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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on February 27th, 2008 - Add a comment
Screenings of three new films by Jordan Baseman
Wednesday 27 February to Friday 29 February, 6pm
Saturday 1 March, 2pm & 4pm
The three films, Inside Man, An Event In The Village and The Documentary Imperative, continue Baseman’s research into ideas around contemporary portraiture and narrative structure, but also explore the nature, and experience of documentary filmmaking.
The Documentary Imperative
Monday 3 March, 6.30pm
Screening followed by an informal and open discussion about The Documentary Imperative with Amanda Ravetz, Rupert Cox, Steven Connor, Bryony Bond and Jordan Baseman.
For more information and forthcoming events go to www.alchemy.manchester.museum or email bryony.bond@manchester.ac.uk
All events take place at The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. To reserve places for events please call 0161 275 2648.
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on November 15th, 2007 - Add a comment
Michael Curran’s video work Look What They Done To My Song is touring to the Arnolfini in Bristol, from November 17th 2007 to January 6th 2008, 10am to 6pm, entrance free.
Featuring a number of musical performances played out against an improvised theatrical backdrop, the work investigates how music and songs become a means of defining our experiences as we use them to relax or inform our moods and emotions. During the editing process the recorded footage of the performances has been manipulated, creating a series of new rhythms, counterpoints and silences, which explore the construction of songs and narrativity and provide an atmosphere almost like that of a séance.
The songs are sung by three performers, each from a different genre. The work takes its name from a 60s folksong by Melanie Safka – a song that could suggest the unravelling of a singer and song. Look What They Done To My Song was commissioned by Matt’s Gallery, London, and will be accompanied by a free publication that includes a CD of the performances.
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on November 15th, 2007 - Add a comment
Bendati/Blindfolded
An open, collective performance on Sunday, November 18 at 10amSculptureCenter, New York, 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, NY(1) – 718.361.1750 – http://www.sculpture-center.org
10am New York; 11am Buenos Aires; 12pm Sao Paolo; 3pm London; 4pm Cairo, Rome; 5pm Addis Ababa; 9pm Phnom Penh; 10pm Shanghai
Everyone, all over the world, is invited to take part in the action Bendati/Blindfolded from wherever they happen to be, at the same time.
Participants are asked to remain blindfolded for one hour. This is to identify with the state of mind of Luigi, who, for over a year now, has had trouble with his eyesight. He must remain in complete darkness, or keep his eyes closed for long periods of time.Those contributing are free to stay still or move, do something or not, work or rest. Participants are also invited to identify with Luigi’s condition and simply experience the loss of sight for an hour.
After the performance impressions can be posted on http://forgottensculptors.blogspot.com a space where analogies, coincidences, and individual thoughts may appear; where images and voices seen or heard during the action can find an echo.
Forgotten Sculptors
Bendati/Blindfolded is the last action in a series of events that make up Forgotten Sculptors. Forgotten Sculptors is a project by Fantin, Negro, Norese, and Pietroiusti, produced by SculptureCenter for PERFORMA07. The project began with a series of short email stories; and the second part consisted of a live performance by the four artists with the participation of Joan Jonas and Steve Piccolo, which took place at SculptureCenter on November 3, 2007. For more information about Forgotten Sculptors, please email forgottensculptors@sculpture-center.org
With the support of the Italian Cultural Institute, New York.
For additional information please contact SculptureCenter: (1) 718.361.1750 or info@sculpture-center.org
Media contact: Katie Farrell, kfarrell@sculpture-center.org
About SculptureCenter
Founded by artists in 1928, SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit arts institution dedicated to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture. SculptureCenter commissions new work and presents exhibits by emerging and established, national and international artists.
SculptureCenter is five minutes from Midtown by subway. Please visit the website for details.
PERFORMA07 (November 1-20, 2007) is the second biennial of new visual art performance presented by PERFORMA, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. http://www.performa-arts.org
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on November 15th, 2007 - Add a comment
Joy On Toast, A Story Of Botanical Collection, is a new exhibition of work by Jordan Baseman at the Manchester Museum Botanical Storerooms. There are only six screenings, from the 15th to the 24th November. All screenings are free, but places are strictly limited – please phone 0161 275 2648 to reserve a place. For more details of screening times etc. click here to download a Joy On Toast Flyer (PDF, 800K).
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on November 14th, 2007 - Add a comment
Cunning Chapters is a collaborative artists’ book curated by Susan Johanknecht and Katharine Meynell. Thirteen chapters are thematically linked by concerns of ‘well madeness’, loss and conservation in the production of artwork, using a combination of technologies.
