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Volume 3 Issue1 v a publication dedicated to contemporary art Ernest Trova & Tom Friedman & Larry Krone & The Guerrila Girls & What, How and for Whom & Raqs Media Collective & Temporary Services & Y o u n g - H a e Chang Heavy Industries & Pablo Helguera & much more... Contributors Boot Print A biannual publication dedicated Brandon Anschultz was born in Judsonia, AR and cur- Ashok Mathur is a writer and cultural organizer to contemporary art rently lives and works in St. Louis, MO. His most recent exhi- based in western Canada. He currently holds the bitions are Amass at Monte Vista Projects in Los Angeles, Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic Inquiry at Summer 2009 Volume 3 Issue 1 CA and the solo exhibition Transmission/Destination at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia Center for Creative Arts in St. Louis, MO. He has addi- where he directs the Centre for innovation in Culture Georgia Kotretsos tionally had solo exhibitions at @Space Contemporary in and the Arts in Canada, an artist-research think-tank. Athens, Greece Santa Ana, CA, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO, Philip His latest work is the transmogrification of his novel Founder / Editor-in-chief Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO and Stony Brook University, into an interdisciplinary art installation, A Little Distillery Stony Brook, NY. He has been in group exhibitions at the in Nowgong. Timothy Ridlen Brooklyn, NY, United States Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; the Daum Museum Editor of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO; The Dolphin Gallery Kelly Shindler is a curator and writer who is currently pur- and Urban Culture Projects, La Esquina, both in Kansas suing a double Master’s in Art History and Arts Administration Jual William Chávez City. Other group exhibitions include shows at White at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 2003, she St. Louis, MO, United States Flag Projects; Boots Contemporary Art Space, Philip Slein has worked for the contemporary art organization Art21. Creative Advisor Gallery, Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, all in St. Louis Elsewhere, Shindler has curated film and video programs for Australia Cinematheque, the Sequences Festival in Reykjavik, Danyel M. Ferrari and Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan. Anschultz Brooklyn, NY, United States received his BFA from Louisiana Tech University and his Scandinavia House, and others. She is the co-founder/cura- Researcher MFA from Washington University in St. Louis tor of the Package Deals film series, whose programs have been seen in museums, cinemas, and film festivals in over Elizabeth Wolfson Virginia MacKenny is a practising artist and Senior thirty cities around the world. In late 2008, she co-found- St. Louis, MO, United States Lecturer in Painting at the Michaelis School of Fine Art ed a second film series, Refracted Lens, with Beth Capper. Editorial Assistant at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has www.packagedeals.org www.refractedlens.org Juozas Cernius received a number of awards including the Volkskas Brooklyn, NY, United States Atelier Award (1991) and the Ampersand Fellowship Robert Sloon is an artist and writer based in Cape Proof-reading in New York (2004). She is an independent critic and Town, South Africa. He is founding editor of South Africa’s curator. In 2006 she co-curated with Error! Contact not best contemporary art gossip blog ArtHeat, http://artheat.net/ Mark Jeffery London, United Kingdom defined. Second to None an exhibition celebrating the 50th Matthew Strauss founded White Flag Projects in 2006, Layout/Design Anniversary of the 1956 Women’s March on Pretoria to where has organized over 30 exhibitions of contemporary protest the pass laws, for Iziko South African National Publisher art. In addition to his work at White Flag Strauss has been Boots Contemporary Art Space, Inc. Gallery. A previous KZN editor for www.artthrob.co.za, a guest curator at The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts she also supports contemporary visual arts discourse in SA Copyright © 2009 and in the Front Room at the Contemporary Art Museum Boots Contemporary Art Space, Inc. by writing for Art South Africa and was an invited writer for St. Louis. All rights reserved Sophie Perryer’s 10 Years 100 Artists – Art in a Democratic South Africa (2004). In 2006 she presented papers at con- Before establishing White Flag Projects Strauss was pri- For submissions and ad opportunities ferences in Mumbai and Paris on aspects of South African marily a practicing artist, exhibiting frequently and being contact Georgia Kotretsos at: contemporary art production. She was a national selector selected by Elizabeth Dunbar, Gary Garrells, and Helen [email protected] for Spier Contemporary 2007 and last year she had a solo Molesworth as a winner of the Great Rivers Biennial at Boots Contemporary Art Space exhibition of paintings, Foam Along the Waterline, at UCT’s the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, where his 2307 Cherokee St. Irma Stern Museum. exhibition Dead Language opened in 2006. St. Louis, MO 63118 United States Juan William Chávez St. Louis, MO, United States Director Georgia Kotretsos Athens, Greece Agent Bryan Reckamp On a bicycle somewhere... Agent www.bootsart.com [email protected] 314.772.BOOT (2668) www.bootsartnews.blogspot.com Join Facebook and Myspace groups: Boots Contemporary Art Space. 