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Tue Greenfort's 'Rococo Eco', Max Wigram, London



Tue Greenfort 'Rococo Eco' 17 November 2006 – 13 January 2007
Max Wigram
99 New Bond Street, London


For his first solo exhibition in the UK, Tue Greenfort’s new works in this exhibition respond to the businesses that run the length of New Bond Street. They query the function of luxury accessories, looking at how the notion of luxury has historically changed from the roots of capitalism to neo-liberalism. They also question the meaning of wealth and who benefits from its consumption.


The installation 'Fur No Fur' (2006) makes reference to the former function of the gallery as a fur shop. Placing on a clothes rail a silver fox and mink fur stitched together for visitors to try them on in front of a fragmented mirror, Greenfort has graphically visualised the economic transaction taking place between those who give up a coat to the international charitable organisation P.E.T.A. (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) to receive in exchange tax-exemption. He has also included a mink trap to address how the institutionalization of anti-fur movements in the UK and the ban on mink farming has led to the industry moving to places like China where animal rights activism doesn’t exist. As a consequence, this shift has produced a disequilibrium in the bio-diverse ecosystem of the English countryside as, for the last two decades, minks have been endangering smaller rodents like water voles.

IMAGES ABOVE: 'Fur No Fur', 2006. Installation of 4 elements: Mirrors (175 x 145 x 36 cm); Galvanised steel mink trap (23.7 x 83 x 7.5 cm); Two furs (each, approx. 120 x 53 x 21 cm); Aluminium clothes rail (145 x 120 x 50 cm). Courtesy the artist and Max Wigram Gallery, London.
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'LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook' - related links

LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook goes to print this Wednesday. Meanwhile here are some previews from the RSA, the excellent worldchanging.com, the e-flux announcement and Cornerhouse's web, worldwide distributor of the book.

http://www.rsa.org.uk/journal/storydetails.asp?articleID=859

http://www.rsa.org.uk/journal/article.asp?articleID=837

http://worldchanging.com/archives/004385.html
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Emirates Research Trip - Sharjah and Dubai, April 2007

Sharjah &  Dubai Research Trip, November 2006

Here are some photos from Latitudes' research trip last week to the United Arab Emirates in preparation for the upcoming Sharjah Biennial 8, April-June 2007. We are convening the three-day symposium in collaboration with RSA Arts & Ecology Centre in London.
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'DAY' by Jordan Wolfson

Here's an interview with Jordan Wolfson, in which he talks about DAY, the piece Latitudes' presented as part of the exhibition 'Alrededor de todos juntos, una entre tantas' at ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 8 June–4 August 2006.


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Invitation card for the launch of the publication 'LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook'


[Image on the book cover: Henrik Håkansson, Untitled (Khao Nor Chuchi), 2003, offset print on paper, 70 x 100 cm. Courtesy the artist; The Modern Institute, Glasgow; Galleria Franco Noero, Torino.]

Edited by / Editor: Max Andrews
Published by / Publica: RSA in partnership with Arts Council England
 

Specs / Caracteríticas: 17 x 24 cm, 248 pages, colour throughout
ISBN 0 901469 57 2
Design by / Diseñado por: SMITH
Distributed by / Distribuidor: Cornerhouse Publications


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Here is the invitation for the publication launch of 'LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook' which will take place on the Monday 11 December, 6.15–8pm at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), coinciding with the RSA/LSE international enquiry 'No Way Back?' (11–12 Dec). 


The book is going to print in Italy in two weeks, so soon you will be able to see more on these pages.

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Aquí tenéis la postal de la publicación en la que hemos trabajado a lo largo de este último año! Su presentación oficial se hará el 11 de Diciembre en Londres al final del primer día de la conferencia internacional organizada por la Royal Society of Arts (RSA) y la London School of Economics (LSE) titulada 'No Way Back?' (11-12 Dic). 

El libro se imprimirá en dos semanas en Italia, así que pronto podréis ver más información en estas páginas.
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Swab

Swab is the offputting name of a new art fair in Barcelona next spring, with the deadpan tagline "Swab: small piece of absorbent material attached to the end of a stick or wire. Swab will absorb Contemporary Art around the world between the 10th and the 13th of May 2007 in Barcelona." Weeping sores anyone?
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Amy Balkin: Public Smog

"Public Smog is part of an ongoing conceptual artwork by San Francisco-based artist, Amy Balkin. The project consists of a gesture in which the artist buys and withholds carbon gas emission credits from international trading markets in order to create a temporary clean-air park. Aiming to highlight the complexities and contradictions of current environmental protocols, Balkin will attempt to submit an application to qualify the entire atmosphere as a UNESCO World Heritage Site."
From http://www.cca.rca.ac.uk/publicsmog/

Curated by MA Curating Contemporary Art students at the Royal College of Art
1 — 7 November 2006, 12noon — 6pm, Private View 1 November, 6 — 9pm
Peer, 99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL, UK

Amy presents a print version of This is The Public Domain in the Latitudes' edited publication LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook
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UOVO

Latitudes is excited to announce a collaboration with the Turin-based art and culture magazine UOVO. We will be guest editing the April 2007 issue. More details soon...

Estamos encantados de anunciar la colaboración de Latitudes con la revista cultural UOVO con base en Torino. Seremos editores invitados del número de Abril 2007. Pronto os daremos más detalles...
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Latitudes meets Attitudes

By sheer serendipity we ended up spending the evening last Saturday with Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser who run –pay attention now...– Attitudes Espace d'arts contemporains in Geneva, Switzerland. The next projects at the space (from 17 November) are by Tomás Saraceno and Dan Perjovschi. They present pages in Attitudes journal, called Latitudes, featuring artists working in residence around the world. Here is Lara Almárcegui's page.
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Lara Almarcegui in Frieze Art Fair




One of our many highlights of the manic Frieze week–last week–was finally meeting up with artist Rotterdam-based Spanish artist Lara Almarcegui. She was presenting a new work for Frieze Projects that listed all the weights of materials that made up the fair's tent structure (see above).

We have been working with Lara as one of the contributors to LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook (with pages documenting her wasteland projects), and she will also be presenting at the Arts & Ecology conference No Way Back? in London in December.
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