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Zhang O’s Chinglish series

Date: Saturday, August 23, 2008
Time: 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA

“Sometimes the biggest events are telegraphed by the merest of harbingers. ”
James Kynge in China Shakes the World

The scene of the greatest economic and cultural metamorphosis of our time, China is not only at the center of the world’s attention but has arguably the most vital, imaginative, and uncontainable art scene in the world. The Rising Tide investigates China’s meteoric march toward the future through the work of some of the Middle Kingdom’s most talented emerging artists, whose work captures the social and aesthetic confusion created in a rapidly changing society. Produced within the dual context of globalization and urbanization, the work of artists Cao Fei, Xu Zhen, Zhang O, Yang Yong, Wang Qingsong, Chen Qiulin, and Birdhead examines the confusion and ambiguity that characterize the new China. The Rising Tide captures this momentous time in China’s history while exploring the work of artists, who comment with intelligence, wit, foreboding and nostalgia.

The Rising Tide was recently part of CHINA NOW in the UK, as it was part of Constant Stream: China 08 at the Royal College of Art in London, where it screened with a film by acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke.

In his beautiful debut film, Robert Adanto explores the work of some of China’s most talented emerging artists and their personal responses to the country’s rise as a global economic, political and cultural force. This is a unique opportunity to see this elegant and thoughtful film, introduced by the director.

To learn more visit: www.therisingtidefilm.com

http://open-player.com/blog/2008/02/29/video-pick-robert-adanto-the-rising-tide

in process “My un-Secret Garden”, “My Adventure”, and “Self-Portrait”

Carson Case presents ground-breaking work in the Melin Building 3930 NE 2nd Avenue, Suite 202 Miami Design District with evening events throughout the month by invitation.

Miami Design District Art & Design Night 7-10pm August 9, 2008

As a rhythmic industrial artist Carson paints while dancing to global beats. She blends industrial and natural materials into paintings and sculptures creating an explosive mix of sound, light and energy.

Carson is driven by a passion and vision of transmitting a message of positive social change. Carson not only paints and sculpts to express her beliefs, but also utilizes materials and techniques that embody her beliefs. Her “canvases” are products of industrialization and over-development; excavated from demolition sites. Her “brushes” and mixed media alchemy are from nature: sea grass, leaves and shells.

Her exhibition, entitled “Soul Whisperer: which door holds your Truth?”, invites you to explore your answers through 8 and 10 foot mahogany doors and window walls, glass and metal series’ paintings and sculptures. Her inspiration comes from music, nature, human and animal actions and constructs, the origins of mythology and the precepts of history, science, politics, philosophy, religion, capitalism, power…the drivers that are continually shaping human behavior.

Carson’s unique style has enabled her to reach beyond the fine art realm to entice a broad audience. Recently featured on NPR, CBS TV, and WSVN’s Deco Drive, Carson is a proponent of change by combining music, dance, sculpture and action painting to forge a unity for her creative expressions. “Carson is taking this art form to a whole new level,” says Lynn Martinez, co-anchor at Deco Drive. She has also been showcased in VRV Gallery and MiamiArtZine.

The space not only exhibits a myriad of Carson’s ground-breaking artwork but showcases projections of poetry and video clips of Carson in live performances of kinetic action painting accompanied with global music by local percussionists and world DJs. Notably, she performed “Je suis l’esprit danseuse” with the New World Symphony and BélO, acclaimed Haitian musician, “Feminine Force and Desire” with percussionists Sioux Vargas, Mark Richards & Joe Teskie, and “Vagitini on the Rocks with Habaneros” at Fendi Design Studio accompanied by music by Brazilian musician Cezar Santana.

Special evening performances present Carson painting modern jazz, samba and flamenco dancers, doors and “floors” of glass with live music.

Born in Oakland, California, Carson’s work has attracted international audiences.

Special thanks from the artist to
Dacra | Miami Design District | AQUA | Design Miami

For more information and to view some of her work: visit the Carson Case Web site at www.carsoncase.com or info@carsoncase.com and 786 382 6688 to schedule a private viewing.

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Frieze Art Fair

Frieze Projects and Frieze Talks
Announced Frieze Art Fair 2008
16 - 19 October 2008

Regent’s Park, London

http://www.frieze.com

Frieze Art Fair’s critically acclaimed annual curatorial programme comprises Frieze Pro-jects, Frieze Talks and The Cartier Award.

Curated by Neville Wakefield, Frieze Projects will feature 11 site-specific commissions by artists Cory Arcangel, Pavel Büchler, Ceal Floyer, Sharon Hayes, Jeppe Hein, Tue Greenfort, Agnieszka Kurant, Norma Jeane, Bert Rodriguez, Allen Ruppersberg and Andreas Slominski. The projects are conceived to engage with the ecology of the fair and its surroundings whilst reflecting on the tensions between nature and cul-ture, pollution and purity, economic gain and strategic loss. Above all the commissions will present projects that regard the particular circumstances of Frieze Art Fair as an opportu-nity to create work that could not exist elsewhere.

