Here is information below about an online project which I
am involved in that starts tomorrow, please visit the website, www.accidentalpurpose.net
The online project is part of a wider exhibition 'Accidentally on Purpose' curated by Fay Nicolson and Candice Jacobs, produced in collaboration with QUAD. (27 July-7 October)
ONLINE PROJECT
Accidental Purpose
The online project allows for over 100 invited artists, writers and curators to respond to the title of Accidental Purpose with their own associated ideas. Existing as an evolving compendium, Accidental Purpose
will display images, animations, video and text utilising incidental
strategies of display changing every time you visit the site.
The website www.accidentalpurpose.net will be live from the 26th of July and can be viewed from QUAD's Resource Area during the exhibition.
Contributors include: Jonathan Allen, Kari Altmann, Marie Angeletti,
Majed Aslam, Nathan Barlex, Vanessa Billy, Simon & Tom Bloor, Beth
Bramich, Stella Capes, Martin Cole, David Raymond Conroy, Mike Cooter,
Rhys Coren, Patrick Coyle, Kit Craig, Elena Damiani, Siân Robinson
Davies, Simon Davenport, Stephane Devidal, Hugh Dichmont, Marjolijn
Dijkman, Grazyna Dobrzanska-Redrup, George Eksts, Mark Essen, Leo
Fitzmaurice, Jess Flood-Paddock, Ed Fornieles, Tom Godfrey, Florian
Gottke, Oona Grimes, Colin Guillemet, Thomas Hardiman, Fatima Hellberg,
James Hines, Paul Housley, Rowena Hughes, Leslie Kulesh, Candice Jacobs,
Nick Jenson, Aaron Juneau, Robert Leckie, Jonty Lees, Gil Leung, Rob
Lye, Barbara Rodriguez Muñoz, Harriet Murray, Kryssy Naylor, Benjamin
Newton, Fay Nicolson, Rose O’Gallivan, Sally O'Reilly, Berry Patten,
Yelena Popova, Henrik Potter, Emily Price, Ruth Proctor, Pedro Cid
Proenca, Richard Rigg, Alex Ross, Giles Round, Samara Scott, Erica
Scourti, Tai Shani, Berndnaut Smilde, Oliver Smith, Jack Strange, Chooc
Ly Tan, Neil Taylor, Oliver Tirre, George Vasey, Joey Villemont, Dominic
Watson, Joe Welden, David Ben White, Laura Wilson, Jesse Wine, Lucy
Woodhouse, Katy Woods, Ariella Yedgar, Maria Zahle
LAURA WILSON
Friday, 27 July 2012
Monday, 21 May 2012
Re-creative website: May's must sees
I was invited to recommend 5 exhibitions for the 'Whats on' section of RECREATIVE website, http://www.recreativeuk.com for the month of May.
The exhibitions I chose were:
Elizabeth Price: The Woolworths Choir of 1979
25th April - 26th May 2012
MOT International
Benedict Drew: Gliss
19 Apr 2012 - 27 May 2012
Cell Projects
Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan
28 February - 27 May
Tate Modern
Matt's Gallery
Nathaniel Mellors/ Willie Doherty
18 April - 27 May
Bauhaus: Art as Life
3 May - 12 August
The Barbican
Also, visit the Experts section on the RECREATIVE site to see a video interview with me made last year.
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Stephen Willat's data stream
I was one of the artists involved in creating the data stream for Stephen Willat's exhibition at South London Gallery, press release below.
London-based artist Stephen Willats is a pioneer of conceptual art and has made work examining the function and meaning of art in society since the early 1960s. Willats' first South London Gallery exhibition in 1998, Changing Everything, was the culmination of a two-year project with local residents. Aiming to create a cultural model of how art might relate to society, the work was made with and invigilated by the project's participants, and visitors were also invited to make their own contributions to it. Fourteen years later, Willats' new show, Surfing with the Attractor, re-presents material from Changing Everything alongside a new installation featuring a huge ‘data stream’ spanning 15 metres and made in collaboration with 14 London-based artists. Comprising hundreds of carefully ordered images from diverse media, the data stream documents two contrasting streets in London: Rye Lane in Peckham and Regent Street in the West End. Willats' intention for the data stream is to present a dynamic picture of the transient world we live in, with its constant change and movement embodying the relativity in the perceptions that people create for themselves.
STEPHEN WILLATS: SURFING WITH THE ATTRACTOR
EXHIBITION: 1 JUNE - 15 JULY 2012
PRESS PREVIEW: THURSDAY 30 MAY 2012, 10AM - 12PM
PREVIEW: THURSDAY 30 MAY 2012, 6.30PM - 8.30PM
London-based artist Stephen Willats is a pioneer of conceptual art and has made work examining the function and meaning of art in society since the early 1960s. Willats' first South London Gallery exhibition in 1998, Changing Everything, was the culmination of a two-year project with local residents. Aiming to create a cultural model of how art might relate to society, the work was made with and invigilated by the project's participants, and visitors were also invited to make their own contributions to it. Fourteen years later, Willats' new show, Surfing with the Attractor, re-presents material from Changing Everything alongside a new installation featuring a huge ‘data stream’ spanning 15 metres and made in collaboration with 14 London-based artists. Comprising hundreds of carefully ordered images from diverse media, the data stream documents two contrasting streets in London: Rye Lane in Peckham and Regent Street in the West End. Willats' intention for the data stream is to present a dynamic picture of the transient world we live in, with its constant change and movement embodying the relativity in the perceptions that people create for themselves.
