Philip Lee

'The Rubik's Cube V' - Live Art event - Sunday 29.01.2012

2012-01-21T21:36:00.010Z

Hello!

Cally Trench and I are performing Double Helix (involving lots of sticky tape, body paint and two bodies – one naked, one clothed) at The Rubik’s Cube, The Joiner’s Arms, Hackney Road, London E2 7QL on Sunday 29th January at 7pm. It would, of course, be a great pleasure to see you there. Details below.

All best wishes Philip

The Joiners Arms with the aim of supporting the independent art scene, has the pleasure to invite you to the third edition of ‘The Rubik’s Cube’, which is the new vibrant participatory live art event in East London, where artists and audiences can create together and meet other like minded people.

Curated by iceberg Fernandez @ 'The Joiners Arms'.

WHEN: SUNDAY 29th January 2012.
FROM 19:00 TO 22:00 HRS.
FREE ENTRY.

PROGRAM:
19:00- 'Double Helix' by Philip Lee and Cally Trench.
20:00- 'KLK"
21:00- 'The Asolo Thing' by 'The Brake Drum Percussion'.

WHERE:
The Joiners Arms
116-118 Hackney Road
E2 7QL London

Overground: Hoxton- (East London Line)
Buses: 26 and 48 from Liverpool St.
55 from Old St.

+ INFO www.the-rubiks-cube.co.uk
Join us on Facebook

Looking forwards to seeing you!

iceberg Fernandez
'The Rubiks Cube'- Curator

Philip performing at South Hill Park - 8.30pm - 13 October 2011

2011-08-30T23:36:00.003+01:00

Philip Lee and Cally Trench will be performing Body Body Clay Pane at South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell on 13th October 2011 at 8.30pm.

Body Body Clay Pane is a live body performance with clay, devised in response to Adam Marsh’s installation, A throne is only a bench covered in velvet. Philip Lee and Cally Trench will struggle to cover each other in clay slip. Colluding in the discomfort and punishment each will be playing by particular rules unknown to the viewer, and at times to each other. The performance contains nudity.

Attached is a leaflet including details of the show.

I hope you can come?

All best wishes,
Philip

Attachment: SHP Events Leaflet

The Camouflage Flipbook Movie

2011-08-21T21:55:00.004+01:00

Dear all,

Please see this very short film made by Cally Trench, Judy Goldhill and me.

The Camouflage Flipbook Movie: Live body artist Philip Lee rotates as stripes of paint appear down his body in this short timelapse film... [View Movie]

Best wishes,
Philip

Philip's next performance - Tied Slip II

2011-04-21T09:32:00.003+01:00

My next performance is this Saturday 23 April 2011 in Windsor at The Firestation Centre for Arts & Culture. Please see the Divide & Rule event for further details.

Sorry for such short notice.

Hope to see some of you there.
Philip

Preview: Stone Squid Experimental Art Space: The Exquisite Stone Corpse

2010-10-22T15:05:00.005+01:00

Hi everyone,
It's a long way to go, and tomorrow, but perhaps see some of you on Saturday?
Blindfold Slip III starts at 7 pm...
Best wishes,
Philip

SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER 6-8PM

STONE SQUID EXPERIMENTAL ART SPACE

The Exquisite Stone Corpse

A concatenation by 5 UK-based artists

Judy Goldhill, Joanna Hill, Philip Lee, Sophie Loss & John McDowall

preview | Saturday 23 October 6-8pm

Concatenation is a series of interconnected things or events; engaging with an initiative conceived by Sophie Loss in collaboration with Stone Squid Experimental Art Space five artists follow the Exquisite Corpse procedure.

Exquisite Corpse or cadavre exquis was the game of consequences as employed, most notably by the Surrealists, with the intention to engender chance unexpected outcomes in collective works - a word or two, or a small portion of a drawing left visible from the edge of folded paper passed on to, and evolved by the next person in the chain.

The Exquisite Stone Corpse is a group project by artists; Judy Goldhill, Joanna Hill, Philip Lee, Sophie Loss & John McDowall. Each of the five artists, who utilise different mediums in their practice, will sequentially create a work developed from the previous participant's fragment.

