SUM Magazine for Contemporary Art Nr. 5
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SUM focuses on trends, exhibitions, works and ideas on the current art scene. On the occasion of the climate summit in Copenhagen SUM No. 05 is also concerned with climate related art.
This time the magazine gives the floor to artists who in different ways work and research in this particular field and who insist that in art there’s a special space to visualize, experiment and discuss such topics in relevant new ways which reach out beyond arts own borders.
The Danish artist Lasse Ernlund Lorentzen cooperates with researcher Ida Lunde Jørgensen and gives his artistic perspective on the climate debate, while the artist Nils Norman has invited U.S. researchers Iain Boal and Eddie Yuen to put the debate into perspective and place the climate issue in a larger context. Last but not least the Barcelona-based curatorial collective Latitudes interviews the Dutch artist Marjolijn Dijkman on her work on representations of the earth in a global, cartographic and personal perspective.
Besides the specific climate focus SUM No. 05 also includes articles by the writer and art critic Jan Verwoert and the Australian-born curator Bridget Crone. Curator and SUM-editor Solvej Helweg Ovesen focuses on the German artist and activist Thomas Kilpper and art critic Sidsel Nelund interviews author and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha. The British artist Simon Starling contributes with selected photos from the project Red Rivers (In Search Of The Elusive Okapi), and the cover of the magazine presents works by the Mexican artist Minerva Cuevas. SUM No. 05 has a section dedicated to reviews of current exhibitions on the Danish and international contemporary art scene - including the 11th International Istanbul Biennale, Free as Air and Water at The Cooper Union School of Art, New York and the group exhibition The World Is Yours at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek.
The magazine has got a new layout created by graphic designer Manuel Raeder.
SUM is published with the support from the Danish Ministry of Culture's grant for culture magazines and the New Carlsberg Foundation.
Editors: Mikkel Bogh (editor in chief), Nanna Grunnet, Malene Vest Hansen, Niels Henriksen, Thomas Locher, Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Judith Schwarzbart. / Publisher: the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Arts, Copenhagen, in collaboration with Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin.
SUM No. 05 magazine for contemporary art, 104 pages, 10 €, language: English and Danish. SUM is published twice a year. http://sum.kunstakademiet.dk
