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This page comprises an attempt to gather dates and info on things I am doing; exhibitions, readings, video screenings, performances, panels, symposia etc. Most current things are near the top... and getting out-of-date towards the bottom of the document. Do scroll down a little - since events overlap things at the top have might happened already whilst exhibitions below can still be running. If you're looking for Forced Entertainment performance dates it's best to look here.
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* Ful info here. * Editionen 4 - Künstlerhaus Bremen. I'm delighted to have been asked to contribute a work to the latest set of editions created to fundraise for Künstlerhaus Bremen. As well as my piece - a limited edition print Stopped Clock (Phnom Penh) there are also new works and editions from Heike Bollig, Bob Braine & Leslie C. Reed, Kyungwoo Chun, Jeanne Faust, Ingo Gerken, Elín Hansdóttir, Sofia Hultén, Stefan Marx, Jonathan Monk, Horst Müller, Verena Johanna Müller, Ahmet Öğüt, Laurina Paperina, Wolfgang Plöger, Martina Sauter, Norbert Schwontkowski and Sibylle Springer. See previews of the works, and pricing info at the Künstlerhaus Bremen site. *
From Afar
Accepting an invitation from the curator of Krakow Theatrical Reminiscences , Magda Grudzińska, to create a work based on a visit to the six eastern partnership countries (Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine), Tim Etchells established a framework for the project, designed to bring him closer to the unfamiliar realities and cityscapes of those countries whilst at the same time keeping his experience of them indirect, mediated through the eyes and narratives of others. In fact Etchells agreed to the project only on condition that another person - his brother Mark - make the trip east on his behalf, relaying his experience in the form of emails, stories and photographs. *
The Quiet Volume - Ant Hampton & Tim Etchells
The collaboration I made last year with Ant Hampton - The Quiet Volume - is coming soon to London, as well as returning to Berlin, then going to both Warsaw and Zurich. It was commissioned by the travelling, site-specific festival Ciudades Paralelas together with Vooruit and consists of a whispered, site-specific autoteatro piece for two people in the silence of a library's reading room. We're really happy with how it's been working so far. In London, the piece will be presented in three libraries as part of the London Word Festival. Later, in May, TQV will also be returning to the amazing library in Berlin where it premiered, again within the HAU programme (Hebbel am Ufer), before moving a little further east to Warsaw, as part of the full Ciudades Paralelas festival. And then in June, the whole festival moves once more to Zurich.
March 16 - 26 > The Quiet Volume > Vooruit, Festival: The Game Is Up!, Ghent, Belgium
April 8 - May 4 > The Quiet Volume > 3 London Libraries, London Word Festival, UK
May 12 - 16, 19 - 23 > The Quiet Volume > Hebbel am Ufer, (Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum), Berlin, Germany June 16 - 26 > The Quiet Volume > Ciudades Paralelas, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Switzerland *
Tim Etchells and Tony White In a new text-performance for the National Portrait Gallery Tim Etchells builds and dissolves stories, worlds and pictures in language, working with rules, games and strategies unfolding at the edge of narrative coherence. Etchells draws on text material from catalogue essays and critical responses to works in the collection whilst also invoking the more familiar landscapes from his work through dystopian urban adventures, science fiction and distorted fairytales. The performance will be followed by a contribution by Tony White, the author of novels including Foxy-T (Faber and Faber), described by writer Toby Litt as, 'one of the best London novels you'll ever get to read.' For Dirty Literature, White will read from works of fiction that respond to the National Portrait Gallery's location, as well as his satirical 1999 novel about an alienated police force who seem locked in to a cycle of violence and prurient self-justification: Charlieunclenorfolktango. More info here. Bookings via: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it * October 8th - November 21st The Night Pleases Us... Former Military Academy – Resavska 40b, Belgrade Curators: Johan Pousette and Celia Prado (Sweden)
Open every day 12.00 - 20.00; Fri 12.00 – 22.00; Mon closed More info here.
* Tim Etchells & Hugo Glendinning Part of a group show during Printemps de Septembre— à Toulouse
24 September - 17 October 2010 Musée les Abattoirs, 76, allée Charles-de-Fitte, 31300 Toulouse Opening times Monday to Friday, from 12 noon to 7 pm - Saturdays and Sundays from 11 am to 7 pmNocturnes: Friday 24 and Saturday 25 September, Friday 1 and Saturday 2 October, to 12.30 am Etchells and Glendinning's Empty Stages, a series of photographs of empty performance spaces (lecture rooms, pubs, theatres, etc.) invites viewers to imagine what might happen in these deserted rooms, In the same show Etchells solo sound work Brief Reminder plays with the form and expectations of the kind of PA system announcements often heard in public spaces.
