Past
These Mad Hybrids:
John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture
Book Launch
Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Queen’s Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1PX, UK
Thursday 21 March 2024
6pm to 8pm
Louise Giovanelli
Always Different, Always the Same
Book Launch
O! Peste Destroyed, 70 Oldham Road, Manchester, UK
Friday 27 October 2023
7pm onwards
Marc Matter and Stefan Römer
Deconceptual Voicings
Exhibition
Hamburger Bahnhof, Invalidenstrasse 50-51, 10557 Berlin, Germany
Saturday 17 December 2022 to Sunday 14 May 2023
Marc Matter and Stefan Römer’s Deconceptual Voicings was featured in ‘Broken Music Vol. 2: 70 years of records and sound works by artists’
‘They were all there, Björk, Yoko Ono, Sonic Youth and John Cage anyway: "Yellow MUSIK", a small record shop founded in 1981 in West Berlin. It was operated until 2014 by Ursula Block, who in 1989 organized the legendary exhibition "Broken Music. Artistsʾ Recordworks”. Above all, it showed one thing: if there is a medium in which the interaction of art and music has been reflected since the post-war period, then it is the record. Artists from Andy Warhol to Raymond Pettibon create iconic covers, Christina Kubisch releases sound for room-filling sound installations and performances or readings from Anne Imhof to Jimmie Durham make the record tangible for a future audience. "Broken Music Vol. 2" traces the history of records in art up to the present and shows around 700 records and room-filling sound installations from 70 years of art and music history. The exhibition in the Rieckhallen covers around 2,500 square meters including records by Saâdane Afif, Fatima Al Qadiri, Laurie Anderson, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Angela Bulloch, John Cage, Hanne Darboven, John Giorno, Christian Marclay, Meredith Monk and Michaela Melián , Yoko Ono, Carsten Nicolai, Cornelia Schlemme, Wolfgang Tillmans and Andy Warhol. The course is supplemented by space-filling sound works such as sound installations by Rolf Julius, Christina Kubisch, Bernhard Leitner and Susan Philipsz as well as videos by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Douglas Gordon. Based on the collection’s focus on media art, Ursula Block’s collection of artists’ records was acquired for the Hamburger Bahnhof in 2019 with the help of the Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation and the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. Thanks to the support of the Friends of the National Gallery and donations, this stock could be supplemented and updated.’
https://www.smb.museum/museen-einrichtungen/hamburger-bahnhof/ausstellungen/detail/broken-music-vol-2/
Rick Buckley
Under a grey blanket
Berlin, 9.–19.11.1984
Old World Apes
Book Launch with Film Essay Presentation
Outpost Cinema, Alliierten Museum, Clayallee 135, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Tuesday 25 April 2023
6:30pm to 9.00pm (Drinks - under wing of Hastings aircraft)
James Fry
A Licence to Rock and Pop: An Inventory of Attitude
Apply for Your Licence to Rock and Pop
With Gordon King and Julian Marszalek
Walthamstow Trades Club, 61/63 Tower Hamlets Road, London E17 4 RQ
Thursday 24 November 2022
7pm to 11pm
Book Launch with Readings, a mini-Exhibition, and a Q&A with James Fry
Matt’s Gallery
Friday 30 October 2022
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Free Entry
https://www.mattsgallery.org/events/book-launch-james-fry-a-licence-to-rock-and-pop
Party with Readings, DJ Sets and Signings by James Fry, Luke Haines and Gordon King
Retro Bar, 2 George Ct, London WC2N 6HH, UK
Monday 17 October 2022
6:30pm til late
Free Entry
Cedar Lewisohn
The Seven Plagues of Seven Angels
Book Launch
Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Rd, London SW3 4RY, UK
Friday 3 December 2021
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Nicol Allan
Collages
Exhibition
Laure Genillard, 2 Hanway Place, London W1T 1HB, UK
Saturday 20 November 2021 to Saturday 22 January 2022
Nicol Allan: Collages at Laure Genillard Gallery, London, is the first exhibition to show collages from the breadth of Allan’s career. Curated by Rye Dag Holmboe and accompanied by a book of the same name, published by Slimvolume, the works presented in this exhibition are fragile and intimate. They allude to the natural world, to landscape and to human life, and sometimes float playfully between figuration and abstraction. The sense of scale can be disorientating; small works in paper that intimate dimensions of experience quite out of proportion with their size. The collages also engage in subtle and original ways with the major abstract art movements of the twentieth century, as well as other traditions such as Folk Art or Japanese and Chinese calligraphy. For personal reasons and because of circumstance, Allan only ever produced around two hundred collages; many of the works included in this exhibition have never been seen before. This is the first time they are shown and, after decades of obscurity, are finally given the attention and life they deserve.
