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David Sherry?s Ill Fated Fete and The Confraternity of Neoflagellants? Sergeant-At-Law

14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The creative manifestations of David Sherry and The Confraternity of Neoflagellants (Norman Hogg and Neil Mulholland) will be included in the Edinburgh Arts Festival 2010. Both artists promising to deliver excess, absurdity and humorous homage, their endeavors seem to be in tune with the Edinburgh Festival?s theatrical counterparts. Sherry?s work will form a continuation of his residency at Deveron Arts earlier this year. The residency manifested in the performance Ill Fated Fete, which will be re-staged here. This work satirically explores the absurdities of modern day health and safety regulations. He takes the nuisance and irritation out of the notion of meticulous risk assessment by undermining conventional behavioral codes and exploiting their comedic value.

This sentiment permeates all aspects of Sherry?s existence it seems; anyone who visits his studio is obliged to sign a disclaimer stating that, upon entering, they ?take full responsibility for myself in event of a slip, trip or fall, broken bones, blindness, breathlessness, stroke, electrocution, the contraction of any virus, burns, major organ failure, suffocation, and in the event of being insulted or undermined in this building". He exaggerates an excessively fastidious system of enforced measures that Sherry proposes do not accurately reflect the terrified, safety-conscious society that they suppose.

Ill Fated Fete at the Edinburgh Art Festival consists of four interventions ? Cleaning Change at Collective Gallery (1st August), Mirror Man at The Royal Scottish Academy (3rd August), A-Z of Health and Safety (4th August) at Stills Gallery and Left Luggage at the John Hope Gateway, Royal Botanic Gardens (7th August).

Hogg and Mulholland?s (or The Confraternity of Neoflagellants) intervention An Unco Site, commencing with a late night procession, also has a performative element to it. They invite tour guides and historical re-enactors of the city?s legendary ghosts to join them. This reflects the confraternity?s continued fascination with neomedieval ideas. The work will take the form of a flash mob intervention consisting of three parts ? The Zombie Walk, commencing at 11pm at Scott Monument on Saturday 7th August 2010 which precedes ?The Reception? that will take place in the early hours of the morning. The third component is a symposium, ?Investigating Premodern Futures? which will be held on the following day at the University of Edinburgh, featuring a range of speakers on the subject of neomedievalism.

Hogg and Mulholland intend to intertwine popular horror, Romantic folklore and ancient mythology, as the procession, as Mulholland describes it, crosses the Styx to a wake that will consist of a Tam O?Shanter, Night of the Living Dead mash-up. The event will be filmed and streamed on the creative social network, www.thisiscentralstation.com and on the Edinburgh Art Festival website, www.edinburghartfestival.com. Further information can be found on the artists? project blog, http://lightmotiv.blogspot.com/.

Dublin Contemporary 2011

01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Dublin Contemporary 2011 - a new exhibition to be held every five years that has been in development since 2006 under the management of Rachael Thomas (Head of Exhibitions, IMMA), has been announced. The concept for Dublin Contemporary was researched, developed and resourced by Thomas and Oliver Dowling (formerly of The Arts Council) with the support of Enrique Juncosa and the Irish Musuem of Modern Art.

Curated by Rachel Thomas, Gerard Byrne, Oliver Dowling, Okwui Enwezor, Enrique Juncoase, Christine Macel and Hans Ulrich Obrist Dublin Contemporary 2011 will place emerging and established Irish-based artists under the spotlight, alongside international artists in the hope of facilitating an experimental experience within Dublin?s distinct cultural context.

Allowing visual artists, scholars, writers, philosophers, curators and musicians to propose new encounters between disciplines, Dublin contemporary undertakes the largest contemporary art event ever held in Ireland in an attempt to fuse a cultural event with the social mode of Dublin. Integrating a variety of creative and intellectual practices, staged within the biennale structure.