The passed-on fragment may be a part of the completed work or an aspect of its developmental process. A specific time interval is allocated to each artist within the project’s six months period, following which, the artists will collaborate with Stone Squideas on the installation.

The installation has a live element which contains adult content.

The Exquisite Stone Corpse
A concatenation by 5 UK-based artists.

24 – 31 October 2010
thur | fri | sat | sun 2-5pm
preview | saturday 23 october 6-8pm

Philip's next performance - this Saturday, 16th October

2010-10-12T21:59:00.000+01:00

Dear Friends,

I will be performing Blindfold Slip II this Saturday 16th October 2010 from 9 pm at the Nunnery.

The performance is part of Performance in the Nunnery: Move Me! - details below.

I do hope you can come long.

All best wishes
Philip

Blindfold Slip: Three linked performances

2010-10-01T00:19:00.001+01:00

This month I will be performing a series of three, linked performances called Blindfold Slip, assisted by Cally Trench.

I hope you will be able to attend at least one of these performances - some details below, more to follow later...

Best wishes,
Philip

Blindfold Slip I - will be at the opening of Ben Cohen: Solo Exhibtion:
Tuesday, 5th October 2010, performance 8 - 9 pm
Private View 6 - 9pm
T5, The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London E1 6QL
www.hrlcontemporary.com

Blindfold Slip II - will be at the concluding performance evening of Visions in the Nunnery - an exhibition of recent work by artists working with the moving image:
Saturday, 16th October 2010 - performance from 6.45 pm
Performance in the Nunnery: Move Me! - 6.30 - 10.30 pm
The Nunnery
Bow Arts Lane
181-183 Bow Road
London E3 2SJ
www.openvisions.org
www.nunnerygallery.org

Blindfold Slip III - will be at the opening of Exquisite Stone Corpse - a concatenation by 5 UK-based artists:
Saturday, 23 October 2010 - performance from 6 pm
Preview 6 - 8 pm
The Stone Squid Experimental Art Space
78 High Street
Old Town
Hastings
www.stonesquid.com

Philip's next performance 15 October at 8 pm

2009-10-03T17:59:00.007+01:00

You are cordially invited to
Corpus, the current HRL Contemporary group show of painting, sculpture,
photographs, video and performance at
The Old Chapel, 87a St John's Wood Terrace, London NW8 6PP,
5 minutes walk from St John's Wood tube station.

I will be there from 12 until 8 pm on Sunday 11th and Saturday 17th October 2009
and would love to see a friendly face, if you are able to drop in to see the exhibition.

AND

On Thursday 15th October 2009 there will be a closing reception from 6 to 9 pm, during which I will present Corpus Slip II, 2009, a live full-body performance with clay.
It will be a different performance from the one at the opening. I hope you will be able to come.
On 29th September I performed Corpus Slip I and two images by Julia Davy are attached.

My installation, entitled Slab Torsos II, 2009, forms the backdrop to the performances and comprises 21 ceramic male and female torsos. It can be seen throughout the show, which closes on Monday 19th October 2009.
Corpus will be closed on Monday 5th and Monday 12 October
and is open from 12 noon to 8 pm.

More details at the HRL Contemporary website www.hrlcontemporary.com

My website is being up-dated and so please check it out if you have not seen it recently.
I am particularly pleased to include an article by Marion Duquerroy entitled 'Mapping the performance: Romain Forquy and Phili Lee's Segments', which can be found on the portfolio page of May 2008.

Hoping to see you soon,
My very best wishes Philip

Philip Lee's next exhibition opens 29th September 2009

2009-09-02T22:41:00.000+01:00

You are cordially invited to the opening reception of
Corpus, an HRL Contemporary group show, at
The Old Chapel, 87a St John's Wood Terrace, London NW8 6PP,
5 minutes walk from St John's Wood tube station, on
Tuesday 29th September 2009 from
6 pm until 9 pm.

I will be presenting Corpus Slip I, 2009, a live full-body performance, starting promptly at 8 pm.

