NEW WORK: We came from the Stars
Stars are the birthplace of nearly every known element in the universe and essential to all life on earth. The idea we came from the stars is also rooted in many human cultures and civilisations. At different places and at different times humans have divided and organised celestial objects to create their own unique constellation cultures.
Wayfaring or navigating with stars is a method of determining ones position on earth based on the positioning of celestial objects in the night sky. Fifty-eight navigational stars across thirty-eight constellations have a special status in the field of celestial navigation. These stars once guided us safely across earths continents, oceans and seas to connect with one another and the world around us.
We are all looking at the same sky — just with different filters.
We came from the Stars is a navigational star chart mapped into folded paper boats to form a star shaped polyhedron.
An edition of 12 published 2023
posted 28/06/2023
NEW WORK: memory of passage
What if [a] body is inseparable from dimensions of lived abstractness that cannot be conceptualised in other than topological terms ?
Brian Massumi
Image: _#1, 2023, pen on paper, 65 x 48 cm.
posted 01/05/2023
NEW WORK: bodies within bodies
[ ritornellos, monsters and phantasms ]
We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature.
The Infra-World - François J. Bonnet
To be in this world is to always be touched and touching. Touch bares us to the other — both human and non-human. Strangeness and familiarity are the norm. Things slip in and out allowing space for a possible other to co-exist.
Image: _#2, 2022, pen on paper, 48 x 65 cm.
posted 01/11/2022
NEW WORK: Flōs
We must reevaluate our entrenched ideas and preconceived notions.
Lynn Margulis
Flōs is a meditation on life lived within a mesh of entangled relationships. A world made up of complex patterns. Patterns beyond our known patterns connecting in unknown ways.
In this world nothing makes itself, and nothing exists by itself. Beings fold with other beings and things fold with other things. Human and non-human, living and non-living become with each other to bring about new possibilities of being otherwise.
An edition of 12 published 2022. Each a unique permutation.
posted 01/01/2022
NEW WORK: The Intimacy of Strangers
To be human is to be with nested with others.
In her studies of bacteria and microbes, evolutionary theoretician and cell biologist Lynn Margulis used the expression "the intimacy of strangers" to describe how beings develop together, in connection with one-another. Life forms make up life forms with varying degrees of openness to attachments and assemblages. Ecological communities bound by networks of interdependencies. Life embedded.
Symbiotic forms interpenetrate one another, ingest, digest and assimilate. Relationships are asymmetric, contingent and vulnerable. The fate of one species can affect whole ecosystems.
The series of works consider what it is to be entangled. How can we rethink our relationship with other beings, both humans and non-human. If all of us, by which I mean all species, are in some way interdependent and nested then we all share a common dwelling — a changing world.
Image: _#6, 2020, pen on paper, 65 x 48 cm.
posted 15/01/2021
to think in tongues / Dr. Mahmoud Moawad Sokar / Darren Marsh
a surrealistic-processual aside, from an original essay by Dr. Mahmoud Moawad Sokar / treated text-images by Darren Marsh.
Visual poets are difficult. To be fully aware of visual artistic and social movements that are associated with them, the Surrealistic mother of visual avant-garde movements birthed a great change in the way techniques allow the unconscious mind to think in tongues.
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The Text Art Archive, based at Bury Art Museum, was established in March 2013 in conjunction with Bury Art Museum, Bury Archives Service and the Centre for Poetics at Birkbeck University of London with the intention of documenting, securing and making easily available information on the history and practice of Language Art. The Text Art Archive holds hundreds of physical and digital items including scanned images, correspondence, artists' personal documents, audio, video, and original artworks. What makes this art archive truly unique is its mix of original art works and archival material and the fact that it holds the largest dedicated collection of original Language Artworks in the country. The Text Art Archive's aim is to stimulate critical thinking and writing in the field around the subject and to re-imagine the role of an archive by unlocking its artistic wealth by inviting artists to work with the archive and create new works. The collection includes artworks by Lawrence Weiner, Robert Grenier, Pavel Buchler.
At the moment there are a number of sub-collections which make up the Text Art Archive. The 'Text Festival Archive' is a combination of the Text Festival Archive material and the Art collection. The Text Festival is a roughly biannual festival taking place at Bury Art Museum the archive features artwork by renowned international poets and language or text-based artists, exhibition research, material supporting the performance events and publications which were produced between 2005 and 2014.
A second sub-section features International Text Art which hosts new material by relevant and invited artists.
Archive-Specific Commissions sub-collection hosts new artwork and documents created especially for the Text Art Archive.
The Queer Language Art sub-section hosts artworks & research which explore the various themes of Language Art from/about the LGBTQ community.
The Text Art Archive is both a research resource for artists and researchers as well as an active launch pad for new art projects.
Top image: AFTER BARZUN: artificial light, 2020.
Bottom image: AFTER BARZUN: bandage, 2020.
posted 26/04/2020
Synaptry: [TALKING] with Barzun ...
... when he's not in the room.
A conversation with karl kempton, author of A History of Visual Text Art, around the recent publication of weneverstoodapart and the work of Henri-Martin Barzun.
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Synapse International is an international visual poetry gathering, co-edited by karl kempton and Philip Davenport. The blog contains visual poetry, language art and other kindred expressions with a deep history back to rock art. The purpose is to provide the best possible works to a world audience...and start dialogue. To do this, we've invited editors around the globe to select work they feel is important.
posted 29/03/2020
NEW WORK: weneverstoodapart
Curiosity is an attunement to multi species entanglement, complexity, and the shimmer all around us.
Deborah Bird Rose.
weneverstoodapart is a visual poem about our relationship with other beings, both human and non-human. We have constructed our worlds with our species always in a dominant or central position, and so find ourselves in an ecological and political era which mirrors to us the impact this brings to all life and the planet.
A civilisation that chooses to drive ecological change, while refusing to acknowledge its own interdependence and interconnectedness with all life, psychologically disconnects and isolates itself from itself and the entire biosphere. To act as if the world beyond humans is composed of "things" for human use is a catastrophic assault on the diversity, complexity, abundance, and beauty of life. We are entangled with other species we cannot live without.
Book 1 - A traumatic loss of coordinates
Book 2 - Things are exactly as they are, yet never as they seem
Book 3 - How enmeshed we are
An edition of 6 published 2020
posted 01/03/2020
EXHIBITION: MCBA New Editions
Preview: Friday, October 18; 7-10pm
Public sale: Saturday, October 19; 10am-3pm MCBA Main Gallery
Work has been selected for New Editions, an annual, two-day celebration of new artist book publications, featuring local and internationally created artist books, photo books, chapbooks, zines, broadsides, and hand printed work. New Editions offers something for everyone, from seasoned collectors to new enthusiasts.
