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Variant vol.2 no.10 Spring 2000 NATO's Reign of Terror in Kosovo - Michel Chossudovsky Investigative journalism unmasking today's political culture. A urgent contribution to understanding (and countering) how public opinion is misled about the KLA provisional government and NATO ordained assassinations of political opponents. First appeared in the US journal Covert Action. The Academy Awards - William Clark A mocking review of the (at times) hopelessly obtuse approach of a collection...
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Variant vol.2 no.30 Winter 2007 Front cover: Stephen Hackett The reality of my desires Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt Provocative review of 'Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority', 'Do it Yourself: A Handbook for Changing our World', 'Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms', exploring the critical urgency and shortcomings of the creative dissent they express... Poster Girl – Billboard Rhetoric Jessica Foley A cyclist's ruminations on Trócaire’s Lenten...
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Variant vol.2 no.24 Winter 2005 Front cover: Andrew Murray Comments It’s Corporatocracy, Stupid! : Culture Commission An overview and critique of Scotland’s Culture Commission’s proposals, where "The problem’s so bad quite a lot of the professionals can’t even see the politics anymore." The Ship of Fools : A Fictional Reality Hope Roberts "Those with severe mental health problems, long term illness or learning disabilities are being further handicapped, their lives...
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Variant vol.2 no.1 Winter 1996 Issue one contained an editorial outlining the events which led to the withdrawal of funds and subsequent closure of the magazine and also reproduced some of the mountain of letters (text) which were sent to the SAC as a protest. Palingenesis of the Avant-Garde - Stewart Home Home analyses contemporary thought on the nature of avant-garde practice introducing a 'teleological' overview rather than a serial historical one (linking the growth of ideas rather than the...
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Variant vol.2 no.5 Spring 1998 Letters Make me wanna holler throw up both my hands - John Beagles Starting with Tracy Emin's drunken rant on TV after the Turner prize, Beagles shifts to question the clarity of the rest of the panel's thought. The article broadens out to encompass contemporary notions of gender and male elitism. Guaranteed Disappointment - Neil Mulholland Heavily illustrated with album covers and related photographs, Mulholland offers a concise historical overview of the punk...
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Variant vol.2 no.18 Autumn 2003 Cover by Dominic Thackray "When examined, answer with questions." Susannah Thompson interviews Jenny Holzer and works to pin down Holzer's views on the institutional and incidental contexts of her practice. Not an easy job... Bob-a-Job AWoL An overdue exposé of the privatisation of the Welfare system in the UK, and the involvement of PPPs in forcing people into low paid work. AWoL exposes the underlying intimidation and bullying in WorkingLinks'...
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Variant vol.2 no.30 Winter 2007 - Document 5 Supplement Variant issue 30 included the programme for Document 5 : International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.
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Variant vol.2 no.20 Summer 2004 Front cover: 'Nae Mair Pish': info Glasgow Autonomous Project (GAP) As the wealth and health gaps widen ("in Shettleston, [Glasgow] the average man will live to 63, 14 years less than the UK average"), a sticker campaign highlighting the contradictions between the poverty & inequality in Glasgow, and the Council's £1.5 million re-branding campaign. (Also see: Save Our Pool) Letters Ourganisation: An Open Letter of Invitation "...an open access...
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Variant vol.2 no.25 Spring 2006 Front cover: Metaphrog Editorial Extract from Harold Pinter’s Nobel Lecture, ‘Art, Truth & Politics’. Brief overview of Scotland Culture Minister’s response to the Executive’s £500,000 Culture Commission’s 131 recommendations. A correction to the press omissions on François Matarasso’s appointment as Chair of Arts Council England, East Midlands. Letters Mr Hebbly (Not a Golfer) Metaphrog “you have to be crazy... welcome to the world of grey...
