Kinomuseum: Towards an artists’ cinema, ed. Mike Sperlinger and Ian White (Cologne: Walther König, 2008)

 

Acid Cut Flowers (with Emily Wardill), play script (London: T\EXT\ART, 2008)

https://issuu.com/bokship/docs/acid_cut_flowers_low_res

 

We are behind, Emily Wardill and Ian White (London and Amsterdam: Book Works and de Appel, 2010)

 

Ian White: Ibiza Black Flags Democracy (Berlin: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Galerie, 2010)

‘I kissed him slightly, first, last …’, Prodragpinup, ed. Roger Burton, Kate Forbes and Ian White (The Horse Hospital, London, 1996), unpaginated

 

‘Suicide Jumpers no.1’, Prodragpinup, no.3, ed. Roger Burton, Kate Forbes and Ian White (The Horse Hospital, London, 1997), unpaginated

 

‘Joe Coleman and Divine David in conversation with Ian White’, Everything, vol.2 no.3 (1998), p.12-15

 

‘Paranoia at “book sale”!’, Influence, no.4, ed. Trever Adams (Dexter Haven, 1999), unpaginated

 

'The last picture show', The Guardian, 6 October 2001,

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/oct/06/books.guardianreview

 

‘Film Art Life (Death, Sex, Social History): David Wojnarowicz’, Untitled, no.28 (Summer 2002),

https://pdome.org/2002/the-effacement-of-self/

 

‘ArtFilm: Screen notes’ [John Smith; ‘Rodney Graham’, Whitechapel Art Gallery; Film Framed; Gunvor Nelson; kinoKULTURE; Steve McQueen; Lux calendar], ArtReview (October 2002), pp.38–39

 

'Jet-Packed Nomads: Mark Leckey, Nick Relph and Oliver Payne', ArtFoto (ArtReview annual supplement), no.1 (November 2002), pp.30–33

 

'Information: Suspect, Construction: Evident' [John Smith], Festivalkatalog 48

 

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (Oberhausen: Karl Maria Laufen, 2002), pp.182–83. ‘The Cedar Bar’, ArtReview (2003)

 

Exhibition review of ‘On General Release: Avant-garde and Artists’ Films in Britain 1968–72’, Art Monthly, no.263 (February 2003), pp.36–37

 

'Recording and Performing: Cinema as a live art', art in-sight, no.8 (insert in filmwaves, no.21, Spring 2003)

 

Exhibition review of 'Hey Production!', Art Monthly, no.266 (May 2003), pp.24–25

 

Book review of The Undercut Reader: Critical Writings on Artists’ Film and Video, Art Monthly, no.267 (June 2003), p.39

 

‘Rewind and repeat to fade’ [Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler, ‘The Poetics Project 1977–1997’, Barbican; Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, ‘File Under Sacred Music’, ICA], ArtReview (June 2003), p.36

 

'Romantic, Beyond, Impossible and Heartbreaking: An open response to Tilda Swinton’s 2002 Vertigo Address', Vertigo, vol.2, no.5 (Summer 2003),

https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/vertigo_magazine/volume-2-issue-5-summer-2003/romantic-beyond-impossible-and-heartbreaking/

 

Conference review of 'Experimental Film Today', Art Monthly, no.269 (September 2003), p.42

 

‘Film: Hackers’ delight’ [‘Radical Entertainment’, ICA; ‘Blinky 1’ and ‘Blinky 2’, Tate Britain; Foxy Productions], ArtReview (September 2003), p.38

 

Exhibition review of 'The Bogside Artists', Art Monthly, no.270 (October 2003), pp.39–40

 

‘Film: New points of reference’ [Shoichi Chugoku; Takahiko Iimura; London Film Festival], ArtReview (November 2003), p.42

 

‘Piece Work: Yoko Ono’, ArtReview (November 2003)

 

‘Letter From Jane’ (with Mike Sperlinger), mary kelly (London: mary kelly project, 2003), p.25

 

'Palace Calls Crisis Summit', Film[lokal] (Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Markus Schinwald, Thomas Steffl, Costa Vece, Albert Weis), ed. Markus Heinzelmann (Frankfurt: Revolver, 2003), pp.40–46

 

'Peter Gidal' [original title: ‘Yet But If But If But Then But Then: Peter Gidal’], Luxonline website (2003),

http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/peter_gidal/(printversion).html

 

