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KMA’s ‘Flock’ in Liverpool from Tom Wexler on Vimeo.
One of the lovely events in 2008 that we actually missed.
Unedited footage from July 2008 of KMA’s installation ‘Flock’ in Williamson Square, Liverpool. Flock is an interactive work based around three sections of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, and was created in collaboration with the choreographer Tom Sapsford – more information from kma.co.uk.
Liverpool artist David Jacques is one of several excellent artists in this Biennial exhibition in Norwich.
EASTinternational 2009
selectors
Raster Gallery and Art & Language
Exhibition preview
Saturday 11 July 5-8pm
EASTpanel
2.30 to 4.30pm admission free.
NUCA Duke Street Lecture Theatre
Speakers Lukasz Gorczyca & Michal Kaczynski Raster, Michael Baldwin & Mel Ramsden Art & Language,
John Roberts Reader in Fine Art Wolverhampton University,
John Russell and Barbara Walker EAST09 artists. Chair Lynda Morris EAST Curator.
Exhibition
Monday 13 July – Saturday 22 August
Open Monday to Saturday 10-5pm
EASTinternational Norwich University College of the Arts
Francis House 3-7 Redwell Street Norwich NR2 4SN UK
This looks like fun.
Artists Wayne Hill & James Diable present Optimus Wayne, an Art Robot that you can control via pressure pads. 2-4 July 2009 at View Two Gallery.
Private View Event: Thursday 2 July 2009 18-21.00. Join in and Paint with the Robot!
Exhibition: Optimus Wayne will be working at all times on these dates
Thursday 2 July 12-17.00
Friday 3 July 12-17.00
Saturday 4 July 12-17.00
We went to the launch of Abandon Normal Devices at FACT last Friday, its all very exciting though it doesn’t actually take place until late September.
AND is presented by FACT (Liverpool), Cornerhouse (Manchester) and folly (Lancaster), great to see a major collaboration across the North West region. It is also part of WE PLAY, the NW cultural legacy programme for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Yes Men. Image courtesy of Tom Little Photography, 2009
Carolee Schneemann. Image courtesy of the artist; Meat Joy, 1964
Launching in Liverpool 23-27 September 2009, AND features screenings, installations, online projects, public realm interventions, debates, workshops and live events, with a distinctive emphasis on critique and ideas. At the heart of this festival lies a fascination with ideas about social, physical and technological norms with approaches from the playful to the downright provocative.
Featured highlights include: First UK solo exhibition from Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul; European premiere exhibition from digital interrogators The Yes Men; world premiere of Jamie King’s new feature film Dark Fibre, a much anticipated appearance from Carolee Schneemann and Krzysztof Wodiczko’s return to the UK with a breath-taking outdoor projection. Also an outdoor performance on the waterfront by DJ Spooky and much more.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Image courtesy of the artist, stills from Primitive
c. Peterson Waweru Kamwathi
THE POLITICS OF ART
DISPLAY OF PRINTS BY KENYAN ARTIST.
World Museum Liverpool is displaying a selection of prints by Kenyan artist, Peterson Kamwathi, from 26th June 2009.
The series of five woodcut prints, on display in the museum’s World Cultures gallery, explore events in Kenya’s recent political history.
The prints tackle the issues surrounding proposed changes to Kenya’s constitution, which were rejected by the people in a national referendum in 2005. The referendum led to increased distrust of the political process and contributed to the violence that followed the 2007 presidential elections.
Each print centres round the image of a bull, which represents the Kenyan nation. The motifs that cover their bodies refer to the issues and political symbols that have been prevalent in Kenyan society in recent years.
Peterson Waweru Kamwathi
Born in Nairobi in 1980, Kamwathi began practicing at the Kuona Trust and Museum Art Studio. He has exhibited internationally and is considered one of Kenya’s best regarded young artists.
Kamwathi says about his work: “I view myself as a part of my society and as such I’m accountable to the society. Being an artist, this society extends beyond my immediate environment to include the world. In my work I strive to address and document issues that affect and impact my country, my continent and now the planet.”
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, the UK’s leading organisation for commissioning, exhibiting, promoting and supporting artists’ work in the fields of film, video, and new media – is currently advertising this great opportunity for a funded MA studentship in Curating Contemporary Art with RCA, London. Deadline July 13th:
Inspire MA (RCA) Curating Contemporary Art
http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=505465&GroupID=505465
Its Children’s Art Day next week. A record 225 events happening around the UK but very little in Liverpool sadly. The Wirral seem to be more enthusiastic.
Every day is Art Day!
View events open to families here, or school-only events here.
Children’s Art Day has created a new focus for celebrating achievement in the visual arts.”
Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate Gallery
Children’s Art Day was set up as part of the Artworks programme run by the Clore Duffield Foundation. It is the national programme encouraging children, young people, families and teachers to engage with visual art. Children’s Art Day takes place during Shine week – a national schools festival celebrating talent in all young people. On Thursday 9 July 2009 the spotlight will be on the Visual Arts. Children’s Art Day in 2009, managed by engage, the National Association for Gallery Education, is supported by the Clore Duffield Foundation, the Mayor of London, and Kids Love London – part of Visit London.
Invisible Cities: Commissioned Painting by Pete Clarke
Edge Hill Prize 2009: Commission from a North West Artist
The Edge Hill Prize is a prestigious literary award, bestowed annually on the author of a published short story collection from the UK or Ireland. In addition to the £5000 first prize, the winning author receives a specially commissioned artwork, sponsored by Blackwell bookshops. Pete Clarke was selected from proposals from North West artists for this year’s prize, which will be awarded at The Bluecoat, Liverpool on July 4th 2009.
• Please consult website www.edgehill.ac.uk/shortstory for more on the Edge Hill Prize, the short story and prize-winning authors.
Invisible Cities: Commissioned Painting by Pete Clarke
Pete Clarke’s work explores visual narratives influenced as much by contemporary literature as by contemporary art which makes this an appropriate artist for the commissioned prize for a short story writer. He has selected composite images of an imagined city, a building that represents metaphorically the idea of a shell, an empty container of possible associations. Continue reading ‘Pete Clarke Commissioned for Edge Hill Award’
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