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/

As part of Situation Leeds Festival of Art in the Public Realm 2007 Monitor, Black Dogs and ‘The Waiting Game’ present an evening of bus and badge related
art mayhem.

Entry on the door: £5 (includes entry to the Idioteque, or a £2 refund if you leave before 11pm)

Tees Valley Arts on behalf of Middlesbrough Council with partners Halcrow are seeking expressions of interest from Landscape Architects, Designers, Artists and Architects for an ideas competition for 'roadscape'.

The project offers an opportunity to prototype an idea with a view to seeing its adoption in significant adjacent areas in both East and West Middlesbrough.

An initial brief is available at www.ribacompetitions.com take the link to 'new competitions'. A DVD of the site with interviews with the client group, maps aerial photography and background documents can be obtained from the Riba Competitions office at RIBA Competitions Office | 6 Melbourne Street | Leeds LS2 7PS | Tel: 0113 2341335 | Fax: 0113 2460744

In the first instance you are asked to submit an expression of interest by the 8th  January 2007. Details of how to do so are available from the initial brief that can be downloaded from www.ribacompetitions.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.

A message from Go:

This is Sheffield calling. Our city needs your help.
 
We've had an idea to change the way the world sees Sheffield. To make our city better. It's a project called Cooling The Towers. But it's all under threat. Please take five minutes to read this email. Then forward it to everyone else.

This is the best idea Sheffield ever had.

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COOLING THE TOWERS

There are two cooling towers on the edge of Sheffield, next to Meadowhall and the M1.

Currently they mean grey, industrial, Full Monty. Sheffield is over.

We want to turn them into massive works of public art that mean what Sheffield is now: green, creative and different. And amazing.

We've been working on this for two years and from running an initial competition for ideas in our fanzine GO ( www.dontgo.co.uk ), we're now working with Channel 4 as one of the winners of their Big Art Project ( www.channel4.com/bigart). Channel 4 love the idea, and have applied for funding to make it a reality. This is possible. We're almost there.

BUT there's a baddy in the story. They're a big baddy. The owners of the site are called Eon. They own Powergen. After four months of negotiations, and all our arguments for why this is a good idea (which you can find on our website) they've decided to knock the towers down and build another industrial shed.

Sheffield wins again.

We think this is too good an idea and too good a chance for Sheffield to just give up, and let them have their way. Knocking these towers down will be a tragedy.

So we need your help.

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What if you're not from Sheffield? This still affects you. It's just another example of A Big Corporation with no brains doing what they want and ignoring people like you and me. We're not luddites and we're not revolutionaries. We've just got a good idea and they're not interested in listening. Who decides how our cities develop, what they mean? Us or them?

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HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO:

SIGN THIS PETITION. Someone's already set a petition up. You can see how strongly people feel. Sign it here http://www.petitiononline.com/tct2/petition.html

GO TO OUR MYSPACE. We're working on a proper website, but for now this is the digital HQ. This is where you'll information and updates. Be our friend. Get your friends to be our friends. www.myspace.com/coolingthetowers

EMAIL EON. Tell them why they're wrong. For some sample text, click here. Email the chief exec here: paul.golby@eon-uk.com That's Dr Paul Golby to you. Evidently he's not got a doctorate in Doing The Right Thing. It only takes five minutes. Do it now.

TURN EON OFF. If you're a customer, tell them you'll change power suppliers if the towers are knocked down. In fact, just do it now. Why not go a bit greener? Eon produce more CO2 every year than the whole of Croatia. Change to Ecotricity www.ecotricity.co.uk/switch

SHOW YOUR FACE. We're going to create a photographic petition. As well as a list of names, we want to actually show the world how many people support these towers and this project. So if you do, take a picture of yourself, or the towers, or of you holding the phrase 'THE TOWERS ARE OURS' and send it to us with your name and location. We'll put it on the website. And tell your friends to do it too. Send it here go.sheffield@gmail.com

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We love this city so much. We're not going to sit back and watch it lose out again. We're tired of Sheffield being the loser. We want people across the world to know what this city means, realise how brilliant it is.

We don't want another toys r us.

Please help us.

Love from

GO X

WHEN Kylie Minogue cleared out her wardrobe, it wasn't a case of popping down to the charity shop with a couple of carrier bags. The Princess of Pop has turned it into an international art event - and it's going to Manchester.

The Aussie superstar has donated more than 300 pieces of clothing to an exhibition devoted to herself and her sense of style. The end result, which will go on show at Manchester Art Gallery on Mosley Street, will feature many of her fans' favourites from her stunning stage shows. Advertisement your story continues below Pride of place will go the gold hotpants that revived her career in the video to Spinning Around. Other exhibits will be from the celebrated `Showgirl' tour - which finishes at the M.E.N. Arena in January - alongside her outfit from her role as the Green Fairy Absinthe in the film Moulin Rouge. Gallery officials are expecting tens of thousands of Kylie fans to pass through the gallery's doors for the exhibition which will run from June 30 to September 2 next year.

The DAAD galerie Berlin presents a new installation by Belgian artist Ana Torfs , starting from 23 September 2006 and running until 4 November. Ana Torfs often deals with events and historic figures from Western cultural history. (More info after the link) 

For over a decade, the Droog Design collective has set forth innovative and inspired designs for everyday objects using low-cost, industrial, or recycled materials. Comprising more than 160 iconic designs, simply droog, 10 + 3 years of creating innovation and discussion reveals the playfulness, significance, humor, and social meaning imbued in the work of this international design platform. The exhibition, which has toured throughout Europe and South America since its Munich premiere in 2004, will make its sole North American presentation at the Museum of Arts & Design from September 21, 2006, through January 14, 2007.

NEW YORK.- The Museum of Modern Art presents today Out of Time:

Contemporary Art from the Collection, on view through April 9, 2007 at the Contemporary Galleries, Second floor. Out of Time presents contemporary art from the Museum’s collection in groupings that explore the theme of temporality. Experiencing time has inflected the production of art of the last three decades in several ways. The works in this exhibition investigate three principal aspects of our contemporary experience of time: the cinematic perception and recording of “real time” and its impact on other forms of art; the projection of an inner dimension of time articulated through fantasy and dreams; and a reconstruction of time that is based on archives, memory, and history. This installation includes works in a variety of mediums, including video, photography, painting, sculpture, works on paper, and large-scale installations. Out of Time features a number of significant recent acquisitions that have not previously been exhibited, including works by Cady Noland, Cai Guo-Qiang, Rineke Dijkstra, Mona Hatoum, Luc Tuymans, and Bill Viola.

Organized by Joachim Pissarro, Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, and Eva Respini, Assistant Curator, Department of Photography, in consultation with Luis Enrique Pérez-Oramas, Adjunct Curator, Department of Drawings. via: art daily

Love these flowers and zipper created by Roadsworth Via woostercollective