Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING – Ciel variable Magazine

Ciel variable 67 – STILL MOVING

[Spring 2005]

Portfolios : ADAD HANNAH, FIONA TAN, TETSUOMI ANZAI, STAN DENNISTON, DAVID CLAERBOUT.
Reviews : Raymonde April, Iraqi Prison Photographs from Abu Ghraib, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Manon Labrecque, Rodney Graham.
Readings : Michael Snow, Photography – Crisis of History, Le troisième œil, Autoportraits dans la photographie canadienne contemporaine.
Authors : Will Straw, Vincent Bonin, Cheryl Simon, Cheryl Sourkes, Valérie Lamontagne, Randolph Jordan, Serge Bérard, Johanna Mizgala, Sylvain Campeau, Jean-Pierre Vidal, Tetsuomi Anzai, Mario Côté, Hélène Samson, Bernard Lamarche.

Still moving

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Editorial
Authors: Cheryl Simon

[Spring 2005] by Cheryl Simon The photo-based installation projects featured in this special issue of Ciel variable exhibit a paradoxical sense of temporality. Although all are presented as time-based installations, hence moving imagery, the prevailing temporal logic characterizing this body of work is that of stillness. For this reason, the temporal sensibility here is more […]

Adad Hannah, Surface Tension – Will Straw, Adad Hannah: Struggling Against Time

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Portfolios
Authors: Will Straw | Artists: Adad Hannah

[Spring 2005] On the very threshold of immobility, Adad Hannah’s works are initially interpreted by our eyes as being static images – only to eventually reveal subtle movements that betray their nature as works of video rather than of still photography. Recalling a history of negotiated relationships between the static and moving image, these revelations […]

Fiona Tan, Déprises identitaires – Vincent Bonin, L’emploi du temps : travail et désœuvrement dans Countenance de Fiona Tan

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Portfolios
Authors: Vincent Bonin | Artists: Fiona Tan

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract In the installation Countenance (2001), Fiona Tan uses film to quote the archiving and photographing methods behind August Sander’s photographic recension project Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts (Men of the twentieth […]

Tetsuomi Anzai, Still Breathing – Cheryl Simon, Time Travels: Mixed-Media Works by Tetsuomi Anzai

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Portfolios
Authors: Cheryl Simon | Artists: Tetsuomi Anzai

[Spring 2005] Each the product of a very particular combination of media generated imagery, Tetsuomi Anzai’s mixed media installation works offer unique perspectives on a world increasingly apprehended through pictures. Whether stills enlivened through video animation techniques, video loops upturned to approximate the live streaming of camera obscura technology, or satellite renderings rolled, spun and […]

Stan Denniston, Time Passages – Cheryl Sourkes, Stan Denniston: Stills

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Portfolios
Authors: Cheryl Sourkes | Artists: Stan Denniston

[Spring 2005] Using long, continuous video takes and the static camera position of the still photographer to capture what at first appears to be inert subject matter–geological formations, deserted highways and other abandoned sites—Stan Denniston’s ‘fixed focus’ movies invoke an uncanny temporal sensibility. Subject movement is minimal and unpredictable, defined as it is by the […]

David Claerbout, Moments réflexifs – Valérie Lamontagne, David Claerbout : le spectre du temps

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Portfolios
Authors: Valérie Lamontagne | Artists: David Claerbout

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The author considers David Claerbout’s work in relation to the overlapping histories of cinema and photography and suggests that the etymological and perceptive frictions that have developed between these media […]

Life on the Edge of Perception: Immobility in Recent Video Installations – Randolph Jordan

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Essays
Authors: Randolf Jordan | Artists: David Claerbout, NomIg

[Spring 2005] by Randolph Jordan Frame-by-frame analysis confirms that beneath the apparent non-movement of the plant world, the most awful and violent things are brewing: heart-rending torsions, horrible intertwinings, endless growth . . . such is Man. No moment is ever as intense as when there is no more outward bodily agitation to hide the infinitesimal speed […]

Raymonde April: Bifurcations – Serge Bérard

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Serge Bérard | Artists: Raymonde April

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre culturel Yvonne L. Bombardier, Valcourt (Québec), du 19 octobre 2004 au 20 février 2005

Inconvenient Evidence: Iraqi Prison Photographs from Abu Ghraib – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala

[Spring 2005] International Center for Photography, New York 17 September – 28 November 2004 From its earliest days, photography has been used to bear witness to acts of violence and inhumanity. Its strength lies in the power to capture events as they transpire, to cast these events in a mantle of truth, and to circulate […]

Roberto Pellegrinuzzi: Foliacées – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Roberto Pellegrinuzzi

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Thérèse Dion Art contemporain, Montréal du 3 septembre au 2 octobre 2004

Manon Labrecque: Raid – Jean-Pierre Vidal

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Jean-Pierre Vidal | Artists: Manon Labrecque

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Séquence, Chicoutimi, du 9 septembre au 10 octobre 2004.

Rodney Graham : A Little Thought – Tetsuomi Anzai

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Tetsuomi Anzai | Artists: Rodney Graham

[Spring 2005] March 30–June 27, 2004 Art Gallery of Ontario Earlier this year, the Art Gallery of Ontario played host to a major retrospective of Rodney Graham’s work, featuring over twenty-five works from an artistic practice dating back to the 1970s. While much of the focus was on his recent film and video installations, also […]

Michael Snow: Digital Snow – Mario Côté

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews
Authors: Mario Côté | Artists: Michael Snow

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Michael Snow: Digital Snow Collection Anarchives Collection Anarchives (sous la direction d’Anne-Marie Duguet) Paris, Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, 2002

Photography. Crisis of History – Hélène Samson

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews
Authors: Hélène Samson, Joan Fontcuberta

This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Photography. Crisis of History sous la direction de Joan Fontcuberta, Barcelone, Actar, 2004, 253 p.

Le troisième œil. La photographie et l’occulte – Bernard Lamarche

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews
Authors: Bernard Lamarche | Artists: Édouard Isidore Buguet, Eugène Thiebault

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Le troisième oeil. La photographie et l’occulte Clément Chéroux, Andreas Fischer, Pierre Apraxine, Denis Canguilhem, Sophie Schmit Paris, Gallimard, 2004, 287 p.

Autoportraits dans la photographie canadienne contemporaine – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Autoportraits dans la photographie canadienne contemporaine Éditions J’ai Vu, collection L’opposite, Québec, 2004, 111 p.