Calling all shoe obsessives (you know who you are!) I contributed a pair of studio shoes to a very fun and wonderful project featuring artists’ shoes and curated by Veerle Swenters and Pierre Bogaerts, which opened in Belgium on the 9th of November! Here’s a video clip of this exciting project:
Leave a Comment November 19, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday November 13th, 2009 | 6:00 pm
AXIOM is proud to present its next exhibition, ‘RIDERS on the TRAIN’ curated by Nance Davies, opening Tuesday, November 10, 2009 and running through Saturday, December 19th, with a Reception on November 13th from 6-9pm. An accompanying website can be found at www.axiomart.org/riders.
‘RIDERS on the TRAIN’ is an interdisciplinary art exhibition exploring new relationships between artist, audience, site, and context. Drawn from an international call for submissions, these artists and writers explore ‘the private within the public’ experience of mass-transit in Sweden, Australia, South Africa, India, Switzerland, NYC, London, Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Mexico City, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, LA, DC, Portland, and Boston. The poetics of acceleration, compression, fragmentation and sensory immersion are explored as the artists record, collaborate, and devise small scale tactical interventions – juxtaposing high with low technology. ‘Riding Artists’ sample their ‘ride’ and generate an aggregate description of the mass-transit experience through a diversity of lenses and media including video, sound art, photography, web-based interactivity, performance, installation and writing.
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Calendar Submission / At-a-Glance
What/// Riders on the Train Opening Reception
When/// November 10th – December 19th, 2009
– Opening Reception: Friday, November 13th, 2009, 6-9 pm
– Artists Talk/Performance Night: Friday, November 20, 2009
Who/// Manuel Vazquez, Denise Marika and Dana Moser, Henry Gwiazda, Sarah Rushford, Stephen Cady, Jesse Malmed, Nance Davies, Andrew Sempere, Francois Xavier de Costerd, Scott Hall, Marc McNulty, Dylan Mortimer, Zehra Kahn, Nita Sturiale, Ximena Alarcon, Erik Conrad, Ben Chaffee, Jason Nelson, Sherry Karver, Marianne Fourie, Lia Chavez, Helene Zuckerbrod, Marian Berelowitz, Lisa McCarty, Katherin McInnis, Jamie Waelchli, Guy Telemaque, Gary Duehr, Yuri Stone, Susan Bregman, Carolyn Lewenberg, Harvey Loves Harvey, Alexia Mellor and Sarah Banasiak, Jeremy Hight, Kamarie Chapman, Leora Silverman Fridman, Sarah Goodman, Gordon Fearey, Colette A. Shumate-Smith, and Jonathan Powell.
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays, 2-5 pm, Wednesdays 6-9 pm, Thursdays 2-9 pm, Saturdays 2-5 pm, alternative visiting hours can be arranged by appointment
Cost/// FREE and Open to the Public
Where/// AXIOM Center for New and Experimental Media – 141 Green Street
located in the Green Street T Station on the Orange Line
Leave a Comment November 6, 2009
Possible Bodies 1, 2008, Archival Fuji Crystal print, 32 x 24 inches, Edition of 7, 2 APs.
Dear friends,
Greetings! I hope this finds you enjoying the beauty of fall!
There is a compelling upcoming event which I want to share with you. The attached artwork, has been donated to the annual Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture fundraising event, which includes work by many exciting emerging and established artists. The auction is one of the Medical Foundation’s most important annual fundraisers and takes place in a few weeks on November 20th.The Medical Foundation is the only organization in the UK dedicated solely to the treatment of torture survivors, hence it provides necessary medical consultation, psychological treatment, support and practical help, as well as critical advocacy work which strives to ensure that the UK honors its international obligations towards survivors of torture, asylum seekers and refugees. If you are currently in a position to consider giving to this wonderful organization, I would like to invite you to attend the auction and exhibition, either in person or in spirit!
Please click here to view the works to be exhibited and to place your bid online, in the case that you are unable to attend the auction but would like to acquire a work. If you would like to attend the event, all the better! Please find all the details below.
Many thanks for your consideration and support!
