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Trading Places – 12o Collective
TRADING PLACES 1.0
PRIVATE VIEW: 3rd DEC 15 18:00-21:00
Exhibition Open:
4th -6th DEC 15
(appointment available on request)
Open Crit/ Roundtable discussion: 5th Dec 15 13:00-14:30
As part of 12ø Collective's A/W 2015 Residency, artist Joshua Parker will be curating an exhibition from entries from an open submission to explore possibilities of how emerging art practices could survive continuous austerity measures while maintaining critical reflection of the contemporary.
Trading Places will work as a projection of an impending landscape, when art follows business models, corporate strategies or corporate aesthetics to sustain and fund art practices, as this could soon to become the only feasible way progress in an austerity lead environment.
Selected Artists:
Tom Camm – http://www.thomascamm.com/
Rachael Davies – www.rachaeldavies.co.uk
Hannah Dickinson – http://www.hannahdickinson.com/
Sarah-Joy Ford – http://sarahjoyford.com/
Sid and Jim – www.sidandjim.com
Hannah Taylor – http://cargocollective.com/hannah-taylor
Charles Verni – http://www.charlesverni.com/
Dickie Webb – http://www.dickiewebb.com/
Alice Woods – http://www.alicewoods.co.uk/
12ø Collective – http://www.12ocollective.com/
Open round table, critic, discussion with some of the featuring artists on Saturday 5th Dec 15 13:00 – 14:30, all welcome to join in, (refreshments served)
12 Orpen Walk
N16 8HG
*we do apologise but wheelchair accessible isn't possible for this location although we will do our best to make the exhibition accessible through other means.
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Residency
Art Residency, Sculpture, Uncategorized
Today I arrived at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop where I will be artist in residence for the next three months. It's exciting times with this residency fitting in-between the Into the Wild residency at the Chisenhale Art Place. After working handout overseas to fund this six month period of research of making it has finally arrived. So far so good and I can only say the next few months should prove fruitful with a new body of work in the making.
I will have time to update this blog which for the last year has not been given much attention. For those that are also interested in what is offered here at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop please follow the link as its an amazing facility.
http://www.edinburghsculpture.org
PNEM – SoundArt Festival Uden, Netherlands 14-15th November.
art, composers, composition, dickie webb, festival, holland, Music, netherlands, pnem, projection, sound, sound art, uden, Video
PNEM Sound Art Festival – Interactive Visual Art
On Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 November 2015, the platform new experimental music the fifth international Pnem Sound Art Festival 2015 with live, video and audio performances by artists from home and abroad. The Pnem Sound Art Festival offers a stage for musicians and artists that are located on the cutting edge of sound, music and new media. The organisers hope through the festival an international platform for the development and implementation of new experimental music and graphic art.
To the public is also an active and participatory role. How's your food? Take a walk in the woods with as a guide by yourself a soundscape selected or listen to the music via the app. In the context of 10 years klankenbos (be) and 5 YEARS PNEM FESTIVAL (NL) created a soundartist Bart Van Dongen in cooperation with app-Developer Yvan van der sanden an interactive GPS composition for two locations, the looppiste in Lubbock and The old velodrome of Belgian refugees in uden. The listen app gets a permanent nature, in Belgium as part of the world war I and in the Netherlands klankroute a luisterwandeling by the maashorst.
PNEM Sound Art Festival
14.11.15 | 19:30 h till 23:00 H | € 15, buy tickets
15.11.15 | 12:00 h till 17.00 h | FREE
Theater to peak
Pnemstraat 1
5406 xa uden
http://www.besteburen.eu/…/interactieve-klankkunst-op-pnem-…
PNEM Program
Saturday 14 Nov. LIVE
20:00 Official opening of the PNEM Sound Art Festival
20:15 PushPull (DE) – Balgerei
20:30 Ken Byers (UK) – Movement-Interactive
21:00 The Feedback Gents (DE) – Out Of The Wilds
22:00 Renzo Spiteri (MT) – Quintessence
22:45 End
Sunday 15 Nov. LIVE
12:00 Official opening of PNEM Sound Art Maashorst
13:00 Stichting COM (NL) – Bezette Stad Revisited – theater
13:30 Bart van Dongen (NL) – Workshop – studio
14:00 PushPull (DE) – Balgerei – theater
14:30 Bart van Dongen (NL) – Live performance – studio
15:00 Renzo Spiteri (MT) – Quintessence – theater
15:30 Radio Approxim (NL) – Mother Flockers – studio
16:00 Studium:Stadt (DE) – To see with your ears and… – theater
Interactive installation
12:00-16:00 Lex Raijmakers (NL) – Roots – near the studio
12:00-16:00 Alan Dormer (IE) – Thishearbeast – outdoor theater
• La Cosa Preziosa (IE) – The edge of the world 1'44
• Julian Scordato (IT) – Vision II 7'00
• Dickie Webb (UK) – U DYS HET 7'19
• Matthew Schoen (CA) – Vehicles CA 9″30
