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Tate Modern

UBS OPENINGS: THE LONG WEEKEND
26 - 28 May 2007

Tate Modern
Bankside
London SE1 9TG
http://www.tate.org.uk

UBS Openings: The Long Weekend returns with a four day celebration of film, music, performance and visual art.

Each evening features unmissable live performances and screenings in the iconic setting of the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. The series opens with Ikue Mori’s live soundtracks to films by Maya Deren, followed on Saturday by the legendary Throbbing Gristle performing to rarely-screened super-8 films by Derek Jarman. Sleep is a unique chance to experience Andy Warhol’s first film accompanied by an all-night performance of the musical composition that inspired it: Satie’s 18-hour Vexations, performed by pianists including Gavin Bryars and Michael Nyman.

The weekend closes with Synthesis, audio-visual performances by Ryoichi Kurokawa, Toshimaru Nakamura & Billy Roisz, Sachiko M & Benedict Drew.

During the day, Tate Modern hosts major art commissions and installations by artists Marepe, Mathieu Briand and a performance of Hélio Oiticica’s Parangolés.

For full details or to book on-line
http://www.tate.org.uk/thelongweekend2007
or call 020 7887 8888

FRIDAY 25 MAY, 9PM
Maya Deren/Ikue Mori
Seven experimental films by legendary avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren with specially commissioned soundtracks performed live by iconic New York musician Ikue Mori.

SATURDAY 26 MAY, 9PM
Derek Jarman/Throbbing Gristle Sold Out, Returns Only
Pioneering electronic sound artists and originators of the ‘Industrial’ music label, Throbbing Gristle, perform live in remembrance of visionary UK filmmaker Derek Jarman. The performance will feature a selection of Jarman’s magical, rarely-seen 1970s experimental Super 8 films.

SUNDAY 27 MAY, 7.30PM (TIL 2PM MONDAY)
Sleep: Warhol/Cage/Satie with performances by Gavin Bryars, Michael Nyman and John Giorno
Andy Warhol’s first film Sleep, is screened throughout the night accompanied by a re-creation of the 18-hour musical performance that inspired it, John Cage’s historic 1963 staging of Erik Satie’s epic repetitive work for piano, Vexations (1893). Introduced with a performance by Warhol’s lover John Giorno, who features in the film.

The event runs all night but ticket holders can drop in and out. Food & drink will be available throughout the night. Feel free to bring a sleeping bag.

MONDAY 28 MAY 9PM
Synthesis - Ryoichi Kurokawa/Toshimaru Nakamura and Billy Roisz/Sachiko M with Benedict Drew
Presenting live audio-visual performances from Japan, Austria and the UK, this programme highlights artists who are exploring the use of feedback, decay, assemblage and kinetics. While the avant-garde movements of the modern period idealized the machine, mechanical dysfunction is now often a focus of artistic interest. Central to the notion of synthesis, are artistic practices that make use of electronic, analogue and self-built instruments; tools, techniques and software for the real-time creation, improvisation and manipulation of both sound and image.

Daytimes

Friday and Saturday
Artist Mathieu Briand’s Spiral will transform the Turbine Hall into a gigantic sound installation. Briand and experimental DJs, MCs and sound artists from the UK: Sarah Washington and Xentos ‘Fray’ Bentos, SI-CUT.DB, Charlie Dark, The Bug in collaboration with Spaceape and Radio Active Man will re-mix music and sampled sound on open decks, etching their own vinyl plates to create a massive performance platform and experimental recording studio.

Sunday
With his new installation Veja meu Bem, Brazilian artist Marepe invites the audience to take a ride on a spectacular carousel transformed through the use of foil packaging and coloured light bulbs, inscribed with a poem evoking his native Brazil and surrounded by toffee apples.

15.00–17.00
Sleep: Warhol/Cage/Satie - Panel Discussion
This panel discussion examines the little-discussed relationship between the work of Andy Warhol, John Cage and Erik Satie. Featuring Gavin Bryars, art historian Branden W Joseph, Cage expert Professor David Nicholls, John Giorno and chaired by the art historian, Professor Pamela M Lee.

