HM: My feeling with all these things is that perhaps there is no line. Skye Arundhati Thomas, October 21, 2016 They’re all like their own micro-surfaces that give and receive, are improvised, unmoored. 9½ Questions With Stuart Turton about The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle; Hit the road: A Walk Across Serbia – An Interview with Kevin Shannon; I do believe that provisional absurdities can provide deeply profound interpretation. We explore the path of … Der renommierte britische Turner-Preis für moderne Kunst geht in diesem Jahr an Helen Marten. What is this effect in your work? –Helen Marten. This article originally appeared in Border Crossings #151, published September 2019. MG: Contrary to your other characters, which appear to be embroiled in the mess – implicated – The Messrs. sit above the story, looking down. Liebe Frau Querfurth, liebe Frau van Volxem, ich danke Ihnen – auch im Namen der Leser – von Herzn für dieses interessante Interview und den Einblick in Ihre Arbeit. In the middle of her space is the huge White Cotton is so platonic, or something, a 2D line drawing rendered in steel. If it did, it would still be wet by the time I’ve started getting comments about my slightly ironic review of Helen Marten’s show at the Turner Prize. – suddenly figuration is in everything so profoundly and intractably. The Housemarten 2: Helen Marten and the politics of managed depression Digital ink does not dry. It is a novel told in the action of persistence and questioning: how the rhythms of a world built upon metaphor and symbolism can … 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. So between those two poles, there is an enormous amount of scope for reflexive play. Die 31-jährige Engländerin überzeugte die Jury mit Das Temperament, das Luisa fehlt, hat Francesca doppelt und dreifach. Der renommierte britische Turner-Preis für moderne Kunst geht in diesem Jahr an Helen Marten. The Boiled in Between is published by Prototype. Description; Identifier: 1991 OH 012 ; Date: 10/19/1990 ; Interviewer: Philpot, Edmond ; Interviewee: Martin, Helen ; Description: Martin discusses life during the Depression. They are always changing. Auf weitere Projekte mit dem Namen „Helena Marten“ freue ich mich jetzt schon. A screening of her new film Dust and Piranhas was presented at the Serpentine Pavilion, London, in September as part of the gallery’s ‘Park Nights’ series. . London (dpa) - Der renommierte britische Turner-Preis für moderne Kunst geht in diesem Jahr an Helen Marten. ‘The world is impossibly fat and full of information. SWEATSHIRT: TOPSHOP. Perhaps mostly for myself to short-circuit and start afresh. In this profile we explore her rise to art stardom. Small and slight, with short blonde hair and an all-black wardrobe, the artist Helen Marten, 28, could pass for a Left Bank heroine—perhaps Jean … HELEN MARTEN: I want to know something about boredom or banality and maybe a little about the hallucinogenic experience that can stem from it. On View Phyllida Barlow and Helen Marten Lead Race to Win First Hepworth Sculpture Prize. MG: What was the process of creating a work like this? Traditional Teachers of English Grammar, 2012, by Helen Marten Someone asks her a sensible question and she answers by making a comparison between perfume and a multi-storey car park. I do believe that provisional absurdities can provide deeply profound interpretation. 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. Mazzy-Mae Green: In The Boiled in Between, you read the absurdities of humanity in flecks of dislodged earth and dirt-gashed shirts. 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 … It is saturated with potential signification. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2018); König Galerie, Berlin, Germany (2018); and Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2019). Magazine, 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! Photography: Robert Glowacki. Helen Marten lives and works in London, UK. Die 30-Jährige fertigt Skulpturen aus alltäglichen Gegenständen an. Take the disarming mutant vacation sculpture No juice about it (2011): The piece consists of a grid of bamboo fencing, which is actually made of steel, on which a patchwork quilt and a lei are strung, and in front of which a clay-looking pineapple, actually fashioned from cast aluminum, is coyly humanized by wearing a pair of Oakley sunglasses. They are so many things: amazed conspirators; egos adjusted; staggering ghosts; feelings; admonishments. Art, “There is nothing to touch, no smell, just this weird rubbery shell that at the same time is both materially dead and data-osmotic. Illustrations by Isabelle Albuquerque. ‘A character falling poses a paradox, a confusion of figure and field…’. 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. So between those two poles, there is an enormous amount of scope for reflexive play.’. Helen Marten is having quite a year and, indeed, quite a career. COAT: EMPORIO ARMANI. Courtesy Sming Sming Books. Helen Marten is having quite a year and, indeed, quite a career. Helen Marten bolsters her paintings with sculptural elements while her sculptures look like paintings. 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. Marten’s film Evian Disease plays until July 2013 at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Münzen, Wattestäbchen und Schüsseln zu Skulpturen und Installationen: Für ihre Kunst aus Alltagsgegenständen hat die 30 Jahre alte Helen Marten den renommierten britischen Turner … Maybe I’m interested in these expulsing gestures in the same way as some people might watch the World Cup as an exercise in an expanded ‘cultural studies.’ Something like an archive of melancholy or a pre-modern sensitivity that is political without being Politics, capital P. MG: The characters seem always to be falling. 