Corinna Till: Talk to the Body

at
STANDPOINT GALLERY,
45 Coronet Street, N1 6HD
27 September – 19 October 2013
Private view: Thursday 26 September 6-8.30pm

"Talk to the Body presents a new body of work from Corinna Till. Working for the first time with textiles, large fabric works will be hung and weighted from the ceiling. Cottons, polyester and leatherette are carefully stitched and braced, pitched up and painted upon. Till applies force to the material; creating and alleviating tensions within the fabric.  These methodically made structures provide the architecture for Till’s loose, light handling of paint.

Each work starts with an action. They are holding on and letting go, both literally carrying the shopping, dumping the rubbish, and in terms of how we position ourselves - stance, holding back, holding together, holding tight. In one double-sided work an older woman passes a baton to a younger woman. The relationship is not simple, beneath them lie piled the batons that have been dropped.

There are insistent reminders of our bodily selves, bodies whose requirements and vulnerabilities can be inconvenient, but can also be the source of pleasure. Till’s work is motivated by a desire to utilise switch points between what is in and out of our control – finding openings for manoeuvre, changing minds and shedding skins.

In previous work Till has used painted surfaces provoke sensations and conjectures about how surrounding structures have come to be the way they are. Here, she continues her experimental engagement with painting amongst other things, reminding us of its material status, as one more sticky accretion, that adheres, or soaks in, to fabric."

Elke Auer & Esther Straganz: MOBILE MASSES OF MUSCULAR TISSUE COVERED WITH MUCOUS MEMBRANE LOCATED IN THE ORAL CAVITIES

MOBILE MASSES OF MUSCULAR TISSUE COVERED WITH MUCOUS MEMBRANE LOCATED IN THE ORAL CAVITIES by Elke Auer & Esther Straganz featuring tiny finger sculptures by Felipe Campos

OPENING: 20th september, 7pm
at SCOTTY ENTERPRISES
Kunstverein für zeitgenössische Kunst und experimentelle Medien,
Oranienstrasse 46
10960 Berlin

BECAUSE BECAUSE:
"Now i am no longer alone.
I am sucked in by others.
I am drowning in true depths, without any reference point."
(Lygia Clark)


What you will see and meet from September 21st to October 12th at Scotty Enterprises,
COISAS MOLHADAS E COISAS SECAS/ WET THINGS AND DRY THINGS/ NASSE DINGE UND TROCKENE DINGE, is a selection of what we encountered, touched and got touched by,
during 133 days and nights that we spent in the great mental city of São Paulo.

The exhibition is an assemblage of our project LÌNGUAS E LÌNGUAS/ LANGUAGES AND TONGUES/ SPRACHEN UND ZUNGEN. In portuguese, like in most other latin languages, the word „língua“ means tongue as well as language and therefore combines two raw axes of our art practice, the body (tongue) and its representation (language) in one word. Tonguing a new territory and meeting the material we were researching the works of three brazilian women: Lygia Clark, Clarice Lispector and Suely Rolnik. And as all true encounters involve molecular blurring, the matter created by this three brazilian chain smokers has greatly contaminated our works. LÌNGUAS E LÌNGUAS was and is an attempt to “apprehend the world in its intensive dimensions: as a diagram of forces that affect us and are present in our bodies in the form of sensations.” This line, taken from Suely Rolniks concept of the resonant body, which she came up with to write about the body of work of Lygia Clark, echoes through this exhibition. It handles with sensations, sensations that easily escape from language. Even moist language and even though Clarice Lispector was very good in catching them.

Between the lines there is the desire for speaking in tongues, spitting spirits, vomiting words, treating words like bodies, stripping a text from a rock.
 

Ana Pérez-Quiroga: Auto-retrato da artista enquanto parte da Sociedade

Auto-retrato da artista enquanto parte da Sociedade / Artist self-portrait as part of Society, 2013
Inauguração dia 24 entre as 18:00 e as 20:00
Espaço PT Andrade Corvo, 6 Lisboa

"Ana Pérez-Quiroga trilha uma exploração do quotidiano pelos caminhos de subculturas cosmopolitas que se desenvolvem num diálogo com a cultura vigente, hipermoderna, nesta Pós-Modernidade-Tardia, de início de século e fim da Era Pós-Moderna.

