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23 May - 4 July 2008
Private View: Thursday 22 May, 6.30 - 8.30pm
The Economist Plaza, 25 St James's Street, London SW1A 1HA
 
The Economist Group and the Contemporary Art Society are pleased to present The Thought-Provoking Machine by Fernando Casasempere at the Economist Plaza.
 
The Thought-Provoking Machine is a sculptural installation inspired by the effects of machines and mass production on the environment and modern society. Since the early 1990's Casasempere has used sculpture to speak more widely about the environmental issues facing the world.
 
The work draws contrasts between organic matter and manufactured products. The manipulation of clay is central to Casasempere's art, and in using pigments obtained from residues of industrial waste he reinforces the conflict between nature and technology. The sculpture consists of two industrial conveyor belts, one transporting raw material in its original state, the other carrying the same material transformed by the artist. The belts appeal directly to the subconscious and have a strong association with industrial process.
 
"Nowadays, the ability we possess to transform is too powerful, so much so that we are affecting the landscape with more force than a natural disaster," says Casasempere. "The machine is out of control, devouring natural resources without stopping to consider the consequences seriously."
 
For information on the project and the artist please contact Alda Caparrelli Fine Art, London, +44 (0)20 7370 3850. An exhibition of sculptures by Fernando Casasempere runs concurrently at Alda Caparrelli Fine Art www.aldacaparrellifineart.com
 
THE ARTIST:
Fernando Casasempere (b 1958) moved from Santiago in Chile to London in 1997. He has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. Recent shows and public commissions include Under the Forest at the Jerwood Sculpture Park, Ragley Hall (2007) and Venice: City of Dreams? at Sotheby's, London (2007). His works are included in prestigious collections worldwide including the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) and Jerwood Foundation (Ragley Hall, Warwickshire).

Opening 14th May 6-8pm
15th May - 28th June 2008
Dicksmith Gallery
Unit 27B, 1-13 Adler Street
London
E1 1EG
15th May - 28th June 2008
Thurs – Sat, 11am-6pm
Please join us on the 14th May for the opening followed by an after party at
the George Tavern with Pizzas and DJs.

www.dicksmithgallery.co.uk

Bank holiday weekend at Tate Modern will be London's most exciting contemporary art space including unmissable one-off performances in the epic Turbine Hall. The distortion-fuelled sounds of Congolese band Konono No 1 combine their live performance with groundbreaking film screenings from Djibril Diop Mambety plus a special presentation by Nan Goldin who will project two of her most seminal slide shows documenting vibrant New York subculture. Book now!

More infor here:LINK

BERLIN, Saturday 10 May, 3 to 8pm

Ard Bia Berlin
39 Chodowieckistr.
Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin

You are invited to Production Meeting 3, this Saturday, 10 May 2008,
from 15.00 to 20.00.

The gallery becomes a film set as the Centre of Attention arrives in
Berlin for four weeks.

The exhibition consists of one space dedicated to photographs of
audience members who took part in the previous shoots. Here, the
stills are of four women who played the same role of the female lead.
The other space is given over to the set.

On Saturday 10 May, the Centre of Attention will be filming a number
of scenes, with visitors to the gallery being able to take part. The
rushes will then be screened in the gallery for the duration of the
show.

Production Meeting 3 is at once a work-producing exhibition, a
performance, a participatory event, a screening, a chance to see
artists at work and work with the artists. It is a further attempt by
the Centre of Attention to 'dematerialise' the audience. Using them as
a contingent found material, the artists attempt to fight consumption
with consumption, and selfishly pursue their own creative goals.

This remake or cover version of an older film, one that was produced
in the 1960s, is not aiming for professional film production values.
The lack of realism and naturalism, the use of unprofessional actors,
the artists' approach, focus on the subject as self-fashioning, on art
as portraiture and on life as art or as a role play with a
pre-determined script. They highlight the awkwardness of social
interaction and intercourse.

Production Meeting 3 in Berlin is part of the Centre of Attention's
project to produce a feature-length fine-art video work. This started
in Glasgow and Gothenburg last year. Using the popular template of
audience participation, Production Meeting 3 aims to reveal the
entrapment which comes with empowerment and the lure of escapism
mistaken for freedom.