With love, gratitude and blessings for the season ahead,
Lia
An exhibition and auction curated in aid of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture
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Sir Peter Blake / Michael Craig-Martin / Dexter Dalwood / Ian Davenport / Jim Dine / Sir Howard Hodgkin / John Hoyland / David Inshaw / Sarah Lucas and Olivier Garbay / Lisa Milroy / David Nash / Cornelia Parker / Paulo Rego / Ralph Steadman / Mark Titchner / Gavin Turk
Johan Andersson / Claire Burbridge / Antony Crossfield / Hilary Ellis / Rebecca Glover / Andy Harper / Monroe Hodder / Sue Hotchkis / Yun-Kyung Jeong / Ross Jones / Suzann Kundi / Richard Leoroyd / Tim Phillips / Debra Scacco / Luke Stones / Jane Ward / David Wightman / Eugene Wood
Sean Alexander / Axel Antas / Grace Aza-Selinger / Franko B / Sohalia Baluch / Jonathon Boast / Derren Brown / Tereza Buskova / Luke Caulfield / Lia Chavez / Peter Clark / Hannah Collins / Pip Dickens / Richard Ducker / Anabell Emson / Lis Fields / Laura Oldfield Ford / Gotz Fusser / Carin Gruda / Celia Hempton / Ghislaine Howard / Rebecca Jewell / Sue Kennington / Cathy Lomax / Susan Meiselas / Hal Messel / Whitney McVeigh / Anja Niemi / Marilene Oliver / Henrijs Preiss / Liz Rideal / Sophie Ryder / Stuart Semple / Alli Sharma / Kate Street / Jason Smith / Nicola Taylor
SUMARRIA LUNN presents an exhibition in association with the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (MF), and with the support of Sotheby’s, showcasing some of the most notable figures in the modern and contemporary art scene. The show will have over 70 pieces of exceptional artwork, including works by Paula Rego, Sarah Lucas, Howard Hodgkin and Michael Craig-Martin.
Does all art share a link with its creative sibling literature? An artwork cannot help but provide to some extent a record of the process of its creation, of the artist’s state of mind, and of the wider context of his or her time. These elements are what we might associate with non fiction- factual accounts of process, contemporary culture and events. Conversely artistic intention is a subjective phenomenon, one that we can associate with fiction. The proportionate mixture of these kinds of narrative vary greatly from one artwork to the next, but what can be said with some assurance is that unlike literature these stories must be discovered and explored; they are not as immediately obvious and definite as in text. Whether incidental, intentional or both, it is the stories the artworks tell that unify them.
This exhibition brings together a diverse collection of work from a wide range of artists. In curating this show we are proud to support such a worthy cause. The MF, a registered charity established in 1985, is dedicated to the treatment of torture survivors and organised violence. Sadly, torture is a reality in many countries around the world, and survivors will endure lasting effects for the rest of their lives. For those who have been subjected to all the brutality which that entails, fleeing into exile is often the only chance they have to save their lives. The MF is a UK charity that cares for these men, women and children and helps them rebuild their future, providing them with the specialist care they desperately need. The MF offers medical consultation, examination and forensic documentation of injuries, psychological treatment and support, and practical help. Central to the charity’s vision are its efforts to educate the public and decision makers about torture and its consequences, while advocacy work strives to ensure that the UK honours its international obligations towards survivors of torture.
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Exhibition in aid of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture
Private view: Wednesday 4th November / 6 – 9pm / at John McAslan + Partners, 7-9 William Road, Euston, London, NW1 3ER
Exhibition: at John McAslan + Partners / 5th – 17th November / 10am – 6pm (Mon to Fri)
Exhibition continues: The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, Mayfair, London W1S 4BS / 19th November 9am – 9pm / 20th November 9am – 5pm
The Auction Night
Date: Friday 20th November
Time: Drinks and canapes from 6pm
Venue: The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London
RSVP here.
Leave a Comment October 29, 2009
Here’s documentation of Absolution 1 & 2 performed at TINA B. – Prague Festival of Contemporary Art in Prague, Czech Republic on October 9, 2009.
