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Artspace, Real Art Ways, and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

50,000 Beds:
A Project by Chris Doyle at Artspace,
Real Art Ways, and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
July 20 to September 23, 2007
Who’s Sleeping Where?

Artspace (New Haven), Real Art Ways (Hartford), and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield) have joined forces for their first-ever collaboration spanning all three institutions this summer.

http://www.50000beds.net

Artspace (New Haven), Real Art Ways (Hartford), and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield) have joined forces for their first-ever collaboration spanning all three institutions this summer.

50,000 Bedspresents new video works by a diverse group of forty-five artists–each piece based on a room in a different hotel, motel, or inn across Connecticut. The exhibition focuses on the hotel room as a site filled with narrative potential and the content reflects a diverse range of artistic responses and themes.

Artspace opens Friday, July 20, from 6 to 8 pm (on view through September 15). Artists include: David Borawski, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Moyra Davey and Jason Simon, Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson, Melissa Friedling, Gene Gort, Nina Katchadourian, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Adam Niklewicz, John Pilson, Gil Scullion, Grzegorz Surman, Eve Sussman, Chris Wilcha, and Amy Yoes.

Real Art Ways opens on Saturday, July 21, from 6 to 9 pm (on view through September 23). Artists include: Tyler Coburn, Liz Cohen, Jorge Colombo, Neil Goldberg, Aaron Katz, Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry, Megan Michalak and Sarah Sharp, Jeffrey Miller, Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, Shannon Plumb, J. Morgan Puett, John Sanchez, Erika Van Natta, Anne Weber, and Pawel Wojtasik and Terry Berkowitz.

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum opens on Sunday, July 22, from 3 to 5 pm (on view through September 3) with a 2pm panel discussion featuring Chris Doyle in conversation with participating artists Chris Wilcha, Marina Zurkow, and the team of Megan Michalak and Sarah Sharp. Artists include: Karina Aguilera-Skvirsky, Amy Barrett, Brent Green, Jacqueline Goss and Andrew Gori, David Ellis, Braden King, Oliver Herring, Simon Lee and Jim White, Josh Marston, Paul McGuirk, Laurel Nakadate, Tim Rutili, Dread Scott, Judi Werthein, and Marina Zurkow.

In order to fully appreciate the project and see all forty-five videos, viewers will be encouraged to visit each venue during the summer; visitors who experience the entire exhibition will receive a free catalogue!

Doyle has allowed the participating artists to drive the content of the exhibition. He comments on the challenge of mounting a single exhibition across three venues, "50,000 Beds is a collective experiment; and like any experiment, the results are unpredictable. The challenge of building a single show for three distinct sites lies in combining pieces that play off each other within each venue, as well as having the three parts work together. Several themes emerged from the commissioned work, and those themes weave in and out of all three locations."

50,000 Beds was realized with the support of the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, the National Endowment for the Arts, the LEF Foundation, and the Furthermore program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund. Artspace and Real Art Ways receive general exhibition support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. 50,000 Beds has also been made possible by the generous donation of building materials by Ridgefield Supply Company and rooms by the participating hotels, motels, and inns across Connecticut. WFUV–90.7FM and wfuv.org - Public Radio from Fordham University–is the official media sponsor of the exhibition receptions.

Contact: Pamela Ruggio
Phone: 203.438.4519
Email: pruggio@aldrichart.org

For more information about the project please visit http://www.50000beds.net

For more information go to: http://www.50000beds.net

Malmö Konsthall

MALMÖ KONSTHALL SEEKS NEW DIRECTOR

Malmö Culture Committee seeks director for Malm&ouml Konsthall. The Culture Committee of the City of Malm&ouml is responsible for the city’s overall planning within the cultural sector. The Culture Department is in charge of the operations of eight cultural institutions: Malmö City Library, Malmö Museer, Malmö Art Museum, Malmö Kulturmiljö, Malmö Kulturskola, Malmö Kulturstöd, Malmö City Archives and Malmö Konsthall.

The Culture Department is currently involved in an exciting programme of cultural development in Malmö. Malmö Konsthall is the home of contemporary art in Malmö and is the venue for extremely exciting current art , both locally, regionally, and internationally.

Director of Malmö Konsthall
Malmö Konsthall has one of Europe’s largest and most beautiful exhibition spaces for contemporary art, and arranges a number of exhibitions each year. Its unique building and quality-focused programme gives Malmö Konsthall a prominent profile and strength in relation to institutions in other countries, and places it among the foremost and most interesting art institutions of the region. Malmö Konsthall puts great emphasis on reaching out to the public and maintaining close contact with the artistic life of the region.

