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Variant Issue 8 1990 , (V) A R I ISSUE NUMBER 8 1990 £3.O0/$5.50 &4VMt» *V •• «• » ** m Mb %s i J» >«1 ttfi QMMON SENSE: CHOMSKY .*.?» *w- SNIPER: JO SPENCE W?-,i£- BEYOND THE GALLERY k^= .r 'nix,' xUkats-f ,:.<. n t e n t s 7 NEWS Artists issues, issues in art and media 4 ARTISTS PAGE 'The Defence of the Realm' Profific Pamphleteer. 15 PREVIEWS Karen Strang on the 10th anniversary of the National Review of Live Art. Lorna J. Walte on the Women in Profile season. Malcolm Dickson on the TSWA — 4 Cities Project. 20 ARTISTS PAGE 'The Defence of the Realm' Prolific Pamphleteer. 21 COMMON SENSE AND Variant interviews Jim Kelman on the work of Noam Chomsky FREEDOM and its connections with the Scottish tradition of Common Sense philosophy, followed by an excerpt from a new Noam Chomsky essay written for the Self Determination and Power conference held in Glasgow in January 1 990. 27 'COULD DO BETTER' Jo Spence on art, class, and shame. 33 A NATIONAL CULTURE Paul Wood looks back on the major 'Scottish Art since 1900' exhibition and questions the validity of its history making 39 THE BIGGEST FREEBIE Roland Miller on Glasgow's big day. OF THEM ALL 41 DAVID HARDING David Harding, Scotland's first town artist, talks to Variant about community art in the 1 970's and the issues affecting public art today. 49 PROJECT REVIEWS Glasgow 1 990; Image and Installation, Whaur Extremes Meet, Sites/Positions, Edge 90 Glasgow, Well of Patience, 19:4:90 TV Interventions. 55 BOOK REVIEWS 'PostModemism, Politics and Art', 'Class Myths and Culture', 'Minefields', 'IF' Comix, and 'Dada Turns Red'. 61 COMMENT Looking Out for Small-Scale Film and Video by Ken Gill VARIANT is a magazine of cross-currents in VARIANT culture: art practice, critical activity, 1/3, imaginative ideas, challenging tendencies. 61 CECIL STREET, We are a charitable organisation and GLASGOW, G12 8RW, publish with the assistance of grants, SCOTLAND. subscriptions, sales and advertising. We 041 339 4287 welcome contributions (contact the editor for guidelines), and we are responsive to areas of collaboration with other initiatives. EDITOR: MALCOLM DICKSON Variant is an indispensable guide to 'all PRODUCTION/DESIGN: ADAM GEARY that's progressive' in Scotland and the U.K. ADVERTISING: KEN GILL have organised industrial action, they are not a bona fide trade union. Visual artists in Scotland suffer an even lower profile. As 'industrialisation' creeps up on the arts, the need for 'worker representation' becomes critical. In January, at a meeting in Glasgow, the formation of an 'Industry Lead Body for the Arts' was discussed. Theatre and dance, film, publishing, galleries, local authorities, were all represented. Although printmakers and sculptors were also present at the meeting, there is no representative organisation of Scottish artists that can supply relevant information to the ILB. The information, on what working opportunities exist for artists and what training would best suit their careers, is needed by the Visual Art, Crafts and Photography sector of the Lead Body. The function of this organisation will be to examine standards for vocational qualifications for those hoping to work in the arts. The training will be co-ordinated by SCOTVEC, responsible for vocational training in Scotland. But decisions on what type of training, who can best provide it, and how would expect. The fuss over the necessary it is for the employment PUBLIC ART - Elspeth King/Julian Spalding affair of artists will be made by the ILB the COMMISSION OR will not have encouraged with a brief covering the whole of Labour Leader to permit a new the UK. TRUST? power base for opinionated artists In September, in Kiel. Germany, and community interests. artists' organisation belonging to Recent discussions in Glasgow on Especially as some of the activists the European group of the a proposal to set up a Public Art supporting Ms King were clearly International Association of Art Commission for the City have bent on using the business to (IAA) will meet to discuss artists' ended with Labour Leader Pat challenge Cllr Lally's leadership. interests in the new 'single Lally asking for a rethink. The The message of the King affair is European market' that will come District Council had offered a - 'the District Council's Labour into effect on January 1st 1993. steering group money for a Group rules'. The new 'common European feasibility study if they could come Over in Edinburgh, the Council's home' created by the collapse of acceptable proposal. up with an avoided Planning Department has a separate Eastern Europe will be But Or Lally has sent the scheme controversy by setting up a 'Public another important issue, and back to the drawing board. The Art Trust' within the Council. It delegates from some of the newly commission proposal was master- is run without