‘Pull My Daisy’, LUX website (2003), no longer accessible

 

Exhibition review of 'Mark Leckey: Parade', Art Monthly, no.273 (February 2004), pp.27–28

 

‘Film: Adjust your set’ [‘Nothing Special’, FACT], ArtReview (February 2004), p.44

 

Exhibition review of 'A Kind of Bliss', Art Monthly, no.275 (April 2004), pp.32–33

 

‘Film: All that is solid melts into air’ [‘Anthony McCall’, Mead Gallery], ArtReview (April 2004), p.47

 

‘Film: Small-town stories’ [‘Double Indemnity: Todd Haynes/Edward Hopper’, Tate Modern, London], ArtReview (June 2004), pp.49–50

 

‘Devil in the Detail’ [Kenneth Anger], ArtReview (September 2004), p.22

 

‘Film: And for my next trick …’ [‘Eyes, Lies and Illusions’, Hayward Gallery; ‘Bruce Nauman: Raw Materials’, Tate Modern], ArtReview (October 2004), pp.57–58

 

'Radical Entertainment', mute, vol.1, no.27 (Winter/Spring 2004),

https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/radical-entertainment

 

‘Not firing on all cylinders’ [Gwangjo Biennale], ArtReview (December 2004/January 2005), pp.33–34

 

'__/__/04 (On Fountains)', Klaus Weber: Unfold! You Cul de Sac (Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, 2004), pp.12–21

 

‘Das projizierte objekt’, trans. Gaby Gehlen, Kurz und Klein: 50 Jahre Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, ed. Klaus Behnken (Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2004), pp.191–96

 

'Ten Pound Per Head' [Ann Course and Paul Clark], firstsite papers, exhibition text for ‘No Horizon: Ann Course and Emma Woffenden’, firstsite, Colchester (2004)

 

‘Film: Read between the lines’ [Margaret Tait; Two Films by Owen Land (book); ‘Reverence: The Films of Owen Land’, Tate Modern, London], ArtReview (February 2005), pp.42–43

 

‘Film: Too much of a good thing’ [International Film Festival Rotterdam], ArtReview (April 2005), pp.31–32

 

‘Film: It’s a film club, and everyone’s invited’ [e-flux video rental; Cummings and Lewandowska; assume vivid astro focus; Bernadette Corporation], ArtReview (August 2005), pp.46–47

 

‘Film: Art and film get spliced’ [‘Oliver Payne and Nick Relph’, Serpentine Gallery; preview of first Artists Cinema, Frieze Art Fair (coordinated by White)], ArtReview (October 2005), pp.61–62

 

'I and I / 12 to 12 – Notes on UtopiaLive', exhibition text for ‘Cram Sessions at the BMA: 04 Counter Campus’ (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2005), p.4

 

'These Things Happen', text for DVD booklet, In Profile: John Wood and Paul Harrison (Bristol: Picture This, 2005).

    • Reprinted in: John Wood and Paul Harrison: 124 Minutes, exhibition catalogue (Cardiff: Ffotogallery, 2006)

 

'Who is not the Author? Gerry Schum and the Established Order', Afterthought: new writing on conceptual art, ed. Mike Sperlinger (London: Rachmaninoff’s, 2005), pp.65–83

 

‘Film: The great experiment’ [preview of International Film Festival Rotterdam and ‘Satellite of Love’, Witte de With and TENT, Rotterdam], ArtReview (January 2006), pp.49–50

 

'John Cage and Black Mountain College', The Wire, no.263 (January 2006), p.80

 

'Film 2005' [round-up of the year], frieze, no.96 (January–February 2006)

https://www.frieze.com/article/film-2005

 

‘Liverpool: Documenting urban life’ [‘Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now’, Tate Liverpool], ArtReview (February 2006), pp.42–43

 

'Brian Eno: 14 Video Paintings', The Wire, no.265 (March 2006), p.16

 

‘Film: Frames per second’ [on.no.w.here lab; ‘New Work UK: The Chemical Effect’, Whitechapel Gallery; ‘Le Mouvement des Images’, Centre Georges Pompidou] ArtReview (March 2006), pp.57–58

 

‘Film: Frontline voyeurs’ [Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 50th anniversary], ArtReview (May 2006), pp.53–54

 

'On The Road' [interview with David Lamelas], frieze, no.100 (June–August 2006),

https://www.frieze.com/article/road

 

