Another exhibition i have this week, it looks to be a really fun night with alot of talent from a mixture of displines
Come gather round people, wherever you roam…
Rebel, resist, revolt and mutiny at the forthcoming Open Arts Café.
In the month when Marie Antoinette was born, Guy Fawkes tried to blow-up the Houses of Parliament, the Pilgrims sat down to feast with the Native Americans and George Essler tried to assassinate Hitler... we feel we didn’t have a choice but to send out a call to arms.
Comrades! Come and join us, to sip White Russians, as artists from across the spectrum and across the world will gather to explore the depths and dimensions of dissent.
DONATION-ONLY. DRINKS AND BITES PROVIDED. ALL ARE WELCOME.
The Café will be filled with…
Laughter from…
• Broderick Chow
Music from…
• Adam Nicholas
• Mohammad Yahya
Drama from…
• 'I bombed you then you bombed me'
By Elena Pavli Performed by: Tyne Rafaeli and Jethro Skinner
Writing from…
• Shiv Malik
• JS Rafaeli
Dancing n’ fighting from…
• Amazonas Capoeira
Exhibition from...
• Blair Zaye
Poetry from…
• Our resident poet and syntactic rebel… James Douglas Hogg
Don’t be a turncoat! Join the revolt! And tell your friends!
100sqft Exhibition 22nd November - Launch Party - 7pm - 12pm,Boleyn's Boys Club, 68 Boleyn Road, London N16 8JG,Exhibition runs 23rd - 28th November 10am - 4 pm Daily.
Hey Guys
This is an exhibition that i have going on at the moment, the opening was last night i missed it myself, but think its a great concept; the name is 100sqft as there are 100 artists each get a 1square foot to play with, check it out it runs until the 28th of Nov, i hope to catch it in the following days.
Artists wishing to sell your work at the Launch & Exhibition - we need your prices by 5pm Today !!
Join us for drinks & music by 'Our Friends Eclectic' and most importantly for 100sqft of artwork. Forward this email on to your friends - there's a handy forward link at the bottom of this email.
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EXCHANGE RADICAL MOMENTS! Brandnew Europe wide festival
The cooperation - and exchange project EXCHANGE RADICAL MOMENTS! is focusing on all intercultural and interdisciplinary art forms that thematize and represent the interaction and communication between humans. These issues and art forms are not only to be found in any non-institutionalized Live Art - and Public Art projects but alike in all independent art cooperatives, art collectives and art initiatives that amplify and expand the common conceptions of art and the "art business".
It is our main concern to present independent artistic works, concepts and strategies and to interconnect multi diverse “organisms” of art related organizations, that interfere and interlock in multiple and versatile "living worlds", contexts and social spaces, that are interdisciplinary and process like, allocating towards the fragile moments in the human and social encounters, within Europe and in the utter "Here and Now". In the approximation at the various European "points of culmination" of the project - that will be originated and celebrated a special date in all partnership towns simultaneously - the participating project partners will research and experiment in a timeframe of several months the exchange of radical moments in the partnership towns. The main focus is directed onto finding the very moments and to excavate them, that can only exist, be founded and created in their intermedial, immediate exchange with other humanoids, to enfold their utter presence and radicalism. We understand radical to be in this very context: exhaustive, complete, to go to the utter extremes. Art as to be the radical offer and invitation for encounters on counter veiling, but not equalizing eye level.
On day X - simultaneously scattered actions, images and interventions will sparkle and lightning like flash up, that will leave ephemeral but direct and uncensored and fresh impression. The "pre-elusiveness", the illuminations and flash-ups of a "Momentary Europe", that positions itself outmost innovative, dialogue orientated and transmigrating in a different conceptual style and ephemeral context.
There is no pre-defined parameters of any artistical medium. The choice of the artistical techniques for transformation and transformative processes/strategies are of complete free personal choice. Important here only, that in the interdisciplinary projects/strategies, "bridging" takes place, that questions any stipulations of traditional and carburised roles: between the artist and recipient, between art and life, between humanoid and society, between humans and their interactions among each other.