My installation, entitled Slab Torsos II, 2009 will form a backdrop to the performance.

The installation includes 20 ceramic male and female torsos
made between 2001 and 2003 and exhibited here together for the first time.

Corpus runs until Monday 19th October 2009,
Closed Monday 5th and Monday 12 October
open from 12 noon to 8 pm

On Thursday 15th October 2009 there will be a
closing reception from 6 to 9 pm, during which I will present another live body performance.

More details at the HRL Contemporary website - http://www.hrlcontemporary.com/ and in the press release attached.

Philip

Attachment: Press Release

Philip's next event is on Friday!

2009-07-30T10:31:00.002+01:00

You are cordially invited to Hop Skip during which I will be introducing the participatory action I'm calling Slip Dipping!

I will be assisted by Cally Trench and we will be perpetrating our ruse on
Friday, 31st July from 6 pm until 11 pm
at
Liquid studios, Unit Q, 55 Wallis Road, Hackney Wick, E9 5LH

Hop Skip is open until 1 am on Saturday and is a pop up night of performance and video, part of the Hackney Wicked Festival; it is curated by the wonderfully talented Martina O'Shea.

Come along to Hackney Wick this Friday to have a go at plunging your hand, foot or any other part of your anatomy you wish to try, into creamy clay slip. Tell me what you feel, think or any other inner thoughts and have your photograph taken too! You have all wondered what it feels like to do what I do and now you can find out first hand, or foot as the case may be!

Please see above flyer... Apologies for late notice and cross posting...

I am looking forward to seeing you there!

With all good wishes,
Philip

Private view of exhibition at Bookartbookshop

2009-04-22T21:21:00.004+01:00

Dear Friends

I have a book and special envelope () in two events this weekend. White III (a flip book) is at the Bookartshop on Friday and WhiteIV will be ondisplay at ImageMusicText on Saturday where there is a talk which may interest you. I will be preparing, and then performing at the Courtauld Institute all weekend so will not be able to attend these events but I hope you will try to get along. They promise to be exciting.

Best wishes
Philip

bookartbookshop is hosting an exhibition of artist books by AM Bruno

Private View

Friday 24th April
6 30 - 8 30pm

25th April – 2nd May 09
Wednesday to Friday 12 – 7pm
Saturday 12 – 6pm

Bookartbookshop
17 Pitfield St
London N1 6HB
020 7608 1333

AM BRUNO represents current artistic thought, practice and sensibility translated and expanded into book art form. The artists in the group are visual and conceptual practitioners in all media, including painting, photography, video, performance and sculpture.

The themes vary from inquiry into the nature of books/sketchbooks, human body/desire/private life, the value of artificiality, writing/image and time.

AM Bruno is an alliance of artists initiated by MA fine art graduates from Central Saint Martins.
Charlotte Andrew, Marco Cali, Nancy Campbell, Sara Dell'onze, Claire Deniau, Ana Efe, Francesca Galeazzi, Judy Goldhill, Jane Grisewood, Heather James, Anna Johnson, Philip Lee, Heidi Locher, Sophie Loss, Penny Matheson , Steve Perfect, Jeni Snell, Cally Trench, Paula Naughton, Alvin Watt, Mary Yacoob

Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer

Between Gallery and Bookshop

Distribution and Artists' Books

Talk: 25th April 2009 18:00 - 21:00

IMT presents Between Gallery and Bookshop, a talk with Gordon Shrigley, Emily Speed and Kelly Wellman on artists' books to coincide with an exhibition of books by artists' collective AM BRUNO at the bookartbookshop. The talk is to address questions of distribution and display context for artists who use books as a medium for creative practice. How do different contexts of distribution affect the creation of and engagement with artists' books? Between Gallery and Bookshop attempts to look at artists' books via the channels through which they reach their readers.

In addition to the talk the gallery will be open from noon on the 25th of April with a curated display of books by members of AM BRUNO. The talk is free however places are limited.