Monday
In the afternoon, visitors are invited to sign up for a workshop and take part in a one-off performance presenting Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica’s Parangolés as a participatory dance event led by the London School of Samba on the north landscape of the museum, by the River Thames.

Resonance FM broadcasts live from Tate Modern’s Starr Auditorium, 11.30am to 6.00pm each day.
Resonance FM will broadcast live from Tate Modern’s Starr Auditorium, featuring in-depth interviews with Tate curators, artists, commentators and audiences. There will be episodes of music and poetry as well as specially commissioned Radio Art by Christof Migone and Sarah Washington; Brazilian language programmes in conjunction with the commission by Marepe and performance staging Hélio Oiticica’s Parangolés as well as a youth programme focused on Briand’s Spiral. Sunday’s panel discussion on Sleep: Warhol/Cage/Satie will also be accessible via the broadcast.
http://www.resonancefm.com

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

Institute of Contemporary Arts

Memorial to the Iraq War

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
23 May – 27 June 2007

Lida Abdul / Marc Bijl / Christoph Büchel / Tony Chakar / Yael Davids / Jeremy Deller / Sam Durant / Chris Evans / Matias Faldbakken /
Liam Gillick / Natascha Sadr Haghighian / Iman Issa / Sanja Ivekovic / Erik van Lieshout / Nate Lowman / Michaela Meise / Roman Ondák / Michael Patterson-Carver with Harrell Fletcher / Khalil Rabah / Collier Schorr / Vahid Sharifian / Sean Snyder / Jalal Toufic / Klaus Weber /
Keith Wilson

The ICA has invited an international group of artists to make proposals for a memorial to the Iraq War. These memorials address topics such as the invasion and occupation of the country, the conflict’s relation to the War on Terror, Iraq’s slide towards civil war, and the deaths of soldiers and civilians. The Lancet estimated that by July 2006 the number of Iraqi deaths – both combatant and civilian – that could be directly or indirectly attributed to the war was over 650,000. The war has also caused the deaths of over 3,300 soldiers from America, over 140 from Britain and over 120 from the other past and present Coalition countries.

Some of the artists in the exhibition have produced new works, including sculptures, videos and photographs, while others have produced proposals for as-yet-unrealised memorials, often pushing at the boundaries of the possible. The intention is not to find a definitive memorial to a war – a difficult task at any time, and especially in the context of an ongoing conflict. Instead the exhibition explores different views of the Iraq War, and different perspectives on what can or should be memorialised. The ICA’s location on the Mall, in the heart of Westminster and in the area of London most dense with monuments, makes this venue especially appropriate for an exhibition of this sort.

A programme of events will accompany the exhibition, including:
• a performance staged by Yael Davids (9 and 23 June)
• gallery talks (2 and 16 June)
• a walking tour of local monuments, devised by Tim Brennan (3 June)
• a conversation with the novelist and political commentator Ahdaf Soueif, followed by a lecture by architect Eyal Weizman (23 June)
• a film programme devised by the curator Mai Abu ElDahab (16, 17, 23 and 24 June)

See website for full details - http://www.ica.org.uk/

For Further information, Please contact:
Natasha Plowright,
Head of Press
ICA Press Office
Tel: 020 7766 1404
Email: natashap@ica.org.uk

Memorial to Iraq is kindly supported by The Henry Moore Foundation and the Mondriaan Foundation.
Media Partner The Independent.

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

RM Palaniappan, Untitled, Water colour on paper, 30×22 ins, 2007

Palaniappan Rm (1957) is a leading and internationally acclaimed graphic artist from the southern part of India who lives and works in Chennai.

His contribution to graphics as a medium is widely explored throughout his art, with references to the realm of sciences, with particular emphasis on engineering subjects such as astrophysics and aeronautics. Fascinated by the concept of numbers, finite as well as infinite, static as well as mobile, Palaniappan focuses on the experience of the interaction of space, time and environment.

