http://www.artrabbit.com Current Events Art Rabbit http://www.artrabbit.com/events http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000 http://www.artrabbit.com/layout/img/logo_small.gif http://www.artrabbit.com5649 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArtRabbitCurrent/all/~3/Zssa8iJcZaE/event&event=15734 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000Sculpture Exhibition http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15734  
12.11.09 - 01.06.10 / ends in 201 days
At Spitafields Art Programme in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Sculpture

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12.11.09 - 24.12.09 / ends in 42 days
At jgallery in northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Drawing


Born in 1969 in Kolo Poland. Jaroslaw studied art in the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. His works are mainly Paintings and Graphics- Drawings. In his imaginary world weirdness, beauty and satire are mixed together. Twisted and deformed silhouettes and expressive contour characterise Jaroslaw's works. Intense but soft colours play the major role in his paintings while tangled but very detailed webs of fine lines are so characteristic of his fantastically skilful, and confusing drawings.

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]]> http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=14723 http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=14723 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArtRabbitCurrent/all/~3/Nu4-bWxr0PU/event&event=15696 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000Multi-disciplinary Exhibition http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15696  
12.11.09 - 20.12.09 / ends in 38 days
At Fred in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary


Fred [London] is pleased to announce the 3rd solo show at the gallery of New York based Polymath, Guy Richards Smit. Smit, whose artistic practice include painting, performance, video and sound, will exhibit a new suite of videos, paintings and drawings called A Mountain of Skulls and Not One I Recognize. Essentially a meditation on clich+eacute; and black comedy, the videos begin simply as humorously absurd conceits, but through time and repetition become a sort of dreamy contemplation on power, desire and failure. The Smit composed soundtrack suggests an endlessly meandering sequence from an Antonioni film that is at odds with the outrageously charged moments. The bafoonish painter, the painfully empathetic doctor, the horny ogler, would all seem comfortable in a Benny Hill skit (or Rowan +amp; Martin+rsquo;s laugh in) but the punch line never comes and they are left suspended in a haze of pathos. The paintings serve as one more perverse step in the process. A cast of characters presented in a grid suggestive of a jumbled up comic book. Carefully made to appear almost offhand, the paintings, reminiscent of early Alex Katz, have an ease and facility about them, suggesting the videos are perhaps no more than an elaborate excuse to paint. That what he was looking for was a framework. A storyline.

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]]> http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15696 http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15696 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArtRabbitCurrent/all/~3/Bz1mDHYprC4/event&event=14931 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000Painting Exhibition http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=14931  
12.11.09 - 20.12.09 / ends in 38 days
At Fred in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Painting


Martin Brown+rsquo;s work is based on observation, that of the city in which he lives, and the history of painting. His concern is the architectural idiosyncrasies in the urban environment - the interaction of the old and new. +ldquo;I think of the city as having a certain kind of architectural legacy that is destroyed or moderated by following generations. In this slow, piecemeal development of the urban environment, I constantly see cycles of urban decay and redevelopment.+rdquo; His finely crafted paintings reference different periods and styles within the Western painting tradition, and, in a sense, the way he moves between identifiable styles within this vast history, emulates the changes and shifts in the architectural design he sees around him - be it popular, traditional, vernacular or so called polite. +ldquo;I want to convey a melancholic nostalgia for a lost past, by describing an environment through a filter of different historical perceptions.+rdquo; Since moving to London in 2003, he has found some inspiration in seventeenth-century Dutch painters, who began to remove painting from religious and mythological frameworks and concentrate on radical depictions of everyday people and social situations from many different walks of life. +ldquo;I have consciously drawn from their depictions of everyday life to look at the contemporary modern world, where there would have been a tavern scene before there is now a DJ playing records.+rdquo; He has taken as his subject for the group of works assembled at FRED for what is his first solo exhibition in the UK, a snapshot of the urban social scene in the area of London in which he lives, and in which the gallery is found. Focussing on the people, bars and events that have changed Hoxton, Shoreditch and Bethnal Green almost beyond recognition, Brown has created a document of an area under transformation, during a period of great talent and innovation.

