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The Many Headed Monster

March 24th, 2011 · · Articles of interest, Find an Artist, Writing about Art/ Artists No comments - Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,


The Many Headed Monster is an original and inventive resource for anyone interested in contemporary performance practices and their relationships with audiences.

Across a range of artistic disciplines, artists are dealing with audiences in innovative and creative ways, placing the audience at the heart of their work. The Many Headed Monster is a critical and practical resource investigating what is at stake for audiences today when they attend a live event.

The Many Headed Monster is a boxed set containing a lecture complete with presentation instructions, extended notes and author’s commentaries, a dvd of 22 performance works/extracts by leading UK and international artists, and 50 full colour image cards.

The Many Headed Monster has been specifically designed with further and higher education in mind and has been conceived and created as a tool kit that can be used as:
- a one hour illustrated lecture suitable for A Level, BA, MA and PhD students and/or practicing artists
- a resource to undertake personal research
- a template to generate short workshop and seminar programmes
- a foundation for an entire teaching module

Here are some serving suggestions as to how you might use the Monster. (PDF download.)

Featured artists include Ian Breakwell and Ron Geesin, Duckie, Blast Theory, Kira O’Reilly, Marina Abramovi? and Ulay, Vito Acconci, Bock & Vincenzi, Gob Squad, JJ Xi and Cai Yuan, William Pope.L, Lone Twin, LIGNA, Hermann Nitsch, Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Annie Sprinkle, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Carsten Höller, Yoko Ono, Laura Lima, Luke Jerram, Oreet Ashery and Joshua Sofaer.

Launch events for The Many Headed Monster took place at Tate Modern and Whitechapel Gallery in April and May 2010.

 

The Many Headed Monster is available to purchase on Unbound, an online shop for Live Art books, dvds and editions, at the special launch prices of only £35 for Individuals and £55 for Institutions. www.thisisUnbound.co.uk

The Many Headed Monster is published by the Live Art Development Agency in an edition of 500.
ISBN: 978-0-9546040-9-7

Please do not hesitate to contact the Agency at info@thisisLiveArt.co.uk if you would like further information or advice on ways to use the Monster in your work or would like to discuss a related workshop or event.

For further information about Joshua Sofaer visit www.joshuasofaer.com.

“Keeping It Real” @ the Whitechapel Gallery

July 5th, 2010 · · Articles of interest, Shows that are on!, Writing about Art/ Artists No comments - Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
“Untitled,” 1980-92, by Kiki Smith, is part of the “Keeping it Real” show at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. © Kiki Smith / Courtesy PaceWildenstein, New York
“Untitled,” 1980-92, by Kiki Smith, is part of the “Keeping It Real” show at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.

A new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London is putting the focus on the actual materials that become art. It’s also giving 60 of the 400 pieces in the impressive Daskalopoulos Collection their first London showing.

The show, titled “Keeping It Real,” runs through May 22, 2011, at the all-star gallery (77-82 Whitechapel High Street; whitechapelgallery.org). Only a few of the works have been on view before, and never so many in one space.

Built up over the past 15 years by Dimitris Daskalopoulos, an Athens-based business entrepreneur, the collection features major contemporary artists, including Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Damien Hirst, Sherrie Levine and Kiki Smith, as well as those from previous generations, like Marcel Duchamp, Robert Morris and Dieter Roth. Large-scale installations and sculpture figure prominently, but drawing, collage, film and video are also well represented.

“What unites all the works,” said Achim Borchardt-Hume, the Whitechapel’s chief curator, “is how different artists use all the various materials available to them, from wax to mirrors to newspapers to light bulbs. Usually people just focus on how the materials appear once arranged in a work of art; here the materials take center stage.”

