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URBANOMIC presents THE REAL THING Late at Tate / 3 September

2010-08-01T05:47:00.000-07:00

Urbanomic presents Late at Tate: THE REAL THING
Friday September 3rd 2010 1800-2200 hrs
Tate Britain, London

Urbanomic presents performance, film and other interventions exploring the emerging philosophical paradigm of Speculative Realism and its impact on contemporary art practice. The evening will include:

Premieres of two new sound works commissioned by Urbanomic:
Speculative Solution by Florian Hecker (exploring conceptual themes from Quentin Meillassoux's After Finitude)
Extralinguistic Sequencing by William Bennett (Whitehouse) + Mimsy DeBlois.

Screenings of Amanda Beech's video work Sanity Assassin, a claustrophobic journey through Adorno's LA nightmares, drawing on Ray Brassier's Nihil Unbound.

Sculpture galleries invaded by Pamela Rosenkranz's work which opens a dialogue with Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia.

A collaborative curatorial intervention rethinking Art and the Sublime.

Panel discussion with Robin Mackay, Iain Hamilton Grant, Ray Brassier, Amanda Beech and Pamela Rosenkranz.

See http://www.urbanomic.com/ for details.

Tears of a Black Tiger

2010-05-22T14:12:00.000-07:00

In last weeks Breakfast Film Club we watched Tears of a Black Tiger. This was the film that we watched in last weeks . Watch it if you love good film. I can safely say that its a film like no other, apart from anything else the sets are wild!

Check this blog regularly for details of the next film and if you're interested in sharing a film email sharonswaine@yahoo.co.uk

MA shows coming up....

2010-05-17T13:50:00.000-07:00

Thought it would be interesting to see what our MA peeps are up to.
Here are a few coming up over the next couple of months (rest of UAL in September).
F X

> 28 May–6 June RCA show 1 (photography/print at main site)
> 10 - 16 June (opening 9 June) Slade
> 23 June - 4 July RCA show 2 (painting/sculpture at howie street)
> 9 - 12 July (opening 8 July) Goldsmiths
> 14 - 16 July Camberwell
> 10 - 18 July RCA Mphil and PHD research show

AURA SATZ | TURNTABLE TABLEAU at the ICA 9 May @ 5pm

2010-05-04T13:58:00.000-07:00

Be great to see you all here if you can make it. The performance is part of the same programme at the ICA this Sunday. Fx

AURA SATZ | TURNTABLE TABLEAU, a film performance
Sun 9 May, 5pm ICA - Live Weekend 1 - Performance etc (produced by David Gryn)

Aura Satz presents a talking book ventriloquist act, followed by a live soundtrack to her film on gramophone grooves, performed by Lina Hakim, Roger Orwell, Frances Scott and Aura Satz. The hypnotic footage of spinning sound patterns is accompanied by a spiraling multivocal counterpart, a cornocupia of voices recounting a tale of mourning and technology, a forensic love-story of sorts in which the voices overlap, echo and pre-empt each other. The cinematic stage is animated by a voice-over carousel, a spinning tableau vivant, a canon of voices amplified by horns set on a rotating stage.

By Appointment at the ICA

2010-05-04T11:01:00.001-07:00

By Appointment is a project offering unknown artists the opportunity to propose a one day exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Art, London.

All submitted proposals will be exhibited at the ICA on the 9th May 2010 between 12 and 7pm as part of the first of the ICA’s Live Weekends, curated by David Gryn. Participating artists will be fully credited and are encouraged to join us at the ICA on 9th May to view the work, meet other contributing artists and to engage in an ongoing dialogue about the future of the artist and the institute.

The proposal must be under 150 words and may use any available public space at the ICA. We recommend you describe your project in as much detail as possible including its location in the building, medium/materials, what the work is about and perhaps even a budget for its installation if relevant.

Unknown artists (i.e. you must not currently be represented by an established gallery or have exhibited at the ICA before) wishing to participate in this project should email their 150 word proposal by 5pm on Friday 7th May 2010 to:

closebutnocigar@bigstring.com

Just email us to submit your proposal and add the ICA to your CV!

CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR are Nicholas Quenzer, Charlotte Turton and Chris Agnew

closebutnocigarblog@blogspot.com

SALON ART PRIZE - OPEN VISIONS - JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE - RESARTIS

2010-05-04T08:37:00.000-07:00

1. SALON ART PRIZE 2010
http://www.salonartprize.com/ at Matt Roberts, Vyner Street

2. OPEN VISIONS
http://www.openvisions.org/ at the Nunnery, Bow

3. JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE
http://www.parkerharris.co.uk/competition/jerwood-drawing-prize

4. RESARTIS - INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCIES EMAIL LIST
http://www.resartis.org/

Film and Video Submissions

2010-01-16T05:08:00.000-08:00

Reminder: Salon Video Art Prize 2010  Submissions are currently invited for the annual Salon Video Art Prize, which this year will be selected by Mike Sperlinger (Assistant Director –LUX) and Zineb Sedira (artist working in photography, video and installation).  40-50 artists working in video and video installation will be selected for a unique video 'Salon' exhibition taking place at the Matt Roberts Arts Project Space on Vyner Street, East London in March 2010.  There is a selectors' prize of £800 for an exhibitor picked out for special attention by the selection panel. The deadline for submissions is 5pm, Saturday 23 January.  For more information and details of how to enter visit: http://www.salonartprize.com   

Reminder: Nightmares Film and Video Submission  Submissions of film and video works are currently invited to be screened as part of a one-day interdisciplinary graduate conference on 5 March 2010 at the Institute of English Studies in Bloomsbury.  Submissions should be experimental film and video works, less than 10 minutes in length and produced in the last two years.  The deadline for submissions is 5 February.  For more information and to download an application form visit the event website.  

sketchfu

2009-12-16T01:02:00.000-08:00

Osman Ahmed did an MA in Drawing at Camberwell. He is currently a Phd. student at Wimbledon. The Imperial War Museum showed his drawings in 2008. I mentioned in the Animation Salon that he is now working on a series of animated drawings on sketchfu. It's a very easy free way to animate drawing. Osman says you can turn them into a DVD....

http://sketchfu.com/profile/osman

Opportunities: STUDIO VOLTAIRE | RESIDENCY IN ROME | CALL FOR FILM AND VIDEO

2009-12-05T11:03:00.000-08:00

These look good! Frances x

Studio Voltaire Open Submission Exhibition

This year Selected by:
Jennifer Higgie - Frieze Magazine
Rebecca Warren - Artist
Application Deadline - 9 Jan 2010
Provisional show dates - 25 Feb - 27 Mar 2010
Application forms can be found at:
http://studiovoltaire.org/artist-mem.htm
The exhibition is open to ALL artists working in any medium, who are associate members. Applicants can become an associate member at time of application.

Studio Voltaire
1a Nelson's Row
London SW4 7JR

www.studiovoltaire.org
0207 622 1294
Contact: tamsin@studiovoltaire.org

Residency in Rome
THE DEREK HILL FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP
This Scholarship aims to encourage artists for whom the use of paint and/or drawing is important to the development of their work.

It is a three-month residency (October to December 2010), tenable at the British School at Rome. It offers a grant of c. £950 per month, and board and accommodation in a residential studio.
For further information and an application form, see the Fine Arts Awards page on:
www.bsr.ac.uk
Or e-mail: bsr@britac.ac.uk
Closing date for applications: 15 December 2009

Call for artists film and video works [deadline: 30.03.10]
Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory, would like to invite artist film makers to submit works for publication in our 2010 artists film and video DVD series.

Every year we publish a series of films, selected through a process of invited and open submission. Each DVD includes one film only and is accompanied by a specially filmed interview with the artist. Also next year all published works will be individually screened at the IMT gallery, London and will be available to buy at the BFI Filmstore, London, ICA, London, Koenig Books, London, Close-up, London, IMT Gallery, London, Bookartbookshop, London, Pro qm, Berlin and Konst-ig, Stockholm or by order from our website.

Please send film or video works on PAL or NTSC DVD for consideration to: Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory, Studio 4, 21 London Fields Eastside, London E8 3SA, United Kingdom.
marmalade@inter.uk.com www.filmarmalade.co.uk

Film - Thursday 3rd Dec, The Studio, 4pm

2009-11-30T07:31:00.000-08:00

You, the Living: A Swedish black comedy film written and directed by Roy Andersson

The film is an exploration on the "grandeur of existence," centered around the lives of an overweight woman, a disgruntled psychiatrist, a heart broken groupie, a carpenter, a business consultant, an elementary school teacher with emotional issues and her rug selling husband, among others. The cast is non-professional and alienating techniques such as presenting the characters in grim make-up and having them talk directly to the camera are extensively used.