His latest work involves the viewer in a dialogue between the dominant graphic lines and their surrounding environment. Gallery Sumukha, based in Bangalore, India is bringing this most recent set of drawings by Rm. Palaniappan to London. The series, entitled “The Ultimate Reality” will be on view at the Air Gallery, 32 Dover Street (tel: 020 74091255), from the 21st – 26th May.

Palaniappam has been awarded several international prizes and residencies such as the Fulbright Grant of the US Educational Dept., Charles Wallace India Trust Grant; International Visitorship programme of USIS; Senior Fellowship, Govt. of India and the National Award, International Prints Biennales of Bhopal and Taiwan.

He has been shown internationally through galleries and museums, and his works are in prestigious collections including the National Gallery of Modern Art and Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi; the British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum in London; Oxford University, Cincinnati Art Museum; Tamarind Institute, and Library of Congress, Washington – USA; Taipei Art Museum, Taiwan and Boras Museum, Sweden, among others.

Exhibition form May 21 to 26
Mon-Sat
11.00 - 18.00
PV May 22, 18.30-20.30 invite

The Air Gallery
32 Dover Street
London
W1S 4NE
+44(0)20 7409 1255
sumukhalondon@gmail.com
www.sumukha.com

photo-london 2007

photo-london 2007
London’s international contemporary photography fair

May 31 to June 3, 2007
at Old Billingsgate, London, UK

Opening night (by invitation only):
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m

http://www.photo-london.com

photo-london 2007 : Programme of talks

In less than 3 weeks, Photo-london will open its doors from 31 May to 3 June 2007 at Old Billingsgate. The 2007 edition brings together a potent and refreshing mix of 56 exhibitors from 10 countries. Present at the fair will be the work of some 400 international photographers and artists, providing an unprecedented panoramic view of contemporary photography and its development since 1970. Among the special events, there will be a programme of talks bringing together leading international experts to explore the questions of how to build a collection, the evolution of contemporary photography and the influence of photojournalism, the importance and future of the photo-book and the growing interest in non Western photography.

The programme of talks is free of charge with access on a first-come-first-served basis for photo-london visitors and will take place at Old Billingsgate, 1st Floor, from 31 May – 3 June, 2007.

Thursday May 31st

4:00 - 6:00 pm : How to collect contemporary photography
Discussion moderated by Anna Somers-Cocks, Founding Editor of “The Art Newspaper”, with :
Francis Hodgson, Head of the Photographs Department, Sotheby’s London
Jeffrey Boloten, Partner, ArtTactic
Greg Hobson, Curator of Photographs, National Media Museum Bradford
William Hunt, Leading Private Collector

Friday June 1st

2:00 - 4:00 pm: The evolution of contemporary photography since 1970
Discussion moderated by Vicente Todoli, Director, Tate Modern, with:
Charlotte Cotton, Head of Cultural Programmes at Art + Commerce in New York and author of several books, notably The Photograph as Contemporary Art.
Paul Graham, British Photographer
Mark Haworth-Booth, Former Curator of Photography V & A
Marta Gili, Director Jeu de Paume, Paris

4:00 - 6:00 pm : The influence of photojournalism
Discussion moderated by Sophie Wright, Head of Exhibitions and Print Room, Magnum with:
Tanya Barson, Exhibitions and Collections Curator, Tate Liverpool
David Campany, Lecturer, University of Westminster
David Hurn, Leading British reportage photographer
Timothy Prus, Director of the Archive of Modern Conflict
This talk is organised in cooperation with the British Journal of Photography

Saturday June 2nd

4:00 - 6:00 pm : Photography Books and the Future of Publishing
Discussion moderated by Gerry Badger, historian and writer with:
Irène Attinger, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Michael Mack, Managing Director of Steidl
Denise Wolff, Commissionning Editor of Photography at Phaidon.
Gigi Gianuzzi, Publisher Trolley Books