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A respected and dedicated champion of the field, Minnesota Center for Book Arts is the largest and most comprehensive center of its kind. We celebrate the book as a vibrant contemporary art form that takes many shapes. Our mission is to lead the advancement of the book as an evolving art form. MCBA is committed to book art, artists and appreciators. Our mission is achieved through quality programs that support a broad continuum of creators, learners and admirers. We lead the field by promoting innovation, sustaining traditions, educating new enthusiasts, inspiring creative expression and honoring artistic excellence. From the traditional crafts of papermaking, letterpress printing and bookbinding to new methods of art-making and communication, MCBA supports the limitless creative development of book arts. Books and other "contained narratives" have existed for centuries, created through various techniques and taking numerous forms. They chronicled history, celebrated achievements and communicated collective and personal knowledge. Books as multi-faceted and interdisciplinary methods of communication remain relevant. MCBA's mission supports an important lasting vision: a world where book art is created, cultivated, celebrated, and understood as a vital and lasting expression of culture.
MCBA Minnesota Center For Book Arts
posted 16/09/2019
NEW WORK: weneverstoodapart
Curiosity is an attunement to multi species entanglement, complexity, and the shimmer all around us.
Deborah Bird Rose.
weneverstoodapart is a visual poem about our relationship with other beings, both human and non-human. We have constructed our worlds with our species always in a dominant or central position, and so find ourselves in an ecological and political era which mirrors to us the impact this brings to all life and the planet.
weneverstoodapart folds ideas from the life sciences and thermodynamics with drawing and digital image making to create a series of visual metaphors. Form, structure and process coalesce to generate a dynamic texture echoing the sympoietic nature of life.
Details from We never stood apart, 2018/19
ballpoint pen on paper & scanner, 181 x 30 cm.
posted 03/07/19
NEW WORK: Sumbioûn
All organisms are touching because all are bathed in the same air and the same flowing water … we are symbionts on a symbiotic planet.
Lynn Margolis
The word symbiosis comes from the Greek "sumbioun", which literally means to live together. Co-operation, interaction and mutual dependence are what maintains all life on Earth. Nothing makes itself. From bacteria to viruses to the living planet, organisms of different species live together in physical association. Species wrapped in species. Life seen as a multiplicity of nested ecosystems. Polyspatial. Knotted. Entangled.
Detail from Sumbioûn I, 2018/19
ballpoint pen on paper inverted.
posted 20/05/2019
EXHIBITION: Ding / Unding. Die Entgrenzung des Künstler*innenbuchs
13.2.19 - 14.4.19
The exhibition Ding / Unding casts a glance at artists' books in the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich.
Forecasts about the future of the book have long been made, and still continue. Yet the prophecy that they have become superfluous in the so-called information age has not come to fruition. Fortunately not. In the world of art, engaging with this medium in all its many forms still plays an important role. Even the most fundamental elements of a book – pages bound inside a cover – are open to question, thwarting all attempts to define the artist's book within any kind of fixed category. This exhibition looks at the reasons why artists continue to work with the medium of the book, asks whether and to what extent they overstep its boundaries, and explores the ways in which the artist's book can assert its place in the digital and post-digital age. Today, more than ever, books oscillate between the physically tangible and the immaterially intangible.
Christian Andersen / Ian Anüll / Karel Appel / Jody Barton / Gareth Bayliss/ Kim Bennett / Gabi Berüter / Biefer/Zgraggen / Anton Bruhin / Sophie Calle / Jacques Callot / Robin Cameron / Christopher Clary / Anne-Lise Coste / Hanne Darboven / Alan Davie / Paul Davis / Paul Dean / Jim Dine / Mark Dion / Marcel Dzama / Nik Emch / Hans-Peter / Feldmann / Kyle Field / Lizzie Finn / Fischli/Weiss / Aaron Flint Jamison / Sam Francis / Urs Frei / Hamish Fulton / Angela Genusa / Isa Genzken / Lawrence Griffin / Oliver Grajewski / GRRRR / Michael Günzburger / Dylan Hansen-Fliedner / Adam Hayes / Maya Hayuk / Kim Hiorthøy / Robert Honegger / Warja Honegger-Lavater / Cody Hudson / Dorothy Iannone / Asger Jorn / Allan Kaprow / Jean Keller / Lauren Klotzman / Kiki Kogelnik / Rosina Kuhn / Roy Lichtenstein / Dominique Lämmli / Sean Landers / Tan Lin / Chris Lindig / Kevin Lyons / Ari Marcopoulos / Darren Marsh / Željka Marušic / Andreas Helbling / Stefan Marx / Guy Meldem / Holly Melgrad / Joan Mitchell / Claudio Moser / Nick Montfort / Olivier Mosset / Thomas Müllenbach / Regula Maria Müller / Tucker Nichols / Claes Oldenburg / Julian Opie / Bruno Peinado / Josh Petherick / Lorenzo Petrantoni / Raymond Pettibon / Karla Rockmaster K. / Tanja Helena Roscic / James Rosenquist / Dieter Roth / Ed Ruscha / Seth Schimmel / Alexis Saile / David Shrigley / Leah Singer / Kimber Smith / Marie Sochor / Hiroshi Sugimoto / Erik Steinbrecher / Fiona Tan / Verena Thürkauf / Walasse Ting / Catalina TM / Richard Tuttle / Francis Upritchard / Herman de Vries / Tom Wesselmann / David Wilson / Christopher Wool / Joey Yearous-Algozin / Tobin Yelland / Florencio Zavala
Curated by Lena Schaller
Graphische Sammlung ETH Zurich
posted 21/01/2019
EXHIBITION: ANONYME ZEICHNER ARCHIV
Images courtesy of Anke Becker/Anonyme Zeichner.
International drawings curated by Anke Becker
Kunsthaus Kannen, Alexianerweg 9, 48163 Münster, Germany
10. Februar 2019 - 19. Mai 2019
Eroffnung: Sonntag 10. Februar, 15:00 Uhr
Offnungszeiten: Dienstag- Sonntag 13:00 -17:00 Uhr
Fuhrung: n.V. Montag –Freitag 09:00 – 17:00 Uhr
Workshop 1: Thursday, March 21, 2019: Inside / Outside, teamwork on the window façade of the Kunsthaus
Workshop 2: Sunday, May 12, 2019: drawing between coincidence and control
Kunsthaus Kannen | Museum for Outsider Art and Art Brut
Images courtesy of Anke Becker/Anonyme Zeichner.
posted 21/01/2019
PUBLICATION: ISBN 9781909388062
We code and re-code our worlds to create a sense of order and meaning from within a perceived chaos. Information is not meaning. Neither is information something that just exists out there in the world. It is a construct carried by physical markers and as such can be hacked into variable combinations.