More than 80 Irish and international artists are participating, showing work in a variety of spaces including the Irish Film Institute, IMMA, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, the Royal Hibernian Academy and the James Joyce Tower.

List of participating artist to be announced early in 2011.

Dublin Contemporary

6 September 2011 - 31 October 2011

http://www.dublincontempoary.com

Manifesta 8

18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Manifesta 8 has delayed its official opening until 9 October, avoiding a General Strike in Spain.

Since its launch 15 years ago Manifesta has committed its public image to constructing bridges, resisting borders and social blockades in the celebration of artists and creative communities from diverse backgrounds. Manifesta 8 attends to an optimistic dialogue between Europe and the Maghreb region of northern Africa.

Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (Egypt), Chamber of Public Secrets (Scandinavia and the Middle East) and tranzit.org (Central Europe), the three curatorial groups responsible for Manifesta 8 have drawn up a range of events from a round of televised debates (including two episodes of a popular talk-show on the Arabic Al Jazeera network), the publication of a 420-page Reader and the fabrication of an "incubator" to research the potential of producing a roving, pan-African biennial.

Situated in the antiquated yet culturally heterogeneous cities of Murcia and Cartagena we can expect work from a profusion of contemporary practitioners in an array of unconventional and suggestive sites including the autopsy pavilion of an 18th Century hospital, the San Ant?n Prison, an early 20th Century barracks built in the Moorish style, the old watermills on the Segura River in Murcia and the newly constructed ARQUA (National Museum of Underwater Archaeology) designed by Guillermo V?zquez. Silvana Editore will also publish a 320-page general catalogue and a smaller format pocket-guide.

Mercian venues include: Fine Arts museum of Murcia, Centro P?rraga, Antigua Oficina de Correos y Tel?grafos, Los Molinos del R?o Segura Hydraulic Museum and Sala Caballerizas

Caartagenian venues include: Muram ? Regional Museum of Modern Art, El Parque Caf?-Restaurant, Arqua ? National museum of Underwater Archaeology and the San Ant?n Prison.

British artists and artists groups showing include Melanie Gilligan, Otolith Group, Pablo Bronstein, Ryan Gander, Tris Vonna-Michell and Willie Doherty

Other artists include Igor & Ivan Buharov, Simon Fujiwara, Boris Charmatz, Common Culture, Tom?? Vanek, Christoph Euler, Pablo Bronstein and Lou Lou Cherinet

Mainifesta 8 October - 9 January 2011

http://www.manifesta8.es/manifesta/manifesta8.home

7th Edinburgh Art Festival programme unveiled

02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Somewhat atypically, summer is warming Scotland up in time for the annual Edinburgh Art Festival. This year 48 galleries, 11 participating for the first time, come together under the umbrella organisation directed for the past three years by Joanne Brown. EAF showcases a selection of emergent Scottish talent and names already well established on the international art scene.

A new EAF strand, funded by the Scottish Government?s Expo Fund, gives this year?s edition additional weight with three artist commissions. The stairwell of the Dean Gallery has been chosen to site a new work by Turner-prize winner Richard Wright ? the painting will be unveiled on 30 June. Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth?s new installation will be shown at the City Observatory. And Martin Creed is building an artwork into the famous Scotsman steps near Waverley Station. Building complications, due to the historic nature of the site, will mean that this will not be completed until December. However, the Fruitmarket Gallery is showing his work in the gallery throughout the festival, following his first solo show in Scotland earlier this year at Glasgow?s Common Guild.

David Sherry (City centre public space) Ross Christie (City centre mobile gallery), The Confraternity of Neoflagellants (Norman Hogg and Neil Mulholland) (Late night procession across the city), Joan Mitchell (Inverleith House), Craigie Aitchison (Talbot Rice Gallery), Barbara Rae (Dundas Street Gallery & Open eye Gallery), Victoria Crowe (The Scottish Gallery), Julie Roberts (Tablot Rice Gallery), Iran do Espirito Santo (Ingleby Gallery) are just some of the other artists showing during the festival.

