Simon Starling at Tate Britain

SIMON STARLING
'Phantom Ride'
Tate Britain Commission 2013
Duveen Galleries
Tate Britain, London
12 March – 20 October 2013

Marysia Gacek exhibition in New York

March 15, 2013 - April 12, 2013

Opening Reception: Friday, March 15. 7pm - 9pm

NURTUREart Gallery, 56 Bogart St., Brooklyn NY

NURTUREart presents On the Golden Wire For Thirty Four, a collaboration between Marysia Gacek (current MFA student), Natalie Häusler, and Katharina Marszewski. Starting with the general idea of an exchange of content between artists, the initial focus of this project is put on the materiality of such content, rather than its possible meaning.

The point of departure is the limit: weight and volume of the most standard international package between the USA, UK and Germany. Each collaborator supplies one third of the materials and contributes to one Care Package*, which will travel from New York to Berlin to Glasgow to Berlin, before returning to its city of origin.

This exchange of matter focuses on the process, rather than what it manifests itself as in the end. The package is meant to supply three artists with the same materials to work with, without a pre-envisioned outcome. The collaboration examines individual methodologies leading to creating work using a model of giving and taking away.
When the package returns to New York, it will be put on display alongside artworks inspired by its content in a gallery exhibition at NURTUREart.

*Although “CARE package” is a registered trademarked term, originating in the wake of a World War II campaign to send food and supplies to Europe, the expression is still used in everyday vernacular to share the idea of providing comfort by sending food, supplies and small mementos. In 1945 Americans were given the opportunity to purchase a care package for 10 dollars to send to their friends or relatives. In 1962 President John F. Kennedy said that every CARE package is a personal contribution to the world peace and it expresses concern and friendship in a language all peoples understand.

David Sherry - Sense Makes No Sense

Sense Makes No Sense
David Sherry
The Changing Room, Stirling

16 Feb - 12 April 2013

MFA graduate David Sherry’s art practice centres around performative ideas relating to everyday life and depicting ordinary experiences from a new perspective. Exploring beliefs, social interaction and real experience. Making works that re-access the acceptance of common values and exploring the thin vale of sanity and the contradictions in life.

Sherry gains, through his work, an insight into the psychological diversity of any singular situation, fragmenting what is accepted and analysing a basic moment in day to day life. Conveying the idea that nothing is permanent or stable, questioning what is understood and re-evaluating a collective perspective.

For his solo show at The Changing Room Sherry will present new video works alongside a new series of drawings & paintings.

www.dave-sherry.com

Conor Kelly - New Work Scotland

Roll Over

16 FEB. - 21 APR. 2013
ROLL OVER. REFLECTIONS ON DOCUMENTARY, AFTER RICHARD LEACOCK

YTO BARRADA + DUNCAN CAMPBELL + JAN DIETVORST / ROY VILLEVOYE +

RICHARD LEACOCK + LUKE FOWLER / ANNA MCLAUCHLAN +

FERNANDO SÁNCHEZ CASTILLO + HIROFUMI SUDA
Opening:Fri, 15.02.2013, 19 Uhr / 7 p.m.
Curated by: Bianca Visser
 Event:
16.02.2013, 15 Uhr / 3 p.m., Artist Talk with Hirofumi Suda (ENG)
21.03.2013, 19 Uhr / 7 p.m., Conversation between Valérie Lalonde, guest of honour, life companion and regular collaborator of Richard Leacock since 1989, and Bianca Visser (ENG)
22.04.2013, 19 Uhr / 7 p.m., Lecture and talk with Glorianna Davenport, Principle Research Scientist, MIT Cambridge/Mass., and Bianca Visser. In cooperation with Amerika Haus e.V. NRW 

 

