International Art News
London based Cultural Theorist, Suhail Malick lists out the international art happenings for the coming fortnight.
Open Friday - Sunday, 12 - 6
Mick Peter
Yussupov Park
Private view: Friday 26th January 2007, 6.30-9pm
Open Friday-Sunday, 12-6pm, and by appointment
Remaining open until Sunday 4th March 2007
For this solo show Mick Peter presents a body of work derived from his interest in monumental sculpture and emblems of stupidity. The objects in the show propose pairs of personalities as scratchy paradoxes in lumpen matter. Comprised of drawings and sculpture the work adopts the demented impulse driving the fabrication of urban amenities and public sculpture that leads people to choose to congregate amongst dirt, bad smells and every kind of abomination.
Mick Peter is a Glasgow-based artist, born in 1974, who gained his MA from Glasgow School of Art in 2000, and his BA (Hons) from the Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford, in 1997. Amongst others recent projects include 'Like It Matters', a group show at the CCA, Glasgow (2005), and a solo show at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2006). Peter was featured in New Contemporaries in 2000, and is a contributing writer to Frieze and Untitled magazines. A publication made with Transmission with an essay by Dan Fox is forthcoming.
Tate Modern
Matt Mullican, Performance: Under Hypnosis, The Kitchen, New York 1982 Photographer: Paula Court
Matt Mullican Under Hypnosis
Saturday 27 January 2007, 22.00–23.30
Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG
Booking recommended
Call: + 44 20 7887 8888
Visit: http://www.tate.org.uk
American artist Matt Mullican will give a performance while in a state of hypnosis at Tate Modern on Saturday 27 January as part of UBS Openings: Saturday Live, a dynamic and ground-breaking programme of live performances and film at Tate Modern every two months.
Matt Mullican (b. 1951), whose work also includes drawing, sculpture and installation, has been using performance since the 1970s and hypnosis since 1978 to investigate the nature of reality, behaviour and association. His performances under hypnosis deal with questions of who he is and what lies within him and how hypnosis alters his identity in so-called reality.
He has also long been fascinated by the relationship between information and perception as it is filtered through emotive or unconscious associations. The symbols, shapes and repetitive patterns that he paints during these highly concentrated performances focus on such concerns. Mullican likens the focused, deliberate act of artistic creation with the state of trance under hypnosis, since he regards actions and processes of which we are not aware as fundamental for all artistic creative processes.
Although these events are unpredictable by their very nature, painting under hypnosis is often only a part of the performance. In previous events Mullican has interacted with the audience and for this performance furniture and large sheets of paper will be available for the artist to work with.
In his interview with Vicente L. de Moura, professional hypnotist, Mullican states: “(….) I feel more like an archaeologist. I’m digging into my brain and I’m kind of unearthing these states of mind that I don’t think are at all alien to everybody else. I think everybody deals with these states of mind but they don’t recognise them. They happen too quickly perhaps.”
The performance will take place under the bridge in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall and the artist will work mainly in black acrylic paint on large sheets of paper (approximately 2 x 3 metres). He will be hypnotised by a professional hypnotist.
UBS Openings: Saturday Live, Matt Mullican under Hypnosis, is co-curated by Catherine Wood, Curator, Tate (Contemporary Art and Performance) and Marc Pérennès, Independent Live Art Producer. The Arts Council England has provided additional support for this event.
Coming Next in the UBS Openings: Saturday Live series:
Actions and Interruptions
Saturday 10 March 2007, 11.00 – 21.45
The next UBS Openings: Saturday Live is Actions and Interruptions, a day-long exhibition of live works at Tate Modern, exploring performance that interfere with the visitor’s normal experience, creating unusual encounters. Some works operate as a form of ‘invisible theatre’ that blurs the lines between reality and fiction, such as Good Feelings in Good Times 2003/4 by Roman Ondák, a choreographed queue played out by actors.
The programme will feature performance works by Roman Ondák, Dora Garcia, Marie Jan Lund and Nina Jan Beier, Jiri Kovanda and Mario Garcia Torres that will erupt in various locations in the museum’s public spaces or in the galleries, often at unexpected moments.
For more information log on to http://www.tate.org.uk or for tickets call + 44 20 7887 8888.
UBS Openings: Saturday Live is a new strand of programming at Tate Modern which began in May 2006, presenting live art events, performance and film every two months. Events take place in the Turbine Hall, the Starr Auditorium, Level 2 Café and throughout the main galleries on Levels 3 and 5. The highlight of the programme is UBS Openings: The Long Weekend, an annual four-day festival taking place over the final bank holiday weekend in May.