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12.11.09 - 19.12.09 / ends in 37 days
At Anthony Reynolds Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Painting


Colour, mood, atmosphere, sense of place +ndash; these are the flesh, blood and bones of Thompson+rsquo;s remarkable paintings. For many years, Thompson has been profoundly affected by the written and recorded work of the great Canadian pianist and theorist, Glenn Gould. He draws many parallels between Gould+rsquo;s approach and his own or, more precisely, Gould+rsquo;s understanding of musical expression and his own understanding of the business of painting.

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12.11.09 - 13.12.09 / ends in 31 days
At Civic Room in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary

The Ruins
by Mustafa Hulusi

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12.11.09 - 12.12.09 / ends in 30 days
At Purdy Hicks Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Painting

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12.11.09 - 12.12.09 / ends in 30 days
At Scream in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Drawing

Exhibition of drawings by R. Crumb from the Symbolic Collection
An exhibition of original artwork by the founder of the late 60's underground comic movement. Curator Brandon Coburn has selected the finest drawings and one rare oil painting from a collection of more than 300 artworks. The exhibition is part of the ICA's Comica Festival. It features some of Crumb's most popular characters including; Mr. Natural, Fritz The Cat, Mr. Snoid and Devil Girl.

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12.11.09 - 06.12.09 / ends in 24 days
At Lemon Monkey, The Monkey's Mezz in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Drawing


Mixed media and pencil drawings of London street life. Fine and vibrant works depicting the city's beat. Private View in the Monkey's Mezz Gallery. Works on show and for sale until Sunday 6 December.

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]]> http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15720 http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15720 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArtRabbitCurrent/all/~3/cqnTQYhGnFQ/event&event=15620 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000Multi-disciplinary Exhibition http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15620  
12.11.09 - 06.12.09 / ends in 24 days
At Dalston Super Store in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary


Contributers: Exterface, Mikel Marton, Cathal O+rsquo;brien, Matthew Brindle, Justino Esteves, Elizabeth Eamer, Theo Firmo, Emma Gibson, Anna Kriskova, Anna Stubbe, Echo Morgan, Alex Noble, Moses Powers, Ed Relph, Jens Stolze Fanzines: BUTT, PinUps, Spunk, Anal, Flit. Light and Illustration installation: Prick Image and Alex Noble This exhibition seeks to celebrate and explore the male nude, celebrating those who examine, muse and obsess over this controversial subject. Exhibiting work from a new generation of home grown and international artists: from Paris duo Exterface intensely stylized nude narratives to Canada+rsquo;s Mikel Marton, who+rsquo;s male nude portraits are winning critical acclaim across America and around the world. Alongside photography, mixed media work and 3D installation will be covers from ground breaking Butt magazine and fanzines including New York+rsquo;s PinUps and Spunk. Aiding the review of the Male Nude+rsquo;s place in a commercial and subcultural context. Male nudity has always been more subversive than it+rsquo;s female counterpart, falling in and out of popularity through out art history, but always celebrated and developed by the gay and erotic arts. The +lsquo;gaze+rsquo; has shifted from being predominantly on women to men in fashion, film and advertising, and within the last decade the increasing trend for homo eroticism and full frontal male nudity begs the question, what is the place of the male nude in contemporary society? And will it ever develop and evolve into being as common place as a pair of breasts in a newspaper? As it takes more and more to shock us, what now is the reaction towards the male nude, and can the more untraditional images and growing trend for alternative visions of beauty be viewed in their own right with out being labelled homo erotic, classicist or pornographic. (c) curation and text by Alex Noble

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12.11.09 - 06.12.09 / ends in 24 days
At The Wasp Room/Tether Studios in Nottingham, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Painting


Tether are delighted to present Sam Dargan+rsquo;s first solo exhibition in Nottingham, +lsquo;More Work For The Undertaker+rsquo; at The Wasp Room. Often responding to cinematic imagery and 20th Century literature as well as popular culture (referencing the music of the Fall and Half Man Half Biscuit amongst others) and more recently the melancholy and underlying savagery of photographic reportage, Dargan+rsquo;s paintings are infused with contemporary commentary. Reminiscent of imagery seen in daily newspapers and depicting scenes and props from unrealised revolutions, these fragmented narratives are packed with hostility; commenting in part on the imbalance of power systems and the inherent paranoia that imbues conspiracy theories. Disillusioned and listless revolutionaries linger in numb resignation, whilst abused figures in the aftermath of physical harm fathom their lot. Often bound, gagged, bruised or scarred, they exist in a world in which meaning has been lost and ideals have failed. Though their plight is tragic, it is not without a sense of humour. Like Mel Brooks once said +ldquo;Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall down an open manhole cover and die+rdquo;. For the exhibition, Dargan will be presenting a mixture of new and old works and a specially produced limited edition publication, which will be available from the gallery during the private view, or upon request.

