28 Jul 2011

Image Wars at the Abrons Arts Center and more News


Invite and News
1 -  Image Wars at the Abrons Arts Center, New York, USA
2 - "The Art Of Not Making: the new artist artisan relationship" by Michael Petry, published by Thames & Hudson. Out Now
3 - TPTP Presents: Interview   Carlos Noronha Feio 
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Image Wars
Curated by Miguel Amado

Yevgeniy Fiks, Rinat Kotler, Michael Mandiberg, Carlos Noronha Feio, Mary Temple, Kai-Oi Jay Yung


July 22 – September 3
Tuesday – Saturday, 10-6pm
Opening reception: July 21, 6-8 pm

Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street
New York, NY 10002


The Abrons Arts Center is proud to present Image Wars, an exhibition that addresses the representation of conflict in visual culture in an age of global crisis. The show is curated by Miguel Amado and brings together works by Yevgeniy Fiks, Rinat Kotler, Michael Mandiberg, Carlos Noronha Feio, Mary Temple, and Kai-Oi Jay Yung. The project’s organizing principle is that in an “image-saturated society, looking has become a spectacle and stipulates an optical-based relationship between those who look and that which is looked upon,” as Guy Debord once said, and that the proliferation of a war-derived iconography has become the sign of such condition in present times. Mixing archival documentation and fiction, as well as research and personal reaction to daily events, the artists comment on the articulation of geopolitics and the media in the spectacularization of warfare. The works on view examine the picturing of zones of conflict, from armed conflicts between countries trough dissent across national borders; the charismatic character of world leaders and unknown soldiers; and manifestations of both control and powerlessness in news and individual narratives.

Carlos Noronha Feio employs a traditional technique to produce a large-scale carpet depicting military motifs that allude to Afghanistan’s rug manufacturing of the same genre, which was initiated in the late 1970s with the country’s occupation by the USSR and has continued until today in the wake of the US invasion of 2001. As in the Afghan pieces, the distinctive characteristic of Noronha Feio’s work is its ability to convey the understanding of antagonism, now not in regard to a regional strife but to the perception of contention. Michael Mandiberg’s Ransom Money (2010) consists of a Zero Halliburton briefcase holding a one million dinar note, Iraq’s currency issued by the fallen Saddam Hussein’s government. This is an object favored by Hollywood in its portrayal of evil villains, and was made by the Halliburton company for use in the Texas oil fields; a former subsidiary of this corporation, KBR, is well known for its contracts with the US Department of Defense, including the Iraqi Freedom Operation. Mandiberg’s work ironically reflects this intertwining of finance, the exploration of natural resources, and the US intervention in the Middle East.

Mary Temple presents a set of works from her series “Currency,” which she has been developing since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s infamous visit to Columbia University in 2007. This episode prompted her to draw a portrait of a world leader every day inspired by a press photograph and its caption, an endeavor that she still continues. On this occasion, she highlights the “Arab Spring”—the wave of protest that has been sweeping the Middle East and Northern Africa since the end of last year—by selecting drawings made between January 14 and February 11, which mark the resignation of Tunisia and Egypt’s former presidents. Temple’s works not only bear witness to the actions of politicians and its effects on populations across the globe, but also outlines the evolution of the current state of affairs at a societal level. A selection of Yevgeniy Fiks’s renderings of members of the American Cold War Veterans Association comprises a display focusing on anonymous servicemen and women who served in the US Army and the US Navy between 1945 and 1991. Fiks’s project utilizes the typical formula of veteran portraiture, which includes designs as diverse as flags and medals, and documents the honor of its subjects. However, by dealing with a fight that never took place, he calls attention to the ideological dimension of recent political history.

