TABLE OF CONTENTS

March 2009

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Each copy of this month’s Artforum features one of two cover images. Dara Birnbaum, Technology Transformation: Wonder Woman, 1978–79, still from a color video, 5 minutes 50 seconds. Cory Arcangel, Super Mario Clouds v2k3, 2002, modified Nintendo game system and cartridge, dimensions variable.

March 2009, Vol. 47, No. 7

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COLUMNS

Illustration from Cory Arcangel’s essay “On Compression,” from his book A Couple Thousand Short Films about Glenn Gould (Film and Video Umbrella, 2008).

EDITOR’S LETTER

Tim Griffin on USES AND ABUSES

BOOKS

Liz Kotz on Primary Information

Avalanche headquarters at 93 Grand Street, New York, ca. 1973. Foreground, from left: Liza Béar and Willoughby Sharp. Background, from left: Alfonia Tims, Barry Ledoux, Christopher Lethbridge. Photo: Cosmos.

PASSAGES

Liza Béar and Hans Haacke on Willoughby Sharp

Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Tokyo Sonata, 2008, color film in 35 mm, 119 minutes. Production still. Kenji Sasaki (Kai Inowaki).

FILM

Amy Taubin on Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata

ON SITE

Catherine Wood on Jeff Koons and Tino Sehgal

SLANT

Helen Molesworth on Catherine Opie and “theanyspacewhatever”

SLANT

Ina Blom on “Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?”

top ten

Stefan Tcherepnin

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Cory Arcangel, The Bruce Springsteen “Born to Run” Glockenspiel Addendum, 2006. Performance view, Light Industry, New York, August 5, 2008. Photo: Damien Crisp.

IN CONVERSATION: DARA BIRNBAUM AND CORY ARCANGEL

Dara Birnbaum and Cory Arcangel

Still from Devo’s 1976 music video Secret Agent Man, directed by Gerald Casale.

COVER VERSIONS: THE REINVENTION OF MUSIC VIDEO

Michel Gondry

Barbara London

Rodney Graham

Michael Bell-Smith, Subterranean House (Oonce Oonce), 2007, still from a black-and-white video.

Michael Bell-Smith

Steina

Cao Fei, Hip Hop, 2003, still from a color video, 3 minutes.

Cao Fei

E*Rock

Screen captures from Polyvore.com.

CUT AND PASTE: THE COLLAGE IMPULSE TODAY

Charlie White

AUTHORIAL INTERVENTION: THE ART OF JACQUES VILLEGLÉ

Tom McDonough

1000 WORDS: TREVOR PAGLEN

Tom Vanderbilt

OPENINGS: CHU YUN

Philip Tinari

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Pierre Huyghe, Opening, 2008. Performance view, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 24, 2008. Photo: Kristopher McKay.

John Kelsey on “theanyspacewhatever”

Robert Pincus-Witten on Joan Miró

William Kaizen on “The Greenroom”

Frankfurt

Noemi Smolik on “Experimenta Folklore”

Los Angeles

London

Dublin

Maeve Connolly on Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan

Paris

Antwerp, Belgium

Jos Van den Bergh on Mathew Cerletty

Aalst, Belgium

Yoann Van Parys on Freek Wambacq

Berlin

Dominikus Müller on Sarah Crowner and Paulina Olowska

Cologne

Astrid Wege on Korpys/Löffler

Tokyo

Shinyoung Chung on Daido Moriyama

Lausanne, Switzerland

Valérie Knoll on Christodoulos Panayiotou

San Gimignano, Italy

Marco Meneguzzo on Moataz Nasr

Amsterdam

Saskia van der Kroef on Renzo Martens

Lisbon

Miguel Amado on Pedro Barateiro

Valencia, Spain

Marek Bartelik on Isabel Rocamora

Auckland

Jon Bywater on Dan Arps

Mumbai

Zehra Jumabhoy on Nataraj Sharma

Buenos Aires

Maria Gainza on Adrián Villar Rojas

São Paulo

Katia Canton on Regina Silveira

New York

Boston

Nuit Banai on Gerard Byrne

Chicago

San Francisco