Saturday, October 10, 2009

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
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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

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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

Friday, September 11, 2009

Catherine Bertola: "Artist l Object l Project" National Museum Wales, UK



Artist l Object l Project

Catherine Bertola Michael Cousin Deirdre Nelson

Artists respond to national ceramics collection

Brecknock Museum & Gallery, Brecon will host Artist l Object l Project - three major new installations based on Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales’ ceramics collections - from 5 September until 31 October 2009.

Artists Catherine Bertola, Michael Cousin and Deirdre Nelson have used museum pieces ranging from the quotidian to the kitsch to investigate the human, universal nature of the ceramic object.

Catherine Bertola’s site-specific installation work explores the forgotten and invisible histories of places, people and communities. For The People’s Collection of Pottery, Brecknockshire 2009 (image attached), Bertola has assembled and catalogued a temporary museum collection of pottery owned by people from the Brecknockshire area. She reflects on the personal significance and everyday purpose of these items, and the ongoing importance of ceramic as part of our personal and cultural heritage. Bertola has created a wallpaper, Blue Babylonica, based on the familiar Swansea Willow pattern to act as a backdrop to the collection.

Filmmaker Michael Cousin looks at the history and decline of commemorative ceramics as an outlet for political and social commentary in his film H1N1. He has selected a jug made by the Cambrian Pottery, Swansea, dating from 1814, depicting the banishment of Napoleon to Elba. Cousin has digitally recreated this jug with a current major news story - a series of images exploring the paranoia and global hysteria surrounding swine flu (image attached).

Deirdre Nelson is interested in the human stories behind collections and objects. In No Bed of Roses and the sound piece Shift (in collaboration with Matt Hulse), she focuses on the Nantgarw China Works in South Wales, using the lowly 10% success rate of ceramics in the firing process to create an installation exploring the gulf between the luxury of the finished object and the poverty, disappointment and dogged perseverance involved in its production.

Artist l Object l Project has been organised in collaboration with Brecknock Museum & Gallery and the University of Glamorgan as part of Celf Cymru Gyfan – ArtShare Wales - Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales’ visual arts partnership programme which aims to increase access to the national art collection through innovative collaborative projects around Wales. ArtShare Wales is funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

One of the project’s organisers, Dan Allen, said:

“The exhibition not only promises to be a rich visual experience, but will form a useful case study on how artists view, respond and regard collections. Each artist’s chosen object or objects will be exhibited alongside their own response.”

Artist l Object l Project is in conjunction with The Go Between, a major international conference focusing on the role of the artist as mediator between collections and audiences. For more info visit www.glam.ac.uk/cci.

Entry to Brecknock Museum & Gallery is free for the duration of the exhibition. For opening hours and further details please phone 01874 624121 or visit www.powys.gov.uk/breconmuseum.


image:

Catherine Bertola

Blue Babylonica

2009, screen printed wallpaper

Commission for National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery

Saturday, September 05, 2009

Rachel Lancaster: Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK


Rachel Lancaster

5th September - 3rd October

Tues - Sat, 11am -5pm

(or by appointment)

Preview: Friday 4th September, 6-9pm.

Workplace Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of work by Rachel Lancaster.

Rachel Lancaster's recent practice has focused on taking numerous photographic 'stills' from found moving imagery, which are then translated into paintings and drawings. Taken from her home television set with a digital camera whilst watching popular movies and TV (such as Madmen, The Horror Channel or The Thing) Lancaster uses the process of photography as a filter through which images are selected and seen afresh, dissociated from their origin. The 'cult' film and television images that Lancaster captures evade the typical themes with which these movies are associated. Instead Lancaster is drawn to seemingly insignificant passing shots, extreme close-ups of inanimate objects, and commonplace domestic interiors.