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]]> http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15199 http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15199 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArtRabbitCurrent/all/~3/R6FNXrNazfg/event&event=15131 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000Multi-disciplinary Exhibition http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15131 •••• / 2 favourites
12.11.09 - 06.12.09 / ends in 24 days
At Schwartz Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary

Curated by Christina Mitrentse and Jonas Ranson
The exhibition Celestial Contrakt navigates through the terrain of the +lsquo;celestial and +lsquo;ethereal+rsquo; in an attempt to offer different entry and exit points to the theme and suggests alternate possibilities within the experiential environments. Schwartz Gallery is formed as an uncharted territory which provisionally describes two conceptions of artworks as +lsquo;terrestrial+rsquo; and +lsquo;celestial+rsquo;. These create non-linear journeys that look beyond Materialist thought. The project brings artist and viewer together to a conception in which the +lsquo;terrestrial+rsquo; world does not yet exist and can only arise in the sphere of the imagination. A diverse group of international and London-based artists become wanderers in space and time, drawing from a vast fluid field of collective ideas. The celestial as the nocturnal experience filters through from anthropological investigations, focusing on the ontological dimension; the impulse of irrationality in scientific and architectural artifacts and the surreal poetics of contemporary technology which appear to have cosmological associations. If morning is characterized by surprise, expectation, and regeneration, darkness procures a different type of sentiment and consciousness. The premise of night engages many mythical poetic figurations inextricably linked to the nocturnal walk under the canopy of the constellation. Suggesting a state of irrational mystical delirium, the two-dimensional works, film, sculptural objects and performance, shed +lsquo;light+rsquo; on the perception of quasi-scientific phenomena. They can be characterized as positing the supremacy of hallucination, generating illusions from different time and space. The implication is one that places the artists in a position of pre-reflective mysticism. The content of works come alive and give birth to other bodies, free from materiality and gravity. Rather than an opaque geometry, we suggest an all pervading ethereality that is uncontrollable and ungraspable, causing a fusion between the physical and the metaphysical, the familiar and the unspecified. This manifestation serves to offset the potentially +rsquo;oppressive effect+rsquo; of +lsquo;earth bound+rsquo; conceptual content. Within this context Celestial Contrakt is a positive vision of chaos and complexity that proposes the deconstruction of our conceptual mechanism.

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]]> http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15131 http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15131 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArtRabbitCurrent/all/~3/gynKiiLrI7o/event&event=15695 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000Painting Exhibition http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15695  
12.11.09 - 28.11.09 / ends in 16 days
At Bloomberg Space in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Painting


New series of paintings questioning the purpose of portraiture.

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12.11.09 - 28.11.09 / ends in 16 days
At Bloomberg Space in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Sculpture


Specially commissioned monumental sculpture by celebrated emerging Russian artist.

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12.11.09 - 28.11.09 / ends in 16 days
At Urban Angel in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Painting

HUSH - new solo show!!
About the show +ndash; words by Hush +ldquo;The title of my show +lsquo;Innocence+rsquo; comes from the deceptive expressions on the characters in my work depicted through manga/anime imagery. The simple expressions and glazed eyes suggest purity and innocence whereas the provocative images of the female form suggest the opposite. The playful English titles of the works (eg Lotitia Lollypop) juxtapose the Japanese text ( 'I'm hot and horny', +lsquo;Young girl on heat', etc.) - the innocent images allowing us to accept their darker undertones. The paintings also reflect street art aesthetics - with pointers to pop art, commercial printing and consumerism - through the use of screen printing. The female nude is an ancient theme in the history of art. I have tried to give the work a contemporary edge through the use of Manga/Anime imagery as well as through tagging and graffiti.+rdquo; HUSH October 2009

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12.11.09 - 22.11.09 / ends in 10 days
At Bankside Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Painting

David Gluck: A Retrospective
A celebration of Gluck's love of Italy, this exhibition demonstrates his gradual layered approach,creating subtly powerful works from traditional subject matter.

