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Sheffield-based art parctitioners No Fixed Abode have a cool new website, detailing their various interventions including their Sheffield-wide mobile cinema, and their performance at Robin Close and Webster Gotts’ art-karaoke night:
http://www.nofixedabode.org.uk/
FAD's favourite performance art duo, Webster Gotts, have a new blog. Webster Gotts base much of their work on drinking culture, such as their beer-swilling mime to Bohemian Rhapsody and the "Just for Fun" night of art and karaoke , which they curated. Their submission to Art Sheffield 08 was recently rejected.
IN FOCUS is a London-wide contemporary art project, curated by Predrag Pajdic, relating to the Middle East. It will include:multimedia art exhibitions, series of film and video screenings, live art performances
& interventions as well as more than 100 educational activities, that will take place across London, during the spring/summer of 2007
Tate Modern, Opening May 4th 5 – 7pm with a live art performance
Make Me Stop Smoking by Rabih Mroué, in addition to THIS DAY, a series of 8 film and video programs, until May 13th 2007
Contemporary Art Platform, THE BREATH, multimedia exhibition, Opening on June 22nd
7 – 9.30pm, until September 7th 2007
Dazed Gallery, UNDO, exhibition, Opening on June 07th
7 – 10pm, until July 11h 2007
The ongoing events in the Middle East produce a flow of images that are often of war, destruction and conflict. Channelled by the media, these images remain in the subconscious, coming to mind whenever the term ‘Middle East’ is mentioned. IN FOCUS hopes to challenge these representations by showing 65 international contemporary artists whose work relates to the region but defies stereotypes. The project incorporates film, video, digital technology, conceptual work, installation photography and a number of live art performances and interventions.
Represented artists and IN FOCUS this summer 07 in London are: Mohamed Abdulla, Abdellatif Abdul-Hamid, Anthony Abou Khalife, Mania Akbari, Akram Al Ashqar, Yasmeen Al Awadi, Mounira Al Solh, Rowan Alfaqih, Doa Aly, Omar Amiralay, Ayreen Anastas, Ziad Antar & Rasha Salti, Oreet Ashery, Mireille Astore, Maja Bajevic, Tim Blake, Ali Cherri, Hassan Choubassi, Tareq El Ghosein & Chris Kienke, Roza El-Hassan, Hala Elkoussy, Shady El Noshokaty, Shadi Habib Allah, Khaled Hafez, Mohammed Hammed, Susan Hefuna, Hilda Hiary, Mahmoud Hojeij, The Infinity Project, Hisham Jaber, Lamia Joreige, Annemarie Jacir & Nassin Amaouche, Emily Jacir, Ahmed Khaled, Nesrine Khodr, Khorso Khosravi, Nedim Kufi, Rabih Mroué, Vesna Milicevic, Enas Muthafar, Diane Nerwen, Khalil Rabah, Ayman Ramadan, Khaled Ramadan, Mario Rizzi, Paul Ryan, Jackie Salloum, Lina Saneh, Larissa Sansour, Wael Shawky, Emilia Telese & Guyan Porter, Sadegh Tirafkan, Milica Tomic & Branimir Stojanovic, Vladimir Tomic, Jalal Toufic, Sharif Waked, Rachel Wilberforce, Akram Zaatari and Sameh Zoabi.A full colour catalogue will accompany the exhibition, with essays by Predrag Pajdic & Paul Ryan, Olivia Snaije, Mahmoud Hojeij, Jalal Toufic, a forward by Sacha Craddock, an introduction by Charles Asprey and interviews with selected artists.
For further information please visit: www.infocusdialogue.com
For its first show of the year, Bloc will house an installation by artist duo WebsterGotts that continues their practice of creating drinking-inspired artwork.
In their work Scott Webster and Alexis Gotts closely examine pub memorabilia and culture, reproducing an assortment of objects, sayings and images. Pub furniture, framed photographs of grand gentlemen from an unknown time, and philosophical quotes have been replicated but do not pretend to be authentic. Some images include the artists themselves: a television in the corner of the gallery, instead of screening sport, shows footage of the artists nonchalantly pouring pints of bitter on their crotches.
The artists explain that the aim of the exhibition is not to turn the gallery into a pub; rather their interest lies in the effects of removing such objects from their original setting, and the re-contextualisation of the social aspects of pub culture:
“As Sheffield’s once thriving industry has dwindled, so has the influx of students increased. In Sheffield’s ‘Cultural Industries Quarter’ (CIQ), artists and film-makers mingle with local workers for lunch time pints and after-hours socials. We’re interested in pub memorabilia as it’s an intriguing phenomenon for many strangers and non-locals. Old photographs of local heroes and long-gone regulars; framed newspaper cuttings and hackneyed drinking jokes can provide tenuous links to the local past.”
