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

Title: Futurism
Location: Tate Modern
Date: 2009-06-12

Futurism was an art movement launched by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909. On 20 February he published his Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. That moment saw the birth of the Futurists, a small group of radical Italian artists working just before the outbreak of World War 1.

Among modernist movements, the Futurists rejected anything old and looked towards a new Italy. This was partly because the weight of past culture in Italy was felt as particularly oppressive. In his Manifesto, Marinetti asserted ‘we will free Italy from her innumerable museums which cover her like countless cemeteries.’

What the Futurists proposed instead was an art that celebrated the modern world of industry and technology: ‘We declare … a new beauty, the beauty of speed. A racing motor car … is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace’ (the celebrated ancient Greek sculpture in the Louvre museum in Paris). From an original blend of elements of Neo-Impressionism and Cubism, the Futurists created a new style that expressed the idea of the dynamism, energy and movement of modern life. The chief artists were Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini and Luigi Russolo.

Tate Modern celebrates the centenary of this dramatic art movement with a ground-breaking exhibition. Here you’ll see the work of the Futurists accompanied by rooms looking at art movements reacting to Futurism, including Cubism, the British art movement Vorticism, and Russian Cubo-Futurism.

Highlights include Boccioni’s dynamic bronze sculpture of a man which seems to leap through thin air, Picasso’s Head of a Woman, Nevinson’s Vorticist masterpiece Bursting Shell, and works by major artists such as Braque, Leger, Malevich, and Duchamp.

on till 20 September 2009.

Title: Figures of Speech /Formation of a Crystal) by Falke Pisano
Location: Hollybush Gardens - London E2 9QP: www.hollybushgardens.co.uk
Description: Figures of Speech (Formation of a Crystal) by Falke Pisano

Exhibition 22 April - 7 June

Private View 21 April 7 - 9 pm. There will be a performance during the
opening at 7.45 pm.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-04-21

Falke Pisano is immersed in both the written and spoken word. In her practice ideas and concepts, proposed through language, are juxtaposed with abstract objects. A dialogue of affect and effect is initiated between object and concept - one affecting the other - forming the potential of a third proposition, in a continuous process of production. Pisano’s works can be perceived as bringing together concerns of abstract modernism and conceptual art. Figures of Speech is an umbrella title that refers not only to this exhibition but to a larger body of works that includes Pisano’s recent and forthcoming oeuvre. Like a series of proposals, the scheme for this show is set out in diagrammatic drawings that show four ‘speaking’ positions. It’s core consists of the text-based performance Figures of Speech 1, 2008, which originates from three earlier works; The Complex Object, Object and Disintegration: The Object of Three and O Eu e O Tu / The I and the You. Here Pisano considers different possibilities for agency within an artistic practice, questioning how agency can be structurally transferred from the artist and into the artwork. The performance will take place during the exhibition opening. In material terms the ‘speaking’ positions will become hanging wall based works - part costume, part wall sculpture and part collected sculptural elements. By referring to these sculptures as ‘them’ and ‘what they can do’ Pisano suggests we perceive these sculptures as acting subjects and authors of meaning. The structure of the hanging sculptures/costumes will be flexible so that they can be expanded/taken apart and constructed into one sculpture or be worn and de-constructed. These works are in a constant state of potential, where they may evolve into or be used to form a performance situation, which would also involve the central table piece in the show. Each of the positions emerge from previous works within the Figures of Speech series. Interested in how meaning is produced and to what extent it is ‘contained’ within the artwork, Pisano experiments with placing works in different contexts and relational compositions. Suggesting that mean- ing is not fixed Pisano often returns to older works to re-consider them, testing whether they can pose new questions in different situations. One concept can be used to give form to multiple objects. ‘Old’ forms can re-appear in new contexts - as if time and experience had given these objects self-awareness, they appear to be questioning their own meaning. The hanging sculptures are held in a tension between their past existence and their potential future. The imagination of - or the actual activation - of these sculptures opens up a situation of interaction in which these ‘speaking’ positions meet on equal terms. This method of engaging and activating old forms breaks a sense of linear progress. Rather than critiquing the old in search of the new Pisano suggests a different approach to criticality. Pisano’s works can be seen as constantly becoming - holding the potential of proposing new voices when activated in new relational situations. Falke Pisano (B.1978, The Netherlands) lives and works in Berlin. Forthcoming exhibitions include: Talkshow, ICA, London, May, Making Worlds curated by Daniel Birnbaum for the 53rd Venice Biennale, Modernologies and The Malady of Writing, both at MACBA, Barcelona September and October. Previous Exhibitions include: Organon on The Wave, with Benoît Maire, at Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2009, Show me, don’t tell me, Brussels Biennale, Brussels, 2008, Time Crevasse, Yokohama Triennale, Japan, 2008, Principle of Hope / Matter of Fact, Manifesta 7, Italy, 2008.