Sunday June 3rd

4:00 – 6:00 pm: Non Western Contemporary Photography: India
Discussion moderated by Mark Sealy, founder of Autograph with:
Peter Nagy, Founder Nature Morte Gallery.
Gayatri Sinha, Independent lecturer, curator and writer
Sunil Gupta, Photographer, curator

photo-london details

Dates: 31 May – 3 June, 2007
Preview by invitation only: Wednesday 30 May from 7pm to 10pm
Venue: Old Billingsgate, 16 Lower Thames Street, EC3R 6DX, London
Opening hours: Thursday 31 May to Saturday 2 June from 11am to 8pm
Sunday 3 June from 11am to 7pm
Information : http://www.photo-london.com

For travel arrangements and accommodation
Turon Travel Inc.
Tel: +1 212 925 54 53
E-mail: photolondon@turontravel.com
http://www.turontravel.com

Organisation:
Reed Expositions / photo-london
52-54 Quai de Dion-Bouton, CS80001
92806 Puteaux Cedex
Tel: +33 (0) 1 47 56 64 70 - Fax: +33 (0) 1 47 56 64 78
E-mail: photolondon@reedexpo.fr

Media Liaison :
For France and international
Guillaume Piens
E-mail: guillaume.piens@reedexpo.fr
Tel: +33 (0) 1 47 56 65 08
For UK
Philippa Neave
E-mail: pneave@wanadoo.fr
Mobile : +44 79 74 93 47 88

For more information go to: http://www.photo-london.com

Tate

Turner Prize 2007
shortlist announced

Tate has now announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2007. The artists are Zarina Bhimji, Nathan Coley, Mike Nelson and Mark Wallinger. This is the first time that the Turner Prize has been presented outside London since it began in 1984, and is a curtain-raiser for Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008.

The Prize, established in 1984, is awarded to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work. It is intended to promote public discussion of new developments in contemporary British art and is widely recognised as one of the most important and prestigious awards for the visual arts in Europe.

Zarina Bhimji
For her solo exhibitions at Haunch of Venison, London and Zurich, with work engaging with universal human emotions such as grief, pleasure, love and betrayal using non-narrative photography and film-making. Through powerful, atmospheric and poignant imagery, Bhimji’s recent work demonstrates a new approach to her long-standing preoccupations and research.

Nathan Coley
For his solo exhibition at Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, the public installation Camouflage Church, Santiago de Compostela, Spain and his contribution to the group exhibition Breaking Step - Displacement, Compassion and Humour in Recent British Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia. Through a variety of media, Nathan Coley’s work makes manifest the belief systems embedded in society and its architectures.

Mike Nelson
For his solo exhibitions AMNESIAN SHRINE or Double coop displacement, Matt’s Gallery, London and Mirror Infill (2006), Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London in which his immersive installations transport the viewer to imaginary, yet plausible worlds. For the Frieze Art Fair he created an installation of a photographic studio that brought the site of creativity to the heart of the commercial environment in which it was embedded.

Mark Wallinger
For his solo exhibition State Britain at Tate Britain. Mark Wallinger’s powerful installation demonstrates art’s unique ability to engage with contemporary political issues. The direct representation of Brian Haw’s banners and paraphernalia creates a force and conviction unmatched by the representation of the Parliament Square protest in the media. The work evokes a heightened sense of reality that communicates an unpalatable political truth.

The Turner Prize 2007 is supported by Arts Council England, Liverpool Culture Company, Northwest Regional Development Agency, Milligan and Tate Members.

Work by the shortlisted artists will be shown in an exhibition at Tate Liverpool opening on 19 October 2007. The winner will be announced at Tate Liverpool on 3 December 2007 during a live broadcast by Channel 4.

The members of the Turner Prize 2007 jury are:
Michael Bracewell, writer and critic
Fiona Bradley, Director, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Thelma Golden, Director & Chief Curator, Studio Museum, Harlem
Miranda Sawyer, freelance broadcaster and writer
Christoph Grunenberg, Director, Tate Liverpool and Chairman of the Jury

Information and features on the Turner Prize and its history can be found at Tate Online ( http://www.tate.org.uk/turnerprize ).