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. The world is impossibly fat and full of information. Do you feel this is the most pertinent way to interpret our existence? https://www.interviewmagazine.com › art › london-helen-marten Through The Boiled in Between, however, Marten’s first work of fiction, the artist enmeshes her chaotic depictions of humanity into an abstract wordscape that floats and falls and gushes with observational intensity. What You Need to Know About Turner Prize Winner Helen Marten They are in and of many of the things they discuss: wind, weather, animal, blood. 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. HM: I sat at a desk every day for about a year and when things didn’t pour out, I opened other books and used their words like lakes to swim in. 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. Even garbage is alluring because it informs us of human systems. 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 … 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. These portmanteaus and locutionary couplings stimulate the mind’s tongue. Then equip them with libidinal language and an ongoing system of wounding (poverty, illness, violence, etc.) Think how quickly something monkish becomes pornographic by association. Helen Marten works across sculpture, painting and writing to create a body of work that questions the stability of the material world and our place within it. Interview of Helen Shiller by Jacob Martin Lingan. Crafted from wood, steel and clay, or domestic items, Marten’s output includes sculpture, videos, text, and screen-printed paintings. Since the pandemic began, she had been away from her home in the UK and was living in Holland. Zur 80. To trip up is to notice something. 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. In 2011, she was awarded the Prix Lafayette and in 2012 the Prix LUMA. 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. MG: On page 104, you write: ‘Ethan held a pistol once and felt how irrelevant true or false was in the pursuit of knowledge.’ Why is that so? Issues, HM: Ethan is a committed nihilist. I interviewed Marten over several days of emails. 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 … Helen Marten is having a tremendous year, full of top prizes and successful solo shows. Not like walking around it. behind the scenes, Illustrations by Isabelle Albuquerque. 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. She had recently moved her studio into a space in a freshly converted theater in Dalston, but she has yet to unpack, mainly because her most recent work, the 29-minute CGI animation film Evian Disease, now showing at the Palais de Toyko in Paris, required none of her usual hands-on sculptural assemblage-at least not in the physical sphere. 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 in conversation with Matias Faldbakken . Die Bücher aus der Verlosung gingen bereits an Sabrina L. … “Helen Marten: Fixed Sky Situation” was exhibited at König Galerie, Berlin, from January 12 to February 24, 2019. 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 … Courtesy: Prototype. Comments. I feel a mutual devotion and disgust to all of these categories, but one fundamentally powered by an obsession with their abundantly shared incongruities. Marten, 31, was lauded for her esoteric sculptural installations, for which she was also awarded the Hepworth Prize for sculpture last month. 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. Courtesy Sming Sming Books. Die Akteure werden von Helena Marten lebendig und bildhaft dargestellt. – 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. None are ever what they first seem and all have the power to possess with totality. Ihre Geschichte wird dabei von einer fiktiven Frauen-Person in Hosenrolle quasi als roter Faden durch den Roman getragen. 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. London (dpa) - Der renommierte britische Turner-Preis für moderne Kunst geht in diesem Jahr an Helen Marten. To fall down is to forcefully reconnect, get damaged or break. I know that sounds impossibly enigmatic – a riddle! . 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. Johanna Hedva Well, I’m a goth, so I’m partial to the ones who speak of death as the totalising divine. Is there something about a person in descent that is inherently more interesting? “Helen Marten: Fixed Sky Situation” was exhibited at König Galerie, Berlin, from January 12 to February 24, 2019. Johanna Hedva Well, I’m a goth, so I’m partial to the ones who speak of death as the totalising divine. Helen Marten uses sculpture, screen printing and her own writing to produce installations that are full of references, from the contemporary to the historical, and the everyday to the enigmatic. Like dominoes. Münzen, Wattestäbchen, Schuhsohlen, die britische Künstlerin Helen Marten inszeniert alltägliche Dinge "als würde man sie zum ersten Mal sehen". To be off-balance or ever, HM: It will sound maddening, but I try to think. Helen Highly Expands the Correlations. So always movement, clogged or facilitated by language, always a vehicle of sorts, and always plot but perhaps not always conventionally surfaced. 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. “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. In short, perhaps Ethan recognises through all his relentless performance of misery and ridicule, that multiplicity is essential to understanding, that the form of words symbolises an indefinite number of diverse propositions. The Boiled in Between is the debut novel by Turner Prize-winning artist Helen Marten, an ambitious literary work full of beauty and sorrow. Protest in any form visualizes conditions of precarity: in art, in language, in action, in metaphor – it’s as vitalas blood. She studied at the University of Guelph and Emily Carr University. I can’t help but see concept or metaphor in most things. 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. 