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Variant vol.2 no.6 Autumn 1998 Editorial Back to the Old School - John Beagles Beagles outlines what he perceives as a terminus in contemporary arts fascination with 'the popular'. His focus becomes the pushing of artists such as Tracy Emin and Gillian Wearing as 'the acceptable face of 90s feminism', articulating what might be seen as 'a generational divide' in feminist strategy. Hungry Ghosts - Orla Ryan A review of the exhibition at the Douglas Hyde gallery, Dublin, which presented ten...
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Variant vol.2 no.42 Winter 2011 Front Cover : Jim Colquhoun, Anthropometrie de l’Epoque Nu The recent future of Scottish Art Robin Baillie and Neil Mulholland An energetic discussion recorded over two sessions, Baillie/ Mulholland get to the crux of the issues raised by Craig Richardson’s recently published book ‘Scottish Art since 1960: Historical Reflections and Contemporary Overviews’, which describes its intention as: “Providing an analysis and including discussion (interviewing...
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Variant vol.2 no.2 Spring 1997 This contained a short editorial introducing newcomers to the magazine and used two of the articles as editorial comment. Letters The Lottery in Babylon - Leigh French An analysis of the changes in Lottery funding and the public funding of the arts generally - exploring its likely effects, directions and bureaucratic procedures. Bad News - Pavel Büchler Büchler presents a cogent and damning indictment of the small-mindedness of Scottish artistic culture. ...
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Variant vol.2 no.11 Summer 2000 Washington and the politics of drugs - Peter Dale Scott This is something of a masterpiece in unravelling and explaining its subject matter. Scott - the author of several books on the subject - provides persuasive evidence on the murky world of US involvement with Drug trafficking through counter-insurgency operations in Peru (coincidentally some of the key figures mentioned fled the country after the article). This is extended to include the continuities of...
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Variant vol.2 no.36 Winter 2009 Front cover: In the spirit of amended, reappropriated or subverted artworks, a decade of culture-focused regeneration later, the forum was invited to amend the caption of Robert Thompson’s Private Eye cartoon, 2000 (also exhibited at ‘Protest & Survive’, curated by Matthew Higgs & Paul Noble, Whitechapel Gallery, 2000). The ‘winner’ wished to remain anonymous. People should not ask why, but only say because. Public submission to parliamentary...
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Variant vol.2 no.31 Spring 2008 Front cover: Hrafnhildur (Rafla) Halldorsdottir Express Yourself! Anna Dezeuze ...reviews Keri Smith's 'The Guerilla Art Kit' and 'Learning to Love You More' by Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July, publications that "share two crucial characetistics: a focus on small interventions within the fabric of everyday life and an emphasis on selfexpression", with Dezeuze addressing "a problematic cuteness and sentimentality". Miraculous...
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Variant vol.2 no.16 Spring 2003 Poster: Scotvec Module
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Variant vol.2 no.2 Spring 1997 This contained a short editorial introducing newcomers to the magazine and used two of the articles as editorial comment. Letters The Lottery in Babylon - Leigh French An analysis of the changes in Lottery funding and the public funding of the arts generally - exploring its likely effects, directions and bureaucratic procedures. Bad News - Pavel Büchler Büchler presents a cogent and damning indictment of the small-mindedness of Scottish artistic culture. ...
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Variant vol.2 no.28 Spring 2007 The Oil issue Front cover: Texan Oilfield, USA, 1922. Image courtesy of the Houston Public Library photo archive Over a Barrel: Editorial Moving through the United States, the Middle East and the Niger Delta, this issue of Variant takes us from the southern tip of Latin America all the way to the Western coast of Norway. Devoted to oil, the writers take a multi-layered internationalist approach to the questions surrounding the commodity which Juan Pablo Alfonzo,...
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Variant vol.2 no.9 Winter 1999/2000 Editorial A look into the relationship between politics, art and tabloid coverage of the arts. The arts policy of the UK Labour government of the '60s is compared with that of today. All Messed Up - William Clark In an attempt to extend the review format, Jonathon Green's 'All Dressed Up (the sixties and the counterculture)' is analysed. The book is found to be loose meandering nostalgia, lacking in many respects and contradictory in others. The...