Shot in an unconventional manner, it consists of a fluent succession of exactly 50 short sketches, most of them with a tragicomic undertone. Most of the sets were meticulous created and the shooting took three years to finish.

A fantasticly absurd and surreal film, i think you would find it hard not to laugh

-Robin

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR VIDEO: 7a*11d INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL

2009-11-23T14:08:00.000-08:00

Of interest? F
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INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR VIDEO: 7a*11d INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL

8th International Festival in Toronto, presented by the 7a*11d collective
October 21 – 31, 2010

www.7a-11d.ca

Direct to Documentation: d2d
D2D = Direct to Documentation: a program of performance documentation or performance for camera. Can't come to the Festival? We still want to see your work! Send us a tape, CD or DVD [five minutes or less] of your performance documentation or performance for camera. Selected works will be curated into a screening program. Artist fees will be paid to those selected for screening.

Deadline: Proposals must be postmarked no later than January 15, 2010.

Return of materials: If you wish your materials to be returned, you MUST include a self-addressed stamped envelope for the return of your documentation. Please ensure that postage is adequate. Materials will be returned by June 2010.

Art Gig in Brighton after Xmas party 18th Dec?

2009-11-21T06:30:00.000-08:00

at Fabrica Gallery: Brighton

Grey Area presents a one-off art-gig bringing together five artists who use music performance as an integral component of their practice. Staged in front of the altar of a deconsecrated Church, now Fabrica gallery, 1-2-3-4 features a diverse billing of inter-disciplinarians who both play and display .

Hi
It's the Xmas party on 18th Dec at WCA, 4.30-6.30PM, and after, at 6ish, I'm heading back to Brighton, to go to an art-music gig with a friend, at Fabrica Gallery, (nr the South Lanes, 15 minute walk down from Brighton station). If you'd like to go to this event; tickets need to be pre-booked (see blue link).
Jackie j.raybone2@wimbledon.arts.ac.uk

1-2-3-4
Artists:
Martin Creed
The Apathy Band (Bob & Roberta Smith , George Barker, Victor Mount, Leonardo Ulian)
The Barefoot Lone Pilgrim aka David Blandy
The Coolness
Plastique Fantastique

Date: Friday 18 th December 2009
Time: 7.00pm-11.00pm
Location: Fabrica, 40 Duke St, Brighton, BN11AG
Tickets: £6.50 in advance
available from Grey Area, Fabrica, and online at http://www.amiando.com/1234artgig

JILL MAGID Authority to Remove - Tate Modern (level 2)

2009-11-17T02:13:00.000-08:00

This is a great show!
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/jillmagid/default.shtm

The secret itself is much more beautiful than its revelation.' Jill Magid, The Report for the AIVD on the Subject of its Face.

Frances

Want to get some lecturing experience?

2009-11-15T15:57:00.000-08:00

Hi, I'm Martin (2nd year PT).

I work PT for UCA (www.ucreative.ac.uk) at the Maidstone campus teaching on the Foundation and Adult Access course.

I've spoken to couple of you about coming down and gaining some work experience. Andrew and Joel are going to come down on Weds 9th December to give a short talk about their work followed by Q&A (in the lecture theatre) and then do some tutorials (studio). I can open up the opportunity to a couple more MA students, with a preference for non-painters (just for variety). This is an especially good opportunity for Video Artists as it will give you a rare chance to screen your work and get some feedback outside Wimbledon.

If you're interested can you email me? I'm m.lang3@wimbledon.ac.uk. Feel free to ask any questions but if you're sure you want to do it you should tell me 3 interesting things about yourself and 5 achievements as an artist (I'll use this for a poster and an introduction on the day).

Here's the deal....

PAY: It's unpaid

STUDENTS: I expect there will be an audience of no more than 45 students, 16 ACCESS and about 27 Foundation (Fine Art specialism). It could be up to 150 if all the Foundation students come (they don't normally come in on a Wednesday though).

TRAVEL: Maidstone East train station is 1 hour from Victoria, direct. If you catch the 07:49am train you will arrive at 08:51. I will pick you up (up to 4 people) and drive you to the college which is not near Maidstone East. I will also drive you back to the station. A return ticket will cost you about £32. If you haven't get a 16-25 "Young Persons" railcard yet I'd get one. I'm 30 but you can get the college to stamp it to say you're a mature student. It costs £20 per annum and gives you 1/3 off most journeys i.e. you'd save c£10 on this trip alone.

