De La Warr Pavillion: Joseph Beuys: Beuys is Here
Joseph Beuys: Beuys is Here
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04.07.09 - 27.09.09 / ends in 85 days
At De La Warr Pavillion in Bexhill On Sea, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
Works by German artist Joseph Beuys (1921 � 86) from the ARTIST ROOMS collection will be shown throughout the summer of 2009 at the De La Warr Pavilion. This is an exciting and fitting opportunity to show work by Beuys within a building whose architecture, like the work of the artist, is rooted in socialist ideals and whose purpose is to provide a cultural centre for its locality and beyond. +lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;This exhibition will display a large number of sculptures, photographs, drawings, and watercolours as well as a selection of posters recalling live actions and events by Beuys. Key works will include Fat Chair (sculpture, 1964 � 85), Scala Napoletana (sculpture, 1985). and A Party for Animals (lithograph, 1969). +lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;The exhibition will explore Beuys�s ideas on economics, politics, activism, anti-establishment, teaching, learning and philosophy and raise questions as to how these ideas have extended beyond Beuys�s own lifetime and how they can continue to inform new thinking today. +lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;An ambition of the Beuys exhibition in Bexhill is to initiate inter-generational discussion between senior citizens and young people, bringing a community together whilst inviting expertise and commentators from the fields of philosophy, environment, politics, economics and art.+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Artist Rooms +lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;ARTIST ROOMS, a collection of international contemporary art was established through one of the largest and most imaginative gifts of art ever made to museums in Britain. The gift was made by Anthony d�Offay, with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, The Art Fund and the Scottish and British Governments. ARTIST ROOMS is jointly owned and managed by National Galleries of Scotland and Tate on behalf of the nation with the primary aim of creating a new national resource of contemporary art that will strengthen displays and create exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the UK so as to inspire new audiences, especially young people. The collection is being shared with museums and galleries throughout the UK with thanks to the support of independent charity The Art Fund.+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;
Modern Art Oxford: Polaroids: Mapplethorpe
Polaroids: Mapplethorpe
04.07.09 - 13.09.09 / ends in 71 days
At Modern Art Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Photography
This exhibition traces the early use of instant photography by the celebrated and controversial American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 +ndash; 1989). Presenting 92 of his Polaroid photographs taken between 1970 and 1975, the exhibition offers a fascinating insight into Mapplethorpe+rsquo;s formative years.In the early 1970s, Mapplethorpe lived in New York+rsquo;s legendary Chelsea Hotel with the rock singer Patti Smith. It was there that i¬�lmmaker Sandy Daley lent Mapplethorpe her Polaroid camera and he began his i¬�rst photographic experiments.Intimate in scale, the spontaneity of these early photographs contrasts starkly with his highly stylised images for which he later became famous. Signature elements of Mapplethorpe+rsquo;s later work are visible in these early nudes, i¬�ower studies and still lifes, and his portraits of lovers and friends including Helen Marden, Sam Wagstaff, Marianne Faithfull, and Patti Smith. Poignantly simple, they range in tone from tender to provocative.Polaroids: Mapplethorpe is curated by Sylvia Wolf, Director, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. 
Modern Art Oxford: Silke Otto-Knap: Present Time Exercise
Silke Otto-Knap: Present Time Exercise
04.07.09 - 13.09.09 / ends in 71 days
At Modern Art Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Painting
This is the i¬�rst major exhibition in the UK of the London-based artist Silke Otto-Knapp. Devised as a single installation for Modern Art Oxford+rsquo;s Upper Gallery, the exhibition presents twelve paintings produced by Otto-Knapp between 2005 and 2009.Silke Otto-Knapp works with watercolour and gouache on canvas, repeatedly building up and dissolving the surface to create paintings of subtle effect. Drawing on a photographic archive of visual sources that refer to the spatial staging of the formal garden and the choreography of modern dance, Otto-Knapp+rsquo;s tautly constructed yet mutable compositions are rendered in layers of diluted pigment and metallic silver monotones. Recent paintings reveal the artist+rsquo;s evolving investigations into the construction of pictorial space with a renewed approach to the i¬�gure and colour through which more complex narratives emerge.
Manchester Art Gallery: JS Bach/Zaha Hadid: Architects
JS Bach/Zaha Hadid: Architects
04.07.09 - 31.08.09 / ends in 58 days
At Manchester Art Gallery in Manchester, United Kingdom
Event | Architecture
A major new commission by Manchester International Festival with Manchester Art Gallery. Bach's sublime solo works for piano, violin and cello will be performed in a unique environment created by Zaha Hadid Architects.Johann Sebastian Bach's music is both beautiful and audacious, striking and sensual. In a very different way, the same can be said for the remarkable creations of Zaha Hadid +ndash; one of the most artistic and forward-thinking architects of her generation. Zaha Hadid Architects will be visually and acoustically transforming one of our exhibition spaces. They'll be creating an extraordinary and intimate chamber music hall, exclusively for Manchester International Festival.Across a series of nine concerts, three internationally acclaimed musicians +ndash; pianist Piotr Anderszewski, cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and violinist Alina Ibragimova +ndash; will perform Bach+rsquo;s solo instrumental works.The aim is to create a near-perfect visual and sonic environment for the audience to experience some of the world+rsquo;s most beautiful chamber music. A union of two true originals, three centuries apart.Tickets for nine evening concerts are now on sale. Visit www.mif.co.uk for more information.The installation created by Zaha Hadid Architects will be open for free public viewing during our standard gallery opening hours, until 31 August 2009.The architects will join us on Sunday 5 July, 4-4.30pm to talk about their work. Free, drop in. Places limited so please phone 0161 2358888 or email magevents@manchester.gov.uk to book.