In 2008 the annual Cartier Award recipient is Cuban artist Wilfredo Prieto. Prieto will present a site-specific work at the fair, which will address issues of sculptural, eco-nomic and geo-political accumulations.

Frieze Projects also includes collaborations with this year’s partner institutions Kling & Bang, an artist collective from Iceland, and MUSAC, the Museo de Arte Con-temporáneo de Castilla y Léon, Spain.

Presented in collaboration with the editors of frieze magazine Frieze Talks will this year feature panels, conversations and keynote lectures from leading artists, writers. curators and cultural commentators debating issues in aesthetics, ethics, music, writing and art production. Daily panel discussions led by Jennifer Allen, Stuart Comer, Carol Lu and Simon Reynolds will discuss alternative cul-ture, the unique challenges and possibilities facing the art system in China, and ideas sur-rounding time and memory in recent art and exhibitions. Conversations with Alasdair Gray and Marc Camille Chaimowicz and presentations by Raqs Media Collective will be followed by keynote lectures by influential artists and critics including Fritz Haeg and Judith Williamson.

Panel discussions start at 12pm on Thursday 16th - Sunday 19 October followed by talks at 3pm and keynote lectures at 5pm.

For further information on Frieze Projects and Frieze Talks and ticket information for Frieze Art Fair visit http://www.frieze.com

Summer Mixtape Volume 1: The Get Smart Edition

Tuesday, August 12, 7-9pm
Analog Cine Mix, a night of 16mm film from the 1950s to today
$3

WITH:
Big Bug Attack, Martha Colburn (3:00, 2002, color, sound)
What the Water Said, Nos. 1-3, David Gatten (16:00, 1997, B/W, sound)
Our Lady of the Sphere, by Larry Jordan (10:00, 1969, color, sound)
Runaway, Standish Lawder (5:25, 1969, color, sound)
Les Tournesols, Rose Lowder (6:00, 1982-1983, color, silent)
Glimpse of the Garden, Marie Menken (5:00, 1957, color, sound)
Garden Path, Mary Beth Reed and Stan Brakhage (7:00, 2001, B/W, silent)
Dancin’ Monkey, Nat Zeller (10:00, 1960s, B/W, sound)
and possibly more

Exit Art
475 Tenth Avenue
New York
212.966.7745
www.exitart.org

A, C, E to 34th Street / Penn Station

Herb Tam, Associate Curator and Lauren Rosati, Assistant Curator

Summer Mixtape Volume 1: The Get Smart Edition

Colby Bird presents
“From Viennese Actionism to the Triumph of Vince Young”
with material by:
Otmar Bauer, Carla Edwards, Nils Ericson, Insane Clown Posse/Twiztid,
Seth Price, Mariah Robertson, The Texas Longhorns, Josh Tonsfeldt,
Hype Williams, Xtreeme Films LLC, and viral video from anonymous sources

Prerana Reddy presents
“Mashup Worldwide – An International Video Mixtape Journey”
Reddy’s program is a compilation of artist and amateur videos that combine originally produced video content with popular audio and video samples, sometimes utilizing commercial gaming and animation technology, or novel video mixing/scratching software.

Side A will include artists videos from: Eboman who utilizes submitted video tracks and combines them with live video scratching techniques; Swati Khurana who creates evocative Bollywood movie mashups that explore Diaspora experiences of desire and gender identities; Nina Paley, who sets her animated tales from the Hindu epic Ramayana against 1920’s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw; and Richard Wilson whose “the problems with infinity…” is a Quicktime movie that turns the Mac pointer icon into a the star of its own psychedelic musical. More TBA.

Side B features lo-res amateur mashup videos selected/remixed to demonstrate how video sharing technology allows for playful international dialogue around pop culture phenomena including various versions of: “The Bird Flu Dance” to Soulja Boy’s “Crank Dat.” Technical Assistance provided by Jawad Metni / pinholepictures.com

Irish Museum of Modern Art

James Coleman
Background, 1991-94
Projected images with synchronised audio narration.
Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Purchased, Heritage Fund, 2004. Photo: Courtesy of James Coleman Copyright

James Colaman
Background, 1991-94
1 - 31 August 2008

Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal Hospital, Military Road
Kilmainham, Dublin 8, Ireland
info@imma.ie

http://www.imma.ie

The first showing in Ireland of the slide installation Background, 1991-94, by the internationally-acclaimed Irish artist, James Coleman, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Friday 1 August 2008. Background is one of a trilogy of pioneering works by Coleman from the 1990s, acquired by IMMA through funding from the Heritage Committee of the National Cultural Institutions in 2004. This work, to be presented in the Great Hall at IMMA, completes the trilogy, following the successful showing of I N I T I A L S, 1993-94, in 2006 and Lapsus Exposure, 1992-94, in 2007. It is a forerunner to a major exhibition of Coleman’s work in a collaboration between IMMA, Project Arts Centre and RHA Gallagher Gallery in 2009.

