Archive for July, 2009
This work by Peter Tscherkassky is very refreshing in this digital area and will overload your senses (i mean hopefully). The work on the found film footage (The Entity – 1981) and its soundtrack is really interesting. For those interested, here is an article about it. (Thank you Adam for the reference) [ READ MORE ]
In a new initiative to generate more exposure for the artists in Saatchi Online and Saatchi Online Art Students, and to spotlight their work to as wide an audience as possible, we have created SHOWDOWN. SHOWDOWN is for all registered Saatchi Online and Saatchi Online Art Students artists to enter their works for visitors to score. [ READ MORE ]
Bassline is a major video and audio installation created for specific spaces, in which a series of projections reveal the immediate landscape as seen by a chain of 15 walkers. See and hear the recorded testimonies of 15 local participants based on their journey around the Barbican complex with a double-bassist. These moving and intimate accounts [ READ MORE ]
HAPPENSTANCE at theprintspace gallery 5th to 27th August Exhibit X is calling upon illustrators and graphic designers to submit their innovative artwork for inclusion in the forthcoming ‘HAPPENSTANCE’ exhibition at theprintspace, 74 Kingsland Road, London between 5th to 27th of August 2009. The show will present a cross section of personal work created within the last year [ READ MORE ]
I saw 35 Rhums last monday and i highly recommend it. It focuses on the relationship of a father and his daughter and the unavoidable need for change. The elliptical structure of the storytelling drives the film to a very simple and focused direction where emotions are just experienced by the characters rather than underlined by explainatory [ READ MORE ]
NOWA SODA is an artist-in-residency program that culminates in a three day art spectacle that transforms the Contemporary Art Center Solvay (CACS) into a building-wide installation art piece. Conceived and curated by Halfslant, an international art group which will work with the resident artists to use the physical space and historical significance of the CACS building as a means [ READ MORE ]
Tuesday 23 June 2009 – Sunday 6 September 2009 Walking in My Mind explores the inner workings of the artist’s imagination through immersive, large-scale installation art. Ten international artists transform the Hayward Gallery’s indoor galleries and outdoor sculpture terraces into a series of gigantic sculptural environments, each of which represents an individual mindscape. Interior worlds of [ READ MORE ]
Are you wondering what life after university will hold? Would you like group critique for your work to continue after graduation? Do you need advice for getting work in the art industry? Junto:Mentor is a pilot mentoring scheme for recent graduates developed in partnership with New Work Network. It is designed to provide a support structure during the [ READ MORE ]
STATION HOUSE OPERA Dominoes East London 26 Jul 2009 Station House Opera’s commission for CREATE09 links the five ‘host’ boroughs of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, taking as its starting point the simplest of ideas… a line of dominoes. On Sunday 26th July, thousands of concrete blocks will be used to create a moving sculpture along a 15-kilometre [ READ MORE ]
LEMN SISSAY WHY I DON’T HATE WHITE PEOPLE 2009 He didn’t know a black person until he was eighteen. It wasn’t his fault. They just thought it was better that way. He spent most of his adult life searching for his family who were black like him. It’s a story explored in his previous award winning play Something [ READ MORE ]