South Hill Park Arts Centre: Virtually Sculpture
Virtually Sculpture
04.07.09 - 31.08.09 / ends in 58 days
At South Hill Park Arts Centre in Berkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Sculpture
Virtually Sculpture by Michael Shaw.Bracknell Gallery.Virtually Sculpture presents digitally induced sculptures and a series of animated films of virtual and inflatable sculptures and drawings. It explores the opportunities of computer aided design on the creation of sculpture and the potential for animation to heighten the reality of two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional forms, manifested in PVC, resin, wax and nylon. Virtually Sculpture transfers gallery space, the artwork and the viewer+rsquo;s experience.Virtually Sculpture is the culmination of Michael Shaw+rsquo;s three year fellowship hosted at Loughborough University exploring the sculptural potential of computer aided design and manufacture to extend Donald Judd+rsquo;s concept, Specific Objects. It is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).Preview in the Big Day Out festival: Sat 27 June, 1pm - 9.30pm
Milton Keynes Gallery: Lyndall Phelps: The Pigeon Archive
Lyndall Phelps: The Pigeon Archive
04.07.09 - 30.08.09 / ends in 57 days
At Milton Keynes Gallery in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Film / Video
Artist Lyndall Phelps+rsquo; exhibition The Pigeon Archive, documents the re-enactment of pigeon manoeuvres undertaken during both World Wars, through photographs, film and other paraphernalia.In the Second World War it was recommended that every military aircraft leaving Britain carry two pigeons in case of emergency. If the plane was shot down, pigeons were dispatched carrying the survivor+rsquo;s coordinates for rescue. Homing pigeons were also parachuted behind enemy lines in order to retrieve crucial information on enemy manoeuvres for the British and Allied Forces. Some even carried miniature cameras to document military sites behind enemy lines.Although large numbers of pigeons lost their lives through starvation, exhaustion, being killed by the enemy or exposure to harsh elements on homing flights, Phelps is particularly interested in the procedures that inhibited or denied their natural behaviour. These included restricting the birds+rsquo; wing movement by strapping their bodies with elastic harnessing before parachuting them from planes.The first of three series of photographs Phelps has created for this exhibition captures pigeons in flight wearing cardboard tube message carriers on their back. The second sees pigeons descending through the air, bound and attached to parachutes. The third references the unlikely union of pigeons being transported, bound and incapable of flight, within the large, mechanical flying machines, Lancaster Bombers. Just Jane, the Lancaster Bomber at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, formed the backdrop for these photographs. Phelps has also devised a miniature video camera holder for pigeons to wear, resulting in a +lsquo;pigeon+rsquo;s-eye-view+rsquo; film over the Cambridgeshire countryside which will be shown as part of the exhibition, which pays tribute to these unsung and unusual heroes.The Pigeon Archive RaceSaturday 18 July, 11amEvents Plateau, Campbell ParkA special pigeon race will be held in Campbell Park, central Milton Keynes while Lyndall Phelps will also release pigeons with video cameras strapped to their bodies, to document the race from +lsquo;a pigeon+rsquo;s eye view+rsquo;. No need to book.Gallery TalksMeet the Artist: Lyndall PhelpsSaturday 18 July, 1pm, Free.Join artist Lyndall Phelps as she talks through the historical themes of her exhibition The Pigeon Archive. You may wish to make a day of it and attend the special pigeon race in Campbell Park beforehand at 11am (subject to weather conditions).Pre-booking required on 01908 676 900. BSL interpretation is available on request with prior notice.TalkbackSaturday 22 August, 1 +ndash; 2pm, Free.Take a walk around The Pigeon Archive and Silent Revolution exhibitions with a member of the Gallery+rsquo;s education team. Talkbacks are informal discussion-based tours, including audio description of the works discussed. No booking required.