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]]> http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15401 http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15401 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArtRabbitCurrent/all/~3/bV5E4OZExFY/event&event=14099 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000Multi-disciplinary Exhibition http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=14099   / 1 favourite
12.11.09 - 22.11.09 / ends in 10 days
At Mall Galleries in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary


An imaginative selection of contemporary artists, setting established names alongside new talent, and connecting new artists with new audiences. The exhibition is of small affordable art that always stays fresh, this year's selectors include Interior Designer and television and radio personality Laurence Llewelyn Bowen.

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]]> http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=14099 http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=14099 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArtRabbitCurrent/all/~3/RTNABRRy7cw/event&event=15536 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000Painting Exhibition http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15536  
12.11.09 - 19.11.09 / ends in 7 days
At Maverik Showroom in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Painting

From Seveso To The Garden Of Rice
Maverik Showroom is proud to present the first UK solo show of the Italian painter Walter Cocetta. All of his paintings are born from deep evocative basis and he uses his painting and chromatic techniques in a symptomatic way. That is to say, not illustrative, so as to not force the evocative aura of a representation which is not based on what the eye sees but what one sees emotionally in a narrow naturalistic representation. From here, derives every brush stroke, every picturesque sign, every lump of material, every scansion of space is given a symbolic meaning which is brought back to the fundamental components of the picturesque language which are the brush strokes, the sign, space, colour organised on the surface so as to evoke more about what the public feels than what they see. It is time to remember that all the paintings, even when the artist inspires himself from the reality that he sees, are a language, which symbolically represents what the eye sees and perceives as tangible. An example is seen in iconic painting, frequently defined as tangible. An example seen in iconic painting, frequently defined as figurative, unit has to recur to light and shade, perspective and other, tricks of the trade to give back the illusion of reality, which could be that of a landscape, a group of objects, a portrait or group of people in various poses. Reality can never be totally restored. It is therefore an interdiction which not only regards painting but all the expressions of art, which ore in fact symbolic: existential or historical events, like a novel, sight, like a painting; physicality, like a sculpture, sound, like music, emotions, like poetry; life, like a play, movement, like dancing, existential space, like architecture and so on. This is why each one of the expressions of art have their own language which fluctuate between description or illusion and evocative or conceptual, but it is always symbolic. It is clear that in the image of painting the symbolic aspect is almost hidden in the mimicry of reality, while such an aspect is more likely to be found in imageless paintings, that is, in Anionic paintings which Cocetta is now a large part of. Today he is one of its great pillars. His paintings, therefore must be interpreted according to certain rules, which evoke and speak of symbolism, throughout the years, their morphologies have coagulated until the existing technical-expressive tendency, which has kept up with the aesthetic-poetic one. Based on these indications one can understand why Cocetta refers to +ldquo;man+rdquo; by7 using the number 1 and not by painting the image of a body as he once used to do. At the same time, this is a symbol of one+rsquo;s individuality and a sign of painting, a sign in the spaces of its evocation, where between shade and semi-darkness of the existence of these tormented times (planetary events have continuously stimulated Coccetta+rsquo;s imagination and an example of this can be seen two years ago during the painful events of Bosnia) are sudden flashes of light, full of hope. Hope that that the light of reason returns within man and the world. Shade and semi-darkness were the elements of Coccettas+rsquo;s paintings until he went to Malta, in this Mediterranean island, Walter found the light, the light that he was trying and hoping to find inside of him. This enlightened his eyes and spirit. This recognition couldn+rsquo;t but be transferred into his paintings. In fact, his palette has brightened up because of the Mediterranean light within which he was immersed, but not only for this reason. He was welcomed with such warmth and friendliness in Malta and continues to tell stories of his emotional and enthralling experience with the people of the island. Malta was, therefore a type of total illumination for him, similar to Klee+rsquo;s experience in Africa. Naturally, Coccetta has reacted in different ways from the great Swiss-German artist. Coccetta has been used to elaborate manipulations of mud in his paintings and he found new dimensions in Malta (by observing the name of the island +ldquo;Malta+rdquo;, it could have been destiny +ndash;+ldquo; Malta+rdquo; also means mud in Italian) through the use of pictorial materials to inculpate Malta+rsquo;s golden light in the mud. This was for Coccetta a real +ldquo;nomen / numen+rdquo;. The paintings from the series +ldquo;Malta-Light+rdquo; synthesise (always evocatively, of course) what was said in the outstanding series +ldquo; A story+rdquo;, where not only did the real sand play a real part in brightening up a palette, but also the new spatial dimension determined by the light and its diffusion, the enlarged brush strokes and sometimes, recuperating with +ldquo;tachistes+rdquo; or with +ldquo;dripping+rdquo;, has brought up again the discussion about the identity of the sign+rdquo;1+rdquo; which has now become more pictorial in suggestive exaggerations and now, graphically cursive in quick minimal black, red or blue notes. Probably, in this dichotomous situation, this numerical sign is starting to be re-absorbed for the genesis of a new language dominated by a more elementary and universal new sign which is not to descriptive. By Giorgio Di Genova

