'...interstitial, unoccupied spaces at the edges of the interstate...'

The Edge of Light: Wendover is a poetic study of landscape, environment, development and isolation in what the artists Brian Rosa and Adam Ryder describe as 'the border of nowhere and nowhere' in the US.

What is striking about these photos is the stillness and isolation in the images, confusing the viewer as to wether the subject is that which is being lit or the light itself. Though the exploration sought out the edge of light, its the degrees of dark that become most heightened. Light at dawn or is it dusk? Artificial or natural? Either way there remains a sense of deep sleep in the photo essay. It makes us question not only how we use light but how we use the landscape. Its no wonder its a result of a residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation. 

For a comparable study of light and subject, see Peter Di Campo's photo study of Ghana at night via flashlight Life Without Lights recently published in the NYTimes. 

Memorial Mapping - For Olivier Ruellet

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.


Site space city system social sounds sights city same nonsense no sense sense senses sensing....
Was it Paris - London - New York? New York - Paris - London? London - New York - Paris?
There is magic in a city, creeping beneath the concrete pavements, behind metal and glass towers, running through rusted pipes and telephone wire.
We don't always see this current, that actually keeps us going. We go for surfaces.
Surface heat, surface texture, surface tension.
But then there's a viewpoint, a point of view, an opinion, an imagination.
A moment in time when we allow ourselves an expanded outlook and lift our eyes from our assumed roles, present positions, sought after goals, endless tasks and matters of consequence.
A moment when we remember this life we're living is the most engaging piece of theatre of all time, but we put it on pause.
And when we pause that streaming film of information our eyes glaze over, finally resting for one moment on the invisible.
The visible invisible.
The tangible intangible.
Sometimes we're lucky enough to stop the thundering of our critical egos marching in our heads and listen.
And we listen...
Listen...
That sounds....
Those sounds....
This moment when we become present, when we communicate in 140 characters or more. Some of which are inferred some of which are silent.
When the buzzing background of late night drinks and early morning alarm clocks is like a distant dream and we find ourselves floating in a sea of nothing.
And you were there.
And I was there.
But I didn't know it, I don't remember it, I just know I was.
I know because now you are still there and I am still here, we are still here and we know you are there, but we don't know where there is because we barely know where here is.
We're barely here at all.
And back to the present.
To this moment - To this city, this neighbourhood, this park, this construction.
And here we are, we know we're here but are you here?
Can you hear?
Hey, can you hear me?
...
I swim through the streets of New York, I swim through the streets of London, I swim through the streets of Paris and in this underwater world I breathe the air we breathed together.
And I see the city, the hard city gone soft, its shell cracked, its magic seeping through.
I take a moment....
Breathless...
Floating...
Watching...
Eyes wide wondering: if we just hang on to that magic we'll be able to see like this forever.
Eyes wide, forever.

Action Weekend - performance in London

February 4th+5th is ACTION WEEKEND @ performancespace 7pm onwards


A collaboration between Artevict and Performance Space. 
]performancespace[+++ArtEvict at ]performancespace[ 


Friday 4th February
Victoria Gray 
The Greestone Group 
Jamie Lewis Hadley
Stephanie Hurst
Helena Hamilton
Hugh O'Donnell
Maria dos Milagres 
Roberto Sanchez-Camus
Johannes Blomqvis


Saturday 5th February
Leibniz
Nathalie Bikoro
Mark Greenwood
Scarlet Lassoff
Nathan Walker
Htein Lin
Group Action


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Overground: Hackney Wick Bus: 26,388, 30, 276, 488, UL1

Inside Art: Young Offenders showcased at National Gallery

Inside Art is an outreach programme, which aims to engage young offenders in creatively responding to the National Gallery’s collection; it has been developed in partnership with HMYOI Feltham, a juvenile prison and young offenders institution for young men aged 15–21.

National Gallery, London

8 February – 25 April 2010

Kleftes! (Thieves!) (performance of protest)

Performance by Maria Agiomyrgiannaki & Roberto Sánchez-Camus @ MKII in Clapton, London

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Ancient Evenings by Matthew Barney, Act Two: Khu

When huge budgets, great connections, and good ideas meet: Matthew Barney's 'Khu'.

Artforum nauseatingly focuses on the shoulder bumping but manages to get in some gems of description for this massive performance art meets Detroit rock city:

http://www.artforum.com/diary/id=26563

Susan Philipsz: SURROUND ME

Cycled around the desolate centre of the financial district in London searching for Philipsz sound installations. It was beautiful to wander around trying to find this secluded location and hearing the song from a main road which would lead us into a secluded area. The work itself made all sounds in the city heightened and navigated us to new locations which would have alternately been undiscovered or easily looked over....

Susan Philipsz: SURROUND ME

A Song Cycle for the City of London
Saturdays & Sundays only, 10am - 5pm
9 October 2010 - 2 January 2011

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.

SURROUND ME: A Song Cycle for the City of London takes inspiration from the heightened presence of the human voice in Elizabethan London.

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

After decades of cover-up, recent State investigations have, at last, uncovered the scale of the abuse perpetrated against Irish children by Church and State. The reports published answer in painful detail the questions of what was done to children in Irish institutions, how it was done and where it was done, but other more disturbing questions remain; the questions of why this abuse was allowed to happen and what is to be done now.

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.

Performances to be announced:

Dialogue Artspace

at 43A Vyner Street, E2

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!

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/things.aspx

my PhD thesis draft in wordle

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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Art in Odd Places

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.

http://www.artinoddplaces.org/