SACHIKO ABE
Sep 17 - Nov 28, 2010

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LIVING ARCHITECTURES
Aug 18 - Oct 3, 2010
Filmmakers Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine create intimate portraits of iconic contemporary buildings, giving backstage access to their inner lives and hidden workings. The films depict the human occupations of Richard Meier’s church in Rome; Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao; Herzog and de Meuron’s Pomerol winery and Koolhaas’s Maison à Bordeaux.

BREUER IN BRISTOL
Oct 21 - Dec 24, 2010
Exploring an intriguing partnership between Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer and Bristol furniture manufacturer Crofton Gane.

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KERRY TRIBE : DEAD STAR LIGHT
Jul 17 - Sep 12, 2010

FUN WITH SOFTWARE
Sep 25 - Nov 21, 2010

HARWOOD AND YOHA
Sep 25 - Nov 21, 2010

HEATH BUNTING : STATUS PROJECT
Sep 25 - Nov 21, 2010

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FEMMY OTTEN : ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Apr 4 - Sep 12, 2010
Femmy Otten creates temporal reliefs by means of painting, drawing and sculpture, creating forms directly onto the gallery walls. Otten draws upon symbols from ancient times and contemporary iconography to create stories and construct landscapes where death and the ephemeral meet with humorous and fairytale like consequences.

HEATHER & IVAN MORISON
Jul 10 - Sep 26, 2010
An exhibition of a new large scale installation inspired by the architecture of Tieton, a town in Yakima County, Washington, USA.

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ARABICITY : SUCH A NEAR EAST
Jul 2 - Sep 5, 2010 FINAL WEEK
Showcasing six contemporary Arab artists

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FERAL TRADE CAFE
Aug 27 - Oct 10, 2010
Feral Trade is a grocery import-export business, trading food and drink along the extended social networks of the artist. For six weeks at Castlefield Gallery the Feral Trade Café will serve an array of drinks and snacks along with their delivery documents.

TWO PERSON SHOW : DAVID GLEDHILL & CORIN SWORN
Oct 29 - Dec 19, 2010
Through painting and new media the artists extrapolate and represent artifacts from strangers' photo albums, slides and diaries referencing personal memory, documentation and the Cold War.

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TASHA WHITTLE : FIRST STEP
May 15 - Sep 15, 2010
Notes to Self are Illustrated ideas from notes and memories that are written in moments of madness and or clarity. Tasha is a Manchester based artist whose drawings have found themselves onto walls, bags, furniture, posters, flyers, tables, canvas, paper and the odd face. She enjoys cups of tea, moments (not the melting kind) observing and of course creating artworks.
 
Her work is constantly evolving and often relates to personal experiences or observations when in public places with a sub-conscious twist. Characters, text, patterns and organic forms take shape once the pen hits the paper and the music is turned on loud.

INFINTE STROKES : MARY TANG & CATHY WU
Aug 20 - Sep 18, 2010
Ink is a unique art medium, and Chinese ink painting and calligraphy are some of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world with the earliest surviving examples dating back to 221BC. It is a technically demanding art form which requires great skill, concentration and years of training. It embodies every part of Chinese culture and history.
 
To celebrate this unique traditional Chinese art form and express immense gratitude to the long-term service of our workshop leaders, we will be hosting a special summer exhibition for Mary Tang and Cathy Wu. They both have been working with Chinese Arts Centre as workshop leader for the last 20 years. It is also coming to the 50th anniversary of Mary Tang’s teaching career. A series of workshops and demonstrations will be organized during the exhibition period.

FIONA LONG : WHISPER RESIDENCY
Aug 27 - Sep 11, 2010
Fiona Long is a British artist who will be working in collaboration with two artists from our upcoming Infinite Strokes exhibition in order to explore hidden shapes and symbols within Chinese calligraphy.
 
Having graduated in both art and psychology, Fiona is fascinated by in the way in which we cognitively interpret images. Using Chinese calligraphy symbols as the starting point for her research Fiona will be spending the residency investigating Chinese characters and taking part in calligraphy workshops. Her work will focus on symbols which resemble one thing, but in translation mean something completely different.
 
Fiona intends to transform these traditional symbols in the hope that her interpretations alter the meanings of characters whilst also aiming to show how images can transcend language.