It is also possible to get trains to Maidstone East from Cannon St, London Bridge, Waterloo East, and others but you'd need to check yourselves. You could get a train to Maidstone West and walk to the college but there are no direct trains so you'd need to change and that would add 20mins onto you journey, plus the walk.

Martin

2009-11-09T03:14:00.000-08:00

hi guys,

I really enjoyed Sophie Calle and Faisal Al Abdullah, two related but almost counterposing exhibitions around ideas of portraiture.. at the Whitechapel... if you are interested in portraiture and/or dialogical models of work these two adopt completely different ways of working, but both seem to offer a portrait or interpretation of another person.

also this frieze discussion on theory as suggested by Andy and Sarah is really well worth a listen.. esp to Simon Critchley's points about a few philosophical theories being used to cover artists works wholesale "like a margarine"!

http://www.friezefoundation.org/talks/detail/scenes_from_a_marriage_have_art_and_theory_drifted_apart/

see you next week Bex x

Opportunity - Toilet Gallery, Kingston

2009-11-05T06:12:00.000-08:00

I visited the Toilet Gallery last night, an old toilet block turned gallery in Kingston. In short, the gallery hasn't been active for a good while but recently a small group of artists has taken it over as 'artists in residence', although they will not be able to use it a studio space. Basically what this means is they are really open to any propsals for projects to run in the space during this 12 month period and better than that it will be for FREE! This is however a very specific site, it very much feels like a toilet, but with the right approach it could be a good opportunity.

If Interested email Dave Loder ( coperniciumproject@gmail.com )

Current Exhibition :
Fluxion
5th-8th Nov

Joel

Film - Thursday 12 Nov, The Studio, 4pm

2009-10-31T14:41:00.000-07:00

Coming up in our weekly film slot is The Order from Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3.

(Due to crits and tutorials in the studio next week, this film is scheduled for Thursday 12 Nov).

Matthew Barney's legendary CREMASTER CYCLE was hailed by the New York Times as "An inspired benchmark of ambition, scope and forthright provocation for art in the new century". Nine years in the making, the five films that comprise the CREMASTER CYCLE came to a brilliant grand finale with a 31 minute sequence at the close of CREMASTER 3 called "THE ORDER".

As the film is only 31 minutes long if anyone has another film they would like to show as well, please bring it along.

film slot update

2009-10-29T15:37:00.000-07:00

hi all

we managed to show a film in the studio on friday. it was fun but friday evenings are maybe not the best time if we want more people to take part.

next week we will have to move it to wednesday (sorry part-timers).

if you are interested in showing anything screen based let me or joel know or just post it on this site on the monday of the week that you want to show the film.

look forward to seeing your choice of film.

sharon

2009-10-18T04:55:00.000-07:00

Dave Hullfish Bailey & Nils Norman: Surrounded by Squares

I managed to get to the current exhibition, 'Surrounded By Squares', at Raven Row this weekend, it runs until November 1st and I highly recommend you take a trip down. I ended up spending a healthy chunk of my afternoon there in the end and through some discussion, with a friend, the staff and a visiting architecture class (even one of the artists himself at one point), I felt we uncovered some real depth in what to me was an exciting, considered and well executed show.

for more info check out the Artvehicle review -------->here

Joel

Thursday Film Launch

2009-10-16T05:41:00.001-07:00

On Thursday (22nd October) we will show the first film of our weekly film slot in the studio at 4 o'clock. We will be running this feature once a week from now on and our first film will be ' The City of Lost Children' by the french director

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

If you're interested in sharing a film/video please let Sharon or Joel know by Tuesday of that week.
This slot can also be used for showing any type of screen based work that you may want to discuss.

Sharon

Welcome...

2009-10-06T06:38:00.000-07:00

...I will write up the user name and password on the studio board so anyone can login and post, please use this online space as you would a group notice board in the studio, a place to share things you think may be interesting to the whole group. The advantages of this being online means it's easier to post up videos and images, while also being accessible from home, as well as the studio. The greater the level of activity and the creativity in postings will determine how successful this blog is, please share fruitfully and diversely.

To start the blog ball rolling, here is a video of a work I saw at Flowers Gallery last year. A collaboration between artist Max Dean and mechanical engineer Raffaello D'Andrea.

Joel