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Artists Natalia Skobeeva and David Blandy will show three new videos in joint exhibit, Oracles of Humankind at London’s RCA Dyson Gallery, opening May 11 and running to May 23.

Oracles of Humankind is the final show in the current series, ‘Rise Up & Envision’ held in Dyson Gallery, and will be presented by curatorial platform, A- – -Z, who recently organised the premiere of Evan Ifekoya‘s video ‘Okun Song‘, which runs in an exhibition until May 31.

According to the press release, Blandy’s ‘Hercules: Rough Cut’ (2015) is a four screen installation that layers archival political imagery with “pulsing poetic rap (that) narrates an alternative history of the City of London”, taking heed from “language, style and cadence of Roman declamations, Thomas More, Samuel Johnson, William Blake, 1950s Beat poets and contemporary street talk”.

Skobeeva will present both ‘The Horrors of Archiving’ (2015) and ‘Lewis Carroll meets Godzilla’ (2016), the latter of which also takes and constructs content from across a vast timeline including “quotes from St Augustine, Hussels, Lewis Carroll, contemporary theatre productions, songs and conversations”. Apparently “the work needs to be watched at least 50 times”.

See the RCA Dyson Gallery website for more details.**

The Essay: a Critical Writing in Art & Design Conference takes place on May 22-3 at the Royal College of Art‘s Gorvy Lecture Theatre.

The conference, answering to a recent renaissance of the essay, is an attempt to examine this trend and to discuss the multitude of definitions that exist for it.

Speakers include Dave Gunning, Deborah Levy, Katrina Palmer, the Otolith Group, and Wayne Koestenbaum, among others. On May 23rd, the conference will feature a round table discussion chaired by general genius Emily LaBarge and artist Paul Pieroni.

See RCA event website for details.**

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There’s going to be a lot of Irish creativity this week around here. And as I said at some point last week (or the previous one) it seems like I only discover Irish animators lately, enough bubbled-boys and fucked-up cats!

Eamonn O’Neill newest piece will premiere next month @ one of North America’s most respected animation festivals: the Ottawa IAF… “the largest of its kind in North America”.  We wish we could be there, but while Eamonn releases it on-line (and that wont be at least until late 2012 as festivals usually force you to publish anything on-line for at least a year), we have a trailer which looks very promising…. very squizorganic, an Irish touch I suppose.

Eamonn has quite a curriculum himself and maybe didn’t need a RCA Masters, but it always helps some British buzz on a CV doesn’t it?

Either way, just visit his page & blog ok? His moleskine drawings & watercolors are just as impressive.

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