For this performance, which I developed for TINA B. 2009, I wanted to address the Festival’s theme of ‘NEW ERA’ by looking at themes of servitude, gender, political power, the subversion of cycles of geopolitical conflict and the sacred/ profane dyad. Absolution 1, performed with Czech artist Tomas Ruller, began as an exploration of pollution taboos of the lower half of the body (traditionally associated with sex and abjection) with the ‘clean’, ‘pure’ upper half of the body (associated with the mind). The performance combined the archetypal action of Christ’s (spiritual) washing of the 12 disciples’ feet with that of the Magdalene’s sensual action of wiping of Christ’s feet with her hair. As the performance developed, it became a way to to test the emergence of intimacy from an act of servitude, the limits of giving & receiving, and the interpenetration of sacred anointing and sensual pleasure. After this performance, I then performed Absolution 2 (an homage to Janine Antoni), in which I mopped the expansive marble floor with my hair of the Parkhotel Prague lobby. Using a white maid’s cleaning bucket I dipped my head upside down in hot, soapy water and scrubbed away until physically exhausted (about 45 minutes). In the process, this action created a great deal of speculation from 100 or so tourists as they were eventually ‘mopped away’ from the hotel lobby. As the floor became cleaner the dress became progressively gray. Absolution 2, takes the subject of exhausting manual labor as a starting point for re-imaging women’s political role in the new era as leading the way in providing a deeper political cleansing for a world desperate for a change from violent political methodologies of revenge.
Leave a Comment October 20, 2009
I will be presenting 2 new performance art works in Prague on Friday, October 9. The first piece will be presented at 6pm. The second will be presented at 8:45pm. Details are below.
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TINA B. – The Prague Contemporary Art Festival presents
NEW ERA Performance Art Evening
Curated by BBB Johannes Deimling
October 9, 2009
18:00-21:00
Parkhotel Prague
Veletržní 1502/20, Prague 7
TINA B. Festival 2009 is pleased to present an evening of performance art by 13 international artists, including Lia Chavez (USA), Francesca Romana Ciardi (GER), Valeria Drotskaja (GER), Chris Dupeis (CDN), Andres Galeano (ESP), Friederike Hoppner (CZ), Anna Lauenstein (GER), Manuela Macco (IT), Marilli Mastrantoni (GR), Linda Mikolaskova (CZ), Lucia Sunder-Plassman (GER), Anja Pollnow (GER), Joana Ruival (PT)
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THE PRAGUE CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL TINA B. STARTS ON 8 October 2009
FESTIVAL TINA B. – 8 October – 25 October 2009
V.I.P. WEEK – 8 October – 12 October 2009 – A week of special events and performances
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The new era of contemporary art begins
For a period of three weeks (8 – 25 October) in October, Prague will become the mecca of contemporary art again.
The TINA B. Contemporary Art Festival is being held for its fourth year, this time wrapped in yellow. The key theme of this year’s TINA B. Festival is defined by the phrase ‘New Era’.
The organisers are thus shifting attention towards the new outlooks of contemporary art. This curatorial concept is underscored by the TINA B. Festival’s resolve to explore the relationship and links between new, experimental forms of artistic expression and wider cultural and social aspects and contexts.
Where is contemporary art headed? What thematic contexts are intrinsic to it? And what are its newest forms, shapes and colours?
TINA B. is trying to present the widest possible look inside the progressive world of visual art today, where an idea born a minute ago is already passé.
We bring the work of fifty artists from every corner of the planet to Prague. Therefore the festival is a unique opportunity – not just for artists and lovers of art, but across the art spectrum – to meet and learn and to exchange opinions and experiences.
The festival is preparing seven curatorial projects right in the pulsating historical centre of Prague in extraordinary venues. This year’s main theme puts an even greater focus on the new media, digital technology, video, and installations, and it is offering numerous performances.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
THE THRESHOLD OF THE NOOSPHERE
curator: Blanca de la Torre (ESP )
This project concentrates on the current state of our society, which has reached a critical point. But this crisis is paradoxically leading to a return to the principles of spirituality. As Eric Davis says, ‘We call on the beast to show itself’.
BEYOND GUILT
curator: Doron Rabina (UAE)
In the ‘BEYOND GUILT’ exhibition the Israeli curator Doron Rabina presents mainly video-art works. It focuses thematically and conceptually on guilt as its motif. Guilt is perceived here not just as the source of reflection on moral responsibility but also a source of ideas and as a generator of life.
STREAMING MUSEUM / curator: Nina Colosi (US)/ This year the TINA B. Festival has established cooperation with the Streaming Museum organisation (Electrotechnical Museum), which was formed 29 January 2009 in New York. Streaming Museum is now creating a worldwide network of cultural metropolises to which it broadcasts works of art and exhibitions in real time through the Internet.
