Lucas Bambozzi "SPIO" at HTTP gallery London

http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib4/gallery_spio.shtml

London / Berlin residency exchange

Phase I - July - September 2004
Phase II - January - February 2005

Tobi Maier co-curated Berlin x 2004/2005, an exchange between artists from Deptford, South London and Berlin initiated as part of Deptford X 2004. Partners in the exchange are Deptford X, Museum of Installation, APT Gallery and studios in London and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kunstfabrik / 2YK Gallery, and Center Gallery in Berlin.

London / Berlin residency exchange (PART II)

The second phase of residencies happened in January/February 2005 at APT gallery in London and the Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. In February, Gavin Wade and Roland Boden will present new work after 6 weeks in residency.

Roland Boden :
Das Böse hinterm Gartenzaun, ist immer auch nett
anzuschaun

During his residency in London, German artist Roland
Boden has been working on two new video animations.
The works feature motives of decaying housing
estates in the South London area, dark staircases
and parking lots, depicting locations which exercise
a morbid fascination on the viewer and which might
be associated with crime. While previous animations
have featured his mobile shelter units protecting
individuals from all evil of the urban sprawl, Boden
is now revealing the fallow areas usually avoided
when passing through metropolitan suburbs. Together
with a sculpture and a series of photographs his new
video work "Traumdes Schlaefers" premiered at APT gallery, London from 22nd – 27th February.

Recent group shows include: "Munch revisited" Museum
am Ostwall, Dortmund (2005), "Recolving Doors"
Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid (2004), "Adieu
Avantgarde. Willkommen zu Haus" Ludwig-Forum, Aachen
(2003), "Living inside the grid" New Museum, New
York (2003). His work was also included in Manifesta
3 Ljubljana (2000). This is the first solo show of
Roland Boden in the UK.

Gavin Wade :
#16 What is brain?

During his residency at the Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien
in Berlin, English artist and curator Gavin Wade has
continued working on Strategic Questions, an ongoing
work to develop 40 projects in response to 40
questions written by Buckminster Fuller. During his
residency in Berlin, Wade has been collaborating
with German artist Henrik Schrat to answer question
#16 What is brain?
The publication One Day Comic (20.1.05), launched at
Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, is a 30 page comic about
Barnaby Kaminsky and the day he answered the door to
two missionaries spreading the word of their
glorious founder Charles T. Russell. The comic
delves into the true story of Wagner Corp., the
recipe for fried brains and the connection between
Rosa Luxembourg and the special thought of the
invisible floating brain.

DATES

London

22. February, 7-9pm- Opening Roland Boden, APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, SE8, DLR Deptford + tube New Cross

24. February, 7pm - Talk at the Goethe Institut London, London based curator and critic Diana Baldon in conversation with artist Roland Boden and Christoph Tannert (director, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien)

Roland Boden - still from DVD "Traum des Schlaefers" - 2005

Berlin

24. February, presentation of the 1-day comic "What is Brain", a collaboration between Gavin Wade and Henrik Schrat marking the end of Gavin wade's residency at Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin

you can order a copy of "What is Brain" through the Strategic Questions web site

this project has been curated and organized by Deb Astell, Boris Kremer and Tobi Maier

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London / Berlin residency exchange (PART I)

The residencies completed in June/August 2004 were followed by an exhibition at Kunstfabrik in Berlin, 21 August - 5 September 2004, and in APT gallery in London, 26 August - 11 September 2004.

At Kunstfabrik, Berlin
Residency: July-August
Exhibition: 21 August – 5 September
2yk Galerie, Am Flutgraben 3 - 12435 Berlin

Artists
Barry Sykes
John Wynne
Click here to view cv's

Fallender Ton fuer 207 Lautsprecherboxen, 2004, John Wynne

At APT gallery and studios, London
Residency: July-August
Exhibition: 26 August - 5 September 2004
APT gallery, 6 Creekside, SE8, tube New Cross, DLR Deptford

Artists
Despina Stokou
Martin Pfahler
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Arena Cut, 2004, Martin Pfahler

this project has been curated and organized by Deb Astell, Wolfgang Schlegel and Tobi Maier

Supported by

Window cleaning days are over

Group show @ the Empire
20th November – 12th December 2004

Illustration by Duncan Ross, Devil music, 2004

Window Cleaning Days are Over gathers seven artists and collectives from around Europe. Without a specific premise, the exhibition presents new and recent works shown in London for the first time. Some of the artists have responded to the title of the show drawn from a song by emerging London-based sound artist Dan Wilson.

