Issue Number 2 a publication dedicated to contemporary art Contributors Dan Cameron Juozas Cernius Wyatt Arden Kahn Guest contributor The Nth dimension Guest contributor MFA Road Show New York, NY, United States Art and Entertainment New York, NY, United States New York, NY, United States Born in Canada, in 1976, Juozas Cernius Dan Cameron is Director of U.S. lives and works in New York City. Wyatt Arden Kahn is an artist living and Biennial, Inc, a non-profit arts organiza- He received his BFA from Concordia working in New York City. Originally Boot Print tion created to produce Prospect New University in Montreal (2002), and MFA from New York, he received a BFA in Orleans, an international contemporary from The School of the Art Institute of Sculpture from The School of the Art A biannual publication dedicated art biennial scheduled to open at multi- Chicago (2004). He works with a wide Institute of Chicago. He was one of the to contemporary art ple sites throughout the city in October range of media including drawing, paint- founders of the Plaines Project, Chicago 2008, and which he will curate. As of ing, photography, printmaking and sculp- and was a resident summer curator at December 2007 May 2007, he is also Director of Visual ture. Thematically, he explores oppo- Alogon, Chicago. He also participated in VOL 1 / ISSUE 2 Art for the Contemporary Arts Center sitional and contradictory aspects of the LoBot residency program in Oakland, (CAC) in New Orleans, which will serve human nature and culture, including the CA. His works have been exhibited in Georgia Kotretsos as one of the main venues for Prospect tropes of life and death. Cernius recently Chicago, New York, Oakland, Prague Athens, Greece New Orleans. In January 2007 he will exhibited a large site specific sculpture and Berlin and he has curated shows in Editor-in-chief open Something from Nothing, his first entitled god is great/ god was great at the Chicago, New York and Jerusalem. He CAC exhibition, in which twelve inter- DUMBO art center’s Art Under the Bridge finds writing to be an essential element national artists are invited to develop Festival in Brooklyn, NY (Sept. 2007). He to the production of his artwork. This is Timothy Ridlen works primarily using social networks will be exhibiting at Allen Gallery in New his first published work. Chicago, IL, United States and found materials. York City, in early 2008. Associate Editor From 1995 to 2006, Dan Cameron was Erin Riley-Lopez Juan William Chávez Senior Curator at the New Museum of Isil Egrikavuk Guest Contributor St. Louis, MO, United States Contemporary Art in New York, where “If this exhibition doesn’t wake them up, Here and Elsewhere Creative Advisor he organized one-person exhibitions of, it is not my fault!” New York, NY, United States among others, William Kentridge, Paul Chicago, IL, United States/ McCarthy, Rivane Neuenschwander, Juozas Cernius Istanbul, Turkey Erin Riley-Lopez B.A., Sarah Lawrence New York, NY, United States Francesco Vezzoli, Cildo Meireles, Nalini College; M.A. Center for Curatorial Proof-reading Malani, Faith Ringgold, Pierre et Gilles, Isil Egrikavuk, born in 1980, Izmit, Turkey. Studies, Bard College; Assistant Curator, Doris Salcedo, Carolee Schneemann, Currently she is working towards her The Bronx Museum of the Arts (January Carroll Dunham, Los Carpinteros, David MFA at The School of The Art Instıtute 2006-present); Curator, Here and Bryan Reckamp Wojnarowicz, and Martin Wong, along of Chicago. Selected Performances & Elsewhere Twenty-Seventh Annual Saint Louis, MO / San Franscisco, CA with such group exhibitions as Living Exhibitions: Chicago Cultural Center, Karsi Artist in the Marketplace Exhibition, United States Inside the Grid and East Village USA. Sanat-Istanbul, Aksanat-Istanbul, PiST///- The Bronx Museum of the Arts (2007); Layout/Design Istanbul, Museum of Contemporary Co-curator, AIM 26, The Bronx Museum A specialist in global art, Cameron served Art-Chicago, Boots Contemporary Art of the Arts (2006); Curator, When as curator for the 8th Istanbul Biennial in Publisher Space-St. Louis, 3 Arts Club, Peter Jones Living Was Labor, The Bronx Museum Boots Contemporary Art Space, Inc. 2003, and the Tapei 2006 Biennial. He Gallery, Links Hall, Gallery 2-Chicago, of the Arts (2005); Publications include Copyright © 2007 has also organized international contem- Chicago Art Department. catalogue essays in Here and Elsewhere, porary art exhibitions for museums and AIM 26, and Collection Remixed, The Boots Contemporary Art Space, Inc. cultural organizations throughout the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and reviews All rights reserved world, including in Austria, Brazil, China, of museum exhibitions have appeared in Ireland, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Beate Engl Guest contributor the on-line publication might be good… For submissions and ad opportunities and Sweden. He is currently organizing a project of