The Lloyd Gill Gallery: +lsquo;Manual focus: Artistic perception portrayed through photography+rsquo;
+lsquo;Manual focus: Artistic perception portrayed through photography+rsquo;
04.07.09 - 31.07.09 / ends in 27 days
At The Lloyd Gill Gallery in Weston-super-mare, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Photography
Contemporary Photography Exhibition
The Gallery accepts artists submissions via email and will answer immediately. +lsquo;Manual focus: Artistic perception portrayed through photography+rsquo;+quot;I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. +quot;Man ray [1]Artists continue to use the medium of Photography to examine and document the world around us, but they also reveal the true nature of the artist. Every Artist develops an acute level of perception of the world around us as this is the external feed and resource of the artist.The photograph resembles the eyes of the artist, the direction and whereabouts of the artist. As artists transpire throughout their existence and seek inspiration, the photograph is often the critical outpost of the artistic persona.Photography is regarded by some as the pinnacle art form and is highly sought after on the art markets of today. Many contemporary photographers have broken sales records that run into hundreds of thousands at action for limited editions. Other Artists such as Douglas Gordon rely on photography as a secondary means of making money next to their paramount mediums, such as Gordons case of video installation. Gordon+rsquo;s short series of photography helped him expand his range and market.Some photographers feel that the experience of viewing a photograph should feel as if the viewer is actually present and witnessed the very account of taking the photograph. The experience can be heightened by using large format cameras and printing to huge scale. A prime example of this experience is the work of Andreas Gursky. In this publication +lsquo;The New Yorker+rsquo; the critic Calvin Tomkins described the experience of viewing a large Gursky. +quot;Gursky's huge, panoramic color prints+mdash;some of them up to six feet high by ten feet long+mdash;had the presence, the formal power, and in several cases the majestic aura of nineteenth-century landscape paintings, without losing any of their meticulously detailed immediacy as photographs.+rdquo;[2]It seems the larger the photograph the more the viewer is given in the experience of feeling what Gursky felt as he pressed the shutter release. The viewers perception reciprocates the artists perception, similar to large painting like the Mark Rothkos at the Tate Modern.This exhibition of photography is functioning as a machine working on the edge of avant-garde and translates artistic perception; the world through the artistic eye1. Undated interview, circa 1970s; published in Man Ray: Photographer, 1981.)2. Tomkins, Calvin. The New Yorker. +quot;The Big Picture.+quot; 22 January, 2001.William NixonWilliam studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art +amp; Design, Charing Cross Rd, London in 2000 for a BA (Hons) Fine Art. He has contributed to numerous group exhibitions by showcases hs work and recently had a solo exhibition at the Empire Gallery titled Lost Britain in MayThe underlying theme of Will's work considers our understanding of and attitudes towards what we consider reality to be. Initially the various images appear to be snapshots that portray a variety of British environments, and to an extent they are. However, the works are in fact a calculated juxtaposition of different photographs, which take the form of a college. Each college is digitally manipulated disguising the evidence of human intervention, but not completely.With the knowledge that the works are actually constructed spaces, each becomes a representation of a possible situation. The key to work's success lies in the balance that the spaces seem real but at the same time not real.Will is influenced by an eclectic range of artists and thinkers: Baudrillard, Magritte, and most recently the work of Mondrian amongst other Modernists, focusing on concepts of Utopia.In contemporary life photography is deemed the medium for most accurately representing what is real. If a viewer of the work accepts the image as being an actual space then photography in this way masks the fact that it does not exist..William Nixon Bingo, 70 x 70cm, Lambda print mounted in white wood frame, 2009Tim PhillipsAfter a lifetime as a sole-practitioner architect both in Portugal and London, Tim is taking life a little easier in East Devon. Photography, ever since school days, has always been a hobby of his (first camera was a black bakelite Kodak Cresta!). Taking and recording the image has always been the most important part of picture taking, though burning, dodging and refreshing tired B +amp; W images in the darkroom often rescued a disappointment! In this, it was helpful studying architecture at Canterbury College of Art; interestingly, the best critics of photographs are usually artists.Now, Tim is more convinced than ever that a successful image is one that grabs attention immediately for being more than just the photograph you see; something that needs a lot of patience with landscapes, which are currently his preference.With so many other distractions in life, Tim prefers to limit image adjustment to a minor crop and an adjustment of 'levels', if needed, to minimize time spent on the computer. Tim uses both Photo Elements 6 on a laptop and iPhoto on an Intel MacBook. The latter software is improving all the time and Tim finds it allows nearly all the tweaks he needs and is quicker to use, particularly the straightening tool. Currently, Tim is using a Nikon D40X and apart from the non-VR zooms that came in the kit, there's also a Nikon 28mm PC lens (from film days) and a 10-20 Sigma zoom in the bag. For printing, Tim is a dedicated Epson aficionado and I've just upgraded to an R2400, which allows extra long sheets for big panoramic prints, something he is just getting into! Working with a tripod is much more satisfying than grabbing a hand held shot, more so because you have the best chance of capturing what you see, digital sensor range excepted!The other issue that bothers him about the photographic digital age is what to do with the thousands of images that you end up with! Investigating one possibility, Tim went on a Light and Land Book Project Course; the influence of this course is partly responsible for the type of image displayed at the gallery.Tim Phillips Beached carboskeleton, Archival inkjet photograph. 