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

Project Arts Centre, Dublin

The first antechamber
Gabriel Lester, Charlotte Moth and Alexandre Singh, with Maria Fusco

Project Arts Centre, Dublin
http://www.project.ie

As an antechamber, the exhibition operates in the space between the dual pillars of story-telling: narrative and image. The signifiers in a work of art here lose their predictability – there are smoke-screens, chance relationships and red-herrings. What can an assemblage of image and story-lines mean within works which have both highly scripted and tenuous inter-relations?

The first antechamber proposes that a destabilisation of narrative form might relinquish the viewer from the responsibility of linear comprehension.

Gabriel Lester’s film All Wrong is built entirely from downloaded images and videos, based on a story written with Aaron Schuster. Whether the images illustrate the text or are tagged to the text, or whether the text drives the image or vice versa, becomes increasingly less important as the function and constructs of film and narrative unravel. Charlotte Moth’s Installation for Dolores is a revolving slide collection of photographs combined with a voice-over. Commenting on the images, the voice is at times knowledgeable, silent, or fleetingly engaged. The narrative itself becomes curiously detached from the collected images, leaving the viewer questioning what that relationship might be. Alexandre Singh’s sprawling installation A Thousand and One Knights of the Roundtable of Knottingham, unpacks the architecture of art – inviting the viewer to combine a narrated text with the materials featured in the story. Props (insulation foam, plaster board and construction adhesive) pro
vide the structure on which a colour-field video is projected, each colour a notional illustration of a specific idea in the wildly fantastical and internally-referential story. Maria Fusco, who hosted a round-table discussion at Project Arts Centre, has also curated a series of kissing-couples: books of fiction and theory, entwined and available to be read in the Project foyer.

A Symposium A Banquet
Sunday May 13, 2007, 5.30pm

Bruce Mau’s ‘Incomplete Manifesto’ describes the ‘in-between’ times as those where the best ideas, or real growth, stem from. This is an attempt to revert to the original meaning of the word ‘symposium’, as a social occasion for the exchange of ideas and shared food and drink by curating an evening of formal and informal knowledge exchanges.

Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces - what Dr. Seuss calls "the waiting place."

Lectures are being prepared for the evening by an irrational selection of people who will cumulatively provide lessons from a vast array of knowledge disciplines. Ranging from science to fashion and philosophy to sport, the lectures will also undulate in length depending on the speaker and their topic – anywhere between 5 minutes and 40 minutes. Have you ever desired to know how to tear a phonebook in half? What really interests you about the weather? What is the legacy of Chris Burden’s seminal performance action?

Visual Arts at Project Arts Centre are curated by Tessa Giblin.
A Symposium A Banquet is co-produced with Fiona Hallinan.

Please contact Aisling McGrane aisling@project.ie for further information on all exhibitions.

Limited bookings for A Symposium A Banquet at Project Arts Centre, Dublin: +353 (0)1 881 9613/4
http://www.project.ie

For more information go to: http://www.project.ie/cgi-bin/eventdetail.pl?id=548

Tate Modern

THIS DAY: Recent Film and Video from the Middle East
4 – 13 May 2007
Tate Modern

This Day is a series of short films and video works by international artists whose work responds to the cultural, social, historical and political contexts of the Middle East.

Nine screenings will present work by more than forty artists from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria, in addition to artists from Europe and the United States whose work relates to the Middle East. Featured highlights include an opening performance by Rabih Mroué and a survey of work by Akram Zaatari.

The ongoing events in the Middle East produce a flow of images that often represent war, destruction and conflict. Channelled through television and the internet, this imagery constructs and distorts the global understanding of the region, facilitating stereotypes and contaminating efforts to reconstruct a collective memory left in ruins. This Day hopes to challenge these representations by showing moving image work that offers new critical viewpoints onto the region’s rich visual culture. More than ever before, film and video-making from the Middle East interrogates cineamtic and photographic images to consider fundamental ethical and political problems and to question the limits of freedom.

Curated by Predrag Pajdic & Samar Martha.

Supported by Arts Council England, The Henry Moore Foundation, the British Council, Visiting Arts, and the Arts Club

For full programme details visit http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/thisdayformerlyinfocus.htm

Rabih Mroué: Make me Stop Smoking
Friday 4 May 2007, 19.00
This Day opens with a live performance by renowned Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué.

