19.10.10
Susan Philipsz: SURROUND ME
A Song Cycle for the City of London
At the weekends an eerie quiet descends on the City of London, in offices, squares, churchyards and streets, broken by the occasional sound of traffic and church bells. The silence of the city has inspired artist Susan Philipsz’s first commission in the capital. Her unaccompanied voice resonates through empty streets around the Bank of England, across postwar walkways and medieval alleyways and along the banks of the River Thames.
Padded Cell and Other Stories - Gallery Exhibition
The new show by Gerard Mannix Flynn and Farcry Productions will be opened officially in October 2010
The space will be open from 16th Sept onwards to view Padded Cell and Other Stories
The space will be open from 16th Sept onwards to view Padded Cell and Other Stories
This exhibition creates a fictitious character James X, an victim archetype complete with student reports, psychological assessments and police records detailing a horror story of criminal abuse inflicted upon a child lost within a civic-religious state system of 'care'. Based upon actual records the work is engaging and provocative and unfortunately completely believable.
7.10.10
Participate in Things exhibition at Wellcome Trust
London:
A call to update Henry Wellcome’s curious collection. Please give us a 'thing' no bigger than your head.
- Bring us a thing during our great bring-a-thing-athon
- Bring this, bring that, bring the other, just nothing bigger than your head
- Lend it, gift it, or if you can't bear to part with it, upload a photo of it
- Snooping is positively encouraged, so tell your friends about Things. No one should miss this feast for the voyeur!
15.9.10
Crude 2010 - Liberate Tate
Oil Painting Protest over BP sponsorship in Tate Modern Turbine Hall
Liberate Tate calls for footprint of art museum to be free from Big Oil
Tuesday (14 September) art activists from Liberate Tate staged a guerrilla art intervention in Tate Modern, covering the floor of the iconic Turbine Hall with dozens of litres of oil paint in protest at the museum taking sponsorship from BP.
The flash mob-style event was staged a day before a Tate Board of Trustees meeting. Liberate Tate are part of a growing public movement calling on Tate’s governing body to end its sponsorship agreement with the oil company. Tate’s Board of Trustees has decided to review the BP corporate sponsorship.
At 5pm, around 50 figures dressed in black entered the gallery each carrying a BP-branded oil paint tube. In a circle they placed the paint tubes on the floor and each stamped on one, spraying out dozens of litres of paint in a huge burst across the floor. The installation art work, ‘Crude’, was then signed ‘Liberate Tate’ and offered to Tate for its collection.
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26.8.10
Art in Odd Places
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| Bokyung Jun |
A festival exploring the odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life.
Art in Odd Places aims to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations. AiOP reminds us that public spaces function as the epicenter for diverse social interactions and the unfettered exchange of ideas.
5.8.10
Invisible Topographies - Blind-folded walks at the end of the trainline
Back from the Rifrazioni residency... completed three separate one-to-one performances based on a blind-folded walk through a specific location. It was in interesting experience, the festival organisers where really hard-working and dedicated. And apart from the chaotic environment of 30 or so artist in a concrete state school overlooking the mediterranean sea, I was able to carve out some thinking space....
My original intention was to create one walk and repeat it in various sites but it became clear that each site had its own significance I wanted to respond to, and metaphors I wanted to create. So I ended up devising three narrated walks that took in the local environment - part fact part fiction - and in all cases were a parallel to how I sensed each space reflected the larger landscape of the city and the culture around it...
Anzio and Nettuno are these twin cities bordering each other and hugging the Mediterranean.
Like good siblings they compete incessantly and draw their own identities in their comparisons. Though at first glance the sun, the beach, the tans, the streets, the palm trees have this really elevating holiday feel, in actuality I sensed a deep tremor of insecurity, struggling identity and financial pain. But can't this be said about everywhere and everyone?
The three sites were the Medieval quarter of Nettuno, The port of Anzio and the train station of Nettuno. I mixed the actual inhabitants of each area with metaphorical ones, shadows of people who existing in each place and who in some ways I felt represented the spirit locked in the brick and mortar. I'd give more away but I plan to translate the walks back into English from Italian and give them in London as part of the Translocated preview coming up in a few weeks...
It was great to put the dvd of life on pause and go into a totally new situation to create and make. After burning the candle on both ends with the PhD and teaching, being free and creative helped me bring all the loose threads of my interests together and create something that I felt was really successful. The participants emerged from the walk, opening their eyes somewhat dazed, and often sought me out to give me a big hug and thank me, which was really nice...
After all each walk was really just an analogy of our own lives, how does waiting at a train station for days, years, ages, reflect how our own longing for something? The port, with its fishing industry, seemed like the womb of the city, from where it was born to grow upon on the shores and then die back into the sea. The waves were like each generation, you barely had a chance to grow big and strong before you were collapsing upon the shores staring back at the next generation that took your place....
