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Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH ,
23 Apr 2012
Samantha Donnelly: Contour States
Contour States was the first major UK public solo show by British artist Samantha Donnelly. With a strong interest in the images presented in today’s media that continue to idealise and objectify the human form, the exhibition featured new work that explored representations of female identity in photography, TV, film and advertisements. 28 Jan - 25 Mar 2012, review by Evelyn Char
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Project: Samantha Donnelly: Contour States
Location: Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH
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Key of Return is off to the Berlin Biennale
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A lecture by Professor John Mullarkey titled Inventing the Future: On the Future Anterior and Philo-Fictions at Jerwood Visual Arts.
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Mika Rottenberg talks about her work
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20 Apr 2012
Fierce Festival: Secret Show
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Project: Fierce Festival: Secret Show
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Arnolfini 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA,
18 Apr 2012
Shilpa Gupta: Someone Else
Shilpa Gupta creates artwork using a variety of media including video, objects, photography, sound and performances to examine such themes as desire, conflict, militarism, security, technology and human rights. Gupta's application of technology in her works reveals her interest in how various media affect our understanding of the political realm. Review by Rowan Lear
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Project: Shilpa Gupta: Someone Else
Location: Arnolfini 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA
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Q Club, Corporation Street, Birmingham ,
18 Apr 2012
Fierce Festival, Ann Liv Young: Mermaid Show
A bare-breasted woman with long hair, silvery mermaid tail and reptilian contact lenses writhes lasciviously in a plastic basin: Ann Liv Young has a history of re-interpreting fairy tales. This time, she has turned her attention to “The Little Mermaid”.
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Project: Fierce Festival, Ann Liv Young: Mermaid Show
Location: Q Club, Corporation Street, Birmingham
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S.M.A.K Citadelpark, 9000 Ghent, Belgium,
17 Apr 2012
Nedko Solakov: All in Order, with Exceptions
Nedko Solakov (°1957, Cherven Briag) is one of Bulgaria's internationally best known contemporary artists, and has been artistically active for more than thirty years. The exhibition in S.M.A.K. is the first 'retrospective' of Solakov’s work in Belgium.
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Project: Nedko Solakov: All in Order, with Exceptions
Location: S.M.A.K Citadelpark, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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BRUXELLES CONGRÈS STATION, Boulevard Pachéco 38, 1000 Brussels,
16 Apr 2012
POPPOSITIONS
POPPOSITIONS is a new off-fair taking place during Art Brussels, showcasing emerging artists and galleries working with site-specific exhibitions. A selection of artworks will be presented in deliberate interaction with a unique architectural setting, the railway station of Bruxelles Congrès.
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Project: POPPOSITIONS
Location: BRUXELLES CONGRÈS STATION, Boulevard Pachéco 38, 1000 Brussels
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Vienna Secession, Friedrichstraße 12 1010 Vienna, Austria,
16 Apr 2012
Michael Snow
In Recent Works, his first solo show in Austria, Canadian artist Michael Snow shows photographic works and film installations from the past ten years. His film works are already familiar to Viennese and Austrian audiences as his experimental films have long been part of the collection of the Austrian Film Museum. During the exhibition, the museum will be cooperating with the Secession to show a program of early and rarely screened films by Snow.
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Project: Michael Snow
Location: Vienna Secession, Friedrichstraße 12 1010 Vienna, Austria
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Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Aragó 255, 08007 Barcelona,
15 Apr 2012
Xavier Le Roy: Retrospective
"Retrospective" by Xavier Le Roy is an exhibition conceived as a choreography of actions that will be carried out by performers for the duration of the exhibition. These actions will compose situations that inquire into various experiences about how we use, consume or produce time. Review by Julie Solovyeva
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Project: Xavier Le Roy: Retrospective
Location: Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Aragó 255, 08007 Barcelona
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TROVE, The Old Science Museum, 144 Newhall Street, Birmingham, B3 1RZ,
13 Apr 2012
Fierce Festival, Ron Athey, Gifts of the Spirit: Automatic Writing
A performance installation conceived, scored and directed by Ron Athey with automatic composition and music performance by Othon Mataragas. Ron Athey will read extracts from his memoir, Gifts of the Spirit, accompanied by 16 automatic writers, a piano, 6 typists, 4 editors, 1 reader, and a glossolalia chorus – all in a hypnotic trance. Review by Andy Field
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Project: Fierce Festival, Ron Athey, Gifts of the Spirit: Automatic Writing
Location: TROVE, The Old Science Museum, 144 Newhall Street, Birmingham, B3 1RZ
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Curzon Street Station, Birmingham, UK,
12 Apr 2012
Fierce Festival, Group Walk with Hamish Fulton
In 1973, having walked over 1000 miles in 47 days from Duncansby Head to Land’s End, Fulton decided to ‘only make art resulting from the experience of individual walks.’ Since then the act of walking has remained central to his artistic practice. Text by Harun Morrison
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Project: Fierce Festival, Group Walk with Hamish Fulton
Location: Curzon Street Station, Birmingham, UK
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Unit 237 (upper Floor), Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, SE1 6TE,
11 Apr 2012
Marcus Coates, Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant and Castle
Nomad is proud to announce the debut presentation of Vision Quest as part of a site specific installation within the a disused department store in the Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, London. Marcus Coates interviewed by Ruth Hogan.
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Project: Marcus Coates, Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant and Castle
Location: Unit 237 (upper Floor), Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, SE1 6TE
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Edible Eastside, Digbeth, Birmingham,
10 Apr 2012
Fierce Festival, Eloise Fornieles, The Message
The Message is a performance and installation by the canal in Birmingham on the Edible Eastside site. It will comprise mounds of chalk evoking an undulating landscape. There will be a marble sculpture boxed in a wooden crate on top of one the mounds. You are invited to write a message of hope or fear on a piece of paper, which I will fold and post into a hole in the crate. I will do this for a week until the crate is full of messages. At the end of the festival the crate full of messages will be set on fire and as it burns the sculpture will be revealed.’
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Artist: Advert
Project: Fierce Festival, Eloise Fornieles, The Message
Location: Edible Eastside, Digbeth, Birmingham
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classes at Heath Mill Studios, Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham,
9 Apr 2012
Fierce Festival, LuckyPDF: School of Global Art
LuckyPDF present the School of Global Art, “a revolutionary new correspondence school offering courses in New Media Art [leading to BA, MA & PhD equivalent qualifications]”.
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Project: Fierce Festival, LuckyPDF: School of Global Art
Location: classes at Heath Mill Studios, Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham
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