Opening Times

Opening Times has released new contributions from a selection of artists and writers to mark their six-month anniversary, including writer Orit Gat, artists Richard Healy and Julie Born Schwartz, and editor Victoria Camblin, now live on their website.

For her recent research commission for the site, ‘How We Write When We Write Online?‘, Rhizome-contributing editor and writer Gat posed a series of questions to fellow writers – which include Emily LaBarge, Tyler Coburn, and Frieze co-editor Dan Fox – exploring “how we write on the internet”, culminating in an essay and online research platform also produced by Gat.

Richard Healy’s artwork commission, ‘Where’s Peter?‘, on the other hand, is in the form of a video, incorporating found documents and recorded footage to piece together the relationship between English tenor Peter Pears and composer Benjamin Britten. Julie Born Schwartz’s residency, titled 再吻一次, One More Kiss, also comes in the form of a video, and Victoria Camblin will present her latest editorial selection.

See the Opening Times website for details. **

Newly launched digital art platform Opening Times has commissioned Oliver Sutherland‘s latest exhibition, titled Arabidopsis Thaliana Flammeus and available for viewing here.

Teaming up with a synthetic biologist, Sutherland has altered the genome file of the plant Arabidopsis Thaliana for the exhibition, making the common weed fluorescent under certain light conditions. The accompanying artwork – which exists as an ‘ApE’ file produced by a freeware genetic editor and often used by genetic hackers and biological engineers – contains Sutherland’s altered genome and is available for limited download on the Opening Times’ website (before becoming dependent on peer sharing and seeding via BitTorrent).

An interesting and intentional feature of the exhibition is the absence of consumer tools needed to actualise genetic code into living material, rendering Sutherland’s file obsolete and in waiting for an imagined future state – a play on time not unlike Ruth Proctor‘s Always, another of Opening Times’ recent commissions.

See the Opening Times website for details. **

Contemporary high finance according to Patrick Goddard’s Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap online at Opening Times, Dec 8

Mercedes Bunz @ Opening Times, Dec 14

An interview with Nicholas O’Brien

Us @ Swimming Pool, Nov 7 – 15

Four new digital commissions @ Opening Times

Oliver Sutherland @ Opening Times (2014)

Opening Times – Digital Art Commissions