Play
Saturday 5 May 2007, 15.00
Experimental video works by artists Abdullatif Abdul Hamid, Yasmeen Al Awadi, Mounira Al Solh, Anthony Abu Khalife and Khaled Hafez.

Travellers’ Tales: Programme One
Saturday 5 May 2007, 17.00
A programme about travelling, migration, borders and checkpoints including work by Rowan Al Faqih, Maja Bejevic, Annemarie Jacir & Nassim Amouche, Hala ElKoussy, Ayreen Anastas, Sameh Zobi and Enas Muthafar.

Travellers’ Tales: Programme Two
Saturday 5 May 2007, 19.00

Breaking News
Sunday 6 May 2007, 17.00
A programme about conflict, war and loss, featuring Ali Cheri, Shadi Habib Allah, Mohamad Hjoeij, Hicham Jaber, Diane Nerwen, Jackie Saloum and Annemarie Jacir.

Reality Check
Friday 11 May 2007, 19.00
Taking stock of everyday concerns and behaviours: love, seduction, social manners and gossip. Artists include Akram Ashqar, Mohammed Hammad, Larissa Sansour, Sharif Waked, Ahmed Khaled and Nisreen Khodr.

Akram Zaatari: Programme One
Saturday 12 May 2007, 17.00
Retrospective presenting short films and videos by Akram Zaatari, an artist and curator based in Beirut, whose work examines the conflicts, images and documents that have shaped the Lebanese condition.

Akram Zaatari: Programme Two
Saturday 12 May 2007, 19.00

Replay
Sunday 13 May 2007, 19.00
Programme examining the nature of memory and knowledge with work by artists Shady El Noshokaty, Mereille Astore, Lamia Joreige, Nadim Kufi, Rabih Mroueh, Lina Saneh, Mario Rizzi, and Omar Amiralay.

All Programmes will take place in the Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern.

Tate Modern
Bankside
London SE1 9TG
http://www.tate.org.uk

Book tickets online, or call +44 (0)20 7887 8888

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

photo-london

photo-london 2007
London’s international
photography fair

May 31 to June 3, 2007
at Old Billingsgate, London, UK

Preview:
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m;

http://www.photo-london.com

photo-london 2007 : the international fair for contemporary photography

This year’s photo-london, to be held at Old Billingsgate from 31st May to 3rd June 2007, is proud to feature forty selected galleries and publishers from 9 countries, including 25 first-time participants. The largest contingent of exhibitors is from the UK (15), followed by France (6), The Netherlands, Spain and USA (4 each), Germany and Italy (2 each) and one representative from Belgium and Denmark. For the re-launch of photo-london a selection committee* was established to ensure that the fair meets the highest international standards.

The 2007 edition brings together a potent and refreshing mix of leading established and emerging contemporary art and photo galleries. Present at the fair will be the work of some 400 international photographers and artists, providing an unprecedented panoramic view of contemporary photography and its development since 1970.

Special events at photo-london include lectures, book-signings and a series of debates that brings together some of the world’s leading experts on photography. Programme highlights include a debate on “The Evolution of Contemporary Photography since 1970,” moderated by Tate Modern Director Vicente Todoli, talks on “How to Collect Photography” and “The Influence of Photo-Journalism.”

Every year photo-london will include a special focus on non-western photography, with the aim of showcasing and discovering new world-class talent. For 2007, photo-london’s special focus will be on India, with a debate on contemporary Indian photography.

