6.11.09 We are participating in this discussion panel at the ICA on Tuesday, 8 December 2009, 19:00:
Institute of Contemporary Arts : Talks : Art & Post-Fordism
In recent times, the culture industry has capitalised on the work ethic of the art world – its ever-youthful energy, allure of freedom, flexible working hours, short-term or lack of contracts – and converted it into a standard production model. Following the success of Capitals of Culture schemes and the creative industries, governments have also been keen to embrace this post-Henry Ford work model and link it to the global neoliberal market economy. How have artists, curators and other arts professionals reacted? Can they offer alternative strategies and policies?
Speakers: Rudi Laermans, professor, Centre for Sociological Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Irit Rogoff, professor of visual cultures, Goldsmiths; Pil and Galia Kollectiv, artists, writers and curators working in collaboration; Pascal Gielen, co-editor (with Paul De Bruyne) of Arts in Society: Being an Artist in Post-Fordist Times, and author of The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude: Global Art, Memory and Post-Fordism. Followed by book launch.
Supported by Flanders House, London £10 / £9 Concessions / £8 ICA Members
The ICA is located on The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
27.11.09 Another Proof of the Preceding Theory is being shown at Arnolfini as part of THE MAB FILM EXERCISE:
THE MAB FILM EXERCISE Exercising ideas in and around artists' film
Arnolfini
16 Narrow Quay
Bristol BS1 4QA
free but booking recommended
Media Art Bath presents a new monthly screening of artists' film in which invited curators will present and discuss a programme (or single piece) of moving image work. The MAB Film Exercise seeks to address both the diverse potential for artists' film as a form and a sense of the current urgency, social or political timeliness in the work (of both curator and artist).
PROGRAMME I - 18.30hrs Thursday 3 December
Bridget Crone presents... Greetings comrades, the image has now changed its status
Amanda Beech, Harun Farocki, Beatrice Gibson, Maryam Jafri, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Cerith Wyn Evans
What is the status of the image today? Where does the image start and stop? Characterised by the speed of its dissemination, the image might be understood as the transmission of digital information, as a fleeting visual impression, as affective experience, as an important factor in the gaining of knowledge, expanded, compressed, archival, educative, celebratory and informal... It might be all or none of these. Contingent. Staged. A restitution. A refusal.
Bridget is the director of Media Art Bath.
The screening will be followed by drinks and a discussion about the work shown - please join us and join in!
Full programme details here.
7.11.09 We are speaking at:
The Eagle Document – The New Collection: A Performance/Events Symposium
Saturday 21 November, 10 am - 5 pm
Venue: Stephen Lawrence Gallery,
University of Greenwich
http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/slg
Followed by a special screening of artists’ films.
The Event is organised by Monika Oechsler in follow-up to the exhibition The Eagle Document: The New Collection of Enumerated Things, which was exhibited at the gallery from June 28-20 August 2009. Where the exhibition playfully and seriously engaged with a visionary role of the “New Collection” as a rhizomatic assemblage of ‘enumerated things, the performance/events symposium seeks to emphasise the activity of collecting as part of the creative process and art production. The symposium presents a variety of live performances and talks investigating a new understanding of the role of the artist as collector. The contributing performers and artists might draw upon imaginary and personal collections. Some might create an imaginary collection through memory and association. Others might take the role of the collector who invades, thus re-contextualises, existing spaces with collected objects. Others might present fictive archives representing artistic practice in a relational and participatory form. Like the exhibition the symposium seeks to further explore a new role for the collection in contemporary art by investigating new contexts and methods of production. In particular, the symposium will centre on the following themes: The ‘artist collection’ as a performative situation and interlinking network of enumerated things and processes. The role of the artist as collector and the potential of the ‘artist collection’ to provide new models of artistic production. The participatory role of the viewer as the associative editor of the “New Collection” adding to the collection by creating new imaginary linkages.