'Moving pictures: Sergei Dvortsevoy: Documentary is a dirty word', ArtReview (July 2006), pp.108-09

 

'Nam June Paik: Magnetic Memory', The Wire, no.270 (August 2006), p.73

http://www.eai.org/user_files/supporting_documents/TheWire_EAI.pdf

 

‘Grace Ndiritu in conversation with Ian White’, Luxonline website (2006),

http://www.luxonline.org.uk/articles/grace_ndiritu_in_conversation(1).html

 

'Occupation: Animation and the Visual Arts', The animate! book: rethinking animation, ed. Benjamin Cook and Gary Thomas (London: LUX, 2006), pp.120–131

 

'The Big Giving', press release text for Klaus Weber exhibition, Herald St, London (2006)

 

'We would argue: Argument now' (with Mike Sperlinger), Argument: A Project by Anthony McCall & Andrew Tyndall (London: LUX, 2006), pp.4-5

 

‘Film and Video: Robert Beavers: Is Film A Site-Specific Artform?', ArtReview (February 2007), p.76–77

 

'The Body Politic: Mary Kelly in conversation', frieze, no.107 (May 2007),

https://www.frieze.com/article/body-politic

 

'Beginning, Middle, End', John Bock: Films, ed. Esther Schllicht and Max Hollein (Frankfurt and Cologne: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Walther König, 2007), pp.91-92

 

'Broken Windows', exhibition text for ‘Emily Wardill: Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck’, Picture This, Bristol (2007)

 

‘Camera Obscura’, text for booklet accompanying Richard Squires’s film Programme at the Old Operating Theatre, London (2007), unpaginated

 

'ContinuousPresent', text for DVD booklet, Alfred Leslie: COOL MAN in a GOLDEN AGE – Selected Films (London: LUX, 2007), pp.2-10

 

'Crystal Gazes', exhibition text for ‘Ursula Mayer: The Crystals of Time’, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (2007)

 

‘Feelings Are Facts: A Life by Yvonne Rainer’, Afterall website (2007),

http://www.afterall.org/online/feelings.are.facts.a.life.by.yvonne.rainer#.VpGFjza9FE4

 

‘Ian White and Jimmy Robert: 6 things we couldn’t do, but can do now’ (with Jimmy Robert), Keep On Onnin': Contemporary Art at Tate Britain, Art Now 2004–07, ed. Catherine Wood (London: Tate Britain, 2007), pp.34–39

 

'Jean-Gabriel Périot', Animate Projects website (2007),

http://animateprojectsarchive.org/writing/essay_archive/ian_white

 

'Kinomuseum', Festivalkatalog 53. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (Oberhausen: Karl Maria Laufen, 2007), pp.81–86

https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/fileadmin/Kurzfilmtage/Kurzfilmtage_2007/Kataloge/katalog_komplett.pdf

 

'Kinomuseum', Festivalkatalog 53. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (Oberhausen: Karl Maria Laufen, 2007), pp.81–86

https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/fileadmin/Kurzfilmtage/Kurzfilmtage_2007/Kataloge/katalog_komplett.pdf

    • Reprinted (in expanded form) in: Kinomuseum: Towards an artists’ cinema, ed. Mike Sperlinger and Ian White (Cologne: Walther König, 2008), pp.13–27

    • Reprinted (in abridged form) in: Moving Image (Documents of Contemporary Art), ed. Omar Kholeif (London and Cambridge, MA: Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press, 2015), pp.92–94

 

'Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain: museums without walls, walls without corners and words with no edges', exhibition text for Nick Relph & Oliver Payne exhibition, Herald St, London (2007)

 

‘Stuart Marshall’ [original title: ‘Intervention: Stuart Marshall’], Luxonline website (2007),

http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/stuart_marshall/essay(1).html

    • Reprinted in Afterall, no.41 (Spring/Summer 2016), pp.48–53

 

‘One Script for 9 Scripts from a Nation at War’, Afterall, no.18 (Summer 2008), pp.100–07

 

‘Art on Television’, Art Monthly, no.319 (September 2008), p.36

 

Exhibition review of ‘Stephen Prina: The Way He Always Wanted It II’, ArtReview (September 2008), p.132

 

'Blank Space', exhibition text for ‘Gail Pickering’, Gasworks, London (2008)

 

'History Is Written for Historical Reasons', Festivalkatalog 54. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (Oberhausen: Karl Maria Laufen, 2008), pp.115–17

https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/fileadmin/Kurzfilmtage/Kurzfilmtage_2008/Katalog/Festivalkatalog2008.pdf