More information here.
* Tim Etchells and Vlatka Horvat ティム・エッチェルス&ヴラトゥカ・ホルヴァ Over the Table 22.09.2010 - 26.09.2010 Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya. Aichi Triennale. Over the Table is a 5-day long collaborative project by Tim Etchells and Vlatka Horvat. Following their previous collaborations - the hour-long improvised videos Insults & Praises (2003) and Threats & Promises (2008), as well as the 5-week long 'faxing performance' To Bring Down a House (2006/2008) - Over the Table is conceived as a continuous process of call and response between the two artists. Conducted in a gallery space which they occupy together for the duration of the piece, Over the Table takes the form of a series of playful and competitive exchanges which unfold within a set of pre-arranged performative frames. Visitors may arrive, depart, and return at any point during gallery opening hours and will always encounter the artists engaged in one or another of their collaborative activities and tasks. The space of the gallery itself will change from day to day, as evidence of the artists' diverse activities gradually fills the space, accumulating alongside whatever is currently happening.
More information here.
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Drama Queens – a play by ELMGREEN & DRAGSET, text by Tim ETCHELLS LOOK – Container Cinema – 1061 Budapest, Andrássy út 1 from 18 to 26 September 2010, open from 12 to 8pm More information here. Drama Queens is the filmed version of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset’s performance with text by me - a play without actors first shown at Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2007. Seven 20th Century superstar sculptures find themselves trapped on a theatre stage and out of their usual context. How do they interact with this new environment and with each other? The drama unfolds through a series of clashes and crossovers between the various >isms< and aesthetics which these sculptures represent. Container Cinema is a newsstand temporarily transformed into a 6-person film theatre located on the corner of Andrássy and Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út. Screenings start every hour. Entry free.
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The Quiet Volume
'autoteatro for two people in a library'
Part of Ciudades Paralelas,
a festival of portable theatre curated by Stefan Kaegi and Lola Arias
at HAU. Berlin September 16 - 25 2010. The piece premieres in Berlin in English and German. Further presentations lined up for extraordinary libraries in Buenos Aeries, Gent and Zurich. "The Quiet Volume is a whispered, self-generated and 'automatic' performance for two at a time (in line with Hampton's other Autoteatro work), exploiting the particular tension common to any library worldwide; a combination of silence and concentration within which different peoples' experiences of reading unfold. Two audience members / participants sit side-by-side. Taking cues from words both written and whispered they find themselves burrowing an unlikely path through a pile of books. The piece exposes the strange magic at the heart of the reading experience, allowing aspects of it we think of as deeply internal to lean out into the surrounding space, and to leak from one reader's sphere into another's." More information here. * LONELY AT THE TOP: Modern Dialect at M HKA (Antwerp) Contemporary artists look at the work of Renaat Braem. 10 Sept 2010 - 14 Nov 2010. Curated by Win Van den Abbeele. My work City Changes features in this show alongside work by Corey McCorkle, Marte Johnslien, Luc Kheradmand, Mark Macken, Jef Verheyen, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Erik van Lieshout, Kris Fierens & Tinka Pittoors, David Diao, Susanne Kriemann and Pavel Büchler. "Looking back at an oeuvre that united architecture, commitment, politics and reflection as an art form. August 2010 marks the centenary of the birth of one of Belgium’s best-known architects, Renaat Braem, and this is being celebrated in ‘Renaat Braem 1910-2010’. Part of it is an exhibition called Modern Dialect that will be held at three venues: the top floors of the M HKA (LATT), CC Nova in Hoboken and on the Braem site itself. It brings Braem’s modernist formal idiom face to face with work by contemporary artists. Their sculptures and installations expose a number of paradoxes and create a multifaceted view of modernism and the social utopia of that movement, which still has an influence on international architecture today." More information here. *
Fog Game 4. September – 21. November 2010 Solo show at Künstlerhaus Bremen.
Künstlerhaus Bremen // Am Deich 68/69 // 28199 Bremen More information here. Install-in-progress shots here.
Complete installation shots here. * Cold Water Fun Part of A River Enquiry. 11-12th September 2010
London City Bridge Pier, Potters Fields Park & HMS Belfast. More information here. Free pamphlet advertising imaginary events. Cold Water Fun forms part of A River Enquiry, a series of new artists’ commissions by home live art in collaboration with The Mayor’s Thames Festival. You can pick up a copy of the Cold Water Fun booklet for free at the Festival Programme Points, stalls in the Blue Ribbon Village, in local cafes, shops and on benches in the area. If you'd like to request a booklet you can send an SAE to home live art, 1a Flodden Rd, London, SE5 9LL. Screen grabs/images of the work here.