outside 'democratised' and independent minded by David Harding, Head of participation, and its first nations are expected to attend. Environmental Art at Glasgow commission goes to Eduardo School of Art (see interview in this Paolozzi to build himself a issue). Commissions of this type monument at the top of Leith United States, where exist in the Walk. NATIONAL ARTISTS they are composed of proposal representatives of artists, (At time of writing, the ASSOCIATION Public Arts Commission will architects, and the community. A for a be submitted to the District CONFERENCE Public Art Commissioner would Council sometime in September normally be appointed, who would '90) The NAA is holding a national be independent of the local conference at Chesterfield Arts authority. Public Art Centre on Saturday 20th October Commissioners in the US monitor THE STILL WAITING IN - 'Public Commissions & Private the operation of 'percent for art' Concerns' legislation, which is mandatory in WINGS many American States, and is In order to inform a full debate on public works and new artists' applied to Theatre writers in Scotland called the issues arising from public buildings. public art (and other a strike in June to back their claim commissions in scripts types work), we welcome Councillor Lally's problem may be for a rise in payments for of submissions from artists about their the independence from the by Scottish Theatre companies. At negotiations experiences (good, bad, or average) District Council a Public Art the time of writing, Commission (and Commissioner) continue. Although the writers in this field. We will respect complete and the RA admitted the error, will take some high-powered confidentiality and I or anonymity if saying the offending clause had ingenuity on someone's behalf to requested. slipped in 'by accident*. get some policies into operation which are not only proactive, but Submissions should be made in Now a more blatant breach of enlightened also when it comes to writing if possible by the I st October artists' rights has occurred in the the arts across Glasgow. As with latest. RA's London home - Burlington other matters on the Council's House in Piccadilly. The RA has Submissions may also be made in agenda, arts organisers and cultural - been selling neckties and plastic person at the Conference to which workers in Glasgow are not, it boxes decorated with images lifted all artists are welcome! - for details seems, being consulted. contact: from works by Picasso and The current indecision obviously Matisse. This is a breach of Shirley Cameron, 49 Stainton Rd. also affects international copyright laws. The Tramway, the Sheffield S I I 7AX tel: (0742) venue of the Festivals DACS. who act on behalf of the Unit, and 669889. one of the UK's most challenging Picasso estates in Britain, spotted art and theatre space's. In 1990, this lapse as well. The RA has had The Tramway has hosted to forfeit its merchandise, which installations by will be destroyed. David Mach, Le ROYAL PREROGATIVE Cinq (French Contemporary Art), George Lappas, and many The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) GLASGOW AFTER theatre and dance events including is often ridiculed for its Summer Test Department in the former, and in the latter. Show - a cosy haven for Sunday 1990 DV8 It seems painters, a sinecure for old-school- that it might be incorporated within tie Academicians, whose the Council's Museums and own It seems that rumours circulating works gain Art Galleries or Halls and Theatres, automatic hanging about Glasgow 1991 will have to with biggest bets placed on the space. Unfairly, the RA is an easy remain just that for the time being, former. this target, with its picture hats Should occur then it and that is unsubstantiated. The would seem likely that entrance Ascot and Henley image. It is part present T-shirt image of an empty of the London Summer season. fees could be enacted, as they have pocketed punter is one that many been at The McLellan Galleries. There is more to the RA than artists groups and organisers strawberries and cream, its Royal envisage feeling when it comes to Academy schools, for example, financing projects. The existence and its often exciting special of the Festivals Unit within the exhibitions. The RA has been a Council has meant that a vast genuine popularizer of art. resource of money has been But any reputation the RA has had available for non-gallery based GLASGOW as an organisation run by and for activities and the Unit's relatively artists suffered two serious 'no-strings attatched' policy has knockbacks recently. Earlier this given incentive to 'special year, when the Summer Show projects', many of which are entry forms were sent out, the RA reviewed in this issue of Variant. included a clause which, if signed, We contacted Tessa Jackson.
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