C Magazine Issue 125 ATTENTION — includes Features by Shannon Anderson on An Te Liu; Mark Clintberg on the still life in the work of Celia Perrin Sidarous and Peter Morin; Kari Cwynar on Experimental Comedy Training Camp; Cameron Hu on GCC and geopolitical style; and Godfre Leung on attention, oblivion and jubilation in the work of Jeremy Shaw. Issue 125 also includes Artist Projects by Raymond Boisjoly and Duane Linklater, On Writing by Art + Feminism, Exhibition Reviews of Joseph Tisiga, Is Toronto Burning?, Why Can’t Minimal?, Susana Reisman, Jasmina Cibic, Kids These Days, Queering Citizenship, Burning Down The House and Mira Friedlaender, as well as Book Reviews of Daniel Albright’s Panaesthetics and David Balzer’s Curationism, and Inventory by Kitty Scott.

C Magazine 122 includes features on Being in a State of Pure Belief: On the Work of Etel Adnanby Corrine Fitzpatrick, Willow, Weep for Me: Noa Giniger, Marian Penner Bancroft, and the Intricacies of Melancholy by Kimberly Phillips, Renzo Martens and the Institute for Human Activities by Nicholas Brown, Both Here and There: Canadian Artists and the Berlin Experience by Alexandra Phillips; plus Stopover, an Artist Project by Alexis Bhagat & Stephanie Loveless, and our regular sections On Writing, Exhibition Reviews, Book Reviews, and Artefact.

C Magazine Issue 121 “Walking” includes features “On Speculative Walking: From the Peripatetic to the Peristaltic” by Randy Lee Cutler, “Walking Transformed: The Dialogics of Art & Walking” by Simon Pope, “Sissy Boys on YouTube: Notes Towards a Cultural History of Online Queer Childhood” by Jon Davies, “The Walk Exchange: Pedagogy and Pedestrianism” an Interview with Moira Williams by Earl Miller and “Walking with Artists” edited by Eugenia Kisin and Amish Morrell; plus an artist project by Sheilah Wilson with text by Stephen Horne, and our regular sections On Writing, Exhibition Reviews, Book Reviews and Artefact.

Issue 119 includes feature essays by Laura Kenins on “Escapists and Jet-Setters: Residencies and Sustainability”, Stephanie Springgay on “The Pedagogical Impulse: Aberrant Residencies and Classroom Ecologies,” and Randy Lee Cutler on the 55th Venice Biennale, as well as Sky Goodden in conversation with Wanda Koop and an interview by Amish Morrell with Shinobu Akimoto and Matthew Evans. C119 also includes an artist project by the Nomadic Residency Council and the collaborative project “love takes the worry out of being close: public assemblies in bed with queers”; book reviews and reviews of exhibitions by Kara Uzelman, Sara Angelucci, David Askevold, Bernadette Corporation and more.

Issue 118 includes feature essays by Adam Lauder on “Sensitivity Information”, Charlene Lau on “Problems in the Evaluation of Contemporary Art”, Stephen Horne on the “Doing(s) of Art Criticism”, Ben Davis on “Surviving the Crisis”, and Peta Rake on “Private Acts: Note taking in the Margins of Art Criticism”, as well as Sky Goodden in conversation with Dave Hickey.

Artist Projects include Dave Dyment’s Old Man Deciphering a Briefcase, and Charmaine Wheatley’s The Painting is Better.

Also, in this issue, reviews from across Canada and around the globe: Rose Bouthillier on Julia Dault, Jessica Bradley Annex, Toronto; Heather White on Jimmy Limit: Show Room, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto; Shannon Anderson on Volume: Hear Here, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga; Kyla Brown on Peter Dykhuis: Inventories & Micro-mapping, Red Head Gallery, Toronto; Vanessa Parent: Invisible Violence, Artspeak, Vancouver; Gloria Hickey on Philippa Jones: MIRIAD, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s; Jane Affleck on Position As Desired, Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, Halifax; Daniella E. Sanader on Manuela Lalic: Activisme timide, Optica, Montreal; Jill Gleesing This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980’s, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Jen Hutton on Jordan Wolfson: Raspberry Poser, REDCAT, Los Angeles; and Michael Davidge on Robert Tombs: L’Occupation, ParisCONCRET, Paris.

C118 also includes book reviews of The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978, review by Leah Modigliani; West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977, review by Felicity Tayler; and Work Work Work: A Reader on Art and Labour, review by Amber Landgraff.

“Who has time for cynicism? If there is one role model in handling implication it is Jackie Chan…. At moments it’s all flying in his face but look at how he suddenly realigns the whole mess into a landfill art piece.”