3 - 18 FEBRUARY 2007
Blocspace, 198 Arundel Street. Sheffield S1 4RE
Thursday to Sunday 12 - 6pm
Private view: Friday 2 February 7-9pm
Artist Talk: Sunday 18 February 2pm
In the new year, there will be a preview of the work produced by Juan Pablo Echeverri during his residency at the Site Gallery, Sheffield:
Diva's Life
Preview: Friday 12 January, 6-8pm
The work will be on show in the gallery from 13 - 27 Jan 2007, Wed – Sat, 11am – 5.30pm.
Juan Pablo Echeverri has been artist in residence at Site Gallery since September. Based in Bogota, Colombia, this is Echeverri’s first visit to the UK. This exhibition is the culmination of the work he has developed during his time in Sheffield and includes a video diary and a series of self-portraits which he has taken every day in a photobooth. Using an array of outlandish and startling outfits and costumes, Echeverri’s work plays with issues of identity and gender, but also contrasts mundane daily activities with a search for the dream of starring in his own pop video.
A joint initiative between Visiting Arts, Ministry of Culture Colombia, British Council, Columbia and Arts Council England
P P Priestley at BLOC, Sheffield .
Scaled-down, wooden-framed sculptures of anthropomorphised churches fill the gallery and courtyard, enacting various narrative functions. Tableaux of small figurative sculptures juxtapose sado-masochistic, religious and bestial imagery.
Preview: Friday 1 December 7-9pm
Open Thursday - Sunday 12-6pm
Artist talk Sunday 17 December 2pm
Free entry
Bloc
71 Eyre Lane
Sheffield S1 4RB
Canvas, held at Mine and Pulse at Leeds University Union, is a creative showcase/outlet for everybody's artist endevours, featuring Music, Film, Art, Fashion
Tonight (Wednesday 22nd November) Canvas plays host to
Music
Art:
Film:
Fashion:
DJs till 2 in the morning, and a must see event for art and music societies.
www.myspace.com/pillowfightnight
www.canvas-productions.com
Hermann Nitsch Orgies Mysteries Theatre German retrospective in the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Nov 30, 2006 - Jan 22, 2007
Aktion des Orgien Mysterien Theater am 19. November 2005 im Wiener
Burgtheater. © Hermann Nitsch Foto: Georg Soulek
From 30 November 2006 to 22 January 2007 the Nationalgalerie Berlin will be the guest of the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. The Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie is staging the first retrospective in Germany devoted to the complete works of the Viennese Actionist. Hermann Nitsch (b. 1938) has developed the Orgies Mysteries Theatre, a theatrical form that combines painting, music, drama and performance with liturgical-religious elements. One of the key fundaments of the Orgies Mysteries Theatre are the mystery feasts of antiquity, which enacted a purifying catharsis – a pivotal concept that continues to significantly influence the artist’s work today.
Hermann Nitsch remains one of the most controversial contemporary artists. His work provokes protest and antagonism. It polarises the public.
The curator Britta Schmitz (Nationalgalerie) has developed an exhibition concept tailor-made for 18 rooms of the Martin-Gropius-Bau, one which in particular creates an ideal setting for Hermann Nitsch’s large, multipart works. Loans from numerous museums and private collections abroad ensure that certain works can now be seen in Berlin for the first time in decades. The works on show include key pieces from Nitsch’s oeuvre, such as the "Existenzaltar", 1960, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Vienna, nine "Stations of the Cross" and the "splatter paintings", which determined the artist’s distinctive "signature" for decades and decisively shaped his style between Abstract Expressionism and Action Painting.
Other highlights of the exhibition are the famous "Geißelwand", 1963, Museum Ludwig, Cologne as well as the "Asolo Raum" and the "Schömer Raum", 1973 and 1998, respectively, from the Austrian private collection Essl. The Berlin exhibition in the Martin-Gropius-Bau will also feature numerous musical scores and drawings, photo documentation and films of earlier actionist performances. A special music room as well as a fragrance-room complete the retrospective on the eclectic productivity of this exceptional artist. On a 18 meter screen the visitor will witness Nitsch’s 122nd action of the Orgies Mysteries Theatre in the Wiener Burgtheater (Vienna). The documentation of the action will be played in its full length of nearly four hours.
This first retrospective on the work of Hermann Nitsch in Germany provides the public and the media with a unique opportunity to appreciate in detail the complete works in all their diversity and the important positions of Viennese Actionism and the Orgies Mysteries Theatre in 20th century art.
A catalogue will be published by Verlag Walther König.
The ICD is an international and irreverent collective of thinkers, do-ers, dancers, musicians, artists, builders and clowns. It specialises in creating extraordinary and compelling site-specific events through which the audience become integral to the work.
The ICD is constantly seeking ways and means to produce work that engages and excites people. They are always on the hunt for the treasure. The work is always collaborative and exploratory. It is a devising process. This is their first SIDESHOW…
1. INTRO / BOXING RING
2. PRECARIOUS BALANCE
3. CHANCE
4. CONTEMPLATION
5. EXTRAVAGANZA
6. MENTAL BLACK HOLE
7. CRAZY DANCING
Thurs 16 - Sat 18 Nov 2006
Theatre in the mill, Bradford
7.30pm
Booking: 01274 233 200
£6.50/£4
Please wear comfortable shoes
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