PERFORMANCE ART OF THE 1980s – A COMPARISON
curator: Paulina Kolczynská (PL)
This exhibition brings together a very specific group of works by three artists who, in their native countries, carried out series of art performances in the years between 1976 and 1983. An introduction to a comparative study of the performance practices of Jiří Kovanda (CZ), Hassan Sharif (UAE) and Zbigniew Libera (PL) from the 1970’s and 1980’s.
PERFORMANCE ART STUDIES
curator: Johannes Deimling (DE)
The artist BBB Johannes Deimling will hold a special performance arts workshop, which he is presenting at a number of cities all over the world. The results of the workshop will then be presented on 9 October in an evening of performances. Presenting artists include Lia Chavez (USA), Francesca Romana Ciardi (GER), Valeria Drotskaja (GER), Chris Dupeis (CDN), Andres Galeano (ESP), Friederike Hoppner (CZ), Anna Lauenstein (GER), Manuela Macco (IT), Marilli Mastrantoni (GR), Linda Mikolaskova (CZ), Lucia Sunder-Plassman (GER), Anja Pollnow (GER), Joana Ruival (PT) (www.tina-b.eu).
TINA B. MEETS MINI ROOF ART
curator: TINA B.
AT the pedestrian zone of Ovocný trh. This year TINA B. has prepared a special art project called TINA B. MEETS MINI ROOF ART. Seven artists were asked to create their own artistic interpretation of roofs for a MINI car. A portion of the proceeds from the auction of these art works will go to the European Art Centre for Disabled Children Snězenka.
TINA B. ON THE ROAD
curator: TINA B.
Travelling abroad to explore art in other countries and art markets, the organisers and curators of the TINA B. Festival encounter many different artistic figures. They try to bring those whose work stands out as particularly remarkable to the Prague art world to show their work as part of the festival section
TINA B. ON THE ROAD
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Vernon Projekt – Čestmír Přindiš ( POSTERAGE No.1)
Heřmanova 12, Prague 7, 8 October – 27 November, opening: 7 October at 6 p.m.
LOCATIONS
OPENING HOURS:
Tues, Wed, Fri-Sun 12 noon – 6 p.m, Thurs – 12 noon – 9 p.m.
GALERIE VERNON
VERNON GALLERY
Janovského 23, Prague 7
OPENING: 7 October, 6 p.m. (performance – Barbara Rosenthal)
7 October – 27 November 2009
PERFORMANCE ART OF THE 1980S – A COMPARISON
Exhibiting artists: Hassan Sharif (UAE), Zbigniew Libera (PL), Jiří Kovanda (ČR)
ROUNDTABLE: Jiří Kovanda (CZ), Zbigniew Libera (PL), Paulina Kolczinská and others
– 9 October, 3 p.m.
VERNON CITY GALLERY
OPENING: 8 October, 6 p.m,.
8-25 October 2009
TINA B. ON THE ROAD
Exhibiting artists: Com & Com, 1HART, Lauri Lyons, Jens Becker, Antonio Pilade, Valerio Berruti, Milan Houser, Paolo Cirio
THE STONE BELL HOUSE
Staroměstské náměstí 13, Prague 1
OPENING: 8 October, 7 p.m.
8-25 October 2009
Art work from 3 sections of the festival:
BEYOND GUILT/ THE TRESHOLD OF THE NOOSPHERE/ TINA B. ON THE ROAD
PERFORMANCES: 8 October – Andrea Bianconi (IT), Darina Alster (CZ)
The courtyard of Herget Brickworks
- project Bubbles – made by the Greek artist Jenny Marketou, from 8 October
ALTERNATIVE SPACE DĚLNICKÁ
Dělnická 65, Prague 7 – TINA B. MEETS MINI ROOF ART- WORKSHOP OF ARTISTS
7, 8 October – 12-5 p.m. – opened to the public
PARKHOTEL PRAHA
Veletrzní 1502/20, Prague 7
9 October, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. – Performance art evening, curator: performer Johannes Deimling admission free
THE PEDESTRIAN ZONE OVOCNÝ TRH
Ovocný trh open-air, Prague 1
OPENING: 11 October, 11 p.m.
11 – 25 October 2009
TINA B. MEETS MINI ROOF ART
Exhibiting artists: Mauro Cuppone (IT), Jacob Ouillette (USA), Santiago Montoya (Kolumbie), Tomáš Spevák (CZ), Dita Havránková (CZ), Daniel Hanzlík (CZ), Markéta Hlinovská (CZ)
THE PEDESTRIAN ZONE NA PŘÍKOPĚ
Na Příkopě (in front of the New Yorker store), Prague 1
OPENING: 12 October, 3 p.m.
