Matt Stokes: 'These Are The Days' ZieherSmith, New York, USA

Matt Stokes: These Are The Days November 12 - 13 December 19, 2009 Reception for the artist: Thursday, November 12th, 6-8 pm ZieherSmith 516 West 20 St New York, NY 10011 info@ziehersmith.com www.ziehersmith.com ZieherSmith presents the New York debut of these are the days (2009), a film installation by British artist Matt Stokes originally commissioned by Arthouse, Austin, Texas, and the launch of the accompanying catalogue designed by British collective, Abake. Inspired by punk rock subcultures, these are the days is the artist's first institutional commission in the United States. In 2007, Arthouse invited Stokes to create a new film project with ZieherSmith acting as co-producer. these are the days is the result of Stokes' close work with communities connected to Austin's music scene and his extensive research into anti-establishment musical genres, particularly punk rock. Investigating the dichotomies expressed within earlier and later punk communities, his research ultimately led to the creation of the dual channel film installation, an archival installation exhibition exclusively at Arthouse, and the publication about both. The first film features footage from a specially organized punk show, staged by Stokes, at the Broken Neck, an alternative venue in Austin and filmed by renowned cinematographers Lee Daniel and P.J. Raval. The second film, created in response at a recording session at Austin's Sweatbox Studios, depicts a makeshift band's musical reaction to the event footage. A reversal of roles between audience and performers, the work examines the concepts of inspiration and response. Punk as it was then and as it is now, different yet the same--these are the days. Matt Stokes' artistic practice is marked by anthropological enquiry and an interest in happenings or informal movements that bind people together. Taking a variety of forms -- from organizing events and assembling archives to making films and creating sculptural installation -- Stokes' works are often collaborative in nature and sometimes take place outside the traditional gallery space. Music subcultures have been central to the development of his most recent projects, which have focused on their ability to shape lifestyle, beliefs and create community. Northern Soul, acid/house and black metal are among the genres of music he has explored, poetically revealing music's intrinsic ability to create fellowship through devotion or the quasi-religious experience of dance. these are the days was first presented in 2009 at Arthouse and at 176 / Zabludowicz Collection, a major new contemporary art space located in London. The London show also featured The Gainsborough Packet (2009, co-commissioned by 176 and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art), which will screen in the back room of ZieherSmith. An editioned dubplate featuring music from both these are the days and The Gainsborough Packet is also available. The Abake-designed catalogue will be first released at the opening and includes documentation of both the film piece and of ephemera from the 1970s and 1980s related to the punk, post-punk, and DIY movements in Austin, material that was presented as an ambiguous archive at Arthouse. Matt Stokes was born in 1973 in Penzance, England and currently lives in Gateshead, England. He is the 2006 recipient of the esteemed Beck's Futures Prize, awarded by the ICA, London and is currently on the shortlist for the 2009 Northern Art Prize. In 2009, he was also included in solo and group exhibitions at the Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art, Newcastle, and the Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria, among other venues. Special thanks to Arthouse, the Arts Council England, Michael A. Chesser, Johnna and Stephen Jones, and Julie and John Thornton.

Marcus Coates: "Artist Talk and Performance" Roppongi Academy Hills, Tokyo

Marcus Coates: Artist Talk and Performance

Speakers: Marcus Coates and Jonathan Watkins (Director, Ikon Gallery / Chair of Daiwa Foundation Art Prize)

Monday 9 November, 7 - 8:30pm
Roppongi Academy Hills

Free Admission /

Places can be booked at www.academyhills.com

Organised by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Supported by Mori Art Museum, Academy Hills, British Council

Marcus Coates

The Plover's Wing

2009

Single Channel High Definition Video

22:30 mins Dimensions Variable

MC0055

Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Marcus Coates: "Daiwa Foundation Art Prize Winner" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

Marcus Coates:
Daiwa Foundation Art Prize Winner
November 7 - 21,2009
Tomio Koyama Gallery Tokyo
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday 7 November, 6 - 8pm

Tomio Koyama Gallery and The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

are delighted to announce Marcus Coates' solo exhibition at Tomio Koyama Gallery

in Tokyo. This prestigious solo show has been awarded to him as winner of the Daiwa

Foundation Art Prize in June this year.

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is a UK-based charity which supports closer links between Britain and Japan. Coates competed against nearly 900 applicants for this unique opportunity.

