In the January/February ‘Frontiers’ issue of frieze Michael Ned Holte retraces Robert Smithson’s adventures in time travel on the road to Rozel Point to discover that ‘Spiral Jetty is not about the experience of an Earthwork. It is about the experience of film.’
Tom Morton discusses solitude and the fantasy of life in separatist communities in the collages, books and sculptures of David Thorpe.
Adrian Searle reports from the outer limits of the critical frontier.
Dan Fox finds Marc Camille Chaimowicz’ work intoxicated by longing; yearning for a place never lived in but rather dreamt of or briefly tasted.
James Trainor becomes an art tourist and signs up for a ‘Tour of the Monuments of the Great American Void’.
Mark Godfrey journeys through Tacita Dean’s private mythologies and personal homages.
“What was the first piece of art that really mattered to you? An early experience of a beetle of the scarab family ” Henrik Hakansson responds to the frieze back page Questionnaire.
Also featured: David Altmejd by Christopher Miles; Michaela Meise by Dominic Eichler; Nathaniel Mellors by Sally O’Reilly and Rosalind Nashashibi by Jennifer Higgie.