O percurso de Ana Pérez-Quiroga é uma captura do quotidiano sob a grande imagem em que se cristaliza a cultura vigente actual. Ou seja, Ana desconstrói pela pequena imagem a ideia de fim das meta-narrativas operado pela Pós-Modernidade e substituída pela Meta-Imagem. A pequena imagem de fragmentos do quotidiano em acto, sem encenações ou montagem ou produção, é a captura do pequeno momento que compõe a vida, o conjunto de eventos que são verdadeiramente importantes e que são comummente desvalorizados em nome dos grandes momentos, mais adequados à Meta-Imagem. A pequena imagem enquanto fragmento do quotidiano é capturada por snapshots, recorrendo a uma câmara de telemóvel. A captura é de momentos quotidianos pelos quais passa, que compõem a vida, numa viagem diária pelo momento presente por entre pessoas, lugares, eventos. A essência da vida é esse momento sempre presente que descuramos porque o vivemos na sua imediatez. O momento é capturado pela máquina porque Ana Pérez-Quiroga o está a viver, não pára de o viver, não se distancia, ela vive-o e a captura da imagem acontece como parte da vida.

Recorre à tecnologia do Instagram para partilhar e produzir as imagens, imediatamente partilhadas no Facebook também, da mesma forma que recorria aos slides antes do surgimento desta nova tecnologia. Este dado é relevante de uma ideia de partilha quotidiana que está dependente da tecnologia disponível. As limitações dos slides são nostálgicas, porque são limitações reconhecidas hoje. Os slides, que era a nova tecnologia no momento permitiam a partilha dessas imagens fotográficas. A fotografia, transformou-se pela potencialidade de divulgação, na sua qualidade e alcance, permitindo um outro desenvolvimento dos seus projectos fotográficos. As imagens fotográficas são imagens similares às imagens que habitam o subconsciente e a que acedemos por associação, despoletada por jogos emocionais. As imagens de Ana Pérez-Quiroga evocam esses momentos, essas emoções vividas, porque capturadas enquanto a artista as vivia. Essas imagens apresentam figuras de amigas e amigos, de objectos, de eventos do momento quotidiano fundamental, o momento da vida real sem produção, sem pré-conceitos, sem a dimensão do socialmente correcto, são enquadrados pelo olhar e capturados pela segunda base dados de Ana, o telemóvel com câmara fotográfica, sendo a primeira o cérebro. Assim a foto-instalação Auto-retrato da artista enquanto parte da Sociedade / Artist self-portrait as part of the society, 2013 é um auto-retrato de Ana Pérez-Quiroga um auto-retrato tão íntimo quanto social, pois é o modo de ver o mundo de afirmar de modo consciente o que lhe é relevante, o que é relevante para a sua vida, esse território de nuclear importância que esquecemos no quotidiano, na nossa formatação pela procura da Meta-Imagem que subsuma o grande evento justificador e organizador de tudo. Os locais, os eventos os amigos revelam essas camadas sociais de subculturas escolhidas, subculturas com identidades colectivas definidas, com conteúdos culturais determinadores e determinados pelos seus participantes pelas quais Ana Pérez-Quiroga navega e com as quais se identifica. As fotografias, fragmentos de uma vida no seu contexto social e íntimo, revelam o modo de ser-no-mundo de Ana Pérez-Quiroga, a artista auto-retratada na vida. A vida por ser um sempre presente e, enquanto tal, uma evidência, escapa ao escrutínio e à consciência desse momento." Vítor Hugo Leal

Challenging Rape and Sexual Violence

North East Feminist Gathering 12/13 October Newcastle.

Fouth Wave Feminism

Challenging Rape and Sexual Violence

Workshops include: why women-only space; exploitation of girls and women; banner making; writing;public speaking; consciousness raising; using social media; disability politics; black feminism;women in political institutions and many more.

£15/£10 students/£5 unwaged. Includes lunch and creche for up to aged 12.

To book see website. North East Feminist Gathering.

Angela Dalinger: Drawings and Paintings

21 de Setembro a 2 de Novembro

21 de Setembro | Inauguração 17h
Galeria Dama Aflita
Rua da Picaria, 84, Porto, Portugal
www.damaaflita.com
www.galeriadamaaflita.blogspot.com
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Angela Dalinger (de)
“Olá sou a Sandra e o meu segundo nome é Angela. Comecei a utilizar o nome artístico Angela Dalinger há cerca de 3 anos atrás, simplesmente porque nunca gostei do meu nome verdadeiro.
Nasci em 1984 e cresci numa pequena cidade na feia baixa saxónica. As coisas por lá não foram muito fáceis. Em 2008 comecei a estudar ilustração na Universidade Pública de Hamburgo. Foi bom sair de onde nasci e ir viver para uma cidade apesar do barulho e das pessoas me estarem a levar à loucura.
Então após ter terminado a licenciatura mudei-me para o local onde vivo agora, isto é, uma pequena aldeia com apenas 100 habitantes.
tenho dois gatos e um grande jardim e estou a pensar arranjar uma cabra para me tratar da relva e ainda uma bicicleta para ir ao supermercado que dista 3km da minha casa. O meu sonho era ter um belo Volvo se possível azul escuro ou verde tanto faz.”
Angela Dalinger