 

‘Recording and Performing: Cinema as a Live Art/Becoming Object’, previously unpublished (2008, originally commissioned for a proposed issue of Cinemamatograph, the journal of the San Francisco Cinematheque, on the subject of 'live cinema’)

 

'Rosa Barba', Camera Austria, no.101 (2008), pp.21–26

 

'Crowd Control', blog post on LUX website (10 September 2009),

http://www.lux.org.uk/blog/artistcurator-ian-whites-new-berlin-blog-crowd-control

 

'Baum im Herbst', blog post on LUX website (8 October 2009),

http://lux.org.uk/blog/baum-im-herbst-artistcurator-ian-whites-latest-blog-berlin

 

'Hello/Goodbye Jack Smith/Berlin’, blog post on LUX website (19 November 2009),

https://lux.org.uk/writing/hello-goodbye-jack-smith-berlin-artist-curator-ian-whites-latest-blog-berlin

 

'Ecstatic Resistance, Jingle Bells', blog post on LUX website (18 December 2009),

http://lux.org.uk/blog/ecstatic-resistance-jingle-bells-artistcurator-ian-whites-latest-blog

 

‘Architecture is the Act of Looking’, The Sheffield Pavilion 2009, ed. Jannine Griffin (Sheffield: Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum, 2009), pp.6–9

 

'As thin as they could be and as strong as they could be: Isa Genzken's Chicago Drive and My Grandparents in the Bavarian Forest', Isa Genzken: Open, Sesame!, exhibition catalogue, ed. Iwona Blazwick (London and Cologne: Whitechapel Gallery and Museum Ludwig, 2009), pp.108–15

 

'Death, Life and Art(ifice): The films of Sharon Lockhart', Painting Real: Warhol Wool Newman / Screening Real: Conner Lockhart Warhol, ed. Peter Pakesch (Graz: Walther König, 2009), pp.149–57

 

'I am not an archive', exhibition text for ‘Videorama’, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2009. 'Köken Ergun: Personal Works of Public Ceremonies', Anywhere But Now, exhibition catalogue, ed. Samar Kanafani, Munira Khayyat, Rasha Salti and Layla Al-Zubaidi Ars (Beirut: Heinrich Böll Foundation, 2009), pp.87–89

 

'Life Itself! The “problem” of pre-cinema', Film and Video Art, ed. Stuart Comer (London: Tate, 2009), pp.14-25

 

'Signs of the (Other) Times: Television, video, representation', Be nice, share everything, have fun, ed. Stefan Kalmár and Daniel Pies (Munich: Kunstverein Munich, 2009), pp.1–5

 

'The time is now 10 seconds or greater', blog post on LUX website (11 Feb 2010),

https://lux.org.uk/writing/artistcurator-ian-whites-latest-blog-time-now-10-seconds-greater

 

'A blog’s not a tweet, but London is the Île de Vassivière', blog post on LUX website (1 July 2010),

http://lux.org.uk/blog/blogs-not-tweet-london-ile-de-vassiviere

 

‘Someday Soon’, blog post on Guggenheim website (10 September 2010),

https://www.guggenheim.org/blogs/the-take/someday-soon

 

'On Yvonne Rainer', blog post on LUX website (12 November 2010),

https://lux.org.uk/writing/artist-curator-ian-whites-latest-blog-yvonne-rainer

 

'Situation Cinema: Models of spectacle, empty spaces and The Saints', Paul Pfeiffer: The Saints, exhibition catalogue, ed. Britta Schmitz (Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2010), pp.24–36

 

'Where do you stand, colleague? Art criticism and social critique', blog post on LUX website (9 March 2011),

https://lux.org.uk/stand-colleague-art-criticism-social-critique

 

'Not Based in Berlin', blog post on LUX website (21 June 2011),

http://www.lux.org.uk/blog/not-based-berlin

 

'Invisible Cinemas', blog post on LUX website (21 July 2011),

http://www.lux.org.uk/blog/invisible-cinemas

 

‘A Life, and Time: Alfred Leslie ́s letter to Frank O’Hara + Roland Barthes on Racine’, reproduced in Here is Information. Mobilise (originally presented as a performance/reading at Kino Arsenal, Berlin, 11 May 2011)

 