Gordon Shrigley runs Marmalade and Filmarmalade, publishers of contemporary works of visual theory in the form of either drawing, text, photography or video. Both the artists' book publisher Marmalade, and the video DVD label Filmarmalade grew out of a desire to promote and distribute works that allow artists the space to ‘think the visual [. . .] through the act of a sustained looking, talking and working with and through media'.

Emily Speed is an artist based in Liverpool. She founded and coordinated Liverpool Artists' Book Fair in 2008 and is part of the artist-led space Wolstenholme Projects.

Kelly Wellman has an MA in artists' books. She teaches at Camberwell and runs bookartbookshop with Tanya Peixoto.

Between Gallery and Bookshop has been organised by artists collective AM BRUNO and IMT Gallery. AM BRUNO is an alliance of 24 artists initiated by MA fine art graduates from Central Saint Martins. AM BRUNO represents current artistic thought, practice and sensibility translated and expanded into book art form. The artists in the group are visual and conceptual practitioners in all media, including painting, photography, video, performance and sculpture. The themes vary from inquiry into the nature of books/sketchbooks, human body/desire/private life, the value of artificiality, writing/image and time.

An exhibition of artists' books by AM BRUNO will also be held at the bookartbookshop from 25 April - 2nd May 2009.

Weblinks:

IMT http://www.imagemusictext.com/
AM BRUNO http://www.am-bruno.blogspot.com/
bookartbookshop http://www.bookartbookshop.com/
Filmarmalade http://www.filmarmalade.co.uk/
Wolstenholme Projects http://www.wolstenholmeprojects.org/

East Wing VIII opening - Philip Lee and Yason Banal

2009-04-19T15:17:00.001+01:00

East Wing VIII: On Time is open to the public on Saturday 25th April (10am-5pm) and Sunday 26th April (12-4pm) with performances by Philip Lee alongside an installation by Yason Banal - in England for a short time only.

Philip Lee performs Colours I 2009, a new live body piece performed for the first time incorporating body paints and water. Lee applies body-paint in a ritualistic and methodical way, from head to toe and then toe to head, and so on. Different coloured paints are used for each sequence, as the body's skin becomes an ever-changing palimpsest. Lee struggles to follow his self-imposed schedule in an action that is symbolic of the journey through life to the deep unknown. As a living sculpture, Lee interrogates artistic traditions while the viewer is forced to consider the terrifying transience of corporeal existence.

Yason Banal will present Untitled/Again (Marienbad); a video and performance inspired by Alain Robert-Grillet and Alain Resnais' cold classic Last Year at Marienbad. Untitled/Again (Marienbad) is a constellation of the space-time continuum, purgatorial ennui and art haut naturalism, as well as photographic amnesia, cinematic stillness and sculptural performance. Yason Banal forms a contemporary constellation around etiquette, lethargy and stupor by transporting Marienbad to different cities, inhabited by human figurines, sculptural garments and gallery artifacts. Courtauld Institute students will form a doom couture styled tableaux vivant that will accompany the video screening.

Due to popular demand, Stephen Walter’s exhibition of The Island: London Series has now been extended until July 2009.

If you require any further information or wish to arrange a private tour of the collection for yourself, friends or clients then please do get in touch. Catalogues will also be available for artists to collect for the duration of the weekend.

Check www.eastwing8.co.uk to see the range of forthcoming exciting events.

Many thanks
Kindest regards

Chloé Nelkin
Chair, East Wing VIII
07764 273 219
www.eastwing8.co.uk

Next openings:
Saturday 25th April
Sunday 26th April
Friday 22nd May - Museums at Night programme
Saturday 27th June
Sunday 28th June
Saturday 25th July
Sunday 26th July - last ever opening
Please see the website for further dates and full details of all performances.

Philip Lee performing on 17 April 2009

2009-03-27T10:46:00.000Z

Dear Friends
I am please to invite you to my second performance in April this year.

I will be performing 'Sitting Slip' from 6 - 7.30 on 17 April at the opening reception of 'At Play' at South Hill Park near Bracknell.

Details can be found below.

I very much hope you will be able to come.