I have a mention here page 18 for the Radical Exhange Exhibition in Frieze Art Fair
Our aim is to tickle all of your senses and tug on your heart strings :0) This will be a Transylvanian Ball packed full of sexy, cutting edge performances from Dancers and Circus Folk from around the world, with music from some of the best bands and DJs the UK has to offer.
Our manifesto is to enduce maximum fun and laughing while raising money for precious medicines needed by the people of Gaza.
After our last event - a small affair @ Inspiral Lounge, Camden - we travelled with a Hope Convoy and took the money raised to Egypt where we bought the medicines and delivered them personally to a clinic outside Gaza City. This clinic was desperately in need as they are unable to receive important supplies any other way.
This time: we’re taking the circus with us!!
See www.circus2gaza.org.uk for more info....
This event is brought to you by women who really like their freedom, and who reckon women like everyone else in Gaza should enjoy the same freedom.
We do not give our money to a third party to do with as they will....we deliver directly to the people...it's the only way.
The next Convoy leaves at the end of November…and we intend to be going along with the money you help us raise at Electric Circus....
So YOU and your bestest, maddest costume can make a difference!!! ;0) xxx
Dress: Freakishly Sexy, Free Thinking and Fabulous!
SHOWCASE LONDON WEDNESDAY 30th SEPTEMBER - DOORS OPEN AT 5.30pm !!
Ill be putting up alot of my lightbulb works click here for examples
Showcase offers superbly presented, commission free exhibition space to artists from all walks of life. Each event presents a fantastic opportunity to see up-and-coming artists display new ideas, new work and new styles.
I will be taking some small prints of big line drawings i have been doing of late. Its in Brighton, my first time :) does anyone know anyone i could stay with, just for the night Saturday 3rd October, a couch or floor would be divine!
The Free for All - Music & Art Show
BnW Productions Presents;
' The Free for All - Music & Art Show'
To celebrate Hectors House officially becoming a student bar to The Brighton Arts University (the uni next door!) and just because we love ya, we have a WHOOPER of a show coming your way in Oct.
Presenting not 5 but 6 Great Acts, Live Visual Audios and Photography from 2PM Visuals, Art displayed by local artists + The awesome DJ Spidachan, cheap drinks all night and fun & Games - All for Free - Wowzers!
Live Music From:
Second Time Lucky Bouncing 8 piece Ska with added Pop-Punk flavour (www.myspace.com/secondtimelucky)
Tribal Vibe Dub / Reggae music at its best. Expressing their passion for the gift of life the only way they know how! (http://www.myspace.com/atribalvibe)
Caribbeans Powerful Uplifting and Infectious Country Pop Punk (www.myspace.com/thecaribbeans)
Hand Grenade Heart Raw Roars and Grenade Chucking should be Mandatory (www.myspace.com/handgrenadeheartmusic)
Vernie & Bertrum Warm Heart Felt Popular Ska Rock (www.myspace.com/vernieandbertrum)
Amity Beautiful vocals, guitar, kick drum and tambourine A Genuine and unique one wo-man band! (www.myspace.com/iamamity)
Plus
DJ Spidachan Spinning a Web of Musical Wonders to Knock YOU Out!
HECTOR'S HOUSE Saturday 3rd October 8pm till 2am Cheap drinks all night long ALL OF THIS FOR FREE!