• Osvaldo Cibils (IT) – N°1-5 installation on monitor 2'31
PNEM Sound Art Maashorst – WoodWalk Experience 2.0
• Alan Dunn (UK) – The Black Forest 2'30
• Barry O'Halloran (IE) – Triptych 6'22
• Bart van Dongen (NL) – Gelukzoekers, zo noemen ze ons
• David Prescott-Steed (AU) – Miscommunication Solo 9'05
• David Rogers (UK) – Dungeness Tower 3'32
• Katherine Trimble (USA) – We're Not Gonna Make It 9'03
• Osvaldo Cibils (IT) – Soundart 29 april 2015h 3'30
• Sam Marshall (UK) – Caught In Transmission 6'53
• Sandrine Deumier + Alx P.op (FR) – Mdr_test508 2'38
•Simón Pérez (AR) – Las Cifras y Las Palabras 8'00
Nog enkele kaartjes voor zaterdagavond beschikbaar: https://soundartfestival.wordpress.com/…/…/kaartjes-tickets/
Brutalist Architecture Inspires Simon Terrill's Foam Playgrounds
Architecture, brutalist, dickie webb, foam, interaction, playground, Sculpture, simon, terrill
We're familiar with the sight of brutalist towers in Britain, but less well known are the strange playgrounds built at the same time, which are the inspiration for a new installation at the RIBA by the artist Simon Terrill and design collective Assemble. With their rough surfaces and dangerous drops, these surreal concrete structures were very much a product of their time.
Churchill Gardens estate in Pimlico, London, 1978This playground is on the modernist Churchill Gardens estate designed by Powell and Moya, but clearly built at a later date. Before these postwar playgrounds were built, children would have been playing in the bomb sites left after the war. It's possible the architects were referencing that in their design.
All captions by Simon Terrill
Photograph: John Donat/RIBA
Churchill Gardens estate, Pimlico, 1956The flying saucer looks like it has crashed and there's a mysterious cruise-liner chimney. Brutalist buildings are built out of bush-hammered concrete and the playgrounds are made out of the same material.
Photograph: John Maltby/RIBA
Balfron Tower playground, Poplar, London, 2015
Ernö Goldinger, who built the Balfron Tower, was interested in play and children's toys. But this playground looks inhospitable. Apparently the slide once had metal on it – now it is just the concrete, so you wouldn't want to go down it – it would take your skin off.
Photograph: Simon Terrill/Assemble
Park Hill estate, Sheffield, 1963Part of the Park Hill estate, designed by Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith, who were tutored by the Smithsons – the founders of new brutalism. The estate was famous for its experimental ideas, like walkways in the sky, and that approach was reflected in the playground.
Photograph: Arch Press Archive/RIBA
Park Hill estate, Sheffield, 1962The same shapes appear in brutalist playgrounds around the country: hexagons, ramps, holes in walls. The children would have had a very physical encounter with the concrete – crawling over it, feeling it under their hands, grazing their knees. It's a very different way to experience brutalism than the way most adults did.
Churchill Gardens estate playground, Pimlico, 1963 These unconventional structures encourage children to take risks, to explore. There is an element of danger which you might not get in soft play areas today.
Assemble and Simon Terrill's foam playground at the RIBA headquarters, LondonWe talked about using concrete, but it would have been impossible in a museum. And it would have been inappropriate for children to play on. So we used foam, which by coincidence has a very similar speckled look to bush-hammered concrete.
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
Children playing on Assemble and Simon Terrill's playground at RIBAThe colours are standard issue, and relate to the density of the foam. Pink foam is denser than blue. The brutalist ethos was to expose the function of a building, and honour the truth of your materials. Brutalist playgrounds were a truth to concrete, ours is a truth to foam.
The Thoughtfulness Of Nonverbal Space – Shin Noguchi
dickie webb, GOU, japan, japanese, MA, nonverbal, Photography, shin noguchi, space, street
Published on June 5, 2015 on Aint Bad Magazine.
Shin Noguchi is an award winning street photographer based in Kamakura and Tokyo, Japan. He describes his street photography as an attempt to capture extraordinary moments of excitement, beauty and humanism, among the flow of everyday life and has a discreet, poetic and enigmatic approach that is sensitive to the subtleties and complexities of Japanese culture without using posed/staged and no-finder/hip shot. "Street photography always projects the "truth". The "truth" that I talk about isn't necessarily that I can see, but they also exist in society, in street, in people's life. and I always try to capture this reality beyond my own values and viewpoint/perspective." Today we take a look at Shin's series titled Nonverbal Space.
"Nonverbal Space", it is unstable, distorted, and contradicts what we have created. And [Ma], exists in there.
The characteristic of the Japanese [Ma] is very beautiful, also delicate, and if you are not always aware of the very small amount of undulation of [Ma], it loses balance immediately.