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Edward Wright / 1st Born
opening
27.01.2007 / from 5 p.m.
exhibition
30.01. - 24.03.2007
tu - sa 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
location
ads1a
an der schanz 1a
50735 köln
www.mirkomayer.com
Artist Statement
The work is an investigation into how people relate to one another and themselves, and what effect the political landscape has upon our emotional and psychological well-being.
Western ideals of citizenship and the family play an integral role in defining the action articulated in any given painting. Assumptions of common ground, or community, are questioned by these paintings in so much as agreement (agreeableness) is undermined by an undercurrent of malcontent.
This is an attempt to manifest a contradiction between the superficiality of appearances and the complexity of the emotions that underlie any political engagements, our relationships with one another, as well as any deep engagement with a work of art.
The differences between portrait photography and snapshots, and between photographic mementos of family life and oil paintings,are invoked in recent work to analyze the importance of emotional engagementsto public life.
ROTTERDAM DIALOGUES
THE PERIPHERY COMPLEX
8 – 10 Feb 2007
Daily 1.30 – 5.00 p.m.
Witte de With
Center for Contemporary Art
Witte de Withstraat 50
3012 BR Rotterdam, NL
http://www.wdw.nl
info@wdw.nl
Witte de With presents a three-day symposium exploring three hot topics faced by contemporary arts institutions: new money, new audiences and new locations.
Taking ‘complex’ both to suggest insecurity and a constellation of complexities, this symposium explores whether contemporary art is located on the social, economic and geographical periphery.
Key figures from the local, national and international art world will share their thoughts and experiences, in dialogue with one another and with the public.
Thurs 8 February: New money
1.30 pm
Case study by Isabel Carlos (independent curator, Lisbon and curator 2004 Sydney Biennale) on the shift from public to private funding in contemporary art.
2.30 pm
Dialogue between Brian Butler (Director, Artspace, Auckland) and Charles Esche (Director, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven) on the current funding debates in the Netherlands and beyond.
3.45 pm
Panel discussion exploring the economic pressures on programming:
financial security versus artistic freedom?
Olav Velthuis (economist, art historian and Volkskrant journalist),
Maria Lind (Director, Iaspis, Stockholm),
Suhail Malik (Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, London),
Jaime Stapleton (Associate Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, London),
Hans Abbing (Professor of Art Sociology, University of Amsterdam).
Fri 9 February: New audiences
1.30 pm
Case study by Tobias Berger (Director, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong) examining the changing audiences for arts institutions in Europe and in Asia.
2.30 pm
Dialogue between Rachida Azough (Artistic Director, Kosmopolis, House for Cultural Dialogue, Rotterdam) and Tirdad Zolghadr (independent curator, Berlin), exploring differing approaches to using ‘culture’ as a tool for mediating between ‘cultures’.
3.45 pm
Panel discussion on the relationship between an art institution and its public(s):
what do we want from our audience?
Tirdad Zolghadr (independent curator, Berlin),
Gitta Luiten (Director, Mondriaan Foundation),
Niru Ratnam (co-director, STORE gallery, London, and initiator of Arts Council England’s Inspire curatorial program),
Nina Möntmann (independent curator and writer, Hamburg),
Simon Rees (curator, CAC Vilnius).
Sat 10 February: New locations
1.30 pm
Dialogue between Laurent Le Bon (Director, Centre Pompidou-Metz) and Ruud Visschedijk (Director, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam) concerning relocating cultural institutions.
2.30 pm
Case study by Claire Doherty (Director, Situations, Bristol) on the complexities of rooting a nomadic curatorial practice in a specific geographic region.
3.45 pm
Panel discussion on the question of de-centralisation and gentrification:
why is it still a matter of location, location, location?
Marc Spiegler (journalist and art critic, Zurich)
Nikolaus Hirsch (architect, Frankfurt),
Adrienne Goehler (publicist and independent curator, Berlin),
Dirk Snauwaert (Director, Wiels contemporary art centre, Brussels),
Wouter van Stiphout (architectural historian and member of Crimson collective, Rotterdam).
General information:
Names and dates are subject to change. All discussions will take place in English.
To reserve a place, please email info@wdw.nl - early booking is recommended.
ALSO BY WITTE DE WITH:
Brian Jungen solo exhibition, open until February 11 2007 at Witte de With.
