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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

Circa Art Magazine
43 / 44 Temple Bar
Dublin 2
Ireland
Phone: +353 1 67 97 388
editor@recirca.com
http://www.recirca.com

subscriptions / purchase / PDFs: http://www.recirca.com/subscribe

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 |

Also available for online purchase: Space: Architecture for Art, a Circa book on the theory and practice of art spaces; it includes a comprehensive directory to visual-arts spaces throughout the island of Ireland. More information at http://www.recirca.com/space

Buy or subscribe to Circa Art Magazine at http://www.recirca.com/subscribe (you can also buy gift subscriptions and PDFs here).

Scans of the pages of the first 110 issues of Circa are now accessible online at http://www.recirca.com/scans

Circa is supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and Culture Ireland.

For more information go to: http://www.recirca.com

Centre for Contemporary Art, Nottingham

Alex Farquharson appointed Director of the new Centre for Contemporary Art, Nottingham

For further information call Gary Smerdon-White, Chairman of CCAN on +44 (0)7860311412 or email garysmerdon-white@supanet.com

The new Centre for Contemporary Art, Nottingham, announces the appointment of the internationally renowned curator, critic and writer Alex Farquharson as its founding Director. Farquharson takes up his post on 2 April 2007 and will lead the development of the centre through to its opening in Autumn 2008 and beyond. Designed by architects Caruso St John, the Centre for Contemporary Art is a highly significant addition to the East Midlands cultural landscape, occupying a prime site in Nottingham’s Lace Market district and funded by Arts Council East Midlands, Nottingham City Council and a range of other supporters. Under Alex Farquharson’s direction it will join an international network of contemporary art institutions dedicated to artistic, curatorial and educational innovation.

In the last six years Alex Farquharson has built a distinguished reputation as a freelance curator, writer, editor and university lecturer. Recently he co-curated British Art Show 6, with Andrea Schlieker, at various venues in Gateshead, Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol, 2005 – 2006, and Le Voyage Intérieur: Paris – London with Alexis Vaillant at Espace Electra in Paris, 2005 – 2006. His next exhibitions are If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition, at Tate St Ives and CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, 2007 – 2008, and ArtPace’s Fall 2007 season of residencies and accompanying exhibitions in San Antonio. He writes for a range of magazines including Frieze, Art Monthly and Artforum and has contributed to numerous books and catalogues on contemporary art, including Phaidon’s monograph on Isa Genzken (2006). As Tutor and Research Fellow in Curatorial Studies on the Curating Contemporary Art MA at the Royal College of Art he has led weekly
seminars over the last six years on various aspects of experimental exhibition history, and has written and lectured widely on these subjects. Farquharson’s curatorial career began at Spacex in Exeter in 1994, where he became Exhibitions Director, prior to his move to Centre for Visual Arts in Cardiff, again as Exhibitions Director, 1999 – 2000. He curated around forty exhibitions in this period.

Alex Farquharson has expressed his excitement at the prospect of shaping the new centre and sees it as ‘an ambitious new institution of contemporary art, that will be an inspirational social and cultural home for our immediate audience and the artists and other cultural practitioners we’ll be working with’. Under his direction the Centre for Contemporary Art will give equal emphasis to major exhibitions and a dynamic programme of live art, artists’ films and transdisciplinary education projects. Farquharson hopes that Nottingham will become ‘an essential port-of-call for national and international visitors committed to the exploration of art and ideas’.

Alison Lloyd, Head of Visual Arts and Literature, Arts Council England, East Midlands, said: ‘We are delighted to welcome Alex to Nottingham to develop what will be a flag ship gallery of contemporary art in the region. His reputation will help to establish CCAN as an exciting and leading centre for contemporary art. Arts Council England is a major capital and revenue investor in CCAN and sees it as playing a major role in attracting visitors to the city and region.’

Nottingham City Council is the lead partner in the development of the project and has been instrumental in bringing it to this stage. Peter Milton, Head of Cultural Services said: ‘As developer of the building, the City Council is delighted to be working with Alex Farquharson and the new Board to ensure CCAN benefits the cultural life of Nottingham, the region and beyond.’

For more information go to:

Tate Liverpool

What is real in a place that changes so rapidly? All that was real in China one generation ago has now been discarded. The physical and social reality of China is changing so fast, how can we know what is real anymore?

After years of secrecy we are now more curious than ever to learn about the greatest economic power in the world. Artists in China have a new creative freedom and ambition which has brought about an explosion of endless possibilities.

The Real Thing will take you on a journey to discover the humour, excitement and creativity of this inexhaustible culture. Amongst other works you will see the summit of Everest, a replica of a real Chinese factory and a stunning fountain of light emerging from the Albert Dock.

This exhibition features new work from 18 Chinese artists and is a collaboration between Tate Liverpool and leading cultural figures in China. If you want to see what is happening in China right now then this is The Real Thing.

Artists include Ai Weiwei, Cao Fei, Xu Zhen and Wang Peng.

Exhibition
30 March – 10 June 2007
Tuesday – Sunday 10am – 5.50pm

Events:
Meet the curators and artists over breakfast to discuss Contemporary Chinese Art –
31 March, 11am. Pre booking required.
For details of more talks, tours and discussions surrounding the exhibition visit http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool

Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool, L3 4BB
0151 702 7443
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool

Supported by the Liverpool Culture Company as part of the city’s preparations for European Capital of Culture 2008 with additional support from The Henry Moore Foundation and The Red Mansion Foundation.