Symposium Contributors:
Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Judith Dean
Wayne Lloyd
Ruth Maclennan
Monika Oechsler
Uriel Orlow
Anita Ponton
Christina Mitrentse
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Jonas Ranson
Chair: Cherry Smyth
Attendance: Places are free, but limited. If you would like to attend please contact the gallery curator David Waterworth at slg@gre.ac.uk to reserve a place.
Also, we are participating in Kick-off 2030: War Zone Amsterdam, more information here.
25.10.09 Our playlist for Lux / Supercream's Film as a Subversive Art project is online here: The Beatles Were an Opressive Influence.
19.10.09 We are speaking and showing The Future is Now at:
Performance Fictions
Talk, Lecture, Seminar Screening, Artists Films
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
11:00 - 16:00
Electric Cinema, 47-49 Station Street, Birmingham, B5 4DY9
The event will address contemporary practices and collective performances (a term used in the widest possible sense) that create new myths, fictions or narratives for environments, groups and communities. The public event will feature contributions from:
John Cussans (UAL)/Bughouse addressing paranoid critical theory.
Sadie Plant addressing psycho-geography and the city.
Simon O'Sullivan (Goldsmiths) and David Burrows (BCU) addressing fiction and myth and performance art.
Pil and Galia Kollectiv addressing their art practice and 'over identification' and reenactment.
There will also be a screening of films from artists and groups: aas, Reactor, Ole Hagen, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Burrows & O'Sullivan/Plastique Fantastique. The contributions will be reproduced in a forthcoming Article Press/Birmingham City University publication.
The event is free.
Please e-mail David.Burrows@bcu.ac.uk if you wish to attend.
Places are limited.
'Performance Fictions' is the fourth event in art-writing-research network created by researchers from BCU, Goldsmiths, Reading University and University of the Arts London. Article Press, BCU, will publish the papers and contributions from the various events in Spring 2010, to be distributed by Central Books. The volumes will constitute series one of Article Press's art-writing-research publications.
12.9.09 The Future trilogy is included in Apocatopia at Castlefield Gallery, opening October 8th:
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Castlefield Gallery is pleased to present Apocatopia, a group exhibition including the work of Ruth Ewan, Evi Grigoropoulou, Siobhán Hapaska and Pil & Galia Kollectiv. Through film, painting and sculpture the work explores the relationship between production, presentation and consumption of contemporary culture examining the role of money, ritual and desire in a changing cultural, political and economic topography. Drawing on historic texts such as Sir Thomas More’s Utopia and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World - in which state incited hedonism and simultaneous manipulation of class and eugenics is practiced between a narrowing gap of utopia and dystopia - the exhibition’s starting point for selecting the works hypothesises the aftermath of an economic ‘apocalypse’. Representing the echoes of these disparate ideas, in the shadow of current world events, the works in this exhibition investigate and subvert some of the socioeconomic complexities that exist in both socialist and capitalist systems. Through re-appropriation or re-interpretation of everyday objects and aspects of popular culture, the works in Apocatopia re-evaluate our relationship to the media, commerce, wealth and power and explore new ways to approach an uncertain world.
This exhibition will feature a number of premier showings including the new work by Ruth Ewan inspired by the book Le Gran Catastrophe, produced on her recent International Fellowship residency in Bolivia; new work by Evi Grigoropoulou and Pil & Galia Kollectiv’s full trilogy The Future Trilogy inspired by the IKEA riots of 2005.
6.9.09 Yet another brand new performance, featuring live music by Mingo L'Indien (Quattro, Les Georges Leningrad), plus exhibition and film screening, on October 3rd 18:00 - 22:00, at the Herzliya Biennial in Israel, full details in the biennial guide and website:
Performative Construction of a Future monument for the Dialectic Negation of a Post-Catastrophic Society
Rejoice, the catastrophe has already happened!
It has often been remarked that the late capitalist operations of financialisation have no concrete visual language. Global finance is a liquid, smooth motion that paradoxically de-territorialises and concentrates wealth like a swarm of fractional arithmetic components, both menacing and immaterial. But if its true nature is an elusive, constantly mutating entity, then yachts serve as a fictionalization of its core essence, a testament to the conditions under which we live. As repositories of capital, they are fascinating because they make concrete the invisible flows of finance. Their display of power and status is inverted in their sheer visibility. Ignoring what goes on inside, we are treated to a spectacle of architecture in motion, evoking the impermanence to which the postmodern monument aspires.
