News and upcoming events.
The coracle – she sails, slowly but surely. A pleasure to drift on the upper lake at YSP this week, testing out the sea-worthiness of the coracle before I add building work to it. Happy to say it is watertight and not as difficult as I anticipated, although I wouldn’t like to be out in any kind of wind. Performance is the week after next so I have some construction to get on with!
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.
Frederick Parker Gallery
41 Commercial Road, Whitechapel, E1 1LA
London, United Kingdom
8th April- 14th April 2011
Monday to Friday 10am – 6pm
The MA course ‘Curating the Contemporary’, taught jointly by London Metropolitan University and the Whitechapel Gallery, is pleased to announce the exhibition Textures of Time.
Artists:
Nicole Bachmann, Jeremy Evans, Ian Giles, Jörg Köppl, Emily Speed, Jill Townsley, Yonatan Vinitsky, Joby Williamson, Ben Woodeson
Curated by: Anne Baan Hofman, Nora Belovai, Catherine Serrano, Marte Paulssen, Rianne Groen, Niekolaas Lekkerkerk, Katayoun Yousefi, Pagona Zali, Helen Spence, Philippa O’Driscoll and Carrie Duff.
As I trundle ever closer to my exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in July, I am keeping track of my thoughts, works-in-progress and bits of research material in a new blog here. The exhibition title is MAKE SHIFT, hence the blog name… can’t promise complete coherence, but hopefully it will give a bit more insight into what’s going into the work.
I had a great weekend at the park making some sketches with furniture for future works. These are places to shelter & hide.
There is now a little bit of information about me on the YSP website, as well as dates for the show. This must mean it is really happening! *gulp*.
I found this little magazine in Tate Liverpool today, it’s called Block.
They say that they are ‘a new magazine for writing – review, reflection, story, poem or polemic – on architecture, built space and the city and its representation or exploration through sketch, photograph, drawing and graphic image. Block aims to present architecture’s reflection across a wider field of contemporary culture, and its place within it.’
I love it. Issue 1 is called ‘The Modest’ and it is a recycled paper love-fest for all buildings plain and humble. AND it’s yellow. All in all, it’s made my day. Issue 2 is on ‘The Facade’ a subject that I constantly return to, so I am excited to see it.
Really looking forward to the new book ‘Doppelganger‘ being published by Gestalten as my work ‘Inhabitant‘ is featured. The UK release date is scheduled for early February if you fancy a copy.
On the 22nd Jan I will be heading to New York where I am to be on a panel for a seminar about artists’ books at the Grolier Club. This is happening alongside an exhibition of works from the Women’s Studio Workshop (WSW) collection, entitled ‘Hand. Voice & Vision’. The book which I worked on at WSW in 2007, Unfolding Architecture, is part of the exhibition and I have also written a short text for the exhibition catalogue.
My time at WSW doing the Artists Book residency was really incredible and I am really looking forward to catching up with the staff at the seminar, as well as meeting the other artists on the panel. I also have plans to meet the guys from WAGE, to profile them for a-n’s March issue. I’ll be leaving some space in the suitcase for letterpress ink and drawing papers from the Drawing Center!!