SONIA KAN : FIRST STEP
Sep 23 - Dec 23, 2010
Sonia Kan’s, ‘The mother and her untamed entity’ is an exploration of the relationship between a mother and her daughter. The installation takes the form of two large crochet nets, hanging dubiously around one another. These nets represent the two female figures fighting for their position within the space but who are also reliant on each other at all times for support and stability.

CHEN CHIEH-JEN EMPIRE’S BORDERS II
Oct 2 - Nov 20, 2010
Chinese Arts Centre is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the work of Chen Chieh-jen. The exhibition will be the UK premier of Chen Chieh-jen’s latest video work Empire’s Borders II – Western Enterprises Inc. (2010) together with the single-screen video Empire’s Borders I (2009) and archival material.
 
Internationally acclaimed Taiwanese video artist Chen Chieh-jen sees his work as ‘an act of connection, linking together the history of people who have been excluded from the dominant discourse.’ In his concern with recent history he is acutely aware of Taiwan’s own complex political status as a country with limited international recognition.
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WU CHI-TSUNG : BREATHE RESIDENCY
Oct 4 - Nov 29, 2010
Wu Chi-Tsung is fascinated by images, both by how they are made and how we see them. Working mostly in installation, video and photography he experiments with and manipulates these artistic mediums, altering the physical processes of a photograph or changing the elements of timing which makes film the medium of movement. By exploring these playful techniques in photography and film he is creating a series of works which seem to echo the past, linking the tradition of painting with a new vision (by these games), and exposing the essence of image and illusion.

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PUSH>PROCESS
Sep 3 - 24, 2010
Private view Thu Sep 2 7pm - 9pm
Binh Danh, Charlie Skelton, Christina Z Anderson,
Nicolai Klimaszewski, Rebecca Sexton Larson, Tarja Trygg

PHYLIDA BARLOW AND FIONA MACDONALD
Oct 9 - Nov 5, 2010
Private view Thu Oct 7 7pm - 9pm
New Work

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UNREALISED POTENTIAL
Jul 17 - Sep 12, 2010
Unrealised Potential is an ambitious, collaborative group exhibition instigated by artist-curator Mike Chavez-Dawson featuring contributions from over 70 international artists. The show aims to explore the creative potential of artists’ unrealised projects, blurring the lines between artist, curator, visitor and producer.
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UNREALISED POTENTIAL WEEKLY GUIDED TOURS
Aug 4 - Sep 8, 2010 6:45pm - 7:15pm talk/event
Every week during the exhibition there will be a special choreographed tour led by actress Amy Rudolph. This exhilarating tour, scripted by artist Len Horsey, will thread together key aspects of each of the projects on show, concluding in Gallery 2, where Amy Rudolph will take on the persona of a hostess for the Mexican company LGD LUCK SA.
FREE, Booking required
Book online: www.cornerhouse.org
By phone: 0161 200 1500

A CONVERSATION IN MANY PARTS LISA LE FEUVRE & E SCHMITZ
Sep 11, 2010 1:00pm - 3:00pm talk/event
The second and closing discussion organised around our current exhibition Unrealised Potential is part of the series A Conversation in Many Parts, initiated by Lisa Le Feuvre and Edgar Schmitz as a mode for considering how intellectual work at the intersection of art and politics can be tested in public. Lisa Le Feuvre (curator and writer) and Edgar Schmitz (artist) invite Sam Ely and Lynn Harris to join them for this nomadic seminar that seeks to think through the productive potential of conceptual work, the role of miscommunication and the question of realisation.
FREE, Booking required
Book online: www.cornerhouse.org
By phone: 0161 200 1500

ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES
Oct 1 - 7, 2010 to 12:00am talk/event
Cornerhouse is proud to be producing this instalment of Abandon Normal Devices, presenting an exhilarating programme and new commissions featuring participatory, public realm and online projects with artists including Gillian Wearing, The Sancho Plan, Lawrence Malstaff and xtine burroughs, to name a few.
 
Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is an annual festival of new cinema and digital culture in the North West, taking place in Liverpool and Manchester on alternate years, with an extended programme in Cumbria, Lancashire and Cheshire.
 
This festival is a collaboration between Cornerhouse, FACT and folly. AND is part of WE PLAY, the Northwest cultural legacy project for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
For details visit: www.andfestival.org.uk

MARXISM TODAY : PHIL COLLINS
Oct 2 - Nov 20, 2010
The UK premier of marxism today, a major new commission by artist Phil Collins.