40cm x 50cm, 2008, Limited Edition number: 1/100.Val+eacute;rie AbellaVal+eacute;rie Abella studied at the Institut d'Arts Visuels, Orl+eacute;ans, in France during 1999/2002 and completed a Dipl+ocirc;me National d'Arts et TechniquesIn Graphic Design Specialization. Val+eacute;rie Abella graduated with a Dipl+ocirc;me National Sup+eacute;rieur en Expression Plastique (National Higher Diploma of Expression through Plastic Arts)Photography Specialization. Graduated with distinction in 2002/05Val+eacute;rie Abella is an artist using photography and at times video. She still works fulltime to feed herself. A bereavement in her family induced her to ponder upon the value of living. She decided to move to Reunion Island 3 years ago, wanting to see if life was different under unfamiliar stars, clouds and sun. Life is a series of moments, each containing past and future. Val+eacute;rie+rsquo;s photographs are an attempt to seize some of these moments so she can tie herself to them and feel real. When she takes a picture of a piece of grass, it becomes hers for the second when photography makes it still and immortal. During that second, she belongs and is that piece of grass, in some way she+rsquo;s photographing herself. When she imprints some of the reality around her on a sensitive surface, than is able to reproduce it, it+rsquo;s a kind of re-creation. The sharpness of details and the closest possible accuracy in reproducing the light and colors are essential to Val+eacute;rie. She never digitally alters the images other than what is strictly necessary to edit them and bring them closer to what the subject looked like when the photograph was taken. She often takes her car and drives around, looking for places where human presence is barely there to be felt. Then she starts to wander around and try to become aware only of time and space around her. She tries to reach some kind of inner silence, and starts to take photographs, until she feels the place is used up, that anything it has to say has been recorded, at least everything she+rsquo;s able to see. Val+eacute;rie tries to capture these specific samples of time and space for others to see and feel.Val+eacute;rie Abella De l'espace et du vent - fragment 2 Some space, some wind +ndash; fragment 2, Digital photographic print on aluminium, limited, edition 1/8, 30 x 45 cm, 2008.Alys TomlinsonAlys Tomlinson currently works as an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins College of Art, London from 2004. Alys studied atCentral Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London during 1999 +ndash; 2000 for a PgCert in Professional Photographic Practice. Alys studied at The University of Leeds for a BA (Hons) English and Communications during 1994 +ndash; 1998 and received a 2:1 Title of series: +lsquo;Fans+rsquo;Alys is a freelance photographer based in London. She combines commissioned work with personal work, which she publishes and exhibits. Her work is mostly concerned with people and places, crossing photographic genres of portraiture, landscape photography and street photography. She was recently named one of 30 Photographers to Watch by Photo District News and was also a winner in the 2007 Magenta Awards.The Fans portraits were taken outside music venues across London from 2004-2007. The photographs address themes of style and identity and the portraits span all ages and musical genres. Many of the fans queued outside the venue for hours before the doors opened. The photographs not only demonstrate the loyalty and dedication of each fan, but also offer a unique insight into modern notions of individuality, fashion and popular culture.Alys Tomlinson Placebo, Kentish Town Forum, c-type print, 20 x 16+rdquo;, 2004.Liam SmithLiam Smith recently graduated in BA Hons Photography from Nottingham Trent University, 2009 and was selected for Free Range 2009 Art +amp; Design Degree Show, The Old Truman Brewery, London, June 18th-22nd 2009.Title: PresentimentA premonition; waiting for an event to happen. The photographs themselves suggest of an event about to unfold, they have a replication of the 'freeze -frame' quality that is naturally associated with moving images. When a film stops, a narrative sequence which has a definite past and future is left poised and potentially stuck forever in the present, creating a tension and anxiety between the interruption of the rhythm of narrative and the viewer. Rather than capturing the +lsquo;pregnant moment+rsquo;, or +lsquo;decisive moment+rsquo;, the work aims to create an +lsquo;indecisive moment+rsquo;, where the content of the shot suggests that it stems from the narrative of contemporary cinema, alluding to the presence of a past and future, yet offering only a fragment of the entire narrative. The assumption of narrative within the work allows the viewer to experience the past and future of the film in the present.The piece aims to involve the viewer, insofar as each individual possesses their own knowledge and experiences of classic and contemporary cinema. This experience of the cinematic aesthetic and narrative allows the viewer to fabricate their own possible past and future events of the film, opening up the concept that no two people will experience this piece in the same way. Liam Smith The meeting, Digital print 42cm x 29.5cm, 2009 Matthew StevensonRecently graduated from a BA (Hons) degree in Photography at Nottingham Trent University, his practical experience is broad; including over 4 years of studio experience along with a wide of location shoots working under strict deadlines. All supported with a sound knowledge of processing and printing both film and digital.'Future Perfect', a grammatical term used to describe an event that has not yet happened but is expected to occur in the future.The majority of all photographs stem from the single desire to recognise and to boast, they represent a past event, a fleeting moment that the camera has the ability to record and therefore immortalise. The Future Perfect series looks at photography's role in social documentation and as a tool in social reform. The images appropriate a culture's vision, presenting the viewer with a number of scenarios that turn what is seen into a spectacle, therefore allowing the viewer to embody their own culture and recognise themselves within each scene. The price tags remaining on items within the scenes emphasize a future of constantly changing codes of meaning, a future that can only be consumed and never owned. The scenarios address the viewpoint of the viewer and take into account what Jacques Lacan termed the 'Ego-Ideal', creating a fiction where the viewer is able to look at themselves as if from an ideal point and create an impossibly unified self.Matthew Stevenson Bedroom Scenario, Fuji Flex C-type Print in wooden black lacquer frame, 75cm x 75cm, 2009 Tim WatsonPhotography has been the principle medium with which Tim has worked since studying art at university. It+rsquo;s initial appeal the immediacy, Tim regards the photographer+rsquo;s art as curatorial - a collector of images rather than creator. As such his work generally consists of series+rsquo;, groups of photographs linked aesthetically and thematically such as previous explorations of derelict buildings both at home and in Cyprus.The work featured here, although linked thematically by a focus on nature, is really far more concerned with the formal elements of the image than it is the subject matter. Through enlargement beyond their natural scale these images take on an alien quality that invites the viewer to explore afresh the texture and form of the object. Sharp shifts in focus cause the images to blur into abstraction, only for certain details to stand out in sudden clarity. For Tim, this exposes the camera, not as a substitute for the human eye but a different way of looking at - and recording - the world around us. Tim would consider this project to be in it+rsquo;s early stages still and these images the first produced to really capture these concerns and open new lines of enquiry+hellip; not mention satisfying as images in their own right.Tim Watson Digital print on aluminium, 100cm x 66cm, 2009Please use the press release for articles relating to contemporary art and Exhibition listingsThanksLloyd Gill
Bircham Gallery: ELAINE PAMPHILON Paintings +amp; CHRISTOPHER MARVELL Sculpture
ELAINE PAMPHILON Paintings +amp; CHRISTOPHER MARVELL Sculpture
04.07.09 - 29.07.09 / ends in 25 days
At Bircham Gallery in Holt, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Painting
ELAINE PAMPHILON Paintings + CHRISTOPHER MARVELL Sculpture
Spontaneous paintings by Elaine Pamphilon inspired by colour, wild romantic places and the things she loves, with Christopher Marvell's engaging bronze sculpture of figures, animals and birds.