Jonathan Watkins, Director of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, was one of the eminent judges. He remarks: 'Coates has emerged as an artist with a distinct and extraordinary vision. He is making work now which is better than ever.'

Professor Marie Conte-Helm, Director General of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, comments: 'This challenging exhibition reflects the spirit behind the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize - to open new doors for British artists in Japan.'

Coates'film, installation and performance art focuses on the relationship between humans and other species. His work has received international acclaim and he has recently shown work in Tate Modern, London. The exhibition will include one of his best known works, Dawn Chorus, in which the human voice accurately mimics birdsong, as well as his most recently commissioned piece, Intelligent Design, filmed in the Galapagos Islands in 2008, it depicts the failed attempt of two mating tortoises.

▼Notes to Editors

Marcus Coates (b.1968, London) graduated in 1990 with a BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art from Kent Institute of Art and Design, (UK). He also gained a Post Graduate Diploma from the Royal Academy of Art (London, UK) in 1993. Most recently, he has exhibited as part of Altermodern: Tate Triennial, at Tate Britain, London. Coates has exhibited his works in many countries around the world, holding solo shows around Europe and group exhibitions in Scandinavia, Israel and also in Japan. His Japanese shows took place in 2006 and included Grizedale Arts 'Seven Samurai' in Toge-mura for the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial and Tokyo Ikebukuro International Art Festival. This will be his first solo show in Japan.

The Judging Panel

Jonathan Watkins (Chair)

Director of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Mami Kataoka

Chief Curator, Mori Art Museum / International Associate Curator, The Hayward Gallery, London

Tomio Koyama

Owner of Tomio Koyama Gallery

Joanna Pitman

Art Critic for The Times and former Times correspondent in Japan

Edmund de Waal

Artist potter, curator, writer and Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster

image:

Marcus Coates

Intelligent Design

2009

High Definition Video Produced in association with Galapagos Conservation Trust and Gulbenkian Galapagos Artists' Residency Programme

8 minute loop

MC0061

Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Darren Banks: "Better Place Portraiture - Fantasmagora" Auto Italia, London, UK

Ant Macari & Richard Rigg: "Zoo Art Fair" London, UK

Zoo Art Fair 2009, October 16-19

http://www.zooartenterprises.com

3-10 Shoreditch High Street

London

E1 6PG

Workplace Gallery presents new work by Ant Macari and Richard Rigg.

Ant Macari’s artworks utilise a multimodal system of communication – images, words, signs, symbols and objects. Within this cross-disciplinary practice drawing functions at the core of Macari’s work. Ark (Lemma) 2009 is a transport crate encoding the Golden Ratio decorated with esoteric symbols – geometrical, cultural and religious.

Ruach HaShem (Brain of God) 2009 is an aperture in the booth architecture that takes its shape from the outline of God The Creator from Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel.

Ant Macari was born in 1976 in Galashiels, Scotland. Recent exhibitions include the touring exhibition Rank: Picturing the Social Order 1516–2009 and his first solo exhibition Caput Mortuum (Fresh As Tomorrow) at BALTIC. Macari was recently included in Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory published by New Museum, New York and Phaidon Press.

Richard Rigg’s sculptures reproduce and manipulate everyday objects, turning them into theoretical conundrums or playful propositions. This One, The Next, and The One After That (2009) is a continuous drip or water controlled by a hidden clockwork mechanism in the ceiling above. Folded Table Cloth and Table Cloth Folded (2009) presents two objects both the enantiomer (non- superposable complete mirror image)

of the other. Rigg’s works contain a multitude of meanings, connections, possibilities and invitations, a meeting of the start, with its end. Richard Rigg was born in 1980, in

Penrith, Cumbria, UK. His work was recently included in Morphic Resonance at PSL Leeds, and his first solo exhibition will take place at Workplace Gallery in 2010.

As part of the Zoo Art Fair solo presentations Workplace Gallery also presents

Richard Rigg Two Writing Desks, False Drawer 2009.

Two Writing Desks, False Drawer 2009 was made and exhibited for Morphic Resonance: an exhibition/residency at PSL [Project Space Leeds]. Based in Newcastle, Rigg was unable to use PSL as a studio space so, in his absence he set up a worktable to mimic his table at home where he would actually be working. The desk on top is a direct copy in Oroko wood of the desk supporting it, the false drawer of the copy rendering the copy partially dysfunctional. Two Writing Desks, False Drawer continues the idea of wanting to be in one place, whilst being in another.