Best wishes
Philip

At Play @ New Exhibitions at South Hill Park

18 April - 21 June 2009

Opening reception: Friday 17 April, 6pm - 8.30pm. All welcome!

I am delighted to invite you to the opening reception of the new At Play season at South Hill Park on Friday 17 April, 6pm - 8.30pm.

At Play in the Bracknell Gallery and Tall Hall explores ideas about play: making magic and being transformed, passing the time, messing about and making a mess, being yourself and pretending to be someone else, having secrets, making dens, belonging to gangs, creating rules and rituals, taking dares and chances, making and exploring small worlds. The exhibition re-creates in both adults and children a sense of what it is like to be a child at play. It encourages the viewer to gaze, to remember, to touch, to explore, to trust, to think, to laugh, to peer, to concentrate, to join in, to bend down, to take a chance … and to play. At Play 1 features work by Marco Cali, Marcin Gajewski, Rosie Gibson, Judy Goldhill & Sophie Loss, Susan Eyre, Cathy Hart & Esther Jervis, Aaron Head, Pernille Holm-Mercer, Ingrid Jensen, Philip Lee, Siobhan McAuley, Samantha Mogelonsky, Fedor Pavlov-Andreevich, Kay Sentance, Liz Whiteman Smith, John Tenniel and Cally Trench. At Play 2 returns on 17 April – 20 June 2010 for a mansion-wide exhibition. At Play 1 and 2 are co-curated by Cally Trench and Outi Remes.

The opening reception also celebrates the opening of the Images 32 group exhibition in the mansion spaces, presenting the best of British contemporary illustration and is the most prestigious and comprehensive illustration award show in the UK.

The At Play season includes the following live art events: Philip Lee explores extreme forms of child’s play and pleasure in doing something that an adult is not supposed to do. Lee’s Sitting Slip is performed on 17 April 2009 during the opening reception, 6.00pm – 7.30pm. Lee’s performance is followed by Dead Radio, a performance by Fedor Pavlov-Andreevich on 17 April 2009 during the opening reception, 7.30pm – 8.30pm. The audience is invited to twiddle the artist’s knobs making him physically switch from station to station – signing, reading news, quoting popular radio shows – all from the Soviet Union era. Also, don’t miss Sandcastles by Kay Sentance in the Bracknell town centre and the arts centre during the exhibition and opening day. Sandcastles, far from a beach, aims to provide playful reminders and surprising chance encounters between the sandcastles and the public.

I hope you enjoy At Play at South Hill Park.

South Hill Park
Ringmead
Bracknell
RG12 7PA
Tel: 01344 416240

Directions at: http://www.southhillpark.org.uk/aboutUsTravel.jsp

Mansion Space Galleries:

Monday to Saturday 9am - 11pm
Sunday and Bank Holidays 11am - 10.30pm

Bracknell Gallery opening times:

Wednesday 7.00pm - 9.30pm
Thursday to Saturday 1.00pm - 9.30pm
Sunday 1pm-5pm

Free Admission

You are warmly invited to the opening event of Surface!

2009-03-04T22:21:00.005Z

Dear Friends

You are warmly invited to the opening event of Surface! at The Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock on Saturday 4th April, 12-2pm, during which I will be presenting a live body performance. I would love to see you there if you can make it.

Surface! is an exhibition of new contemporary art by Jacqueline Ashmore, Tânia Bandeira Duarte, Alex Dewart, Frances Anne Greenough, Estelle Holland, Patrick Jeffs, Philip Lee, Lis Mann, Cally Trench, and Imogen Welch. The exhibition is curated by Cally Trench.

Surface! is open 4th-26th April 2009. Opening times: Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10am to 5pm; Sundays, 2-5pm, Easter Bank Holiday Monday, 2-5pm. Closed Good Friday. Free admission.

Location: The Oxfordshire Museum, Park Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1SN.
Tel: 01993 811456

For more information, see http://www.callytrench.co.uk/surface.html

With my very best wishes
Philip

Planned closure of Harrow Ceramics course

2009-01-20T12:51:00.004Z

Dear Friends,

Please read carefully the following from Kyra Cane - Course Leader for the BA Hons Ceramics at Harrow.