Matt's Gallery: Jordan Baseman: Blue Movie
Jordan Baseman: Blue Movie
/ 1 favourite
04.07.09 - 26.07.09 / ends in 22 days
At Matt's Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Film / Video
Blue Movie is Jordan Baseman?s second exhibition at Matt?s Gallery and features a 16mm film that incorporates found pornographic footage (originating from the early 1940s during Nazi occupied Belgium) with an original soundtrack based on academic enquiry and discourse. The voiceover for Blue Movie has been created from interviews with the cultural commentator Pamela Church Gibson, Reader in Cultural +amp; Historical Studies at the London College of Fashion.+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;In Blue Movie the main body of the found film is replaced with clear leader footage: allowing only a few seconds per edit, following the existing structure of the source material. Without censoring the original footage, the replacement material creates a charged space that is actively occupied by the soundtrack.+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;We hear the narrator simultaneously discussing the history of pornography and its relationship to feminism from the right channel of a stereo system, while describing and analysing the Belgian made film document from the left. The merging of the two soundtracks, spoken by a single voice, creates a poetic and layered narrative for the film. Blue Movie expands Baseman?s recent focus on voice-propelled narratives, creating a synthesis between the aural and the visual.+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Through the restoration and subsequent use of the original film and the recording, transcription and construction of the interviews with Pamela Church Gibson, Blue Movie deals with ideas of power, patriarchy, feminism, authorship, the history of film, and voyeurism. +lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;This work contains explicit material.
WW Gallery: Summer Exhibitionists
Summer Exhibitionists
04.07.09 - 26.07.09 / ends in 22 days
At WW Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
it's the greatest summer show on earth!
Fresh from the 53rd Venice Biennale, WW Gallery presents an irreverent, carnivalesque summer romp curated by Debra Wilson +amp; Chiara Williams...PV Saturday 4th July 3-9pm at 30 Queensdown Rd E5.Summer Exhibitionists is a group show based upon the history of Fairground, Music Hall, Circus and Seaside Amusements. The exhibition presents art and performance influenced by exploitation within the fields of popular entertainment in the 19th and 20th Century.All the Fun of the Fair!!!Come marvel at scenes of the absurd, grotesque exaggeration and dancing girls...Wonder at the wild musicians...See Royal Academicians in compromising positions...Witness the amazing Suitcase of Surprises...Be flabbergasted by the Cabinet of Curiosities...Featuring the Artists: Boa Swindler, Eva Lis, Enzo Marra, Sardine +amp; Tobleroni, Matt Day, Mimi Norrgren, Lorraine Clarke and the Artistes: Honeytrap, Ruby Tuesday and Madeleine Dunbar.Wilson and Williams are the mistresses of ceremonies to a variety of 'acts' with a saucy and satirical edge...it's the greatest summer show on earth!
Architectural Association: Projects Review
Projects Review
04.07.09 - 25.07.09 / ends in 21 days
At Architectural Association in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Architecture
The Projects Review exhibition and accompanying AA Book provide a slice through the AA+rsquo;s cultural year, with its unparalleled programme of public events +ndash; lectures, conferences,exhibitions and publications +ndash; together with the projects themselves.
Zillah Bell Gallery: Members of the Society of Wildlife Artists
Members of the Society of Wildlife Artists
04.07.09 - 25.07.09 / ends in 21 days
At Zillah Bell Gallery in Thirsk, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
Paintings, Prints, Sculptures
Showing paintings, prints and sculptures, the exhibition promises a variety of work based on and influenced by the natural world.+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;The exhibiting SWLA artists are Carry Akroyd, Kim Atkinson, Daniel Cole, Anna Kirk-Smith, Harriet Mead, Jill Moger, John Paige, Nicholas Pollard, Esther Tyson and Matt Underwood.