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12.11.09 - 19.11.09 / ends in 7 days
At Whitewall Galleries in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Painting

Duncan MacGregor - new work - Master of the Seas
Duncan returns from sailing the high seas to present a sublime collection of new seascapes and other coastal delights. Artist in attendance. Please RSVP to secure an invitation.

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12.11.09 - 18.11.09 / ends in 6 days
At La Galleria Pall Mall in London, United Kingdom
Exhibition | Painting

Guangzhou Impression—Feng Shaoxie Oil Painting
The oil painting exhibition of Feng Shaoxie: Guangzhou Impression +mdash; Canton+rsquo;s Splendor over 200 years opens at La Galleria, Royal Opera Arcade Pall Mall in London on Nov 12, 2009, a day of great significance as it marks the one year count-down to the Guangzhou Asian Games. The exhibition, which will close on Nov 18, is co-organized by Guangzhou Daily, the most successful newspaper in China, China International Culture Association, Guangzhou Association of Cultural Exchange with Foreign Countries and Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, with generous support from the British Library, British Council and Getty images. About 30 pieces of Feng's artworks will be exhibited. The famed artist is a representative of Chinese critical realistic oil painters, with two solo shows held in National Museum of China in 2003 and 2006 respectively, namely the Observation of China+rsquo;s Cultural Market and the Dove of the Middle East. This year, by depicting various sceneries of Guangzhou from 1795 to 2010, Feng presents the city+rsquo;s profound changes in more than 200 years; some of his works are associated with historical events. His lifelike paintings will unfold the city+rsquo;s past and future, its custom, architecture and culture.

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]]> http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15309 http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15309 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArtRabbitCurrent/all/~3/aDN9N7Jza0g/event&event=15714 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000Multi-disciplinary Talk http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15714  
12.11.09 - 12.11.09 / ends today
At 176 in London, United Kingdom
Talk | Multi-disciplinary

Thursday Evening Lecture
Writer, historian and philosopher Jonathan R+eacute;e will examine the paradoxes of artistic novelty by examining the phenomenon of repetition in art, language, and experience.

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]]> http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15714 http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15714 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArtRabbitCurrent/all/~3/OnNEANIecPo/event&event=15664 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000Multi-disciplinary Event http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15664  
12.11.09 - 12.11.09 / ends today
At David Roberts Art Foundation Fitzrovia in London, United Kingdom
Event | Multi-disciplinary

For The Object of The Attack, The Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture at University of Westminster presents a series of talks.
Susan pui san lok is a film maker, translator, archivist, and borrower, based at Middlesex University. She has exhibited recently at the Hong Kong Arts Centre Hong Kong, MOMA Shanghai, Beaconsfield Contemporary Arts London, Chinese Arts Centre Manchester, and her multi-screen installation 'Faster-Higher' was exhibited at the BFI Southbank Gallery in 2009. Sally O+rsquo;Reilly is a cultural critic for Time Out, Art Monthly, and Modern Painters, a writer of catalogue essays, an events organizer, Founder of Implicasphere, and author of The Body in Contemporary Art (Thames +amp; Hudson) Uriel Orlow is a Swiss multi-media installer, historian, and narrator of the impossible, based in London and working at University of Westminster. With recent shows in London, Vienna, Lisbon, Bern, Zurich, Palm Beach Florida, and China, he has exhibitions upcoming at Seventeen Gallery, Laure Genillard, and Museum Nachum Gutman, Tel Aviv. Niru Ratnam is Director of Aicon Gallery, a space dedicated to South East Asian art and visual culture, Founder of STORE Gallery in Hoxton, and a writer, art historian, and broadcaster.