The position
As director of Malmö Konsthall you are immediately subordinate to the city’s cultural director. You are responsible for all the gallery’s activities, which means leading and coordinating the gallery operations with responsibility for the budget and human resources as well as handling Culture Committee matters of relevance to the gallery. You are also a member of the Culture Department’s management team, whose work includes close collaboration with the department’s other cultural institutions.

Qualifications
We are looking for a visionary with a broad network of Swedish and international contacts. You must have good writing and leadership skills. Applicants must have in-depth documented knowledge of 19th and 20th-century art plus solid experience of exhibition work.

Employment
Form of employment: for a specified term
Starting date: by agreement.

Application
E-mail your application to: kulturkansli@malmo.se
Last date of application: 2007-08-17
Job reference number:
Kulturförvaltningen
Södergatan 9
SE-211 34 Malmö, Sweden

Contacts
Bengt Hall, Cultural Director
Tel: +46 (0)40-34 45 10

Carina Funeskog Göransson, Acting HR Manager
Tel: +46 (0)40-34 45 12

Carina Nilsson (s), Chair, Culture Committee
Mobile: +46 (0)70-246 50 38

Anna Holmbom, First Curator
Tel: +46 (0)40-34 12 88
Mobile: +46 (0)708-34 12 88

For more information go to: http://www.konsthall.malmo.se

Spike Island

Spike Island presents
three new exhibitions.
Private View, Friday 13 July,
6.00 - 8.00pm

Spike Island
133 Cumberland Road
Bristol
BS1 6UX
T. 0117 929 2266
E. lori.taylor@spikeisland.org.uk

http://www.spikeisland.org.uk

WORKING THINGS OUT
New work by Richard Forster, Sophie Macpherson, Jonathan Owen, Sara MacKillop, Andy Wake, Haroon Mirza, Milo Brennan.
Gallery 1

Flash in the Metropolitan
Continuous screening of 16mm film by Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer.
Gallery 2

Solo Show
New work by Falmouth graduate Primrose Coke.
Project Space

Gallery 1 & 2
14 July - 16 September

Project Space
14 July - 05 August

Galleries open to the public: Tuesday - Sunday 12-6pm

Gallery One: WORKING THINGS OUT is the first group show to take place at Spike Island since the re-launch of the galleries in February 2007. The exhibition brings together seven British artists working in the field of contemporary sculpture. They are not linked by a particular style but rather by their attitude: a common commitment to reworking the everyday. They produce objects that can be read as prototypes; prototypes that suggest ways of imaging the world otherwise rather than blueprints for living. WORKING THINGS OUT is therefore not a show about artists assuming the role of designers or vice versa, but rather the productive space in between these categories. All of the artists will present new works or a series of works that has yet to be shown in its entirety; some will also respond directly to the imposing architecture of the gallery, a newly created structure within a former tea packing factory, a space within a space.

Gallery Two: Flash In The Metropolitan was originally commissioned by Spike Island as one of a series of new works for the British Art Show 6 in Bristol. This is a second collaboration for Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer. The artists filmed under the cover of darkness, documenting the Near Eastern, African and Oceanic collections of the legendary New York Metropolitan Museum. The flashing strobe light used in the filming allows the viewer to see the objects as if in animation. Disorientation tips the viewer from the logic dictated by the museum framework to one dictated by the artifacts, enabling a new and imagined response. The film will be shown in Bristol for the first time on a 16mm projector and will be screened continuously in Gallery 2 across summer.

Project Space: The first solo show in Bristol by Falmouth graduate Primrose Coke has been developed through a 6 week residency at Spike Island. Her practice is concerned with the setting up of archaic rituals that disrupt contemporary reality and is realised through exquisite pencil drawings, sculptural objects which emerge from the rural landscape and solitary performances for video. Her residency is part of Spike Island’s on-going commitment to supporting emerging artists in the South West.

Spike Island would like to thank: - Arts Council - Elephant Trust - BVAC - The Henry Moore Foundation - Doggerfisher.

Events: A contextual programme of talks and events will run alongside these exhibitions. See http://www.spikeisland.org.uk for more details.

A limited edition Richard Forster print, produced by Spike Print Studios in conjunction with WORKING THINGS OUT, will be available at a special Preview price at the Opening.

Artists in Residence Summer - Autumn 2006

Can Altay — International Artist’s Fellowship in partnership with Platform Garanti, Istanbul in residence July - October.

Andre Sousa — Gulbenkian Research Residency, in residence August - November.

For further information please contact: Lori Taylor
T. +44 (0) 117 929 2266 E. lori.taylor@spikeisland.org.uk

2007 - Spike Island’s launch year, £2.25m investment completed with Caruso St John

For more information go to: http://www.spikeisland.org.uk