* Play Admont: 3 June to 7 November 2010 Open daily from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm. July and August 2010: Extended opening to 8.00 pm every Friday
More information:
The exhibition PLAY ADMONT currently being staged at Admont
Benedictine Monastery in Austria places visitors firmly at the centre of
attention and encourages them to play the role of discoverer, game
partner and explorer. Active participation and interaction with the
artworks on display and other procedures enable them to enter into a
dialogue with an extended, socially-anchored sculptural milieu and gain
admittance to a user-orientated environment that provides for a wide
diversity of different transactions and forms of expression thanks to
the incorporation of digital technologies. Choreographic objects,
location-specific acoustic installations, situationally related spatial
installations, interactive machines, performance activity participation,
ephemeral experimental designs and developing archives assimilate
visitors into the creative artistic process itself – it is only through
the complementary elements of interaction and participation that the
exhibits reveal their full potential.
CURATED BY Christine Peters (D), Michael Braunsteiner (A) My part in the above is a new neon work cryptically titled G.O plus Unnatural History: A Reading of Spaces (2010). Here's the description of the latter project: Responding to the Natural History Museum at Admont, reestablished after the devastating fire of 1865, Tim Etchells has created a new work in the form of an audio guide to the collection. Drawing the visitors’ attention to selected displays and to specific taxidermied or preserved creatures featured in them, Etchells playfully eschews a complete account in favour of a highly selective, partisan and idiosyncratic approach to the museum and its contents. Unnatural History: A Reading of Spaces reads the institution as an alien landscape – interpreting its displays and arrangements of wildlife for their significance and possible meaning in unexpected ways.
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An SMS is an imaginary performance with each scenes described by text message, relayed as virtual events taking place through the day and night in diverse locations across an equally imaginary city. Receiving the texts that make up the project is free - to sign up as an audience member for text NNF, your postcode and your age to 60777. Also in NNF: my existing 2008 neon works (see here) at locations around the city, plus five or six new neons specially commissioned for the festival. I'll be performing in NNF again in the Forced Entertainment durational piece Quizoola! on Saturday 15th May from 6pm to midnight. More details here.
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City Changes, Let's Pretend and my video Erasure are all part of In Full Bloom curated by Antonio Grulli at Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Via Stradella 7, 20129 Milan, Italy. The show runs from May 12th - July 30th 2010. * What If... festival at Siobhan Davies Studios, London.
7-11 April 2010 My video 100 People is installed from 9-11 April as part of the What If... festival at Siobhan Davies Studios in London. Co-curated by Lucy Cash, Becky Edmunds, Claudia Kappenberg and Chirstinn Whyte with Gill Clarke from Independent Dance the festival mixes live performances from dance and live art with screen work by myself, Cornelia Parker, John Smith, Miranda Pennell, Desperate Optimists and Oreet Ashery amongst others. See the website for more details. * Instructions: Gasworks Discussion Event Wednesday 3 March 2010, 7–9pm Tim Etchells in conversation with Ant Hampton. Artist and writer Tim Etchells invites performer and writer Ant Hampton to Instructions - a discussion about delegation and collaboration across different fields of practice. The two practitioners will reflect on how theact of relinquishing control over the final outcome is embedded in their work and on their relationship to improvisation and incompleteness. Ant's blog here.
* Tim Etchells: Solo Exhibition. Gasworks. 5 February–28 March 2010
Opening: Thursday 4 February 2010.
For Tim Etchells' first solo exhibition in a London public gallery, Gasworks presents two works previously unseen in the UK. Focusing on language and interpretation, the exhibition explores the potential of communication between discourses and cultural frames. Art Flavours (2008) reflects on the possibility and impossibility of translating the specialised language of the art world into edibles for the public. the video shows an italian ice cream master dealing with the task to translate concepts in contemporary art into flavours of ice cream. City Changes (2008) is a game of linguistic manipulation in which a single text is repeatedly reworked. Whilst playing with issues related to urban life such as change and stability, chaos and stasis, the work renders visible the process of writing itself, exposing the decisions, additions and omissions of each new incarnation. * The Story. The Conway Hall, London. Friday, February 19th, 2010 I'll be speaking at this event The Story, a one-day conference about stories and story-telling. The event has been put together by Matt Locke, a really interesting producer/curator/all rounder, who I worked with years back to produce my SMS instructions project Surrender Control. Speakers at The Story come from many and diverse areas of cultural practice - from games and interactive, to contemporary fiction and art, to publishing and journalism. Current list includes Cory Doctrow, Tony White, Alexis Kennedy and Paul Arendt, David Hepworth and Sydney Padua. Full list here. Tickets info here. *
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