Bureau: Trade City @ CHIPS Building, Manchester
Trade City @ CHIPS Building, Manchester
04.07.09 - 19.07.09 / ends in 15 days
At Bureau in Salford, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
Trade City @ CHIPS Building, Manchester
Bureau presents work by Olaf Breuning as part of Trade City. Organised as part of Contemporary Art Manchester (CAM) in conjunction with Manchester International Festival (MIF 09).Venue: CHIPS Building, Old Mill Street, New Islington, Manchester. M4 6BU (Please note: this exhibition is not held at Bureau)------------------Commingling reality and illusion, authenticity and artifice, barbarism and civility, Olaf Breuning (b. 1970, Schaffhausen, Switzerland) creates works that draw heavily from popular culture and a collective visual iconography. He combines these contemporary aesthetics with more primal, shared drives: violence, sexuality, ritual, and companionship. The divergent impulses collide, often with absurd and hilarious results, as he exploits the thin line between humor and pain. For Trade City Bureau presents Breuning+rsquo;s latest film Home 2, a tongue-in-cheek anthropological study and travelogue, addressing ideas of tourism and Westernisation, and questioning the value of cultural exchange. The film explores slippages in communication and understanding and highlights the difference between lived experience and knowledge gleaned through the saturation of information in the digital era.Olaf Breuning currently lives and works in New York, USA. He has had solo exhibitions at Metro Pictures, New York; Conduits Gallery, Italy; Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Australia; Galerie Air de Paris, France; Swiss Institute, New York; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; and Centre D+rsquo;art Contemporain, Geneva. Breuning has also exhibited in a large number of high-profile international group exhibitions, including: Whitney Biennial 2008, New York; Looking At Music, MoMA, New York; All About Laughter, Mori Art Museum, Japan; Let+rsquo;s Entertain, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. His work has been the subject of several monographs, such as Olaf Breuning Queen Mary (JRPIRinger, 2006) and Olaf Breuning UGLY (Hatje Cantz, 2001), and features in a number of international private and public collections.The exhibition Trade City is the inaugural project for Contemporary Art Manchester (CAM). Featuring a number of Manchester and UK premieres and new commissions, Trade City has generated innovative forms of exchange across the citys art scene.Contemporary Art Manchester is a new, not-for-profit consortium of visual arts organisations, representing the breadth of the current contemporary arts infrastructure in Manchester, UK. In bringing together the art production of thirteen diverse organisations, Trade City reflects the trading and exchange that has taken place between the artists and curators partnering in CAM.Each participating organisation has selected artists to work with that are representative of their curatorial approach or position, alongside exploring multi-faceted interpretations of trade. As a result, the presented works of twenty-six emergent to established international artists trade off each other in one space, creating aesthetic and spatial interplays, whilst addressing ideas of cultural, economic, geographical and political exchange.In collectively working on an exhibition and presentation format CAM explores the ways in which contradictions or tensions and harmonies can co-exist within such frameworks, and in the case of Trade City, under one roof.An open system, the nature of co-operative working through CAM engages with notions of democracy, collectivity and self-organisation, examining and revealing the practices of people engaged with creative work within Manchester, who may be operating through less formal structures, or on the periphery of the city. Through collaboration CAM aims to redress this balance, creating a new central structure or core for the production and dissemination of contemporary art.------------------Trade City is organised by Contemporary Art Manchester (CAM), in association with Manchester International Festival 2009 (MIF 09). Supported by Arts Council England and Urban Splash. Contemporary Art Manchester is supported by Arts Council England.
Bloc: littlewhitehead: The Fourth Wall
littlewhitehead: The Fourth Wall
04.07.09 - 18.07.09 / ends in 14 days
At Bloc in Sheffield, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Installation
littlewhitehead is the artistic entity created by Craig Little and Blake Whitehead. Approaching subjects with the unabashed manner of a child, littlewhitehead+rsquo;s work plays with notions of reality and unreality, between the realisation of a fiction and the fictionalisation of the real. Through the manipulation of familiar imagery, events and emotions, littlewhitehead creates moments of intrigue, instantly recognisable whilst simultaneously sinister and perplexing.The Fourth Wall continues the artists+rsquo; use of theatrical elements and their continual fascination with involving the audience in their work, on this occasion attempting to play a joke on them. The work is influenced by a continual dialogue between Craig and Blake, who exploit littlewhitehead as a vehicle to express their own subconscious musings, suppressed desires and taboo narratives.Craig Little (b 1980) and Blake Whitehead both graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2007. Recent exhibitions have included K Gallery, Milan (2009); Tate Triennial Mobile Conference, Bun House, London (2009); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, A Foundation, Liverpool (2008).
