Uniti is a crew of “three women who came together because they were tired of the cis white male dominated dance music scene in London” instead dedicating themselves to providing a platform for what their Soundcloud calls ‘femme & LGBTQ+ dance music’: “Fuck the patriarchy!”
The exhibition is based on a research trip in North America’s Mojave Desert, where the Norwegian artist deals with “the post apocalyptical vision of a survival station amidst a wayless desert landscape.” Hasselknippe’s site-specific installation includes three separate though connected sculptures, coated and layered with concrete, a fire pit on a wooden structure and a newly developed film projection. Together they examine ideas of interior space through its juxtaposition with the vast expanse and the solitude of the desert:
“This way the artist creates a place of retreat, which concisely captures in a nutshell the popular drop-out fantasies of a “Generation Angst” and other existing protectionist tendencies in societies.”
London’s SET project space and artist studio is opening with a residency from chats cafe on December 2.
The new volunteer and artist-run initiative is focussed on providing affordable space for artists and a platform for new, collaborative and experimental projects that engage the local community, along with an ongoing arts and educational programme of performances, exhibitions, talks, workshops and screenings.
The first will be the residency from chats, so far a pop up ‘food enterprise’, which will be serving good and affordable food and drinks, along with a live set from Coby Sey.
‘An Afternoon for Ian’is on at London’s The Showroom on December 3.
The afternoon of presentations is part of Here is Information. Mobilise: a weekend-long set of events dedicated to celebrating the life and work of Ian White (1971-2013), taking place at The Showroom and ICA in collaboration with LUX.
The annual Les Urbaines (‘The Urban’) festival is on at Lausanne’s Espace Arlaud as well as various other locations, running December 1 to 4.
The 20th edition with be host to over forty performances, shows, installations and concerts throughout the weekend. Elise Lammer will be curating this year’s contemporary art section, titled Meaning Can only Grow out of Intimacy (limbs, water, nostalgia) and features work by Lars TCF Holdhus &Martin Kohout, Hannah Weinberger, Brigham BakerandKris Lemsaluamong others. The works are not connected by a theme, but each artist was invited to “produce a new project and invest one room freely.”
The event follows on from a month-long reading group that aimed to raise questions about “the Eurocentric conceptualisations of technology, sound and gender implicit in much recent activism around these themes.” The panel will “explore what is at stake in the “now” of electronic music, audio production and sound arts, and asks what possible strategies of sonic resistance can be practiced.”
See the Goldsmiths website for details.**
Image courtesy Screen and Audiovisual Research Unit, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, London.
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SPF15 @ Fringe Projects Miami 2016, Dec 3
30 November 2016
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SPF15 is presenting Kult of Konsciousness at Miami Beach on December 3.
The play takes place in a kitchen, where two flowers Kween and Khaos “begin to cannibalize each other while stuck at home, eating salads and awaiting the birth of a baby flower” until a third one, Karma, enters.
Life and Death Party (2016). Promotional image. Courtesy of Little River Studios, Miami.
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Manège² @ Ppromotion + Data Rhei, Dec 1 – 4
30 November 2016
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The Manège² group exhibition is on at Paris’ Ppromotion and Data Rhei on December 1.
The ‘installation-situation’ and edition is conceived as and shared between two ‘domestic spaces’ which are transformed into art run ones at night, at both ends of Rue de la Roquette, 75011. It stems from a statement in the next related publication, Un-Resicencies, where it calls the home a place of ‘asylum’ or ‘shelter’ from the hostilities of a new state where socioeconomic conditions have led to a deterioration of the notion of ‘authenticity’:
“The intensification of the neoliberal phenomenon of acceleration seems each day to make our perception of the world look a little more like the Uncanny.”
The two shows will present a selection of motifs and recurrences that occupy a conceptual or physical place and feature other French and international art spaces and collectives, including Deborah Bowmann, Diesel Project Space, Rinomina, DOC, Kunsthalle Tropical, and Ultrastudio among others. The focus is on the modalities of claiming artistic territory, where lease agreements, conditions of use, logos and texts act as a corpus of signs of being and inhabiting.
Jenna Sutela will be reading from her forthcoming publication Orgs: From Slime Mold to Silicon Valley at London’s The White Building (SPACE Art + Technology) on December 1.
“..But their circuits are self-growing and self-repairing, producing systems tolerant to interruptions or failure..”
The event is #11 in the OpenPROCESS series that provides a platform for process-led practices, and will take the form of a “performative, sonic transcription”. The reading will also feature Clara Jo, Emily Jones and Ming Lin.
