coil journal of the moving image
COIL was a 10 issue journal published between 1995 and 2000 which explored experimental moving image and electronic/digital media created by artists. Founded and edited by Giles Lane, the journal did not theme issues nor did it include an editorial; contributors were invited to 'intervene' – to use it as a creative space for exploring different ideas, new creative practices or to offer critiques of contemporary practices. Seeking to publish new voices as well as more established artists (often ignored by the bubble of the yBA BritArt phenomenon), COIL provided a unique platform for artists and documented an alternative vision of practices in the late 1990s. Over 80 different writers were commissioned and published for the journal.
Artist's projects were commissioned that offered contributors the opportunity to translate moving image or digital practices to the space of the book. In all 37 projects were commissioned specially for the journal.
COIL was supported throughout its 5 year history by the Arts Council of England's Film & Video Dept (David Curtis & Gary Thomas), as well as receiving occasional support from Channel 4 TV and the London Film & Video Development Agency.
ISSUE CONTENTS:
COIL 1 | COIL 2
| COIL 3 | COIL 4 | COIL
5 | COIL 6 | COIL 7 |
COIL 8 | COIL 9/10 | BUY
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ARTISTS PROJECTS |
| Jayne Parker | |
| Simon Lewandowski | |
| Victoria Mapplebeck | |
| Stef Zelinskij | |
| TEXTS | |
| Atif Ghani | A New Cultural Politics of Difference |
| Brandon LaBelle | The Poetics of Blue (Derek Jarman) |
| Mark Cousins | Danger and Safety |
| Jamie Wagg | History Painting |
| Eugene Finn | Silence and Darkness South of the Border: High Boot Benny |
| Kathleen Rogers | Psi-Net |
| Marion Reichert | The Third Mind of Technology |
| Gina Czarnecki | Authenticity of the Image |
| Wayne Sleeth | The Perpetual Minute: the films of Rebecca Horn |
| Christopher Maris | Kino Schmino: the VGIK film school in Moscow |
| Emina Kurtagic | Is it Alchemy, a Dream or a Wish to Escape? |
| Giles Lane | Jeux des Anges/Bovisa: an inventory of confluence and representation |
| issue designed by Damian Jaques cover images: Victoria Mapplebeck and Alnoor Dewshi | |
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ARTISTS PROJECTS |
| Helen Sear | |
| Rita Keegan | |
| Andrew Kötting | |
| Anne Tallentire | |
| TEXTS | |
| Stuart Morgan | Bill Viola: Video as Meditation |
| Kathleen Pirrie Adams | Obscure Objects and Space Oddities: Fetish and Queerness in the Films of Tanya Syed |
| Mark Lythgoe | Images of the Mind |
| William Firebrace | Treptow |
| Gad Hollander | The Preparation: A Writer's Occupation Before/After Writing |
| Marina Grzinic | Identity Re-read, Re-worked, Re-coded by New Media and Technology |
| Laura Hudson | Promiscuous 8 |
| Clement Page | Matthew Barney: Masculinity at the Margins |
| Anna Maris | Angry Kids and Body Projections: A Look at the New Generation of Bristol Animation |
| issue designed by Damian Jaques cover images: Mark Waller | |
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ARTISTS PROJECTS |
| Simon Robertshaw | |
| Marion Kalmus | |
| Sharon Morris | |
| TEXTS | |
| Sean Cubitt | The Splendour and Death of the CD-ROM |
| Marcelyn Gow | The Vitreous Chamber |
| Rob Gawthrop | Written Work Consisting of Title as Text... |
| Lowena Faull | Mnemoteknics |
| Steve Hawley | John Baird: The Man With the Flower in his Mouth |
| Glyn Davis | The Active Gayz: Ethnographically Reconstituting Spectatorship |
| Chrissie Iles | Untitled/Luminous Structures |
| Denise Robinson | From a Conversation with Susan Hiller |
| Brandon LaBelle | Phantom Memory |
| issue designed by Damian Jaques cover image: Marion Kalmus | |
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ARTISTS PROJECTS |
| Clio Barnard | |
| Judith Goddard | |
| Steve Farrer | |
| Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone | |
| TEXTS | |
| Critical Art Ensemble | Eugenic Visions |
| Pavel Büchler | A Shadow of the Crowd |
| Lisa Blackman | Harwood: Rehearsal of Memory |
| Declan Sheehan | Father Massissi, meet Baron Samedi |
| Stuart Morgan | Buried Alive: Steve Farrer |
| Douglas Ord | Watch/ed and Measure/d: on David Rokeby |
| Jon A. Wagner | Tragic Realism, or This Order of Rage |
