volume 2 number that issues 1 and 3 are $2.00 each of a zoom lens on both camera and
teaches sculpture at Goldsmith's 4 June 1974 has just appeared, while issues 2 and 4 are free, and projector: film shot off a diving raft in
College, London ... R. J. Rees is an price £1.00 ($4.00 USA). This latest that (new status symbol) it is not the pool on Hampstead Heath,
artist and teaches at the Central number exhibits some changes : indexed anywhere ! The magazine zooming in and out, is projected from
School of Art, London ... A. the format is larger, it contains more consists of 24 pages of newsprint two projectors, and the pictures
REVIEW
Queiroz-Ribeiro is a Portuguese pages, 130, and all contributions and carries journalistic pieces about moved and zoomed to maintain the
sculptor currently working in are anonymous though some the New York scene which seem to 'detail' superimposed in the correct
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London on a Gulbenkian scholarship individuals are referred to by name in be slanted rather more towards place — at the correct size in the more
... R. C. Kenedy is Assistant Keeper the texts. It is curious that Art artists than galleries. This issue general picture. Tim Head's films
of the National Art Library, Victoria and Language should embrace includes 12 women artists confirmed my suspicion that his work
and Albert Museum ... Charles anonymity at just the time that the commenting on gender and art, could have many features in common
Harrison is a member of Art and Times Literary Supplement is including Judy Chicago, Nancy with that of other London film-makers
Language and teaches at Watford preparing to abandon it, but the two Graves, Agnes Martin and Pamela at the present time (see 'Vision', July/
Art School, England ... Lynda cases are not really comparable. Seager p.p. Lee Krasner (that's a August 1974). In particular I was
Morris is Student Adviser, at the The new format of the journal is new ploy) ; Acconci complaining interested in a film which was based
Slade School of Art, London ... attractive and the layout clear and about the problems he ran into in on the discipline of a small black circle
Rosetta Brooks is a London legible; brief comment on the content setting up a recent show ; a long always within the image. An actual
correspondent of Flash Art . would not only be difficult but also piece on Diaristic Art; and among circle was placed as a reference on the
P. A. Rosenbloom is a painter and superfluous. However perhaps it is other items a profile of Lucy Lippard, projection wall in the centre of the
teaches at Gloucestershire and worth drawing attention to which includes mention of the time screen. Thereafter the film explored
Stourbridge Colleges of Art, England 'Bibliotherapy' by Philip Pilkington that she worked in the Museum of many aspects of the spacial
... John Glaves-Smith works at the and David Rushton in the September Modern Art in New York, under the experience of locating the circles,
Conway Library, Courtauld Institute, 1973 issue, which 'it is hoped will be Librarian Bernard Karpel, and where both illusory and actual, as they
London ... Caryn Faure Walker is a useful as an orthodox bibliography'. she met 'museum guards Dan appeared filmed directly, or once
freelance writer on art ... Timothy The material listed would probably Flavin and Robert Ryman, and night removed through shooting into a
O'Keefe is a partner in the publishing cause most patients in need of watchman Sol LeWitt.' (I wonder mirror. The space created was a
firm Martin Brian O'Keefe... Susan orthodox bibliotherapy to have a who the lavatory attendant was ?) conceptual construct, as the illusory
Lambert is a freelance writer on art ... relapse, since the contents fall into Clive Phillpot nature of the apparent space was
Frederick Laws is a freelance such groups as 'About the Problems continually shown up by the actual
writer ... Andrew Causey's of Implication and "Classical" Logic', circle, and by the double-take
published works include a 'Models and Other Semantical Vision ambiguity of the mirror sequences.
monograph on Peter Lanyon Developments of Modalities and (or) Medals but no money
Simon Wilson lectures on art "Free" Logics', 'Essentialism, In June Carollee Schneeman and Peter Gidal won the special prize for
at the Tate Gallery, London ... Attributes and A Priority in Modal Anthony McCall were in London and research (Prix de la Recherche) at the
Norman Ackroyd is a printmaker and Studies' etc. etc. However, the fitted in a number of shows. They recent Toulon festival, with his
teacher at the Central School of Art, bibliography contains just under showed jointly at the London Co-op, Room Film 1973.'Prix' is a mis-
London ... Gerald Newman is an 300 references, and gives one an and Carollee Schneeman did a nomer, as the prize carries no financial
artist insight into an aspect of the Art and performance at the Art Meeting Place reward —that song again ! The film can
Language input. in Earlham Street. Her performance be seen at the NFT on 11 September.
Arts Magazine for May 1974 showed the narrowing ground More promotion for NAC in
includes a piece entitled 'Dialogues between current work in film and art Europe
with Carl Andre' by Andrea Gould. structures based on bodily action. In For a few years now I have resisted the
The blurb which follows the title particular she performed a work, argument of some of my colleagues in
suggests, in language not which, though it included 8 mm film, Europe that the film movement here
uncharacteristic of the magazine, that was essentially focused on her action— should identify itself as clearly
Andre's answers 'to some very direct swinging near horizontally close to separate from the New American
and personal questions ... serve to the ground from a rope, making chalk Cinema. My wish has always been to
shatter numerous aesthetic clichés'. marks in the surrounding space at the consider developments as
The irony of this remark lies in the fact extremities of her reach. Anthony international, but my view point has
that many of the questions put to McCall also did a day-long fire-piece been continually eroded by the one-
Andre unthinkingly embody these near Oxford. for the Oxford Museum way nature of the exchange, forcing
cliches; the interviewer gives the of Modern Art. He had with him three me into an unwonted chauvinism.
impression of a peremptory customs new films exploring various aspects of Annette Michelson's programme for
official working through a list of the technique which he developed for the Montreux Festival is almost the
questions designed to see if the his Line Describing a Cone (see last nail in the coffin which breaks the
artist has anything to declare. 'Vision', February 1974). The new camel's back. Titled, 'New Form in
Paradoxically in spite of their nature works do not break any extremely new Film', it is a piece of blatant and
the staccato questions seem to sting ground, but are valid extensions of the serious misrepresentation. Not one
Andre into coining a series of formal notions contained in the earlier European film-maker is included
aphoristic answers which are film. As well as being shown at the (except Kubelka who has been for so
sometimes evasive, usually oblique, London Co-op, the films were long part of the NAC that it makes no
and often illuminating. Just to give included in a programme shown at the difference). It is ludicrous to present
a flavour of his replies, here is one Garage Gallery. The programme such a programme with such a title
exchange : 'Are you indifferent to contained work by McCall, David when it is no more than another NAC
what is written about you ?. Not at all. Dye, and Tim Head, and was chosen propaganda exercise. It would not be
I always search for my name and by Tim Head as part of his exhibition so bad if there had been even one
measure the significance of the there. David Dye showed a number of American Festival which had invited
commentary with a ruler in inches— his 8 mm films, mostly double European film-makers and if there
but I know I will never see my face in projection work, but none of it new. were any sign that American film-
a line of type'. Much of his work has been concerned makers were genuinely concerned to
Art-Rite number 5 Spring 1974 with the problem of shooting with two develop the movement at an
(Rheumatism Issue 0 has, like cameras; like the film in which the international level.
Arts Magazine, only recently set cameras describe a circle in a room, by Malcolm Le Grice