Circus Party at the Crane and Tortoise Saturday the 26th of September
This is an exhibition/event/djs/party that i will have a few new lightbulb works up for and its just down the road from the Festival of Life! so come check this out too. 39-41 Grays Inn Road, Holborn WC1X 8PR
East End Arts Club presents..The Noise of Art East End Arts Club Presents.. The Noise of Art Private View - 3rd Sept 6-9pm Swanfield Yard, 2b Swanfield Street, E2 7DS
East End Arts Club is back after a long Summer break to bring you another amazing East End show! The work has come together from a gyrating mix of artists and musicians. A kaleidoscopic mix of different materials placed on a 12” vinyl record, each piece bouncing from one to another. From urban artists, fine artists, graphic designers, illustrators, print-makers, musicians and dj’s, journeying through pulsating imagery of an electric mix of surface materials, scrunched, scratched, painted, sprayed and printed on a record vinyl. The 12” vinyl that we once loved has been brought back to life and gives birth to itself in the name of art. You will never look at a vinyl like the way you did before! It’s a jamboree not to be missed.... Curated by Infinity Bunce & Helen Edwards Preview the work - Noise of Art
5% sales to charity - The Art House Meath Celebrating the talents of artists living with epilepsy.
Private View 6-9pm - Thursday 3rd September 2009 Work on sale from 6pm. Matty J & Ben Terry from Tirk Records spinning strictly vinyl. Sat/Sun 12-4pm. Weekdays by Appointment Only. Show runs until 20th September. Swanfield Yard, 2b Swanfield Street, E2 7DS Just off Redchurch Street, Old Street/Liverpool Street Tube. ASBOluv *Live Vinyl Painting* 12.30pm Sunday 6th September
All enquiries Helen Edwards info@eastendartsclub.co.uk Infinity Bunce infobunce@googlemail.com
East End Arts Club is a part of First Thursdays.
www.eastendartsclub.co.uk
East End Arts Club presents..The Noise of Art Sick and tired of being sick and tired? Kids back to school? Overdone it at the festivals this Summer? Try our Swanfield Yard Pamper Nights... All treatments £15 - Tuesday 8th September from 6pm. Booking advised... info@somabeing.com
Im putting 2 custom records in for this exhibition. photos up soon.
LockStock Festival on the 20th August 2009 Camden Lock
Lock 17 (Camden Lock) hosts this free festival of music, comedy and ART!!! on the bill
I decided not to take my light bulb works along instead i took alot of my canvas' which instead of hanging I built a structure. Semi-unexpectedly the wind blew them down so it be came more of a performance/interactive piece, people start helping me and playing with them themselves.
for more info in my previous post post-exhibition click here and for photos from the night click here
The Contemporary 5 at Red Gate Gallery 14-27 August 2009
these are photos from the opening and the handout contained within the installation. The exhibition is still going until the 27th of August so go down and have a look while you can.
After 3 months of travelling through Thailand, Myanmar (Burma) and Laos, spending no more that a night or two in any city, on constant alert and constantly on the move, I made it to Vientiane (Laos capital) and decided to take some time out and let my guard down. I found the cheapest room in town in which to chill out, read, write and draw for a while.
Pretty soon I noticed that I was staying in a kind of a yaba den. Yaba( ya = pill and ba = crazy) in Lao language goes by many names; Duya, the lady in the pink or Yama to the Cambodians. After having read and heard how bad this drug was, I was utterly apposed to it (-at first-).
‘Stay away from the lady in the pink’ some would say, ‘she’ll get you into trouble here’.
After a couple of days I became friends with some of the locals and after watching them smoke Yaba I came to see their past time as ceremonial, the likes of which rivals a Japanese tea ceremony. The pieces that create the intricate roll of time, make up my installation. After watching for so long I felt a sense of a kind of spiritual attachment to it that I could see on the faces of my friends, so I decided to give it try (gotta try everything once, right?).
I smoked it a few times recreationally, when I would go out to clubs and bars at night. It would make me feel invincible and start my mind racing around trying to find itself. But, I could feel my mind and body aching for it in the morning, one day when I still had a few pills left from a night before I smoked them. My smoking quickly developed into something which could be described as habitual. During this time I had a Lao girlfriend, who was a heavier smoker herself, she was my connection, she would score for me (us) and come back and smoke life away with me - smoke till our tongues would bleed, smoking on average US$100 a day.