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Variant vol.2 no.7 Winter 1998/Spring '99 Editorial Tales of the Great Unwashed - Ian Brotherhood A masterful satire on the pomposity and plagiarism of a particular Scottish writer - here as 'Bill Mantovani'. This episode spirals inward until the entire pub is stolen - on the way throwing out metaphors damning the attempts to portray members of Scottish culture as if they were specimens. Politics of Friendship - Ewan Morrison Morrison reviews the latest writings of Jaques Derrida. ...
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Variant vol.2 no.41 Spring 2011 Investing, Advocating, Promoting... strategically Daniel Jewesbury interviews Andrew Dixon, Chief Executive of Creative Scotland, 2nd March 2011 A revealing exchange outlining proposals in Creative Scotland's Corporate Plan: "We are getting rid of all the art form silos… There will be no art form budgets…we will have generic budgets that are more strategic, much more planned and on a larger scale". Marching for Whose Alternative? Escalate "We...
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Variant vol.2 no.43 Spring 2012 Front Cover: Illustration from ‘The Housing Monster’ The Filth, and the Fury Kat Gollock A look to radical 1970s collective activities in the form of the Photography Workshop and community arts networks and what they might tell us about achieving a class-based history as part of oppositional engagement today. Comic & Zine Reviews Mark Pawson December's delayed round-up includes a look at a look at zines: Teal Triggs' 'Fanzines', Toby Mott’s ‘100...
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Kollektiv Artists. Volume 2. released 01/05/10 fantastic new material from Bobo Lo, Cesare vs Disorder, Lazzich, Lump, Birdnest, Dubzonic, Floating Mind, the lonely schizo, SeQ, Rudolf, Sleep Russia, and Bela Emerson.
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Variant vol.2 no.37/38 Spring/Summer 2010 Editorial Glasgow is posed as a poster-child for post-industrial culture-led urban renewal; ex-Council leader Steven Purcell – the schoolboy-like figure, hand outstretched, on the front cover of this issue of Variant – placed at its epicentre of city-boosterism. All this is now unravelling; Purcell quitting his posts amidst cocaine and alcohol confessions. Yet straining to be asked, obfuscated by personal ‘scandal’, is how deep does the cronyism...
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Variant vol.2 no.17 Spring 2003 Cover by Colin Darke Stop the War: Stop the Killing Edward Said The internationally renowned Palestinian intellectual expresses his views on the invasion of Iraq and the situation in Palestine, and responds to questions from sites across the UK. Organised by Edinburgh's Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Globalise Resistance. Has the Gulf War taken place yet? Daniel Jewesbury Following September 11th 2001, when Ground Zero instituted an American...
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Variant vol.2 no.15 Summer 2002 Letters Following the refusal of Variant's right to appeal, responses to the Scottish Arts Council's legal assault on Variant and their false assurances that their judgments are based solely on "artistic merit". A Lovely Curiousity, Raymond Roussel William Clark In-depth look at the little know yet highly influential French, literary figure and his complex methodology for writing. Asian Alternative Space Andrew Lam Based in Hong Kong, Lam examines...
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Variant vol.2 no.14 Winter 2001 Editorial The editorial ridicules the Scottish Arts Council Chairman, James Boyle's many connections and recent 'sacking' of the ex-director Tessa Jackson. It also touches upon the SAC's blacklisting of Variant creating a picture of decline towards intolerance and autocratic misrule. Variant Forum Occasional Documents: Towards Situation Howard Slater "In a culture still driven by commodity exchange and representation, driven by the submergence of social...