http://www.lglondon.org/index.php/forthcoming/
Nicol Allan
Collages
Book Launch and exhibition opening
Laure Genillard, 2 Hanway Place, London W1T 1HB, UK
Friday 19 November 2021
6pm to 8pm
Andy Holden
Collected Free Labour: Blog Interviews 2010-2021
Book Launch
Bold Tendencies, 7th-10th Floors, Multi-Storey Car Park, 95a Rye Lane, London SE15 4TG, UK
Thursday 9 September 2021
7pm to 8.30pm
£5/£15
Bold Tendencies, Pitt Studio and Slimvolume presented the launch of Andy Holden’s Collected Free Labour: Blog Interviews 2010-2021.
A special evening was led by the artist in Bold Tendencies' Straw Auditorium, with a reading from the new publication. This was followed by a guided walk through Holden’s current digital exhibition ‘Collected Domestic Conceptualism’ at Pitt Studio, including screenings of new video works alongside live music by the artist. There will also a sunset viewing of the sculpture In Praise of Folly, situated atop Peckham Library, from Bold Tendencies' rooftop.
https://dice.fm/event/y9892-book-launch-andy-holden-collected-free-labour-9th-sep-bold-tendencies-london-tickets?pid=f134a139&_branch_match_id=937750318777892131
Emotionarama
Book Launch and exhibition opening
PEER, 97-99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL, UK
Friday 20 August 2021
6pm to 8pm
An evening of book signing with the editors Andrew Hunt and Andro Semeiko, and the collaborating artists, and a reading of extracts by the actors Dame Siân Phillips and Bill Bingham.
https://www.peeruk.org/emotionarama
Book Reading Installation
PEER, 97-99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL, UK
Saturday 21 to Saturday 28 August 2021
Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm to 6pm
This book reading installation for Emotionarama was developed by Andro Semeiko in cooperation with actors Dame Siân Phillips and Bill Bingham, writer and BBC Radio broadcaster Zinovy Zinik, and musician Capitol K. The audience will be able to listen to the entire content of the book during this six-hour session.
Rebecca Fortnum
A Mind Weighted with Unpublished Matter
Book Launch
Natalie Barney Gallery, 37, Choumert Road, Peckham, London SE15 4AR, UK
Friday 28 May 2021
5pm to 6.30pm
An online launch of A Mind Weighted with Unpublished Matter at Natalie Barney Gallery during the opening of the exhibition ‘Prosopopoeia: Correspondence’ by Rebecca Fortnum.
Rebecca Fortnum was in conversation with Dr Chantal Faust.
Tris Vonna- Michell
No more racing in circles – just pacing within lines of a rectangle
Saturday 22 February 2020
5pm
Publication launch in the presence of the artist
Jan Mot, Petit Sablon / Kleine Zavel 10, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
http://janmot.com/previous_exhibitions/index.php
Sof’ya Shpurova
Low Human Activity
Thursday 31 October 2019
5.30pm to 7.30pm
Launch of Low Human Activity
The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art
Grosvenor Building, Cavendish St
Manchester M15 6BR, UK
Friday 1 November to Friday 13 December 2019
Exhibition
The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art
Grosvenor Building, Cavendish St
Manchester M15 6BR, UK
https://www.holdengallery.mmu.ac.uk/2019/sofya-shpurova/
C. R. McBerny
C. R. McBerny is a collaborative project that explores how contemporary painting, performance and writing might produce overtly emotional and demonstrative forms of discourse between intimate communities of artists and writers in Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom. Discrete objects and texts have been produced with a relaxed, informal, easy aestheticism in mind, one conducive to the warm non-institutional semi-domestic nature of each venue.