The project began with the proposition of creating a book using it's own ISBN as a start point. An ISBN is an international machine readable code used to recognise and identify the product form of books. It contains information pertaining to language, publisher and publication, but not the work inside. So, what happens when the systems <ProductIdentifier> the ISBN becomes the content? How is it re-coded? And how is it re-read?
An edition of 10 published 2018
posted 3/10/2018
NEW WORK: ISBN 9781909388062
Details from ISBN 9781909388062, 2017/2018
ballpoint pen on paper, scanner & photoshop, 328 x 29.7 cm
posted 3/10/2018
PUBLICATION: mono no aware
mono no aware is a document of what happened one day when technology met with serendipity and went for a stroll. A Nokia mobile phone is dropped into a pocket. The owner is unaware the screen is unlocked. The movement of a body walking triggers the device into action. Contacts are ransacked, pocket-calls sent, apps launched, muddled notes typed and photographs taken.
An edition of 10 published 2017.
Photography by Shaw & Shaw
posted 17/11/2017
NEW WORK: ligne de fuite
ligne de fuite #6, #8 & #13, 2017
ballpoint pen on paper, scanner & photoshop, 65 x 49 cm.
posted 09/01/2017
Márton Koppány interviews Darren Marsh.
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Issue 43, the southern spring, features work in a variety of styles & a variety of media from Jesse Glass, El Habib Louai, Scott MacLeod, Maria Damon & Alan Sondheim, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Cecelia Chapman, Pete Spence, Kyle Hemmings, Heath Brougher, Volodymyr Bilyk, George McKim, Nicole Pottier, John J. Trause, Sanjeev Sethi, Ian Ganassi, Jim Leftwich, Willie Smith, Philip Byron Oakes, Mary Claire Garcia, Douglas Barbour & Sheila E. Murphy, AG Davis, Peter Ganick, differx (Marco Giovenale), Jim Meirose, Mark Roberts, Olivier Schopfer, William Repass, Texas Fontanella, Michael Gottlieb, John W. Sexton, Edward A. Dougherty, Eric Hoffman, hiromi suzuki, Simon Perchik, John M. Bennett, Ivan Argüelles, Scott Helmes, John Xero, Pat Nolan, Andrew Topel, Daniel John Pilkington, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Raymond Farr, Lakey Comess, Bill Dunlap, Christopher Barnes, Robert Okaji, Jeff Bagato, Nico Vassilakis, Mitchell Garrard, Keith Higginbotham, Fabrice Poussin, Richard Kostelanetz, Sabine Miller, Meeah Williams, sean burn, Louise Landes Levi, Brendan Slater, Oscar Towe, Tom Beckett, Mark McKain, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Jorge Lucio de Campos, Eileen R. Tabios, Andrea Mason, Joe Balaz, Michael Caylo-Baradi, Jacqueline M. Pérez, Owen Bullock, Roger Mitchell, Steve Dalachinsky, Jeff Harrison, Aurélien Leif, Holly Day, Stephen Vincent, Carol Stetser, nick nelson, Seth Howard, Taylor Leigh Ciambra, Poornima Laxmeshwar, Hamish Spark, Márton Koppány, Alicia Cole, Cara Murray, bruno neiva, Jack Kelly, Mark Cunningham, Massimo Stirneri, Matt Dennison, Olchar E. Lindsann, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Darren Marsh, Nika & Jim McKinniss, Natsuko Hirata, Tony Beyer, Edward Kulemin, John Pursch, Irene Koronas, Darren C. Demaree, nick-e melville, Josette Torres, Shloka Shankar, Piotr Kalisz, Ella Skilbeck-Porter, Bob Heman, Garima Behal, Paul T. Lambert, J. D. Nelson, Michael Brandonisio, Eddie Donoghue, Katrinka Moore, Indigo Perry, & Marilyn Stablein. Edited by Mark Young.
posted 01/11/2016
PUBLICATION: INDA10 International Drawing Annual
Two works were selected for the INDA10 International Drawing Annual published by Manifest gallery, Cincinnati, USA.
'The publication was conceived as an extension of Manifest's Drawing Center mission to promote, feature, and explore drawing as a rich and culturally significant art form. The goal of the INDA is to support the recognition, documentation, and publication of excellent, current, and relevant works of drawing from around the world.'
images: attractor 9a03; pen on trace, 65cm x 49 cm, 2014 and Constellations; pencil on paper, 42cm x 59cm, 2014.
Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-940862-12-5 | Softcover: ISBN 978-1-940862-13-2
posted on 28/09/2016
NEW WORK: PPortraits
pportrait drawing in progress, 2016, ballpoint pen on trace [inverted]
posted 31/08/2016
EXHIBITION: MANIFEST DRAWN 2016
Images courtesy of MANIFEST/Eberhardt.
DRAWN 3rd Annual International Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing:
Heather Accurso | Ann Arbor | Cecile Baird | Karen Bondarchuk | Sue Bryan | Blake Conroy | Albert Ramos Cortes | Katherine Cox | Eric Elliot | Mary Farrell | Haley Farthing | Jeffrey Fichera | Maureen Forman | Benny Fountain | Sara Frantz | Tracy Frein | Tanja Gant | Charlie Goering | Rick Goldsberry | Beth Grabowski | Hiroshi Hayakawa | Cynthia Hellyer Heinz | Karen Hillier | Zach Horn | Aneka Ingold | Michael Kellner | Elizabeth Labarge | Jill Lavetsky | Darren Marsh | Taylor Mazer | Douglas Miller | Adam Rake | Tom Rice | Jenny Roesel Ustick | Jessica Springman | John Sproul | Duat Vu | Derek Wilkinson.
Exhibition ends 13th May 2016.
MANIFEST Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, USA
MANIFEST Research Gallery & Drawing Center
posted 28/04/2016
SELECTION: MANIFEST DRAWN 2016
Drawings from the MOUSE project have been selected for this years drawing exhibition at MANIFEST Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, US. Exhibition opens 15th April to 13th May.