DEPICTION, PERVERSION, REPULSION, OBSESSION, SUBVERSION,
a film series in five units, as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
29 January – 2 February 2007, daily from 4 to 6 pm
Pathé Cinema, Screen 6, Schouwburgplein, Rotterdam.
Video Data Bank
Sadie Benning, German Song (1985)
FEEDBACK: THE VIDEO DATA BANK, VIDEO ART, AND ARTIST INTERVIEWS
MoMA PRESENTS SCREENINGS OF VIDEO ART AND INTERVIEWS WITH WOMEN ARTISTS AND CRITICS FROM THE ARCHIVE OF THE VIDEO DATA BANK
January 25-31, 2007
The Museum of Modern Art presents Feedback: The Video Data Bank, Video Art, and Artist Interviews, an exhibition of video art and interviews with female visual and moving-image artists drawn from the Chicago-based Video Data Bank (VDB). The exhibition is presented January 25–31, 2007, at The Museum of Modern Art, on the occasion of the publication of Feedback, The Video Data Bank Catalog of Video Art and Artist Interviews, and the presentation of MoMA’s The Feminist Future symposium (January 26 and 27, 2007). Eleven programs of short and longer-form works will be shown, including interviews with artists such as Lee Krasner and Louise Bourgeois, as well as with critics, academics, and other commentators.
The Video Data Bank was established in 1976 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a collection of student productions and interviews with visiting artists. During the same period in the mid-1970s, VDB co-founders Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield began conducting their own interviews with women artists who they felt were underrepresented critically in the art world. These interviews became part of the VDB's archive and are a significant resource on women’s art history today. In 1980 VDB began distributing video art in response to the growth of the media art field. Video artists such as Laurie Anderson, Sadie Benning, Joan Jonas, Miranda July, Yvonne Rainer and Martha Rosler, many of whose early work was supported and distributed by VDB, are represented in this series.
Both collections have grown over the past 30 years and they are annotated in the organization’s newly published catalog. For this presentation, interviews and videotapes were chosen to reflect women’s art making and the evolution of feminist theory since the mid-1970s.
Organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art with Blithe Riley, Editor and Project Coordinator, On Art and Artists collection, Video Data Bank. Special thanks to Kate Horsfield, Director Emeritus; Abina Manning, Interim Director and Tom Colley, Collection Manager, Video Data Bank; and the Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund.
Video Art Works
Laurie Anderson
Nancy Angelo
Charles Atlas
Lynda Benglis
Sadie Benning
Dara Birnbaum
Candace Compton
Ximena Cuevas
Valie Export
Hermine Freed
Nereida Garcia-Ferraz
Vanalyne Green
Kate Horsfield
Joan Jonas
Miranda July
Suzanne Lacy
Branda Miller
Yvonne Rainer
Martha Rosler
Elisabeth Subrin
Interviews with Artists
Louise Bourgeois
Judy Chicago
Coco Fusco
Guerrilla Girls
Lee Krasner
Lucy Lippard
Ana Mendieta (portrait)
Joan Mitchell
Laura Mulvey
Elizabeth Murray
Alice Neel
Arlene Raven
Martha Rosler
Miriam Schapiro
Marcia Tucker
Screenings take place January 25–31, 2007 at:
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters,
The Museum of Modern Art,
11 West 53rd Street,
New York,
NY 10019
212-708-9400
Program details: http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_media/2007/Feedback.html
The Video Data Bank is currently celebrating thirty years of promoting the work of video artists through its comprehensive range of distribution, exhibition, archive and preservation programs. http://www.vdb.org
Feedback, The Video Data Bank Catalog of Video Art and Artist Interviews, is edited by Kate Horsfield and Lucas Hilderbrand, and published by Temple University Press. It contains essays on the history of media art, the Video Data Bank, video activism, experimental performance art, and the On Art and Artists interview collection by artists and academics Gregg Bordowitz, Vanalyne Green, Kate Horsfield and Peggy Phelan. http://www.vdb.org/printcat.html
The Video Data Bank is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and the Illinois Arts Council, an agency of the state.
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Multimedia
Leesa & Nicole Abahuni: In the Sky
when:Now through Sat 1.27 (Tue-Sat: 12-6pm) where:Location One (26 Greene St, 212.334.3347) price:FREE details: Event Info
Though the twin sisters and new-media duo Leesa & Nicole Abahuni work in a conceptual vein and are recent artists-in-residence at technophile institutions Location One and Harvestworks, In the Sky doesn't skimp on the visceral. A dense canopy of ball chain fills the gallery space, requiring viewers to wade through it on the way toward a large projection of a woven rug being undone by a pair of hands. A clearing along the way features a knotted crimson bed sheet hanging from the ceiling in a spotlight. Shuffling and rustling sounds, vaguely rhythmic, were recorded at the exhibit's opening by musicians and a dancer; now it serves as the show's mysterious soundtrack.