For the second Herzliya Biennale, Pil and Galia Kollectiv present a new temporary public sculpture, performance and prints constituting a proposal for a monument to the future crimes of capitalism inspired by the form of the yacht. Scripted to a capitalist manifesto, the choreographed construction of the monument strives to articulate the ideology latent in capitalism’s claims to a neutral manifestation of human nature. Featuring live music by Mingo L’Indien (Quattro, Les Georges Leningrad), the performance takes place on October 3rd 19:00 - 20:00 in front of the unfinished Herzliya town hall building at Sha'ar Ha'ir, Ben Gurion st. 22. It is accompanied by an exhibition of prints and costumes at the Herzliya Ensemble Theatre from 3–10 October 2009 and a screening of Another Proof of the Preceding Theory at the Herzliya Lev Ha'Ir cinema.
More about the biennale:
2nd Herzliya Biennial for Contemporary Art Herzliya 2009
3-10 October 2009
Curated and designed by Adi Englman, Meir Kordevani, Toony Navok, the publishers and the co-editors of Picnic Magazine
Herzliya City Center
An urban, nocturnal and festive group show, to be held for one week in Herzliya's city center, 3–10 October 2009. The show will feature a large and diverse array of works, findings, inventions and sounds from new Israeli art: sculptures, collages, music, fashion, television, floristry, architecture, interior design, astronomy, dance, theatre, martial arts, handicraft, cinema and robotics – most of which will have their world premiere at the biennial. These will be shown next to a refreshing selection of works drawn from the history of Israeli art. The list of participating artists includes a handful of young and young-in-spirit artists, among them:
Alber Elbaz (FR), Dani Gal (DE), Pil and Galia Kollectiv (UK), Omer Krieger (IL), Nir Evron (IL), Benni Efrat (IL), Anat Ben-David (UK), Keren Englman (IL), Amit Berlowitz (IL), Idan Hayosh (NL), Tai Shani (UK), Freddy Kislev (IL), Noa Giniger (NL), Yael Davids (NL), Avinat Gottesman (IL), Adam Rabinowitz (LA), Ami Shavit (IL), Gilad Ratman (NYC), David Lieske and Christian Naujoks (DE), Hillel Roman (IL), Eitan Ben-Moshe (IL), Assaf Gruber (FR) and more.
Herzliya 2009 is curated and designed by Adi Englman, Meir Kordevani and Toony Navok, the editors and the publishers of Picnic Magazine, an Israeli-based international publication for visual creation distributed in selected stores worldwide. This year's biennial is the second to be held in Herzliya. Opening events, on October 3rd, will include live music shows and performances, the unveiling of the new biennial pavilion, the launching of Picnic's fourth issue (the catalogue of the biennial), as well as fireworks, treats and desserts. The opening event will be held in the presence of Mrs. Yael German, mayor of Herzliya and initiator of the biennial, as well as participating artists. Herzliya 2009: a week of joyful and illuminated nightly celebrations with contemporary art and music shows going from dusk till midnight. Not to be missed!
* Herzliya 2009 at the museum: special biennial exhibition at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Picnic Magazine 14 October - 12 December 2009
* 2nd Herzliya Biennial for Contemporary Art is produced and sponsored by the Herzliya Municipality Artistic Directorship: Dalia Levin, Head Curator and Director, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art Additional support: Israel Lottery, Mondriaan Foundation (Amsterdam), BI Arts and British Council (Tel Aviv), Goethe Institute (Tel Aviv), French Institute (Tel Aviv).