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

Norwich Gallery

Revolution is not a Garden Party

Michael Blum, Nick Crowe, Igor Grubic, Sanja Ivekovic, Gergely László / Péter Rákosi, Nils Norman and Adrian Paci

Curated by Maja and Reuben Fowkes / http://www.translocal.org

22 March – 21 April 2007

Norwich Gallery
Norwich School of Art and Design
Francis House 3-7 Redwell Street
Norwich NR2 4SN
tel +44 (0)1603 756247
info@norwichgallery.co.uk
http://www.norwichgallery.co.uk

The international exhibition ‘Revolution is not a Garden Party’ considers the resonances of social and political revolution in contemporary art against the backdrop of the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising.

The exhibition consists of new and recent works that examine the global economic and political context against which revolutions take place, as well as the intersection between personal and artistic heritages of revolution. It expresses the sorrow of failed political struggles in the past and the future, and considers the shared experience of a communist past and the post-communist reality. Other concerns include the experience of revolutionary literature, the gendered images of resistance fighters in contemporary media, and the legacy of 1956 for the relationship of art and revolution.

As the first major popular rebellion against Soviet domination and the communist system in Eastern Europe, 1956 was a vital precursor of later revolutionary struggles. At the same time, it was part of wider geo-political shifts, such as the movement for decolonisation, and had cultural as well as political ramifications across Europe. In the history of art, the demolition of the Budapest Stalin Statue was the ultimate symbol of the decline of Socialist Realism. The truth about revolution is part of a contested history, a living process of rewriting and interpretation in which art takes a decisive part.

The exhibition publication brings together the artistic response to contemporary revolution represented by the exhibition and new reflections on the relationship between art and revolution by theorists and art historians. It includes illustrations and interviews with the artists, and new essays by Gerald Raunig, Benda Hofmeyr, Simon Sheikh, Chus Martinez and Maja and Reuben Fowkes that engage with issues such as art and revolution, aesthetics and politics, and ecology and anarchism. Additionally, responses to individual works in the exhibition highlight the variety of experiences and understandings of revolution in the context of contemporary art. It is published by MIRIAD, the Manchester Metropolitan University Research Institute for advanced cultural inquiry and creativity, and distributed by Cornerhouse Manchester http://www.cornerhouse.org/books

The SocialEast Seminar on Art and Revolution takes as its primary focus the legacy of political, social and cultural revolutions for art and visual culture in Eastern Europe and beyond. This includes discussion of the role of the historical avant-garde, the specific trajectory of Conceptual Art in Central Europe, and the re-evaluation of Socialist Realism as an art historical problem in the context of modernism, post-modernism and the polarised aesthetics of the Cold War. Speakers include Gerald Raunig, Gáspár Miklós Tamás, Malcom Miles, Bettina Jungen, Michael Blum, Dorota Monkiewicz, Edit András, Marian Mazzone and Klara Kemp-Welch.
http://www.socialeast.org

Exhibition Venues

Trafó Gallery 26 October – 26 November 2006 http://www.trafo.hu
Holden Gallery 3 – 27 February 2007 http://www.holdengallery.mmu.ac.uk
Norwich Gallery 22 March – 21 April 2007 http://www.norwichgallery.co.uk
Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic 14 June – 6 July 2007 http://www.g-mk.hr

The exhibition is supported by MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University, European Cultural Foundation, Hungarian Ministry of Culture, Croatian Ministry of Culture and ACEX - Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange.

For more information go to: http://www.norwichgallery.co.uk

Serpentine Gallery

Serpentine Gallery Presents:

sleeping beauty + friends
A ballet by Karen Kilimnik

4 April 2007, New Players Theatre

A ballet conceived and choreographed by Karen Kilimnik after Marius Petipa, August Bourneville and others, in collaboration with choreographer Tom Sapsford and musician Kaffe Matthews.

Kilimnik says I have wanted to do my own ballets for the last 15 years at least! I want to be like Marius Petipa — the choreographer for the Russian ballet in St.Petersburg in the mid 1800’s until 1904 or so…. he did over a 100 ballets!

The Serpentine Gallery has invited Karen Kilimnik to create and design a ballet, which will take place for one night only: sleeping beauty + friends.

Evolving from a love of ballet the performance will be a collage of set pieces from famous classical ballets such as Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake. Six classical ballet dancers will perform against a classical backdrop of fantastical effects and musical arrangements.

The Serpentine Gallery is very grateful for the support of Swarovski who have lent extra sparkle to the specially designed costumes and stage set.

The New Players Theatre
The Arches
Villiers Street, WC2N 6NG
7.30pm
Doors close at 7.25pm
Tickets available to purchase from the Lobby and
TicketWeb 08700 600 100
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Serpentine Gallery Exhibition Karen Kilimnik
With kind assistance from Embassy of United States of America

Karen Kilimnik Exhibition Patrons
Burger Collection Switzerland/Hong Kong
And Exhibition Patrons who wish to remain anonymous

Artists Galleries Consortium
303 Gallery, New York/Lisa Spellman
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zrich/Eva Presenhuber
Galerie Sprüth Magers, Cologne, Munich/Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers

Media Partner
Kultureflash

Supported by

For more information go to: http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2007/02/karen_kilimnik_20_february_9_a_1.html