After Shelley Duvall ’72 (Frogs on the High Line)

Curated by Bjarne Melgaard

September 17 – October 22
featuring
Anonymous Three: Anonymous Three Selects Omar Harvey
Fabienne Audéoud and John Russell
Michael Alig
Alissa Bennett
Sverre Bjertnes
Big Fat Black Cock, Inc.
Caroline Busta
William L. Copley
John Duncan
John Kelsey
Richard Kern
Michael Bernard Loggins
Lydia Lunch 
John Patrick McKenzie
Dwight Mackintosh
Bjarne Melgaard
Marlon Mullen
William Pope.L
Seth Shapiro
Estate of Martin Wong

Performance by
Fabienne Audéoud and John Russell

Saturday, September 17,
8:00 pm

Maccarone 630 Greenwich Street NY, NY 10014  www.maccarone.net 

 

Researchers’ Night

Everything and Nothing

What shapes could the universe be? Does it have an ‘edge’? Is it infinite? A performance project exploring the possible shapes of the universe

Friday 23rd September 6.30pm as part of Researcher’s Night
Department of Art, University of Reading, 1 Earley Gate, Reading RG6 6AT

Intent on creating a map of the universe using complex mathematics, the Everyman Explorer encounters aviator Amelia Earhart who was lost in her 1937 attempt to circumnavigate the globe. The pair find themselves in the company of an order-obsessed librarian who isn’t quite what he seems, in a time-warped universe controlled by an old radio.

In a playful encounter between sound, image, text and mathematics, multi-disciplinary company the19thstep present everything and nothing, devised by composer Dorothy Ker and sculptor Kate Allen with performers Lucy Stevens, Chris Brannick, and Kelcey Swain. The piece was developed in consultation with mathematician Marcus du Sautoy and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ story The Library of Babel. Performance lasts c.50 minutes

Angel of History: I Can See for Miles

John Russell ’Angel of History: I Can See for Miles’
A new temporary public artwork commissioned for the railway bridge in Southend-on-Sea

Angel of History: I Can See for Miles’ is the first in Focal Point Gallery’s new series of temporary public artworks commissioned specifically for the railway bridge that spans Southend-on-Sea’s pedestrianised high street. For this inaugural project, artist John Russell has digitally reworked a famous portrait from 1981 of former British Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and focused exclusively on the aging woman’s eyes. This new image, which will effectively gaze down Southend’s main commercial thoroughfare, is installed on the north side of the overpass and printed on a fifteen-metre wide custom-made support. Unveiled between 4.00pm to 7.00pm on Saturday 10 September at The Sunrooms, 20-21 Market Place, Southend-on-Sea

Project runs until Saturday 22 October 2011

Focal Point Gallery Southend Central Library Victoria Avenue Southend-on-Sea Essex SS2 6EX, UK www.focalpoint.org.uk

Cultivation Field: Postgraduate Symposium

 

The premise for this Symposium is that cultivation is leading to new art practices deserving of critical inquiry and articulation. Whether in the garden or allotment, the soup kitchen or the road, on wasteland or the tower block, or wherever there are cracks in the system, cultivation provokes questions about human being’s relation to and encounter with the earth and its growth systems and operations. The purpose of this Symposium is to encourage discursive exchange and productive encounter between art practitioners and researchers whose work explores plant-based material, land use, growth, ecosystems, economy, taxonomy, environment, power and chaos in the field of cultivation.

Wednesday 28^th September 2011
Bulmershe Theatre, the Minghella Building

10.30am – 11.00am	Arrival and Registration.
11.00am – 11.10am	Welcome, Housekeeping and Outline of Event
11.10am – 11.40am	Gayle Chong Kwan – Invisible Twinning
11.40am – 12.10am	Rosalie Kim – Ruining a Ruin
12.10am – 12.40pm	brook & black -The Fermenting Room: return of the rhizome
12.40pm – 13.00pm	Fritz Haeg – Edible Estates – Lenape, New York (film, 23mins)
13.00pm – 14.00pm	Lunch – The Graduate School, Old Whiteknights House
14.00pm – 14.30pm	Pil & Galia Kollectiv – Asparagus: A Horticultural Ballet
14.30pm – 15.00pm	Kenna Hernly – FIELDCLUB - The Interactive Meaty Master
15.00pm – 15.30pm	Amy Cutler – Peter Larkin’s Leaves of Field and British Woodlands
15.30pm – 15.45pm	Tea and Coffee – The Green Room
15.45pm – 16.15pm	Carly Troncale – ANSR – Social Practice and Criticality/ Cooperation and Resistance
16.15pm – 16.45pm	Janette Porter – Field Based Works
16.45pm – 17.15pm	Rachael Champion -The Mechanical Nature
17.15pm – 17.40pm	Adi Gelbert – Vermin (film, 23mins)
17.40pm – 18.00pm	Conclusion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All papers/presentations are 20 minutes in duration followed by 10 minutes question times unless stated.
Chair is Kate Corder.

As part of The Cultivation Field Symposium, more film works will be shown in the Minghella Building Atrium on monitors Stih & Schnock – ORBIT (in the Green Room), Fritz Hage, Edible Estates, London and LA, and Pil & Galia Kollectiv – Asparagus: A Horticultural Ballet.

This Symposium is organised by Kate Corder doctoral student in Art.