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| 22.9.2011-1.3.2012 Expérience Pommery # 9 "La Fabrique Sonore" Pommery, Reims, France curated by Charles Carcopino & Claire Staebler "La Fabrique Sonore" is a large sound exhibition, which runs through kilometers of the Pommery Champagne cellars. For this show I have been asked to recreate a piece from 2003, titled ‘Phones’ ‘Phones’ consists of 126 telephones, - originally for internal factory communication dating from the 1950’s. Each consists of a hard bakelite shell with an internal ringing mechanism - built up of a coil, a small hammer and two bells. The composed sequence excites these functions, using various voltages to create characters for each phone, in what eventually becomes a plane - a literal wall of sound. |
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| 23, 24, 24.9.2011 and 1, 2, 3.9.2011 As yet untitled exhibition Stadtgalerie Bamberg Villa Dessauer, Germany In collaboration with Civic Virtue and Villa Concordia Under an umbrella concept of artist collective Civic Virtue: to deal with the Museum building as a means deconstruct and depict diverse historical periods, I will be working with a collection of local baroque lock and key combinations. |
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| 15.10.2011 - 15.04.2012 'Verzameld Werk (section folklorique)' Zeeuwsmuseum, Middelburg, Netherlands Curated by Ivo Van Werkhoven and Leen Bedaux Work developed for this show fall under the title A Lazarus Taxon. A Lazarus Taxon is in this instance, a set of two collections juxtaposed for the purpose of exploring the traits between remains from nature and those of human artifact. The first collection is comprised of various large wheels and machines parts, dating from the late industrial revolution. The second is a collection of fossilized mammoth (as well as other animal) bones and tusks. The basis for the exhibition comes from the discovery of an interesting relationship between an object and an animal, made during an LSD trip in attendance of a world music festival in 1999. Whilst sitting on the grass in the early evening I stumbled upon a rusted wrench, - a tool of about a size 20, common for the assembly and maintenance of large machinery. As a man-made object, the wrench had all the qualities of an archeological find: - a dated and mysterious design, quite worse for the wear, and carrying a patina descriptive of some sort of fatality. It was as if the object was representative of a by-gone era, one of physical work, hardship and industry, a period that had been thrown back in time just to arise again that day as an equivalent Neolithic or Paleolithic artifact. My association with the spanner was the Coelacanth, a fish first found alive off the coast of South Africa in 1938. Formerly known only from fossils, the fish was thought to have been extinct for 65 million years, its re-appearance sparked mild hysteria in the scientific community. The Coelacanth was later to become the most famous Lazarus Taxon, - (an organism thought to be extinct which then re-appears later), a sort of defiance of the natural order of succession in evolution, an animal refusing to back down into its period, and in effect becoming a bridge spanning a significant phase of time. Together with artists: Mariana Castillo Deball, Frank Koolen, Marcel Broodthaers |
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15 Unidentified Species An exhibition produced by Nuno Carrusca featuring work by André Avelãs, James Beckett, Seamus Cater and Marianne Vierø Opening: Location: |
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James Beckett, “Khevsurvite Derivative (potential dwellers in ravines)” |
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| Old News: Zaklady na Zycie (Plant-Life) | ||
‘Zaklady na Zycie’ is a performance and installation environment exploring Poland’s industrial past. In English, ‘Plant-Life’ is a play on words, as a plant can be as much a photosynthetic organism as a factory, power-station, or other large industrial complex. It is in this sense the piece attempts to achieve as much as state of David Attenborough as it does anthropological glance into the life of factories across Poland.
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Zaklady na Zycie (Plant-Life), performance and installation environment Pictured here, the beautiful ladies:
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Zaklady na Zycie (Plant-Life), performance and installation environment Photo Merijn van der Vliet
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| News: Four new Scythe pieces for Wilfried Lentz, Artissima, Turin | ||
"Scythe 1 - 4 ( the Late Limburgerhof Extract-Arrangements)" Bronze, original scythes, string and wood on belgian canvas boards in oak and plexi vitrines. Thanks to Isaac Carlos for construction of vitrines. |
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| End of residency: Prints destroyed, Worpswede, DE | ||
I asked an artist in the German village 'Worpswede' if I could make a silkscreen of an etching she had made some years prior. She is a middle aged woman who had moved to the village for its romantic history of art. The village had a strong role in the the development of German Jugendstil, which centred around a nature obsessed artist by the name of Heinrich Voegler. His contribution, besides the actual work, was the organisation of the artists into a colony, with a strong socialist base. He was later to move to Russia, following which he moved to Kyrgyzstan, where he was later to die in abject poverty. The translation I made of the artists piece, took the history of the village into account. Her original etching was mirrored, and reduced to two tones of red. After having agreed to the piece being made, I printed the works, after which she, by phone, changed her mind and refused to come and meet me. In total we met just once. She was afraid I was selling her work for my own benefit, a commercial process in which she would lose control. She did also not see the point of translation, and simply saw it as a copy. Seen here are the prints being destroyed (untitled, two sheets @ 70 by 100 cm each) Thanks to Bernd Milla, Anne-Lina and Barabara Reil of Künstlerhäuser Worpswede |
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| News: Donation, SONS shoe museum Belgium | ||
New work, finshed and waiting postage to: 'SONS – shoes or no shoes' museum in Kruishoutem, Belgium Title: "The ancient yet useful agricultural tool takes the somewhat more affluent immigrant by surprise." Scythe blade and shoe mounted on wooden panels. |
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| News: Concerts at the ICA | ||
A small retrospect of my N-collective concerts, as well as a record release of my new band, Wednesday the 18th at the ICA in London. This was realised in collaboration with Morten j Olsen, Koen Nutters, Kammer Klang and the Plus Minus ensemble as part of the festival "Calling out of Context" The Plus Minus Ensemble is: The ICA: The N:
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"THE FRÈDERYCK NÙYEGEN SEASIDE MEMORIAL BAND" James Beckett, Koen Nutters, Morten J Olsen The band: Photo: Tom Medwell
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Out now on vinyl c/o Künstlerhäuser Worpswede 14 years in the fond company of: Thanks to Bernd Milla, Anne-Lina and Barabara Reil, Supported by Land Niedersachsen |
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Also out Now:'Transcriptions 1-6': Available for free + postage - through SKOR, just write Softcover
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