Edinburgh Art Festival ? Thursday 29 July?Sunday 5 September

http://www.edinburghartfestival.com

Brochure published end June

Scotland and Venice 2011

20 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Fiona Bradley, director of the Fruitmarket Gallery, talks about Scotland?s representation at the 54th Venice Biennale
It is extremely exciting that the Fruitmarket Gallery has been selected to curate Scotland and Venice 2011. The gallery has an international reputation for the high quality of its programme, and for its development of an international platform on which to show the work of Scottish and international artists both in Edinburgh and at home. Our proposal to the Scotland and Venice Partnership was to curate the Scottish representation in Venice as part of the Fruitmarket Gallery?s on-going programme, and it is fantastic now to begin to make Venice part of our plans for 2011.
We have invited Karla Black to make a solo presentation in Venice. It is early days to talk about her plans, but she responded to the invitation enthusiastically, and we are going on a first site visit at the end of June. Venice is a very particular challenge for an artist and curator, and I am really looking forward to the conversations that unfold as we all begin to get to grips with what working there really means. Karla makes intelligent, beautiful work, and is an artist we have wanted to work with for some time. She has just completed a major series of exhibitions at Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Modern Art Oxford, Kunstverein Hamburg and the Migros Museum in Zurich, and the substantial publication celebrating these exhibitions was launched as part of Glasgow International in April. Her future plans include a group exhibition at Andrea Rosen in New York, a solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle N?rnberg and In the Days of the Comet at the 7th British Art Show.
Karla is articulate both in her work and in discussion about it, and perhaps her own words best sum up an indication of her possible approach:
?I want to make abstract not figurative art. I want to prioritise material experience over language; I want formal aesthetics rather than narrative, autobiographical detail; I want the lived life to be primary, not the looked-at image.??
54th Venice Biennale, June-November 2011 www.scotlandandvenice.com

MAP is looking for interns!

30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT
INTERN OPPORTUNITY
MAP is Scotland's only magazine dedicated to contemporary art and since its launch five years ago has become a respected title on the international scene. It is available in gallery and specialist bookshops in the UK, Europe and United States. MAP's coverage over the past year includes:
Victoria Morton, Katy Dove, Martin Boyce, Ben Rivers, Nairy Baghramian, Benot Maire, Pedro Paivo and Maria Gusamo, Bik Van der Pol, Henry Coombes, Lily Reynaud-Dewar, Clunie Reid, Etienne Chambaud, Ellen Cantor, Tatham and O'Sullivan, Eva Hesse, Ray Johnson, Luke Fowler, Haris Epaminonda, Leigh Ledare and Stephen Sutcliffe.
MAP's office is operational one/two days a week within the CCA building, at 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow throughout 2010/11. MAP's three editors also work remotely on the publication.
We currently have a vacancy for a six-month internship and we invite students/graduates of Glasgow School of Art to apply.
The internship involves working with the team in the MAP office on Wednesdays (although hours can be negotiated around lecture times if necessary), and it would include any other occasional work that might arise. An honorarium of ?50 per month is available. Duties include contributing to the MAP website, working with the subscriptions and contact database, and assisting with the editing of the magazine particularly during the production period. Individuals who are also interested in writing for MAP are especially encouraged to apply.
Please send your CV and let us know in 100 words why you would like to work at MAP, to editor@mapmagazine.co.uk by 5 May. Selected candidates will be invited to an informal interview at CCA the week following the deadline with the intention of working with successful candidates from 12 May.