The Empire
33a Wadeson Street
London E2 9DR

Show open: 20th November – 12th December 2004
Gallery opening times: Thursday to Sunday 12-6pm

Bad Beuys Entertainment
Bad Beuys Entertainment is an artist collective founded in 1999 in Cergy-Pontoise (greater Paris). BAD BOYS ENTERTAINMENT is the name of a major American hip-hop label. In BBE, Boys has been replaced by Beuys. The name BBE indicates the group’s point of departure and its frame of reference: if its attitude isn't revolutionary, it is certainly a critical one, targeting the spheres of mass cultural production. For this exhibition, they are presenting two new works. The photograph Sauvageons is a self-portrait, staged at a suburban bus stop. Four models, have been cast to represent the group members wearing track suits at a bus stop. The second piece is described by the collective as “deluxe junk”. The Chinese stuff refers to (industrial) ''tableaux'' one can find in Chinese restaurants or fast-foods. These are light boxes containing a mechanism built to render a kinetic effect, providing the object with a kind of magic. Idyllic scenery, these photomontages - touched up photographs - usually represent exotic landscapes: luxurious nature with azure skies and fertile downs, sometimes with a waterfall.

Recent shows include: FIAC 04; CAC, Meymac (2004, group show); Glassbox, Paris (2004, group show); Galerie Corentin Hamel, Paris (2003, solo show); Confluences, Paris (2002, group show).

Vanessa Billy
Vanessa Billy uses industrial materials from PVC and rubber to steel and glass to conceive sculptures oddly resembling everyday objects. Yet, Billy’s works are vain in that they fail to perform a specific task. Midway, 2004 while evoking the rubber curtain through which the luggage appears at the baggage reclaim, claims a new significance in the gallery environment. Made of brightly coloured PVC and mirror, Other’s people fire sits in the middle of the gallery. It suggests an inner confusion which access is denied by fragments of mirror reflecting the viewer and its surroundings.

Vanessa Billy was born in 1978 in Geneva, Switzerland. She lives and works in London. Recent shows include: The Standpoint Gallery, London (2004, group show), Mad03 Festival (2003, group show); MadridLos29enchufes / Madrid (2003, group show).

Seamus Harahan
Harahan’s video works picture day to day matters and environments. In Il Mercenario, Harahan is documenting a Belfast street scene of a Drunk, who might have trained as a Boxer. Juxtaposing the visual with Western music, the “Boxer” turns into a dancing Cider Cowboy of the urban sprawl. By choosing the elevator for projection the viewer is forced into a 1:1 encounter with Il Mercenario.

Seamus Harahan was born in 1968 in London. He lives and works in Belfast. Recent shows include: Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin (2004, solo show); Zé dos bois Gallery, Lisbon (2003, group show); Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (2004, group show); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2002, group show). He will be showing at Gimpel Fils from 25th November 2004 to 7th January 2005, and has been selected amongst 13 other artists to participate in the first Northern Irish representation at the 51st Venice Biennial (2005).

Icelandic Love Corporation
Icelandic Love Corporation is an artist collective founded in 1996 in Reykjavik. In their performances, photographs and video works, ILC are reinventing themselves as characters something in between human beings and elves. Based in different parts of Europe, yet influenced by their common heritage, ILC use the gap between critical inquiry and neutralized representation to develop mesmerizing situations and objects.