If you are able to write a letter and sign the Number 10 petition I would be very grateful.

Apologies if you have received this already.

I am writing to let you know about the planned closure of the ceramics course at Harrow, the University of Westminster, and to ask you to support the campaign of protest.

The Harrow ceramics course has been in existence for 45 years. It is regarded as the pre-eminent course of its kind, a place where students can learn the craft of ceramics in the context of proper art-history and contextual studies. It has consistently led the discipline in thinking about the place that ceramics can hold in our society. It has forged links with industry, with international ceramic centres and with major museums.

Many of the most innovative and respected ceramicists in Britain today have studied on this course, or have taught on it.

The Harrow ceramics course is a benchmark within Europe for its balance of technical knowledge and criticality.

All craft skills are expensive to teach within a university context, but ceramics is a discipline that is fundamental to the health of our visual arts. It is an academic discipline that needs support.

The School of Media, Arts and Design has given the ceramics course a brief two months for consultation. If you would be able to support then please write to :

Professor Geoffrey Petts
Vice Chancellor
University of Westminster
309 Regent Street
London
W1B 2UW

G.Petts@westminster.ac.uk

Sending a copy to both:

Kyra Cane,
Course Leader : Ceramics
University of Westminster,
Harrow Campus, Watford Rd, Harrow HA1 3TP

canek@westminster.ac.uk

and

Sally Feldman
Dean of Media Art and Design
University of Westminster,
Harrow Campus, Watford Rd, Harrow HA1 3TP

feldmas@wmin.ac.uk

There is also a petition at No 10 Downing Street which our students have submitted and if you would consider signing this I would also be very grateful: petitions.number10.gov.uk/CeramicsHarrow/

The petition reads:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Stop the closure of the Harrow Ceramics Degree course.

The University of Westminster are proposing to close their highly acclaimed Harrow Ceramics Degree Course. Recruitment of new students has been suspended and there are plans to close the course by 2013, which will coincide with the 50th Anniversary of ceramics teaching at Harrow.

The decision has been made despite the course's long held outstanding national and international reputation; first class academic standing and a distinguished assembly of professional expertise including Edmund de Waal, Emmanuel Cooper, Kyra Cane, Professor Christie Brown, Professor Nigel Wood, Steve Buck, Clare Twomey and a roster of world famous ceramicists as both alumni and staff. Its closure has huge significance for British art, craft and design.

We call on the University to reverse this decision, reinstate the recruitment of new students and SAVE HARROW CERAMICS.

I would appreciate it if you can send this information out to as many interested parties as possible, it is essential that people are aware that this is a principle which goes far beyond the remit of my own University.

KYRA CANE
Principal Lecturer
Course Leader BA Hons Ceramics
University of Westminster

'Slip VI' in 'The Joy of Clay'

2009-01-17T16:07:00.001Z

Dear Friends,

I will have a video on show during a special evening event:
Design Overtime - The Joy of Clay,
at the Design Museum, Shad Thames, SE1 2YD
from 6 pm to 10 pm
on Friday 23 January 2009
£5 in advance, £8.50 at the door.

Nearest tube stations are London Bridge, Tower Hill and Tower Gateway
Further details are on the Design Museum website at:
www.designmuseum.org/design-overtime.

The programme for the evening will include opportunities for discussion of the difficulties faced by ceramists in industry and universities at this time.

My video of Slip VI, 2005 documents the performance I presented at the private view of Pieces By Eight at London Gallery West at the University of Westminster in Harrow on 15 September 2005.

Hope to see you there!
Philip

Philip Lee's next performance

2008-11-08T16:44:00.001Z

You are warmly invited to the private view of On The Surface at The Parlour on Friday 12th December, 6-9pm, during which there will be a live body performance by Philip Lee.

On The Surface explores surfaces and our human habit of making marks on them. Work by Jacqueline Ashmore, Tânia Bandeira Duarte, Alex Dewart, Alan Franklin, Frances Anne Greenough, Estelle Holland, Patrick Jeffs, Philip Lee, Lis Mann, Cally Trench, and Imogen Welch. The exhibition is curated by Cally Trench.