Lancaster interrogates the mundane fragments of a greater narrative, focusing on the split second moments that are in-between – an empty chair in a room from Network, a chequered blanket from Chinatown or a bed from The Day of the Triffids. These apparently disparate source materials are brought together and unified through scale and isolation. The resulting, often blurred or pixelated, photographs are then used as the source material for a series of oil paintings. Mediated by the poor resolution of affordable technology and divorced physically from their position within a narrative structure these paintings become abstract and ambiguous. Yet instead of diminishing their meaning, Lancaster's fetishisation of these images enables them to accrue status and power whilst signifying the unknown "event! that precedes or follows. In this way Lancaster!s work is 'Uncanny' through: the psychological charge of the selected image compounded by its cinematic monumentality, the reproduction or 'doubling' of an image in common cultural parlance, and in the subliminal evocations dependant on our familiarity with the language and conventions of Hollywood.

This exhibition at Workplace Gallery will consist of a new series of epic - scale oil paintings shown alongside a selection of her photographic source material, and a new sound installation by Lancaster.

Rachel Lancaster was born in Hartlepool in 1979; she studied Fine Art at Northumbria University, and lives and works in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. She is an artist and musician and an active participant in the growing and increasingly acclaimed North East England music scene. Rachel regularly performs as a solo artist, and alongside her twin sister Laura Lancaster (also represented by Workplace Gallery), and drummer Narbi Price in the band Chippewa Falls, and with Paul Smith (from Maximo Park) in the band Meandthetwins.


Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Paul Merrick: Salon 09


4th - 19th September 2009
Friday to Sunday (12.00-18.00).


Project Space, 25 Vyner Street, London, E2 9DG.


Matt Roberts Arts is pleased to announce the opening of our annual art prize exhibition Salon09, which will take place at our new 1000 square foot project space on the internationally renowned Vyner Street, East London. Salon09 features 58 artists’ work, ranging from Painting, Printmaking, Photography, Collage, Drawing, Sculpture, and Installation.


The selected artists are: Henny Acloque, Iain Andrews, Tim Bailey, Aglae Bassens, Fiona Cassidy, Louisa Chambers, Noa Charuvi, Charlie Coffey, Lucy Conochie, Ben Deakin, Dolores DeSade, Robin Dixon, Aidan Doherty, Freya Douglas-Morris, Tamara Dubnyckyj, Marko Dutka, Alice Evans, Andrew Griffiths, Dominic Hawgood, Neil Hedger, Liz Hingley, Atsuhide Ito, Monica Ursina Jäger, Lauren Kelly, Ilona Kiss, Sai Hua Kuan, Anna Larkin, Alanna Lawley, Alastair Levy, Hayley Lock, Cathy Lomax, Fiona MacDonald, Susie MacMurray, Garry Martin, John Mclaren, Georgina McNamara, Aidan McNeill, Paul Merrick, Arnaud Moinet, Eleanor Moreton, Lourival Cuquinha, Kala Newman, Ellen Nolan, Thomas Owen, Claire Palfreyman, Erik Parra, Regine Petersen, Barbora Rybarova, Michelle Sank, Anthony Schrag & Alice Finbow, Anja Schaffner, Guy Shoham, Georgina Sleap, Carole Suety, James Tye, Laura Zilionyte.

The work has been handpicked by a panel of prominent art experts, including Ceri Hand, Director of The Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, Gordon MacDonald, Editor and Head of Publications at Photoworks, Brighton, and Margot Heller, Director of the South London Gallery.

NEWS:The Salon09 Selectors' Prize and John Jones Award for Contemporary Painting have been awarded as follows:

The John Jones Award for Contemporary Painting - Tim Bailey
The Selectors' Prize - Neil Hedger

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the exhibitors and all of those who submitted applications. We were extremely pleased with the quality of applications and look forward to seeing you there.