UNSPOOLING : ARTISTS & CINEMA
Oct 2, 2010 - Jan 9, 2011
A series of fly-posters reconstructing Jean-Luc Godard’s infamous long take from Weekend; a new restaurant canopy creates a portal into the fantastic and a guerrilla-style re-enactment of Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice are just some of the things art lovers and cinema-goers alike may encounter as they explore the work of 20 artists dispersed throughout Cornerhouse and beyond this Autumn.
 
Celebrating 25 years of Cornerhouse and produced as part of Abandon Normal Devices, the curators, Andrew Bracey and Dave Griffiths present UnSpooling – Artists & Cinema, a large and ambitious group exhibition that straddles two giant bodies of reference – art and cinema – showing 20 international artists: Michaël Borremans, Cartune Xprez, David Claerbout, Benedict Drew, Sally Golding, Ben Gwilliam & Matt Wand, Roman Kirschner, Kerry Laitala, Wayne Lloyd, Elizabeth McAlpine, Sheena Macrae, Juhana Moisander, Alex Pearl, Greg Pope, Mario Rossi, Gebhard Sengmüller, Harald Smykla, Ming Wong and Stefan Zeyen.

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TOMOKO TAKAHASHI : INTROSPECTIVE RETROSPECTIVE
Jul 3 - Sep 12, 2010
Installation artist playfully recycling the detritus of everyday life into illuminating works of art

MYTH, MANNERS AND MEMORY:
Oct 1, 2010 - Jan 2, 2011
Photographers of the American South. Including the work of Walker Evans, William Eggleston, William Christenberry, Carrie Mae Weems, Susan Lipper and Alec Soth.

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CONSIDERED SURFACES : DRAWING, PAINTING AND PRINT
Aug 23 - Sep 4, 2010 FINAL WEEK
Works on paper by Ronald Ceuppens (Belgium), Olivia Jeffries (UK) and Cendrine Rovini (France). Three artists explore the surface qualities of paper with a range of mark making, involving drawing, painting, paper cutting and print making.

SUSAN LAUGHTON : MEASURED SPACE
Sep 9 - Oct 16, 2010
Susan makes drawings of remembered details, fleeting juxtapositions elusive to photography or more studied compositions allowing a search for her own language of marks, signs and symbols to bring order, balance and control to an often chaotic visual world.

ALAN SALISBURY : ALTERED IMAGES
Oct 21, 2010 - Nov 27, 2011
Fitting into into the figurative tradition but influenced by ideas related to Post Modernism., Alan,s works are frequently transcribed or appropriated from historical sources within the canon of European figurative painting. Humour and irony are used playfully to form different narratives and an observed subtext of seemingly, sensuous, almost erotic pleasure in the object within 17th Century Dutch still life painting is deliberately emphasised and exaggerated.

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JENNIFER TEE
Sep 25 - Nov 13, 2010
Eastside Projects has commissioned Jennifer Tee (b. Arnhem, NL, 1973. Lives and works in Amsterdam) to produce the first solo exhibition of her work in the UK. Tee will construct a sculptural setting with allusions to a number of ideologically transformative inner structures, sanctums and theosophical spaces - ostensibly visible but not directly tangible. Tee will be altering the space of the gallery to accommodate the works that lie, stand and hang, reconsidering the materials of the walls and floor of the gallery.
 
A new artist’s book, designed in collaboration with designers Richard Niessen and James Langdon, will be published during the exhibition, structured as a series of independent printed sections, able to be dispersed, reordered, read and presented in different ways.

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LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL 2010
Sep 18 - Nov 28, 2010
FACT presents new commissions from artists including Yves Netzhammer and Minouk Lim, and the first European exhibition of acclaimed performance artist Tehching Hsieh, as part of the sixth Liverpool Biennial.
 
Touched, the International exhibition for the 6th Liverpool Biennial of International Festival of Contemporary Art, celebrates a decade of bringing new art to the UK through curatorial collaboration for the International show.
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HEATHER & IVAN MORISON : LUNA PARK
Coming to Colchester in October
Luna Park, by Heather and Ivan Morison is coming to Colchester! Contact firstsite for more details.

