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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 and getting out-of-date towards the bottom of the document. If you're looking for Forced Entertainment performance dates it's best to look here. *
Fog Game. 4. September – 21. November 2010 Solo show at Künstlerhaus Bremen.
Künstlerhaus Bremen // Am Deich 68/69 // 28199 Bremen More information 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
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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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