'Our jury for this competitive exhibit has resulted in the final selection including 52 works by 37 artists from quite literally all across the U.S. and the United Kingdom. We received a total of 1294 entries from 426 artists which sets an all-time record for exhibition submissions at Manifest.'
posted 21/03/2016
PUBLICATION: MOUSE
MOUSE began on the 1st January 2014. For each day that year a drawing was made in a diary using a ballpoint pen attached to a computer mouse. To fully realise the project the drawings have been re-presented in the form of an artists' book. An edition of 10 has been published, each authenticated with a performed drawing using the same process.
Edition of 10 published 2016.
posted 12/03/2016
EXHIBITION: Anonyme Zeichner 2015/16
13. März - 10. April 2016, 11 Uhr
Eröffnung: 12. März 2016, 19 Uhr
Einführung: Anke Becker
Öffnungszeiten: Dienstag bis Freitag 9-13 und 14-17 Uhr
Samstag und Sonntag 10-17 Uhr
Stadt- und Industriemuseum Rüsselsheim (Südflügel)
Hauptmann-Scheuermann-Weg 4(Festung)
65428 Rüsselsheim
Zur Eröffnung der letzten Ausstellungsstation der Anonymen Zeichner 2015/16 sind Sie/Ihr ganz herzlich eingeladen. Der Kunstverein Rüsselsheim hat uns eingeladen im Stadt- und Industriemuseum Rüsselsheim auszustellen. Paralell dazu ist auch die Dauerausstellung des Museums sehr sehenswert. Von Frankfurt am Main Hbf fährt eine S-Bahn in 35 Minuten direkt dorthin. Wir freuen uns auf Sie und Euch!
Weitere Informationen zum Projekt
www.anonyme-zeichner.de
posted on 04/02/2016
NEW WORK: FETCH
The machine revealing itself...
FETCH has been created using image files from the MOUSE Diary project. Into the data of each file has been introduced a simple and unpredictable edit. A process also known as databending (a method of manipulating information from within a media file).
Edited and removed from their original context, the images are re-presented within an automated self-organising system, governed by the machines techné. Uninterrupted, FETCH will run indefinitely creating and re-creating its own sense[less] meaning.
posted 21/01/2016
NEW WORK: mono no aware
Malfunction and failure are not signs of improper production. On the contrary, they indicate the active production of the "accidental potential" in any product. Sylvère Lotringer and Paul Virillio, The Accident of Art, Semiotext(e), New York, 2005
A Nokia mobile phone is dropped into it's owners pocket. The owner is unaware the phone is unlocked. The movement of a body walking triggers the device into action. Phone calls are made, apps are opened, garbled notes typed and photo's taken.
posted 11/01/2016
ANONYME ZEICHNER 2015: Galerie Geyso20
14. November - 18. Dezember 2015
Eröffnung: 13. November 2015, 19 Uhr
Einführung: Anke Becker
Öffnungszeiten: Montag bis Freitag 13-17 Uhr
und am Samstag den 14.11. 13-17 Uhr
sowie nach Vereinbarung: 0531 4719334
Galerie Geyso20
Geysostrasse 19/29
38106 Braunschweig
posted on 09/11/2015
NEW WORK: Spleisse
Spleisse #1, Spleisse #2.
Both works 2015, ballpoint pen on paper, 42 cm x 29.7 cm.
posted on 19/10/2015
ANONYME ZEICHNER 2015: Rome
Images courtesy of Anonyme Zeichner.
Opening: Friday, 09th October 7pm
Opening hours: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th October, noon to 7pm.
artQ13, Via Nicola Coviello, 15, 00165 Rome.
www.artq13.com.
Further exhibition stops:
Galerie GEYSO20, Braunschweig, Germany - 11 Nov-18 Dec 2015
All exhibited drawings are available for a unit sales-price of €200 each,
www.anonyme-zeichner.de.
re-posted 16/10/2015 | posted on 08/10/2015
PUBLICATION: INDA9 International Drawing Annual
'Mouse Drawing #24' published in Manifest's International Drawing Annual 9.
Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-940862-07-1 | Softcover: ISBN 978-1-940862-08-8
posted on 27/08/2015
ANONYME ZEICHNER 2015: BERLIN Opening
All images courtesy of Anonyme Zeichner.
posted on 12/08/2015
EXHIBITION: TOTAL RECALL [TEXTfestschrift Festival]
World-leading poets and text-artists were invited to make a language-memory for Tony Trehy, who has directed the internationally renowned Text Festival at Bury Art Museum since 2005. This exhibition celebrates a 10-year anniversary of the Festival and a 20-year anniversary of Tony's time at Bury. Writing on a wall, an Internet search, a diary entry, a flurry of thoughts ... what is remembering and who is it for?
Tony Trehy has been the ring-leader of decade-long conversations, new opportunities, challenges and heated debates. Each of his four Text Festivals has added to a continuing dialogue between language and art. Every Text Festival has asked the audience a simple-but-complex question: How do I read?
Into the historic space of Bury Art Museum, Trehy has injected text that is a new 'language art' for the 21st Century. Bury was once the centre of paper-making in Britain, now it is a pioneer of language-making, with its Text Archive welcoming readers from all over the world.
TOTAL RECALL is a guerilla makeover, an A4 invasion of reading into the larger narrative of looking. Unlike the street signs outside, these are not corporate instructions or sales pitches; they are antidotes. Walls, vitrine, archival box—nary a "book" to be found, but a heap of language left in memory.
Featuring works by angela rawlings, Barrie Tullett, Bob Grenier, Carolyn Thompson, Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim, Darren Marsh, derek beaulieu, Emma Cocker, Eric Zboya, Erica Baum, Jaap Blonk, James Davies, Jayne Dyer, Jesse Glass, Karri Kokko, Kristen Mueller, Lawrence Weiner, Leanne Bridgewater, Liz Collini, Lucy Harvest Clarke, Marco Giovenale, Márton Koppány, Matt Dalby, Mike Chavez-Dawson, Paula Claire, Penny Anderson, Peter Jaeger, Phil Davenport, Rachel Defay-Liautard, Ron Silliman, Satu Kaikkonen, Sarah Sanders, Seekers of Lice, Steve Emmerson, Steve Giasson, Tom Jenks, and Tony Lopez. Curated by Philip Davenport & derek beaulieu.
Works will also be included in The Text Art Archive, based at Bury Art Museum, which was established in March 2013 in conjunction with Bury Archives Service and the Centre for Poetics at Birkbeck University of London with the intention of documenting, securing and making easily available information on the history and practice of Text Art (sometime referred to as Visual Language Art).