I tried to listen to a lump of invisible voice (or the voice that was confined) of [Ma] existing in nonverbal/unstable spaces of our daily lives, and I aimed to visualize the two invisible elements, [Ma] and human [Gou] (karma/conduct) that underlies in [Ma].
Also, in this project, I dared to express the human being as the existence (visualization of [Gou]), not as an individual but by making the whole nonverbal space the subject without including people in the frame. this way, i am managing the awareness of the relationship between individuals, society and the surrounding environment for the viewers.
Danshi Tatekawa said that "Rakugo is an affirmation of human [Gou] (karma/conduct), that is, inconsistency", and Alexander Pope also said that "To err is human, to forgive divine".
As they talked towards "people", could their words really be said in front of the "Nonverbal Space" which is more closer to the "society"? and could that "forgiveness" recreate another type of hope or a new possibility in this land where everything had changed to something that looks irreversible?
I shoot the "Nonverbal Space" (it is unstable, distorted, and something contradicts what we have created) while being aware of their words which were created by human beings as well.
Finally, by expressing the subjective viewpoint of the photographer, this project is, so to speak, an antithesis against the new topographic photographs.
To view more of Shin's work please visit his website.
The Rock Trust Postcard Art Exhibition and Auction 2015
art, auction, dickie webb, Exhibition, postcards, rock trust
I have some work up for auction as part of The Rock Trust Postcard Art Exhibition And Auction 2015. This is taking place in Edinburgh from 5th June – 2nd July in the Summerhall . There will be some well know artists alongside artist like myself auctioning off postcard sized artworks. All proceeds go to helping youth rebuild their lives. If you are in Edinburgh you can check out the work in person. For those not in Edinburgh you can see all the works online and still bid on any works you may like.
THERE IS ONLY ONE CATCH AND THAT IS CATCH-22 – Y GALLERY, NYC
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THERE IS ONLY ONE CATCH AND THAT IS CATCH-22
A project curated by Blanca de la Torre
May 15th – June 28th, 2015.
Opening Reception: FRIDAY May 15th from 7pm to 10pm.
Y GALLERY is pleased to present "There is Only One Catch and that is Catch 22 ",a group show curated by Blanca de la Torre at Y Gallery. It will be the first exhibition at Y Gallery's new space in the Lower East Side in the fifth floor of a historical building located in 319 Grand St. NY 10002.* This exhibition features the work of seventeen international artists, and will be comprised of drawing, photography, video, installation, sculpture and mixed media works by:
Artemio, Greta Alfaro, Alberto Borea, Juanli Carrión, Danilo Correale, Chueca, Leonardo Herrera, Christian Jankowsky, Enrique Jezik, Ximena Labra, Antonio Vega Macotela, Detext (Raúl Martínez), Kate Newby, Alejandra Prieto, Wilfredo Prieto, Avelino Salas and Joaquín Segura
About "There Is Only One Catch and That Is Catch 22"
Participation in the present moment implies the tacit adherence to a cult of certain contradictions. This is a world of crossed messages, symbolic traffic, and sudden transformations in which it becomes clear that there is no idea of "sense," beyond that present in the multiple nature of this concept.
This is an exhibition that takes this basic problem as a point of departure. Catch 22 is a logic trap initially suggested by Joseph Heller in his eponymous novel published in 1961. Set during the II World War the novel develops this idea but in close relation to the operating area of ​​military bureaucracy, strict and absurd at the same time. The term later became part of the English vocabulary because of its accuracy to refer to certain unsolvable puzzles in which the only way out is denied by an inherent fact of the problem itself. Furthermore this impossible scenario appeals broadly to current circumstances such as arbitrary political decisions, militarism, and absurd bureaucracies worldwide.
The artists included in this exhibition provide works that connect to different explorations of what is considered a biconditional tautology. The works outline different vanishing points, either referring to military and political connotations of this construct; or to that section of invisibility of certain processes or social situations, as well as the efforts to maintain that invisibility.
On the other hand, the technique chosen by each artist plays a key role in representing this paradox by operating as a dialectical device that allows us to enter the circuit where the intractable political liability inherent to the material sets its own speech and takes us into the eternal dilemma of the concept before or after its formal resolution. Thus, the works venture into a double connection with the Catch-22: the conceptual approach of them, together with the hoop stress and the disorder between the material and the concept represented, which also canceled its value in use and intensifies the fetish of merchandise.
– Blanca de la Torre, 2015
Artists in this exhibition: Alberto Borea, Alejandra Prieto, Antonio Vega Macotela, Artemio, Avelino Sala, Christian Jankowski, Chueca, Danilo Correale, DETEXT, Enrique Ježik, Greta Alfaro, Joaquín Segura, Juanli Carrión, Kate Newby, Leonardo Herrera, Wilfredo Prieto, Ximena Labra
at our NEW SPACE
319 Grand St 5th floor
www.ygallerynewyork.com