Stephen Bury has written a manifesto for the artists’ book as an introduction. William Cobbing works in ‘posthumous collaboration’ with Bob Cobbing using faulty photocopying techniques, burial and excavation. Georgios Boudalis writes about repair of book bindings in his archaeological work on St. Catherine’s Library in the Sinai. Clippety Clop’s deaf lead singer Aaron Williamson accounts for acoustic information passed between the hearing and the non-hearing. Redell Olson and Drew Milne (Electric Crinolines) release their first single as (non functioning) pianola roll. The work of Finlay Taylor uses ‘text’ which is eaten away by snails in treated areas of paper. Sigrid Holmwood works with pigments, combining unearthly colours dating from Tudor recipes to modern Day-Glo. Susan Johanknecht reworks diagrams from science textbooks and lists descriptions of armour using staples that will rust. Katharine Meynell’s chapter is based the life of Santa Chiara, performance artist and patron saint of television. Kate Scrivener began with the desire for the wild within the urban, two painted London twigs are surrounded by a haze of digital dots. Louisa Minkin handset the narrative of a clockmaker to explore experiences of time, craft and craftlessness.In putting these chapters together their relationship to each other produces a range of concerns played out through the ‘thingness’ of the book. The whole has been Coptic bound by Kelly Wellman in an edition of 60 copies.
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on September 14th, 2007 - Add a comment
Jordan Baseman – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
15th September – 7th November 2007
Hatton Gallery, The Quadrangle, Newcastle University
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction showcases a collection of new single-screen film and sound works by Jordan Baseman, including a new Hatton Gallery commission, Voice Hearers (2007), created in collaboration with Douglas Turkington, Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry at Newcastle University and Northumberland Tyne and Wear Trust and funded by Arts Council England.The works consider portraiture, identity, the study of ourselves, aspiration, belief, and the nature of our very existence, dealing equally in notions of false starts, mistakes, errors and failures. How do all of these ideas and states manifest themselves in our lives? In (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, Jordan Baseman seeks to question something of the broad spectrum of human experience.
Artist’s Talk: Jordan Baseman and Professor Douglas Turkington
Wednesday 3rd October 2007, 6 – 8 pm / FREE
Roaming tour of the exhibition with Jordan Baseman, including an informal discussion with the artist and professor Douglas Turkington. Numbers limited: please contact the gallery to reserve a place.
Gallery Information
Monday to Saturday, 10am – 5pm, Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays
Admission Free
The Hatton Gallery, The Quadrangle, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU – Telephone: 0191 222 6059 – Email: hatton-gallery@ncl.ac.uk – Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/hatton
Jordan Baseman will also be in the group show Grain, an exploration of the contemporary landscape using sound, in Grain Power Station, Kent.
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on September 14th, 2007 - Read comments and add your own
Matt’s Gallery, London
19th September – 18th November 2007 / Wednesday – Sunday, 12 noon – 6pm
42-44 Copperfield Road, London E3 4RR / Mile End Tube
Telephone: (020) 8983 1771 / Website: www.mattsgallery.org
This is the first time that Michael Curran has shown at Matt’s Gallery and is his first solo exhibition in London. For this new commission Michael Curran presents a site-specific installation exploring filmed spectacle, performance and the dynamic that is created between a sculptural composition and video projection.
Three songs – The Devil is Afraid of Music, What Have They Done To My Song Ma? and How Does It Feel To Feel? – were performed and filmed in the exhibition space of Matt’s Gallery making it into an open recording session and film set for a three-day period. Through the subsequent editing process the material was subjected to radical temporal shifts in the form of loops, overlays, speeding, slowing and repetition creating a series of rhythms, counterpoints and silences, all exploring the construction of song and narrative expectation forming a drama (or crisis) of performance. The songs themselves are literally at stake, their survival questioned through these processes of translation.
The overall feeling is that of a séance in which the enquiry is: what have they done to my song?
This exhibition is accompanied by a free publication, the 14th in the second series of Matt’s Gallery booklets.
The film Look What They Done To My Song will tour to the Arnolfini, Bristol.
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on July 6th, 2007 - Read comments and add your own
If you are in London, you can see Marc Hulson’s latest work in the flesh at his show this weekend and next weekend at the Five Years Gallery. THIS is a show that you shouldn’t miss!Drop by the gallery on your weekend prowl in Hackney. The Five Years Gallery is around the corner from the Columbia Road Flower Market and just off Broadway Market on Regent’s Canal.If you are not in London, or can’t make it to his show, or just want a sneaky peek into the dark then click here to see his page on LoveHowlMuse.
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on May 10th, 2007 - Add a comment
***Meltdown warm up gig this Friday May 18 at the Macbeth, Shoreditch***
As soon as you hear the name Selfish Cunt you know that you are in for some serious attitude – ask anyone from their cult following. Uncompromising and politically motivated, it’s no wonder that this year’s curator of the South Bank’s Meltdown festival, the equally uncompromising and politically-aware Jarvis Cocker, has selected SC to open the festival by supporting metal legends Motörhead.
Asked why he thought Jarvis had selected Selfish Cunt to open this year’s Meltdown, lead singer Martin Tomlinson replied, “We played a show together in 2004 when Jarvis was fronting Relaxed Muscle. I think what has happened since then is that he has become more politically charged and disillusioned and I believe the Meltdown allows him to vent this frustration with acts such as Motörhead, The Stooges, Forced Entertainment and ourselves. This is also the Royal Festival Hall, so never mind the bollocks!!!”
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