Images from top: Eric Zboya 'Barney A Portrait', Darren Marsh 'Constructing Tony Trehy', Márton Koppány 'Butterfly - for Gertrude', Tom Jenks 'tt', Jesse Glass 'Hell Money Permutation Series', James Davies, 'I remember the Text Festival', Márton Koppány 'Concrete Poem - for Tony Trehy', Lucy Harvest Clarke 'Our Allotment'.
Erica Baum 'Total Recall'
Philp Davenport 'the weather, in lipstick' & Marco Giovenale 'asemic encyclopaedia page 1257060 and ASEMIhalfCUBE'
Darren Marsh 'Constructing Tony Trehy', pen and digital print on paper, 29.7cm x 21cm, 2015.
derek beaulieu 'KERN #1'
Kristin Mueller 'Selection from buch 3b de 04–09, Selection from Кнцга 3b ru 01–03 2015'
Bury Art Museum & Sculpture centre
posted on 04/08/2015
EXHIBITION: ANONYME ZEICHNER 2015
Kunstverein Tiergarten | Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany
August 02 – 29, 2015 / opening: Saturday, August 01, 2015.
Galerie ARTQ13, Rome, Italy
October 9 - 11, 2015.
Galerie GEYSO20, Braunschweig, Germany
Novemeber 11 - December 12, 2015.
Kunstverein Rüsselsheim, Germany
(February/March 2016).
'How does one's own assessment change if there is no information at all about the artist? How can one develop a personal definition of value if the sales prices are all identical? What is then a good drawing? ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS is conceptual art and exhibition project all in one: Each and every anonymous artist becomes part of a collective work of art where hierarchies do not exist.
ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS 2015 presents a group exhibition of 600 drawings by 600 international artists. The works will be displayed anonymously. All the drawings are available for a symbolic unit sales-price of 200 € each. The artist's identity can only be revealed by the sale: the buyer takes the drawing right off the wall and the empty space left behind will be marked with the artist's full name and place of origin. The given unit sales price should not be seen as a real market price, but as a conceptual place holder for any conceivable amount of money in the art market.'
posted on 29/06/2015
EXHIBITION: A5 LUBORIMOV-EASTON
Stand P24, Platform Projects @ Art Athina 2015
Faliro Pavilion, 2 Moraitini Street, Athens, Greece
Thursday 4 June to Sunday 7 June, 12-9pm
Left image: Harmonic Coda; pen on paper, 14.85cm x 21cm, 2015
Right Image: Poiesis; pen on paper, 14.85cm x 21cm, 2015
Mark Adams | Bonita Alice | Ralph Anderson | Rachel Ara |Henry Badrick | Akiko Ban | Molly Behagg | Vivienne Boucherat | Rebecca Byrne | Michael Callaghan | Alessandro Carboni | Jake Clark | Charlie Coffey | John Crossley | Suzanne de Emmony | Dolores De Sade | Bella Easton | Liz Elton | Alessandra Falbo | Anna Garrett | Mikey Georgeson | Tommaso Gorla | Julia Hamilton | Chris Hawtin | Samuel Herbert | Lesley Hicks | Kaori Homma | Mandy Hudson | Hannah Hughes | Lisa Ivory | Leo Jahaan | Lee Johnson | Nikki Johnson | Katherine Jones | Georgia Keeling | Tabitha Knight | Nektaria Lampitsi | Maggie Learmonth | Maria Letsiou | Rachel Levitas | Gabrielle Lockwood Estrin | Lee Maelzer | Colin Maitland | Sao Mangrai | Darren Marsh | Zoe Martin | Annalaura Masciave | Rebecca Meanley | Jessica Nina Mello | Aki Moriuchi | Junko O'Neill | Sarah Pager | Simon Parish | Iris Plaitakis | Tim Ralston | D J Roberts | James Rogers | Albeiro Rojas Tomedes | India Roper-Evans | Naz Shahrokh | Ed Simpson | Jon Solaun | Joseph Stokes | Michael Stubbs | Dolly Thompsett | Marianne Walker | Charlie Warde | Grant Watson | Sarah West | Samantha Wolf | Eileen White | Samuel Wray-Easton.
'About A5
For the 2015 Platform Projects @ Art Athina, LUBOMIROV-EASTON invited a large number of international artists to send a letter to Greece. The only restriction on artwork was that it must fit inside an A5 envelope. Rooted in a tradition of postcard shows, such as the annual 'Secrets' at the Royal College, as well as referencing mail art and the New York Correspondence School, this format has the advantage not only of simplifying freight, but crucially of allowing a larger number of artists to be shown together. Thus the show was conceived as a kind of communal artwork, a joint letter from one community of artists to another, to be assembled on site from hundreds of individual pieces. It is the nature of Platform Projects, as a gathering of international artist-led organisations, which are each other's audience as much as the visitors to the fair, that made this form of address to other artist communities possible'
'About the Art Fair
Launched in 1993 by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association, Art-Athina stands today as one of the longest lasting contemporary art fairs in Europe and as the largest annual visual arts event in Greece. In 2013 the fair welcomed 30,000 visitors, including significant Greek and foreign art galleries, cultural institutions, curators, collectors and art critics.'
'About Platform Projects
Platform Project @ Art Athina 2015 comprises 45 international artist-led galleries and projects, co-ordinated by artist-curator Artemis Potamianou. As well as this major role for Art Athina, Potamianou has curated a number of important exhibitions in Greece for artists such as Joseph Kosuth, Terry Atkinson, Peter Greenaway, Candice Brietz, Guerrilla Girls and Mark Titchner. In 2014 Platform Projects included organisations from 16 countries with more than 500 artists.'
posted on 21/05/2015
SELECTION: INDA10 International Drawing Publication
Two drawings have been selected for inclusion in the INDA10 International Drawing Annual published by Manifest gallery, Cincinnati, USA.
'The publication was conceived as an extension of Manifest's Drawing Center mission to promote, feature, and explore drawing as a rich and culturally significant art form. The goal of the INDA is to support the recognition, documentation, and publication of excellent, current, and relevant works of drawing from around the world.'
'For the INDA 10 Manifest received 1588 submissions from 509 artists from around the world. The publication will include 127 works by 84 artists from 10 countries including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States. The publication is due for release in 2016.'
Top image: attractor 9a03; pen on trace, 65cm x 49 cm, 2014
Bottom Image: Constellations; pencil on paper, 42cm x 59cm, 2014
posted on 04/05/2014
EXHIBITION: MANIFEST DRAWN 2015
DRAWN International Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing.