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Variant vol.2 no.33 Winter 2008 Front cover by: Angry Art Works Comment Variant Affinity Group From the censorship of Variant magazine by Culture & Sport Glasgow to the forced formation of Creative Scotland, in the midst of the ongoing financial crisis, a warning of the effects of devolving power to private interests set on the marketisation and financial exploitation of culture. If reason prevails, this moment should provide an opportunity for cultural workers to redefine what constitutes...
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Variant vol.2 no.1 Winter 1996 Issue one contained an editorial outlining the events which led to the withdrawal of funds and subsequent closure of the magazine and also reproduced some of the mountain of letters (text) which were sent to the SAC as a protest. Palingenesis of the Avant-Garde - Stewart Home Home analyses contemporary thought on the nature of avant-garde practice introducing a 'teleological' overview rather than a serial historical one (linking the growth of ideas rather than the...
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Variant vol.2 no.27 Winter 2006 Putting Dada Flesh on the Bone John Beagles "[H]istorical Dada and Surrealism has found itself reassessed, revised and repackaged in numerous recent exhibitions...while the popularity of a litany of artists referencing, name checking and stealing from both movements is undeniable." Beagles examines "the contrasting aims of two recent projects to revise accepted ideas about the nature and legacy of New York Dada – Amelia Jones’ book Irrational...
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Variant vol.2 no.32 Summer 2008 Front & back covers by: 'New social art school, free daze!' Notes on the front cover The Left Hand and the Right Hand of the State Pierre Bourdieu interviewed by R. P. Droit & T. Ferenczi Bourdieu conjures up the useful metaphor and with it he illuminates the devastating impact of neoliberalism on social democracy. The key issue remains, how the public interest and the common good can be manifested under the conditions of corporate and financial...
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Variant vol.2 no.23 Summer 2005 Front cover: Jim Colquhoun Editorial and Letters Elsa Stansfield (1945-2004) Pioneer of European artists’ video Steve Partridge A personal accolade to Elsa Stansfield --artist, inspirational teacher and profound thinker, closely associated with the development of video art in the Netherlands. The New Girl Pilvi Takala and Lucy McKenzie Exploratory email exchange on Takala's artist’s book 'Event on Garnethill', suggestively concerned with structures which...
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Variant vol.2 no.3 Summer 1997 Crowd Control - Chris Byrne A review of Andrews Stones' video and installation work at Streetlevel, Glasgow. Byrne brings out the political aspects of the work and follows the artists intellectual and technical rigour. Virtue and Vice - Michelle McGuire A well crafted and penetrating look at derivations of allegory in contemporary photography. McGuire offers an extended review of the 'Virtue and Vice' exhibition at the Site gallery in Sheffield. Amongst the...
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Variant vol.2 no.22 Spring 2005 Front cover: Rogue One's 'Juggler' Images at the Edge Jamie Docherty Documentation and reflection on the political nature and focuses of recent stencil graffiti art in the built environment in Glasgow. News. What is it good for? Stephen Baker & Greg McLaughlin A concise account of the misinformation of mainstream news broadcasting, its lack of historical and political context, and a questioning of its use to the democratic process. Ten Million Reasons to be...
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Variant vol.2 no.29 Summer 2007 Front cover Jonathan Owen and Neil Grassie Who Are You to tell me to Question Authority? Radical education in a ‘proto-fascist’ era Benjamin Franks A comprehensive review of Henry Giroux's 'Against the New Authoritarianism', a well-researched polemic that identifies the threat of authoritarianism in the nexus of hierarchical institutions that have formed in the United States, where the images from Abu Ghraib provide Giroux with a significant set of...
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Variant vol.2 no.34 Spring 2009 Front cover & centre pages: 'Every action will be judged on the particular circumstances' by Seamus Nolan Letters Open Letter to Mike Russell MSP (Minister for Culture, External Affairs and the Constitution) and call for signatories, re. Promotional Culture versus Democratic Culture: The Case of Creative Scotland. The Creativity Fix Jamie Peck Cogent critique of architect and popilariser of the 'creative class' thesis, Richard Florida's best selling primers...
