Exhibition, ‘Crocodiles with a Second Skin Thrash’ opening next Thursday at Over+Out in Lincoln – in some VERY good company! 11 – 25th May 2012 Open Fri + Sat, 10am – 4pm (by appointment at other times)
Unit 1, Old Bargate Works
Milton Street
Lincoln
LN5 8PU
After a lot of problem solving (budget + huge wall + fabrication + safety etc = this), I spent a really fun couple of days in March planning and making the work with Philip Hutfield from McD Marketing Ltd and Corian® using Cutting Edge plc’s amazing workshop for fabrication.
It’s made using Corian®, the same material the wall is clad in. We baked the material in a sheet 2.5 metres long (big oven) and used a mould to create the soft loop shape while the Corian® was still pliable. The work was fixed to the wall using silicone – in the same way that windows are fixed into skyscrapers. Some images to give you an idea before I get chance to document the work properly.
A huge thanks to Phil for all his hard work on the project. It will be up at Open Eye Gallery until September 2nd, unless the silicone is so strong it has to stay permanently! The work is part of the external wall, so can be seen outside of gallery opening hours, although the exhibitions inside are well worth a visit.
CUTTING EDGE /// CORIAN® /// OPEN EYE GALLERY
Some images of my new work, Panoply, at the Bluecoat as part of Topophobia. I’ll be inside the work next on Saturday from 12 – 2pm and will post a schedule of future performances here very soon..
All images courtesy of Anne Eggebert.
Panoply, 2012
Space for a body: scaffold and painted wood.
20ft x 3ft x 8ft
[A panoply is a complete suit of armour or a complete set of diverse components."panoply" refers to the full armour of a hoplite or heavy-armed soldier, i.e. the shield, breastplate, helmet and greaves, together with the sword and lance.] Source
Panoply is a kind of hiding place made high above the normal passageways of the gallery, shielding me from the other inhabitants, like armour for my body. Fractured glimpses of my body are visible as I move around the space. This narrow corridor is like a wooden cloak or carapace, but the privacy it affords also turns into a trap; a claustrophobic space I can’t leave without being seen.
‘and all of the spaces inbetween’ will be in this exhibition of artists’ books at SUNY Cortland, New York State from March 12th to April 6th. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition.
Exhibiting artists: Dean Ebben, Jennifer Grimyser, Candance Hicks, Christopher K. Ho, Alison Knowles, Jessica Lagunas, Dani Leventhal, Barbara Rosenthal, Buzz Spector, Emily Speed. With work from the permanent collection by Carl Andre, John Baldessari, Peter Bernett, Jenny Holzer, Jeffrey Keedy, Barbara Kruger, Edda Renous, Ed Ruscha and Linn Underhill.
Exhibition flyer here: Bound by Silence
“These works examine the relationship between the visual elements and literary devices at play and emphasize the correlation between meaning and metaphor. They were selected based on three criteria: the approach to craft tradition and the conceptual motivation, the source of the content, and the materiality of the language. The purpose is to trace the heritage of these components back to the artist’s overall practice, most of them working with familiar forms, and to question the ways in which the information is being transmitted and consumed”
Upcoming exhibition at Laumeier Sculpture Park:
Camp Out: Finding Home in an Unstable World
June 2 – September 16, 2012
Camp Out: Finding Home in an Unstable World is the third in a series of summer projects that will use the natural and cultural resources of St. Louis as a site for artistic inquiry and production. The artists invited for Camp Out will conduct “action research” to comment on, add to or question the unique history of the St. Louis region and of the role artist’s play in addressing urgent social questions. The title Camp Out suggests the two extremes of living in the landscape. For some, camping is a deliberate “back-to-nature” experience precluded in our urbanized world. For other past and present global citizens, however, displacement from home and finding basic resources for living is a great struggle.
Laumeier will animate its public spaces by presenting artists whose practice addresses long-neglected issues of concern in our region, such as the disappearance of “public space”, the conversion of arable agricultural land for suburban sprawl or industrial use, the isolation that comes with suburban living and the persistent social and economic divisions between racial groups caused through the mechanisms of history. Artists for this project will work off of ancient and contemporary forms of human shelter, using new materials and processes to create unique sculptural forms. The resulting works will encompass shapes deeply rooted in nature to those that use new technologies to engage the aural and visual landscapes that say something about the way we live—or need to live—now. These projects will unpack a range of American myths, from the self-sufficiency of the rugged individual to the sense of land as empty and conquerable, where resource extraction is without consequence. This project signals a refreshed direction for Laumeier’s artistic goals, and will allow artists a unique opportunity to experiment with space.