Recent shows include: Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium (2004, group show; Art Statements, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland (2004); Tanya Bonaktar Gallery, New York (2004, group show); Tent, Rotterdam (2004, group show); Volume, Brooklyn, New York (2004, group show); Zacheta Gallery, Warzaw (2004, group show); Galerie Zink&Gegner, Munich (2003, solo show)

Juneau/projects/
Ban this: the remix is a multimedia installation comprised of prints, a video and an audio element. Initially conceived for the Road Show, 2003 (Grizedale), Ban this consisted of asking people to write their own lyrics and sing their song along tracks composed by juneau/projects/. Ban this: the remix present the remixed version of these songs as well as magnified lyrics sheets by children. The video features Cosmo, an American child performing his song.

Juneau/projects/ is Philip Duckworth, born 1976 in Iselohn, Germany and Ben Sadler, born 1977 in Birmingham.
Recent shows include: The Showroom, London (2004, solo show), fa projects, London (2004, solo show), Romantic Detachment at PS1, New York (2004, group show).

Duncan Ross
Rarely appearing in a gallery context, Ross primarily works in collaboration with other artists, small publishers and arts organisation. For this exhibition, Ross has created three new drawings inspired by Television, his dreams and false memories. His ideas are influenced stylistically by cartoonists like DC Thompson’s Leo Boxendale and Dudley D. Watkins.

Duncan Ross was born in 1974 in Kinross, Fife, Scotland. He lives and works in Belfast.
Recent shows include: Zé dos bois Gallery, Lisbon (2003, group show); Catalyst Arts Belfast (2002, group show); Generator Projects, Dundee (2001, group show). Ross is illustrator of the monthly Vacuum newspaper, Belfast.

Michael Sailstorfer
For Window Cleaning Days are Over, Sailstorfer is presenting two new works. Anna (2004) is a sound installation featuring the encounter between a hairdryer and a microphone. Inspired by Kurt Schwitter’s poem Anna reinterpreted by German Hip-Hop band Freundeskreis in the late 1990’s, Sailstorfer’s performative piece amplifies a familiar domestic noise, lending it an exaggerated importance.
The second piece brought in this show is Window, a steel frame that used to contain a shop sign. Placed outdoors, it works like a window, framing the surroundings.

Michael Sailstorfer was born in 1979 in Vilsbiburg, Germany.
Recent shows include: Zero gallery, Milan, Italy (2004, group show); Attitudes, Genf, Switzerland (2004, solo show); Sydney Biennale, Australia (2004); Manifesta 5, San Sebastian, Spain (2004); Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin (2003, solo show); Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany (2003, group show). Sailstorfer is currently showing in Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Barbican.

supported by -

Mika Taanila and Erkki Kurenniemi

@ HTTP GALLERY
Tuesday 19th October - Sunday 14th November 2004

HTTP - House of Technologically Termed Praxis:
London's first dedicated gallery for networked, net art, new media & sound art. It opens in October 2004 to provide a public space for experimental approaches to exhibiting relational, technologically termed art. Dosensos and Furtherfield have joined forces to work with artists from around the world to develop alternative means of exhibiting online and screen-based projects in the gallerycontext. Artists' projects on DVD, real-time, net-cast, broadcast and sound and live art will also play a major role in the curatorial work of HTTP://

HTTP opened with
Mika Taanila - The Future Is Not What It Used To Be:
Erkki Kurenniemi - DIMI-A

October 21st -14th November 2004. Friday- Sunday: 12 noon- 5pm & by appointment Map

HTTP presented a documentary film by Mika Taanila about Erkki Kurenniemi, 'an unsung pioneer of electronic art', and Kurenniemi's DIMI-A, 'a digital musical instrument with associative memory, an early computer-based sampler'. 'Kurenniemi's career represents a surprisingly natural blend of music, film, computers, robotics, science and art. Kurenniemi, collecting everything around him, records his thoughts, observations, objects and images constantly, with manic precision, with the ultimate goal of merging man andmachine - reconstructing the human soul.

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Mika Taanila and Erkki Kurenniemi in conversation with Ruth Catlow and Knut Auferman on Resonance 104.4FM - live from Frieze Art Fair, Monday 18th October 3-4pm. Erkki Kurenniemi's talk at Royal College of Art, Tuesday 19th October 4-5.30pm.