17th April - 15th May 2015. Cincinnati, USA
Lindsey Aleman | Kelly Borsheim | Sue Bryan | Katherine Cox | Amir Hariri | Daisie Hoitsma | Margaret Hopkins | Lori Johnson | Patti Jordan | Jean LeCluyse | Tim Main | Free Marseille | Darren Marsh | Ryota Matsumoto | Taylor Mazer | Zach Mory | Jack Nixon | Adam Rake | Susan Rotondo | Mariasun Salgado | Amy Schissel | John Spurlock | Geoffrey Stein | Kirsten Stolle | Amber Stucke | Derek Wilkinson | Christine Wuenschel
Top image: attractor 9a03; pen on trace, 65cm x 49 cm, 2014
Bottom Image: Mouse Drawing #24; pen on paper, 42cm x 29.7cm, 2012
Images courtesy of Manifest Gallery 2015.
posted on 23/04/2015
NEW WORK: Spleiss
All works ballpoint pen on paper, 42 cm x 29.7 cm, 2015
posted on 19/04/2015
SELECTION: MANIFEST DRAWN 2015
Two drawings have been selected for this years annual drawing exhibition at Manifest gallery 17th April-15th May 2015.
'The final selection by a panel of eight jurors includes 36 works by 27 artists. We received a total of 1188 entries from 394 artists from 44 states, and 20 countries.'
posted on 25/03/2015
UPDATE: INDA9 International Drawing Annual
INDA9 is finally at the printers and due for release in May. Copies can be pre-ordered from Manifest Gallery at $26 softcover and $38 hardcover.
'The publication was conceived as an extension of Manifest's Drawing Center mission to promote, feature, and explore drawing as a rich and culturally significant art form. The goal of the INDA is to support the recognition, documentation, and publication of excellent, current, and relevant works of drawing from around the world.'
posted on 20/03/2015
NEW WORK: MOUSE Diary Drawings [2014]
All 365 MOUSE diary drawings are now available to view online. The project documents daily desktop labor for everyday throughout 2014.
A pen is attached to a computer mouse and placed onto a sheet of paper. The movement of the hand, the functioning of the mouse and computer interface all become integral elements in a drawing process set over the period of a day. The mouse / pen assemblage serves as a bodily connection with a technology; a symbiosis between one's actions and a machine.
posted on 05/01/2015
PRIVATE COMMISSION
Image: Constellations; pencil on paper, 42cm x 59cm, 2014
posted on 23/12/2014
AWARD: Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust
Recieved confirmation today of a funding award from the Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust. The award will be used to research and develop new book / drawing projects in 2015.
posted on 22/12/2014
EXHIBITION: From Here & There
Preview \ RHAGOLWG: Saturday 29th November, 7-9PM \ SADWRN 29 TACHWEDD, 7-9yp
Exhibition continues until 20th December \ ARDDANGOSFA YN PARHAU TAN 19 RHAGFYR
The Old Iceland Building, 27-29 High Street, Swansea
Jonathan Anderson | Mia De Azevedo | Colin Barfoot | Anna Barratt | Hattie Batten | Kieron Da-Silva Beckerton | Jason & Becky | Emma Bennett | Kelly Best | Kimberly Bevan | Ilse Black | Megan Burns | Benjamin Bridges | Jess Bugler | Bill Bytheway | Sophie Charalambous | Philip Cheater | Katherine Clewett | Mel Cole | Sophie Collier | Andrew Cooper | Lilian Cooper |Michelle Dawson | Barnaby Dicker | Lucy Donald | Kate O'Donnell | Pascal- Michel Dubois | Ella Edwards | Leanne Ellis | Geraint Evans | Yvonne Yiwen Feng | Helen Finney | Elizabeth Freeman | Jade Gilbert | Max Gimson | Thomas Goddard | Simon Goss | Alison Griffin | Beatrice Haines | Penny Hallas | Stephanie Harper | Anna Hopkins| Chris Shaw Hughes | Kieran Ingram | Jaqueline Jones | Ann Jordan | Tim Kelly | Mark Langley | Dalit Leon | Jelena Lunge | Sung Yeon Lim | Carolyn Little | George Little | Scott Mackenzie | Victoria Malcolm | Darren Marsh | Sonja Benskin Mesher | Arwel Micah | Richard Monahan | Rebecca Meanly-Eyre | Lawrence Nash | Eileen Newell | Robert Newell | Linda Norris | Marega Palser | Susanne Lund Pangrazio | Anthony Pearce | Nadja Plein | Jonathan Powell | Sean Puleston | Jasmin Reif | Howard Riley | Carole Sherman | Tim Shore | Gill Shreeve | Jayne Anita Smith | Kevin Smith | Jane Sproston | Frances Trace | Marc Renshaw | Marianne Walker | Pak- Keung Wan | Marc Treanor & Mark Weighton | Eleanor Wemyss | Anne-Marie Whaley | Sig Waller | Kate Walters | Elizabeth Waterhouse | Fran Williams | Lee Williams | Richard Williams | Steve Wright
posted on 14/11/2014
EXHIBITION: From Here & There
Two drawings have been selected for an exchange exhibition at Clara Hatton Gallery, Colorado, USA and elysiumgallery, Swansea, Wales.
Top image: attractor 9a02; pen on trace, 65cm x 49 cm, 2014
Bottom image: attractor 9a03; pen on trace, 65cm x 49 cm, 2014
Curated by Jonathan Powell [elysiumgallery] and Professor Mary-Ann Kokoska [Clara Hatton Gallery] the exhibitions are part of an international exchange of contemporary drawings between artists in Colorado and Wales.
'The exchange of drawings is an open channel for communication, an opportunity to compare, and a chance to not only learn from ideas, but to share aspects of our individual lives. Such a discourse is vital in our increasingly global community, enriching our knowledge and awareness in countless ways. The drawings on exhibition reference a broad spectrum of approaches and issues, be they personal or political, social or environmental.'
'The works are diverse, edgy, and controversial; generating interest and commentary on cultural difference and experience while expanding the dialogue and debate that redefines the current state of contemporary drawing.'
Elysium Gallery will also be a focal point to a number of drawing based events, exhibitions and activities which will take place in various offsite locations.
