Title: An evening within an exhibition by Elline McGeorge
Location: HollybushGarden
Description: What is to be said?
presents an evening within an exhibition
by Eline McGeorge

at
Hollybush Gardens
5 November, 7 pm
A reading from Manual (2009),
an artist’s book by Eline McGeorge,
designed by åbäke,
read by Oreet Ashery
and Ed Hobbs.
Plus
a screening of two films by Maja Borg:
Ottica Zero (2007) 13 mins;
Construct (Two Moments in Beauty) (2006) 8 mins.
What is to be said? is a year-long programme
of events, seminars and texts
curated by Malin Ståhl.
www.whatistobesaid.org
www.hollybushgardens.co.uk
Hollybush Gardens
Unit 2, BJ House
10 – 14 Hollybush Gardens
London E2 9QP
Tel: 0207 739 9651

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-11-05

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Title: Anthony Burill
Location: Kemistry gallery
Description: \’exploration of industrial processes and materials with large scale laser-cut perspex pieces…\’
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-07-23

Title: Sound Escapes
Location: Space / Mare street
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-07-24

Co-curated by Irene Revell (Electra) and Angus Carlyle (LCC)

Sound Escapes is an exhibition to mark the culmination of a radical interdisciplinary
research project that brought artists together with acousticians, engineers and social
scientists from institutions across the UK in an endeavour to move beyond the notions
of negative noise towards the idea of positive soundscapes.

Alongside a public interpretation of the central research strands of the project, the
exhibition includes artists who work with soundscapes across a wide range of practices
and whose work is in conversation with the scientific and sociological questions posed
in the research. Significantly, the works have emerged from a listening process that
challenges what counts as positive; work that understands the auditory world in a more
inquisitive way, indeed an interrogation of what even counts as sound.

TextFields is an investigation into the metaphysical worlds between text and space.

We are interested in the possible forces that text can generate within a spatial and formal context.

Exploring the sensual energy of unfocused and charged textual forms, we want to understand where do fonts and space lose their limits, where do they become forces and vectors in a field, and where this field is perceived as a field for the unfamiliar; a field without a perceived centre, a field where the inherent qualities of both are dismantled, where the reader, the voyeur and the visitor are intertwined, and where in this lies the emergence of a field of text.

via TextFields.

S23K – Lollerskates für alle

In February and March 2009 a state-sponsored spectacle will be arranged in the Swedish capital. The trial against The Pirate Bay – one of the longest in Swedish history – begins at the Kungsholmen courthouse in Stockholm.

The modified city bus of Piratbyrån, formerly known as S23M (summer 2008) and S23X (fall 2008), is at the same time getting restless in its parking lot in Belgrade. It wants to go on a spring tour, back to Stockholm.

In connection with this it changes its name to S23K. On spot outside the trial, it will be used to intensify the spectacle, among other things functioning as a press center for The Pirate Bay and Piratbyrån and as a physical gathering place for sympathisers and curious people.

At a location near you

www.asdfmakes.com/nearyou

For a Brief Time Only… is a purchasable exhibition of 24 artists available at a photo developer near you. You can find it at any store that allows file uploading via the internet (including most major US drug-stores). The image files will be sent to the closest location near you, and within minutes you will be able to walk in and pick them up as prints.

This exhibition contains 24 small 4×6 photographic prints contained within the packaging provided by each store. Also included are a contact sheet with all the artists’ information, and a letter to the store employee reassuring that there is nothing wrong with the order.”

(via REFERENCE LIBRARY.)

On Purpose Conceptual Guided Tour

I am working on the tour of the Somerset House exhibition – ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice Exhibition’.

Brief given by Abake.

Give a guided tour of the On Purpose exhibition at the Arnolfini but the tour is to take place at Somerset House at the ‘Wouldn’t it be Nice Exhibition.’

I’m giving secrets away here but this is the brief I have set myself.

1. to do the tour as if it were a tour of the Bristol Show as straight as possible
2. But not to force the tour into absurdity – i.e. if there is an elephant in Bristol but not one in Somerset House don’t keep referring to the Elephant to the confusion of the tour.
(there is no elephant by the way)
3. Not to let the audience into the secret if I can help it.
4. To do the tour ‘blind’ i.e. not to visit the Somerset House exhibition in advance

My aim is to keep my Arnolfini exhibition guided tour ‘text’ intact in my head and to use this to guide my tour in Somerset House. I think a prior viewing of the Somerset House exhibition will ‘contaminate’ my Arnolfini narrative. I’ll find ways to fudge it. I want my tour to be created by the Arnolfini exhibition plus my wits.

5. The message of the On purpose exhibition should be the lens through which I see the Somerset House exhibition-with fresh eyes.

6. My aim is to satisfy my curiosity to see if a tour conceived in one place can have relevance to another place – I really want this to be the experiment and I don’t want to compromise it.

The other part of the Experiment is to explore the design issues in giving guided tours.

7. Guided tours are often heavily scripted, or a repeated narrative so I want Improvisation to be a key element of the tour.

8. As a jass musician rifs on a theme I have asked ABAKE to provide some themes for me to work with:

a. I asked for some Design articles they considered important
b. 10 important designers
c. 10 isms that influence design

9. Guided tours are normally given by THE EXPERT to the audience – this can be reversed and participation tried

10 the audience tend to be mute while the guide does the talking
11 The audience follow the guide – maybe we should try vice versa?
12 Guides are garulous and didactic maybe they could be monosylabic and dogmatic
13 Guided tours normally educate, inform, entertain and exercise – we’ll try to add some physical exercise

On doing my research I discover that Daniel Eatock’s mini manifesto is relevant.

Daniel Eatock
Born 1975 Bolton, UK
Lives and works in London, UK

nterested in the connection of the start and end points of a hand drawn circle.

Mini Manifesto

Begin with ideas
Embrace chance
Celebrate coincidence
Ad-lib and make things up
Eliminate superfluous elements
Subvert expectation
Make something difficult look easy
Be first or last
Believe complex ideas can produce simple things
Trust the process
Allow concepts to determine form
Reduce material and production to their essence
Sustain the integrity of an idea
Propose honesty as a solution

”

(via And Did Those Feet.)