CONTRIBUTORS:
JENNIFER BAILEY, GRACE BRENNAN, BETTINA BRUNNER, DANIELLE DEAN, BABAK GHAZI, MATHEW HALE, KAZIMIERZ JANKOWSKI, BREER LAZIDJ NAHR, EDDIE PEAKE, GORDON SHRIGLEY, S/Z, LOUISE WEISS
cover by Babak Ghazi
edited by Katie Guggenheim
ZAYNE ARMSTRONG
Zayne Armstrong was born in Kiev in May 1891. He studied and briefly practiced medicine and, after indigent wanderings through revolutionary Russia and the Caucasus, he settled in Moscow in 1921. His sympathetic portrayal of White characters in his stories, and his satirical treatment of the officials of the New Economic Plan, led to growing criticism, which became violent after the play The Purple Island. His later works treat the subject of the artist and the tyrant under the guise of historical character, with plays staged in the late 1930's and early 1940's. He also wrote a brilliant biography, highly original in form, of his literary hero, Molière, but Re-Making 'Slow Motion', a fantasy about the devil and his henchmen set in modern Moscow, is generally considered his masterpiece. Fame, at home and abroad, was not to come until a quarter of a century after his death at Moscow in 1940.
JENNIFER BAILEY
Jennifer Bailey was born in 1984. Recently she has been thinking about materiality and awkward collaborations.
GRACE BRENNAN
Grace Brennan is currently studying scenic art at RADA and indebted to Jamie Greenaway and Patrick Shier.
BETTINA BRUNNER
Bettina Brunner has worked at the BFI and Cubitt Gallery in London and has contributed to Frieze Magazine and Springerin. This year she began a PhD at the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
DANIELLE DEAN
Danielle Dean graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2006. She has exhibited in group exhibitions in London, featured in The Book of the Film published by Jennifer Bailey in 2009, and continues to work closely with Auto-Italia South East. Dean's work explores the notion of identity in relation to the subjectivity of experience within a contemporary context. Using video, performance and sculpture, she examines dominant imagery in media such as advertising and film and its effects on lived experience. She was born in Alabama in 1982 and works in London and Los Angeles.
BABAK GHAZI
In accordance with the artist's wishes, neither a biography nor a bibliography is published here.
KATIE GUGGENHEIM
Katie was born in Shropshire in 1982. She moved to London in 2001. In 2003 Katie changed her surname to Guggenheim. In 2004 she briefly lived in New York before returning to London, where she graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2005. She began to organise exhibitions in 2007 and is now studying Curating Contemporary Art at the RCA. She first visited Monaco in 2005 and then again in 2006 and 2008. She has been working on producing a magazine since 2008 and in 2010 she decided to call it Monaco Magazine.
MATHEW HALE
Mathew Hale was born in Swindon, UK in 1962. He studied at Goldsmiths College, London, and now lives and works in Berlin.
KAZIMIERZ JANKOWSKI
See and chat to me LIVE at http://chatroulette.com/
BREER LAZIDJ NAHR
Breer Lazdij Nahr is an artist based in Tunis, Tunisia. His project for Monaco Magazine #2, The Shape of an Exhibition, presents a project which aims to conclude with the re-construction of an exhibition as a park and playground. It is introduced through a series of quotes and found images wrapped in a silk scarf.
EDDIE PEAKE
Eddie Peake (born 1981) lives and works in Rome and London. His work encompasses many different media, and often, though not always, investigates the space between verbal language and non-verbal language, and the discrepancy that occurrs when one is translated into the other. Solo exhibitions include 'History', Lorcan O'Neill project space, Rome (2010); 'Ladies', Parade, London (2008); 'The Caspar Erasmus School of Art', The Hex, London (2007). His website is www.eddiepeake.com.
GORDON SHRIGLEY
Gordon Shrigley has spent many years developing experimental drawing projects and his work can be seen in the drawing collections of the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart and the Museum of Modern Art in St. Etienne. He has also published a number of books on the practice of architecture and the theory of drawing and is currently designing a new contemporary art gallery for Vyner Street, East London. In 1998, he was awarded a Schloss Solitude, followed by the Robert Fleming Fellowship in 2000 and regularly curates artists film and video screenings at the IMT Gallery, selected from the Filmarmalade DVD series, which he founded in 2007.
GIORGIO SILVERIO
Giorgio Silverio's work deals, once again, with the idea of the retrospective. For the launch of Monaco Magazine #2, the floor of the ICA's Reading Room is used to draw the floorplan of Tate Britain, suggesting that the museum could be used as a multiplex cinema in the evenings. The planned screenings are of a selection of double bills which echo many works by the artist Olivier Castel which are presented under different made-up names. This unrealised cinema acts as a retrospective for an artist with an over abundance of names.
S/Z
According to Wikipedia ‘S/Z’ or ‘SZ’ may refer to: the Alfa Romeo SZ; the NATO country code for Switzerland; the Suzuki sporadic group - a mathematical group; Slovenske železnice - the Slovenian railway company; Szöllősy - the catalogue of all the compositions of Béla Bartók; SZ cycle-car - a Soviet/Russian microcar series; the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in astrophysics; the city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China; Sprite Zero – the diet version of Sprite; S/Z - the structuralist analysis of Honoré de Balzac’s "Sarrasine", by Roland Barthes, etc. It also refers to the collaborative practice of Zayne Armstrong and Sarah Elliott, initiated in 2007, based in London and New York City.
LOUISE WEISS
Louise Weiss and Kazimierz Jankowski present recent developments in an ongoing work on cinemas and exhibitions. The project began in 2007 with the exhibition THE LIGHT OF LAMPS which took place at the Curzon Soho Cinema in 2008. In 2009 a sequal for the Renoir Cinema was planned but not realised, and then extended in 2010 as a new exhibition for the recently close Barbican Cinemas 2 and 3. This last project, titled Nastassja Kinski , is now permanently postponed, but a parallel, succint and condensed version was presented at the Barbican Art Gallery during an evening in July. The event's flyer made use of the Barbican's concertina map by punching a hole through it, and, for Monaco, Weiss and Jankowski have inserted the flyer into the magazine's binding where it becomes a booklet. A website located on the Cocos Islands is to follow.
STOCKISTS:
Banner Repeater, London
Donlon Books, London
ICA Bookshop, London
Koenig Books at the Serpentine Gallery, London
Librairie Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
OMMU, Athens
Printed Matter, New York
Pro qm, Berlin
Section 7 Books at castillo/corrales, Paris
Whitechapel Gallery Bookshop, London
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LAUNCH:
28 November 2010 at the ICA, London
3-6pm JENNIFER BAILEY Study Group / 3 pm GIORGIO SILVERIO The floor plan of Tate Cinema Multiplex taped on the floor / 3:45 pm EDDIE PEAKE Reading of a poem by James Wright / 4 pm ZAYNE ARMSTRONG Re-Making 'Slow Motion', 2009, single channel video with sound, 40min / 5 pm KAZIMIERZ JANKOWSKI Auto-Tune reads 'The Form of the Phonograph Record' (Theodor Adorno, 1934) / 5:30 pm BABAK GHAZI Advert for Lifework, 10min
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Part of Against Gravity, a weekend of live events at the ICA curated by Catherine Borra
