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Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts
Spring/Summer 2003, Volume 30, No.1AGITATE: Negotiating the Photographic Process
(includes a special cd-rom)
Editors: Dore Bowen and Chuck Mobley
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table of contents
1. In This Issue
by Chuck Mobley
4. Process in Art: The Means to an Image
By Robert C. Morgan
6. A Traitor to Mnemory
By Jillian St. Jacques
12. Photography in the Mix: Flora-Fauna-Photo
By Dore Bowen
17. Portofolio
Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey, Diane Althoff, Jean-Philippe Baert, Marco Breuer, Binh Danh, Kate Farrall, Ann Hamilton, Carlos Motta, Roger Newton, Cynthia Young.
28. Of Writing, Performance and Photography: The Cyber Theater of Mneme and Melete
By Moira Roth
34. Exhibition Review
31 and Lorna Simpson: Cameos and Appearances
By Diana Gaston
36. In the Gallery
ID/ENTITY: Portraiture in the 21st Century
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40. Book Review
The Antiquarian Avant Garde
By Marisa Olson
41. Books Noted
By Jean Chu, Adam Klein, Chuck Mobley, Clare Wren
44. Books Received
49. cd-rom / cd-rom table of contents
in this issue:
Agitate: Negotiating the Photographic Process
While shape and structure are inherent to any process, they often serve as a boundary. In this issue of Camerawork we find those boundaries shifted; traditional photographic processes are not held sacrosanct. The artists in Agitate: Negotiating the Photographic Process acknowledge the medium in their work and allow it to become a purposeful part of its message. They fervently engage with photographic possibilities and permit the final image to make up the balance of the conceptual idea. Similarly, the writing, commissioned to illuminate and expound on the ideas present in the work of Agitate, is a palimpsest layered with meaning and intent.
Art historian Robert C. Morgan addresses "process oriented" artworks of the past and distills the role of process and meaning in photographically based art. Writer Jillian St. Jacques, in an experimental fiction piece, considers the politics of the body in relation to the camera and the ability of either to serve memory. Artist Moira Roth employs her imaginative writing in the service of her Cyber Theater project. Taking cues from Roth's alchemical musings, performances staged for the camera spring up across the globe via the Internet. Finally, my colleague on this project, Dore Bowen, turns her exacting scholarly (and literary) eye to the work of the eleven artists represented in Agitate and offers up an essay urging us to weigh all that can be found in photography's mix.
Over the course of the two years it took to put this project together, Dore and I had the privilege of meeting and talking with all of the artists presented here. We found them to be not only wildly creative, but also extraordinarily articulate about their work. This made us eager to find a way to break down the wall that often separates audience from artist. The end result is the CD-ROM addendum you will find in the back of this issue; it includes interviews with each artist, video work and expanded portfolios - more than doubling the page count of the print version you are holding. Additionally, and probably most important, you will also find an exhaustive acknowledgments page that was much too long to print here.
Given the size and scope of this project, it will not come as any surprise that a favorite salutation of Dore and I, in our numerous e-mail exchanges, became: "I'm not waving, I'm drowning." Yet, the excitement of bringing this work together produced an energy that we hope is convulsive.
Chuck Mobley
Co-Editor
cd-rom table of contents:
From the cd-rom:
French artist Jean-Philippe Baert describes his Happening as a tableau vivant in progress. Using digital media as a raw material, Baert introduces his body into the transmission of the images; suspending his ‘being’ between analog and digital.
Photo credit:Jean-Philippe Baert, proposal for Happening; e-mailed drawing December 2002. Stills from a live performance of Empreintes numeriques or Happening: I-MAC/Web at Maison Populaire de Montreuil, France; February 1, 2002.
Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey interviewed by Alicia Miller accompanied by a special time-lapse film commissioned specially for this issue of Camerwork
Diane Althoff interviewed by Richard Misrach includes an expanded portfolio of images
Jean-Philippe Baert interviewed by Dore Bowen and Chuck Mobley accompanied by a video performance of Empreintes numeriques or Happening: I-MAC/Web from Maison Populaire de Montreuil, France
Marco Breuer interviewed by Dore Bowen includes a unique Flash™ animation created especially for this issue of Camerawork
Binh Danh interviewed by David Pace includes an expanded portfolio of images
Kate Farrall interviewed by Jenny Rosenberg includes an expanded portfolio of images
Ann Hamilton interviewed by Sarah Natkins accompanied by a slide show of Ann Hamilton in performance from the face to face series. Courtesy of Art21, © Art21, Inc. 2001 All rights reserved.
Carlos Motta interviewed by Robert Flynt includes an expanded portfolio of images
Roger Newton interviewed by Adam Fuss includes an expanded portfolio of images
Cynthia Young interviewed by Vanessa Rocco includes an expanded portfolio of images
Acknowledgements page
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