Ricefield Arts and Cultural Centre: Ricefield: New Graduates From China
Ricefield: New Graduates From China
04.07.09 - 18.07.09 / ends in 14 days
At Ricefield Arts and Cultural Centre in Glasgow, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
Ricefield: New Graduates From China
An exhibition of painting, prints and mixed media works from Chinese artists who have trained both at CAFA (China Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing) and Glasgow School of Art.Featuring work by Hu Xiao, Luo Tao, Wang Yan +amp; Wang Yuan.Exhibition runs 4th-18th July 2009.Opening hoursMonday-Friday 10.30am-5.00pmSaturday 12.00-5.00
Patriothall Gallery: Pause
Pause
04.07.09 - 15.07.09 / ends in 11 days
At Patriothall Gallery in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
Florence Trust: Summer Exhibition
Summer Exhibition
04.07.09 - 15.07.09 / ends in 11 days
At Florence Trust in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
Residency artists: Steven Allbutt, Matthew Atkinson, James Chen-Feng Kao, Silvia Cuenca, Fiona Curran, Bruno Jamaica, Evy Jokhova, Isobel Manning, Yuka Namekawa, Tim Phillips, Belen Zahera
Stables Gallery: Gladstone in the Park Promenade Play
Gladstone in the Park Promenade Play
04.07.09 - 12.07.09 / ends in 8 days
At Stables Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Performance | Performance
Promenade Play
A comedy promenade play about the life of W.E.Gladstone, four times Prime Minister who stayed in Dollis Hill House, Gladstone Park.Other events include: art in the gallery by Jane Williams, sculpture and music in the courtyard along with art by ArtAlike. There will also be portraits of Gladstone produced by the local school pupils; these will be on display from Thurs 25th June - Sun 19th July in the courtyard and in the Stables building.
Stables Gallery: Gladstone Play and Summer Festival
Gladstone Play and Summer Festival
04.07.09 - 12.07.09 / ends in 8 days
At Stables Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Performance | Performance
Gladstone Play and Festival
A summer play based around the life of W.Gladstone, Ex PM. The play will be full of humour and fun as well as a look back at an historical figure. The play will be held in Gladstone Park, Dollis Hill, NW2 6HT and will begin near the Stables Gallery and Arts Centre, Dollis Hill Lane entrance, where there will be a contemporary art exhibition and a display of Gladstone portraits by the local school pupils. Free admission to all.
Centrespace: The Collection
The Collection
04.07.09 - 08.07.09 / ends in 4 days
At Centrespace in Bristol, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary
The Collection
THE COLLECTIONSat 4 +ndash; Wed 8 July, Sat 4- Sun 5 11am +ndash;4pm, Mon 6- Wed 8 11am +ndash; 5pmOur personalities are what make us different, make us stand out. As individuals we are aiming to make our mark.The collection is a personal showcase of the University of Gloucestershire Graphic Design graduates of 2009.Private View- Friday 3rd July 6.30 till 9pmFFI contact: s0508781@glos.ac.uk
Utrophia Project Space: Katie Stelmanis Playing inside 'The Cryptic Lagoon'
Katie Stelmanis Playing inside 'The Cryptic Lagoon'
04.07.09 - 05.07.09 / ends tomorrow
At Utrophia Project Space in London, United Kingdom
Performance | Installation
Utrophia's 7th Birthday Party
To celebrate the closing of 'The Cryptic Lagoon' and Utrophia's 7th birthday we will be presenting Katie Stelmanis all the way from Toronto playing her rich romantic electronic pop compositions.
Arnolfini: Episode III: Enjoy Poverty
Episode III: Enjoy Poverty
04.07.09 - 04.07.09 / ends today
At Arnolfini in Bristol, United Kingdom
Screening | Film / Video
Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie Film +amp; Events Programme
Provocative and essential, artist Renzo Martens' film, made during a period spent in the Congo, meditates on the role of the camera in places of severe poverty and unrest, utilising - and transgressing on - conventions of the documentary genre, performance and satire to raise complex questions around today's media image economy, the 'poverty industry' and the role of NGOs and humanitarian organisations. +lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Dir. Renzo Martens Holland 2008 1h 30m 
Arnolfini: That Was Yesterday: A Screening Programme about 'Value'
That Was Yesterday: A Screening Programme about 'Value'
04.07.09 - 04.07.09 / ends today
At Arnolfini in Bristol, United Kingdom
Screening | Film / Video
Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie Film +amp;amp; Events Programme
There are certain notions that are determined by such sliding scales that they vary radically from situation to situation. �Value� is certainly one of them � an ideal that is constantly reshaped with the changing dynamics of culture, as well as economic and material conditions. Yet the possession of value is still one of the more embedded explanations for legitimising cultural phenomena. Determining value can be a real antagonism, particularly with the creative class, the political elite and the market economy, all jostling to tell it as it is. In the arts especially, a definitive vocabulary has been assembled to determine the relative criteria of value through terms including: social use or function, meaningfulness, creativity, and economic potential. But is value always something so resolved? +lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;This selection of video works reflects laterally as well as literally on this idea in different arenas, including art and culture. Also taking inspiration from German critic Diedrich Diederichsen�s recent essay On (Surplus) Value in Art, the programme considers today�s apparent crisis of valuation.+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Introduced by Nav Haq, Exhibitions Curator, Arnolfini.