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BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY
Stephen Horne is an artist and writer living in France and Canada. Born in Kenya 1948, his writings have been published in Canada, Britain and France. He is a professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada, where he teaches seminars on media arts issues one term each year. He has also taught courses on critical writing in the Masters of Fine Arts Program at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. In France he lives in Paris and Pays de Loire.
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Beginning in 1989, he created (with the artist Lani Maestro) a series of publications called "Harbour Magazine on Art & Everyday Life" which featured primarily artist's projects created specifically for publication in this venue as well as writings by artists, critics and theorists. The series concluded in 1994 after nine issues were published. The aim was to focus on practical issues affecting artists in the areas of production and dissemination and to provide a venue alternative to the prevailing institutional system.
He is also a member of the collective "Burning Editions" which publishes occasional artist's books and catalogues and which can be seen at http://www.reluctant.ca/burning
Horne's writings have been published frequently in periodicals: "Parachute" (Montreal), for example essays on Thomas Demand, Michael Fernandes, Luc Tuymans and Kevin de Forest; "Third Text" (London), for example essays on Cildo Meireles, and Michael Fernandes; "Artpress" (Paris), for example reviews on Adrien Piper, Mowry Baden, Rober Racine, and Ana Laura Alez. His reviews have also appeared in "Flash Art", "Art Asia Pacific", "Canadian Art", and "Fuse".
Several anthologies include his essays: "Material Matters", YYZ, Toronto/CA; "Lectures Oblique", Centre d'art contemporain, Basse-Normandie/F; "Fictions and Other Accounts of Photography", Montreal, Quebec. In 1999 he edited the anthology "Fictions and Other Accounts of Photography" for Dazibao, Montreal. It includes essays by Trinh T. Minh-ha, Saul Anton, Colette Tougas, Emmanuel Hermange, and Olivier Asselin. This anthology is a French/English publication.
Horne's current writing is concerned with finding critical alternatives through attention to works which recognize an art of the particular; practices which recognize the embeddness of the social in the individual and vice versa, a vision which combines a "therapeutic" perspective with an emphasis on an enhancing of the ethical dimension. There are many examples of artists who have undertaken this project: Tadashi Kawamata's architectural scale installations question the nature of contemporary public space. In Canada, Mowry Baden has been exploring the strangenesses of everyday bodily movement, reflections on the utterly pedestrian and everyday - looking, walking, sitting, lying down - experiences normally taken for granted, which his sculptures turn into invitations to engage in a task or experiment. Perhaps the two artists who have contributed the most effectively and rigorously to exploring the perspective of lived experience were the Brazilians Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica. Their works have been receiving considerable attention in Europe for the past few years. The response to these, and related artists has re-opened the question of an embodied work of art, a question that has now re-entered the critical purview and which must now be considered in the practice of critics, curators and art instructors.
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