Also, Another Proof of the Preceding Theory will be shown in Stonehenge Riverside: The Ventral Surface at The Oliver Holt Gallery, Sherborne from 12th September - 13th October 2009:
19.8.09 New performance featuring music by Gelbart plus Whitby Bay live and more in Critical Mass at Late at Tate Britain 4.9.2009:
Late at Tate Britain September 2009 Friday 4 September 2009 18.00-22.00
Curated by the mysterious and secretive group The Diogenes Club, 'Late at Tate Britain' in September is a mix of high and low brow, mainstream and counter culture. Film, music and readings are presented throughout the galleries, exlporing new trends and artisitc platforms that are emerging out of the strange and arcane world that we call now.
Pil and Galia Kollectiv present Critical Mass 19.10 & 20.30
Auditorium (ticketed)
London based artists Pil and Galia Kollectiv curate an evening of radical worship for the apocalypse, featuring a sermon for the Church of the Atom with live music by Gelbart, a black mass by vampiric metal band Whitby Bay and fundamentalist film clips.
The Diogenes Club present Tate Britain Mixtapes
Painters Michael Raedecker and Dexter Dalwood, along with other Diogenes Club members, will present mixtape compilations selected in response to works of art. Room 13 –Dexter Dawood Room 21– Michael Raedecker Room 19 – The Diogenes Club Room 15 - Michael Raedecker Room 4- The Diogenes Club Room 9 – Random play, mix by all the above
Reza Aramesh presents Action 71
Room 7 Room 3 Millbank Entrance
For the last two years, artist Reza Aramesh has been photographing homeless people sleeping on the streets of London. For Late at Tate, these photographs will be restaged live in the galleries.The interventions are responses to the contemporary context in which they exist, but also the socio-economic historic themes in the rooms which the artist has chosen.
The Drawing Salon 18.30 – 21.30
North Duveen Galleries
The Drawing Salon, founded by theatre maker ..Georgia.... Jacob and illustrator Steph von Reiswitz, is a drawing ensemble that focuses on narrative rather than nudity. For Late at Tate they present a private members’ club frequented by artists, cynics, freemasons, private detectives, and occultists among others and dress-up, draw or both.
The Elephant Man.. 20.15 - 22.30 Royal Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art and Design
In collaboration with the Department of Health and the launch of their green paper on the issue of social care, Late at Tate presents the cinematic classic ..The Elephant Man.... (dir. ....David Lynch.... 1980) a story of the brutal treatment of Joseph Merrick and his subsequent life at London Hospital. .. Join the Big Care Debate
Chelsea Masters Show 2009
The annual MA Summer Show celebrates the work from graduating students from MA Fine Art, MA Textile Design, MA Graphic Design Communication, MA Interior and Spatial Design and MA Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice.
Thursday 3 September - 10:00 - 20.00 Friday 4 September - 10:00 - 20.00 Saturday 5 September - 10:00 - 16.00 Sunday 6 September - 10:00 - 16.00
Raqs Media Artist Talk: Raqs Media Collective Duffield Room, Tate Britain 18.20 - 18.50 (ticketed)
Monica Narula, from Raqs Media Collective, will give a short conceptual-lecture in conjunction with the opening of their new commission, The Surface of Each Day is a Different Planet. The new work will be on view in the Lightbox Gallery from 4 September - 27 December. Raqs Media Collective was formed in 1992 by independent media practitioners Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Their work spans installation, new media, filmmaking, photography, media theory, research and writing
5.8.09 The Future trilogy will be shown in Venice on the 19th of August as part of Make Shift / Fringe Fusina:
Dates: 18th–24th August 2009
Open: daily or by appointment, 1-7pm, free admission
Opening Event: 18th August at 5pm
Christopher Arran, Huw Bartlett, David Blandy, Blast Theory, Bob and Roberta Smith, Nick Carrick, Ergin Çavu?o?lu, Adam Chodzko, Nadege Derderian, Jonathan Gilhooly, Ocean Mims, Mocksim, Laura Mousavi Zadeh, Lau Mun Leng, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Daniel Pryde-Jarman, Semiconductor, Milly Thompson.