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LEESA & NICOLE ABAHUNI "In the Sky"
November 21, 2006 - January 27, 2007
Location One is pleased to present the debut solo exhibition in NYC by artists Leesa & Nicole Abahuni, on view in our main gallery at 26 Greene Street from November 21st through January 27th 2007 (Tue-Sat, 12-6pm).
An opening reception and performance will be held on Wednesday, November 29th from 6 to 8 pm. With the performance of a new composition created specifically for this installation by avant-garde musician Elliott Sharp, and two percussionists.
The multimedia installation, which was commissioned by Location One, is entitled In the Sky, is an exploration into the sharing of the senses and the interconnectedness between perception and sensation as experienced through visual, aural, and physical realms.
Administration Manager
£20,000 per annum pro rata
Part time - 3 days per week
I years contract (potentially renewable), 3 months probationary period
Studio Voltaire is the first and only artist-led gallery and studio complex in South West London, offering a service for local residents, schools and community groups that was not previously available. Founded in 1994, Studio Voltaire aims to create access and participation in contemporary art practice and support artists' projects through our extensive Education, Exhibition and Studio Programmes. Recent projects and commissions include Oh we will, we will, will we by Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan (2005), The Walk to Dover by Spartacus Chetwynd (2005/07); a national touring project by Chris Evans (2006-07). The organisation provides a much-needed resource of affordable studios to over 50 London based artists, in a critical and supportive atmosphere. Current studio members include Action Space, Sonia Boyce, William Furlong, Dawn Mellor, Spartacus Chetwynd, Daniel Sinsel, Markus Vater and Charlotte Ginsborg.
Studio Voltaire wishes to appoint an experienced Administration Manager to ensure the smooth running of the exhibition, studio and project spaces. The post holder will be expected to manage (with assistance from the bookkeeper) the organisations finances, contribute to fundraising initiatives and ensure a safe environment for both staff, studio artists and visitors. Studio Voltaire uses Macs, Microsoft Office packages, MYOB and Filemaker.
DEADLINE: 6pm, 5 February 2007
PLEASE NOTE: This job description has been updated to what was previous advertised
APPLICATION FORMS CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM www.studiovoltaire.org (in the news section).
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objectif_exhibitions is looking for a new artistic director
objectif_exhibitions is a non-for-profit organization, focusing on the research, production and presentation of contemporary art. Since its establishment in 1999, objectif_exhibitions has been at the centre of significant artistic and cultural developments. The organization's permanent negotiation of artistic, curatorial and public positions has resulted in showcasing exhibitions and publications conceived as well defined, precisely timed and carefully executed interventions.
Located at the heart of the Antwerp gallery and museum district, objectif_exhibitions plays a vital role in mediating and promoting cultural exchange both within Belgium and beyond. Moreover, through ongoing collaborations with established (inter)national artists and art institutions, objectif_exhibitions has developed a solid international network, encouraging both reflective prospecting, presentation and public address.
As the new artistic director of objectif_exhibitions you will continue and further develop the organizations' artistic program and social reach. You are a contemporary art professional with a thorough knowledge of recent artistic trends and their relevance in society. Your innovative personal vision leads you to the conception and realization of a wide range of thought provoking artistic projects and their publications. Though working at an international level, you are prepared to critically engage in and stimulate the flourishing local Antwerp art scene. Your excellent networking and communication skills enable you to reach an (inter)national audience and raise public awareness on various levels of society. You have experience coping with fundraising in both private and public realms.
You possess that ceaseless energy that motivates those around you, be it staff, artists, public, sponsors or the government.
Please send your application before February 20, 2007 to
objectif_exhibitions
Coquilhatstraat 14
B-2000 Antwerp
Belgium
www.objectif-exhibitions.org
Please pay attention to the next timeline:
February 20: Closing date for applications.
February 21: Applications sent to members of the selection committee.
March 6: Each member of the selection committee chooses two candidates.
March 20: Interviews.
March 21: Final decision will be announced to candidates.
Please provide us with:
A curriculum vitae
A short statement (max. one A4) on your curatorial views and practice
A list of artists and/or images of artworks that have had an influence on your practice
A future oriented perspective on the national and international profile of objectif_exhibitions
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