For more information:
http://www.thecentreofattention.org/exhibitions/meeting.html

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LIVERPOOL, Thursday 15 May, 6.30pm

Martha Rosler Library at Site
Liverpool John Moores University
68 Hope Street
Liverpool L19EB

You are invited to our talk 'Martha Rosler vs the Centre of
Attention' on Thursday 15 May, 6.30 pm. Entrance is free

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STOCKHOLM AND WEBSITE

If in Stockholm, 'Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft' continues at Mejan
Labs, Akademigrand 3 until 15 June:
http://www.thecentreofattention.org/exhibitions/centre.html

Finally you can now view 'Nameless' on the internet. This recent
Centre of Attention video work was performed and exhibited at Cafe
Gallery Projects, London, March-May 2008:
http://www.thecentreofattention.org/centre/cafegallery.html

          
 
PRIVATE VIEW MAY 14th 6.30 – midnight
Exhibition: May 15th – June 14th 2008
RHYTHM FACTORY 16-18 WHITECHAPEL ROAD, LONDON E1 1EW
 
Hello. My name is RUSSELL HERRON and I am an artist.
Or maybe it’s all in my mind.
 
Well, let’s see. Back in the 90s I used to work with a woman and we did some work under the name SR, or sometimes SR London. We did lots of media based stuff using her image. Among other things we put a flyer in Art Monthly with an image of her saying Young British Artist. We did full page adverts in magazines like Dazed and Confused and i-D with her posing like a model. We did stickers with her saying I Am Everywhere which got put up all over the world and we made a small magazine called SR’s I AM EVERYWHERE magazine.
Then, not long after that she lost the plot a bit. We split. I didn’t do art for about three years because art for me was about her madness and I didn’t want to be mad. So I worked in a job for a bit, nothing to do with art…

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VLADIMIR DUBOSSARSKY & ALEXANDER VINOGRADOV
THE NEW PEOPLE ARE ALREADY HERE
MAY 9 - JUNE 14, 2008
OPENING FRIDAY, MAY 9, 6 - 9 PM

DEITCH PROJECTS
76 Grand Street
New York, NY 10013
(212) 343-7300
WWW.DEITCH.COM

Wednesday May 7th
THE RUSSELLETTES – Kora, Christine and Kay – will be at:
Artprojx NEW SPACE, inaugural show, DADADANDY Boutique, group show, 6-8pm, info www.artprojxspace.com
also on this night is:
Sartorial, Ode To Sartorial, 10 day group show of the usual suspects, 6.30-9pm, info: www.sartorialart.com
 
Thursday May 8th
The Printspace - 74 Kingsland Road - London E2 8DL’10’, print set organised by Carter Presents, 6-9pm, info: www.carterpresents.com
Parade, Stuart Andrew, Philip Caramazza, Gabriel Hartley, New Paintings, 7-9pm, info: www.paradespace.com
Centre For Recent Drawing, Diary Drawing, group show, 7-9pm, with a panel discussion with Paul Gravett and exhibiting artists: 6.15-7pm info: www.c4rd.org.uk
Shoreditch Town Hall, Empire and Daughter Isotope & Insectoid, part of the Institute of Psychoplasmics at Pump House Gallery, 8-9.30pm, info on this: www.kollectiv.co.uk
The Gallery on Redchurch Street, | 50 Redchurch St | London E2, The Cynthia Corbett Gallery presents Yvonne de Rosa Crazy God til 11 May 2008
Crazy God - Letters and photos from an Italian psychiatric hospital.Private View and Book Launch 6.30-8.30pm info: further information on Yvonne de Rosa, Press enquires or to RSVP please contact Celia Kinchington celia@thecynthiacorbettgallery.com T. +44 (0) 20 8947 6782
Blow de la Barra, Jo Robertson, What History Do They Represent, 6-8.30pm, info: www.blowdelabarra.com
Concrete Hermit, eBoy LA, 6-9pm, info: www.concretehermitgallery.com
Cubitt, Boris Groys, Thinking in Loop, 7-9pm, info: www.cubittartists.org.uk
In Brighton…
MODERN TOSS, A collection of artwork/silkscreens/original drawings/ from the cult comic/tv show, Ink_d gallery/studio 96 North Road Brighton BN1 1YE info: www.ink-d.co.uk
Meanwhile in Hertford,
Keeping it LIVE - A 3 day festival of Live Art, 8th-10th May 2008 at Courtyard Arts Centre, Hertford, Full programme details visit www.courtyardarts.org.uk
And in Sheff…
S1 Artspace, Katy Woods, The Great Inundation, 6.30-8.30pm, info: www.s1artspace.org
 