'All That Melts is Solid', exhibition text for Emily Wardill, Art Basel Statements (2011)

 

'An Idea in Three Dimensions', Rosa Barba: White Is An Image, ed. Andrea Viliani and Chiara Parisi (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2011), pp.7-39

 

'Foyer', Poor Man’s Expression: Technology, Experimental Film, Conceptual Art – A Compendium in Texts and Images, ed. Martin Ebner and Florian Zeyfang (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2011), pp.97–98

 

'Inevitably Making Sense' [with Martin Gustavsson], Martin Gustavsson: In No Particular Order, exhibition catalogue (Gothemburg: Gothemburg Museum of Art, 2011), pp.10–51

 

'On Access and Exclusion' (interview with Köken Ergun), Who Am I Anyway? – Three Interviews with Köken Ergun, ed. Oliver Kielmayer (Winterthur: Kunsthalle Winterthur, 2011), pp.62–81

 

'The hole’s the thing…', Gerard Byrne: Images or Shadows, exhibition catalogue, ed. Pablo Lafuente (Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2011), pp.199–210

 

Untitled blog post on Lives of Performers (7 October 2012),

https://livesofperformers.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/what-can-be-sai

 

'In. Adequate. Time. (Prisons 1)', blog post on Lives of Performers (15 October 2012),

https://livesofperformers.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/in-adequate-time-prisons-1

 

'F R E E (Prisons 2)', blog post on Lives of Performers (29 October 2012),

https://livesofperformers.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/f-r-e-e-prisons-2

 

'Lube', blog post on Lives of Performers (13 November 2012),

https://livesofperformers.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/lube

 

'Bambi L. and I', blog post on Lives of Performers (16 November 2012),

https://livesofperformers.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/bambi-l-and-i

 

'Removing the Minus', blog post on Lives of Performers (22 November 2012),

https://livesofperformers.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/removing-the-minus

 

'The Trouble With Pictures’, blog post on Lives of Performers (6 December 2012),

https://livesofperformers.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/the-trouble-with-pictures

 

'First, Six or so People', blog post on Lives of Performers (20 December 2012),

https://livesofperformers.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/first-six-or-so-people

 

'Performer, Audience, Mirror: Cinema, Theatre and the Idea of the Live', The Sensible Stage: Staging and the Moving Image, ed. Bridget Crone (Bristol: Picture This, 2012), pp.30–43

 

'Preface', exhibition text for ‘Ruth Buchanan: Put a curve, an arch right through it', Krome Gallery, Berlin (2012)

 

'Time/Form(s)/Friendship' [with Jimmy Robert], Jimmy Robert: Vis-à-vis, exhibition catalogue, ed. Kate Steinmann, Sarah Kramer and Molly Zimmerman-Feeley (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2012), pp.61–74

 

'What is Material?', Ruth Buchanan: The weather, a building (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2012), unpaginated

 

'Wishful Thinking: Morgan Fisher at the Ziegfeld Follies, or, Oliver Husain and the Potential of Theatrical Excess', Oliver Husain: Spoiler Alert, exhibition catalogue, ed. Emelie Chhangur (Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 2012), pp.34–40

 

‘Statement for “Appropriation and Dedication”’, text for seminar organised by If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Goethe-Institut, Amsterdam (January 2013)

    • Reprinted in: Rereading Appropriation, ed. (Amsterdam: Idea Books, 2015), pp.13–14

 

'His Name's Not Bambi', blog post on Lives of Performers (13 February 2013),

https://livesofperformers.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/his-names-not-bambi

 

'Thought & Behaviour (Matthew, Piano…', blog post on Lives of Performers (April 18 2013),

https://livesofperformers.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/thought-behaviour-matthew-piano

 

'Bodyimage: Lene Berg’s Kopfkino', Afterall, no.34 (Autumn/Winter 2013), pp.28–37

 

'Animal, Vegetable, Incidental’, text for Laure Prouvost programme, Festivalkatalog 59. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (Oberhausen: Karl Maria Laufen, 2013), pp.277–79

https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/fileadmin/Kurzfilmtage/Kurzfilmtage_2013/KFO_Kurzfilmtage_Katalog_2013_web.pdf

 

'Division', Exchange, exhibition catalogue, ed. Gil Leung (London: Flat Time House, 2013), p.35

 

'(I am) For The Birds', exhibition text for ‘Jimmy Robert: Made to Measure’, 1857, Oslo (2013)