Workplace Gallery would like to thank Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and Charlie Hoult for their support in the production of Ant Macari’s work for Zoo 2009.

Marcus Coates: "Marcus Coates/ Lane Cormick / Nico Vascellari " Neon Parc, Melbourne, Australia

Wolfgang Weileder:"Die Begnadigung / La Sospensione", neon>campobase, Bologna, Italy

opening venerdì 02 ottobre 2009 ore 19.00

neon>campobase presenta Die Begnadigung / La Sospensione

un progetto espositivo di M+M e Wolfgang Weileder

In occasione della Quinta giornata del Contemporaneo, venerdì 2 ottobre alle ore 19.00 neon>campobase presenta Die Begnadigung / La Sospensione, progetto espositivo di M+M e di Wolfgang Weileder.

M+M è la sigla che identifica la collaborazione artistica fra Marc Weis, nato nel 1965, e Martin De Mattia, nato nel 1963. M+M risiedono a Monaco di Baviera e da anni conducono una ricerca artistica complessa: la loro produzione comprende lavori fotografici, film, videoinstallazioni, opere realizzate con utilizzo di tecnologie digitali, sculture e interventi di carattere architettonico nello spazio pubblico.

Wolfgang Weileder è nato a Monaco di Baviera nel 1965. Attualmente è docente di Scultura Contemporanea alla Newcastle University. Il suo lavoro più recente è incentrato sull'esplorazione e la decostruzione critica dell'architettura, sull'indagine dello spazio pubblico e sulle interazioni con l'ambiente urbano. Gli interventi privilegiano installazioni architettoniche temporanee e sculture site-specific su larga scala, ma il suo lavoro include anche performance, film, fotografia e sound installation.

La mostra nasce dalla collaborazione con la Workplace Gallery di Gateshead / Newcastle, dove è stata realizzata una prima esposizione degli stessi artisti che si intitolava „To Demon King’s Castle, of course...“. Come avvenuto in Inghilterra, anche il progetto che sarà realizzato a Bologna è stato progettato in stretta relazione con lo spazio specifico della galleria.

Con l’installazione galleria 24°,Wolfgang Weileder, viene ad interagire direttamente con la struttura espositiva di neon>campobase. Partendo dalla planimetria della galleria, l’artista, utilizzando blocchi da costruzione Gasbeton, realizza un' architettura sospesa che - sollevata dal piano di calpestio grazie al sostegno di un ponteggio - intende replicare in tutto e per tutto lo spazio della galleria stessa, eccezion fatta per una rotazione nello spazio di 24 gradi che Weileder ha impresso alla struttura. In sintonia con altre recenti esibizioni realizzate presso neon>campobase, la suddetta installazione, attraverso la “decostruzione” e la successiva “ricostruzione” dello spazio espositivo, interviene sul concetto stesso di spazio, interrogandosi sulle possibilità di una ridefinizione del rapporto tra architettura e arte.

M+M infiltrano in questo ibrido tra scultura e architettura una istallazione video a due canali. Il film Lunedì, girato in 16 mm., distorce la struttura di un doppio racconto e ricrea con mezzi narrativi una malinconica situazione famigliare sospesa nel tempo. Il testo e la messa in scena si riferiscono alla scena Monday nel film The Shining di Stanley Kubrick. Le due proiezioni, esattamente sincronizzate, mostrano due versioni dello stesso dialogo di carattere psicologico tra un padre e sua figlia e tra lo stesso uomo e una donna: la conversazione posta in parallelo mette allo scoperto un carattere vago, oscillante delle emozioni familiari, di tenerezza e di ira repressa, di nostalgia sensuale e di avversione improvvisa. L’identità del padre e l'identità del marito si trova in un cambiamento continuo tra i ruoli e le emozioni.

neon>campobase presents Die Begnadigung / La Sospensione

a project by M+M and Wolfgang Weileder. Opening: Friday, October 2nd 7:00 p.m.

M+M stands for the artistic collaboration between Marc Weis (b. 1965 in Luxembourg) and Martin De Mattia (b.1963 in Munchen): a couple of artists established in Munich. Their work is mainly focused on a complex artistic research involving photography, film production, video installation enabled by the use of digital technology. M+M worked also in public spaces by environmental installation and site specific sculptures.

