August 2009
1 post
David Claerbout — Hauser & Wirth, London
Will add link to show blurb
David Claerbout – Hauser and Wirth Notes made at the time of viewing. Did that thing of reading the press release first which told me exactly what “Riverside” (the double screen work in main gallery) was about and for and how I should react. Would I have had this reaction without reading it – would I have watched it all without reading it is probably the question. It...
July 2009
8 posts
Aurelien Froment - Froebel Suite. Gasworks,...
Alex Kershaw, Flat Screen. Beaconsfield Gallery
Has the Beaconsfield turned into a cafe, maybe. On entering the food on offer is much better advertised than the art. I’ve come to see Alex Kershaw’s videos.
“Alex Kershaw is based in Sydney and works with video and photography to generate unexpected relationships between people and their terrain. Often spending extended periods researching locations and characters, Kershaw’s...
DIY Rapture - Team Lump, Cell Project Space
Made notice board, faked notice board, copied notice board, Replica notice board, twisted notice board, fictioned and made to deliver a different message notice board, made out of paper to look like paper.its actually called”Bulletin board”. Too much fascination with the idea of the notice board, meant I didn’t notice the notices… (all reflecting on American Cults?)
Main...
Alan Kane - Life Class
TV programme 2/4
Life Drawing - Art Angel
Channel Four 12.30 pm
Gary Hume
Why is the model so attractive and female? I have inside info that this is the weakest programme out of the four.
“Remember you are not taking a photo of her - you are making another thing. it is your drawing - make mistakes keep them in. you’re making a good thing out of a good looking thing ” -...
NOT I - Samuel Beckett, Royal Festival Hall
Copy of immediate notes made during performance. There was the play performed and the a talk afterwards. Stream of consciousness, My eyes getting adjusted to the dark. The mouth is so small – yet so detailed. She means “I” Really fast – untheatrical speed. “tell” I remember feeling just a mouth – feeling like a mouth. Then it is over. It was a physical blur, it was camera shake. My head was...
March 2009
2 posts
S E Barnet and The Kit Collective
Does God Live...
Here's one (an opinion)
The Gainsborough Packet, &C. Matt Stokes
projectspace 176
www.projectspace176.com - check for blurb about the show
I went to the opening of this exhibition.23rd Feb 2009.
This is video art living. This space is the home of the Zabludowicz Collection, a collection of video art. Quality projections in a refurbished large church.
The show that is on has two main video pieces, the work of...
February 2009
11 posts
Xavier le Roy - Product of Circumstances
After Tino Sehgal I saw Xavier le Roy perform his “choegraphic lecture demonstration” Which was brilliant. Brilliant for research as a it was a lecture, a brilliant first experience of “conceptual?” dance, and brilliant because it was brilliant. I learnt, laughed, thought and was compelled.
Questions that inspire le Roy are; When you dance you produce and present at the...
Tino Sehgal, Artists Talk, Tate Modern
As part of the Characters, Figures and Signs event Tino Sehgal was asked about his use of dance (he trained in dance and political economy) and then went on to describe his practice and talk about his ambitions. This event was looking at the gesture, how that can be choegraphed, differences between saying and doing link to website I recorded his talk. Not least because I undertook my...
Conceptual Models - Tate Modern
Dropped by this exhibit at Tate Modern to see if I could get inspired to make my own models for av equipment. It was quite traditional and dry, the most radical model being those of Thomas Demand (i.e. photographs) - the show was centred around the architectural model and environments, and the potential of buildings to effect social exchange. Yawn…
Test entry
I’m not sure exactly what I’m saying but it strikes me that its not very communist to deal in relations, rather than production. This is a thought in development re The Otolith Groups recent performance.
The thought in development springs partly from a recent conversation with Harun Morrison about the Superflex film, Flooded Macdonalds at SLG. Harun loved this work, I hated it. This...
The Otolith Group quick audio thoughts, see post...
Everyday Problems Everywhere
I went to see three shows today (well four including AlterModern, Tate Triennial, bit that surely deserves a whole post to itself?)
I went to the Worst End to see three shows. I realised on my way around they all had the word “everyday” in their press release.
It’s official - The everyday is everywhere.
Anna Barriball - Frith Street
Normally a fan of Barriball, but my...
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The Otolith Group - Communists Like Us...
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2008/06/the_otolith_groupcommunists_li.html
Technically this event was a disaster
perhaps The Otolith group have taken on too much (what with shows at The Showroom, Gasworks and this as part of the Serpentine, Indian Highway Show) but it was held together by the intellectual and smooth tongue of Kodo Eshun who clearly laid out their vague ambitions (to ask a...
At least twice a week 2009
trying to go to two art events/shows a week.
research for my Phd.
things to write up about in full
Live Record - expanded cinema event
Michael Snow and talk (subtitles piece)
Wavelength talk
General Idea at Tate B
GSK (julain rosedfeldt, gail pickering,)
Dispersion, ICA
The Devil and the Blue Sea, 1927 at BAC
Julian Fox, scratch performance BAC
Mark Leckey , ICA
Farocki at Cubitt and...