Fringe Fusina is a newly established contemporary art event launching in 2009 in the form of a diverse exhibition of works during the 53rd Venice Biennale International Art Festival. Activity will be concentrated in a two week period in August and a standing exhibition will remain thereafter. Located at the Camping Fusina site where the Laguna Veneta meets the Brenta River, the selected artworks will be shown at a variety of locations across the site including a shipping container, double-decker bus, and vaporetto stop. Fringe Fusina's lagoon location is a short hop from the island of Venezia to the city’s mainland coastal sprawl of industrial parks.
'Make Shift' has been curated around the theme of temporary production sites and physical/mental spaces where the processes of making can be seen to take place. The exhibition partners a program of screened video works with a collection of placed and interventional artworks created on-site via instructional text messages and a restricted bank of materials. The video works will be screened between 1-7pm over the course of a week from 18th–24th August whereas the physical works will remain in situ until the Venice Biennale closes in November. Official opening and a champagne reception with Camping Fusina administrators will be held at 5pm on 18th August.
Screening Schedule (films on continuous loop or by appointment):
18th: David Blandy, The Soul of the Lakes, 2005, DVD, 25mins
19th: Pil and Galia Kollectiv, The Future for Less, 2006, DVD, 10mins
Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Better Future, Wolf-Shaped, 2008, DVD, 15mins
Pil and Galia Kollectiv, The Future is Now, 2009, DVD, 23mins
20th: Semiconductor, Matter in Motion, 2008, DVD, 6mins
Lau Mun Leng, Music Box, 2008, DVD, 4mins
21st: Bob & Roberta Smith, A Floating Studio, 2007, DVD Video, 10mins
Blast Theory, TRUCOLD, DVD, 2002, 15mins 21sec
22nd: Mocksim, Re-hearse, 2009, DVD, 3min
Daniel Pryde-Jarman, He’s Human Too You Know, 2006, DVD, 6mins
23rd: Adam Chodzko, Yet, 2005, 9mins 10sec
Milly Thompson, Basking in the melodrama of my own self-consciousness, DVD, 6mins 49sec
24th: Ergin Çavu?o?lu, Impasse, 2003, DVD video, 2mins 15sec
Visiting/Transport Info:
By Sea
From Venice, take the no. 16 ferry from Zattere (on Giudecca canal) all the way to Camping Fusina. Return Ticket: € 10 per person; 3 day Ticket: € 20 per person.
Venice (Zattere) - Fusina:
8.30am, 9.30am, 10.30am, 11.30am, 12.30pm, 1.30pm, 2.30pm, 3.30pm,
4.30pm 5.30pm, 6.30pm, 7.30pm, 8.30pm, 9.30pm, 10.30pm
From Airports
From Marco Polo VCE Venice Airport:
Take FlyBus to Mestre Railway Station, then take Bus N. 11 marked ‘FUSINA’. Bus N.11 departs every hour and the last stop is Camping Fusina.
Travel time approx 15 mins. Cost € 1.10
6.46, 7.46, 8.46, 9.46, 10.46, 11.46, 12.46, 13.46, 14.46, 15.46, 16.46,
17.46 18.46, 19.46, 20.46, 22.17, 23.17, 00.17
From Antonio Canova TFS Treviso Airport:
Take ATVO Bus (timetable) to Mestre Railway Station, then take Bus N. 11 marked ‘FUSINA’. Bus N.11 departs every hour and the last stop is Camping Fusina.
Travel time approx 15 mins. Cost € 1.10
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18.46 19.46 20.46 22.17 23.17 00.17
Fringe Fusina 2009 is kindly supported by:
Camping Fusina, Venice, Italy
Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
Grey Area Gallery, Brighton, UK
Haunch of Venison, London, UK
Jack Hughes Design, Brighton, UK
Lighthouse, Brighton, UK
Ticktoc art publication, Brighton, UK
Vacuum independent art paper, Brighton, UK
Contact Organisers:
Daniel Pryde-Jarman & Micheál O’Connell: makeshift@mocksim.co.uk
1.8.09 Another Proof of the Preceding Theory will be screened in Australia at:
Greetings comrades, the image has now changed its status*
Amanda Beech, Mikko Canini, Justin Clemens, Harun Farocki, Bea Gibson, Melanie Gilligan, Maryam Jafri, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Nikos Pantazis, Cerith Wyn Evans.