Clara Hatton Gallery | elysium Gallery
posted on 11/08/2014
PUBLICATION: Drawing Paper #7
The new issue of Drawing Paper features work from 23 artists: David Begley, Ria Fell, Hondartza Fraga, Ioanna Gouma, Sophie Jodoin, Barbara Jones, Darren Marsh, Neil Morris, Mike Parr, Ed Pien, Giulia Ricci, Michael Ridge & Elizabeth Scrase, Arthur Roberts, Marion Sagon, Jason Thompson, Peter Thum, Annabel Tilley, Daniella Turbin, Theo Vass, Jack Welsh, Simon Woolham, Beate Maria Worz, Hanneke Van Ryswyk.
Copies are currently available in Liverpool at the Bluecoat, The Royal Standard, Tate bookshop, FACT, Camp and Furnace + others. A full list of all UK wide outlets will be released next week, or you can ...
Drawing Paper is a non-profit publication curated, designed and published by Mike Carney and Jon Barraclough.
posted on 03/07/2014
NEW WORK: MOUSE Diary Drawings [2014]
184 MOUSE Diary pages are now online to view. The project documents my daily desktop labor/activity for one year [2014]. The remaining 181 days will be uploaded at regular intervals through the year.
Image: Thursday 3 July; pen on printed paper, 21 cm x 29.7 cm
posted on 03/07/2014
EXHIBITION: Sketch Drawing Prize
Images from 'Sketchbook#7' selected for the SKETCH drawing prize 2013/14.
Mixed media, 72 pages, 20.5 cm x 29.5 cm, 2012/2013.
posted on 14/06/2014
MOUSE: Workshop
Drawings by Bury school pupils in response to the Mouse Diary drawings at The Dark Would exhibition. Workshop and Image by Philip Davenport.
posted on 12/06/2014
NEW WORK: MOUSE Drawing #42
Image: Mouse Drawing #42; pen on paper, 42 cm x 29.7 cm.
posted on 06/06/2014
The Dark Would Volume 3: TEXT FESTIVAL
Mouse diary drawings installed at The Dark Would 3 Exhibition.
Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, 3 May - 9 July
posted on 29/05/2014
The Dark Would Volume 3: TEXT FESTIVAL
Bury Art Museum, 3 May - 9 July
The Text Festival in Bury is an internationally recognised event investigating contemporary language art [poetry, text art, sound and media text, live art]. anthology came out of Philip Davenport's decade-long involvement with Tony Trehy and the Text Festival. Volume 3 takes up works and forms with stages of development beyond the Book into the Exhibition space. Exhibition includes works by arthur+martha, derek beaulieu, Maria Chevska, Paula Claire, Mike Chavez-Dawson, Matt Dalby, Maria Damon, Philip Davenport, Steve Fowler, anatol knotek, Darren Marsh, Tamarin Norwood, Wang Jun, Rosmarie Waldrop, Richard Wentworth and Eric Zboya.
Against the background of global stylistic multiplicity, the use of language spans many artforms and may even be a unifying field of enquiry, a new definition and a new field of international linguistic art practice and dialogue. The international Text Festival at Bury is the leading focus of language in 21st Century art. The Festival's purpose is to be the space where artists and writers from all over the world can meet, share and show the increasingly important possibilities of language in art. Its art-led approach allows it to avoid the limitations and pressure of expectation which constricts many other festivals and actively contribute to future development. The Festival specialises in experiments, in new experiences, in performances and exhibitions that mix artforms in ground-breaking combinations that challenge traditional language art boundaries and offer artists a forum for dialogue and exchange of ideas.
Art Monthly commented of the Festival:
"According to Foucault, the singularities that serve to rupture and renew normative discourse always emerge from the interstices – in other words, where nobody is looking. Almost certainly nobody was looking in the direction of Bury for the emergence of this significant project…"
THE DARK WOULD Anthology Vol I
THE DARK WOULD Anthology Vol II
posted on 24/04/2014 | updated 01/05/214
Beyond The Dark Would: TEXT FESTIVAL EVENT
Image: derek beaulieu installing work at The Dark Would, Bury 2014
The ground-breaking Dark Would anthology has created a space that encourages conversations between artists and writers, musicians and sculptors, dancers and poets film-makers and performers – the implications of this dialogue are explored in an event breaking down the whole notion of distinction between artforms. Performances and conversation from derek beaulieu, Caroline Bergvall, Marton Koppany and Ron Silliman, chaired by Philip Davenport.
Met Arts Centre, Saturday 3 May 2pm, FREE
posted on 24/04/2014 | updated 01/05/214
PUBLICATION: ISBN 978-1-909388-06-2
Details of preparatory drawings for a forthcoming book project.
posted on 10/04/2014
SKETCH: Exhibiton 26th March - 10th April
The SKETCH Sketchbook drawing prize arrives at the final leg of its tour at Plymouth College of Art this Wednesday. PV from 5.30pm-7pm.
Plymouth College Of Art, Tavistock Place, Plymouth, PL4 8AT
SKETCH Sketchbook Drawing Prize and Exhibition promotes the diversity and importance of drawing, and the role of the sketchbook in contemporary fine art practice.
posted on 24/03/2014
SELECTION: INDA9 International Drawing Annual
Work has been selected for inclusion in the INDA 9 International Drawing Annual published by Manifest gallery, Cincinnati, USA.
'The publication was conceived as an extension of Manifest's Drawing Center mission to promote, feature, and explore drawing as a rich and culturally significant art form. The goal of the INDA is to support the recognition, documentation, and publication of excellent, current, and relevant works of drawing from around the world.' The publication is due for release early 2015.
posted on 16/03/2014
eBOOK COVER DESIGN: this is not a love song
Design by Darren Marsh. Cover photograph by Julia Grime.
Published by Apple Pie Editions.
posted on 14/03/2014
NEW WORK: Drawing
Image: Untitled; pen on tracing paper, 65cm x 49 cm, 2014.
posted on 01/03/2014
THE DARK WOULD: Summerhall Installation Images
Images from top
Mouse Drawing #39, Sequence of drawings #38, #39, and #41 with Tom Philips 'After Henry James' and Richard Wentworth 'Said the Spider to the Fly' in background, sequence with Eric Zboya 'Chasm of Lethe' in background.
posted on 16/01/2014
SKETCH: Exhibiton 10th January - 8th February
The SKETCH Sketchbook drawing prize arrives at Black Swan Arts, Frome this coming Friday. PV from 6pm-8pm.
