Cath Campbell: 'Da Vinci Engineered' Amy Johnson Festival, Zebedee’s Yard, Hull, UK

Image: Cath Campbell, Lighthouse, 2012, Cardboard, Perspex and paint, 38 x 18 x 18 cm (CC0045) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK Da Vinci Engineered Renaissance mechanics to contemporary art Zebedee's Yard Whitefriargate / Princes Dock Street Hull   Saturday 2 July - Sunday 21 August 2016 Open daily 10am - 5pm Last admissions 4pm   Claire Barber, Sabine Bieli, Savinder Bual, Cath Campbell, Clare Charnley, Nicola Dale, Nicola Ellis, Heinrich & Palmer, Simone Aaberg Kaern, Ruth Levene, Clare Mitten and Helen Schell   Curated by Lara Goodband   In association with Green Port Hull and University of Hull School of Engineering, supported by BAE Systems and Spencer Group.   Amy Johnson Festival themes of engineering, flight and creativity come together in this must-see exhibition, displayed in our specially constructed gallery in Zebedee's Yard.   Twelve faithful reproductions of Leonardo da Vinci's flight and wind machines loaned by Da Vinci Museum, Florence, demonstrate the remarkable prescience of this great artist and his engineering genius. Alongside these Renaissance machines, specially commissioned and selected works by contemporary artists respond to ideas of flight or explore the use of engineering in their conceptualisation, design or production.   This fascinating exhibition, curated by Lara Goodband, reminds us that the creativity of the engineer and the inspiration of the artist are two sides of the same coin of human endeavor and innovation.   A series of associated artists' talks and hands-on workshops for young people will take place throughout July and August. See the festival website for full details of these and other events.   http://amyjohnsonfestival.co.uk/whats-on/da-vinci-engineered/

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Artist Talk with Marcus Coates & Brown's London Art Weekend

Marcus Coates, How can I have more impact with what I do? (Humpback whale), 2016, HD video, duration 20mins Workplace Gallery at Brown’s London Art Weekend  Friday, July 1 - Sunday, July 3 2016 marks the third year of Brown's London Art Weekend (BLAW), when over seventy Mayfair and St. James's galleries and auction houses open their doors to the public for talks, walks, and exhibitions, with extended hours. From Friday to Sunday the gallery will be open to the public with Marcus Coates’ show You Might As Well Ask A Crow. Gallery Hours during BLAW Friday, 10 AM - 8 PM Saturday, 10 AM - 5 PM Sunday, 12 AM - 5 PM 61 Conduit Street Mayfair London, W1S 2GB Workplace Gallery Tour & Drinks with Marcus Coates Friday, July 1, 7 PM Join Marcus Coates for drinks and a guided tour of the exhibition You Might As Well Ask A Crow as a special event for the Brown’s London Art Weekend. RSVP: rsvp@workplacegallery.co.uk   Brown’s London Art Weekend 1 - 3 July 2016 For 150 years Mayfair’s galleries and auction houses have welcomed the world’s greatest art collectors, and Brown’s London Art Weekend is the ultimate celebration of this London heartland, rich with art galleries and an experience unlike any other in the world.  @Artinmayfair #BLAW2016 Nearest Tube: Green Park www.brownslondonartweekend.com           Marcus Coates was born in 1968 in London, UK. In 2008 he was the recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Award and in 2009 he won the Daiwa Art Prize.  Solo exhibitions include: The Trip, Serpentine Gallery, London; Implicit Sound, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Psychopomp, Milton Keynes Gallery and Marcus Coates, Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland. Group exhibitions include: Private Utopia: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Tokyo Station Gallery, Japan; Station to Station, Barbican Art Centre, London; THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Sydney Biennale, Australia; ALTERMODERN, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London; MANIFESTA 7,Trento, Italy; Transformation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London; Hamsterwheel, Malmo Konsthall, Sweden and Venice Biennale. Marcus Coates lives and works in London.   A major new monograph, Marcus Coates, commissioned by Kunsthalle Zurich and Milton Keynes Gallery and published by Koenig will be available in June 2016.   For further information please contact: anna@workplacegallery.co.uk

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Darren Banks: 'A-or-ist no.2 A kind of care or sustenance' Raven Row, London, UK

Image: Darren Banks, Object Cinema, 2015, Single Channel HD Video 16:9, 5:26 minutes looped (DB0091) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK A-or-ist no.2 A kind of care or substenance Raven Row 56 Artillery Lane London E1 7LS   A new magazine of contemporary writing on art and other subjects, the second issue of A-or-ist explores the idea of being 'a kind of care or sustenance'. At a moment when state-provided care is receding, what might it be to 'take care' of ourselves or others? What if we're all past caring - all already polluted, toxic?   Jenna Bliss will screen her film A History of Lincoln Detox (excerpt no. 2) (2016), which looks into what society considers to be 'drugs', how national legislation, foreign policy and agencies such as the CIA influence their availability, and the turn towards holistic treatments for addiction. The screening will be followed by comments from Arran James, a mental health nurse working in substance misuse and a contributor to the independent media platform openDemocracy.   This event at Raven Row has been organised by the A-or-ist contributor-editors.   A-or-ist writer Alice Hattrick will read from 'According to Alice', her regular column on perfume.   Issue no. 2 guest contributor Caspar Heinemann will read two poems in development: one on queer politics, chaos magic and neoliberalism; the other on food, gentrification and tabloid scare stories.   For this event, Darren Banks has made a special edit of his film Object Cinema (2015), to which Jamie Sutcliffe responds with a reading from his text published in A-or-ist, 'Mutational Media & Deep Time Thrombosis: On Darren Banks' Object Cinema'.    Writer and publisher Huw Lemmey will present his work Pig Curious, a short visual account of a stake-out of Scotland Yard via the app Grindr, reflecting historical links between surveillance, spying and homosexuality.   Saxophonist Seymour Wright will perform a sound work written for the event, responding to the precept that we are all already toxified.   Launched in 2015 as 'a place for the elsewhere unfinished or otherwise disallowed', A-or-ist is produced by a collective of eight contributor-editors: Amy Budd, Hannah Gregory, Alice Hattrick, Lizzie Homersham, Shama Khanna, Naomi Pearce, Jamie Sutcliffe and Jonathan P. Watts. Each issue features newly commissioned texts by invited contributors; issue no. 2 includes new writing by Caspar Heinemann and Abondance Matanda.   A-or-ist is published by Eros Press. Copies of A-or-ist no. 2 will be available to purchase at a special launch price of £5 alongside other Eros Press publications.   http://www.a-or-ist.com/

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Wolfgang Weileder: 'Transfer Laban' London Festival of Architecture, Canary Wharf, London, UK

Image: Wolfgang Weileder, house-birmingham_1, 2004, Gelatine silver print on fibre based paper (WW0006) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK Transfer Laban / Wolfgang Weileder Tuesday 14th June 6-8pm Montgomery Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5JJ Nearest tube: Canary Wharf (Jubilee, DLR) Recreating the Façade of the Laban Building (Herzog & de Meuron, 1997) as a performative time-based sculpture whereby the shape and dimensions of a building are only momentarily revealed. Through a process of simultaneous construction and deconstruction, each weekday over a two-week period, the 40m-long façade will appear section by section as the structure moves slowly across Montgomery Square until it is complete. Erected from white lightweight concrete blocks and a support system scaffolding structure, each section will be visible for a single day before being deconstructed and rebuilt as the next section in sequence. The process will be recorded using time-lapse video and long exposure photography, capturing the entire façade as it materialises over time. Working in collaboration with Charles Linehan and students from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, a series of new dance performances has been developed in response to the work and will be present on site each day during intervals in the construction process at 12.30pm and 4.30pm. Commissioned by Locus+ with funding from the Arts and Humanties Research Council and in partnership with the Canary Wharf Group.   http://canarywharf.com/arts-events/

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TONIGHT: 6 - 8pm Private View | Marcus Coates

Marcus Coates, How can I have more impact with what I do? (Humpback whale), 2016, HD video, duration 20mins MARCUS COATES   You Might As Well Ask A Crow   Private View: Thursday 9th June 6pm-8pm Exhibition continues 9th June - 29th July 2016   WORKPLACE LONDON 61 Conduit Street Mayfair London, W1S 2GB Tel: +44 (0) 207 434 1985 (open Thursday - Friday 10am - 5pm and by appointment) http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk/      Workplace London is delighted to announce a presentation of Marcus Coates’ new work in the Mayfair gallery. The work draws from Coates’ ongoing investigation into the role of the artist as a mediator and vicarious agent.    “Have you brought a question with you? Could you write it down please. I need to understand this as if it were my own. Your question will become my question.”   During a schedule of private consultations in recent months, Marcus Coates has met with individuals from diverse backgrounds, who have each come to the artist with a question that bears a particular significance to them. The questions posed to Coates have taken myriad forms from political and ethical to deeply personal, the only limitation being that they could not be answered with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’, nor could the solution be found using an internet search engine. Utilising the gallery space in a manner of a consultation room, Coates has discussed and worked through the questions privately with each individual by using processes and forms of reasoning that rely less on conscious rationalisation and more on imaginative experience to provide insight.    The artwork/answers produced as a result of the gallery being used as a consultation space are exhibited here for the returning clients to view and discuss with the artist for the first time. It is important for Coates that this display can also be seen/used by the public in order to test the work’s wider relevance. Coates attempts to not only redefine the role of the artist but also to explore the part played by a commercial gallery space and the audience. By raising questions about the products of artistic activities and the very purpose of art, Coates challenges our intuitions concerning the limits of what it is an artist does, but also what we consider as art. Marcus Coates, To what extent can I blame Margaret Thatcher?, 2016, Bracket fungus and finishing oil, 27 x 16 x 10 cm Marcus Coates was born in 1968 in London, UK. In 2008 he was the recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Award and in 2009 he won the Daiwa Art Prize.  Solo exhibitions include: The Trip, Serpentine Gallery, London; Implicit Sound, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Psychopomp, Milton Keynes Gallery and Marcus Coates, Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland. Group exhibitions include: Private Utopia: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Tokyo Station Gallery, Japan; Station to Station, Barbican Art Centre, London; THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Sydney Biennale, Australia; ALTERMODERN, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London; MANIFESTA 7,Trento, Italy; Transformation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London; Hamsterwheel, Malmo Konsthall, Sweden and Venice Biennale. Marcus Coates lives and works in London.   A major new monograph, Marcus Coates, commissioned by Kunsthalle Zurich and Milton Keynes Gallery and published by Koenig will be available in June 2016.   For further information please contact: anna@workplacegallery.co.uk

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Matt Stokes: 'Energy Flash - The Rave Movement' M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium

Image: Matt Stokes, Real Arcadia (Sound-System), 2004 - 2007 reconstruction of sound-system consisting of 6 x bass speaker cabinets, 2 x mid range speakers, 2 x high range speakers 2 stacks (MS0005) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK Energy Flash - The Rave Movement M HKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerp Preview: 19.00 hr 16.06.2016   Exhibition: 17.06 - 25.09.2016 Jacques André, Irene de Andrés, Cory Arcangel, George Barber, Jef Cornelis, Jeremy Deller,Denicolai & Provoost, Rineke Dijkstra, Aleksandra Domanović, Andreas Gursky, Dan Halter,Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Ann Veronica Janssens, Martin Kersels, Mark Leckey, Daniel Pflumm, Matt Stokes, Sergey Shutov, The Otolith Group, Walter Van Beirendonck Energy Flash - The Rave Movement is the first museum exhibition for considering the rave phenomenon, as well as the social, political, economic and technological conditions that led to the advent of rave as an alternative movement across Europe. As an interdisciplinary project, Energy Flash presents the work of visual artists in dialogue with many artefacts from the fields of design, literature and music, along with items from various personal archives, television documentaries and legislation.   http://www.muhka.be/

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Private View | Marcus Coates, Thursday 9 June, 6-8pm

Marcus Coates, How can I have more impact with what I do? (Humpback whale), 2016, HD video, duration 20mins MARCUS COATES   You Might As Well Ask A Crow   Private View: Thursday 9th June 6pm-8pm Exhibition continues 9th June - 29th July 2016   WORKPLACE LONDON 61 Conduit Street Mayfair London, W1S 2GB Tel: +44 (0) 207 434 1985 (open Thursday - Friday 10am - 5pm and by appointment) http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk/      Workplace London is delighted to announce a presentation of Marcus Coates’ new work in the Mayfair gallery. The work draws from Coates’ ongoing investigation into the role of the artist as a mediator and vicarious agent.    “Have you brought a question with you? Could you write it down please. I need to understand this as if it were my own. Your question will become my question.”   During a schedule of private consultations in recent months, Marcus Coates has met with individuals from diverse backgrounds, who have each come to the artist with a question that bears a particular significance to them. The questions posed to Coates have taken myriad forms from political and ethical to deeply personal, the only limitation being that they could not be answered with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’, nor could the solution be found using an internet search engine. Utilising the gallery space in a manner of a consultation room, Coates has discussed and worked through the questions privately with each individual by using processes and forms of reasoning that rely less on conscious rationalisation and more on imaginative experience to provide insight.    The artwork/answers produced as a result of the gallery being used as a consultation space are exhibited here for the returning clients to view and discuss with the artist for the first time. It is important for Coates that this display can also be seen/used by the public in order to test the work’s wider relevance. Coates attempts to not only redefine the role of the artist but also to explore the part played by a commercial gallery space and the audience. By raising questions about the products of artistic activities and the very purpose of art, Coates challenges our intuitions concerning the limits of what it is an artist does, but also what we consider as art. Marcus Coates, To what extent can I blame Margaret Thatcher?, 2016, Bracket fungus and finishing oil, 27 x 16 x 10 cm Marcus Coates was born in 1968 in London, UK. In 2008 he was the recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Award and in 2009 he won the Daiwa Art Prize.  Solo exhibitions include: The Trip, Serpentine Gallery, London; Implicit Sound, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Psychopomp, Milton Keynes Gallery and Marcus Coates, Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland. Group exhibitions include: Private Utopia: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Tokyo Station Gallery, Japan; Station to Station, Barbican Art Centre, London; THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Sydney Biennale, Australia; ALTERMODERN, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London; MANIFESTA 7,Trento, Italy; Transformation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London; Hamsterwheel, Malmo Konsthall, Sweden and Venice Biennale. Marcus Coates lives and works in London.   A major new monograph, Marcus Coates, commissioned by Kunsthalle Zurich and Milton Keynes Gallery and published by Koenig will be available in June 2016.   For further information please contact: anna@workplacegallery.co.uk

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Workplace at Granpalazzo, Rome: Marcus Coates

Marcus Coates, Ritual for Reconciliation: Lilac-Breasted Roller (Coracias Caudatus), 2015, pigment on Hahnemuhle 100% α-cellulose, laid finished rice paper, 60 x 48 x 9 cm (framed)(MC0181) Marcus Coates GRANPALAZZO EDIZIONE 2016 PALAZZO ROSPIGLIOSI ZAGAROLO, ROMA   http://www.granpalazzo.org   28 - 29 May 2016   Workplace is pleased to present the work of Marcus Coates at this years's GRANPALAZZO.   Since 2004 Marcus Coates (b. London, 1968) has been developing an ongoing body of work in which he performs a shamanic ritual on behalf of a live audience. Through a combination of his earnestness as a Shaman, the absurdity of the Shamanic ritual in a contemporary setting, and his deadpan documentary style Coates seeks a new subjectivity for himself and in turn an approach to pragmatism that is irrational, uncontrolled, yet effective. Coates questions how culture supports our separation from nature and reflects on how nature as a human concept is a clear definition of our own needs and troubles as a species. The presentation for GRANPALAZZO 2016 includes films of his rituals, where he achieves a trance-like state and communes with the animal kingdom to address social issues as well as objects that address our problematic relationship with nature and thus ourselves. Ritual for Reconciliation (2015) is a series in which Coates describes the culture of wildlife photography as a fetishistic act of consumption. This works are the result of a ritualistic process where the artist makes high quality prints and compresses them in his hands. Lesser spotted woodpecker (Picoides minor) (2014), is a taxidermied starling that has been hand-painted by Coates to take the markings of this rare and elusive woodpecker, a bird Coates has never managed to see. Bassbone/Goose caller (2009) is a trombone fitted with a bassoon reed employed by Coates during his shamanic rituals to communicate with animals in his spirit world, thus being able to obtain information that they might hold.   Marcus Coates has shown in institutions such as: Serpentine Gallery, London; Joan Miró, Barcelona; Milton Keynes Gallery; Kunsthalle, Zurich; Sydney Biennale; Tate Britain, London; MANIFESTA 7, Trento, Italy; the Venice Biennale; Malmo Konsthall; Barbican Art Gallery, London.   Dal 2004 Marcus Coates (Londra, 1968) lavora ad una serie di opere in cui mette in scena un rituale sciamanico di fronte a una platea di spettatori. Coates, combinando la sua conoscenza da Sciamano, l’assurdità del rituale sciamanico nel contesto contemporaneo e il suo stile documentario, è alla ricerca di una nuova soggettività per se stesso e di un approccio pragmatico irrazionale, incontrollato, eppure effettivo. Coates mette in discussione il modo in cui la cultura sia causa della nostra separazione dalla natura e riflette su come l’idea di natura, intesa dall’uomo, definisca le nostre necessità e problematiche come specie. L’installazione proposta per GRANPALAZZO 2016 include film dei suoi rituali, in cui Coates raggiunge uno stato di trance e comunica con il regno animale per riferirsi a questioni sociali e presentare oggetti che narrano la nostra relazione con la natura. Ritual for Reconciliation (2015) è una serie in cui Coates descrive la cultura della fotografia naturalistica come un atto di consumo feticistico. Queste fotografie sono il risultato di un processo ritualistico in cui l’artista scatta delle foto per poi accartocciarle. Lesser spotted woodpecker (Picoides minor) (2014) è uno storno impagliato, dipinto a mano da Coates con i colori di un picchio raro e sfuggente che l’artista non ha mia avuto modo di incontrare. Bassbone/Goose caller (2009) è un trombone, al cui interno è posta una canna di un fagotto utilizzato da Coates durante i suoi riti sciamanici per comunicare con gli animali, così ottenendo informazioni di cui sono i soli detentori.   Marcus Coates ha esposto in istituzioni come: Serpentine Gallery, Londra; Joan Miró, Barcellona; Milton Keynes Gallery; Kunsthalle, Zurigo; Sydney Biennale; Tate Britain, Londra; MANIFESTA 7, Trento; Biennal di Venezia; Malmo Konsthall; Barbican Art Gallery, Londra.   GRANPALAZZO is an exhibition-event involving some of the most interesting, serious, and consistent artists and galleries  in the contemporary art scene. The challenge of the project is to create a bridge between epochs: a respectful, reciprocal relationship between the art of the past and the interpretation of the present age. GRANPALAZZO is open Saturday May 28 and Sunday May 29 for a week-end dedicated to contemporary art.   To view the works exhibited please click here   for all enquiries please contact: miles@workplacegallery.co.uk Marcus Coates Bassbone / Goose Caller, 2009 Blessing Trombone, bassoon reed, ptfe plumbers tape, M&K trombone stand 115 x 35 cm 45 1/4 x 13 3/4 in (MC0069)

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