British Art Show 7

27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT
British Art Show 7 begins this October in the recently opened Nottingham Contemporary. Curated by Lisa Le Feuvre and the Hayward Gallery's Tom Morton, this edition marks a significant change in curatorial direction for the exhibition, which is held every five years.
The show will then tour to the Hayward Gallery, London, Glasgow's CCA and Tramway, and Plymouth Arts Center in October 2010.39 artists including Gail Pickering, Charles Avery, Roger Hiorns, Luke Fowler, The Otolith Group, Emily Wardill and Karla Black will all show work made since 2005.
Artists: Charles Avery,Karla Black,Becky Beasley,Juliette Blightman, Duncan Campbell,Varda Caivano,Spartacus Chetwynd, Steven Claydon, Cullinan Richards, Matthew Darbyshire, Milena Dragicevic, Luke Fowler, Michael Fullerton, Alasdair Gray, Brian Griffiths, Roger Hiorns, Ian Kiaer, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Sarah Lucas, Christian Marclay, Simon Martin, Nathaniel Mellors, Haroon Mirza, David Noonan, The Otolith Group, Mick Peter, Gail Pickering, Olivia Plender, Elizabeth Price, Karin Ruggaber, Edgar Schmitz, Maaike Schoorel, George Shaw, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sue Tompkins, Phoebe Unwin, Tris Vonna-Michell, Emily Wardill, Keith Wilson.
Nottingham Contemporary, 23 October 2010 ? 9 January 2011; Hayward Gallery, London ,14 February - 17 April 2011; Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow and Tramway, Glasgow, 28 May - 21 August 2011; Plymouth Arts Center, 17 September - 4 December 2011

STILLS RESIDENCIES

08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT
Director Deirdre MacKenna discusses a new phase of international artist residency opportunities
?Edinburgh?s Stills opens its doors to new groups of artists in 2010 as we embark on a new chapter of artistic exchanges working with a network of partners from Italy, Germany the Middle East and North Africa. Over the past ten years our residency model has evolved to support artists based in Scotland to undertake sustained periods of research and tailored skills-based training. Success has come from offering an open model where the opportunity to experiment and make use of Stills? networks of curators, writers, artists and technical experts is tailored to each artist?s needs.
This year we will continue to work with artists based in Scotland, while launching our new annual residency programme in summer (join our mailing list to be kept up-to-date with application procedures, www.stills.org). We are also looking forward to welcoming Katharina Kiebacher to Stills to develop her ambitious new project as part of the RSA Residency scheme and to Ilana Halperin presenting her work in Milan as part of Fondazione Pomodoro?s ARS International Residency exhibition in May. The nomadic working practices of contemporary artists has inspired us to explore possibilities around developing new programmes and partnerships internationally: in 2009 we presented newly commissioned works by El?n Jakobsd?ttir as part of Cologne Contemporaries following an invitation from Regina Barunke and Lilian Haberer from Projects in Art and Theory. Spring 2010 we launch our new partnership with Fondazione Fotografia, Modena in Italy, selecting two groups of artists: one drawn from recent graduates of Scottish art schools invited to take part in a major survey exhibition involving 13 countries, ?International Departure Gate?. The second will be a residency opportunity for three artists and one curator in Modena during October and November as part of a cultural exchange exploring local identity. Finally, talks are underway with a number of artists and curators and organisations in the Middle East and North Africa aimed at bringing additional opportunities, perspectives and cultural legacies to our network for artists.?

21ST CENTURY CHISENHALE

08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Chisenhale Gallery director Polly Staple launches a dynamic new events programme

“21^st Century is a year-long research-based programme of talks, film screenings,

publication launches, small-scale curated projects and performances. Presented as once monthly evening events, it supports emerging artists, writers, critics and theorists, as well as offering more established practitioners the opportunity to present projects in an informal environment.