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. Her first solo show in Britain was in 2012, at the Chisenhale in London, the seeding ground of bright young artists. SWEATSHIRT: TOPSHOP. HM: As the Messrs. themselves suggest, they are instruments of psychic observation. And if we’re thinking about descent, of course a downward plummet always has more velocity! Copyright © 2021 Interview Magazine. 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. MG: In the text, you oscillate between body, food and home, and between beauty, sex and disgust. Her first solo show in Britain was in 2012, at the Chisenhale in London, … The interviewer conducted this oral history as part of his/her coursework for the Spring 2010 class, Oral History: The Art of the Interview. 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. Interview. While the materials in Marten’s sculptures may look found, they are almost entirely created from scratch by the artist. Even dirt: the horizons of soil are huge! fineartmultiple ™ Lesen Sie die neuesten Sammler-Interviews 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. MG: You begin in a heightened conceptual place, writing through a wider lens, before narrowing the story. Who are they? While you were writing, did you think first of language or plot? Die britische Künstlerin Helen Marten erhält den renommierten britischen Turner-Preis. These bigger cultural concepts – identity, economy, survival – are simply packaging for billions of smaller fractured events. Sofia Helin and Kim Bodnia chat about The Bridge on BBC Breakfast January 2014 Jetzt hat sie den Turner-Preis erhalten. Ross Simonini Is there a philosophical perspective on death that feels most true to you?. Imagine people as points of civic ordinance all mostly existing within an envelope structure of ethical morality. fashion, London. The exhibition of works by the finalists opens today. Helen Marten, The Boiled in Between, 2020, book cover. And stupid images can be absolute. Luisa ist klug und geschäftstüchtig, aber auch still, folgsam und feige, ein echter Hasenfuß. 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. https://www.monopol-magazin.de/helen-marten-gewinnt-turner-prize She has recently had solo exhibitions at T293 Gallery, Naples, Italy, in 2010, and Johann König, Berlin, Germany, earlier this year. I was born on 10th June 1912 in Presov. PANTS: MARTEN’S OWN. Jahrhundert. Review: Helen Marten’s debut novel The Boiled in Between. I suppose they are something of all people – an audience, constructed always and forever by whomever and whenever, by time and spirit. I wanted to brutally twist that, not make a space of indeterminate collage, but really wring material process, image digestion and language intent into something else. HM: It will sound maddening, but I try to think with whatever the ambient tone for the day is! In her emails, she gave small glimpses into her life there, with anecdotes about her morning walks and the animals she observed, including ‘something long and red, low to the ground, like a hairy frankfurter with legs’. Entdecken Sie Helen Marten auf fineartmultiple: Biografie, Ausstellungen und derzeit zum Verkauf stehende Kunstwerke. The artist on taking a break from visual work to turn to writing, life changes under lockdown and her favourite audiobooks. People operating algorithmically: exchanging, living, dying, fucking, breathing, labouring. Recorded on 24th November, 1999. The occasional clunkiness only forces the viewer to negotiate her pileups more carefully. Jasmine Reimer is an artist and writer living and working in Berlin and Toronto. Der renommierte britische Turner-Preis für moderne Kunst geht in diesem Jahr an Helen Marten. Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain, published by Sming Sming and Wolfman Books, 2020. 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. As the story progresses, these areas seem to meld. Not like walking around it. As our Critic suggests, life’s truest statements come from legal depositions, where even villains are afraid to lie. Folge sprachen wir mit den Hauptdarstellern über Parkplatzsex, Schubladendenken und die in 2016 verstorbene Maja Maranow. Combining sculpture, text and screen-printed paintings, Marten’s practice comprises images and objects, often playing with two and three-dimensionality. The insects, spawning in the millions, sing loudly and die quickly. In some ways, it is more code than text—the gender has been stripped out, and with that, a sense of the weight.” There is a startling weightlessness to much of Marten’s work, including her highly packed amalgams of objects, which seem neither improvisatory and unintentional nor permanent. 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. 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. She is currently working on a novel. The titles of Helen Marten’s sculptures have long suggested a literary mind at work: Puddlefoot, digging, Limpet Apology (traffic tenses), Brood and Bitter Pass (all 2015). Allen voran Luisa und Francesca - zwei junge Frauen, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Ilona “Helen” Martin Interview from 1999. 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. Interview with Helen Martin. Culture is not Cancelled: Creatives Share Their Inspiration. Berlin - Starke Quote für «Ein starkes Team»: Der ZDF-Krimi hat am Samstagabend ab 20.15 Uhr der Konkurrenz keine Chance 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. I do believe that provisional absurdities can provide deeply profound interpretation. The Boiled in Between is the debut novel by Turner Prize-winning artist Helen Marten, an ambitious literary work full of beauty and sorrow. English artist Helen Marten uses an internal, cryptic logic to unpick the binary relationship between question and answer. culture, Helen Marten lives in London, UK. 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