9½ Questions With Stuart Turton about The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle; Hit the road: A Walk Across Serbia – An Interview with Kevin Shannon; Perhaps he is also something of a clown who rejects the morose logician, who rejects the idea that the rigid alternatives of ‘true’ and ‘false’ are relevant to the pursuit of knowledge, to life or death, or the philosophical wormhole of trying to understand a binary action with a binary answer! These portmanteaus and locutionary couplings stimulate the mind’s tongue. HM: This links quite specifically to your first question – to positions of precarity. With Modern Matter, the artist discusses this new extension of her practice, presented here alongside a selection of artworks inspired by the book – from Marten’s most recent show at Sadie Coles HQ, London – and an extract from the book itself. Crafted from wood, steel and clay, or domestic items, Marten’s output includes sculpture, videos, text, and screen-printed paintings. The interviewer conducted this oral history as part of his/her coursework for the Spring 2010 class, Oral History: The Art of the Interview. culture, As the story progresses, these areas seem to meld. PHOTO: HELEN MARTEN IN LONDON, OCTOBER 2012. And stupid images can be absolute. Then equip them with libidinal language and an ongoing system of wounding (poverty, illness, violence, etc.) Magazine, What is this effect in your work? fashion, I do believe that provisional absurdities can provide deeply profound interpretation. Culture is not Cancelled: Creatives Share Their Inspiration. It was a deeply pleasurable process of translation, bouncing back and forth between all the things I might claim to know about image and all those I might claim to know about language. “I’m Not an Assassin!”: Fran Lebowitz on Not Sleeping, Not Writing, and Not Naming Names, Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany Test Their Real-Life Chemistry, Why We Could All Use a Tavi Gevinson Podcast Right About Now, Everyone, Including Fran Lebowitz, Loves Dolly Parton, Kyle Ng of Brain Dead Wants to Connect the World. Johanna Hedva Well, I’m a goth, so I’m partial to the ones who speak of death as the totalising divine. Illustrations by Isabelle Albuquerque. And stupid images can be absolute. Auf weitere Projekte mit dem Namen „Helena Marten“ freue ich mich jetzt schon. HM: When I first started writing the book, I had emerged from a madly busy period of making exhibitions and I was frustrated with the conventional retinal way of looking at things: eyes-forward-straight-ahead-right-now. Artist Helen Marten, who also appears in this issue’s portfolio of London artists, spoke with Wolfson about his videos and what he’s trying to achieve somewhere in the flurry of it all.-Christopher Bollen. The Boiled in Between is the debut novel by Turner Prize-winning artist Helen Marten, an ambitious literary work full of beauty and sorrow. Of course there is politics in everything – the sonic density of history and all its semantics, its objects, its matter – it folds and survives in the smallest flecks. Language and body, in other words, are intimately involved, sentences branching and cells dividing. Mazzy-Mae Green: In The Boiled in Between, you read the absurdities of humanity in flecks of dislodged earth and dirt-gashed shirts. Der renommierte britische Turner-Preis für moderne Kunst geht in diesem Jahr an Helen Marten. Art, Die 30-Jährige fertigt Skulpturen aus alltäglichen Gegenständen an. Marten, 31, was lauded for her esoteric sculptural installations, for which she was also awarded the Hepworth Prize for sculpture last month. So always movement, clogged or facilitated by language, always a vehicle of sorts, and always plot but perhaps not always conventionally surfaced. https://www.monopol-magazin.de/helen-marten-gewinnt-turner-prize Thus, when Last Week Tonight employed four master actors to read excerpts from Richard Sackler’s leaked testimony, both the acting and the dialogue were better than Game of Thrones. Helen Marten: I suppose in immodest failure the world survives, and it might be as simple as saying that this kind of noise is the rhythm that structures all bigger ideas. “Helen Marten: Fixed Sky Situation” was exhibited at König Galerie, Berlin, from January 12 to February 24, 2019. She has recently had solo exhibitions at T293 Gallery, Naples, Italy, in 2010, and Johann König, Berlin, Germany, earlier this year. Alluding to language, systems and intentionality, her work across all media sets out to imagine the miraculous substructure beneath the veneer of our habitual lives. Helen Mirren has said that she “got the s***” for her infamous 1975 interview with Michael Parkinson, and that the talk show host “never could quite grasp” what he did wrong. Recorded on 24th November, 1999. The Making of Helen Marten // Feature // 18.10.2013 // Agnieszka Gratza // Getting an interview with the highly sought-after London-based artist Helen Marten is no mean feat. Jasmine Reimer is an artist and writer living and working in Berlin and Toronto. The Housemarten 2: Helen Marten and the politics of managed depression Digital ink does not dry. I suppose they are something of all people – an audience, constructed always and forever by whomever and whenever, by time and spirit. Like dominoes. Helen Marten wins Turner Prize | Helen Marten has been awarded this year’s Turner Prize, overcoming stiff competition in what many critics judged to be the award’s strongest shortlist in years. Helen Marten is an artist and writer based in London, UK. Helen Marten is a British artist based in London. She studied at the University of Guelph and Emily Carr University. MG: In the text, you oscillate between body, food and home, and between beauty, sex and disgust. They are always changing. Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain, published by Sming Sming and Wolfman Books, 2020. Mrs. Ilona “Helen” Martin. – suddenly figuration is in everything so profoundly and intractably. The world is impossibly fat and full of information. I feel a mutual devotion and disgust to all of these categories, but one fundamentally powered by an obsession with their abundantly shared incongruities. PANTS: MARTEN’S OWN. Die Akteure werden von Helena Marten lebendig und bildhaft dargestellt. behind the scenes, . Who are they? Georges … Is there something about a person in descent that is inherently more interesting? This interview supports the scope and content of the Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection at the College Archives & Special Collections department of Columbia College Chicago. So between those two poles, there is an enormous amount of scope for reflexive play. She graduated from the Ruskin School of Fine Art at Oxford University in 2008 and has since had several solo exhibitions, the most recent at Kunsthalle Zürich. Jahrhundert. A Transformation of Something That Could Otherwise be Very Ordinary, English artist Helen Marten uses an internal, cryptic logic to unpick the binary relationship between question and answer. Seit über 25 Jahren ermittelt "Ein starkes Team" in Berlin. I do believe that provisional absurdities can provide deeply profound interpretation. Courtesy: Prototype. At CCS Bard on a recent Friday, the beguiling young Marten debuted her first museum exhibition in the United States while Steinbach rang in his … To be off-balance or ever, HM: It will sound maddening, but I try to think. Courtesy Sming Sming Books. Atoms that collide at speed tend towards transformation, and how exciting is that?! She then wads it with simulacra, showing the riddled possibilities of the endless associations between A and B, or even C and D and E. Ordinarily, she has done this through her sculptural and installation works. Even dirt: the horizons of soil are huge! Impossible to quote Marten writing about sex, violence, food, age or decay without noting how much work the texture and rhythm of her prose are doing. Imagine people as points of civic ordinance all mostly existing within an envelope structure of ethical morality. HM: It will sound maddening, but I try to think with whatever the ambient tone for the day is! Helen Marten: I suppose in immodest failure the world survives, and it might be as simple as saying that this kind of noise is the rhythm that structures all bigger ideas. None are ever what they first seem and all have the power to possess with totality. Helen Marten is having a tremendous year, full of top prizes and successful solo shows. On View Phyllida Barlow and Helen Marten Lead Race to Win First Hepworth Sculpture Prize. Helen Marten bolsters her paintings with sculptural elements while her sculptures look like paintings. Allen voran Luisa und Francesca - zwei junge Frauen, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Jasmine Reimer is an artist and writer living and working in Berlin and Toronto. Her first solo show in Britain was in 2012, at the Chisenhale in London, … Luisa ist klug und geschäftstüchtig, aber auch still, folgsam und feige, ein echter Hasenfuß. 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Skye Arundhati Thomas, October 21, 2016 She then wads it with simulacra, showing the riddled possibilities of the endless associations between A and B, or even C and D and E. Ordinarily, she has done this through her sculptural and installation works. During an interview with police, Helen Martin said she made the decision to bathe the child while her husband was out running errands, according to court documents obtained by FOX59. She is currently working on a novel. Combining sculpture, text and screen-printed paintings, Marten’s practice comprises images and objects, often playing with two and three-dimensionality. It is saturated with potential signification. It is a novel told in the action of persistence and questioning: how the rhythms of a world built upon metaphor and symbolism can collide with relationships personal and domestic. Folge sprachen wir mit den Hauptdarstellern über Parkplatzsex, Schubladendenken und die in 2016 verstorbene Maja Maranow. Think how quickly something monkish becomes pornographic by association. I can’t help but see concept or metaphor in most things. In a Kaleidoscope interview that came out not long before Marten’s Dust and Pirhanas (2011) – a video piece made in response to Peter Zumthor’s 2011 Serpentine Gallery pavilion – was shown at the Serpentine in the popular Park Nights series, Hans Ulrich Obrist, another star curator to champion the young artist, noted that the first show he had seen her work in was ‘Boule to … People operating algorithmically: exchanging, living, dying, fucking, breathing, labouring. Interview with Helen Martin: Coaching tips and techniques to encourage positivity By Heidi Marshall April 21, 2020 No Comments Being a n effective manager right now requires a toolkit of sophisticated set of skills and behaviours. So between those two poles, there is an enormous amount of scope for reflexive play.’