Friday May 9th
Fieldgate, Bass Diffusion Model, 6-9pm, info: www.fieldgategallery.com
Union Teesdale Street, Kyoko Kanda, 6-9pm, info: www.union-gallery.com
The Old Sweet Shop, Hayley Potter, Secret Creatures, 6-9pm info: www.theoldsweetshop.org
Elevator, Subb Urbe of Sound, writers, artists performance. 7pm, info: www.elevatorgallery.co.uk
In Nottingham…?
Moot, Sean Edwards, It’s not what we wanted but we’ll settle…, 6-8pm, info: www.mootgallery.org
 
Saturday May 10th
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, 7pm If Looks Could Kill. New artists film & video commissions from: Eloise Fornieles, Shannon Plumb, Paulette Phillips, Boudicca, Elizabeth McAlpine, Derrick Santini, Dino Dinco, Wendy Bevan: Curated by Laura McLean-Ferris and Louise Clarke. Info: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/14240.htm
Studio 1.1, Eduardo Padilha, Michael Schwab, "Full Circle", 6-9pm, info:
www.studio1-1.co.uk
Best Budgerigar Competition, All Saints Church Hall Haggerston Hackney, E8.
Budgerigars and owners arrive at 10am for photography session. Birds on public display from 1pm and the start of the event. £2 entrance fee to the public. Judging from 2-3pm. Winner and 2 runners up announced at 3.30pm. project put together by Susanna Edwards
( www.susannaedwards.com ). Too much info to list but refers to Jayne Mansfield and Iain Sinclair, oh just go along……The judges will be Iain Sinclair, Edwards and Rev Rose Hudson- Wilkinson…..
Residence, Curating Visitors, 7-10pm, info: www.residence-gallery.com
Studio Voltaire, Donald Urquhart, Plagues, 7.30pm, info: www.studiovoltaire.org
In Berlin….? Then why not:
Centre of Attention, Production Meeting 3, from 3 – 8pm. For more information:
http://www.thecentreofattention.org/exhibitions/meeting.html
 
Sunday May 11th
Dilston Grove, Ars Magna Lucis Et Umbrae, Mark Ingham, 1 – 4 pm, an installation of light devices and projected images, info: www.markingham.co.uk

After the double sole exhibition of the Dutch artists Peter De Boer and Radioqualia, the appointments of the exhibitions “With or without you” are going on at Marconi Gallery.

On Sunday 4th May “Metastasis the starting and the end” will be presented, a sole exhibition by Rita Vitali Rosati, curated by Claudio Libero Pisano, who is also the author of the critical text.

Vitali Rosati is a versatile and exuberant artist, who has always presented a research that represents our world in a disenchanted and ironical way. The sole exhibition at Marconi Gallery is an important evolution of her art research. The exposed works are flowers which, in a bunch or single, characterize the represented element in a closing contact with it, offering this way the reading key of her entire exhibition .The most interesting aspect of Metastasis is the theatrical and a little baroque representation that you can have from the flowers.

“All the flowers mean beauty, their message is clear and pure, whatever the context is. The flower is the symbol of the gift par excellence, there is a part of each of us in it. With the flower a part of oneself is given.

It is never dirty, the metastasis given by a flower is unnatural and unacceptable.

And yet just a series of bouquet or single flowers are testifying that illness is present in every context. It exhists, it is among us and the artist takes upon herself the responsability to state it, in a world where illness and deviance are banished or have a place only as human cases.

In this work by Rita Vitali Rosati illness is told as a part of our background, without any rhetoric or pietism. It exhists because life itself exhists, because the possibility of liberation and the regaining of sense go through the ability to be able to see the areas of shade without removing them”. (Claudio Libero Pisano)

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