Rinat Kotler’s video records a group of kids from Tel Aviv improvising a reportage of an imagined terrorist attack. While the artist was setting up equipment to shoot a work, two gangs threw firecrackers at each other, provoking a blast; immediately, the children sat in front of the camera and covered the incident, re-enacting it as if they were journalists broadcasting a bomb explosion. Kotler’s work demonstrates the latent violence that emerges from the Israeli-Palestinian hostility and the pervasion of such reality into the collective unconscious. Kai-Oi Jay Yung’s I Have a Story… (2011) is an emotional account of the artist’s experience in Libya in 2007 in the context of an artistic residency and the subsequent exchange with people that she met there. In a text that combines memories, field notes, and thoughts, Yung describes the different expectations she and the locals had towards each other; the connection she established with two female translators and an Iraqi refugee, an artist and a professor at the university; and a recent conversation with an acquaintance that alludes to Libya’s current civil unrest.


Image Wars is curated by Miguel Amado, 2010-11 curator-in-residence at the Abrons Arts Center.
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Work featured in " The Art of Not Making: The New Artist Artisan Relationship" by Michael Petry.
Published By Thames and Hudson
ISNB 9780500238820

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INTERVIEW CARLOS NORONHA FEIO
*A conversation between artist Carlos Carlos Noronha Feio and Philip Tonda. CLICK HERE TO READ IT.



Photo: Collage from the series Plant life in the Pacific World (2010) by Carlos Noronha Feio

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Represented by:

IMT Gallery, London

Galeria Nuno Centeno, Oporto
www.nunocenteno.com 
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TONIGHT - Pugilistica: a literary celebration of boxing

Hi all,

Please see below details of an event i am performing at tonight.

Best wishes,

Patrick

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News:

- July 28th, 7pm: Pugilistica, a literary celebration of boxing, Birkbeck Cinema Theatre, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
- August 12th, 6pm-9pm: Performance at Acoustic Sessions Curated by SHIFT Gallery at Angus-Hughes Gallery
- August 23rd, 6.30pm: Performance at Spike Island ,133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX (booking recommended)
- Akerman Daly Writer in Residence 2011 is Patrick Coyle

http://www.patrickcoyle.info/

Pugilistica
a literary celebration of boxing
Thursday July 28th 7pm ~ entrance free  
Birkbeck Cinema Theatre, Birkbeck College 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

poetry book launch - SJ Fowler's "Fights" cycles I-XV published by Veer books
"A dazzling, visceral, proficient, kinetic work. fights runs its combinations in formal excitement and trenchgut force." Maggie O'Sullivan

Lynda Nead, Pevsner Chair Of History Of Art at Birkbeck college presents 'Stilling the Punch' a talk & presentation on boxing imagery

Kasia Boddy, author of Boxing:a Cultural History & Senior lecturer at UCL presents 'Save the Public's Soul by Punching Its Face':  Modernist Poetry and Pugilism

Tim Atkins celebrates the legendary heavyweight bout between Jack Johnson v. Arthur Cravan in the Monumental bullring, Barcelona, April 1916

Michael Zand reads "The Klitova-Klinchko Kuntador"

Patrick Coyle reads 'The first painting i ever sold was of Muhammad Ali'.


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11 Jul 2011

FW: Latest update from Akerman Daly


Patrick Coyle: Poster Story

Patrick Coyle's latest text Poster Story is available to read at



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Paul Rooney: Interview 

'Most of my writing has focused on a disembodied voice. The starting point may be an interview, to which I've added other references and sources, but it is often still the individual voice that carries the narrative and occupies the space – the fictional space as well as the literal space – of the work. The point is that this voice, which seems singular, is in fact composite, fractured and unstable. The Unnameable by Samuel Beckett is that unstable voice pushed to the absolute extreme ... I was attracted by the extremity of that experience: a sense of self that is absolutely uncertain, and is pushed to the limit.'