Monday, August 31, 2009

Marcus Coates: "solo exhibtion" Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland




MARCUS COATES
16 AUGUST – 15 NOVEMBER 2009

What would animals advise? The artist Marcus Coates, who was born in 1968, explores human and social issues in his performances and the resulting video works. He experiments with forms of meaning and consciousness from the animal kingdom as parallel ways of experience and carries out almost shamanistic acts in an attempt to respond to urgent questions. In these performances, for which he dons half or full body costumes, he engages in a dialogue with the mode of being of animals and re-translates their voices into our language. In his first solo show to be staged at a Swiss institution, Coates presents a total of 6 of his video works for two-weekly periods. These ambivalent works oscillate between dark humour, fascination and irritation and are accompanied by notes and costumes used in the performances. Viewers can experience the artist himself in action on three occasions: Saturday, 29 August, 1 pm, as part of the «In Other Words» symposium; Saturday, 5 September, 10.30 pm, as part of the Lange Nacht der Museen programme; and from 20 – 24 October in different daily performances during the opening hours of the Kunsthalle Zürich.

Earlier this year Marcus Coates was invited to create a work by the Center for Digital Arts in Holon (Israel). As is often the case in his work, the artist sought out concrete and urgent societal problems and asked to be allowed to convey to the mayor in a performance the answer provided to one of his questions by the animal kingdom. This “séance” took place with an interpreter in the mayor’s tiny office like a curious kind of meeting situation. The mayor asked the artist for a solution to the problem of violence among the young people in Holon. Coates was dressed in a grotesque costume which combined elements of archaic rituals and civilisation trash with brute pragmatism in an improvisational but also alternative way: he wore a badger as head gear and a track suit whose side stripes reproduced the pattern on the badger’s coat in a kind of mimicry. When the mayor had asked his question, the artist stood up and after a brief period of concentration spontaneously produced a series of incomprehensible, chortling, squeaking and exploding sounds. He then sat down again on his chair and reported to the mayor about his encounters in the animal kingdom, in particular with a plover which steers attackers from its nest by pretending to be injured. Coates interpreted this as a metaphor, as general human behaviour but also deciphered its specific significance in relation to the political conflict in Israel.

The artist has also acted out this kind of knowledge transfer from the non-human to the human consciousness in numerous other performances. In Radio Shaman (2006), for example, he discussed answers from shamanistic performances, which he had staged in problematic locations in the city, on the radio. The questions raised here concerned poverty, prostitution and the increasing spread of HIV which have become matters of urgency for the small community due to the high number of Nigerian immigrants there. In Journey to the Lower World (2003) he presented a performance in the style of a Siberian ritual for the residents of an Liverpool tower block largely populated by elderly people that was under imminent threat of demolition.

Embedded in topics relating to ornithology, zoology, anthropology and philosophy as well as the special relationship between culture and nature, which in England is rooted in the folk tradition (singing in bird voices, for example), Marcus Coates asks questions as to what constitutes and moulds both our individual and cultural consciousness by seeking to experience other forms of consciousness. As part of this his works associate, discuss and hybridise numerous artistic and societal phenomena which anticipate, suspect, fear and intuit extended forms of knowledge by transcending the concept of the subject and reality.

Bruce Nauman stated in a neon work that “The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths”; in 1974 Joseph Beuys spent three days with a wild coyote in a room in the René Block gallery in New York which had been transformed into a cage (Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me, 1974); our fairytale world is full of half-human and half-animal creatures; the esoteric scene dismisses no possibility of the existence of extended forms of experience; sports people adopt numerous mental techniques and dictators and other politicians have repeatedly sought the advice of spiritual counsellors and clairvoyants and consulted mentors with access to other forms of knowledge.

Marcus Coates’s scenarios of the confrontation of being human and animal and his use of shamanistic practices leave the truth content of experience in abeyance in an artful, fascinating and irritating way. They unfold at the interface between imagination, facts and play and challenge the cultural systems of belief and control with ambiguous humour.
Films included in the exhibition: Kamikuchi (2006); Radio Shaman (2006); Rice Ritual (2006); Journey to the Lower World (2004); Human Report (2008); The Plover's Wing, A Meeting with the Mayor of Holon, Israel (2009).

Kunsthalle Zurich thanks:
Präsidialdepartement der Stadt Zürich, Luma Stiftung

Events

CONCERT: Friday, 28 August, 11 pm
XXX MACARENA: With John Miller, Jutta Koether, Tony Conrad and friends

SYMPOSIUM and PERFORMANCE: Saturday, 29 August, 1 – 4 pm
The symposium «In Other Words» is the opening event of a series centering around artistic practice that use language as an integral medium. Organised by Kunsthalle Zürich in collaboration with the Milan based curatorial project Peep-Hole and the Istituto Svizzero di Roma.
1 pm: Q&A Performance by Marcus Coates.
2.30 pm: Podium discussion with Vincenzo de Bellis, Claire Fontaine, Jutta Koether, John Miller, Bruna Roccasalva, Beatrix Ruf and Falke Pisano.

LANGE NACHT DER MUSEEN: Saturday, 5 September, 7 pm – 2 am
You ask questions, we provide the answers. Art education programme and performance.
7 – 10 pm: «All that glitters is not gold». Workshop for children and adolescents with Brigit Meier, Art Education. (For children from 6 years of age accompanied by an adult.)
10.30 pm: Q&A Performance: You ask questions, Marcus Coates provides the answers.

FILM WEEKEND:
Friday, 9 October, 6.30 pm

An evening of artists’ moving image work by the Jarman 2008 awardee Luke Fowler, and the Jarman Award 2009 shortlist: Anja Kirshner & David Panos, Simon Martin, Lindsay Seers and Stephen Sutcliffe. Presented by Film London and Channel 4, the Jarman Award recognises artists’ image work which, like Jarman’s, resists conventional definition, encompassing innovation and excellence.

Saturday, 10 October, 3 pm

James Mackay, producer, artistic executer and close friend of Derek Jarman, presents artist films from London between 1976 and 1986. Punk, New Wave and “New Romanticism” formed this decade and the post-structuralist opulent-voluptuous or serial films by Steve Farrer, Cordelia Swann, Roberta M. Graham, Cerith Wyn Evans, Dick Jewell and Richard Heslop.


PERFORMANCE WEEK with Marcus Coates: 20 – 24 October, during opening hours
Please keep up with the current information on our homepage: www.kunsthallezurich.ch.

CONCERT: Thursday, 29 October, 8 pm
The ensemble für neue musik zürich plays works by Giacinto Scelsi, Earl of Ayala Valvai (1905-1988)
www.ensemble.ch. www.scelsi.it

CATALOGUE:
A catalogue to accompany the exhibition will be published in early 2010 in cooperation with the Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes (UK).



Matt Stokes: "SEE THIS SOUND. PROMISES IN SOUND AND VISION" Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria



SEE THIS SOUND. PROMISES IN SOUND AND VISION

28 August 2009 - 10 January 2010

Artists today take an engagement with the sound of this world for granted. The former predominance of the visual has meanwhile been replaced by a multifaceted interplay of image and sound. Even though contemplative quiet still largely predominates in museums, sound, experimental composition, audiovisual media and pop culture have become central references for visual art in the 20th century.See This Sound documents this development from the perspective of visual art and refers to the respective contemporary discussions and promises.

In eight separate sections, See This Sound exhibits a number of important milestones and socio-historical reference points, in connection with which artists have worked with sound and composition and reflected on the medial relationship of image and sound.
Starting from the filmic sound visualizations of the 1920s - so-called Eye Music - it traces the topos of traversing genre boundaries in the 1960s and questions psychedelic trance machines and multimedia sound environments about their social-political potential. The illusion of a "natural" interplay of image and sound, for instance in Hollywood movies, is countered by works that disclose the discrepancies of this purported synthesis, all the way to the loss of sound and the power of speech. In addition, there is a special focus on the local production conditions of sounds (industrial cities and industrial sounds), and on sound as a medium of institutional critique. Astonishing promises have always been associated with the interplay of image and sound, with the crossover of visual art and music, in short: with "intermediality" - and sometimes still are up to the present, if we think of the idea of an "expanded visual culture" in the era of YouTube.


