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This is Performance Art is the first detailed insight into artist Mel Brimfield's practice, in which she works with dancers, musicians, comedians and theatre-makers to explore the boundaries of performance art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This Is Performance Art: Mel Brimfield £19.95 (UK Postage)
This Is Performance Art: Mel Brimfield £19.95 (Postage to Europe)
Paperback: 176 pages Publisher: Black Dog Publishing London UK (1 Sep 2011) Language English Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 19 x 1.3 cm
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Ghent, Belgium,
15 May 2012
TRACK
TRACK is a unique art project in the city of Ghent. 41 international artists have been invited to create new works, which also give visitors the opportunity to (re)discover the city. Pieter Vermeulen when to meet Mirjam Varadinis, one of its curators.
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Project: TRACK
Location: Ghent, Belgium
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Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London, W2 3XA,
14 May 2012
Hans Peter Feldmann
Hans-Peter Feldmann (born 1941, Dusseldorf) rose to prominence in the early 1970s, earning worldwide acclaim for his expansive and encyclopaedic photographic series. Often presented in the form of books, posters, postcards and installations, these collections link Feldmann's life-long fascination with collecting elements of visual culture.
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Project: Hans Peter Feldmann
Location: Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London, W2 3XA
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Whitney Museum Of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street New York, NY 10021,
13 May 2012
Whitney Biennial
With a roster of artists at all points in their careers the Biennial provides a look at the current state of contemporary art in America. This is the seventy-sixth in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded.
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Project: Whitney Biennial
Location: Whitney Museum Of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street New York, NY 10021
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Berlin, various loctaions,
11 May 2012
Berlin Biennale
The relatively young Berlin biennial has always been controversial and this year proved to be no exception. In 2011 the group show ‘based in berlin’ attempted to generate links between artists who produce work in Berlin and maintain a connection to the city...
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Project: Berlin Biennale
Location: Berlin, various loctaions
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London,
10 May 2012
Artist Profile: Roisin Byrne
I’ve been chatting with the artist Roisin Byrne in the cafeteria of the V22 building, Bermondsey, where her studio is located. She clearly doesn’t subscribe to the orthodoxy of having a studio just because she’s an artist...
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Project: Artist Profile: Roisin Byrne
Location: London
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ELISA PLATTEAU & CIE GALERIE, LAKENSESTRAAT 86, RUE DE LAEKEN, B-BRUSSEL 1000,
8 May 2012
Jurgen Ots: La Porte de l’Enfer. The Gate of the Infernal Regions.
So, this is a piece by Jürgen Ots, an emerging Belgian artist in his thirties, who started his project in 2010 departing from a single image. An image that shows pieces of broken glass....
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Project: Jurgen Ots: La Porte de l’Enfer. The Gate of the Infernal Regions.
Location: ELISA PLATTEAU & CIE GALERIE, LAKENSESTRAAT 86, RUE DE LAEKEN, B-BRUSSEL 1000
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Black Dog Publishing,
8 May 2012
Critical Dictionary
Critical Dictionary is the first of a series of books we'll be featuring in collaboration with Black Dog Publishing. Inspired by the mock dictionary Georges Bataille edited for Documents in 1929 and 1930, the book aims to declassify terms in a playful, humorous manner. Edited by David Evans
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Project: Critical Dictionary
Location: Black Dog Publishing
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Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH ,
7 May 2012
Subversion
Subversion features work from eleven emerging and established artists who use autobiographical narratives combining fiction, popular culture and subversive parody to express the divisions they face as they perform multiple roles in a society which is frequently represented to the outside world in a contorted and mediated manner.
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Project: Subversion
Location: Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH
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Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen, België,
6 May 2012
Chantal Akerman: Too Far, Too Close
The M HKA is holding the very first large-scale retrospective of the Belgian film-maker and artist Chantal Akerman, who has now lived in Paris for many years. It is also the first time her work has been shown in Belgium since her exhibition at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels in 1995. Akerman is one of the most influential film-makers of her generation and has long been a feminist icon.
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Project: Chantal Akerman: Too Far, Too Close
Location: Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen, België
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first site, Lewis Gardens, High Street, Colchester ,
4 May 2012
Steven Claydon: Culpable Earth
firstsite presents Culpable Earth, the first major solo exhibition by British artist Steven Claydon in a UK public gallery. Culpable Earth includes newly commissioned sculpture, video, painting and print, developed by the artist and shown for the first time in this exhibition.
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Project: Steven Claydon: Culpable Earth
Location: first site, Lewis Gardens, High Street, Colchester
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Universalmuseum Joanneum, Mariahilferstraße 4 8020 Graz, Austria,
3 May 2012
Sofie Thorsen: Cut A-A’
“I am not very much interested in the personal or the subjective”, is how Sofie Thorsen (born in Århus, Denmark in 1971, lives in Vienna) describes the focus of her work. Rather Thorsen’s interest lies with culturally shaped forms and their political, social and art-historical contexts.
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Project: Sofie Thorsen: Cut A-A’
Location: Universalmuseum Joanneum, Mariahilferstraße 4 8020 Graz, Austria
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Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Church Lane, Carmarthen, Wales SA31 1LH,
2 May 2012
Jonathan Anderson: Coal Dust Mandala
For his exhibition at Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Swansea based artist, Jonathan Anderson is showing a series of works each entitled Coal Dust Mandala. The term is both descriptive and mysterious. Each small work is produced using layers of coal dust on grounds of found material such as plywood, cardboard and sandpaper. Until 26 May 2012, review by Ciara Healey
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Project: Jonathan Anderson: Coal Dust Mandala
Location: Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Church Lane, Carmarthen, Wales SA31 1LH
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Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG,
1 May 2012
Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan
Alighiero e Boetti (1940–1994) was one of the most important and influential Italian artists of the twentieth century. He was a key member of the Arte Povera group of young Italian artists in the late 1960s which was working in radically new ways using simple materials. Until 27th May, review by Maggie Gray
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Project: Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan
Location: Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
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