POSTINDUSTRIAL BAROQUE – the film
The film is in screenings all over the place - not yet in London though! Contact me if you want to screen it.
PHOTOCINEMA
Forum Festival of Photography 09. I exhibited the Tarkovsky’s River slide show. Plans are now for a book and full exhibition of the photography based show. The show included David Lynch, Gregory Crewdson, WilliamEgglestone (I’m a big fan of his!) and others.
POSTINDUSTRIAL BAROQUE
“Post Industrial Baroque” is ten years of Luna Nera Site Responsive art. It’s a retrospective of 10 [!] years of invading weird spaces and making films, installations and other mayhem in them.
I exhibited photographs and video, including 3 short films from the DVD collection “Places”. We alsl unveiled the multiscreen installaiton version of our new film “Post Industrial Baroque” (a Luna Nera collaboration). The single channel version will be out later.
Globe Gallery (City) Newcastle, Feb 08-March 22
Artists: Gillian McIver, Julian Ronnefeldt, Valentina Floris, Ben Foot, Nazir Tanbouli
Also featuring Hilary Powell, Agnes Domke, Sandrine Albert, Chris SInger, Natasha Mayran
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I reviewed the 2008 Turner Prize
And the Expanded Cinema event at the BFI
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“Foreword” Menier Gallery, London
New contemporary photography
[above, one of my works in the show, 50 x 70 cm C print]
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I attended:
Nazir Tanbouli’ show at the Redgate Gallery, London. I also reviewed it.
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Digital Media 1.0
Valencia
I participated in a seminar on digital media and distribution and dissemination of new media production. My paper was about “Podcasting: art form or marketing tool?”
Together with Luna Nera artists SDNA and Julian Ronnefeldt, I exhibited video. My piece is a short digital film “Moments in the transference of knowledge” made in collaboration with Nazir Tanbouli.
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March 2008 was the building of London’s cheapest house! An art installation made out of the free newspapers that litter the city’s strets and transport, the “house” was made by Sumer Erek and documented by me. As well as doing the photo shoot for the publicity [above], My job was creating the photogrpahic images for the publicity campaign, and I followed Sumer Erek around with my camera while he was building the piece. I also made a short documentary podcast for the Guardian and Building Design websites.
Weblink: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/mar/10/recycling?gusrc=rss&feed=environment
See Newspaperhouse on Myspace
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News 2007
Autumn I was participating in the event “In Situ07″, in Barcelona, at La Farinera del Clot 26.10.07
Summer I was lucky enough to take a trip through British Columbia up to the Rocky Mountains.
Spring I was in the exhibition Coldstore, in Berlin. Then I worked with artist Sumer Erek on a project called Toprak: The RawEarth project. This is a site specific project that is made up of series of actions and things – art works, performances, texts -and is an ongoing organic collective project. My contribution is in literary and critical writing. On 7 June Erek presented the project at the Venice Bienniale 2007.
2006
Autumn I attended the Vidifestival Valencia as participant and spectator. I gave a talk introducing the work of Luna Nera at the Llogeta, and a paper on the problems of contemporary video art practice, at the University of Valencia. There were screenings of Luna Nera video work and a live video mixing show by Valentina Floris.
Summer I created a work based on ideas of Anselm Kiefer and writings of Gaston Bachelard about the idea of “empty” space. The work “no empty place (is ever empty)” is an ongoing audio-video research project, and was shown at the AirSpace, for the exhibition ‘Conjunction’.