Curated by Bridget Crone
What is the status of the image today? Where does the image start and stop? Characterised by the speed of its dissemination, the image might be understood as the transmission of digital information, as a fleeting visual impression, as affective experience, as an important factor in the gaining of knowledge, expanded, compressed, archival, educative, celebratory and informal… It might be all or none of these. Contingent. Staged. A restitution. A refusal.
Greetings comrades… is a discussion around the question of the image (particularly in relation to the image in film/video and text) and its role in contemporary culture, its purpose and affect.
Greetings comrades… will take the form of two screening programmes of artists’ film and video, and a reading by Justin Clemens from his new book, Villain; selected works from the screenings will also be exhibited in the gallery space alongside a single work on paper by Nikolas Pantazis, Neon Lights 2008.
[* Kodwo Eshun, February 2009.]
[Screening programme one]
Cut up. Immersion. Immersion. Dispersion. Restitution. Immersion.
Sunday 2 August, 15.00 hrs
Cut up. Immersion. Immersion. Dispersion. Restitution. Immersion. includes work by Mikko Canini, Maryam Jafri, Pil and Galia Kollectiv and Nikos Pantazis. Justin Clemens will read from his new book, Villain.
At:
Ocular Lab Inc.
31 Pearson St., West Brunswick 3055 (map ref 29 7-D)
Following the screening, some of the work will remain in the space (for viewing on monitors during gallery hours, Saturday-Sunday 1-5pm) to be augmented by a further screening.
[Screening programme two]
Immersion. Dispersion. Cut up. Cut up. Restitution.
Saturday 8 August, 15.00 hrs
work by Amanda Beech, Harun Farocki, Bea Gibson and Melanie Gilligan.
24.7.09 We will be selling Kollectiv merchandise (films, books, records and more) at Hackney WickED’s OFFICIAL Art Fete on Saturday August 1st:
Hackney WickED’s OFFICIAL Art Fete with Artist-run Stalls, Live Art, the Infatigable Decima Travelling Shop, Bribery Stall, Dog Races, Mobile Galleries, Games and Prizes, Raffle, Vintage Fashion, Bric-a-brac, Books and Records Food Stalls, Credit Crunch ’n’ Fun and Hackney WickED Live Music Stage and much more.
Saturday, 01 August 2009 12:00 - 22:00
Main Yard Wallis Road (Canal end) London
snooziehexagon@googlemail.com
07724195479
Artists Paul Sakoilsky, Stephen Gill, David Blandy, Mark Pawson, Laura Oldfield Ford, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Transition Editions (Cathy Lomax), Decima Dogs, Jon Purnell, Simon Ould and Louise Loudon, Deej Fabyc, Josephine Chime, Mark Mcgowan, Frog Morris, Lee Campbell, Dave Notorious, Ingrid Z, Galactica Hilton, Sarah Doyle, Snoozie Hexagon, Russell Herron and many more...
Musical performances The Bobby Mcgees, Jukebox Collective, The Byte Stripes, Gravy Train, Only Joe, Travel Agency, Evi vine, Kate Daisy Grant, ZeJ, Douce Angoisse, Craig Templates, Gum Takes Tooth, Private Lives, The Beat Box Collective and many more.
In Association with The London Paper Art Rabbit artartart Create09 Spoonfed La Bouche The Eel The Hackney Gazette The Hackney Citizen.
3.7.09 Better Future, Wolf-Shaped will be screened at the The Israeli Video Art and Experimental Cinema Competition 2009 as part of the Jerusalem Film Festival on Monday, 13/07/2009 at 20:30 at The Jerusalem House of Quality, 12 Hebron Rd., Jerusalem.
18.06.09 Our work is included in the exhibition:
“The Eagle Document: The New Collection of Enumerated Things”.