BLACK SWAN ARTS, 2 Bridge St Frome, BA11 1BB
SKETCH Sketchbook Drawing Prize and Exhibition promotes the diversity and importance of drawing, and the role of the sketchbook in contemporary fine art practice.
posted on 05/01/2014
THE DARK WOULD: Summerhall Exhibition, Edinburgh
Images from top left
The Secret by Marton Koppany / 'a quilt for when you are homeless' by arthur+martha central - on wall from left Alec Finlay, Tom Phillips, Caroline Bergvall / Ian Hamilton Finlay is Dead by Philip Davenport - on right slate Homer by Tony Lopez / Sarah Sanders I USED TO / Sarah Sanders I USED TO closeup / After Henry James by Tom Phillips. All images courtesy of Philip Davenport and Julia Grime.
posted on 10/12/2013
EXHIBITION: THE DARK WOULD
World-leading poets and text artists exhibit works that cross the boundary of living and dying in The Dark Would: Richard Long, Susan Hiller, Tony Lopez, Jenny Holzer, Simon Patterson, Richard Wentworth, Caroline Bergvall, Erica Baum, Ron Silliman and many others, including outsider artists.
The Dark Would uses notions of mortality to collapse old, dead categories ('Conceptual Art', 'Concrete Poetry', 'Text art', 'Vispo' etc.) repositioning artists alongside poets and outsiders, and freeing space for new ideas.
Curator Philip Davenport: "This is an extraordinary gathering that asks what it is to have a body and to lose it. Perhaps this is best done by people for whom language is itself a state of in-between-ness… artists who use language and poets who are artists. Here, the material of language is used as a metaphor for human material, our own bodies. Whether poets or homeless people, outsiders or art stars - we all have to find our way through the dark."
New work has been made especially for the show by Richard Wentworth and commissioned pieces include rorschach drawings by Mike Chavez-Dawson, made from the names of dead poets and a written stairwell by Sarah Sanders. The Dark Would will also have 'answering' works by dead artists and poets including Stephane Mallarme, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Joseph Beuys, taken from Paul Robertson's extensive Summerhall avant-garde collection.
Summerhall hosts the world premiere of this ground-breaking exhibition curated by poet Philip Davenport, which will travel to other venues. The Dark Would exhibition is an out-growth of the large same-title anthology of language art, edited by Davenport and published by Apple Pie Editions 2013.
Exhibition contributors: arthur+martha, Erica Baum, Caroline Bergvall, Mike Chavez-Dawson, Maria Chevska, Matt Dalby, Philip Davenport, Steve Emmerson, Alec Finlay, Rob Fitterman, Steve Giasson, Susan Hiller, Jenny Holzer, Marton Koppany, Laurence Lane, Richard Long, Tony Lopez, Darren Marsh, Simon Patterson, Tom Phillips, Sarah Sanders, Ron Silliman, Carolyn Thompson, Carol Watts, Richard Wentworth and many others.
Exhibition runs 7th December - 24th January 2014.
Launch (open to public) 7pm, Friday 6th December, 2013
posted on 22/11/2013
SKETCH: Seminar 28th September
The Role Of The Sketchbook In Contemporay Fine Art Practice
The discussion panel will include Sarah Bodman, Senior Research Fellow for Artists' Books at the Centre for Fine Print Research, Emma Stibbon RA, Sandy Sykes SKETCH2005 prize-winner and Cat Roissetter SKETCH2011 prizewinner.
posted on 10/09/2013
SKETCH Sketchbook Drawing Prize: SELECTED
SKETCH Sketchbook Drawing Prize and Exhibition promotes the diversity and importance of drawing, and the role of the sketchbook in contemporary fine art practice. This year 54 sketchbooks have been selected from a national open submission of 700 by a distinguished panel of judges.
Exhibition Dates and Venues
16 September – 12 October 2013
RABLEY DRAWING CENTRE, Rabley Barn, Marlborough, SN8 2LW
10 January – 8 February 2014
BLACK SWAN ARTS – FROME, 2 Bridge St Frome, BA11 1BB
17 March – 22 April 2014
PLYMOUTH COLLEGE OF ART, Tavistock Place,Plymouth, PL4 8AT
posted on 19/07/2013
THE DARK WOULD: Whitechapel Book Launch Event
Images from top left
Caroline Bergvall, Tony Lopez, Sarah Sanders, Peter Jaeger/Philip Davenport/Lucy Harvest-Clarke, Simon Patterson in conversation with Philip Davenport. All images courtesy of Julia Grime.
posted on 18/04/2013
THE DARK WOULD: Book Launch Event
A major new language art anthology launches at Whitechapel Gallery in London on April 11. There are readings/talks from Tony Lopez, Caroline Bergvall, Simon Patterson and performance from Sarah Saunders on the night. The event is ticketed £4/3 (concs.)
THE DARK WOULD gathers work by over 100 contributors including some of the most noted artists and poets alive today: Richard Long, Jenny Holzer, Fiona Banner, Maggie O' Sullivan, Tacita Dean, Tom Phillips, Tom Raworth, Nja Mahdaoui, Lawrence Weiner, Susan Hiller, Tsang Kin-Wah, Charles Bernstein and many, many more.
This is a moment in time when poets and many artists share the same primary material: language. Conceptual art, vispo, text art, outsider art, conceptual poetry, flarf, concrete poetry, live art, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, sound scores... THE DARK WOULD is a compelling document, alchemising text into art into text.
View sample of the kindle book
posted on 05/03/2013
EXHIBITION: ANONYME ZEICHNER 24 March - 20 April
Anonyme Zeichner was founded in 2006 by the artist Anke Becker. 800 drawings of international artists will be presented anonymously in an exhibition. There are no specifications regarding the content of the drawings. The only formal rule: the maximum size of the exhibited drawings is 29,70 - 42,00 cm (A3). The age, biography or gender of the participants will not be requested and do not play any role in the selection: The selection for the exhibitons will be made without looking at the names. What counts is the art itself and not the biography.
The idea behind: What is the line between what is and is not art? What is a good drawing? How can one develop a personal definition of value if the sales-prices are all identical? How does one's own assessment change if there is no information at all about the artist? It is all about the art and not current market-value. With Anonymous Drawings the common rules of the art-market are reversed in an experimental way turned upside down. In this way new space for unprejudiced viewing, judging and purchasing of the exhibited art emerges. Many single pieces of art become one total work of art. Each and every anonymous artist becomes part of an collective installation where hierarchies do not exist.
Anonyme Zeichner is an action against separation, competition and monoculture within the art-market and a tribute to the inexhaustible medium of drawing.
Kunstverein Tiergarten | Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany
posted on 25/02/2013
THE DARK WOULD: Southbank Centre 6th February
Panel discussion held as a Poetry Library Special Edition event.
posted on 11/02/2013