CONTENTS July-August 2018 www.artmonthly.co.uk
Issue No 418 Taking art apart since 1976
COVER Oreet Ashery Revisiting Genesis 2016 video
1 INTERVIEW Banu Cennetoglu Interviewed by Alexander Massouras
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6 FEATURES Health v Wealth In the face of increasing privatisation in the UK Giulia Smith discusses the politics of health
COMMENT 12 EDITORIAL 13 LETTERS Michael Hampton Lara Eggleton
14 NEWS ARTNOTES
18 REVIEWS EXHIBITIONS Martha Rosler and Hito Steyerl: War Games Stephanie Schwartz
19 10th Berlin Biennale: We Don’t Need Another Hero Chris Clarke 20 Giuseppe Penone: A Tree in the Wood Virginia Whiles 22 At Altitude Paul Carey-Kent 23 Whitstable Biennale: Swimming Home Ellen Mara De Wachter 25 Danielle Dean and Jeanine Oleson: Landed Lauren Velvick 26 Meriem Bennani: Siham & Hafida Dan Ward 27 Eve Fowler: what a slight. what a sound. what a universal shudder. Catherine Spencer 28 Received Dissent: An American Mail Art Project David Briers 29 Jennet Thomas: Animal Condensed>> Animal Expanded Maria Walsh 30 Günther Förg: A Fragile Beauty Mark Prince 31 Art and China after 1989: Theatre of the World David Trigg 33 FILM Oberhausen: Leaving the Cinema Adam Pugh 33 Babette Mangolte: How to Look… Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe
34 Daria Martin: A Hunger Artist Lara Eggleton ARTISTS’ BOOKS 37 Wolfgang Tillmans: What is Different? Elinor Morgan 38 BOOKS London Art Worlds: Mobile, Contingent, and Ephemeral Networks 1960-1980 Jennifer Thatcher
39 REPORTS Letter from Istanbul Vassilios Doupas 41 Letter from Helsinki Rob La Frenais 43 Letter from Kiev Phoebe Blatton
45 ARTLAW Blockchain Henry Lydiate
46 LISTINGS
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