Exhibition dates: Friday, June 28 – 20 August
Private View Sunday, 28 June, 3 - 5 pm
Stephen Lawrence Gallery
Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College
Greenwich, London, SE10 9LS
Tel: 0208 331 8260
Email: slg@greenwich.ac.uk
Bernd Behr_Neil Chapman_Jem Finer_Guy Harries_Alexander Hidalgo
Pil and Galia Kollectiv_Ruth Maclennan_Jo Mitchell_Monika Oechsler
Elizabeth Price_Gail Pickering_Giorgio Sadotti_Lindsay Seers
Sally Underwood_Roman Vasseur
Film screening: 3-5.00pm, Ruth Maclennan
The Hawk & the Tower, 2007-09 single channel video projection, silent, 8 mins (looped)
Performance: 4-4.15pm
Upon the Place Beneath, duration ca. 15 mins devised and performed by Lost Parade: Clara Garcia-Fraile, Lori O’Regan, Johanna Ronkko, Chloe Ducharne, Anna Watts, Sarah Alexander, directed by Claudia Kappenberg.
Performance 5-7.00pm
Guy Harries and the band iNiT
The concept for the exhibition is to consider the place of the collection in contemporary society and to reinvent the collection in a new and imaginative form. ‘The New Collection of Enumerated Things’ is neither static nor institutional, but exists as a creative interplay between artists, artworks, and situation. ‘The New Collection’ presents a group of artists whose sensibility and mode of production is concerned with aesthetic reception as a shared social activity. ‘The New Collection’ does not prioritise art objects but instead creates rhizomatic relationships between ‘Enumerated Things’ (works in progress, research material, found and ready-made objects, props, contextual material, scientific models, interventions and ideas for future situations). Hence, “The New Collection” consists of an assemblage of visual markers of creative research and production, which invites the viewer to engage in the imaginary act of editing and re-assembling the items in collection. In this sense, “The New Collection” considers the spectator as a social agent, embedded in the wider cultural network, and as an active participant in the creation of new ideas, thoughts, and associations. Thus, ‘The New Collection’ exhibition creates a performative and dialogic situation between viewer and art works, which does away with passive spectatorship. “The New Collection” challenges the notion of the ‘art object in collection’ and instead configures the collection as a contextual and relational situation.
“The Eagle Document: The New Collection of Enumerate Things” will be certified as an art collection and will be bequeathed to the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, which will become its honorary custodian. However, the individual items of the collection will remain with and in the ownership of the individual artists/creators. The ‘New Collection can be hired and toured for exhibition and will expand in time through new contributions.
“The Eagle Document: The New Collection of Enumerate Things” also includes six Fluxus multiples from the Chelsea Library Special Collection.
Also, we are in discussion about the ouvre of Mel Gibson at the Horse Hospital on the same day:
GIBSON: A verbis ad verbera
Sunday 28th June 4pm £5
Apocalypto + The Passion of The Christ A round table discussion exploring the themes in 'Apocalypto', Mel Gibson's bloody epic about the waning days of the Mayan empire and his other more controversial bloody epic 'The Passion of The Christ'. With speakers Amanda Beech, Pil and Galia Kollectiv and Emily McMehen.
28.05.09 We will be showing new work at E:vent Gallery:
Star Maker
12/06/2009 - 12/07/2009
Private view: Saturday 13 June, 6–10pm
E:vent Gallery
96 Teesdale Street
London
E2 6PU
Carmel Buckley, David Burrows, Anthony Gross, Mark Harris, L'Hexagone, Don Lambert, Peter Lloyd Lewis, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, DJ Simpson, Matthew Stone, Jenny Wright, Jen Wu
Star Maker is devised by Mark Harris and David Burrows, both of whom thought of an exhibition drawing upon ideas about matter, life-forms, time, entropy and utopia in Olaf Stapledon's book Star Maker at exactly the same time. The installation is the work of Anthony Gross and David Burrows.