On The Surface is open from 12 noon to 5.30pm on the following Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in December 2008 and January 2009 (13th and 14th December; 19th, 20th and 21st December; 2nd, 3rd and 4th January; 9th, 10th and 11th January; 16th, 17th and 18th January).

The Parlour is at 181/185 Queens Crescent, London NW5 4DS (nearest underground stations: Chalk Farm and Kentish Town).

I will also be there from 12 - 5.30 pm on 21st December and would be delighted to see a friendly face!

Hope to see you there.
Philip

Two Artist Book Fairs

2008-11-05T21:52:00.003Z

I have work in two artist book fairs in the next few days and weeks, in Manchester, 8th November and Liverpool, 15/16 November.

Recently I have made a flip-book called White III, which animates part of my White performances. It includes 56 photographs by the talented Judy Goldhill. This led to White IV, an envelope which contains: three body prints, white body paint, a tiny brush and a cut-out stand-up model figure - for a do-it-yourself White experience...

Both will be on display at the Third Manchester Artist Book Fair and the Liverpool Artist Book Fair, where our group is called 'AM Bruno'. If you can get along do look out for Sophie Loss and Mary Yacoob, who will be representing the group having done a wonderful job getting us all to make some great books and envelopes. I am disappointed I will not be able to be there.

Online news from Philip Lee

2008-06-13T11:47:00.002+01:00

Dear Friends,

When you have time, please check out my website, which has a new frontpage, drawing out the main themes in my work and links to videos, and other new stuff in most areas: www.philiplee.co.uk

Also, I have been interviewed for an online gallery based in the USA:
http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2008/06/art-space-talk-philip-lee.html

best wishes
Philip

Think About It - introducing conceptual ceramics

2008-05-21T22:44:00.005+01:00

Excerpt from - Ceramic Review 206 March/April 2004 p. 36, Jo Dahn

Clay Body

A receptive audience is important to Philip Lee. Towards the end of his BA course at Westminster University¹, Harrow campus (1998-2001), he moved away from object production and, using slip and stains², started imprinting his naked torso onto an earthenware³ slab or a piece of paper. While this can result in an object, it is the process that concerns him, not the outcome. Raw, wet clay can be seen as a primal material; smeared on the body it evokes at once a return to childhood innocence and - in a middle-aged man - a transgression of socialised masculinity.

Lee sees himself as 'addressing the taboos associated with exposing the male body' and has experienced a personal sense of liberation through his work. His efforts recall early feminist performance. When a naked Carolee Schneeman and friends wrestled and writhed with chicken carcasses (and the rest) in Meat Joy (1964), their idea was to celebrate the flesh in a kind of proto-feminist erotics. A similar sense of letting go is apparent in the videos that record Lee's ritualised actions. In the past he has exhibited folded slabs imprinted with torsos, but these are signs of his performances, rather than resolved objects in their own right. Are they then de-materialised? It is hard to say. At any rate, they are not essential to his practice. For Lee, clay has become a means of exploring and expressing masculine subjectivity. Paradoxically, at the same time the viewer is invited to objectify the male body: to imagine its collision with the material, to witness its exposure.

Images published with the text are similar to those on the Slab II page of my website.

[For another even shorter reference, concerning the performance on 15th September 2005 of Slip VI, in the Journal of the Association of Jewish Refugees see also: Slip VI]

Please note that there are two minor inaccuracies in the Dahn article, one of which is of importance only to a ceramicist. Footnotes below:

Usually called the 'University of Westminster'
Technically, I used a vitreous slip, runny clay and glaze mixture with mars violet raw pigment, rather than 'stains', which are very different.
The clay I used was Earthstone Original which is a commercial 'stoneware' clay rather than 'earthenware' - essentially the former can be fired to higher temperatures. It is malleable and does not crack so easily as is dries.