| Lily deRais | The Mutilated Body and the Unbroken Shadow |
| issue designed by Damian Jaques cover image: from Orson Welles' Macbeth | |
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ARTISTS PROJECTS |
| Lyndal Jones | |
| John Stezaker | |
| Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead | |
| Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatic | |
| TEXTS | |
| Ian Hunt | Okinawa Replay: Chris Marker's "Level Five" |
| Charles Esche | Collision Discourse: On Roderick Buchanan |
| Virginie DuPray | Auto-bio-video: Lydie Jean-dit-Panell |
| Mark Lewis | Upside Down Touch of Evil |
| Nicola Coutts | Microcosmos; creature myths, converse |
| Rob Stone | TightShoes and the Jump Cut: Walter's Embrace |
| Gilles Lazare | Jacob's Ladder |
| issue designed by Damian Jaques cover images: Lydie Jean-dit-Panell | |
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ARTISTS PROJECTS |
| Jaki Irvine | |
| Pervaiz Khan & Felix de Rooy | |
| Andrew Stones | |
| Marcelyn Gow | |
| TEXTS | |
| Maria Walsh | Beyond the Lighthouse: a Reflection on two films by Tacita Dean |
| Kevin Henderson | The Hunters in the Snow |
| Francis McKee | Between the Lines: Valerie Mrejen's words and pictures |
| Anna Maris | Pelle Wichmann: Northern Exposure |
| Katrina McPherson | Video Dance: sketches on process and structure |
| Andrew Poppy | Six Happy Ideas, or Killing the Vision Kid |
| Sean Cubitt | Abandoned Projects in the Pursuit of Beauty |
| issue designed by Damian Jaques cover image: Katrina McPherson | |
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ARTISTS PROJECTS |
| Willie Doherty | |
| Rory Hamilton | |
| ISO/Toni Davidson | |
| Sera Furneaux | |
| Matthew Dalziel & Louise Scullion | |
| TEXTS | |
| Johnny de Philo [Sue Golding] | Blood Poetics |
| Anonymous | The Entrapment [illustrated by Dave McKean] |
| Sandra Lahire | The Fairies Banquet: on Sarah Pucill |
| Regina Cornwell | Critic to Artists: Q&A - The Computer and Art-making |
| Nelly Voorhuis | Artfilm and Video in the Arena of Art Exhibitions |
| Chris Darke | Profession:
Reporter |
| Sally Stafford | Guilt, the Confessional and 1940s Woman's Film |
| issue designed by Richard Bonner-Morgan & Simon Emery cover images: Sara Roberts | |
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ARTISTS PROJECTS |
| Susan Collins | |
| Brigid McLeer | |
| Hans Schierl | |
| Dryden Goodwin | |
| TEXTS | |
| Joshua
Oppenheimer & |
people who die in closets |
| Jesse Lerner & Rita Gonzalez |
Volkswagen Chakra: Mexican Experimental Cincema |
| Winfried Pauleit |
appointment, disappointment, missed appointment: The film still |
| Chris Byrne |
Analogue To Digital Conversion: Linking Video Art and the Web |
| Emina Kurtagic |
Lisl Ponger: The Art of Transience |
| Sarah Turner |
CUT |
| Laura Malacart |
Journey into no-woman's land: Ulrike Ottinger's, Ticket of No Return |
| Naomi Salaman |
Still Dancing: Duane Hanson |
| issue designed by Richard Bonner-Morgan cover image: Lisl Ponger | |
final issue 9/10 December 2000
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ARTISTS PROJECTS |
| Tina Keane | |
| Tony Hill | |
| Sarah Miles | |
| Nelson Henricks | |
| Suky Best | |
| TEXTS | |
| Sylvere Lotringer | Hammer on the Head: the Last Interview of David Wojnarovicz |
| A L Rees | Unwinding COIL... a personal selection of films & videos |
| Nikos Papastergiadis | After Amnesia: on Juan Davila |
| Miroslaw Rogala | I Wanted to Touch the Words: 3 projects |
| Nicky Hamlyn | FILM VIDEO TV: on David Hall, David Larcher & Guy Sherwin |
| Barbara London | dot.jp: a curator's tour of japan |
| Edwin Carels | Crossing Parallels: The Brothers Quay |
| Laura Mulvey | Death 24 times a second: the still image in film |
| Nick Norton | The Search for K: Orson Welles and Kafka |
| John
Latham |
Whatever Happened... art, time & dimensionality |
| Charlie
Gere |
John Cage's Early Warning System |
| Stuart Morgan | Interview with Bill Viola |
| Nicky Coutts | Jan Fabre and insects in art |
| Gilles Lazare | An Endless Insurrection: Gordon Matta-Clark, Ron Athey & sacred economy |
| Adrien Sina | Social corpus, d(t)oxic landscapes – Mutant flesh, clinical identity |
| Devin & Marsha Orgeron | An interview with Isaac Julien |
| issue designed by Richard Bonner-Morgan cover images: Nick Norton | |
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