The publication focuses on “decentralized organisms and organizations” and expands on Sutela’s interest in the simultaneous, multiple voices that related to a neo-biological future of technology. The Helsinki-based artist works across installation, sound performance and writing to “identify and react to precarious social and material moments, often in relation to technology.”
The 15th edition of PAF(Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art) is taking place around the Czech city of Olomouc, running December 1 to 4.
PAF’s aim is to bring the practice of animation into the context of cinematography, media studies and visual arts. This year’s theme will be ‘Why Look at Animals’ inspired by John Berger‘s seminal book of the same name that explores “the humanizing of animals and the significance of zoological gardens.”
Holly Pester presents new project Common Rest with an accompanying event Lullabies and Curses at London’s Peckham Pelican on December 1.
The multimedia project includes a book of poems as well as a 10-inch vinyl album that was developed during her residency with Hubbubat the Welcome Collection to explore ‘different female responses to ideas of work and play, care and collaboration, motherhood and sexuality, curses and spells.’
The event will be host to a night of readings, performances, songs and spells by contributors Raha, Spott, Pester, Rodriguez, Moore, as well as Mrylyn Tan and Linda Stupart.
niv Acosta presents solo performance CLAPBACK at London’s IMT Gallery on December 1.
The work first premiered at Berlin’s Kunst-Were Institute for Contemporary Art earlier this year, and acts as a ‘memorial homage celebrating and remembering the lives of those who fell victim to police violence within the year of 2015’. Audience participation and solo performance come together to engage in ‘collective consciousness and group action.’
Rehana Zaman is presenting solo exhibition Tell me the story Of all these things at London’s Tenderpixel, opening November 29 and running to January 28.
Spanning over the two floors of the gallery, a new video work will explore dislocation and fragmentation, taking its title from Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s novel Dictee that looks at lived experience through a process of disassembling.
With a particular focus on the experience of British Muslim women, the exhibition is “an accumulation of several narrative threads drawing together intimate conversations between the artist and her two sisters, ominous animated visions of a metamorphosing body, e-learning training on Prevent and staged, performed gestures.”
Techno Feudalism and The Tragedy of the Commons @ RES, Nov 29
28 November 2016
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Doggerland is presenting Techno Feudalism and The Tragedy of the Commons at London’s Res on November 29.
Held by curator Emma Gradin and lecturer/social movement organiser Dr. Sofa Gradin (and other guests), the evening will host an open discussion with artist and writer William Kherbekwho will be discussing “some of the limitations this generation faces being so deeply entrenched within a neoliberal and precarious situation’ and other ideas included in his essay ”Techno Feudalism…'”, which was first published in Issue 1 of Doggerland Journal (2016).
Kherbek has previously published ‘Ecology of Secrets’ (2013) and forthcoming ‘UltraLife’ via Arcadia Missa.
Doggerland focuses on artist-led activity throughout the UK to conduct collaborative research.
Native Instruments presents new project Komplete Sketches available now on the NI webpage.
The music production manufacturer has brought together 24 artists for a new project to create sonic sketches using their latest studio package: Komplete 11. Working within the frame of electronica, the project features work by Jlin, Throwing Shade, Chino Amobi, Nkisi, M.E.S.H. , Mumdance and Aïsha Deviamong others.
Berlin-based artist Rainer Kohlberger,who works with “algorithmically generated graphics” in film and live performanceshas produced animated visuals to accompany the sound.
The issue explores the complexities of the ‘personality disorder’ with new perspectives on “identity, the virtual, transcendence and how our aesthetic embodiment relates to capitalism.” Looking at the ways our “psychic/social ecology meets with the environmental in haemorrhage of inner to outer”, the focus relates to the overarching aim of the zine which is rooted in “ecology’s muddled identity.”
Alika Cooper is presenting solo exhibition Wet Suits at North Little Rock’s Good Weather Gallery, opening November 26 and running to December 31.
The show press release opens with a quote from French Post-structuralist philosopher Roland Barthes, “I am engulfed, I succumb…”, and refers to the LA-based artist’s use of gendered techniques, including quilting and appliqué, to reclaim “the female form, its portrayal, and a woman’s formation of her own body image.”
Paintings on hand-dyed fabric evoke the contours of a silhouetted figured while implying the idiom “hung out to dry”, including “subjects—objectification; the dehumanizing mechanics of a pervasive misogynistic culture; male privilege.”