Title: ‘In the Pines’ – an exhibition by Jack Strange
Location: Limoncello Gallery, Hoxton Street
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-03-27

Opening Friday 27 March 2009, 6.30 – 8.30pm.
Open Thursday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm and by appointment.
Open until Saturday 2 May 2009.

Afterwards, the opening goes on at The Birdcage, 80 Columbia Road, London, E2 7QB.

Following this exhibition there will be a Punctuation Programme by Tommy Grace and Kate Owens on Monday 4 May 2009, 12-8pm. The forthcoming exhibition ‘The little shop on Hoxton Street’ will be open Thursday 7 May until Thursday 21 May 2009. For further information please contact Rebecca May Marston at rebecca@limoncellogallery.co.uk

Title: The Collection: Dance and Artworks
Location: Siobhan Davies Dance Studios and Victoria Miro Gallery

Description: This spring Siobhan Davies collaborates with leading London gallerist Victoria Miro to present The Collection.For nearly three weeks, performers and artists present specially commissioned dance and artworks at Victoria Miro Gallery in North London and Siobhan Davies Studios in South London.

Tues 24 March - Thurs 9 April 2009
Admission free, no booking required
Date: 2009-03-24

Form / Content

The Collection is a series of ambitious collaborations that look at the interfaces of contemporary art and dance, where these worlds intersect and how they might inform one another. At the heart of The Collection is a mutual curiosity for potential exchanges across both art forms, and an exploration of the connections and disconnections within them.

Architecture / Space

The Collection will open two different but equally interesting architectural spaces to the public. Sitting atop a refurbished Victorian building, Victoria Miro 14 affords sweeping views of the city, with its minimalist sculptural form and soaring interior spaces. Climbing to the top of the building visitors will encounter a new work by Siobhan Davies Dance.

Dance / Art

For The Collection, Siobhan Davies creates a new work with Catherine Bennett, Matteo Fargion, Henry Montes, Deborah Saxon and Matthias Sperling. Presented as a series of succinct pieces of movement, physical imagery and sound in a white cube the work is performed continuously for six hours each day. The dance is juxtaposed with Doldrum by the artist Anri Sala, which comprises a drum programmed to produce its own rhythm. Located in Victoria Miro 14, visitors can move freely around the space to create their own time frame and perspective of the work.

Art / Dance

Located at Victoria Miro 16 is a group exhibition of works that allude to movement, repetition or a physical engagement with space. The artists presented here work across diverse media, from film and photography, to dance, painting, sculpture and sound. There are several new works on view, including Lying in Wait, an exciting collaboration by Idris Khan and Sarah Warsop, and commissions by Alex Hartley and Susan Philipsz. Works by Francis Alÿs, Yayoi Kusama, Cildo Meireles, Roman Signer and Sarah Sze offer varied and often subtle introductions to ideas around movement in visual artistic practice.

Futher information regarding dates and location

http://www.siobhandavies.com/thecollection/details.php

Title: At Your service
Location: David Roberts Art Foundation Fitzrovia
Description: The David Roberts Art Foundation is delighted to launch its Curators\’ Series with its first guest curator, Cylena Simonds. The Curators\’ Series aims to support international curators with unique vision by commissioning projects for the Foundation.
Date: 2009-04-17

The David Roberts Art Foundation is delighted to launch its Curators’ Series with its first guest curator, Cylena Simonds. The Curators’ Series aims to support international curators with unique vision by commissioning projects for the Foundation.

At Your Service engages the dynamics of the service and hospitality industries in today’s political and social climate and brings together works from emerging international artists: Raúl Ortega Ayala, Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson, Susan Collis, Yara El-Sherbini, David Ersser, Mauricio Guillén, Graham Hudson, Gayle Chong Kwon, Harold Offeh, Nada Prlja, Ana Prvacki, Manuela Ribadeneira, Paul Rooney.

In a unique opportunity to experience work by a diverse range of artists, At Your Service examines aspects of the service industries such as construction, cleaning and catering as ways of addressing belonging, patterns of migration and the less than distinct roles of host/guest.

The exhibition is produced alongside a distinctive free publication as well as an ambitious programme of performances, talks and events including film screenings in collaboration with Birkbeck Cinema.

The David Roberts Art Foundation is a registered charity initiated in 2007 by collector David Roberts and directed by Vincent Honoré. It is dedicated to promoting contemporary art by commissioning international artists and curators. Through its programmes, the Foundation encourages collaborations and aims to act as a platform for artistic dialogues. The next curators invited to participate in the Curators’ Series will be Raimundas Malasauskas (October 2009) and Mihnea Mircan (April 2010).

