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Transmission Gallery, 28 King Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G1 5QP,
23 Apr 2011
Shelly Nadashi: Text Me Faster Dance Company
Shelly Nadashi's multi-disciplinary practice comprises video, performance, sound, object making and puppetry. Transforming personal situations into absurd scenarios in a surreal and entertaining manner, her work considers themes of identity, behaviour and control in both a personal and wider social context. 15 March - 9 April 2011
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Project: Shelly Nadashi: Text Me Faster Dance Company
Location: Transmission Gallery, 28 King Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G1 5QP
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Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN,
13 Apr 2011
SHOW
SHOW is an exhibition of newly commissioned performances and artworks by Edwina Ashton, Jack Strange and Bedwyr Williams. It is the fourth Jerwood Encounters exhibition curated by Sarah Williams and seeks to examine the integral role that performance plays within an artist’s practice and its subsequent representation in an exhibition context.
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Project: SHOW
Location: Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN
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Birmingham, UK,
28 Mar 2011
Fierce Roundup
Writer Vanessa Bartlett takes us on a journey through some of the highlights of this years Fierce Festival and examines its key ideas.
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Project: Fierce Roundup
Location: Birmingham, UK
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Vivid, 140 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, West Midlands, B9 4AR,
28 Mar 2011
Fierce Festival. Companis: Spit or Swallow
Spit or Swallow was a rolling, durational brunch fit for a queen, in the form of a large-scale Flemish still life.
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Project: Fierce Festival. Companis: Spit or Swallow
Location: Vivid, 140 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, West Midlands, B9 4AR
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TROVE, The Old Science Museum, 144 Newhall Street, Birmingham, B3 1RZ,
28 Mar 2011
Dominic Johnson: Departure and Human Salvage
This performance-installation sees Dominic Johnson’s left hand tattooed by Alex Binnie, one of the world’s most highly regarded tattoo artists, and continues Johnson’s investigation into the representation and decoration of wounds, secular images of disaster, and the politics of body modification.
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Project: Dominic Johnson: Departure and Human Salvage
Location: TROVE, The Old Science Museum, 144 Newhall Street, Birmingham, B3 1RZ
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The Rainbow Warehouse, 149-150 Adderley Street, Birmingham, B9 4ED,
26 Mar 2011
Action Hero: Frontman
In a half-cut lament for a faded fantasy, your Frontman performs a defiant, brazen, raucous reproduction of lip syncs and all night gigs through a fog of dry-ice and furious noise. 24 March 2011
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Project: Action Hero: Frontman
Location: The Rainbow Warehouse, 149-150 Adderley Street, Birmingham, B9 4ED
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Vivid, 140 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, West Midlands, B9 4AR,
24 Mar 2011
Fierce Festival. Eitan Buchalter: Veer
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Project: Fierce Festival. Eitan Buchalter: Veer
Location: Vivid, 140 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, West Midlands, B9 4AR
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Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3,
22 Mar 2011
Fierce Fesival. Lundahl & Seitl: Symphony of a Missing Room
This work is a guided tour for six at a time, both a collective but extremely personal journey around the museum. Via wireless headphones a voice takes visitors, led by performers, on an itinerary that traverses layers of physical and imaginary architecture. Tuesday 22 – Sunday 27 March
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Project: Fierce Fesival. Lundahl & Seitl: Symphony of a Missing Room
Location: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3
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Midlands Arts Centre, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, West Midlands B12 9QH,
22 Mar 2011
Fierce Festival. plan b: A day in the life - the walkers of Birmingham
plan b have been recording everywhere they go with GPS tracking devices since 2003. For Fierce they have begun creating a living map of Birmingham (collating donated GPS data of people’s daily movements). Performance Wednesday 23 March.
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Project: Fierce Festival. plan b: A day in the life - the walkers of Birmingham
Location: Midlands Arts Centre, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, West Midlands B12 9QH
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Birmingham, UK,
22 Mar 2011
Fierce Festival is here!
For the past year we have been documenting and broadcasting material generated by the Fierce Festival. From the Start Party in April 2010, to the series of 'interInterrobangs' - a mash-up of art and performance, games, discussion, seminars, workshops, tea stands, research events - we have been there throughout. This post is an introduction to the week of events, performances, lectures, installations and parties.
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Project: Fierce Festival is here!
Location: Birmingham, UK
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Vilma Gold, 6 Minerva Street, London, E2 9EH,
18 Mar 2011
Charles Atlas: ( /+\ )
Vilma Gold are delighted to present a solo exhibition of works by the American artist Charles Atlas (b.1949), comprising a new three-channel projected video, No Safety in Numbers (2011), and an ambitious multi-channel video installation, Joints 4tet for Ensemble (1971 - 2010). 25 February - 10 April 2011
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Project: Charles Atlas: ( /+\ )
Location: Vilma Gold, 6 Minerva Street, London, E2 9EH
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Tanya Leighton, Kurfürstenstraße 156, 10785 Berlin,
9 Mar 2011
Bruce McLean: Waiter Waiter Curator Curator
Tanya Leighton Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in Berlin by celebrated British Conceptual artist Bruce McLean (born London, 1944). Using diverse media and iconoclastic approaches, McLean’s work is preoccupied with the minutiæ of human behaviour — the gestures, styles and mannerisms that orchestrate our lives.
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Artist: Advert
Project: Bruce McLean: Waiter Waiter Curator Curator
Location: Tanya Leighton, Kurfürstenstraße 156, 10785 Berlin
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Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH,
23 Feb 2011
Live Weekends: The Last of the Red Wine
Collaboratively written, improvised and directed, The Last of the Red Wine was the art world’s attempt to represent itself more accurately in mainstream entertainment. 9 February 2011 - 13 February 2011
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Project: Live Weekends: The Last of the Red Wine
Location: Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
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