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Nov 06

u s e r u n f r i e n d l y, UBERMORGEN solo show in London

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There is a lot to say, dislike (portraits of perma-tanned, bejeweled ladies) and like (all the rest) about u s e r u n f r i e n d l y, UBERMORGEN solo exhibition at Carroll/Fletcher.

Whether it’s a painting, an installation or a website, everything in u s e r u n f r i e n d l y comes with an uncomfortable background. Take Perpetrator: the photo of a young man shouting in an abandoned train station. The print is part of a series of photo and video works based on the life of Guantanamo Bay military guard continue

Nov 05

#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 44: Michiko Nitta & Michael Burton

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Michiko and Michael’s work is never without surprise. Whether they entrust opera singers to produce food in a future world where algae have become the world’s dominant food source or explore the possibility of a city that would be isolated from the wider environment and where food, energy, and even medicine, are derived from human origin and man-made biological systems. continue

Oct 28

Sound Matters: Exploring Sound Through Forms

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This brilliant little exhibition considers the connections between craft practice and sound art in the ‘digital age’. Exploring the physicality of sound, the works are characterised by both their sonic properties and materiality continue

Oct 22

#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 42: X&Y, a theater play about mathematics, humour and infinity

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Award-winning science communicator Professor Marcus du Sautoy and actress and mathematician Victoria Gould use mathematics and the theatre to navigate the known and unknown reaches of our world continue

Oct 18

Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr

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In the late 1960s, Tony Ray-Jones traveled across his country in a VW camper to document the leisure and pleasures of the English. He was a man who lived by his own rules. One of them was to never take a boring photo. There are dozens of images in the exhibition and none of them is remotely insipid continue

Oct 14

Shunga: sex and pleasure in Japanese art

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In early modern Japan, 1600-1900, thousands of sexually explicit works of art were produced, known as ‘spring pictures’ (shunga). The exhibition examines the often tender, funny, beautiful and accomplished shunga that were produced by some of the masters of Japanese art continue

Oct 01

East of Eden

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I haven’t seen that many exciting exhibitions in London over the past few weeks. I was however, bowled over by the photos of Philip-Lorca diCorcia at the David Zwirner Gallery. The East of Eden series brings side by side biblical references and the dark side of the American dream continue

Aug 15

The Broken Hill skull

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Artist Pratchaya Phinthong has shipped to a London art gallery the replica of a skull that almost 100 years ago provided key evidence to support Darwin’s theory of human evolution, replacing it with an identical model purchased online. He has additionally invited the museum guide, Kamfwa Chishala, to travel to London and relay the complex history of the skull to Chisenhale Gallery visitors, as he does in Lusaka continue

Aug 08

At the Moment of Being Heard

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At the moment of being heard brings together works and performances by a group of international artists, musicians and composers engaging with sound and modes of listening continue

Aug 04

Making It Up: Photographic Fictions

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Photography is widely associated with truthfulness yet it has also been employed throughout its history as a means of telling stories and evoking the imaginary continue

Jul 28

Red Never Follows

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Judging from the programme, the exhibition should make for a very entertaining Summer distraction (whether you’re interested in fashion and aftershave or not): inflatable architecture, virtual painting using visitors body movements, pulsating kinetic sculpture, floor to ceiling ultra violet-light installation, robot and a bit of street art thrown in for good measure continue

Jul 25

The Language of Cetaceans at the Arts Catalyst

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The event brought together two men who share a passion for whales. One is environmental scientist and marine biologist Mark Peter Simmonds who investigates and raises awareness about an issue that is far away from our sights: the threats to the life of marine mammals caused by the increasing emissions of loud noise under water. The other is artist and inventor Ariel Guzik who has spent the last ten years looking for a way of communicating with cetaceans continue

Jul 23

Glitch Moment/ums – From tech accident to artistic expression

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“The glitch makes the computer itself suddenly appear unconventionally deep, in contrast to the more banal, predictable surface-level behaviours of ‘normal’ machines and systems. In this way, glitches announce a crazy and dangerous kind of moment(um) instantiated and dictated by the machine itself.” Rosa Menkman continue

Jul 22

Keep Your Timber Limber

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The exhibition explores how artists since the 1940s to the present day have used drawing to address ideas critical and current to their time, ranging from the politics of gender and sexuality, to feminist issues, war and censorship continue

Jul 15

Manufactured Britishness

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Manufactured Britishness is a project derived from the compulsory ‘Life in the UK’ test. The project critically explores the assessment program contrived by Britain in testing for citizenship by proposing a future manifestation of the Life in the UK test. In this future, we see immigrants as an exploitable material, a living currency, compelled to sustain national identity in order to maximise capitalistic agendas. At what point does one ‘become’ British? What are the criteria and who makes the final decision? continue

Jul 08

Who Owns The Arctic

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Sitting somewhere between criminality, deceit and disruption, each scheme seeks to exploit the unique infrastructure, ecology, potential for dispute, and legal ambiguity of the Arctic region to provide devious financial rewards continue

Jul 05

The Alternative Guide to the Universe

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Alternative Guide to the Universe focuses on individuals who develop their ideas and practices outside of official institutions and established disciplines. Their work ingeniously departs from accepted ways of thinking in order to re-imagine the rules of culture and science. Some of their speculative visions rival the wildest inventions of science fiction – with the difference that these practitioners believe in the validity and veracity of all that they describe and propose continue

Jun 12

Oil City, ‘a spy thriller for the post-Occupy era’

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Oil City takes audiences into the underbelly of London’s oil economy, looking at UK finance for Canadian tar sands projects. By eavesdropping on business people and seeking out secret documents hidden in dead-drops, you will help piece together a puzzle that interweaves government files with financial deals continue

Jun 08

United Micro Kingdoms

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Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby use elements of industrial design, architecture, politics, science and sociology to provoke debate around the power and potential of design. UmK challenges assumptions about how products and services are made and used, through reinterpretations of the car and other transport systems continue

Jun 04

#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 32: Patrick Stevenson-Keating

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Patrick Sevenson-Keating uses design to create objects and experiences that communicate and make the most sophisticated theories in physics more tangible. Not only are we going to talk about quantum physics, Big Bang and particle accelerators but it’s actually going to be pretty enjoyable continue

Hasta La Creative!

u s e r u n f r i e n d l y, UBERMORGEN solo show in London

#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 44: Michiko Nitta & Michael Burton

Sound Matters: Exploring Sound Through Forms

#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 42: X&Y, a theater play about mathematics, humour and infinity

Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr

Shunga: sex and pleasure in Japanese art

East of Eden

The Broken Hill skull

At the Moment of Being Heard

Making It Up: Photographic Fictions

Red Never Follows

The Language of Cetaceans at the Arts Catalyst

Glitch Moment/ums – From tech accident to artistic expression

Keep Your Timber Limber

Manufactured Britishness

Who Owns The Arctic

The Alternative Guide to the Universe

Oil City, ‘a spy thriller for the post-Occupy era’

United Micro Kingdoms

#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 32: Patrick Stevenson-Keating

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