— Hito Styerl

Issue 117 includes feature essays by Kristin Campbell, on the work of Kristiina Lahde, Diana Sherlock on the conference “Institutions by Artists,” Ania Wroblewski on the exhibition Feminism after Elles, as well as Patricia Reed in conversation with Hito Steyerl and Jacquelyn Ross in conversation with Tiziana La Melia.

Also, in this issue, reviews from across Canada and around with globe: Sean Alward: A Vertical City Goes Both Ways, Vancouver; Kika Thorne: The wildcraft, Windsor; Vanessa Maltese: Two-fold Tally, Toronto;, Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection, Toronto; Michèle Provost: Rebranding Bytown, Ottawa; Nicolas Grenier: Proximities, Montreal; Rick Leong: The Sublimation of Self, Halifax; Hazel Meyer: Walls to the Ball, St. Johns; XTRAVAGANZA: Staging Leigh Bowery, Vienna; Roman Liška: Nu Balance, London; and A New Novel by Bjarne Melgaard, New York. C117 includes book reviews of One for Me and One to Share: Artists’ Multiples and Editions, edited by Dave Dyment and Gregory Elgstrand; Open! Key Texts, 2004–2012: Art, Culture and the Public Domain, edited by Jorinde Seijdel and Liesbeth Melis; Disturbances, by Critical Art Ensemble; and Summer of Hate, by Chris Kraus.

Artist Projects include FAG’s (Feminist Art Gallery) Faging it Forward, and Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ When Platitudes Become Form.

Issue 116, Collections, features essays by Steve Lyons on Ivan Moudov’s Museum in Fragments; Laura Kenins looking at Electronic Waste as Collection through the work of Laura Kikauka and Gordon Monahan, Eleanor King and Artifact Institute; Randy Gladman on the Art Collection of Alison and Alan Schwartz; Shannon d’Avout on Walid Raad and Artist Pension Trust; Anna-Sophie Springer on The Book as Exhibition, as well as an artist project by Charles Stankievech with an accompanying essay by Pandora Syperek. C Magazine 116 also includes reviews of exhibitions by Yuji Agematsu, Morgan Fisher, Raymond Boisjoly, Ian Baxter and Derek Liddington, as well as group exhibitions Emotional Blackmail at Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Wavelengths & Future Projections at the Toronto International Film Festival, Where is the Time at Foundation Izolyatsia in Ukraine, Sounding Selves at Dalhousie University Art Gallery, and Only Birds Sing the Music of Heaven in this World at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art.

Issue 115, Participation, features essays by Vesna Krstich on how to make a ‘Happening’ classroom, Leah Modigliani on the Vancouver Occupations of 1971, Amy Fung on communities and antagonism, Rachel Anne Farquharson on recollecting through the works of Kerry Tribe, Petrina Ng and Lindsay Seers, as well as Corrine Fitzpatrick in response to our recent “Men” issue. C Magazine 115 also includes an artist project by MPA and Amapola Prada, book reviews and reviews of exhibitions by Jeremy Deller, Janieta Eyre, Emily Falencki, Sean MacAlister, Michael Maranda, Rory Middleton and Cindy Sherman, among others.

Issue 114, Men, includes essays by Ken Moffatt on male shame, Kerry Manders on Chris Ironside’s Mr. Long Weekend, Dan Adler on Ian Wallace’s Monochrome Series, an interview with Tobaron Waxman by Shawn Syms, and Ann Marie Peña in conversation with Yinka Shonibare. C Magazine 114 also includes Lezbros for Lesbos, an artist project by Logan MacDonald and Jon Davies, exhibition reviews of Michael Flaherty, A.K. Burns, Christoph Schlingensief, Attila Richard Lukacs, Althea Thauberger and Andrea Zittel, and book reviews.

Issue 113, Memory, includes a feature interview with Toronto-based artist Derek Sullivan, by Saelan Twerdy; essays by writers including Carol Zemel, on Yael Bartana’s And Europe Will be Stunned…, Scott McLeod, on the 8th Mercosul Biennial, Michelle Kasprzak on Social Media and Art, Chloé Roubert on the Reflecting Absence memorial in New York, and Allison Collins and Eli Bornowsky on Pacific Standard Time; and exhibition reviews from Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Charlottetown, Waterloo, Venice, Rotterdam and Istanbul. The Noteworthy section by Benjamin Bruneau critically explores the phenomena art blogging. For the artist project in this issue, the collective CN Tower Liquidation dematerialized the first issue of C Magazine, published in the winter of 1983/84, and cast its destroyed remnants in a polymer resin cube that appears on the inside back cover. This issue also includes book reviews of Art Metropole’s new “…by Artists” anthology Commerce by Artists edited by Luis Jacob, and Grant Kester’s latest book, The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context.