Artists for the project include: BGL: Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère, and Nicolas Laverdière (Canada), Oliver Bishop-Young (UK), Cyprien Gaillard (France), Isabelle Hayeur (Canada), Edgar Martins (UK), Mary Mattingly (USA), Michael Rakowitz (USA), Emily Speed (UK), Dré Wapenaar (the Netherlands), Yin Xiuzhen (China), Kim Yasuda (USA).
Cornerhouse Manchester
14 January – 19 February 2012
Jon Barralough · Mark Beecroft · Andrea Booker · Eileen O’Rourke · Jessa Fairbrother · Richard Proffitt · Lucy Ridges · Emily Speed · Cherry Tenneson
Cornerhouse is delighted to present Lost is Found, a group show of nine artists’ work exploring the beauty of the disposed in Gallery 1. Curated and developed by the Creative Stars, 19 talented young people from the Greater Manchester region, the exhibition examines the themes of rebirth, identity and fragility which are discovered through a range of visual art media including sculpture, photography, and drawing. Continue reading
The very very last copies of some my remaining artists’ books will be on sale with Hot Bed Press at The Manchester Contemporary this weekend. Slow Magic, A House Like Me and Lost at Sea will be there. I’m helping out on Sunday afternoon if you want to pop in and say hi!
I’m off to Milan next week to hang this exhibition. For the last few months, the artists have been in dialogue via an online document. This will be made into a book to accompany the show.
from 21th to 27th may 2011
3-7 pm.
opening 20th may, 7pm.
Alessandro Castiglioni, Antonio Catelani, Sergio Breviario, Andy Boot, Ermanno Cristini, Giovanni Morbin, Giancarlo Norese, Goran Petercol, Fabio Sandri, Luca Scarabelli, Emily Speed, Alessandra Spranzi
Assab One hosts DIALOGOS, a research born without a specific project and an orthodox curatorial scheme, focused on the possibility to develop an artistic practice on ideas that continuously negotiate knowledge, choices and sensitivity. An experience grown among artists who have chosen themselves for coincidence, elective affinities, or trajectories that have crossed their way of doing.
For the occasion a numbered edition will be realised and it will contain all material through which the project has been developed during in the course of time. The publication is completed by various theoretic contributions, among which that by Lorena Giuranna.
I – Dialogue as an aesthetic practice
Dialogos is a project of an exhibition arranged between a performative dynamics and an installation’s intervention. It was born from the possibility of thinking about the space as a time’s formula, or to put it better, the “when” before the “where”, the very moment when it has been discussed and transformed by a relation. Therefore, the dialogue is intended an aesthetic practice, because itself is the element that modulates and structures a time and, then, a space.
II – The story
It’s no accident that this project was born from a common path that Ermanno Cristini, Luca Scarabelli and Alessandro Castiglioni are carrying out since 2008. Dialogos is, in fact, connected to two others important projects: the first one, Roaming, is based on exhibitions that last the ephemeral time of an opening, in order to fluctuate, later on, in the flimsiness of its own documentation, the second one, The Guest and the Intruder , is has been thought as a series of exhibitions and meetings at the Ermanno’s studio
III – Hermeneutical circle
Dialogos is, therefore, kind of a chess game. But, where the artistic act and its trace, the object, burden themselves with a reversible communicability, between artist and artist, artist and artwork, artwork and space, space and spectator, spectator and space, space and artwork, artwork and artist, artist and artist. It is because of this reason that the mechanism made for the project is made of actions, answers, and of the aswers to these answers.
(Translated by Cecilia Guida)
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Last week I finished working in Cambridge after building a pod structure on wheels. I had a great time getting on with some constructing and also chatting to artist Rosalie Schweiker, who is running the ‘Emely Cafe’ at Aid & Abet at the moment.
The ‘Reading Space’ that I made was especially for Kobo Abe’s book ‘The Box Man’. The idea is that the reader can get into this space, wheel it around until they find just the right spot and settle down to read. There is a cup holder for coffee too of course and a plush red seat. A hole in the floor allows the user to out one foot through and scoot themselves about flintstones-style.
Rosalie kindly filmed some short snippets of me road-testing the reading pod. Here I use it to steal cake.
Reading Space on The Emely’s vimeo channel
Artist Corinna Spencer has also taken some great photos of the exhibition – see them on Flikr here
Aid & Abet launch their new, exciting space opposite Cambridge Station this week with Small Scale Survival. The other artists have been working in the space for a week or two and I am due to visit on Wednesday with some maquettes and zines to add to the opening show. I will make another visit during April to make work on site, working with found materials in the space and responding to the other work.
The space will be open to the public from 12 noon on 9th April.
