OUTPOST MEMBERS SHOW 2012

I am presenting a lecture on Brick Project as part of the Outpost Members Show 2012 selected by Ruth Ewan which opens this Saturday 1 December. The lecture will take place at Outpost on Thursday 13 December, 6-9pm, Tom Smith will also be performing work the same evening.

More information on this ongoing work please visit the Brick Project blog http://www.brick-project.blogspot.com/
OUTPOST MEMBERS SHOW 2012

Selected by Ruth Ewan

Johann Arens / Maeve Brennan / Tom Crawford / Will Cruickshank / Mark Essen / Candice Jacobs / Leo Koivistoinen / Simon Liddiment / Scott Massey / Terence McCormack / Stella Ouzounidou / Andy Parker / Tom Smith / Laura Wilson

Opening View: 1 December
Exhibition runs until 21 December

OUTPOST
10b Wensum Street, Norwich, NR3 1HR
questions@norwichoutpost.org / www.norwichoutpost.org
+44 (0) 1603 612 428 / charity number 1109254

BB#8: Dawdle at Space

BLACKBOARD: Curator and SPACE studio tenant Gareth Bell-Jones has invited a number of artists to reflect on some of the frustrations that come with the studio experience.

The studio is often regarded as a site of unconstrained creative and productive potential, a proposition that is often far from the truth. Given a quote from Fernando Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet as a starting point, artists were asked to respond with text or image to some of the necessary, yet debilitating experiences that accompany the creative process (e.g. feelings of listlessness, indifference, torpor, boredom or apathy).

Preview 25 Oct 2012, 6 - 9pm

The contributing artists are:

Victoria Adam, Benjamin L Aman, An Endless Supply, Aaron Angell, Emma Astner, Nicole Bachmann, Stuart Bailes, Jonathan Baldock, Manuela Barczewski, Chris Barr, Joanne R Bristol, Savinder Bual, Nicholas Byrne, Melanie Carvalho, Dave Charlesworth, George Charman, Leo Cohen, Patrick Coyle, Annabelle Craven-Jones, Mat Do, Tom Durley, Marie d’Elbee, Laura Eldret, Jenifer Evans, Lilah Fowler, Manuela Gernedel, Georgie Grace, Anthony Green, Dave Hanger, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Aaron Head, Richard Healy, Andy Holden, Toby Huddlestone, Lizzie Hughes, Candice Jacobs, Glen Jamieson, Mat Jenner, KIMI CONRAD, Elise Lammer, Ian Law, Alastair Levy, Laura McLean-Ferris, Matthew McQuillan, Chris McSherry, Agata Madejska, Isabella Martin, Scott Massey, Kate Morrell, Henry Jackson Newcomb, Fay Nicolson, Matthew Noel-Tod, eppark, Anna Pickering, Owen Pidcock, Heather Phillipson, Philomene Pirecki, Diana Policarpo, Jessica Potter, Kit Poulson, Chris Rawcliffe, Anna Reckin, Kari Rittenbach, Lewis Ronald, Emily Rosamond, Rosalie Schweiker, Amy Spencer, Cally Spooner, Marianne Spurr, Alan Stanners, Jack Strange, Lorenzo Tebano, Mimei Thompson, Lena Tutunjian, Sacha Waldron, Judith Waring, White Room Press, Daniel Wilkinson, Laura Wilson, Jesse Wine, Maria Zahle

In addition, Dawdle features a special event exploring boredom, both as a form of suffering and as a potentially transformative quality of certain experiences. The event with feature contributions from Rasmus Johnsen, professor in Management, Politics, and Philosophy at the Copenhagen Business School, Anthony Morgan, lecturer in the history and philosophy of psychology at Northumbria University and Matthew Clements who is currently completing a research PhD in bio-semiotics at Birkbeck.

Whitstable Biennale 2012

On Sunday 2 September, I presented a talk about Brick Project as part of the Whitstable Biennale at 3pm in Whitstable Library. (Click here for more information on this event: http://bit.ly/TDkuIQ, and see below for further information on the Biennale)

Images will be online soon. 

Also, have been invited produce new work for the two year commission for the Whitstable Biennale 2014.

THE 6TH WHITSTABLE BIENNALE 2012 

September 1 - 16

Full programme details are available at www.whitstablebiennale.com and a NEW Whitstable Biennale 2012 smartphone App will be available nearer the opening date.

Three main programmes thread their way through the Biennale weekends.

Programme 1: curated by The Island (Victoria Brooks and Andrew Bonacina)

Programme 2: curated by Jeremy Millar

Programme 3: curated by Emma Leach

Artists 2012

Tanya Axford • Oliver Beer • Emma Bennett • Iain Boal • Tim Bromage • Chloe Cooper • Phil Coy • Shezad Dawood • Maya Deren • Benedict Drew • Angus H Braithwaite • Martin John Callanan • Tom Gidley • Emma Hart • Sam Hasler • Internet (Siân Robinson Davies & Diego Chamy) • Derek Jarman • Jesse Jones • Ben Judd • Joachim Koester • Tessa Lynch • Gareth Moore • Jenny Moore • Daniel Oliver • Performance Klub Fiskulturnik • Possibility Archive • Kieren Reed • John Smith • Tim Spooner • Patrick Staff • Cara Tolmie • Touch • Uddin & Elsey • Aaron Williamson. Most are new commissions.

Talks 2012

Artist and writer Jeremy Millar • artist Laura Wilson • Mike Harding, BJ Nilsen & Jon Wozencroft from Touch music • choreographer Siobhan Davies & artist Marcus Coates • artist Shezad Dawood • Professor Paul Allain • Producer John Wyver.

WARP Artist Village

This week I took part in the WARP Artist Village in Genk, Belgium, a great couple of days meeting people and talking about art. On Monday evening I gave a talk about my work, more information here.

Accidental Purpose

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

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

www.motinternational.org

Benedict Drew: Gliss

19 Apr 2012 - 27 May 2012

Cell Projects

www.cellprojects.org

Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan

28 February - 27 May

Tate Modern

www.tate.org.uk

Matt's Gallery

Nathaniel Mellors/ Willie Doherty

18 April - 27 May

www.mattsgallery.org

Bauhaus: Art as Life

3 May - 12 August

The Barbican

www.barbican.org.uk

Also, visit the Experts section on the RECREATIVE site to see a video interview  with me made last year.

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.

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.

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.

Main gallery, admission free
www.southlondongallery.org/stephenwillats