Wolfgang Weileder was born in Munich. He currently works as the Professor in Contemporary Sculpture at Newcastle University, UK. His recent work is primarily concerned with the exploration and critical deconstruction of architecture, public spaces and the interactions we have with the ubiquitous urban environment. Focusing on large-scale temporary site-specific architectural installation and sculpture in the urban environment his work also branches into performance, film, photography and sound installation.

This exhibition is the result of a partnership with Workplace Gallery in Gateshead / Newcastle, where the three artists realized the show called „To Demon King’s Castle, of course...“. Following the same path, the project developed in Bologna is site specific and conceived in a tight relationship with space.

Wolfgang Weileder’s installation galleria 24° directly references and interacts with the architecture of Neon Gallery. Rotated by 24° he re-builds the building using lightweight concrete blocks. The full-scale shell is suspended from the ceiling and supported by a scaffolding structure. With the same approach pursued in previous projects, this installation de- and re-constructs the space in a self-referential gesture, redefining the relationship between visual arts and architecture.

M+M interact with this “interfield” project by a double channel video installation. The 16mm movie Lunedì distorts and readapted a double narration structure creating a new approach to depict a melancholic picture of a suspended everyday life setting. The hypertextual reference is the Monday Scene in The Shining by Stanley Kubrick. The two screenings (made in synch) show the same psychological setting: a dialogue between father and daughter / a dialogue between man and woman; the explicit parallel between the two conversations underlines the hazy sneaky, waving side of relationship inside family. Tenderness and suffocated rage; sensual nostalgia and sudden feeling of hate ... The duplicity of the father/ husband followed a continuous exchange of roles and emotions.

neon>campobase

via Zanardi 2/5 40131 Bologna
tel e fax +39 051 5877068
e-mail info@neoncampobase.com

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Darren Banks: “It’s Not The End Of The World”, Prussian Projekte, Nottingham, UK

“It’s Not The End Of The World”

Darren Banks

Preview: 9th October 2009, 6 – 9pm

10th – 11th October

Sat– Sun, 11am – 3pm (or by appointment)

Free entry

“...a mental blackhole sucking us into a world of throw-away VHS culture circa 1987.”

Prussian Projekte launches its new exhibitions space for video and moving image work in Sherwood with a

solo show by U.K based artist Darren Banks presenting “It’s Not The End Of The World”, a collection of video

works.

Banks approaches the medium of video with the perspective of a sculpture, using video with a cut and paste

methodology His ideas around horror, suspense, science fiction, defunct technologies, creation and the

unknown are all explored.

Working with previously lost or forgotten imagery and film, Banks deconstructs and reassembles to push his

work in new directions, conveying his ideologies succinctly and yet with unerringly accurate, stuttering

motion. Playing with our hopes and expectations he teases our anticipation time after time, building tension,

and then it knocking back down.

Using nostalgia and humour in tandem, Banks lures the viewer in to a comfortable reading of his work-but

once past the facade a very different perspective to the work is revealed. Playing with what is absent from

his video world, Banks revels in where the action isn’t, dancing in the silence and screaming down an

abandoned microphone.

Recent Exhibitions Include: Better Place Portraiture, Auto Italia south east, London; Sci-fi looking thing,

Workplace Gallery, Gateshead; Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, London; The Golden Record, Collective

Gallery, Edinburgh; DC Workplace Gallery stand, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Darren Banks lives and works in Finedon Doven, East Midlands, and is represented by Workplace Gallery,

Gateshead, UK

Prussian Projekte is the first gallery established for moving image and video work in Nottingham. Bank’s

show is the first of a Curated programme of video and film works by both emerging and established artists.

Alongside its exhibition programme Prussian Projekte will be showing new films from independent

filmmakers.

Prussian Projekte, Unit 3, OPM House, Haydn Rd, Nottingham, NG5 2LE

www.prussianprojekte.com I info@prussianprojekte.com

Matt Stokes: "Melbourne International Arts Festival 2008", Australia

MATT STOKES
LONG AFTER TONIGHT & THESE ARE THE DAYS

Contemporary artist Matt Stokes delves deep into unique moments of recent British and American cultural history and identity

Matt Stokes' work investigates underground movements and music scenes, particularly the way in which events contribute to a collective social experience.