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Variant vol.2 no.16 Winter 2003 Die Sonne: The Sun David Appleman A personal uncovering of the Nazi extermination of 'mental defectives, the incurably ill/insane, criminals and Jews', through the exploration of the life of pioneering artist Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler. Women Against Fundamentalisms Interview with Gita Sahgal Robin Sen interviews Gita Sahgal, former member of Southall Black Sisters and Women Against Fundamentalisms, covering: new Labour's disaster of single faith schools,...
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Variant vol.2 no.35 Summer 2009 Front cover: Chad McCail, detail from obedience doesn’t relieve pain, ‘food shelter clothing fuel’ series. Comment The Progress of Creeping Fascism Owen Logan Logan asserts that Fascism ought to be understood as an ideologically sophisticated, creeping set of political relations. Corporate monopolisation of markets is the symptom and outcome of this onward march, but not the cause. The cause is the monopolisation of public reason by 'coercive rationalism'....
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Variant vol.2 no.9 Winter 1999/2000 Dialogical Aesthetics supplement Dialogical Aesthetics: A Critical Framework for Littoral Art Grant Kester (assistant professor of contemporary art history and Theory at Arizona State University) puts forward a very thorough framework for art which seeks to be socially engaged. This framework has a broad philosophical sweep which focus on the difficulties of Modern and Post-modern art's differentiation from other 'lower' forms of culture. Kester favours...
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Variant vol.2 no.8 Summer 1999 Supplement: Byzantine Politics (The Abduction and Trial of Abdulla Ocalan) William Clark The first in a series of supplements to the magazine, this has been recognised as at the forefront of reporting on the case. The product of extensive research - it is a wide ranging work sensitive to the many twists and turns of international law and diplomacy. It unravels the events surrounding the abduction of Ocalan by forces which had earlier planed his assassination,...
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Variant vol.2 no.10 Spring 2000 supplement Non Place Urban Realm Non Place Urban Realm The title comes from an exhibition and series of seminars at the South London Gallery, August 99. The first section is a discussion between Anthony Iles, Craig Martin and Peter Suchin which covers the general themes of the exhibition. This is augmented by contributions from artists groups such as Mongrel, Flambera and Inventory.
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Variant vol.2 no.12 Spring 2001 A conversation with James Kelman - William Clark This is an informal conversation which nevertheless sets out a poignant indictment of the ignorance, small-mindedness and vested interest which dominate the controllers of Scottish culture. It ranges over contemporary and historical developments, attitudes and concerns providing a compelling, honest insight and testimony as to what it is like to work as an artist in Scotland. It proved a bit too much for that...
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Variant vol.2 no.4 Autumn 1997 Painted Words - Peter Suchin A short but insightful review of Shane Cullen's large text paintings which use the diaries and letters of IRA hunger strikers. People in a landscape - Marshall Anderson An analysis of the festival 'People in a Landscape', and the associated publication. Anderson investigates the background to the festival revealing a litany of compromise, financial peculiarities, bad planning and inadequacy. He also offers strong evidence on a number...
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Variant vol.2 no.19 Spring 2004 Cover Holger Mohaupt, 'Local Resistance', Genoa 2003 Letters Comment Begins with events highlighting the development of the 'embedding' of journalists within the US's Police and Paramilitary forces. Followed by the letter to Scotland's Cultural Officials challenging the proposed take over of the visual arts space Tramway2 by Scottish Ballet. Ends with an overview of the Tramway situation and a questioning of the expected changes to Scotland's cultural...
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Variant vol.2 no.13 Summer 2001 Letters in response to issue 13 Geoff Mulgan and Ian Christie The Tainted Word - William Clark An investigation into the work of the often quoted but little understood consultancy Demos. This begins with their input into arts policy and the background to one or two of their key figures. The organisations which have sprung from Demos are analysed (one looks like a secret society) and the article ends with further analysis and comment on the government's adoption...
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