The photo-london Selection Committee:
Isabella Brancolini, BrancoliniGrimaldi Arte Contemporanea, Firenze/Roma
Roger Szumlewicz, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen
Rose Shoshana, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Tim Jefferies, Hamiltons, London

List of exhibitors:
Galleries :
Adhoc Galeria, Vigo*
The Approach, London*
Atlas/ Magnum, London
bnd, Milano*
BrancoliniGrimaldi Arte Contemporanea, Firenze/Roma
Camara Oscura, Madrid *
Camera Work, Berlin*
Caprice Horn, Berlin*
Estiarte, Madrid *
Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen *
Flatland, Utrecht*
Flowers East, London
Eric Franck, London
La Fabrica, Madrid *
Galerie du Jour agnès b, Paris *
Gimpel Fils, London*
Hamburg Kennedy Photographs, New York
Hamiltons, London*
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh*
Alain Le Gaillard, Paris *
M+B, Los Angeles*
Martin Asbaek Projects, Copenhagen *
MK Galerie, Rotterdam
The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Purdy Hicks, London
Rose Gallery, Santa Monica
RX Galerie, Paris*
Bruce Silverstein Photography, New York*
Van Kranendonk, Den Haag*
Van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam*
White Space Gallery, London
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris
Zebra Gallery, London*

Publishers:
Florence Loewy, Paris / Zucker Art Books, New york*
Nakahara- Ozanne, Paris *
Phaidon, London*
Simon Finch, London
Steidl, London
Trolley, London

Art Magazines :
Art Press, Paris*
Camera Austria, Graz
Exit, Madrid*
Eyemazing, Amsterdam
Foam, Amsterdam*
HotShoe, London
Next Level, London
Photography Now, Berlin*
Photoworks, Brighton
Pluk Magazine, London
Portfolio, Edinburgh
Silvershotz, Corsham*
Source, Belfast
The Art Newspaper, London
* first-time participant at photo-london

photo-london details

Dates: 31 May – 3 June, 2007
Preview by invitation only: Wednesday 30 May from 7pm to 10pm
Venue: Old Billingsgate, 16 Lower Thames Street, EC3R 6DX, London
Opening hours: Thursday 31 May to Saturday 2 June from 11am to 8pm
Sunday 3 June from 11am to 7pm
Information: http://www.photo-london.com

For travel arrangements and accommodation
Turon Travel Inc.
Tel: +1 212 925 54 53
E-mail: photolondon@turontravel.com
http://www.turontravel.com

Organisation:
Reed Expositions / photo-london
11 rue du Colonel Pierre Avia
75 726 Paris Cedex 15
Tel: +33 (0) 1 41 90 47 70 - Fax: +33 (0) 1 41 90 48 77
E-mail: photolondon@reedexpo.fr

Media Liaison :
For France and international
Guillaume Piens
E-mail: guillaume.piens@reedexpo.fr
Tel: +33 (0) 1 41 90 48 91
For UK
Philippa Neave
E-mail: pneave@wanadoo.fr
Mobile : +44 79 74 93 47 88

For more information go to: http://www.photo-london.com

Spike Island

Spike Island presents:
Mark Lewis
Howlin’ Wolf

Mahali O’Hare
Kindling Wood

INTER Exchange:
Helsinki to Bristol and back again
Olli Keränen, Terhi Heino, Tanja Koistila, Karen Di Franco, Toby Huddlestone, John Lawrence & Lisa Scantlebury
April 06 – May 27, 2007

Spike Island: centre for the production and exhibition of contemporary visual art. A national flagship project, a £2.25m refurbishment designed with architects Caruso St John, has just been completed.

From April 06 – May 27 2007 Spike Island presents three exhibitions by Mark Lewis, Mahali O’Hare and seven artists who have set up an exchange between Spike Island and Finland.

In 2007 the Residency Programme will host: Ruth Claxton (UK), Can Alte (Turkey), Andre Sousa (Portugal), Sonia Boyce (UK), David Blandy (UK), Becky Shaw (UK).

Mark Lewis’ films are remarkable not only for their rich and highly seductive qualities, but also for their ability to undermine those characteristics that define mainstream and avant-garde cinema. The title of this exhibition, Howlin’ Wolf, is perfectly suggestive of a set for a horror movie. Lewis plays with this sense of anticipation, perhaps in a tribute to Hitchcock, a tendency which is evident in his other film works where something, somewhere, is almost certainly happening in the background. Spike Island is delighted to be showing a series of works by Mark Lewis that include Rear Projection (Molly Parker) and Rear Projection (Golden Rod), commissioned by FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in partnership with the British Film Institute and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo. These works were funded by Film London through the London Artists’ Film and Video Awards and Arts Council England. Other works have been made available courtesy of the artist and th
e Arts Council Collection.