The film Long After Tonight earned Stokes the 2006 Beck's Futures Prize and was inspired by the Northern Soul scene that developed in the UK during the late 60s and 70s. Simply put, Northern Soul was a term coined to describe the dislocation of obscure up-tempo African-American soul music to the north of England during this time. The piece documents the re-staging of a Northern Soul night at St Salvador's Church in Dundee, Scotland, which was formerly used as a dance venue. The mix of real-time and slowed footage of the dancers intermingles with the gilded ornate religious imagery of the church, heightening the connection between the location and the participant’s activity as expressions of faith, commitment and shared purpose.

The two-channel film, these are the days, explores the punk subculture of Austin, Texas, which has long been a centre for music in the US. The work was made by organising two separate events. The first consisted of a free, all-ages gig held at a skate and music venue, and the second brought together members of several Austin-based punk and hardcore bands to create a soundtrack to accompany the silent film shot during the gig. The result is a portrait of a musical subculture that challenges notions of causality, originality, tribute and circularity.

The CUB Malthouse, Beckett & Tower Theatres
113 Sturt Street
SOUTHBANK 3006

Fri 09 Oct - Sun 25 Oct
Mon - Fri 10am - 8pm
Sat 11am - 8pm
Sun 11am - 6pm
Closed Mon 19 Oct

Catherine Bertola & Laura Lancaster: "Obsession: Contemporary Art in the Lodeveans Collection" The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, UK

Obsession: Contemporary Art from the Lodeveans Collection

22 September — 28 November 2009

Artworks selected from the Lodeveans Collection of contemporary art, set up by Stuart and John Evans show the diversity of artistic talent and imagination emerging on a global scale. The collecting interests of the father and son are showcased in this exhibition of thought-provoking and often challenging new work.

Opening Night: Tuesday, 22 September, 18:00-20:00

Trevor Appleson

Delphine Balley

Anna Barriball

Catherine Bertola

Sebastiaan Bremer

Joshua Cardoso

Yves Caro

Robert Currie

Flavio de Marco

Nogah Engler

Juan Fontanive

Richard Forster

Neil Gall

Richard Galpin

Andy Harper

Kay Harwood

Mustafa Hulusi

Pauline Kraneis

Laura Lancaster

Gareth McConnell

Julie Mehretu

Kim Meredew

Danny Rolph

Bob and Roberta Smith

Gary Webb

Lei Xue

Images:

Laura Lancaster

Black oil on MDFUntitled, 200640 x 30 cm

Catherine Bertola

Flight of Fancy (Manchester circa 1900) Interior 1, 2005Lambda print (Edition of 5, 1/5)6.2 x 10.9 cm

Mike Pratt: "Some people deserve everything they get" The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK

Private View Thursday 24 September 6-10 pm (part of The Long Night)

Exhibition opens Friday 25 September – 17 October

Wednesday to Saturday, 11- 5pm

Some people deserve everything they get assembles the most remarkable, outstanding, significant and superlative artists graduating from courses the length and breadth of the country this year. These graduates outshone their peers with unrivaled aesthetic choices; climbing the supreme ladder of success to pass with flying colours… Welcome them…

Charlotte Betteley

Dan Cervi

Joe Evans

Katherine Gallacher

Samuel Jeffery

Di Lu

Harry Meadley

Salma Noor

Alistair Owen

Mike Pratt

Jamie Singh

Carrie Skinner

Tim Stock

Louise Emily Thomas

Joe Weldon

Ben Wheele

Artists were selected by The Royal Standard from a pool of graduating artists nominated by Airspace (Stoke-on-Trent), Catalyst Arts (Belfast), Castlefield Gallery (Manchester), Eastside Projects (Birmingham), G39 (Cardiff), Outpost (Norwich), Project Space Leeds (Leeds), Spike Island (Bristol), Tether (Nottingham), Transmission (Glasgow), and Workplace (Gateshead).

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The Royal Standard

Unit 3 Vauxhall Business Centre

131 Vauxhall Road

Liverpool

L3 6BN

www.the-royal-standard.com

www.thelongnight.org.uk

image:

Mike Pratt

Yes Please

2009

Acrylic on Canvas

MP0010

Private Collection, Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK