VeloFest 2010 - a creative bicycle festival -

“VeloFest” is a platform for bicycle promotion as a way of living: transport, recreation, inspiration for works of art or just an adventure and fun.

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7.9 Cubic Metres// A gallery within a gallery // Call for proposal

The curator is now accepting proposals from artists practicing both in the UK and abroad, which respond to any one of the project’s 4 exhibition components, yet to run.

Email the following (Max. total file size 1.5mb) to: e.tan@kingston.ac.uk

1. Exhibition proposal (Single page, A4 PDF)

2. Image or video samples of proposed work and/or the previous works

3. Artist’s CV, including contact details and website, if any.

Proposals for works to be exhibited in all 4 quarters are welcome anytime and will be received on an on-going basis.

Works may be already completed or newly proposed.

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Outcasting - Web Based Screening Project Call for submissions

An internet based screening channel for all forms of moving image work. Submissions will be screened on a rolling basis.

All films will be archived online and there will be the possibility of DVD distribution for selected works.

To Apply:
all work should be submitted as full quality data files on DVD / on MiniDV tape / or as Flash Movies.

Outcasting
Michael Cousin
116 Paget Street
Grangetown
Cardiff
CF11 7LA
United Kingdom

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The Stones of Menace Call for Entries

The austere architecture of Brutalism is often vilified as producing social neglect rather than the vibrant community life envisioned by its architects. Art, on the contrary, is mostly seen as a potent tool to create social cohesion.

In this show we would like to explore polemical perspectives on architecture and art and open up a debate on the role of culture as a source of conflict and criticism.

We are looking for work that reflects on the relationship between art/architecture and its social/physical context or deals with issues of creative expressions of violence and social discontent. Work can include video, performance, 2D and 3D work, presentations/lectures.

Submission:
Please send a DVD/CD with 5 images and/or 1-3 videos, a CV and a brief description of the proposed work to:

Scare in the Community
13 Dunmow Road
E15 1TZ London, UK

Deadline for the submission is 30.01.2010. The event will take place in East London in May 2010.

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PULSE 10: Live/ Interdisciplinary Artists Proposals

A spring-board for fresh new artistic approaches, as well as a home for risk-taking and cutting edge performance from more established artists, PULSE Festival provides a platform for the development and presentation of work by regional, British and international artists of vision; nurturing artistic ambition and excellence across a range of art forms. Town Hall Galleries will be curating a Live Art strand for the festival (it it’s most expanded sense) looking for interdisciplinary projects, events and interventions that range from durational, site specific installation to live performance.

For the 3rd year Ipswich’s Town Hall Galleries are collaborating with PULSE producers The New Wolsey Theartre to curate a series of presentations and events by Live Art practitioners to run throughout the festival programme. Proposals are invited from interdisciplinary artists working across platforms, contexts and spaces to actively engage audiences through experimental process, intervention and action.

Work will be considered for a range of sites and spaces across Ipswich – formal, informal, unconventional, private and civic through a responsive approach that provides opportunity to build a challenging project with interesting and surprising outcomes.

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SALON VIDEO ART PRIZE - 2010

40 - 50 artists working in video and video installation will be selected for a unique video 'Salon' exhibition taking place at our Project Space, Unit 1, 25 Vyner Street, London, E2 9DG, opening on Thursday 4th March, 2010.

There is a selectors' prize of £800(GBP) for a chosen exhibitor.

In order to submit work you must be an associate member of Matt Roberts Arts. Associate Membership allows you to submit work for two open submission arts prizes per year as well as offering a range of professional development support, it costs £8 (GBP) and £10 (GBP) for practitioners based outside of the UK. Payments can be submitted via the form below or a cheque made out to Matt Roberts Arts can be sent to: Unit 1, 25 Vyner Street, London, E2 9DG.
Please read the section marked 'How to apply' before making any payments.

The deadline for DVD submissions and associate membership payments is 5pm, Saturday 23rd January, 2010

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PASSING THROUGH @ James Taylor Gallery

The James Taylor Gallery is pleased to present Passing Through, a group exhibition featuring the work of sixteen emerging artists and collaborators, creating works of art which are interactive, responsive, user aware and audience led.

The progression of Interactive art is not a recent phenomenon, originally explored in the 1960's; it's visibility in the art world has often been shrouded, seen as a fad created by artists whose principal concern is in producing works of technically trickery, rather than artworks that pursue an intellectual and referential meaning. However, in society and indeed culture we are forever forging stronger relationships with technology. Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI), GPS, iPhones and the Internet are all examples of the daily influences of digital media. This interaction has and is continuing to shape the way we live, how we perceive our environment, the way we communicate with each other, and importantly how we view our relationship with art.

This exhibition presented by TINT, an emerging arts initiative, providing a platform for open discourse and experimentation, aimed at breaking down preconceptions of interactivity and its relevance in contemporary art.

'Passing Through' explores the movement of the spectator turned interactor on a personal journey, engaging in direct conversation with the artworks in order to realise and complete the work that would not exist without his/her actions.