+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;1. Michael Stevenson (NZ)+lt;br /+gt;Introduccion a la teoria de la Probabilidad, 2008, 25min+lt;br /+gt;Michael Stevenson�s recent work considers the age-old mathematical conundrum of �probability�. Taking as its inspiration the highly improbable presence of the exiled Shah of Iran, Manuel Antonio Noriega and Patricia Hearst all together on the tiny South Sea island of Contadora in 1979, the work proposes alternative ways to consider narrative. Combining black and white footage of playing cards (a common motif in probability exercises) with images related to the chance presence of these three characters on this island, the work contemplates the potential in the unpredictable. +lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;2. Goldin +amp;amp;amp; Senneby (SE)+lt;br /+gt;After Microsoft, 2006-07, 3min+lt;br /+gt;The most distributed image ever, an image of a hill in Sonoma Valley, California, used by Microsoft, is being phased out. Goldin + Senneby have re-photographed the hill and added a voice-over narrative that tells the story of a January day in the late 90s when the hill came to coincide with a global branding strategy. The work reflects on the value of the image, and the rhetorical nature of representation. Normally presented as a still photographic image projection with an audio soundtrack, the separate components are under a Creative Commons licence. The version presented here is a re-edit of �After Microsoft� as a video work by the curator of the screening programme, using the artists� original material. +lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;3. Hamra Abbas (PK)+lt;br /+gt;MoMA is the Star, 2004+lt;br /+gt;Based on footage outside of Berlin�s Neue National Galerie on the last day of the blockbuster exhibition �MoMA in Berlin: the art event of 2004�, Hamra Abbas� work records the marvel created by one of the world�s most renowned museums. The video always presents the fa+amp;amp;ccedil;ade of the institution, with the extensive queues of people waiting to enter contemplating the modern masterpieces within. The exhibition traded on the brand and reputation of MoMA as the legitimising factor for its contents, and for its declaration to be nothing other than the conclusive history of Western art. Cultural imperialism at its most spectacular. +lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;4. Ed McHenry (UK)+lt;br /+gt;$1,000,000 Ambition, 2006, 3min+lt;br /+gt;Ed McHenry�s $1,000,000 Ambition is a short video inspired by Brian DePalma�s film Scarface. The lyrics of the song �Push it to the Limit� (itself taken from the Scarface soundtrack) embodies the vision of 80s excess in capitalist America. The artist attempted to loosely calculate how much cocaine could be purchased at a street value of $1,000,000, and how long a line would it would make if it was to be consumed through the nose. The dimensions of the modest set, consisting of a long strip of Perspex, washing powder, vacuum, blood and lights, were calculated based on this premise to stretch 160 metres. +lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;5 +amp;amp;amp; 6 Alterazioni Video (IT)+lt;br /+gt;Intervallo, 2007, 3min+lt;br /+gt;and+lt;br /+gt;Vision of Excess, 2008, 4min+lt;br /+gt;Intervallo and Vision of Excess are two related works by Alterazioni Video. They both present different types of montage imagery set to classical music soundtracks. All the images are of derelict and abandoned architecture, originally intended for common usage by the public. Intervallo presents a photographic selection, whereas Vision of Excess utilises digital imaging techniques to depict similar architectural forms. Though both completely devoid of humans, the effects of the two types of imagery are very different. The photographic imagery reflects on the failure of the structures, whereas the digital imagery possess a more idealised quality and potential. The works reflect on the use value of different types of representation. +lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;7. Ronny Heiremans +amp;amp;amp; Katleen Vermeir (BE)+lt;br /+gt;The Good Life, 2009, 15min+lt;br /+gt;�A unique proposal for those who conceive their life as a work of art.� This recent video by Heiremans +amp;amp;amp; Vermeir is a meditation on the inextricable relationship between institutions of contemporary art and the wide structure of the economy, harnessed today by the �creative class�. The video takes the form of a virtual guided tour around an ambiguous contemporary art institution, in a future scenario where it is selling off its building to be transformed into luxury apartments. The depicted institution (itself an uncanny �collage� of four existing major European institutions), for an unspecified reason, is utilising its assets, promising major regeneration to its host city. Get a full tour � get a taste for �The Good Life�. +lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;8. Zachary Formwalt (US)+lt;br /+gt;At Face Value, 2008+lt;br /+gt;At Face Value is a short documentary style video by Zachary Formwalt looking at the fluctuation in value of German postage stamps during the 1930s, due to the financial crisis and the instability of inflation. Curiously, the changing retail cost of the stamps was reprinted onto existing stamps, sometimes numerous times over, in order to keep up to speed with their changing financial value. Connotations with the condition of today�s economy are easy to draw, acting as a timely illustration of the changing �worth� of reliant cultural artefacts.+lt;br /+gt;+lt;br /+gt;Approx 1hr 
Whirled Art Cinema: Siberia Film Night
Siberia Film Night
04.07.09 - 04.07.09 / ends today
At Whirled Art Cinema in London, United Kingdom
Screening | Film / Video
Siberia Film Night
Curated by the Siberia Team, Renata Kudlacek +amp; Stine LjungdalhSiberia Film Night is delighted to screen Show Three at the Whirledart Cinema in Brixton, London.Siberia Show Three is a stunning collection of experimental film and video work by internationaland emerging artists.The collection includes:Then and ThereAlex Pearl / UKAffective Sensory ExtensionsBj+ouml;rn Franke / GermanyBrokenEugene Perera / UKThe PriestIvana Bobic / UK +amp; SerbiaNijuman No Bore!Jean-Gabriel P+eacute;riot / FranceThe Life and TimesJoshua Thomson / UKFour AnimationsLemeh42 / ItalyPulled from the GroundMike Bragg / USAAnimalz /
iniva - Institute of International Visual Arts: Zineb Sedira: Currents of Time
Zineb Sedira: Currents of Time
04.07.09 - 04.07.09 / ends today
At iniva - Institute of International Visual Arts in London, United Kingdom
Talk | Film / Video
Curatorial exhibition tour with Frances Morris.