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This exhibition was supported by the Finnish Fund for Art Exchange (FRAME) and the Finnish Institute in London

Unit A2, Arena Business Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd,
London N4 1NY Map

Tube: Manor House
Buses: 341, 141
Train: Haringey Green Lanes
free car parking facilities
Gallery URL - http://www.http.uk.net
HTTP:// is a non-profit organisation run by artists and curators of furtherfield & dosensos

Five Days of art radio / radio art

14 - 18 October 2004
Resonance 104.4fm from the Frieze Art Fair

Programming and co-ordination of Resonance 104.4fm broadcastsfrom the Frieze Art Fair. Resonance 104.4fm set up its studio at the art fair and broadcast live from Thursday 14th October till Monday 18th October 2004, 11 am – 7pm. Resonance transmitted the Frieze Art Fair talks programme, radio specific works plus feature interviews with artists and art professionals in and around the art fair.

Thursday 14 October

11	Opening programme with a preview of the live broadcasts for the next days, live from Frieze Art Fair.
11.30	Opsound. Opsound is a record label,using an open source, copyleft model, an experiment in practical gift economics, a laboratory for new ways of releasing music.
12	Frieze art fair organizer Polly Staple welcomes ResonanceFM listeners.
12.30	dosensos dj set
1	Artist Haim Steinbach interviewed by artist Andy Holden
1.30	broadcast of Radio Tuesday, originally released by Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.
2	Scotland roundtable , participants tbc.
2.30	Ross Sinclair, The real life Rock Opera Volume 1, courtesy The Agency gallery London.
3	Comments on the fair by Hari Kunzru, freelance journalist, Mute contributor and London based editor.
3.30	Anthony Huberman, Programme director at the Scultpure Centre New York, presents a 30 minute discussion about radio with artist Vito Acconci.
4	Artist Trisha Donnelly and Jack Hanley from Jack Hanley in San Francisco in conversation.
5	Curator Tamsin Dillon and Artist Emma Kay present the latest public art commission for the London Underground
5.30	David Robbins audio material
6	Peres-projects LA presents work by artist Terence Koh
6.30	various guests from the fair

Friday 15 October

11	David Gryn present the Artprojx cinema series at Prince Charles Cinema 16-17-18 October 2004.
11.30	Alastair Leslie, Ivan Seal, Ben Drew (live! laptop performance)
12	Alun Williams from Parkers Box, New York and Jose Kuri from kurimanzutto gallery, Mexico city in conversation with Tobi Maier.
1	Contemporary Collecting (live broadcast of the frieze art fair panel discussion) What are the motivations and responsibilities behind building a contemporary art collection? From public foundations to private individuals, the panelists discuss their collections followed by questions from the chair. Alistair Hicks (Art Advisor to Deutsche Bank AG) Harald Falckenberg (Collector) Susan May (Head of Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery) John A. Smith (Collector) Chair: Andrew Renton (Director, Curatorial Programme, Goldsmiths' College and Columnist, Evening Standard)
2.30	Juneau/projects/, London present recent audio works.
3	Meyer-Rieger gallery, Karlsruhe presents audio works by Helen Mirra.
3.30	Interview with Christian Sievers, Frieze Art fair projects co-ordinator.
3.45	audio artists radio transmissions, a project by Gary Phelan.
4	The Future Museum How does the construction of the buildings that house art effect the way museums function? What is the role of the museum within local and international fields? Can museum programming embrace both experimentation and conservation? What is the vision for the museum of the future? Charles Esche (Director, Van Abbemuseum and Co-editor of Afterall) Yuko Hasegawa (Chief Curator, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art) Beatrix Ruf (Director/Curator, Kunsthalle Zürich) Igor Zabel (Curator, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana) Chair: Richard Flood (Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Walker Art Center)
5.30	Meg Maggio from CourtYard gallery, Beijing in conversation with Tobi Maier and Anna Colin.
6	Tetine (Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner) pre- launch their new album Funky Carioca (Mr.Bongo rec.)

