“‘Sounds of the Sea and Shops’ will be the US-born artist Erik Blinderman’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Working predominantly with film and photography, the artist has developed a practice that shows a concern for the dislocation of time and place through unexpected narrative structures. Blinderman’s interest in Southend-on-Sea has also grown through regular… Read more »
Lookbook SS2010
Dying to Know
Catalogue for MA Photographic Studies 2009 graduates group show with: Andreia Alves de Oliveira, Angela Leonidou, Assunta Del Buono, Brett Killington, Chantal Riekel, David Penny, Despina Papachristoudi, Estéfani Bouza, Joanna Zylinska, Kathrin Spirk, Lisa Phillips, Mikael Gregorsky, Milcho Andreev, Petter Garaas, Radi Konstantinov, Sarah Swenson, Ting Ting Cheng. With texts by David Bate, Kathy Kubicki.
Savoir Faire
“‘Savoir Faire’ will be Milly Thompson’s first regional solo exhibition in the UK. Thompson has gained a reputation for a self-deprecating approach to her work, and for a more formal aesthetic than the directly critical approach that she employed while working as a member of the group BANK in London during the 1990s. Interested in… Read more »
Chêne de Weekend
“This book by Lucy McKenzie presents her work of the last three years in text and image. Her huge paintings illustrate interiors and reference interior design drafts from the 19th century. In these paintings, which are up to eight metres tall, she uses the historical technique of Trompe-loeil painting and exhibits them like pieces of… Read more »
Fast Women and Slow Horses
Fast Women and Slow Horses is the title of a collaborative project with our friend and artist Pat O’Connor for 2009´s Publish and be Damned fair in London. The poster responds to an observation in media imagery from past and current periods of recession including their (fallen) protagonists. It was handed out to people for… Read more »
Out There, Not Us
“Are you French? Do you like Paris Hilton? Do you speak Hilton? Do you dance in Hilton’s space? Who have you looked at? What have you seen of Hilton? What have you touched? Has Paris touched you? Have you touched something of hers? What Paris is touching you? Do you torch her fire? Are you… Read more »
Liner Notes – Gespräche über das Büchermachen, Leipzig zum Beispiel
‘Liner Notes – Conversations about Making Books, Leipzig for Example’ is a book about books designed between the late 1990s and today by graduates of Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. ‘Liner Notes’ introduces different approaches to book design, showcasing a variety of designers, authors, publishers and artisan craftsmen as well as discussing objectives of contemporary… Read more »
Bold Italic 2009
Lecture performance at Sint-Lucas Visual Arts on invitation by Michaël Bussaer. Amongst the speakers were Armand Mevis & Linda Van Deursen, Jonathan Puckey, Jost Hochuli and Ken Garland. Our specially for the conference composed lecture, a dialogue of narrative structure with the title “Dreams are my reality”, playfully experiments with the topic of our, by… Read more »
‘Performances 2006 to 2009’
“This exhibition by Alastair MacKinven will be the first presentation of the artist’s recent performance-based works. Developed over a three-year period, these actions have become an integral part of MacKinven’s visual research, which has previously focused on a critical engagement with painting as well as a number of other diverse projects. Through his performances, the… Read more »
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