3 VIDEO-CONTAINERS – 3 VIDEOSECTIONS:
STREAMING MUSEUM/OU VA LA VIDEO?/TINA B. ON THE ROAD
- videos 12 – 25 October 2009
Exhibiting artists: Dani Marti, Daniel Rodrigo, Ran Juany, Tina Willgren, Stephana Schmidt, Mihai Grecu, Liana Zanfrisco, Pietro Mele ad.
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CONTACT
For further information, photos or interviews, please feel free to contact:
Markéta Faustová/PR
+420 773 915 501
marketa.faustova@tina-b.com
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Leave a Comment September 23, 2009
PRESS RELEASE
Parallel Worlds: Fleeting Realities
Detournement Venise collateral exhibition of the 53rd Venice Biennale of Visual Arts
Curated by Dovrat ana Meron
October 1 – 27, 2009
Private View: October 1, 2009, 6-8pm
Scalamata Gallery
Cannaregio 1235
Ghetto Vecchio
Venice, Italy
To address the apparent dichotomy of reality for a different and multifaceted perception of our lived experience: This is what the 17 artists participating in Parallel World: Fleeting Realities propose.
In the vast range of topics covered by various artists, contradiction is one of the topics that most characterizes their work. Though embracing very different forms of artistic expression – switching from painting to installation, from performance to video art-we can find in this topic a solid common ground that unites them.
From that premise begins a survey on the elusive realities surrounding us which are caught to be fixed on matter to allow us to reflect on the “rift between opposite positions”. One wonders then between what is known and what is not, between cerebral and sensual, between word and anti-word, between the attractive and the repulsive pursuing the inquiry on the meaning of the ascent and descent of man and his relation between codes and symbols, the boundary between a dream of veiled modern mysticism as opposed to the experience of the ordinary which is only apparently trivial.
The artists of Fleeting Realities while taking us in the territory of opposites seem interested in widening the rift created between the elements and antithetical feelings and by doing so they seem willing to suggest that the opposites, in reality are merely shades of the same idea.
Exhibiting artists include: Alberto Graziani, Aya Chowers, Birgit Ramsauer, Carmela Weiss, Chen Shapira, Dante Maffei, David Behar Perahia, Eiva Lilja, Fabrizio Cotognini, Kaisu Koivisto, Lia Chavez, Michael Basov, Patrick Corrado, Regine Freise, Richard Schofild, Roma Pas, Sergio Trevisan, and Valter Luca Signorile.
Leave a Comment September 22, 2009
I have contributed a written piece to the Virtual Mercury House ‘Save the Poetry’ collateral event of the 53rd Venice Biennale. It’s a fun project curated by Caterina Davinio in which ‘planetary and interplanetary events online’ are hosted in cyberspace venues such as Facebook and Second Life. The poem will be published in a book dedicated to the virtual events in the framework of the
53.Venice Biennale later in 2010:
Rainrainrain the Zionchurch of Bonhoeffer’s confirmation open all night flowers uprooted by her Pentecostal tongues of fire stars.
Fetishes for purity, banned: blue suede, rain in the golden light of evening, shadow of you in my mind, lightening strike, rapture.
Disparate elements create spontaneous Gioconda smile emerging from LIGHT a reason to dance in dark to fumble & find a form awaiting in space.
A sponge perfectly expanded or a body perfectly inhabiting skin a thought perfectly noted with ink perfectly cursive you perfectly wasted.
A breath perfectly immediate a bore perfectly discursive a flea perfectly arrested a lover perfectly trusted a blue blossom perfectly opened.
Leave a Comment September 21, 2009
A print from my series ‘Possible Bodies’ (2008) will be exhibiting in a group show at Seattle Pacific Art Center in Seattle, Washington. The show opens in October and is entitled ‘Self-Absorbed: Constructing Identity in the 21st Century’, explores self-portraiture and is curated by Katie Kresser, PhD (Harvard). More details to follow…
Leave a Comment September 18, 2009
My video, ‘Magic House’ (2007), will show in the ‘Parallel Worlds’ Detournement Venise programme curated by Dovrat ana Meron, a collateral exhibition of the 53rd Venice Biennale. The exhibit opens in October. More details to follow shortly…
Leave a Comment September 18, 2009