David Roberts Art Foundation Fitzrovia
111 Great Titchfield Street
London W1W 6RY
www.davidrobertsartfoundation.com

Opening times:
Tuesday to Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 4pm
(Nearest tube: Oxford Circus/GreatPortland Street)

Title: Friends of the Divided Mind
Location: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
Description: 18 - 29 March 2009
Open daily 11am - 6pm
Admission free
Final year Curating Contemporary Art students organise and curate an exhibition and public events programme. The aim of the exhibition is to explore and debate what art institutions mean in contemporary society.

Date: 2009-03-18

Friends of the Divided Mind is an exhibition that addresses the organisations that support contemporary art. The show is divided into four projects that consider potentialities for the future of exhibition histories, artist-run spaces, performative and durational practices, and financially independent art spaces, initiated by a strong desire for alternatives. This is reflected in the partitioning of inquiries, working groups and resources, in support of a shared undertaking by the thirteen curators that in turn subverts traditions of consensual decision making. The results of this engaged and agonistic process as well as the individual projects will be considered in a related publication, which will be launched at RCA Show 2 on 13 June 2009

Title: Nature’s patterns : Dr Philip Ball
Location: The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-03-10
End Time: 20:30

Why do the stripes of a zebra look like wind-blown ripples in desert sand? Or the hexagons of the Giant’s Causeway resemble the honeycomb meshes of foams and the delicate skeletons of microscopic sea creatures? These things are not pure coincidence.

Philip Ball explains where nature’s spontaneous patterns come from and why the same patterns seem to appear in places that apparently share nothing in common. From snowflakes to sand dunes to eddies in rivers, these natural patterns can be created from just a few simple rules.

Philip Ball is a freelance science writer and a Consultant Editor for Nature. He worked as an editor for physical sciences at Nature for over ten years, where his brief extended from biochemistry to quantum physics and materials science.Philip is the author of several scientific books for the lay reader, including H2O: A Biography of Water (shortlisted for a National Book Critics Circle Award); and Critical Mass (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize).

Tickets cost £8, £6 concessions, £4 Ri members

Title: Marcus Harvey: White Riot
Location: White Cube, Hoxton Square
Date: 2009-02-27

Marcus Harvey is best known for his infamous portrait of Myra Hindley, which came to prominence in the ‘Sensation’ exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (1997). The centrepiece of his new exhibition, ‘White Riot’, a title taken from the 1977 debut single by punk band The Clash, is a work that seeks to be no less powerful or provocative. A large-scale black and white portrait of Margaret Thatcher, ‘Maggie’ is based on a famous photograph of Thatcher taken at the launch of the 1987 Tory Party election manifesto. It is composed of over 15,000 plaster-cast objects ranging from vegetables to sex toys.

Alongside ‘Maggie’, Harvey presents three monumental bronze sculptures. ‘Victoria’, a deflated 1960’s football, suggests bygone World Cup glory. ‘Nike’, a winged WWII helmet resting on rifle barrels, forms a classical parody of military heroism. ‘The Lord High Admiral’ is modelled on the statue of Sir Winston Churchill situated in London’s Parliament Square that was vandalised in the 1990’s by Poll Tax rioters, who added a slice of grass turf, providing him with a green Mohican.

Title: Biennials and Triennials How, Why and Who For?
Location: Tate Britain Manton Studio
Description: The recent boom in triennials and biennials has been noted by critics and artists alike. Lewis Biggs, Director of the Liverpool Biennial and former Director of Tate Liverpool, assesses how successful the format is in conveying themes and theories such as Altermodern, and whether Tate Britain is an appropriate home for an international art festival.
See also:

Altermodern
Manifesto
POSTMODERNISM IS DEAD

A new modernity is emerging, reconfigured to an age of globalisation – understood in its economic, political and cultural aspects: an altermodern culture

Increased communication, travel and migration are affecting the way we live

Our daily lives consist of journeys in a chaotic and teeming universe

Multiculturalism and identity is being overtaken by creolisation: Artists are now starting from a globalised state of culture

This new universalism is based on translations, subtitling and generalised dubbing

Today’s art explores the bonds that text and image, time and space, weave between themselves

Artists are responding to a new globalised perception. They traverse a cultural landscape saturated with signs and create new pathways between multiple formats of expression and communication.

The Tate Triennial 2009 at Tate Britain presents a collective discussion around this premise that postmodernism is coming to an end, and we are experiencing the emergence of a global altermodernity.

Nicolas Bourriaud
Altermodern – Tate Triennial 2009
at Tate Britain
4 February – 26 April 2009

Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2009-03-20
End Time: 14:00