"By putting the user into the controls interactive technology could be claimed to have a strong liberating potential, as well, making it an effective means to analyze and deconstruct preexisting ideological formations." Erkki Huhtamo

Works such as Ben Faga's ScentScapes experiment with scent association through sound responsive aroma pods, whilst Lottolab Studios Music to our eyes uses the audience's presence to produce orchestral compositions from colour, contrast and brightness. Other artists create responsive installations from light, sound and kinetics, exploring notions of culture, media and memory. Artists include - Bulbcollective (Owen Bowden, Edward Holland & Suzi Tibbetts), captincaptin, Curtis Matthew, Stuart Dunbar, Jamie Elliott, Ben Faga, Peter Forde, Jon Garlick & Lawrence Abu-Hamdan, Richard Kendrick, Lottolab Studios (Ilias Bergstrom, Beau Lotto & Sam Walker), Parag Mital, Agelos Papadakis & Dave Murray-Rust, Artemis Papageorgiou, Tobias Revell, David Strang, Jamie Thompson.

Curated by captincaptin artist Gareth Goodison and Jonathan Hall

Diane Arbus @ Timothy Taylor gallery

Anthony Peskine @ The Wasp Room

Anthony Peskine - Who Do You Think You Are?

April 30th - May 17th 2009

Open Thurs/Fri, 3-7pm; Sat/Sun, 12-5pm or by appointment

Private View: April 28th 2009, 6-8pm

The Wasp Room is pleased to present ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, the first UK exhibition by Parisian artist Anthony Peskine.

Adopting and adapting the visual languages of advertising campaigns and with a keen sense of the absurd, Peskine’s work is concerned with the predicament of the loser, and how promises are rarely fulfilled.

Peskine seeks to satirise the way in which aspiration and hope are exploited as a manipulative device. He uses his own disappointment and disillusionment to drive a varied artistic practice that ranges from painting and photography, to text pieces, video works and installations.

Offering humorous alternatives to insincere pledges and conceited slogans, mocking intangible fears and superficial aspirations fed by media sensationalism, Peskine’s previous work has included large painted recreations of vouchers printed on ticket stubs which had offered “mega savings of 50p”, and a series of street-based interventions in which he adapted billboard slogans, including a political campaign by Nicolas Sarkozy, adding his own message “ou pas” (or not); rendering their ‘guarantees’ contentious and putting their artificial optimism in jeopardy.

Peskine’s sharp, sarcastic critiques, though cynical and perhaps even childish at times, offer a strategy to fight disappointment; advocating humour as an effective escape philosophy.

For ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, Peskine will be exhibiting a selection of recent works and new pieces, including the deadpan installation ‘My Weight in Potato Crisps’ and a series of manipulated photo works with bizarre and prophetic narratives.

The Wasp Room

at Tether Studios

17a Huntingdon St 

Nottingham

NG1 3JH

For more about Peskine, visitanthonypeskine.com

Dan Graham at Lisson Gallery, London (until 09/05/09)

Model for Pavillion Influenced by Moon, 1988 Two-way mirror and glass, aluminium 51.5 x 73.5 x 74 cm


Lisson Gallery presents a major survey exhibition of work by American artist Dan Graham. Theatre brings together works that illustrate Graham's diverse practice throughout his career; from the early performances to photography and the influential pavilions, including his architectural drawings and models.

The exhibition presents photographic, video and audio documentation of seminal early performances such as Like, 1969, Lax / Relax, 1969-1995, and Past Future Split Attention, 1972. Theatre also features architectural drawings and photographs that, across decades, have documented American vernacular suburban architecture. Architectural drawings and photographs accompany four of Graham's models for pavilions, visionary works that bridge his interest and understanding of architecture, pop sculpture and visitor interaction and experience within the exhibition space. Two of the models on show were never realised, but maintain their visionary charge, conceptual clarity and sculptural beauty: Model for Swimming Pool/Fish Pond, 1997 and Model for Portal, 1997. Model for Ying Yang Pavilion, 1991 and a new model for the Novartis Campus Pavilion, 2009, are accompanied by videos documenting the pavilions, installed in public settings.

source: art rabbitt and lisson gallery

lisson gallery
52-54 Bell Street London, NW1 5DA - 020 7724 2739
Open Weekdays 9:30am-6pm; Sat 11am-5pm

Last Chance to see Superflex : Flooded McDonald's @ SLG London

The South London Gallery presents a new film work by Danish collective Superflex entitled 'Flooded McDonald's'. Despite their international track record over the past 15 years, this will be their first solo show in London. From large-scale installations, through to long-term process-based projects and, more recently, films, Superflex’s work is founded in economic and political awareness. They create works inspired by the points where definitions and possibilities of art become blurred.

The exhibition is open from 16.01.09 to 01.03.09

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ART SWAP @ August art gallery, London

August art Gallery is organising an experiment on the value of art, and all (artists and non-) are invited to participate. The experiment is a part of the London EAST Festival, a collaboration of key cultural institutions including the Whitechapel Gallery.

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article In the Independent newspaper