Last week a live presentation via Skype for Lado Darakhvelidze’s Museum TV Station at PS2 Gallery at 18 Donegal Street in Belfast. The exhibition continues until January 8th 2011 and you can watch recorded versions of all four live broadcasts – Irakli Kakabadze (New York), Zurab Rtveliashvili (Stockholm), Pamela Renner (New York) and me, Jimini […]
Our Temporary Art Souvenir shop in Murcia turned into quite a sucess – press coverage in the papers and even on the telly! Here’s a couple of pictures of Hedwig Feijen, Manifesta’s director, visiting the shop. And here carefully avoiding the busts I made of her… Although the shop’s finished, maybe my souvenirs of Ibn […]
In my new role as guest curator for the 3rd edition of Se Busca (a project by Maribel Perpiña of laPinta in Barcelona, a project which brings together 14 artists with as many curators from around the world in an extended collaboration) I’ve been doing studio visits with participating artists doing residencies at Hangar in […]
As preparation for the project ‘Temporary Art Souvenirs‘ which is being set up as a parallel event in Manifesta-8, I’m dragging 20kgs worth of plaster busts of Manifesta director Hedwig Feijen, to Barcelona as extra luggage on their way to our souvenir shop in Murcia. The busts are one of my souvenirs and the moulds […]
Been invited to participate in Post Dordt 2010 with a performance at the opening and an installation made up from The Detroit Diary along with a video of the ‘Special Attention’ presentation – great! Opens Saturday 28th August at 17hrs in the CBK in Doordrecht, runs until September 29th. Here’s the invite with more details.
The Detroit Diary is here at last! There’s going to be a launch of all this year’s DAI publications on Saturday July 3rd, at The Ateliers in Amsterdam. ‘PERFORMING REALITY’ Saturday 3 July 16.00 – 19.00 Exhibition Werkplaats Typografie, De Ateliers, Stadhouderskade 86, 1073 AT Amsterdam BOOK LAUNCH 12 Artist’s books, 16.00 PUBLIC LECTURES, 17.00 […]
An evening of ideas, discussions, presentations and more, on the topic of, The breakdown of control and surveillance situations – Detroit, The Netherlands and Karachi for example. From the viewpoints of technology, art and self-organising. On Thursday June 3rd 2010, OT301, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam, at 20.00u Rob van Kranenburg will discuss ‘The breakdown of control […]
In Barcelona visiting my good friend Maribel Perpiñá. She has just published a great book – ‘Se Busca Curator’, an overview of the curatorial practice in contemporary art. Wrapped around the cover is a poster mapping the topography of verbs used to describe the activities and responsibilities of curators by 99 respondents to questionnaires.
Whilst looking for something else, I came across this news item made by Anne-Marie van Oosteren for an exhibition I took part in last year…
