Post by zoe on Apr 17, 2007 16:06:35 GMT -5
Hey! Our 3rd meeting of the week will be taking place tomorrow morning at 10 am simply because we would love to have breakfast together for once! We will all be bringing in research about group shows that we have liked and found well curated.
Second group event of the day:
Exhibition Talks
Brian Griffiths - Artist Talk
Wed 18 April, 7pm
'With reference to Beneath the Stride of Giants, other past projects and recent opportunities, Brian Griffiths will present an illustrated talk about his creative practice.
Since graduating with an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in 1996, Griffiths has exhibited regularly in the UK and internationally. He is represented by Vilma Gold and lives and works in London.'
Lastly an expedition to London is planned for this Friday (20th april) to see following show at Gasworks:
Slash Fiction
Liu Chuang / The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland / Philippe Parreno / Beatriz Santiago Muñoz / Janek Simon / Wang Wei / Hu Xiangqia
'Slash Fiction explores the critically reflexive ways in which artists utilise mainstream cultural and social structures. The selected artists operate and participate within major systems or languages such as party politics, advertising, colonisation and the World Wide Web. The results are often implicitly challenging to the ways those systems work.
Slash Fiction will present works by six international artists. Janek Simon’s use of information and materials gained only from the internet will demonstrate how easy it is to make almost anything given enough time, patience and bandwidth. Liu Chuang’s conceptual works allow the viewer to perceive the extent and pervasiveness of large systems, through smaller events and acts. Philippe Parreno’s The dream of a thing will be screened at local cinemas during the advertising break, using the visual language of advertisements to sell something unspecified. Hu Xiangqian’s video Flying Blue Flag documents his bid for mayor in his local elections, energetically campaigning by promising commercial regeneration, pushing gently on religious tensions and simply offering to buy votes. Wang Wei will transform the architectural grammar of the exhibition space with his ambitious exhibition design. The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland will annex Gasworks as a territory for the duration of the exhibition*.
Slash fiction is a genre of fan fiction in which characters from popular culture are homoerotically re-cast according to the desires of its usually female authors. It can be considered a kind of ‘minor literature’: a form of literature written by the minority in the language of the major group, capable of unsettling its coherence. Slash Fiction presents strategies that are similarly minoritarian actions not within linguistic but within social, cultural, digital and political structures.
Hu Xiangqian, Wang Wei and Liu Chuang are participating in Gasworks International Residency Programme between January and March 2007 developing projects for the exhibition. This exhibition and residency project is the first of a three-year project supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. For more information on their projects click here.
* Non-citizens will require a visa to enter the Kingdoms
Offsite: The dream of a thing
During the weeks of the exhibition, Philippe Parreno’s work The dream of a thing will be screened during the pre-film advertising at various London cinemas. This one-minute work uses the visual language of advertising in an extravaganza that sells nothing. Further details to be announced. '
Finally has anyone got any suggestions as to other shows to see afterwards ?
best, Zoe
Second group event of the day:
Exhibition Talks
Brian Griffiths - Artist Talk
Wed 18 April, 7pm
'With reference to Beneath the Stride of Giants, other past projects and recent opportunities, Brian Griffiths will present an illustrated talk about his creative practice.
Since graduating with an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in 1996, Griffiths has exhibited regularly in the UK and internationally. He is represented by Vilma Gold and lives and works in London.'
Lastly an expedition to London is planned for this Friday (20th april) to see following show at Gasworks:
Slash Fiction
Liu Chuang / The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland / Philippe Parreno / Beatriz Santiago Muñoz / Janek Simon / Wang Wei / Hu Xiangqia
'Slash Fiction explores the critically reflexive ways in which artists utilise mainstream cultural and social structures. The selected artists operate and participate within major systems or languages such as party politics, advertising, colonisation and the World Wide Web. The results are often implicitly challenging to the ways those systems work.
Slash Fiction will present works by six international artists. Janek Simon’s use of information and materials gained only from the internet will demonstrate how easy it is to make almost anything given enough time, patience and bandwidth. Liu Chuang’s conceptual works allow the viewer to perceive the extent and pervasiveness of large systems, through smaller events and acts. Philippe Parreno’s The dream of a thing will be screened at local cinemas during the advertising break, using the visual language of advertisements to sell something unspecified. Hu Xiangqian’s video Flying Blue Flag documents his bid for mayor in his local elections, energetically campaigning by promising commercial regeneration, pushing gently on religious tensions and simply offering to buy votes. Wang Wei will transform the architectural grammar of the exhibition space with his ambitious exhibition design. The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland will annex Gasworks as a territory for the duration of the exhibition*.
Slash fiction is a genre of fan fiction in which characters from popular culture are homoerotically re-cast according to the desires of its usually female authors. It can be considered a kind of ‘minor literature’: a form of literature written by the minority in the language of the major group, capable of unsettling its coherence. Slash Fiction presents strategies that are similarly minoritarian actions not within linguistic but within social, cultural, digital and political structures.
Hu Xiangqian, Wang Wei and Liu Chuang are participating in Gasworks International Residency Programme between January and March 2007 developing projects for the exhibition. This exhibition and residency project is the first of a three-year project supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. For more information on their projects click here.
* Non-citizens will require a visa to enter the Kingdoms
Offsite: The dream of a thing
During the weeks of the exhibition, Philippe Parreno’s work The dream of a thing will be screened during the pre-film advertising at various London cinemas. This one-minute work uses the visual language of advertising in an extravaganza that sells nothing. Further details to be announced. '
Finally has anyone got any suggestions as to other shows to see afterwards ?
best, Zoe