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]]> http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15664 http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15664 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArtRabbitCurrent/all/~3/j0iYlHgXRQk/event&event=15478 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000Performance Event http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=15478  
12.11.09 - 12.11.09 / ends today
At Wallspace in London, United Kingdom
Event | Performance

2012: an exploration of conspiracy
Bill Aitchison, visionary performance artist, examines the world of conspiracy theories. After performing this summer in Beijing for the Open Performance Art Festival, Bill returns to London with his evolving and open-ended work 2012, for Wallspace Gallery in the heart of the City of London. Starting from questions on the nature of knowledge and belief today, 2012 explores the conspiratorial mindset, colliding perspectives, theories and visions. With black humour Aitchison presents a snapshot of where desire and fear lead the imagination, following some seriously twisted logic, but offering perceptive commentary on his way.

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At IMT in LONDON, United Kingdom
Screening | Film / Video

‘Stiletto’ by Adam Roberts
The third in the +lsquo;Filmarmalade Presents Lil Joe+rsquo;s, 9/11, Porn, Yanks and Murder+hellip;+rsquo; series of artist film and video screenings at IMT. Adam Roberts+rsquo; +lsquo;Stiletto+rsquo;, enacts a few moments in the life of a young orphaned boy who restlessly wiles away the time in the suburban idyll of his aunt+rsquo;s unloving home. Haunted by self-doubt and loathing for all that surrounds him, he creates through a series of ritualistic offerings, an animal deity, which he keeps caged in a shed at the bottom of the garden and whose existence ultimately leads to a horrific finale. The screening also includes an interview, specially commissioned with Adam Roberts at Gordon Shrigley+rsquo;s studio with Miranda Pennell and Jonathan Romney. Adam Roberts+rsquo; recently screened work at Performatica, Mexico, the Zodiak Festival, Helsinki, the Point, Eastleigh, The Filmhuis, Den Haag and at Todds Gallery, Hastings. He was born in Colombia and lives and works in London.

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At Rivington Place in London, United Kingdom
Performance | Performance

New Work by Flow Motion
Iniva presents exciting new work by Flow Motion at Rivington Place. Through two multimedia performances Flow Motion artists Edward George and Anna Piva showcase developments in their ongoing project Promised Lands. They explore historical and contemporary accounts of migration using songs and texts gathered in their multidisciplinary, multicultural archive. Since completing the first phase of their residency at Iniva in May 2009, Flow Motion have delved yet further into the ideas and themes of the project, selecting from their vast collection of material to create one hundred textual narratives accompanied by visuals in the form of triptychs. The songs have been collected from histories and cultures across the world, spanning a 400 year history of migration from the 1600s to the present day. They open doors to new narratives, forming unexpected connections, and making the journey to the Promised Land a fascinating and unpredictable one. The diverse sources for the material include the first documented African American slave songs, Bob Marley+rsquo;s Exodus, Palestinian liberation songs, orchestral work by Jewish composer Wojciech and William Blake+rsquo;s Jerusalem. +ldquo;+rsquo;Promised Lands+rsquo;, we discovered, are haunted lands, haunted by the stories of other Promised Lands, haunted by the migrant, the displaced, the forcibly removed, the vanquished, and the past and place from which s/he is part and apart.+rdquo; Flow Motion There will be a live performance installation with new sound and visual elements on 12 November. To reserve a free place for these events email bookings@rivingtonplace.org or call 020 7749 1240. Flow Motion have also created an interactive website and comments forum at www.promisedlands.info which you are invited to participate in, as well as a touring installation. Flow Motion have previously exhibited in the Centre Pompidou, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and most recently at the ISEA, and have previously worked with Iniva on their installation Dissolve in 2001.

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