Performances, lectures, workshops and concerts were included in C. R. McBerny’s activities, while a publication was launched in March 2019.
C. R. McBerny includes work by Rosa Aiello, Abel Auer, Kamilla Bischof, Juliette Blightman, Zac Bradley, Max Brand, Kerstin Brätsch, Tim Brennan, Matt Copson, Jeffrey Dennis, Martin Ebner, Jenny Eden, Ida Ekblad, Exael, Peter Friel, Jonathan Gean, Rochelle Goldberg, Paul Gondry, Doris Guo, Hacienda Books, Ian Hartshorne, Donna Huddleston, Yannic Joray, Shelby Jackson, Marie Karlberg, Allison Katz, Yuki Kishino, Kitty Kraus, Veit Laurent Kurz, Zarah Landes, Matt Langan-Peck, David Lawrey and Jaki Middleton, Jonas Lipps, Alastair MacKinven, Liz Magor, Roger Malbert, Lin May Saeed, Dawn Mellor, Alexandra Metcalf, Ariane Müller, Mike Nelson, David Osbaldeston, Krista Peters, Seth Pick, Leah Pires, Michael Pollard, Magnus Quaife, Eileen Quinlan, Ian Rawlinson and Nick Crowe, Benjamin Saurer, Max Schmidtlein, Ben Schumacher, Taketo Shimada, Eric Sidner, Amy Sillman, Brook Sinkinson Withrow, Julian Stalbohm, Harry Stevenson Miller, Stefan Tcherepnin, Stefan Thater, Hanna Törnudd, Myna Trustram, Miriam Vicsaczki, Ellie de Verdier, David Weiss, Issy Wood, and Amelie von Wulffen.
Thursday 14 March 2019
7.00pm to 9.00pm
Launch of C. R. McBerny
Yum Yum, 70 Tib Street, Manchester, M4 1LG, UK
Wednesday 5 December 2018 to Thursday 28 February 2019
Exhibition
Manchester Central Library, St Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD, UK
Saturday 28 April 2018
1pm to 4pm
Zwinglistrasse 4
10555 Berlin, Germany
Exhibition opening and launch of project coincided with Gallery Weekend Berlin 2018
Exhibition dates: April to 13 May 2018
Jeffrey Dennis
Ringbinder
Painting: Atoms and Speech Bubbles
Tuesday 23 May 2017
6:30pm
ICA, London
In this panel discussion, chaired by artist and writer Zara Worth, artists Jeffrey Dennis, Kimathi Donkor and Fay Nicolson discussed their work in relation to the expanded field of contemporary painting. Each artist spoke about their individual reference points, as well as how their work negotiates a surface strategy of collage or appropriation of snapshots, magazine images and windows onto popular culture and the everyday, alongside a contemplation of scale of the human in relation to his or her political, historical and molecular context.
Marisa J. Futernick
13 Presidents
13 Presidents was released on 1 September 2016 with a programme of activities that took place in the US and UK during the run-up to the presidential election on 8 November 2016.
This project was made possible with the generous support of Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Enterprise, Arts Council England, the British Council, and private donors.
Dublab Radio | 13 Presidents: A Radio Series
Presented by Rice + Toye
Aired December 2016
18 October to 13 November 2016
13 Presidents: A Reading Room Exhibition
Arnolfini, Bristol
To coincide with the US presidential election and the publication of 13 Presidents, a photographic installation of the project.
www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/marisa-j-futernick-13-presidents
Tuesday 8 November 2016
6:30pm
ICA, London
An event to celebrate the launch of 13 Presidents at the ICA in London on the night of the US presidential election. The event included readings by Futernick, and a discussion with Ghislaine Leung and Khloe Sjogren-Cath on ideas of failure and absurdity in relation to the American dream, society’s fascination with authority figures, and the ways in which their identities are constructed. The speakers also considered fiction as a strategy across writing, curating and contemporary art.
https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/13-presidents-election-night-special
Saturday 22 October 2016
4.00pm
Arnolfini, Bristol
Exhibition event: Artist’s talk and reading accompanied by a live slide installation.
