“8 Metaphors presents… the moving image practice of 8 artists, and interrogates their decision to write, commission and edit a book that encapsulates their work. Their contributions – which include texts, interviews, scripts and scores – are a series of metaphors for the making of work, and making meaning.” (LUX) The book has been conceived… Read more »
The Empty Plan
Leporello invitation design for the premiere screening of “The Empty Plan” at Focal Point Gallery. The 78 mins length feature film by Anja Kirschner and David Panos interrogates the relationship between theory and practice in the theatre of Bertolt Brecht.
Let’s Take Back Our Space
“The show takes its title from an encyclopaedic photographic project by the German artist Marianne Wex. Over several years in the mid-1970s Wex, who had originally been a painter, built up an extraordinary archive of thousands of images of people, which she began to categorise according to their body language. Mixing her own street photographs… Read more »
Sounds of the Sea and Shops
“‘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 »
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 »
‘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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