Photograph: Kirsty Carter (APFEL), 2006

The ICA is delighted to present the exhibition take my eyes and through them see you by the highly influential artist and filmmaker Cerith Wyn Evans.

20 September - 29 October 2006

Although his background is predominantly in filmmaking, which clearly informs and shapes his work to this day, he also harnesses an impressively wide knowledge of literature, philosophy, music and photography to create a unique and distinctive artistic vernacular. His erudition is both implicit and explicit as he creates works whose outward simplicity and elegance disguises radical and complex socio-political content. Philosophical and literary influences are most evident in his series of language-based works that contain remnants of ideas proposed by significant avant-garde movements of the Twentieth Century from Surrealism to Conceptual art and are marked by an extreme minimal beauty which on closer inspection reveal deeper, more troubling content. His sculptural 'chandelier' pieces – for which he is probably best known - conceal a personal canon of literature from the last century including poems, letters, short stories and philosophy - the texts being transmitted through Morse-code translated into pulsing light bulbs.

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The Blackpool Museum of Contemporary Art are proud to present
A weekend of performance, projection and manoeuvre across Blackpool

Tim Brennan
Spartacus Chetwynd
Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth
Sue Tompkins

29th and 30th of September 2006

Tim Brennan presents "Promenade"
A new manoeuvre created for Blackpool
Meet outside the main entrance to the Pleasure Beach at 6pm, Friday the 29th
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Sue Tompkins presents a performance of "Elephants Galore"
Spartacus Chetwynd presents "Debt Counselling"
Followed by a late bar
Space is limited so please email guest_list@thebmca.com to guarantee your place The Carlton hotel from 9pm, Friday the 29th
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Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth
Present a series of projections that will run throughout the day Shellie's lounge (tbc) at the Sandcastle Water World between 11am - 4pm, Saturday the 30th Map:
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Spartacus Chetwynd Presents "Humanzees Picnic"
A new performance commissioned by the BMCA The atrium of the Sandcastle Water World at 1pm, Saturday the 30th
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Nuart has started!! Artists scurry around town and test broadcasts have begun.

Official broadcast programme starts on Thursday 21:00 local time 19:00 GMT+2 with the graffiti crews armed and ready and live audio and video stream broadcasts from the numusic stages. The days nuart events will be remixed and vj'd to accompany the music.

Check your nuradio programme listings here at

NuRadio can be heard here
http://stream.r23.cc:2323/c6.ogg.m3u

NuTV can be watched here
http://stream.r23.cc/live/numusic/stage1/
http://stream.r23.cc/live/numusic/stage2/
http://stream.r23.cc/live/numusic/stage3/

Contemporary public art practice has become an audienceless affair with application-based works directed purely at those that fund them. While artists and funding bodies are locked in dialogues of mutual gratification the public are the ultimate losers. The creation of alternative platforms for interaction and discussion must subvert these well established pathways and deliver their content to a wider general public.

This year's festival uses a range of alternative media outside of conventional art practice to deliver content in ways that are easily accessible and relevant to our audiences, both actual and virtual.

Live events will merge in this cross media remix. Using the town and the numusic festival as its palette, this year's nuart festival feeds its street, visual and nu media events into a multi-layered broadcast. Internet radio will merge nuartist presentations and workshops with numusic concerts and interviews. nuTV streams live acts from the numusic stages online and to your mobile phone, while text messages from the public create narratives in nuart VJ sets.

Calls for walls in Stavanger has born fruit with 9 locations in and around the town being painted by some of the worlds great street artists. Open to the public, these street works will be filmed, cut and fed back onto the numusic stages as visual backdrop for numusic acts.

Using alternative media broadcasting techniques, subversive content is made available to those usually sidelined by a lexicon of fine art nonsense.

MICHEL GONDRY THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP
AN EXHIBITION OF SCULPTURE AND CREEPY PATHOLOGICAL LITTLE GIFTS
September 6 - September 30, 2006Opening Wednesday September 6, 6 - 9PMDeitch Projects
76 Grand Street
New York, NY 10012
212 343 7300
www.deitch.comMichel Gondry's film The Science of Sleep opens in cinemas on September 22, 2006