Fillip is pleased to announce a new publication and site-specific installation by Dutch artist Mark Manders. Co-published by Fillip Editions and Roma Publications, Amsterdam, Traducing Ruddle is the fifth in a series of “fake” newspapers by Mark Manders. Using a nonsensical combination of English words, Traducing Ruddle creates a pretense of legibility that dissolves upon closer inspection. The newspaper is supplemented by Two Connected Houses, a 48 page insert developed in conjunction with the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum.
Manders’ newspaper will be distributed for free through a half dozen newspaper boxes in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside during the months of February and March. Outside of Vancouver, Traducing Ruddle is available for purchase for $15 directly from Fillip through Paypal, as well as from Roma Publications, Amsterdam, and Motto Distribution, Berlin. Subscribers of Fillip magazine will receive Manders’ publication free of charge.
Sheets from Manders’ Traducing Ruddle form the central element of the artists’ Window with Fake Newspapers project, a site specific public work on view through March 28th. Commissioned by Fillip in collaboration with the City of Vancouver, Window with Fake Newspapers occupies the façade of 20 East Hastings Street Vancouver—the former location of The Only Sea Foods, which operated as a restaurant since 1916 until it was closed this past summer due to health and drug infractions.
Manders’ publication and installation provides an entry point for an in depth investigation into the complex relationship between art and public space explored in a special issue of Fillip magazine, forthcoming this summer. Set against the context of the 2010 Olympics, Fillip #12 will investigate the multiple relationships between contemporary art and its publics—extending beyond discussions of a narrowly defined space of public art toward what critic Sven Lütticken calls art’s essential role in producing “critical forms of publicness.”
Fillip #12 will include contributions from Lorna Brown, Ingrid Chu, Jeff Derksen, Joseph del Pesco, Eric Kluitenberg, Sven Lütticken, Julian Myers, Anne Pasternak, and Kathleen Ritter among others. Essays from the issue will be posted free, in their entirety, on Fillip’s website on a bi-weekly basis beginning March 2010.
Mark Manders is a Dutch artist and cofounder of Roma Publications with graphic designer Roger Willems. In his diverse art practice, Manders investigates notions of self-identity through public forms of address including large-scale sculpture, installation, and publishing projects. Recent exhibitions include documenta 11 and the 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, as well as solo exhibitions at Art Institute of Chicago and the Berkeley Art Museum.