Coleman has been associated for over 30 years with a range of media that dominate large areas of current art practice. He uses photography, projected still images with soundtracks, film, video and performance, as powerful means of conveying his reflections on the meaning of image and language. Communication, subjectivity and the use of media are central concerns in Background. Using the slide-tape format, Coleman continues his investigation of the psychological, social and historic conditioning of perception.

James Coleman was born in Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon, in 1941. By the mid-60s Coleman had already begun creating works using photography and video, and later developed a number of live performed works in Ireland, Portugal and Holland. Since the 1970s, Coleman has exhibited extensively in international museum and galleries, including the Dia Center for the Arts, New York (1994-95), Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucern (1995), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1996), Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (1999), Kunstbau Lenbachhaus, Munich (2002), Sprengel Museum, Hannover (2002), and Museu do Chiado, Lisbon (2004-05). In 2003, Coleman developed a unique project at the Louvre in Paris for the exhibition Léonard de Vinci: dessins et manuscrits. Coleman has also participated in many international group exhibitions and recently in Documenta 12 in Kassel, where he premiered his new work Retake with Evidence, 2007.

Opening hours:
Tuesday to Saturday 10.00am-5.30pm
except Wednesday 10.30am-5.30pm
Sundays and Bank Holidays 12 noon-5.30pm
Late Opening from 5 June to 18 September on Thursday evenings until 8.00pm
Monday Closed

Contact:
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal Hospital, Military Road
Kilmainham, Dublin 8, Ireland
Tel: +353-1-612 9900
Email: info@imma.ie
Web: http://www.imma.ie

European Kunsthalle

European Kunsthalle c/o Ebertplatz #1

Dorit Margreiter
August 8 - 14, 2008
Opening, Fri 08/08/08, 7pm

Michel Auder
August 15 - 18, 2008
Opening, Fri 08/15/08, 7pm

Michaela Eichwald
August 22 - 28, 2008
Opening, Fri 08/22/08, 7pm

http://www.kunsthalle.eu

European Kunsthalle c/o Ebertplatz
 #1
August 8 - 28, 2008
Office window European Kunsthalle, Ebertplatz, Cologne

“European Kunsthalle c/o Ebertplatz” stands programmatically for a new phase of the European Kunsthalle, a project launched in 2005 as a Kunsthalle without a space of its own. Designed in the 1970s, the Cologne plaza Ebertplatz will serve as its new, temporary domicile. Starting from its office in the Ebertplatz shopping arcade, the European Kunsthalle will expand outwards over Ebertplatz with a spatial structure conceived by Vienna and Los Angeles-based artist Dorit Margreiter. “European Kunsthalle c/o Ebertplatz #1″ is the start. In the window of its Ebertplatz office, the European Kunsthalle will be screening films, videos, and projections by Dorit Margreiter, Michel Auder and Michaela Eichwald.

The relationship between modern architecture, social conceptions of space and media representation is central to Dorit Margreiter’s installations, videos and films. In “10104 Angelo View Drive (Sequel)”, 2004, the late-modernist Sheats/Goldstein house by American architect John Lautner in Beverly Hills becomes a point of departure for Margreiter’s filmic investigation. With its unique technical aspects and mobile architectural elements, the spectacular building stands for the American middle-class dream of an ultra-modern L.A-lifestyle and was, as a “constructed nightmare”, the setting for numerous Hollywood productions.

Michael Auder’s videos can be described as intimate portraits of the New York art and glamour scene – most notably, that of Andy Warhol’s Factory milieu in his “Chelsea Girls” – as well some of its individual protagonists including Gary Indiana, Taylor Mead, Annie Sprinkle or Cindy Sherman: a filmic orchestration and documentation of the everyday allowing a glimpse into this scene, complete with filmic forays through New York and videos from Auder’s journeys to Bolivia and Morocco, among others.

Michaela Eichwald re-combines images, objects, texts, her own surroundings, reality and fiction into idiosyncratic recreations. Found materials and images with their own immanent histories become the point of departure for new stories that follow their own logic. Michael Eichwald has realized a new work for the front window of the European Kunsthalle office.

Curated by Astrid Wege, Anders Kreuger, Rike Frank
Project coordination: Regina Barunke

Thanks for support by:

City of Cologne / Kunststiftung NRW / 235 MEDIA, Cologne / Hotel Chelsea, Cologne

European Kunsthalle
Ebertplatzpassage, Ladenlokal 3
50668 Cologne
Germany
T: +49 (0)221 56 96 140

F: +49 (0)221 56 96 142

mail@kunsthalle.eu
http://kunsthalle.eu