Old News
2006 - 3 issue
3 months
January - March: Henrik Olesen (Denmark), Karl Holmqvist (Sweden)
April-June: Anri Sala (Albania), Lucas Ajemian (USA), T10. (Transfunctional
Territory) (Cuba)
July-September: Aleksander Komarov (Belrussia), Laura Horelli (Finland),
October-December: Lee Ranaldo (USA), Bruno Serralongue (France), Leah Singe
(USA).
+ The Silly Season/la saison des marronniers:
Ignasi Aballí (Spain), Matthieu Laurette (France), Tzay chuen Lim
(Singapore) and Tanja Ostojic (Serbia) & friends.
2005 - 2 issue
12 months
Adam Broomberg (South Africa)
Gerard Byrne (Ireland)
Mathew Hale (England)
Céline Duval (France)
Ján Mancuska (Slovakia)
David Shrigley (England)
Kawasaki/Sound Bum (Japan)
Annelie Nilsson/Cecilia Wendt (Sweden)
3 month Los Angeles Special
Andrea Bowers, Kaucyila Brooke, The Center for Land Use Interpretation/Erik
Knutzen, Mari Eastman, Morgan Fisher, Sharon Hayes, Marc Herbst, Elliott
Hundley, Mary Kelly, Los Super Elegantes/Eric Bluhm, Laura Owens, Ed Ruscha
and Lincoln Tobier.
+ Emergency Library: Thomas Hirschhorn (CH)+
2004 - 1 issue
1 Month
February-Jakob Kolding (Denmark) / Loke Fowler (Scotland)
March-Emily Jacir (USA) / Cesare Pietroiusti (Italy)
April-Tercerunquinto (Mexico) / Erick Beltran (Mexico)
May-Tania Bruguera (Cuba) / Jessica Almy-Pagan (USA)
June-Alfredo Jaar (Chile) / Mauricio Arango (Columbia)
July-Carolina Caycedo (Columbia) / Andrea Riviere (Columbia)
August-Julie Ault (USA) / Stephan Pascher (USA)
September-Sabah Naim (Egypt) / Mohmed Able (Egypt)
October-Sam Nhlengethwa (South Africa) / Velaphi Mzimba (South Africa)
November-Rivane Neuenschwander (brazil) / Cao Guimarães (Brazil)
December-Takuji Kogo *Candy Factory Projects (Japan) / YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAV
INDUSTRIES (Korea)
January-Jesper Fabricius (Denmark) / Camilla Nørgaard (Denmark)
Old News has been exhibited at the following venues:
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Los Angeles, 29. June-11. September
05)
Dunkers Kulturhus (Helsingborg, Sweden. April through June 2006)
cneai = le des impressionnistes (Chatou, France. 14. October 2006 - 29.
January 2007).
CGAC (Santiago, Spain. 31. October 2007 6. January 2008)
Midway Contemporary Art (MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, USA. 8. March - 26. April
Old News is a project about information and media, and will continue for 5
years begining (2004).
There is nothing new about Old News
"There are 4,000 holes in the road in Blackburn, Lancashire, or one
twenty-sixth of a hole per person, according to a council survey. If
Blackburn is typical, there are two million holes in Britains roads, and
300,000 in London".
This was what John Lennon read in Daily Mails Far and Near column on 17
January 1967. Lennon transformed the news into the last verse of the song A
Day In A Life, the last song on The Beatles 1967 album Sergeant Peppers
Lonely Hearts Club Band. Reading about the 4,000 potholes in Blackburn,
Lancashire, may start you thinking about the flood of information that is
constantly printed and possibly read by millions of people around the globe
You may begin to think about the amount of information that is accessible to
an individual. Read, unread, understood, misunderstood.
Old News is a project about information and media.
In Old News you will find images and articles selected by 24 individuals. I
could have been 24 farmers, dental technicians or real estate agents
choosing the articles and images, but the information in Old News was
selected by artists. Starting in January 2004, I invited one artist a month
and continued to do so for twelve months. Each invited artist was asked to
invite a fellow artist to participate and both clipped four articles or
images (possibly one every week) from news sources s/he read during the
designated month. All articles appear, as they were sent to me. Some have
been reduced in size, due to the size of the original clipping, but
otherwise they have not been edited. A few artists have culled their
articles and images from webnews sources, some have re-worked them
graphically, and that is how they are shown here.
When I first started thinking about Old News, I thought about how news,
newspapers and information influence my life. How I select my news sources
and how information can be manipulated in the media. I thought of how I
would react to my own Old News request. Would I read and look at the daily
paper differently? While you read this, you might think about what you would
do.
I was curious how artists would react to my request and make their
selections. The artists approached the Old News project in a variety of
ways. News and newspapers have been used in many different creative
processes long before Lennon discovered the 4,000 holes. Recycling news
articles, headlines, images and using information from the print media were
at the core of visual art in the 20th century. The expressions are many and
varied from intervention, incorporation, appropriation, reproduction of new
to self published newspapers and montaged newspaper fragments.
Many artists, writers and musicians have inspired me in my research. I would
like to mention Sylvan Hoffman and C. Hartley Grattan's book News of the
World, a History of the World in Newspaper-style (1953), On Kawaras I read
(1966 to the present), the news paper insert in Dead Kennedy's album Bedtime
for Democracy (1986), Tom Lehrer's That Was The Year That Was (1965), Ken
Loach's segment from the film September 11 and Guy Schraenen's exhibition
Kunstzeitung/Zeitungskunst about the history of artworks in and around
newspapers. I looked for, but regrettably never found, Aleksandr Mosolov's
Four Newspaper Advertisements (Chetyre gazetnyh obyavlenya) a 1926
composition inspired by real advertisements in the Russian newspaper
Izvestija.
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