25.05.09 See the new music video for "Black Flag" by Duchess Says here.
15.05.09 We will be speaking and cooking at:
‘If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On...’ New Art Gallery Walsall, West Midlands - 4th June, 6-9pm, Free ‘If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On...’ is a collaboration between Companis and Dreams of Tall Buildings and promises to be a thoroughly tongue in cheek evening of romantic dining. Playing with notions of intimacy, diners will be treated to a series of courses set within a specially commissioned soundscape. This acoustically charged experience will favour all gastric noises and rumbles thereby challenging the norms of dining etiquette. Be prepared for an extraordinary evening of romance and spectacle! This project has been specially commissioned by New Art Gallery Walsall as part of the 'Pot Luck' exhibition (22/5/2009-19/7/2009). ‘If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On...’ will take place on Thursday 4th June as part of the gallery's ‘Food Glorious Food’ events. Go to www.artatwalsall.org.uk for more information. The Shared Table in Contemporary Art Birmingham & Midlands Institute, West Midlands - 12th June, 2-5.30pm Companis is presenting a seminar on the Shared Table in Contemporary Art, investigating communal dining and its associations with community, utopia, conviviality and class within recent and contemporary art. Speakers include artist, author and critic Dave Beech (chair), artists Pil and Galia Kollectiv and Karen Tam and cultural critics Dr. Anna Dezeuze (Honorary Research Fellow, Art History & Visual Studies, University of Manchester) and Dr. Joan Gibbons (Course Director, MA Contemporary Curatorial Practice, Birmingham City University). Pil and Galia Kollectiv will present an interpretation of Russian suprematism in the medium of food! This event is supported by Arts Council England. Background information Companis, meaning to 'break bread with someone' is a newly formed curatorial initiative based in Birmingham. Poised between artistic and curatorial practice Companis develops projects to explore the notion of exchange within contemporary art through participation and audience engagement.
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12.03.09 Svetlana will be shown at Tatty Devine from the 20th of March - 3rd May with specially commissioned jewelry! Get yours here or follow the links below:
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Also, Better Future, Wolf-Shaped will be screened at Czarna Galleria in Warsaw:
VISION DIVISION
olaf brzeski, theresa frölich, jen liu
curated by antonia lotz
04/04/2009 - 17/05/2009 opening
reception 03/04 between 7 - 12pm
CZARNA GALLERY
Marszalkowska street
4 Door 3 00 590
Warsaw
with an additional film screening including works by olaf breuning, anna jermolaewa, dagmar keller / martin wittwer, pil & galia kollectiv, shana moulton, magdalena von rudy curated by theresa frölich and antonia lotz:
8pm
Magdalena von Rudy: Medusa (2004)
Olaf Breuning: King (2000)
9 pm
Pil and Galia Kollectiv: Better Future, Wolf-Shaped (2008)
10 pm
Anna Jermolaewa: Kiss (2006)
Shana Moulton: Whispering Pines 8 (2006)
Dagmar Keller/Martin Wittwer: Alles wird gut (2006)
Vision Division is an exhibition of three artists of the same generation, who are using media as different as sculpture, video, installation and drawing. In diverse visionary styles they are presenting their own versions of reality, which makes it difficult to encompass all three under one umbrella. There certainly is, however, a common ground where those three meet and that is their shared internal urge to create imaginary worlds that often feed on destruction. The dormant potential stretched over between the commandments of imagination and those of annihilation is also to be found in the video screening curated by Antonia Lotz and Theresa Frölich, which will be presented in two parts at the exhibition’s opening. This exhibition is a result of Antonia Lotz residency at a-i-r laboratory at Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, 2008, in frames of the bilateral exchange with Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart.
The exhibition is organized with kindly support of: Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; a-i-r laboratory at Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw and Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation, Warsaw.
27.2.09 The completed Future trilogy will be shown at Collective Gallery, including new film The Future is Now:
Roll it to me: 17 March - 9 May Collective Gallery |
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12.2.09 Another Proof of the Preceding Theory is included in Ventriloquist at Timothy Taylor, opening on the 26th of February:
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