On 26 January, artists Manuela Gernedel and Morag Keil kicked off the programme. The event was great; about 70 people crammed into a small space, a good thing since the studio has minimal heating and it was freezing in London. Manuela and Morag are both ex-students of mine from the Chelsea Fine Art MA. I offered them the space for the night and they put together a programme of film screenings and performances by friends and associates: Anna McCarthy’s film ‘Bored Rebel in Oberpfaffenhofen’, 2009; a charming welcome speech by Hank Schmidt i.d. Beek accompanied by lute; a 1999 film from the legendary Glasgow female art collective Elizabeth Go; a selection of decorative pillows by Yngve Holen and Marlie Mul; and an accompanying text ‘I Need You Tonight’ by John Harrington, referencing the lyrics of INXS: ‘It’s just me, myself and I but three’s a crowd and all we got is this moment, the 21^st Century’s yesterday. I need to work on the rest of the play but how do you create something from nothing, how do you invent an event?’ The evening culminated in ‘She do the policeman in different voices’, a stunningly raw performance by Cara Tolmie singing ‘Caledonia’.

In February Aleksandra Mir introduces a rare screening of her 2004 film ‘Organized Movement’. Experimental art writing workshops will be led by Sarah Tripp, Will Holder and Melanie Gilligan, while participants from Goldsmiths’ MFA in art writing will present their work on 15 May.

The desire to initiate this programme was to be flexible and have a rapid response in contrast to the long-term planning of Chisenhale exhibitions. 21^st Century diversifies what we do – it allows us to be light on our feet.”

21^st Century, January-December, http://www.chisenhale.org.uk/events/21st_century.php

6TH BERLIN BIENNALE

08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Curator Kathrin Rhomberg commissions work which will be seen in the artists’ countries of production

“As a prelude to the 6^th Berlin Biennale, the project Artists Beyond consists of international events staged by the Berlin Biennale in cooperation with different institutions in seven European countries. Artists Beyond focuses on the creative processes and the actual artistic production of seven artists – Mark Boulos, Phil Collins, Marcus Geiger, Nilbar Güres, Petrit Halilaj, Thomas Locher, and Marie Voignier. The central concern of the project is to open up production processes to local audiences in each of the seven countries, offering insights into artistic research and work at the sites of production. So, for example, Nilbar Güres will introduce her work to the Istanbul public in the space Platform Garanti. There will also be a seminar by Thomas Locher at the Art Academy of Copenhagen and Marie Voignier will give a talk at the Centre d’art contemporain de Brétigny.

This year’s biennial also brings together many artistic positions on the contemporary present in multiple locations in Berlin, among them KW Institute for Contemporary Art and a venue in the Berlin quarter of Kreuzberg. Michael Schmidt’s photographic works will be shown throughout the whole biennale, while the event iself is contextualised by an exhibition with works by Adolph Menzel (1815–1905), curated by American art historian Michael Fried at our invitation and in cooperation with the Alte Nationalgalerie and the Kupferstichkabinett of the the National Museums in Berlin.

The biennale will raise urgent questions about our present time. I want it to speak of the cracks in reality, about the gap between the world that is talked about and the world that is actually there. And also to ask why we have these distinctions and self-deceptions, why we have a fictional arsenal of mass media and consumption, and about the rhetorics of distraction and pacification.

My approach is actually to look less at highlights and nourish anticipation. Following the question of urgencies, there will be very subtle but also disturbing interventions leading to another way of imagining our future.”

6^th Berlin Biennale, 11 June-8 August

http://bb6.berlinbiennial.de

WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2010

08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Josh Brand gives an artist’s perspective on exhibiting in the upcoming Whitney Biennial

“I’ve been living in New York for about seven years, so I like to see this show as connected to the whole experience of being here – you’re always walking through the history of art and music and writing and everything that people have created here. So much of the most intense American art of the last 100 years has happened here. I guess the Biennial is supposed to be a summary or marker of a discrete moment in American art, but I think about it more in terms of how it relates to this continuum. The idea of ‘now’ is not something you can separate from the influence of the past. Time is always mixed up and our sense of the present is coloured by parts of the past we use as a preface or context for a narrative about what is happening now.