VARIOUS OFFSITE ACTIVITIES
Throughout September

ASSOCIATE ARTIST RESIDENCY : ANGE LEINSTER
Sep 1 - 8, 2010 FINAL WEEK
Prayer pebbles installation - a 3D moment of reflection

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'INFERMENTAL' CURATED BY GEORGE CLARK AND DAN KIDNER
Jul 19 - Sep 4, 2010 FINAL WEEK

ANNA PARKINA : THE TICKET IS FOR TODAY
Sep 20 - Nov 6, 2010
An installation by the Russian artist, which includes a new film, a publishing project, and a performance that will take place on Saturday 18 September.

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JAMIE SHOVLIN : HIKER MEAT
Sep 25 - Nov 13, 2010
Opening night with Lustfaust performing live Friday 24 September, 7-9pm

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CAROLINE BERGVALL : MIDDLING ENGLISH
Sep 7 - Oct 23, 2010
Writing practices that move beyond the printed letter: Chaucerian contemporaneity recombined with songline patterns, systemic grids and luminescent texts.

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UNDONE : MAKING AND UNMAKING IN CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE
Sep 30, 2010 - Jan 2, 2011
This group exhibition - which brings together the work of around twenty younger generation artists working across Europe and the United States - identifies a common aesthetic lying on the threshold between made and unmade. Drawing on a wide range of materials, colours, scales and textures, the structures are as much bound together as they are poised to disintegrate.
This exhibition is accompanied by A Rough Equivalent: Sculpture and Pottery in the Post-War Period, a display drawing on the research of HMI Fellows Simon Ford and Jeffrey Jones.

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DRAWN FROM LANDSCAPE BY CHRISTINE HILLIER
Sep 2 - 25, 2010
Christine Hillier presents an exibition of paintings, preparatory studies and sketches in conte, charcoal and pastels.
 
Placing a strong emphasis on drawing, as the most immediate way of making observations, ideas and feelings explicit, Hillier describes the increasingly vulnerable surroundings of landscape and woodland, seeking continuity in the ancient tracks that run through the land.
 
Her work is rooted in specific landscapes including the Chilterns, the Ridgeway path and the North Pennines, her images are shaped by the rhythms, moods, tensions and transient elements of familiar, yet changing environments.
 
Exhibiting at Margaret Harvey Gallery, 7 Hatfield Road, St Albans
Gallery opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 12.30pm-5.30pm

KISS KISS KILL KILL
Sep 10 - Oct 16, 2010
Centred on the kitsch posters produced during the heyday of the European Spy Film (1964-1968), Kiss Kiss Kill Kill puts a collection of newly restored posters on public display for the first time.
 
The project offers an opportunity to see espionage films made on both sides of the Iron Curtain, some of which have never been screened before in the UK.
 
Showcasing both the ‘trashiest’ fruits of 1960s co-production and the leaden propaganda of communist film it will also provide a platform for some real gems – films, which have escaped both the academy and the censor.

CALL FOR PAPERS: KISS KISS KILL KILL
Sep 18 - 19, 2010 9:00am - 5:00pm talk/event
Call for papers:
 
Coinciding with the Kiss Kiss Kill Kill exhibition, this 2-day, parallel strand symposium aims to bring together international scholars, critics, collectors, graphic artists and cinephiles to explore the issues surrounding the European poster art and the European spy film between 1950-1985.
 
In collaboration with the UH Arts and the Hertfordshire Film Consortium, the conference will explore the relationship between poster art, graphic design and espionage cinema during the Cold War, while providing an interdisciplinary forum for the development and appreciation of cult film, literature and the applied arts.
 
The proposed analysis of graphic art, poster design and rare film will include a consideration of themes such as film archiving, marketing, European aesthetics, international audience reception, genre and state politics.
 
The symposium will also host rare film screenings and special guest appearances. Films secured for screening will include:
Danger Route (GB Holt 1968)
This screening of a rare 16mm print of Seth Holt’s magnificent low budget spy thriller made by Amicus will also include Q&A with leading actor, Richard Johnson (TBC)
 
Se tutte le donne del mondo aka Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (Levin & Maiuri IT 1966)
We are proud to present this ‘Holy Grail’ classic Italian Eurospy title from a Tarantino-sought-after, super-rare 16mm print from the US.
 