Saturday 16 October

11	Artist Gary Phelan presents material from his various Radio projects
11.30	B-Q gallery, Cologne presents artist Ferdinand Kriwet
12	Roundtable with Assume vivid astro focus (LA/NY) and Los Super Elegantes (LA)
1	New Internationalism - Does the rapid development of new art centres encourage greater cultural diversity, or has it resulted in a new international orthodoxy? How can discourse keep up with information? Leading art professionals discuss. Vasif Kortun (Director, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, and Co-curator 9th International Istanbul Biennial, 2005) Chus Martinez (Art Critic and Curator, sala rekalde) Neil Mulholland (Lecturer in Contemporary Art and Theory, Centre for Visual & Cultural Studies, Edinburgh College of Art) Adam Szymczyk (Director, Kunsthalle Basel) Chair: Alex Farquharson (Art Critic and Co-curator, British Art Show 6)
3	Phil Collins dj-set
3.30	Adam Chodzko radio art - second part

Sunday 17 October

12	Resonance 104.4FM live electronics set with James Dunn, Robin Warren and Chris Weaver.
12.30	Maria Fusco presents latest the Bookworks commissions – Mark Titchner / Lawrence Weiner.
1	The Psychology of Collecting, live broadcast of the frieze art fair panel discussion - Is collecting an irrational act guided by compulsion and desire? What are the use of objects? What are the motivations behind making, collecting, curating and criticizing art? A discussion of the psychology of collecting and the politics of taste. Hilary Rubenstein (Psychologist) Eric Troncy (Art Critic and Director, Le Consortium, Dijon) Haim Steinbach (Artist) Chair: Alice Rawsthorn (Director, Design Museum)
2.30	Michael Hall gallery, Vienna presents audio works by artist Elisabeth Penker
2.45	Torsten Lauschmann’ s music selection (pre-recorded dj-set)
3.10	Portable live set and presentation of sudelectronic records, London
4	Where is Adventure? What is Culture? - A discussion of the relationship of art to entertainment, touching on the comedic, being popular and failing miserably. Trisha Donnelly (Artist) Christian Jankowski (Artist) David Robbins (Writer & Artist) Nancy Spector (Curator of Contemporary Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) Chair: Matthew Higgs (Curator, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts)
5.30	James Lingwood presents Gregor Schneider*s Artangel commission
5.45	Toby Clarkson’s recordings from the fair
6	Melissa Bent from Rivington Arms gallery, New York in conversation with artist Dan Colan

Monday 18 October

11	Late breakfast discussion in and around the fair.
11.30	discussion with pupils from the Serpentine gallery education day at Frieze Art Fair
12	Anthony Huberman, Programme director at the Scultpure Centre New York, presents a 30 minute interview with Lawrence Weiner.
12.30	Scott King with Matthew Higgs on Joy Division
1.30	Oliver Payne and Nick Relph dj set
2.15	Don Urquhart spoken word performance
3	Erkki Kurenniemi and Mika Taanila in conversation with Tobi Maier and Ruth Catlow on the occasion of their London exhibition at HTTP gallery
4	VOX pop, recordings from the fair with Sharon Gal
5	End of broadcast from Frieze Art Fair

Bin disco - San Sebastian

A local intervention by Paddy Bloomer and Nicky Keogh
During the opening week of Manifesta 5
12th and 14th June 2004

PRESS RELEASE

Bin Disco, 2004 at Manifesta 5, a spontaneous urban intervention by Paddy Bloomer and Nicky Keogh, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

12th June 2004 from 9pm: Pasaia San Pedro

14th June 2004 from 10am: City centre (down Bataplan on La Concha)

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Northern Irish artists Nicky Keogh and Paddy Bloomer have proposed to bring their bin disco from Belfast to Donostia - San Sebastián. Bin Disco (200kg, 120:120:140cm) is an interactive installation, which, as its name indicates, consists of a disco in a bin. It is a mobile object which can travel around urban areas.