The exhibition is arranged into four sections with different themes, each on view in seperate showings. “The Corporeal,” which is showing now through Sept 5, focuses on the body — Duchamp’s famous “Fountain” -– an unadulterated white, ceramic urinal –- is a notable piece (though one that has, of course, been shown before). “Subversive Abstraction,” Sept. 17 to Dec. 5, covers unusual interpretations of abstraction, and includes David Hammons’s ghostly untitled body print. “Current Disturbance,” Dec. 17 to March 6, features an installation by Mona Hatoum, which is accompanied by the sounds of an electric current feeding flashing light bulbs. Lastly, “Material Intelligence,” March 18 to May 22, focuses on works that play with various media, including the body itself. Artists include Seth Price and Kelley Walker.

The gallery is open Tuesday to Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Free admission.

Camberwell Festival

June 4th, 2010 · · Shows that are on! No comments - Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

hello …firstly an invitation to participate . . .Following the success of YOUR ART HERE which took place as part of last years Camberwell Festival :

YOUR ART HERE TOO takes place on Sunday 20 June from 1 to 6 pm

Bring your paintings, drawings, prints and collages ready to hang on the railings around Camberwell GreenRegister at the Meeting Point on the green anytime between 1pm and 5pm on the dayYou may offer your work for sale
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Book a table on the green to present a conversation based activity or performance / demonstrate a skill  / offer advise or a service / play table based games.Whereas work exhibited on the railings may be offered for sale, activities that occur on the tables are offered free of charge.Prebooking a table is essential, to book a table email info@camberwellarts.org.ukalong with your idea.For more details contact the same email address or see the festival brochure.


THINGS TO DO TO MAKE YOUR DAY BETTER AS YOU WALK PAST THESE HOARDINGS
Throughout June I am painting text  on a 100 metre hoarding along Camberwell New Road between Bolton Crescent and Waltham Street and opposite the Black Sheet Pub. The playful and witty texts – devised by children and play workers at the nearby Charlie Chaplin Adventure Playground, and myself – are instructions and thoughts aimed at those passing whether on foot, bike, in cars or buses.
July’s A3 publication – a special edition supported by the South London Gallery – features stories and drawings by children at the Charlie Chaplln Adventure Playground

A3, a hand painted, monthly publication is available at ArtBookShop, Another Roadside Attraction, Beaconsfield, BookArtBookShop, Cafe Gallery Projects, Camden Arts Centre, Donlon Books, Gasworks, The ICA, The Montague Arms, Wiebke Morgan, the Whitechapel Gallery.

ANIMAL FAIR – curated by Sarah Sparkes takes place on Camberwell Green on Sunday 27 June from 1 to 7pm - an unforgettable closing event for the Camberwell Arts festival

For this I will be staging SNAIL DERBY to determine The Swiftest Snail on Camberwell Green 2010
‘From 1279 until 1855 a fayre was held on Camberwell Green, one of the many attractions was a menagerie of wild animals captured from distant lands. In homage to the beasts of the ancient Camberwell Fayre, artists will create a fair and foul enclosure of luxurious and curious beasts, transforming the Green into a safari park for human animals and their keepers. With many interactive sideshows and a program of performance in ‘the big top’ visitors can participate, or simply watch, as chimeric artists invoke animalistic powers, make beastly noise and odours and display their animal instincts. As you cross the green look out for sightings of rare creatures lurking in their lairs and do tread carefully, for there are small creatures living out their lives beneath your two feet’
With Jo David, Sarah Doyle, Charlie Fox and the urban bear research centre, Magnus Irvin, Marq Kearey, cApStAn StRiNg, Raul Pinar, Jacquie Utley, Jessica Marlow, Paul Sakoilsky, Liam Scully, Vanessa Mitter, Joanna McCormick and Dido Hallett, Libby Shearon, Rose Smith, Lady Lucy, Frog Morris, Vanessa Scully, Miyuki Kasahara, Daisy Delaney, Rebecca Feiner, Sinead Wheeler, Daniel Lehan, Mikey Georgeson, Rachael House, BoSs, Slow Maurice, Linda Barck, Calum F Kerr, Tim Flitcroft
with very best wishes
Daniel
www.daniel-lehan.com

Day of Damaged Goods, Whitechapel Gallery

November 30th, 2005 · · Art Work No comments - Tags: ,

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