Thursday 20 October 2016
5:30pm
University College London, Institute for the Americas
Marisa J. Futernick in conversation with Professor Iwan Morgan
www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/on-the-road
Monday 10 October 2016
6:30pm
The British Library
Marisa J. Futernick in conversation with BBC Radio 4’s Justin Webb, presenter of the Today programme. A screening of photographs from the book accompanied the talk.
www.bl.uk/events/13-presidents
Friday 16 September 2016
8.00pm
BOOK SHOW, Los Angeles, California
Artist’s talk and reading
www.bookshowla.com/event/13-presidents13-stories-reading/
Thursday 15 September 2016
8.00pm
Human Resources, Los Angeles, California
Artist’s talk and reading
Saturday 10 September 2016
4.00pm to 6.00pm
COVER Books, Atlanta, GeorgiaArtist’s talk and reading for 13 Presidents by Marisa J. Futernick
Hosted by ART PAPERS magazine
www.facebook.com/events/746996998776281/
Wednesday 7 September 2016
7.00pm
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Artist’s talk and reading for 13 Presidents by Marisa J. Futernick
In the Franklin D. Roosevelt Suite (the President’s dorm room)
Organised by the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies
www.fdrfoundation.org/fireside-chat-with-marisa-futernick/
Tuesday 6 September 2016
6:30 to 8.00pm
Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn
Marisa J. Futernick in conversation with curator Emma Enderby (Public Art Fund and Rice + Toye)
www.residencyunlimited.org/programs/marisa-j-futernick-13-presidents/
Thursday 1 September 2016
7.00pm
Artist’s talk and reading for 13 Presidents by Marisa J. Futernick
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, New York
fdrlibrary.org/events-calendar
Cally Spooner
Scripts
Friday 15 July 2016
6.30pm to 10.00pm
Launch of Scripts by Cally Spooner and Disappearing Curtains by Paul Buck
This event included performances and readings by Paul Buck, Alex Cecchetti, David Raymond Conroy, Gil Leung, Daniel O’Sullivan, Hestia Peppe, Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, Cally Spooner and Jesper List Thomsen. It took place at Connor’s Bar, The Hat Factory, 65-67 Bute Street, Luton LU1 2EY, UK
Scott King
Public Art
Saturday 23 April 2016
7.00pm to 11.00pm
Launch of Public Art by Scott King
This event included an evening of performances in Luton Town Centre that featured Luke Haines, Paul Haworth, Georgia Lucas-Going, Lindsey Mendick, Emily Pope, Tommy Sissons and Gary Stevens. It took place at George II, 70 Bute Street, Luton LU1 2EY, UK
Bob Cobbing and Peter Mayer
Concerning Concrete Poetry
Saturday 15 November 2014
4.00pm to 6.00pm
Launch of Concerning Concrete Poetry by Bob Cobbing and Peter Mayer
This event featured American poet Kenneth Goldsmith in conversation with London-based curator and writer Andrew Hunt. The conversation was chaired by Rosie Cooper, co-curator of Bob Jubilé. It took place at the Clore Studio, South London Gallery, 65-67 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH, UK
Slimvolume Poster Publication 2008-2011
Outrageous Fortune Tarot Deck / ‘Outrageous Fortune: Artists Remake the Tarot’
Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition
Rhyl Library
Rhyl
Exhibition
13 April to 19 May 2013
Bedales Gallery
Petersfield
Exhibition
27 October to 2 December 2012
University of Hertfordshire Galleries
Hatfield
Exhibition
24 February to 21 April 2012
Holden Gallery
Manchester
Exhibition
14 January to 12 February 2012
mac
Birmingham
Exhibition
10 December 2011 to 8 January 2012
Jersey Arts Centre
St Helier
Exhibition
24 October to 12 November 2011
Queens Hall Arts Centre
Hexham
Exhibition
10 September to 9 October 2011
Focal Point Gallery
Southend-on-Sea
Exhibition
4 July to 27 August 2011
Launch Event and Exhibition Opening
Focal Point Gallery
Southend-on-Sea
Saturday 2 July 2011