Philip's performance at the Courtauld Institute

2008-04-28T22:25:00.003+01:00

Please come to White II 2008 at The Courtauld Institute in Somerset House on the Strand. This is another opportunity to see the performance I developed for my MA degree show in September 2007. I am pleased to be able to present another version as part of East Wing Collection VIII - On Time.

The performance takes place throughout the day on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th May 2008 only. The collection is open Saturday, 10.00-17.00 and Sunday, 12.00-16.00. I will be on throughout this time, except for a short break in the middle.

The East Wing Collection is a biennial student-curated contemporary art show featuring the work of up-and-coming artists alongside that of well-known established names. The show includes wonderful work, in a range of media, by artists such as Anthony Gormley, Philip Jackson, Miltos Manetas, Marilène Oliver and Mark Wallinger.

The show website is well worth a look. It includes more details about the show, artists and, how best to find your way to the venue. Go to www.eastwing8.co.uk

Attached is a handout you might want to print off. The photograph is by Romain Forquy, the text by Katy Blatt.

Hope to see you there,
Philip

Update: Please note the earlier closing time on Sunday at 4pm.

Philip's Degree Show E-invite to Private View

2007-08-12T16:47:00.000+01:00

Dear all

I have two installations and a live performance in the show. All at or near ground level, I am pleased to tell. Exciting work all the way up to the 7th Floor by my fellow 64 MA students.

I hope you will be able to come.

Please print out the invitation in order to get in - especially if you are coming to the PV on 31st August or on Saturday 1st September. Let me know if you can't download or print it off.

It is unlikely I will be able to talk to you but I do hope to SEE you there!

best wishes
Philip

Private View - Friday 31st August 2007 - 6pm to 9pm

Exhibition - Saturday 1st to Friday 7th September
- Weekdays 11am - 7pm, Friday 11am - 4pm, Saturday 11am - 6pm, SUNDAY CLOSED

Place - Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, 107-109 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0DU

Nearest Tube Stations - Tottenham Court Road, Leicester Square

Invitation from Philip

2007-06-29T15:54:00.000+01:00

Please find attached the invitation to an auction on Friday 6th July, which is to raise money for our MA degree show opening on 31st August. It will take place at Central Saint Martins on Charing Cross Road next to Foyles bookshop. Nearest tube Totenham Court Road.

We will be delighted to see you there!

Check out the catalogue at www.csmartauction.com

Best wishes
Philip

Attachment: Auction Invite

Philip Lee in Act Art 5 on 8th June

2007-04-02T15:00:00.000+01:00

My next performance will be on 8th June 2007 in a one night show called Act Art 5 at The Arches near London Bridge. Hope to see you there.

I will be performing a new work called 'Water I' and I would be pleased if you could come. I will start the piece soon after the show opens at 7.30 pm so please come early. I will be gone by 10 pm! The show goes on until 4 am with loads of exciting things going on including live performances and music.

Some early details are on the AcArt website at:

www.actart.co.uk

Check out the list of 100 artists...

ActArt5
Till Death Us Do Art

Friday 8th June 2007 - 7.30 pm to 4 am

The Arches, 51-53 Southwark Street, London Bridge, SE1 1RU Near to London Bridge tube - map on the Act Art website.

Invitation to the Central Saint Martins MA Fine Art (interim) show

2007-01-22T13:51:00.000Z

Invitation to the Central Saint Martins MA Fine Art (interim) show: I hope you are able to come.

Title: "11,427" - the sum of the heights of the 65 artists taking part in the show.....

When: Private View 6.00 - 9.00 pm Thursday, 25th January 2007; continues 11 am - 6 pm until Sunday 28th January 2007

Where: The Barge House, Oxo Tower Warfe, SouthBank. c. Ten minutes walk from Southwark Tube on the Jubilee line Click following link, for a jolly map with an animated double decker bus!!!!: http://southbanklondon.com/index.php?pid=58&attractionid=4

If you can come and need more details please contact me.

If you catch part of my performance, 6.30 - 8.30 pm during the private view (room 6 on level 2) I would be grateful for your uncensored feelings and thoughts on what you see, via my contact page please.