"Roll Over" is a tribute to the lifelong commitment to the development of cinematography by British-American filmmaker Richard Leacock (London 1921-2011 Paris). His aspiration to get closer to reality and the methodology he developed to accomplish this aim, influenced filmography as we know it today. This exposition wants to bring forth new understandings of documentary in its capacity to shape the world. Video and "Final Cut Pro" are a few of the inventions that have made film accessible to a wider public. Still, the basic concerns of a documentary filmmaker haven’t fundamentally changed since film was born: Do I or do I not make a story. How can I get closer to the subject I’m interested in and how to reveal circumstances that have gone unnoticed before. How do I express ideas. Two rare films by Richard Leacock will be shown alongside recent works by contemporary artists Yto Barrada (*1971, FR/MA), Duncan Campbell (*1972, IE), Jan Dietvorst (*1953, NL) & Roy Villevoye (*1960, NL), Luke Fowler (*1978, UK), Fernando Sánchez Castillo (*1970, ES) and Hirofumi Suda (*1978, JP). Their films are inquisitive, but not informative. Some of them defy their own nature, introducing fictional elements in a non-fiction setting. Others include footage of events that took place when the filmmaker was still a child, or before he or she was even born. In all cases, sequences have been gathered, classified and shaped into a form open to numerous interpretations.
Opening hours:
Do-Fr 14-18 Uhr, Sa-So 13-17 Uhr
Thu-Fri 2-6 p.m., Sat-Sun 1-5 p.m.

Image:

Richard Leacock. Community of Praise, 1981. Icarus Films, New York

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Corin Sworn at Chisenhale Gallery, London

8 February - 24 March 2013
Preview: Thursday 7 February 2013, 6.30 - 8.30pm

Chisenhale Gallery presents a newly commissioned work by Corin Sworn (MFA 2009). This will be Sworn’s largest and most ambitious exhibition to date and comprises a film presented as part of an installation with synchronised lighting and sound.

The Rag Papers (2013) explores the nature of attention, reuse and appropriation. The film’s worried narrative shifts between the perspectives of three characters who interact with a series of objects set within carefully designed domestic interiors. The film uses point of view shots and cutaway sequences to suggest the roaming nature of each character’s attention and in turn, reveals transient spaces such as hotel rooms, sorting depots and markets.

Layering multiple subjective viewpoints, Sworn’s characters shift back and forth between modes of remembering, looking, processing and reading. Objects play a central role in the film, almost as characters in their own right; the mise en scene becoming as potent as the action of the protagonists or any suggested narrative.

In recent work, such as the performance lecture Roaming Charges (2011), and HDHB (2011), made in collaboration with Charlotte Prodger, Sworn has explored the global circulation of objects and images. She expands upon these ideas in The Rag Papers with the inclusion of footage shot in second hand goods warehouses – vast repositories where post-consumer textiles and household goods are sorted for reuse and shipped to locations around the world. Here the past trails into the present as objects are recycled across place and time.

Sworn is interested in the means by which artefacts are borrowed, adapted and reconfigured to tell different stories. Her work explores the social ordering of attention and how the erratic nature of perception might undermine control. Sworn’s films and installations often incorporate found images, over which she voices her own narratives, themselves composed from fragments of other texts.

In The Rag Papers Sworn continues this use of appropriation but renegotiates its terms. In producing the film she worked with the actors to devise a set of actions in an apartment, and then hired two documentary filmmakers to shoot the rehearsed sequences as if they were making a documentary film. Sworn edited the resulting footage to create a narrative which vaguely apes that of a genre film. She has described the work as ‘a seedy noir film that wishes it was an intellectual thriller’.

Corin Sworn (born 1977, London) lives and works in Glasgow. Recent exhibitions include; Endless Renovation, ‘Art Now’, Tate Britain (2011); Tramway, Glasgow; Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art; Witte de With, Rotterdam (all 2010); EASTinternational, Norwich; Kunsthalle Basel (all 2009); Participant Inc. New York (2008). Sworn was nominated for The Jarman Award 2011 and The Jerwood / Film and Video Umbrella Award 2012, and has been selected to represent Scotland at the Venice Biennale, 2013.

The Rag Papers  is co-commissioned by Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (NAK) where the exhibition will be presented in April 2013. 

Nite Flights

Nite Flights

For one night only.

6th February 2013 from 8pm - midnight

An evening of video and performance curated by MFA graduate Michelle Hannah, taking its theme from the fractured disco of Scott Walker's Nite Flights.
The night will feature work by local and national artists: Erica Eyres, Claudia Nova, Rachel Maclean, Rebecca Lennon, Mel Brimfield, Rose Ruane, Clara Ursitti, Sarah Tripp, Jen Liu and more..