Bin Disco was shown for the first time earlier this year in Belfast’s alleyways and in Cushendall, in the Northern Irish province. Spawning curiosity amongst locals and visitors, the site became an accidental gathering place. The project is similar in many respects to the Sewer Disco (2003), which run for one summer night, under the ground of a Lisbon street crossing, where it generated a lot of local enthusiasm and national publicity.

Paddy Bloomer and Nicky Keogh explore, conceive and fulfil the most unconventional and refreshing fantasies. Their interventions take form on multiple levels, very often in uninviting, ignored or inaccessible public places. Bloomer and Keogh also investigate monthly for the free cultural Belfast based magazine The Vacuum. Finding out where to get the “less worst” deal for food in Belfast, or how it feels to taste a delicately marinated guinea pig are part of Keogh and Bloomer’s everyday adventurous and absurd performances. Besides entertaining the cynical ones, they challenge people’s expectations of the urban landscape by creating surreal situations. Always with a great dose of jauntiness and humour, they have the ability to get people together and bring something extra to their routine.

Bin Disco will be operated in Pasaia San Pedro on the evening of Saturday 12th of June and during the morning hours on Monday 14th of June in Donostia - San Sebastián Centre. Excerpts from the intervention will be broadcasted on London´s art radio station Resonance 104.4 FM, and worldwide on www.resonancefm.com

Bin Disco - Donostia - San Sebastian (2004) was supported by:

DIGITALX

17th April 2004, 6-10pm,
The Laban, Creekside, Deptford, London, SE8 3DZ

DIGITALX is a 1 day digital art event with the participation of:
Blast Theory / Greyworld / Susanne Dietz / Neutral / Deckspace / Rick Buckley / Mapstation live

image courtesy of neutral.gs

Greyworld presents:
Urban Sketches
This installation provides a unique glimpse through Alice’s looking glass into another world, where blue plasma shoots from the hands of some passers-by whilst other visitors suddenly appear to catch on fire. It is a portal into another dimension where movement is transformed into a magical and elegant work of art.

Blast Theory presents:
Light square, anew work from Blast Theory in which two performers, two televisions and two video projections interact with one another.

Deckspace presents:
ConsumeX, a Wireless research project to expose data network resources and build a Community Area Network with local people for all to use.The area of focus echos that of DeptfordX Festival footprint, from Greenwich up river to the Lewisham borders, round Deptford centre, New Cross Gate and back across MillBrook via St Johns.
The first six access locations have now been equiped and interlinked to exchange data link to the internet for free via the internet gateway at deckspace in Greenwhich. CONSUME is the international free networking strategy and advocates establishment of user owned and run computer networks, supporting node builders and presenting its progress, driving fresh community development and a transformation of the public media landscape.

Susanne Dietz presents:
bandsalat is a digital installation of an analogue disaster
bandsalat
Stretched – chewed – twisted – thinned – torn – creased - snapped – jammed – ripped – crumpled – spliced – strained - kinked – scarred – mutilated – strangled.
Home taping was killing music.
Sound by Conspiracy, Performance by David Rosenberg (SHUNT)

Neutral presents:
"Laban video”
The Laban video is a sketchy piece, documenting the process in the
middle of the construction phase of the dance centre. The video was
aimed to show alternate design solutions for interior surfaces and
features and was used to provoke discussion and help in decision
making. The raw concrete shell of the building is juxtaposed with
samples of materials and colours to be used for the finishes. Also the
surrounding, rapidly developing cityscape of Deptford is documented as part of the process."

Mapstation
Stefan Schneider (To Rococo Rot, ex-Kreidler)
For more than two years Mapstation has been the imprint of Stefan Schneider. Stefan also plays bass guitar and electronics with the Düsseldorf/Berlin trio TO ROCOCO ROT. Mapstation's music is closer to minimalist techno, but brings the euphoria of the genre together with charming slow-downs of pace and bpm. Mapstation will create a soundscape in the exterior landscape of Laban.

Stefan Schneider's performance at Laban