Well the sun is still shining in London today so alas back to work, check out some of the other festival artists and their work, interesting stuff...
My original intention was to create one walk and repeat it in various sites but it became clear that each site had its own significance I wanted to respond to, and metaphors I wanted to create. So I ended up devising three narrated walks that took in the local environment - part fact part fiction - and in all cases were a parallel to how I sensed each space reflected the larger landscape of the city and the culture around it...
Anzio and Nettuno are these twin cities bordering each other and hugging the Mediterranean.
Like good siblings they compete incessantly and draw their own identities in their comparisons. Though at first glance the sun, the beach, the tans, the streets, the palm trees have this really elevating holiday feel, in actuality I sensed a deep tremor of insecurity, struggling identity and financial pain. But can't this be said about everywhere and everyone?
The three sites were the Medieval quarter of Nettuno, The port of Anzio and the train station of Nettuno. I mixed the actual inhabitants of each area with metaphorical ones, shadows of people who existing in each place and who in some ways I felt represented the spirit locked in the brick and mortar. I'd give more away but I plan to translate the walks back into English from Italian and give them in London as part of the Translocated preview coming up in a few weeks...
It was great to put the dvd of life on pause and go into a totally new situation to create and make. After burning the candle on both ends with the PhD and teaching, being free and creative helped me bring all the loose threads of my interests together and create something that I felt was really successful. The participants emerged from the walk, opening their eyes somewhat dazed, and often sought me out to give me a big hug and thank me, which was really nice...
After all each walk was really just an analogy of our own lives, how does waiting at a train station for days, years, ages, reflect how our own longing for something? The port, with its fishing industry, seemed like the womb of the city, from where it was born to grow upon on the shores and then die back into the sea. The waves were like each generation, you barely had a chance to grow big and strong before you were collapsing upon the shores staring back at the next generation that took your place....
Well the sun is still shining in London today so alas back to work, check out some of the other festival artists and their work, interesting stuff...
13.7.10
Rifrazioni V Edizione: Live Art Festival
Will be completing a residency in Italy for this festival:
http://www.rifrazioni.org/
check them out on facebook as well:
http://www.facebook.com/rifrazioni?ref=ts
Works examine site, locale, history, memory...
I'll be devising a one-to-one blindfolded performance tour that corresponds to the location and the participants palm lines.... Did an experiment here in London, read the review here: http://www.ctrl-n.net/journal/archives/blind-stories-blind-walks-the-cinema-of-the-mind/
24.6.10
Home: Our Cities Ourselves
Our Cities Ourselves matches ten of the world’s leading architects with ten of the world’s most fascinating cities. It helps us imagine those cities in 2030, when 60 percent of the global population – or five billion people – will live in urban areas, mostly in the developing world.
www.ourcitiesourselves.org
www.ourcitiesourselves.org
22.6.10
Summer Solstice and Documenta
Still going strong Documenta (13)'s first artwork was inaugurated on June 21st, 2010 at 12 noon, an auspicious date as its also when I was born!
The work was Giuseppe Penone's Idee di Pietra (Ideas of Stone) in the Auepark of Kassel.
The Documenta started in 1955 and takes place every five years since 1972. I love this website as it really maintains a retro feel:
www.documenta.de
12.6.10
7.6.10
I'm With You - Performance Series
Saturday 12th June, 2010 from 3pm to 8pm.
‘I’m with you’ is a series of performance events, mostly taking place in houses and gardens but sometimes other types of places. The third installment of "I'm with you" on will open 3 gardens in and around Lower Clapton.
219 Glyn Road • 74 Mayola Road • 72 Powerscroft Road
Arrive at 219 Glyn Road for a map and schedule of events (free entry to entire event).
Durational performance, short acts, and installations.
WITH:
Ania Bas
David Cranmer
Alun Davies
Anastasia Dumarey (VA London)
Sharon Husbands w/Oriana Fox
Oliver Hymans
Vasileios- Pavlos Kountouriotis
Barbara Lambert
Johanna Linsley
Arkem Mark
Jan Mertens
Owen Parry
Herbert De Colle & Hannes Ribarits
Alexa Reid
Olivier Ruellet
Roberto Sánchez-Camus (with Yasmin Ghrawi)
Helena Walsh
The event will end with a group interactive performance at 72 Powerscroft Road at 19:00
- come and join in the act!
Check out the event on facebook: http://bit.ly/dAvTGq
Print Event Map: http://bit.ly/9pBvMA
You are invited to attend some or all and join in celebration after at the local
www.imwithyouclapton.wordpress.com
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