Newsletter #26 – October 2010

Partner organisation in 'The Last Newspaper', 3, 4 and 5 gallery floors, New Museum, New York, 6 October 2010 – 9 January 2011

Exhibition co-curated by Richard Flood, Director of Special Projects and Curator at Large, and Benjamin Godsill, Curatorial Associate.

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'The first people we approached to participate were Max Andrews and Mariana Canepa Luna, who are partners in Latitudes, a curatorial office based in Barcelona. They have a wonderful flexibility in their projects, which include overseeing public commissions, organizing conferences, as well as initiating multidisciplinary research and editorial programs. Our preliminary conversations led quickly to the notion of a weekly newspaper produced in the New Museum over the course of a residency. From this point, we moved pretty quickly into a landscape of organizational residencies that will animate the social aspects of the exhibition'. – Richard Flood, interview with Benjamin Godsill about the exhibition, fall 2010

'The Last Newspaper' will be a hybrid exhibition exploring of how artists approach the news and how information is produced, managed, recorded, re-ordered, and disseminated. Alongside the exhibition, a number of partner organisations will use on-site offices to present their research, stage public dialogues, opening up the galleries as spaces of intellectual production as well as display. (+ info...)

'THE LAST POST' / 'THE LAST GAZETTE' / 'THE LAST REGISTER'... will be an evolving-titled 12-page free weekly newspaper edited by Latitudes from a micro-newsroom on the third floor of the New Museum and disseminated exclusively on printed format and on a weekly basis for 10 weeks.

In part a programming and discussion space in itself, 'THE LAST POST'... will be an incremental exhibition catalogue companioning 'The Last Newspaper exhibition and events, and a critical reflection on news. It is being conceived by a specially-assembled editorial team and contributors who are giving their time and skills pro bono. The published record of the enterprise will be bound at the conclusion to form a surrogate catalogue. (+ info...)

PRESS COVERAGE
Press Release de Latitudes, 5 October 2010
Press Release, New Museum, 18 August 2010
Artforum Fall Preview, Artforum, September 2010
Holland Cotter, 'Art and News, Intersecting in the Digital Age', New York Times, 8 October 2010

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'Vic Cambrils Barcelona...A Library Project', Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, October 2010

Talk by Latitudes: Thursday 21st October, 19h

In response to Midway Contemporary Art Library’s holdings of museum catalogues and publishing houses in Barcelona, Latitudes has assembled a counter-accession of around 50 self- and micro-published books and paper editions by artists, designers, curators or publishing initiatives based in Catalonia since 2005 (+ info...)

The publications will be displayed at Midway's Library throughout October–November 2010 before being absorbed into the library holdings. In addition to the book acquisition, Latitudes invited four Barcelona-based artist Mariona Moncunill, Gabriel Pericàs, Mireia C. Saladrigues and Oriol Vilanova to intervene in Midway's library with a series of bookmarks which will be inserted into undisclosed publications throughout the library for unsuspecting readers to encounter.

Midway Contemporary Art | 527 Second Ave Southeast | 55414 Minneapolis, MN, United States | MAP