Mahali O’Hare presents a series of new paintings in Kindling Wood. Her paintings are small. Their size that makes every minute detail vitally important, from the depth of the stretcher, to the edge and fold of the canvas. The way in which they are hung in the space does not instruct a narrative but implies connections between images, images that seem to have been painted somewhere beneath the surface of the paint. O’Hare is sparing with her information yet we know that each work has emerged from photography, not a large glamorous silky image but the slightly dog eared photograph that might be found in the pages of an old book. O’Hare’s paintings depict a certain way that we might remember things, distant yet intimate. Kindling Wood is a Spike Island commission and Mahali O’Hare is the first recipient of the Rootstein Hopkins Award.

INTER Exchange – Helsinki to Bristol and back again, brings together the work of three artists from Helsinki and four artists from Bristol: Olli Keränen - Terhi Heino -Tanja Koistila - Karen Di Franco - Toby Huddlestone - John Lawrence - Lisa Scantlebury. After completing a research trip to Helsinki in February 2006, artist Toby Huddlestone worked with Karen Di Franco to develop this exchange initiative. The Finnish artists traveled to Bristol in March to develop a series of new works for exhibition through a period of residency. In May, the British group will travel to Finland where they will work in the Cable Factory in Helsinki and at Galleria Huuto. Throughout the process the artists will develop a programme of events, screenings and talks that will take place in various venues in each city. This project has been made possible through funding and support from FRAME, HIAP, Spike Island, STATION and Arts Council South West.

From May 04-07 2007 Spike Island presents the annual Open Weekend which gives the public access to over seventy studios accommodating a wide range of artists, including Eamon O’Kane, Mariele Neudecker, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Andrew Mania and many others.

Spike Island
133 Cumberland Road
Bristol BS1 6UX, UK
http://www.spikeisland.org.uk

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

Circa

Circa Issue 119, Spring 2007

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The spring issue of Ireland’s leading magazine for contemporary visual art is now on sale. The 112 full-colour pages include news, feature articles, reviews, projects, a host of images, and advertising from Ireland’s main art spaces.

Feature articles
If you build it, will they come? – and what will they do when they get there? Gemma Tipton looks at new art spaces around Ireland, how they’re functioning, what they’re doing right or wrong | Vox pop: what art would you buy? If money were no object, what art would those questioned want in their collection? | All’s fair? Peter FitzGerald interviews Helen Mason, curator of a new art fair in Dublin this May | Everything is something else Declan Long writes about the work of Patrick Hall | Archive, archive, archive! Julie Bacon on art’s new(ish) interest in the archive |

Reviews
Belfast Felt experience Slavka Sverakova | Belfast / Derry Miriam de Búrca: Stealing weeds and me taken out David Hughes | Cork Niamh Lawlor and partners: Based on a true story: A seminar on mis-information Treasa O’Brien | Derry Christine Mackey: Points of departure Julie Bacon | Dublin Drawing is a verb. Drawing is a noun / The square root of drawing / Getting on mother’s nerves – psychological drama in contemporary drawing Siún Hanrahan | Makiko Nakamura Paintings Donal Maguire | John Gerrard: Dark portraits Paul O’Brien | .all hawaii eNtrées / luNar reGGae Eimear McKeith | Santa’s sweet-shop labour force elves (Nevan Lahart and others): X-mass the spot Tim Stott | Matt Stokes: Lost in the rhythm Chris Fite-Wassilak and David Beattie | Galway Tulca Katherine Waugh | New York Corban Walker: Grid stack Tim Maul | Portadown Victor Sloan and Glenn Patterson : Luxus David Hughes | Sligo Jaki Irvine: In a world like this Aileen Blaney | Book John Onians, edi
tor: Compression vs. expression: Containing and explaining the world’s art Brian Curtin | DVD Gary Coyle and Stephen Gardner: The Sea Aileen Blaney |

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