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: 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

Title: All the Best
Location: Gallery One One One
Description: For their exhibition at Gallery one one one, Nina Beier and Marie Lund have devised an experiment: an evolving exhibition, to explore the very notion of the traditional exhibition format and how their artistic practice can work within this framework. As a form of resistance, they will pervert the notion of a solo show by replacing it with a group dynamic of their own invention.

Date: 2008-09-11