. MG: The linguistic rhythm of the book is like dreamwork: the words are soft and elegant, distorting the frictions and unpleasantness experienced by the protagonists. Zur 80. Photography: Robert Glowacki. Traditional Teachers of English Grammar, 2012, by Helen Marten In another interview (she seems to like the form), Marten talks about how walking through a … PANTS: MARTEN’S OWN. The artist on taking a break from visual work to turn to writing, life changes under lockdown and her favourite audiobooks. PHOTO: HELEN MARTEN IN LONDON, OCTOBER 2012. This article originally appeared in Border Crossings #151, published September 2019. I interviewed Marten over several days of emails. They are in and of many of the things they discuss: wind, weather, animal, blood. Ilona “Helen” Martin Interview from 1999. SWEATSHIRT: TOPSHOP. Helen Marten: Drunk Brown House at the Serpentine North Gallery brought together work never before presented in London with new work in an installation that was conceived specifically in relation to the Gallery. All Rights Reserved. Helen Marten is having quite a year and, indeed, quite a career. One of the most compelling artists to emerge out of London in the past few years is 26-year-old sculptor and video artist Helen Marten. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2018); König Galerie, Berlin, Germany (2018); and Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2019). Interview of Helen Shiller by Jacob Martin Lingan. In 2011, she was awarded the Prix Lafayette and in 2012 the Prix LUMA. In 2016, she was awarded both the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture and the Turner Prize. It seems that everyone wants a piece of her these days. Through, Helen Marten: I suppose in immodest failure the world survives, and it might be as simple as saying that this kind of, HM: This links quite specifically to your first question – to positions of precarity. Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain, published by Sming Sming and Wolfman Books, 2020. London (dpa) - Der renommierte britische Turner-Preis für moderne Kunst geht in diesem Jahr an Helen Marten. COAT: EMPORIO ARMANI. It is a novel told in the action of persistence and questioning: how the rhythms of a world built upon metaphor and symbolism can … The result strikes, in her words, “a balance between the seamless, coldness of fabrication, and then a kind of assertive crappiness.” Marten’s object ecosystems have the visual wit of Sarah Lucas or Robert Gober—or Martin Kippenberger, one of her influences—but they hold a deeper tension in terms of the presence of the artist’s hand versus the sleek seduction of the surface. While the materials in Marten’s sculptures may look found, they are almost entirely created from scratch by the artist. Artist Helen Marten, who also appears in this issue’s portfolio of London artists, spoke with Wolfson about his videos and what he’s trying to achieve somewhere in the flurry of it … . MG: Contrary to your other characters, which appear to be embroiled in the mess – implicated – The Messrs. sit above the story, looking down. In the middle of her space is the huge White Cotton is so platonic, or something, a 2D line drawing rendered in steel. A character falling poses a paradox, a confusion of figure and field: falling as controlled comedic clatter or falling as unspooling psychological health. The novel puts into forefront a myriad of vital questions relevant for all who tend to delve deeper into matters of both life and language. English artist Helen Marten uses an internal, cryptic logic to unpick the binary relationship between question and answer. Die Bücher aus der Verlosung gingen bereits an Sabrina L. … – but what I mean is that their presence is designed to be a simultaneity: as omnipotent as the cosmos and as evidence, more and more, that simplicity doesn’t exist. No, it’s not like really being there. If you were to conceptualise the impulses of this book, one way might be to imagine language and plot like furious animated heads engaged in the continual process of trying to drown one another, surfacing and drowning on terrible repeat. She then got into the bath with the child and his toys, while still wearing clothes, and allegedly held his head underwater until he drowned. Der renommierte britische Turner-Preis für moderne Kunst geht in diesem Jahr an Helen Marten. THE SUMMER HELEN MARTEN MET HAIM STEINBACH was the summer the cicadas returned to New York, emerging from a seventeen-year slumber deep inside the earth. HELEN MARTEN: I want to know something about boredom or banality and maybe a little about the hallucinogenic experience that can stem from it. The Boiled in Between is the debut novel by Turner Prize-winning artist Helen Marten, a work of fiction that will surely be acclaimed for its author’s bold and innovative geist. Home; Ilona “Helen” Martin Interview from 1999; Ilona Goldmann aka Helen Martin. MG: What was the process of creating a work like this? London (dpa) - Der renommierte britische Turner-Preis für moderne Kunst geht in diesem Jahr an Helen Marten. Marten’s pieces have roved from incorporating wall paper to cell phones, industrial hardware, neon light, and, of course, animation-perhaps the ultimate art form for the convergence of the unreal with the almost human. To be off-balance or ever en route necessarily forces a reclamation or re-articulation of a body’s relationship to the earth, to gravity, to itself. 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