My whole mind set change quicker than I noticed and gave me a very sad and narrow outlook on life, spending day to day thinking only about one thing; smoking that small pink pill. As paranoia would settle in for the ride most days my girlfriend and I covered up the windows in my room so no one could see in or catch the trademark smell (‘ah, the smell, I think I will remember it for the rest of my days, like sweet strawberries’) We would only go out at night when it felt like the rest of the city was drunk and didn’t notice us so much. I was living a life of eternal and internal darkness. When you are awake for days on end your body soon tells you when it needs sleep. You start to get full body cramps, dizziness, night terrors and frequent blackouts. The only thing that would let my mind rest was to take Velium (cheap Chinese Valium).Pretty soon I was
see-sawing through the daze, weaks and eventually months. I was smoking Yaba to wake up and then to stay awake. When I needed to sleep, and on occasion eat, I mean a pure need for sleep! (when the paranoia wrenches your nerves constantly you soon are too scared to sleep you’re so afraid of what might happen if sleep takes hold. But you can feel your body soul and mind slipping out of reality and consciousness) I would have to take Velium or smoke the local ganja to come down and calm down.
After months of this ritualistic-self-destructive pattern I started to hallucinate and was hearing things on a daily basis. Looking back this was a reaction to the culture and the fact that I was able to pick up the Lao language quiet easily in order to understand what was going on around me, previously without my knowledge, I used to listen to the people talking and started to hear what I thought they were ‘really’ saying and tried to interpret what I believed was ‘really’ going on. These things I saw and heard were by no means positive, seeing shadows and hearing whispers within this environment that I had immersed myself in. Other side affects included the shakes, confusion, anxiety attacks, severe depression and the tendency towards self harm and thoughts of suicide.
My addiction and side affects were at their worst when I was eventually arrested, thrown in the back of a tuk tuk and put in the local prison for two nights. The two nights away were the first time I hadn’t smoked since the addiction took its grip months before. I went through major withdrawals during those nights in the dark and shitty (literally) cell. Being trapped in there was unbearable. The first thing on my mind was getting out of there. It came down to ‘giving’ the Lao police US$700 to get escorted across the border back to Thailand or spend the next 1 ½ years in a Lao prison.
With this obvious decision made I was back in Bangkok (Thailand), a day later still trying to come to grips my withdrawal while walking down Khao San Rd (the tourist street in Bangkok) on the 31st of October, the night of Halloween 2008. I tried to collect my thoughts and recreate a life which I had lost it Lao and trying to work out if all I had witnessed was fact or fantasy. (Bangkok is not the best place for this.) But I spent a few days recovering in a room and went over my options. I decided to pick up my travels where I left them (skipping the last part of Lao that I never made it to), flying from Bangkok to Phnom Penh (Cambodia) going through Cambodia and Vietnam, finishing off my travel intentions, making it here for Christmas with my English relatives in London.
While on the trail I did a lot of soul searching trying to figure out;
How could I be controlled by such a small pill? How could my life be wrapped up in this? Why was I so transfixed on a manufactured product which became what I felt to be my purpose for existence? I then started to think about how to get my life back, what I had been like before leaving NZ; working long hours in a high stress position as a studio manager for a commercial printers spending my time, life and soul making advertising for products that were often just as useless and yet idolized as the little pink pill had been for me.
Once in London it was set in my mind to take back my art practice which I had neglected without conviction for many years. Using my experiences/or lack thereof, it was time to fall back onto art, to use it as a tool for self reflection and be ‘THE’ active figure in my life again.
The darkness that filled my life during this time made me do things I am not proud of but, Given the choice I do not think I would change anything I did (but I often wished I had). If this had never of happened, I would of course be a different person. I may have gone about a ‘normal’ endeavour back to a soulless existence in a 9-5 office job making mass marketed products for people just like me. I would probably not have decided to take the plunge into the art world here. And you certainly would not be reading what I have to say.