Through the whole of the past century there have been these amazing, overlapping, interlocking histories and trajectories of people making things in New York. Its rich history is really romantic and present all the time. This history of how people live and make stuff here has a subliminal influence on your habits and friendships. Everything you do is somehow a positive creative activity – from having a shitty day job in a photo lab, to listening to music, to hanging out in the park. It’s somehow really natural to feel a sense of participation in this continuity. So I guess being in the Biennial is a more formal and dramatic way of acknowledging that I am passing through this history – a kind of romantic marker of time and geography.

I would probably feel differently about the whole thing if it weren’t for the fact that I have a close friend in the show. I’ve known Richard Aldrich since before I moved here – we have been in a band together for a long time. Both of us being in the show makes it easier to think that it has some natural connection to my everyday life. The pictures I’m showing are a little more autobiographical than things I’ve shown in the past – there are always objects from my domestic life that show up obliquely, or are translated in some way into the pictures, but here they are maybe more clearly present.”

Whitney Biennial, New York, 25 February-30 May

http://www.whitneybiennial.com/

GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL

08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Katrina Brown, director of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, talks about this year’s programme

“I hesitate to use the word ‘unique’, but there is something unarguably distinctive about the GI Festival; not quite a conventional biennial, despite taking place every two years, nor simply a ‘fleeting event’ festival. Stretching over two frenetic weeks, it is a more event-like creature than a biennial, and has many curatorial voices rather than one, the programme being comprised of both a curated segment and of numerous exhibitions and projects conceived and produced by a whole range of visual arts organisations across the city. And within its programme are a number of more ‘static’ exhibitions that run beyond the festival, some into September. It’s a format that seems to allow Glasgow to play to its strengths and foregrounds its very particular energy.

This year’s festival will occupy the now familiar array of spaces and places in the city, from major museums and regular contemporary art venues to temporary sites and locations. For the first time it extends to Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, where David Shrigley will show a group of new sculptures and related objects in a specially commissioned installation. This is his first exhibition in Glasgow for over a decade.

For this outing of the Glasgow International, my first as director, we have been working around the theme of ‘past, present, future’. This was in part suggested by prevalent trends in contemporary art practice of recent years, and in part by 2010 being the 20^th anniversary of Glasgow’s reign as European Capital of Culture, a fact which offers an interesting moment to look back, and, we hope, forward.

So much contemporary work has taken existent material as its starting point; whether film, found artifacts, design or architecture, the processes of reenactment, reconstruction and re-use are widespread. Elsewhere, other artists have looked more at how societies envisage, or speculate about, the future. Two key examples of the latter that will be at the heart of the festival are David Maljkovic and Gerard Byrne both of whom will be showing in a fantastic temporary venue on Miller Street in the Merchant City, itself a reflection of the theme, fusing as it does buildings old and new. NVA are contributing a brilliant example of the use of re-enactment with its ‘White Bikes Plan’ which re-creates a Dutch anarchist action from the late 1960s to provide free bicycles: the precursor of many a civic cycle scheme today.

There is a particularly strong range of work to be found across all of the spaces at Tramway: Christoph Büchel (showing in Scotland for the first time), our own Douglas Gordon (showing in Glasgow for the first time in too long) and Keren Cytter, as well as a busy programme of screenings and a symposium. And alongside so much work made in our current decade, we will be presenting (along with the Hunterian Art Gallery and Artist Rooms) a remarkable selection of unique works on paper and sculptures by one of the 20^th century’s most enduringly resonant and influential figures: Joseph Beuys.

Among all this there are events a-plenty, with the fantastic and unquestionably unique Linder at the Arches presented by Sorcha Dallas Gallery. Three Blows will present a magical night by Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth at the magnificent Sloans Ballroom, and every evening during the festival there will be dada-esque goings on at ‘Le Drapeau Noir’, a temporary café/club orchestrated by Raydale Dower. Sign up to our website below and be sure not to miss a thing.”

Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, 16 April–3 May

www.glasgowinternational.org