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Old News Throughout 2004 the Danish curator invited one artist a month to participate in the project. These twelve artists each chose a fellow artist to join them in clipping four articles or images a month from the news sources they read during that period. These cuttings were collated, along with specially commissioned essays by John Miller and Joachim Koester to form the first issue of Old News, a meticulously designed tabloid publication which was exhibited alongside a range of newspaper related items at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) in 2005. Recycling news articles, headlines, images and using information from the print media were at the core of visual art in the 20th century. The expressions are many and varied from intervention, incorporation, appropriation; reproduction of news to self published newspapers and montage newspaper fragments. Jacob Fabricius: When I first started thinking about Old News, I thought about how news, newspapers and information influence my life. How I select my news sources and how information can be manipulated in the media. I thought of how I would react to my own Old News request. Would I read and look at the daily paper differently? Since starting the project the maelstrom of news has increased. In Denmark the last 2-3 years have brought us the ‘free’ newspaper - first there were two, now there are six (among them are Urban, Metroxpressen, Dato, and 24 timer). Its been named the Danish newspaper war and you hardly can’t sit in a train without sitting on 3 editions of the same newspaper. |