Artists:
Laurie Anderson, Martin Arnold, Atelier Hopfmann (Judith Hopf und Deborah Schamoni), John Baldessari, Gottfried Bechtold, Jordan Belson, Manon de Boer, George Brecht, Mary Ellen Bute, John Cage, Ira Cohen, Tony Conrad, Kevin Cummins, Josef Dabernig, Jeremy Deller, E.A.T. - Experiments in Art and Technology, Einstürzende Neubauten, Viking Eggeling, VALIE EXPORT, Oskar Fischinger, Andrea Fraser, William Furlong, Kerstin von Gabain, Jack Goldstein, Douglas Gordon, Andrew Gowans, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Granular Synthesis, Brion Gysin, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Gary Hill, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Heidrun Holzfeind, Derek Jarman, Jutta Koether, DIE KRUPPS, Peter Kubelka, Louise Lawler, Bernhard Leitner, LIA, Alvin Lucier, Len Lye, George Maciunas, Christian Marclay, Norman McLaren, Jonas Mekas, Michaela Melián, Robert Morris, Christian Philipp Müller, Wolfgang Müller, Max Neuhaus, Carsten Nicolai, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut, Norbert Pfaffenbichler & Lotte Schreiber, Rudolf Pfenninger, Adrian Piper, Mathias Poledna, Hans Richter, Jozef Robakowski, David Rokeby, Constanze Ruhm / Ekkehard Ehlers, Walter Ruttmann, Peter Saville, Michael Snow, Imogen Stidworthy, Matt Stokes, Nina Stuhldreher, Atsuko Tanaka, Test Department, TeZ, Throbbing Gristle, Tmema (Golan Levin und Zachary Lieberman), Ultra-red, Steina Vasulka, Ryszard Wasko, Peter Weibel, Hans Weigand, Herwig Weiser, James Whitney, La Monte Young, La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela.

The comprehensive project See This Sound. Exhibition | Web Archive | Symposium is realized in close collaboration between Lentos Art Museum Linz, Linz 09 and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research as an exhibition, research, and multimedia project.


WEBSITE: http://www.see-this-sound.at/

TEAM
Artistic and Scientific Lead:
Stella Rollig and Dieter Daniels
Curator: Cosima Rainer
Assistant-Curator: Manuela Ammer
Project Coordination: Veronika Floch
Scientific Collaboration Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research: Sandra Naumann
Exhibition Designer: Nicole David
Production Management: Magnus Hofmüller

The exhibition contribution Site.Sound.Industry was curated by Christian Höller and Petra Erdmann.
Audio contributions by Matthias Dusini &Thomas Edlinger.

CATALOGUES
"See This Sound. Promises in Sound and Vision", edited by Cosima Rainer, Stella Rollig, Dieter Daniels, Manuela Ammer at Walther König, Köln. With articles by Manuela Ammer, Dieter Daniels, Diedrich Diedrichsen, Helmut Draxler, Matthias Dusini & Thomas Edlinger, Heidi Grundmann, Christian Höller, Gabriele Jutz, Liz Kotz, Cosima Rainer and Stella Rollig. Numerous colour pictures, 320 pages, in German and English. Price: € 32,-.

"See This Sound. Audiovisuology I. An Interdisciplinary Compendium of Audiovisual Culture", edited by Dieter Daniels and Sandra Naumann. With 35 essays by international experts.
Online available under: http://www.see-this-sound.at/
Printed Version at Walther König, König (in preparation).

Monday, August 03, 2009

Matt Stokes: Shortlisted for Northern Art Prize 2009

The Northern Art Prize 2009 has announced the shortlisted artists for this year's award, supported by Logistik, Leeds City Council, Arup and Leeds Metropolitan University.

They artists are Pavel Bϋchler, Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson,Rachel Goodyear and Matt Stokes.

They were selected by a panel of judges which includes Patricia Bickers (Editor, Art Monthly), Richard Deacon (Artist), Paul Hobson (Director, Contemporary Art Society), Peter Murray (Director, Yorkshire Sculpture Park) and Tanja Pirsig-Marshall (Curator of Exhibitions, Leeds Art Gallery).

An exhibition of work by the shortlisted artists will take place at Leeds Art Gallery from 27 November 2009 - 21 February 2010. The winning artist will be announced on 21 January 2010, scooping the £16,500 prize money whilst each of the runners up will receive £1500.