fluent ~ collaborative, contact Georgia Kotretsos at: survey exhibitions of Peter Saul’s paint- Marketing alternative strategies: The New Austin, Texas. [email protected] ings for Orange County Museum of Art, Model of Artist-Run Spaces in Berlin and of Lee Bul’s sculptural installations Munich, Germany for an international museum consortium. In addition, since 2002 he has orga- Born in 1973 in Regen, Germany, Beate Serkan Özkaya Boots Contemporary Art Space nized the visual arts component for the Engl studied Fine Art / Sculpture at Guest contributor 2307 Cherokee St. annual Next Wave Festival at Brooklyn Munich Art Academy (Akademie der Rhythm and Symbol St Louis, MO 63118 Bildenden Künste) and made her diploma Istanbul, Turkey Academy of Music (BAM). United States in the master class (Meisterschülerin) of A frequent essayist for museum and Prof. Olaf Metzel in 2001. She received Serkan Özkaya was born in Istanbul, Juan William Chávez trade publications on contemporary her degree as Master of Fine Arts Turkey in 1973, lives and works in art, Cameron’s most recent publica- after a joint master class from Bauhaus Istanbul. His solo shows in the last two St. Louis, MO, United States tions include an exhibition catalog essay University Weimar and the School of years include Bring me the Head of... at Director on Cai Guo-Qiang for the Deutsche the Arts Institute Chicago (MFA Public m on the Bund, Shanghai and Freemans, Guggenheim Berlin (Aug 06), a fictional Art 2004). Besides working as a cura- NYC (2007); When He Came Back Bryan Reckamp memoir for a book based on the work of tor or in collaboration with artists and to His Senses, The Monster Was Still Saint Louis, MO / San Franscisco, CA, art historians (Galerie Goldankauf 1999- Waiting in Front of the Cave at Galerist, Stephen Dean (Sept 06), a survey essay United States 2001; KunstPraxis in-house-project for Istanbul (2006); Monet: A Retrospective on Miguel Palma’s work for Culturgest, Agent Lisboa (May 07), and a catalog text on Siemens Arts Program 2003-2005, The at Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Tony Feher (Jun 07) for the Corpus Domain of the Great Bear at kunstraum (2006). Between 2003 2006 Ozkaya Georgia Kotretsos Christi Museum of Art. munich 2006/2007) her artistic prac- produced his work Today Could Be a tice developed towards site-specific Day of Historical Importance in collabora- Athens, Greece Cameron teaches critical theory as a installations and institutional criticism tion with three newspapers (Radikal in Agent member of the graduate faculty of the (Betaversion 2.0, Hall 14 / Federkiel Turkey, Aftonbladet in Sweden, Freitag School of Visual Arts’ MFA program, Foundation, Leipzig, 2004; Und die weiße in Germany and the New York Times) Jon Peck and at New York University’s Steinhardt Zelle schwebt weiter... [And the white cube Miami, FL, United States keeps floating…], Hamburger Kunsthalle, School of Education. Agent 2005; Mad as hell, Ortstermine Munich, Daniel Tucker 2006; Perfect World, Boots Contemporary Guest contributor www.bootsart.com Art Space, St. Louis, 2007). In her pub- Proximity to Politics: A Review of [email protected] lication Space is a Place. Handbuch und Three Recent Published Dialogues on Standortrecherche [Handbook and site Contemporary Art and Activism 314.772.BOOT (2668) research] (Verlag Silke Schreiber 2005) Chicago, IL, United States she critically confronts outer space as a possible site for the expanded art world Daniel Tucker works as an organiz- with her research about public space er in Chicago, focused primarily on and globalized art industry. The art- public space, social movement history ist currently lives and works in Munich. and geography. He is currently the edi- Weblink: http://www.beateengl.de tor of the biannual journal and public program series AREA Chicago Art/ Research/Education/Activism (areachi- cago.org). For more information see miscprojects.com Table of Contents Pedestrian Project by Juan Wlliam Chávez 5 A Perfect World by Tim Ridlen 6 Slinger by Juan William Chávez 7 MFA Road Show by Dan Cameron 8 Here and Elsewhere by Tim Ridlen & Erin Riley-Lopez 9 Every Unemployed Curator Is Not an Independent Curator by Georgia Kotretsos 10 Marketing Alternative Strategies: The New Model of Artist-Run Spaces in Berlin by Beate Engl 20 “If this exhibition doesn’t wake them up, it is not my fault!” by Isil Egrikavuk 21 Proximity to Politics: A Review of Three Recent Published Dialogues on Contemporary Art and Activism by Daniel Tucker 22 The Art of Complaining by Georgia Kotretsos 24 Nuevos Ricos: Performing the Crooked Copy by Juan William Chávez 26 Three Questions on Art and Music with Los Super Elegantes by Juan William Chávez 27 Moving the Image: The Cinema Economy in Art by Tim Ridlen 28 Art and Entertainment by Wyatt Arden Kahn 29 The Nth Dimension by Juozas Cernius 31 Rhythm and Symbol by Serkan Özkaya 32 This time around, Boot Print is going after its ideal structure, its vision.