Extending
beyond the gallery space, the show also includes films from the data
stream shown on monitors in shops on Peckham Road and Camberwell Church
Street, and graphic stickers will be widely distributed.
The
data stream is a diagrammatic representation of a multiplicity of
individual viewpoints on a shared experience, in this case that of
walking down two contrasting streets of London. In 2011, Willats worked
with artists living in New York to create Data Stream Portrait of New York, presented there at his exhibition, The Strange Attractor, at Reena Spaulings Fine Art. The data streams for that show and for Surfing with the Attractor were
made through a process of allocating each participating artist a medium
(such as a disposable camera, digital camera, video camera, audio
description, rubbing etc.), and a 'channel', such as 'facial
expressions' or 'signs of nature', within which to frame their
documentation of the two very different streets. Willats then worked
with some of artists to edit and 're-media-ise' their documentation into
the diagrammatic format of the data stream in which the multiple
viewpoints and channels are brought together. Cutting across the gallery
space, the vast data stream divides it in two, analogous to the
separation between the two streets recorded, and invites visitors to
create their own walks, both through the gallery and along the two
streets, via whichever channels they choose to focus on. The mass of
information presented in the data stream, and visitors' interaction with
it, combine to make a clear and powerful statement about Willats'
understanding of reality as a cultural phenomenon which is shared and
present within everybody's consciousness, albeit through individual and
therefore differing registers.
The contributing artists are: Gareth Bell Jones, Laura Bygrave, Reem Charif (Febrik), Lucy Clout, Alex Crocker, Philip Ewe, Luke Kemp, Nicholas Laurence, Harold Offeh, Paul Pieroni, Philomene Pirecki, Ros Taylor, Edward Thomasson and Laura Wilson.
The contributing artists are: Gareth Bell Jones, Laura Bygrave, Reem Charif (Febrik), Lucy Clout, Alex Crocker, Philip Ewe, Luke Kemp, Nicholas Laurence, Harold Offeh, Paul Pieroni, Philomene Pirecki, Ros Taylor, Edward Thomasson and Laura Wilson.
This exhibition also re-presents a colour data stream from Changing Everything in 1998, made from footage shot in the 1990s around the South London Gallery, alongside film works on 14 monitors.
A catalogue accompanies the exhibition and includes an interview with the artist and texts by John Kelsey and Tom Morton.
A catalogue accompanies the exhibition and includes an interview with the artist and texts by John Kelsey and Tom Morton.
Main gallery, admission free
www.southlondongallery.org/
www.southlondongallery.org/
Saturday, 17 March 2012
Tweespoor opens tomorrow
Photo: Frederik Beyens
Here is a photo of some lights being changed in The Ranonkel, it's been a busy week...riding around Turnhout by bicycle the panniers filled with bulbs - 800 have been installed. Roll on tomorrow.
Thursday, 15 March 2012
'800 Lights' (2012) being installed
The bulbs arrived yesterday and we have started to install the '800 Lights' in Turnhout, the Tweespoor exhibition at De warande opens on Saturday 17 March - 20 May 2012.
Monday, 13 February 2012
Turnhout 2012: 800 Lights
Sketch for 800 Lights, Laura Wilson (2012)
An invitation to change a light.
A new commission by artist Laura Wilson as part of Tweespoor for Turnhout 2012, Wilson will change 800 Lights in the city to a different colour, the work celebrates the anniversary of Turnhout since it became a free city in 1212. From the streetlights in the market place, to spotlights in restaurants, to desk lamps in homes, spread throughout the city, each lamp will represent one year for each of Turnhout's birthdays.
The residents of Turnhout are invited to be involved in the work through hosting a changing of a light. To register your interest please follow this link http://www.warande.be/activiteit/laura-wilson
Join the facebook page -----> http://www.facebook.com/events/107439906048085/
The exhibition opens on 17th March 2012.
Friday, 3 February 2012
Images from Brick Project @W139 in Amsterdam
(Left to right) Tobias Collier, Ali MacGilp, Adrian Lee, Adam James, Andrew Graham, Mark Wayman, Laura Wilson, Rhiannon Armstrong, Photo: Sanne Van Renesse
Photo: Sanne Van Renesse
Brick Project, Laura Wilson 2012
Photo: Sanne Van Renesse
Brick Project, Laura Wilson 2012
Photo: Emma Peascod
Brick Project, Laura Wilson 2012
Photo: Emma Peascod
Brick Project, Laura Wilson 2012
Photo: Emma Peascod
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