As with life comes experience and it is what you can achieve on the back of failure that drives you to continue.
ART"N"DECKS at Cargo Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at 7:00pm
live art performance,live music,minimal/tech-house dj's
Im putting some of my light bulb artworks up in cargo at there outside garden, its kind of a last minute thing, but should still be a great night! this will we my second 'art n decks'
We are pleased to offer you an invitation to display your work at an outdoor art exhibition at the next LockStock Festival on the 20th August held at Camden Lock Market from 2pm-11pm. The event consists of an outdoor art exhibition (comprising of at least 30 different artists of various styles and mediums), 9 stages showcasing over 100 different acts/bands from different music genres. A comedy stage featuring sets from over 8 comedians, street performers and a fire show plus many other outdoor surprises. LockStock Festival is now in its second year and this time round we striving to improve and expand the artistic side of the event.
We are expecting a crowd of about 800-1000+ visitors on this night, with a 5% commission on all work sold which will be donated to a local charity. LockStock festival is aiming to create a fantastic and exciting platform for new, innovative and established artists, painters, sculptors and photographers to exhibit their work.
Photos and information regarding the previous LockStock events are available upon request.
If you are interested and would like some information on how to display some of your art please email: lockstockart@googlemail.com or call: 07903 873 900.
Kind Regards the LockStock Team
Anthony Buck
Lock 17 (Camden Lock) hosts this free festival of music, comedy and ART!!! on the bill
YOUR ART HERE is an artwork for the forthcoming Camberwell Arts Festival.
The details are: Daniel Lehan invites you to exhibit YOUR ART HERE - A Participatory Art Work - Sunday 21 June, Camberwell Green, 1pm to 6pm.
Bring your - Paintings - Drawings - Collages - Prints - ready to hang on the railings around the Green. Register at the Meeting Point on the Green to be allocated a space, anytime from 1pm to 6pm. ALL WELCOME.
You may offer your work for sale and may wish to bring an umbrella, and a sheet of plastic to cover your work in the case of rain.
I presented one of my Free drawing with light bulb works
Free drawing with light bulb 3
let your mind wander and wonder draw! let your mind dribble let your mind ripple flow with out thought
Exhibition At The Marlborough For Camberwell Arts Festival and Back and Beyond Festival 20th-28th Of June
This year, as part of Camberwell Art Week, The Back and Beyond festival will take place at The Marlborough. Located just behind Camberwell College of Arts, for the duration of the festival, each of the three bars will be converted into exhibition spaces. Outside there will be 40 market stalls selling works by independent artists and a sculpture garden. Throughout the day there will be live music ranging from classical in the morning, latin, jazz and acoustic in the afternoon as well as performance art pieces. In the evenings and on the weekend there will be the usual mix of The Marboroughs growing underground music scene with food available all day.
I presented two works
Enlightened Suit 1
The suit The thought
The suit that thinks the suit that suits the suit suits the suits the suit should lighten up the suit is enlightened
Going Underground I will be displaying a number of my latest works for this event
Free drawing
let your mind wonder let your mind wander let your mind dribble let your mind ripple flow with out thought draw!
The suit The thought
The suit that thinks the suit that suits the suit suits the suits the suit should lighten up the suit is enlightened
Not not going to work today would suit the suit just fine.
8pm - 2am on 31st July 2009 at Village Underground £7 entry, £2 drinks
A warehouse party with innovative theatre, live music, art exhibitions, burlesque dancing, cabaret and DJ sets.
'GOING UNDERGROUND'
Written by Christopher Morgan Produced and Directed by Rachel Heyburn Performances at 8pm and 10pm
A piece of sensorial, multi-media theatre, interacting and addressing the audience through their own phenomenological experiences with the set, situation and characters; manipulating the audience within the space. This production is aimed at anyone who has ever sat on the tube and wondered what other people are thinking, what their story may be and where they might be going.
