CocksandCunts for Kaleidoscope Videoclub

I was honoured to curated a video project for Kaleidoscopemagazine to coincide with their Art and Sex issue (I've interviewed Celia Hempton in the mag itself and I'm also doing a talk at Frieze Art Fair Reading Room Friday 530pm with her and Julie Verhoeven)

It's called Cocksandcunts Here are more details!

The selected works by The ARKA group, Adham Faramawy, Richard Kern, Reija Merlainen, Julie Verhoeven, John Walter and Zoe Williams explore the representation of sexuality and the naked body, veering from fetishism to playful humour, from choreographed performance to an almost abstract approach. Here, ideas of feminism, movement, power and the structure of art manifest into a deeply human form, emphasizing the human sex as something layered with meaning.

PS Longlyst also printed my Top Ten London galleries

Freezing

My recommendations leading up to Frieze are up.

Also if you're there Friday, head to the reading room at 530pm to hear me talk with Celia Hempton and Julie Verhoeven for Kaleidoscope. I'll also be posting a VIDEOCLUB project to coincide next week. News to come!

Frieze week and things ahoy

I'm very happy to be included in the next issue of Kaleidoscope magazine with a profile I wrote on Boychild. I've also written a list of highlights of Frieze week and London for their site that should hopefully be up soon (it ended up here on their facebook)

I did a run down of Frieze Week performance events for Artsy, profiled top 4 tech-influenced artist for Postmatter and did a top ten of the best things at the fair this week for Dazed Digital.

I'll also be doing instagram takeovers for Dazed Magazine, Spring Studios and at Roughversion - in case you fancy an immediate, varied tsunami of my week.

And here are 4 pop up things things outside of Frieze London and Frieze Masters that are worth checking out - because the world loves a list.

1) ICA Off-Site: The Old Selfridges Hotel
Anything you can - the programming is spot on.

2) Sunday Art Fair
A defunct website, barely a word to the press and still a fair that should not be missed!

3) PAD
It's my guilty pleasure. Come for a relaxed gawp at 20th century masters and euro-cash spenders

5) 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
Last year's debut was surprisingly good. A fair not to be forgotten

In praise of publications

I have been addicted to magazines since I was 11 years old. I buy around three a week or so. Which is obviously insane. The number of independent and interesting publications on the shelves of Do You Read Me?, Artwords and ofr are ever growing. This is my top ten for those searching for help whilst navigating shelves (which I've tried not to make too biased...)

Kaleidoscope
Hands down the best art magazine out there and the only magazine I collect and keep rather than cut up for the scrapbooks. Brilliant design, content, writers and art, art, art.

Twin
I'm super proud of this baby. Bi annual hardback book I do all the art for - I've done major 10 page features on Tauba Auerbach, Josephine Meckseper, Kerry James Marshall, Cameron Jamie among many others. Its pretty much 50% art in here!

The Gourmand
I'm not even into the whole cool food thing but this magazine makes me want to be. Smart, leftfield, beautifully designed, and even makes you a little hungry.

Printed Pages

While Its Nice That rests in piece, the smaller sweet printed pages is filling the hole left behind for interesting graphic, design and illustrative creativity.

ANP Quarterly
God I love this publication. Even though the free, oversized mag is more sporadically produced than it once was its still always a complete, original joy. Aaron Rose

junk jet
This collaborative art, architecture, new media publication is always worth it for the content - great articles that stick in your head like glue.

Cos magazine
It is free in shops, its design is immaculate and they even get some kick arse interviews.

Anonymous Sex Journal
If you want to cry with laughter, hubris and sympathy on the tube home this is the publication for you. The third issue is just out. Buy it while you can.

The Gentlewoman
This biannual has done a great job making a fetish out of smart as a whip women, with a touch of the uptight glamour of Fantastic Man.

Sleek
Kevin Braddock has done an incredible job editorially turning this baby around. Who else would let me do an entire feature and portfolio on the male nude?

Acne Paper
It's. Just. So. Beautiful.

Also regularly purchased are: AnOther, Apartamento, Arena Homme Plus, Artforum, Art Review, Bazaar (UK), Dazed, foam, Frieze, Interview, Jalouse, monocle, Vogue (esp the French edition).

Things I like this week

1) This stupidly good list of artists at Tanya Leighton in Berlin

2) The current issue of Kaleidoscope with 3 pieces and a project by Mark Leckey, an interview with Rashid Johnson, piece on Steven Shearer, and stupidly long list of other interesting pieces

3) Read about Seana Gavin on i-D's revamped website

4) See Alex Hubbard's 'Make Your Movie' (2010) at The Art of Narration Changes Time at Spruth Magers in Berlin

Patane and Paper

I had the pleasure of going to Seb Patane's opening at Maureen Paley last night. He did a abstract occult music performance upstairs for half and hour, where everyone sat on the floor to watch men wearing weird masks stand against the back drop of Patane and friend in bee keepers hats playing experimental electronic music. Really enjoyed it. But especially loved the work downstairs. Appropriated images of Crimean war drawn on with pen, pressed flowers and abstract shapes, sculptural odes to modernism, an odd atmosphere. Stupidly forgot to take pics. But I did an 8 page interview with him in Twin.

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Two great independent art publications arrived this week - ANP's latest issue in the post with Jonas Mekas on the cover and a very good piece on photographer Bill Owens by Ed Templeton; and issue 4 of Kaleidoscope picked up at the Klaus Weber show. Both are bloody great. I love paper.