Danger Diabolik (IT/FR Bava, 1968), 5th October 7pm, The Weston Auditorium
Possibly the coolest film ever made, a fabulous mash up of master criminal, super-spy and psychedelic genres, horror maestro Mario Bava set the benchmark for the cool sixties flick.
(N.B. Final list of films to be confirmed.)
 
Keynote speakers (TBC) include:
Matt Blake (author, The Eurospy Guide 2004)
Xavier Mendik (director, The Cult Film Archive, Brunel University)
Sim Branaghan (author, The British Film Poster BFI)
 
Possible topics may include (but are not limited to):
 
• Genre and the International Spy Film
• Espionage state propaganda during the Cold War
• Global themes of espionage
• The Eurospy Auteur
• European Genre Factory of the Cold War Years
• Graphic Design and the Spy Film Poster
• The power of co-production in Europe
• Mainstream vs. Indie Spy film
• The Kitsch and the Bombastic in Cold War Film and Poster Design
• Utopian imagery in Eastern Bloc filmmaking and posters
• Jet-setting and exotica
• Political and historical perspectives on the Eurospy experience
• The European-ness of Eurospy
• Supermen and Superwomen – archetypes in the Spy genre.
• ‘Trash Aesthetics’ of the Spy Film
 
Visit the project website for further information: www.kisskisskillkill.co.uk
Abstracts (200-300 words) for twenty-minute papers should be submitted as an email attachment to d.elliott@herts.ac.uk by 25 June 2010.
 
Presenters will be notified of acceptance by 20th July 2010.
For more information contact:
Darren Elliott-Smith (Film Education Coordinator)
d.elliott@herts.ac.uk
Tel: 01707 28 5949

TAKING TIME : CRAFT AND THE SLOW REVOLUTION
Oct 13 - Nov 20, 2010
Part of a touring exhibition from Craftspace curated with Helen Carnac. Featuring textiles, jewellery, upcycling fashion, enamelling, furniture and ceramics.
 
The exhibition features the work of nineteen international makers and artists as they reflect on the 'Slow Revolution'.
 
Richly immersed in human experience and the origins and provenance of the things we make and use, the artists are asking us to think carefully about how things are made - and by whom.
 
The 'Slow Revolution', like the artists, reflects on and conceptualises a philosophical move away from the hurried forms of mass production, which are part of all of our lives, and champions better considered more thoughtful ways of doing things.

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FARNHAM SCHOOLS EXHIBITION
Sep 25 - Oct 10, 2010
The sixth biennial Farnham Schools Art Exhibition, organised by the Young Arts Group of the Farnham Decorative and Fine Arts Society, supported by UCA, showcases over 600 exhibits by pupils aged 9 to 17 from 20 schools in the Farnham area.
 
The exhibition aims to encourage pupils' creativity and recognise the valuable contribution of their teachers by providing the local community the opportunity to view the achievements of Farnham's children. Two workshops for the award holders are given by visiting artists in the Galleries and we welcome visits from the schools knowing that the exhibition provides them with a valuable learning resource.

PETER RUSH : NEW GROUND
Oct 27 - Dec 22, 2010
New Ground, curated by Christine Kapteijn and the James Hockey & Foyer Galleries, is an exhibition of new landscape paintings by Peter Rush.
 
Rush is drawn to painting moments frozen in time - seemingly before or after a storm.
 
Rush studied painting at St Martins School of Art, and has since had a varied career as an illustrator, teacher, and writer.

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THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU : IKON IN THE 1970S
Jul 21 - Sep 5, 2010 FINAL WEEK
Ikon presents This Could Happen To You: Ikon in the 1970s. The second chapter in the story of Ikon, the exhibition surveys the gallery’s programme from 1970-1978 and follows the 1960s survey Some of the best things in life happen accidentally (2004). The works of 32 artists will be displayed throughout Ikon’s Brindleyplace galleries, augmented by other installations at Ikon Eastside and Birmingham’s Pallasades shopping centre.
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RADIO IPS
Sep 20 - 25, 2010
MONDAY: CAPSULE, TUESDAY: PRO CHOICE, WEDNESDAY: THE ISLAND, THURSDAY: CARIBIC RESIDENCY, FRIDAY: FORMCONTENT, SATURDAY: LONGMEG

MICHAELA EICHWALD AND MICHAEL KREBBER : MORROR
Oct 6 - Nov 6, 2010

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