Jeremy Akerman and Eileen Daly

Akerman Daly publish artists' writing. The Collected Writings of Jon Thompson will be published by Ridinghouse in September 2011 and will be launched at The London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, 23-25 September 2011




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FW: Latest update from Akerman Daly


Patrick Coyle: Poster Story

Patrick Coyle's latest text Poster Story is available to read at



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Paul Rooney: Interview 

'Most of my writing has focused on a disembodied voice. The starting point may be an interview, to which I've added other references and sources, but it is often still the individual voice that carries the narrative and occupies the space – the fictional space as well as the literal space – of the work. The point is that this voice, which seems singular, is in fact composite, fractured and unstable. The Unnameable by Samuel Beckett is that unstable voice pushed to the absolute extreme ... I was attracted by the extremity of that experience: a sense of self that is absolutely uncertain, and is pushed to the limit.'




Jeremy Akerman and Eileen Daly

Akerman Daly publish artists' writing. The Collected Writings of Jon Thompson will be published by Ridinghouse in September 2011 and will be launched at The London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, 23-25 September 2011




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DEPARTMENT STORE + GUTBUSTERS

Rich Wilson and Adam Latham


DEPARTMENT STORE + GUTBUSTERS

15th - 24th July
Preview 14.07.11

Take Courage

New temporary space
 192 Southgate Road
 Dalston
 N1 3HU
Thursday - Sunday 12 - 6pm

DEPARTMENT STORE
15th - 24th July

Following on from the very critical success of their Elephant Man Tours historical walking tours project, artists Rich Wilson and Adam Latham have turned their back on tourism and turned their busy minds to the business of opening a DEPARTMENT STORE.

For ten days visitors and customers alike will be able to peruse over three floors of a mid-renovation Georgian townhouse full to brimming with luxury, semi-luxury and affordable consumer items.  From squirrel flippers to umbrella trees, sock scarves to shell spoons; everything, as they say, is under one roof. 

On the top floor they launch their dazzling new clothing label 'Trendy Boy.com', a collection that has already inspired one Japanese fashion expert to buy everything they had on their stall.  On the first floor there's Homeware, and on the ground floor a well-stocked gift shop with all the toys, gadgets, musical instruments and tropical paraphernalia that fans of their online shop have come to view as essential to a happy life in the modern world.


GUTBUSTERS
22nd & 23rd July, 12-9pm.

As if that wasn't all just about enough, on Friday and Saturday the following week a two-day performance takes place in the disused shop at the front bottom of the building.  The performance is called GUTBUSTERS, the empty shop will be transformed into a beautiful rustic looking working café, serving delicious, often inedible delicacies that will make your eyes water and your mouth cry with joy.

Staffed by an as yet unconfirmed rota of laconic, gauche and pugnacious indie bands (TBA), tired shoppers can treat themselves to a whole gastroparesis of poetically confused dishes. 

For a sample menu please go to http://elephantmantours.com/cafe.php, the café will be open from 11am to 8pm on both days, please come at different times as tables are limited.  To apply for  any waiting/waitressing jobs, please send contact details and a picture of your band to info@elephantmantours.com.

www.takecourage.co.uk
www.elephantmantours.com



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3 Jun 2011

Patrick Coyle Residency with Akerman Daly

Patrick Coyle
Therefore (Something To Do With Stops)

Akerman Daly would like to announce their inaugural writer in residence for 2011, Patrick Coyle.
The residencies are virtual desks for a time-limited period hosted on the website www.akermandaly.com. The residencies offer artists a space on the site to publish new writing. The purpose is to offer an easily accessible outlet for current art writing that has not yet been published elsewhere.

Therefore (Something To Do With Stops)

Patrick Coyle (b. Hull 1983) is a London-based artist and writer. He studied MFA Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London (2008-2010) and BA Fine Art at Byam Shaw, University of the Arts London (2002-2005). Recent exhibitions include up, Jerwood Project Space, London (2010); The Bottom Line, Tenderpixel Gallery, London (2011) and Bloomberg New Contemporaries, A Foundation, Liverpool and ICA, London (2010-2011). Coyle has recently delivered performances at The Poetry Café, London; Flat Time House, London; and Arnolfini, Bristol. Recent publications include Art Licks Magazine, ment journal, and the ICA's Roland Magazine.
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Jeremy Akerman and Eileen Daly

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