AFTER PARTY HOSTED BY HOME.UNDER.GROUND includes:
* Islington Boys Club * The Neat * Special Guest Headliner (shhh, it's a secret!) * DJ's * Burlesque performances by Starlight Revue * Cabaret performances by Gary Albert Hughes
ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS by:
* Tracey Holland * Panda Studio * Blair Zaye * Sarah Bentley * Alexandra Jasper * Sam Cook * Harry Grattan * RUN
Lighting Design by Iris Coates McCall Graphic Design by Jack Stewart (www.jackalcreative.co.uk)
Event co-produced by Rachel Heyburn, Iris Coates McCall, Jessica Chamberlain, Laura Olliffe and Wes Crotty
Ill be creating my first gallery installation in London. Come along to the opening on the 14th of August or at least come and have a look during its duration... photos of what I will be making for it will be up shortly
Press Release:
Red Gate Gallery presents
“The Contemporary 5”
An exhibition of works by Kymberly O’Carroll-Fitzpatrick, Melanie Blackwell, Lukas Kasprowicz, Sarah Crew and Blair Zaye
Private View: Friday 14thof August 2009 - 6 pm to 11 pm
Exhibition runs from: Friday 14th to 27th of August 2009
Last day of Exhibition:Thurs 27th of August: 11.00am to 5.00pm
Drawn together by Kymberly O’Carroll-Fitzpatrick ‘The Contemporary 5’ are a group of artists presenting the viewer with international cutting-edge and contemporary talent. Each participating artist excels in individual practice and interpretation. Works range from painting, photography to sculpture showing very distinct points of view and angle. A distinctive current-day mood and artistic observation resonate through this collection of artwork.
Kymberly O’Carroll-Fitzpatrick’s artwork echoes 60’s and 70’s popular culture. Her main sources of inspiration are magazines, advertisements, comics, cartoons and books. Bold, black outlines, bright colours and underlying humour dominate her artwork.
Melanie Blackwell studies people, and with that tries to develop different ways of representing them through her painting. Working with people closest to her, Blackwell is using colour and her own personal feelings to push her comfort zones to try and create new exciting images.
Lukas Kasprowicz’s paintings deal with the presence of the human subject, whether depicted with exaggeration or merely as a vague reminiscence of a body. The figurative forms are often combined with abstract elements, creating visionary images. Many of his paintings can be seen as very dramatic, yet Kasprowicz likes to think of them as question marks - posed and left without simple answers.
Sarah Crew uses objects, taxidermy and herself within her photographs. The use and influence of objects and their value, by society, by photography and by the artist, is explored though out the work, where the objects take on new meanings and are given a new context within the photograph.
Blair Zaye: Pillbox Vs Pillowbox
Yabba Vs Velium.
Wake Vs Sleep.
Up And Down.
Dawn Vs Dusk.
Night Vs Day.
Dark Vs Light
The battle between not wanting to sleep, as not to miss a moment of life.
And the want of sleep, so much, as from fear of death.
Pillbox Vs Pillowbox, Blair Zaye 09
Nearest Buses from Brixton/Camberwell: 35 (From Clapham Junction), 45 (From Kings X), 345 (From Sth Ken to Peckham), P4 (Brixton to Lewisham) Nearest Train: Loughboroug Junction (Thames Link via King X to Sutton)
I am a New Zealand artist, with a Bachelor of Visual Arts and have been based in London since the end of 2008.
As an artist I endure to express the internal, either in myself or murmured mutterings and general feeling of faceless individuals which make up the populous. I express ideas and beliefs of implicit society and culture. Creating and uncovering utopian ideas, ideologies for a better self and society and social commentary which bares all.
Often attempting to describe thought through text to expose internal dialogue and well known secrets which reflect on social and economic conditions. Commenting on my own life situation and using it as a microcosm for the outside, psycho babbling while describing the state of the world and states of minds on private and universal levels. Showing parallels between the ‘real’ world and the world of the mind.