2 Table of Contents Serkan Ozkaya: A Sudden Gust of Wind by Elizabeth Wolfson 5 Slinger II by JuanWilliam Chavéz 6 Falling Man: Ernest Trova in Descent by Matthew Strauss 7 Talking with Tom Friedman by JuanWilliam Chavéz 10 Larry Krone by Brandon Anschultz 12 What, How and For Whom by Danyel M. Ferrari 14 Raqs Media Collective by Ashok Mathur 16 The Guerrilla Girls; Fake Fur and other ‘F’ Words by Virginia MacKenny 18 Temporary Services by Tim Ridlen 20 Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries by Kelly Shindler 22 Avant Car Guard by Robert Sloon 24 Doing It For Daddy by Robert Sloon 25 Galerie Puta by Robert Sloon 27 Magazine Forté: The Sound Magazine by Georgia Kotretsos 29 Artoons by Pablo Helguera: The Art World Anthropologist by Georgia Kotretsos 30 3 Note from Georgia Kotretsos Note from Juan William Chávez Founder / Editor-in-Chief Director Dear Boot Print friends, readers, and benefactors, Kicking off the fall 2008 exhibitions were great examples of the diversity and varying degrees of exhibitions that Boots organizes as part of our Boot Print Volume 3 Issue 1 is the fifth issue of the journal we are sharing with you. It marks the mission to stimulate a creative dialogue between the Saint Louis art completion of half the issues initially planned to be put out and with your help we can keep the community and the contemporary art world. The first show was an promise I made to you, our readers and to myself. installation by Serkan Ozkaya, an internationally recognized artist from Istanbul who premiered his installation A Sudden Gust of Wind at the The truth is, you’ve been the driving force behind this effort. Your testimonials are remarkably gallery. He later recreated this piece at Cabinet in Brooklyn, NY as part encouraging and motivating. Every so often, art educators contact me to inform me that they will of a group show curated by Regine Basha titled A Series of Coincidences. be incorporating Boot Print in their course or seminar class and a number of readers who operate On the other side of the scale, Boots has embraced local artists and outside the art world, have been following Boot Print since the very beginning and anticipate each provided opportunities for emerging curators, such as Cole Root who issue. It is deeply satisfying to know that those who support us are as proud to be doing so as we curated the second incarnation of our Slinger series. The purpose of are to be supported by them. the Slinger show is to highlight St. Louis-based artists and celebrate the strength of the local arts community. Once again, “Slinger II” was Anyone involved in this kind of project will very well know the behind-the-scenes – Boot Print is print- the most highly attended exhibition of the year, showing St. Louis’ ed and distributed because of the St. Louis community, Juan William Chávez, our grant writer, Bridget abundant enthusiasm for our local artists, and serving as evidence Flynn, myself and many others. I edit Boot Print, from Athens, Greece and it was essential to travel to of the necessity of Boots’ mission. St. Louis twice to help fund-raise, to meet and to thank, in person, the people who are standing by us. Yet times are rapidly changing – print media is facing new challenges and we are all adjusting to In addition, Boot Print has similarly worked to build a bridge between St. the new conditions of the economy - hoping better days of printing and distribution are ahead of us. Louis and the international arts community, specifically through its inclu- We at Boot Print would like to take this opportunity to invite you all to alleviate some of the weight, sion in the Heartland exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven which has been on the St. Louis community by offering support from wherever you are. Boot Print (4 Oct. 2008 – 8 Feb. 2009), Netherlands. The publication was includ- won’t be forever, so for as long as it will be, we would like you to stand by our side and contribute ed in an exhibit of various printed materials that were meant to rep- to our future. Right now, there have been delays due to insufficient funds but I am confident things resent the most intriguing endeavors taking place in the Midwest. will turn around. I am asking you to be patient and Boot Print will reach you.
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