DOMÉSTICA: Call For Publication

Special collaboration with the producers of the documentary Highrise and now Domestica (Housemaids). This is an open call for texts that address the spatial manifestations of 'domestic service'. Housemaids offers compelling insight into the legacies of colonialism and its relationship to domestic workers in 'South America'. The film ruptures the silence about the role of domestic workers in 'Brazilian' society, provoking questions about economic and racial privilege and inequality.

The final essay will be included in Critical Cities: Volume 4, with the book accompanying the film's DVD and will attract a handsome reward of £400. Four additional papers will be published in the online journal Arquitextos.

The texts will be published in partnership with the film’s production company DESVIA and the Federal University of Pernambuco.

DOWNLOAD DETAILED CALL (Deadline: 06 October 2013)

Formats: conversations, visual essays, academic papers, autobiographical commentary.

Abstract: 500-1000 words (from which 5 authors will be invited to write full texts)

Final text: 5000 words maximum.

Deadline: 06 October 2013

Submission: email dora@desvia.com.br

PORTUGUÊS

Ao usar uma inovadora e provocativa abordagem, o documentário brasileiro “Doméstica” (2012), oferece um ponto de vista sobre o legado do colonialismo no Brasil e a sua relação com os trabalhadores domésticos. O filme levanta o véu de um longo silêncio em relação ao papel das empregadas domésticas na sociedade brasileira, além de provocar os espectadores, de todas classes sociais, a questionarem a persistência de uma cultura que tem raízes na escravidão.

O filme teve seu lançamento mundial no IDFA (Festival de Documentários de Amsterdão), em 2012, e já participou de importantes festivais no mundo - sendo distribuído comercialmente no Brasil, Estados Unidos e México. Para provocar o debate e a compreensão acerca das questões que envolvem o trabalho doméstico no Brasil, a produtora do filme, DESVIA (www.desvia.com.br) em parceria com Myrdle Court Press (http://www.myrdlecourtpress.net) e com a Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (www.ufpe.br) vai publicar  e divulgar cinco documentos sobre às questões que envolvem o trabalho doméstico no Brasil.

Open Call for new ebooks from KT press feminist writers on feminist art

KT press, publishers of n.paradoxa, is publishing a new book series on feminist art theory and the work of contemporary women artists (visual arts only, post-1970) – into 2013. View the existing series as it develops here. This new series could be characterised as a return to the 18th century tradition of pamphleteering – with a modern digital twist and an ISBN! The first series will contain 5-10 books.
It is intended that each book in the series will be an e-book, sold and circulated at low cost as .epubs from KT press’ website, Amazon's Kindle store and through Ingram's Independent Publisher's Program.
Each book will contain text and images, and where necessary, audio and video files.
The size is c. 40-60 display pages: (c. 8,000-40,000 words).

KT press holds the view that feminism in relation to the visual arts is a contentious subject but it is also an open question about the relationship between art, aesthetics and politics which needs to be debated, especially with regard to the work of women artists. Authors must specify which feminist ideas they are engaging with and where their views of feminism originate. New perspectives and a critical consideration of the legacy of feminism will be valued in selecting this series.
The aim of the series is to publish books containing:
a)    collected conference papers or panel discussions on or about feminist art
b)    translations of writings about feminist art from any language into English for the first time (with commentaries).
c)     discussions of a single woman artist’s work by one or several authors including documentation of their projects (where no monograph exists)
d)    collected writings / performance scripts / art notes by a woman artist on art and her practice (Poems will not be considered).
e)     new polemics about feminist-art-theory and feminist art criticism arising from a single author or a discussion between feminists.
f)     essays engaging in future thinking about feminism in the visual arts or written as new manifestos for the future.
g)     extended discussions of curation or exhibitions as forms of feminist reading or praxis or essays written bringing together works to form virtual exhibitions “of our wishes”.

Ideas developed from theses (MA to PhD) will be considered but authors are asked not to send the thesis itself, only a summary of the key arguments and a description of the subject. Women who have not published a book before are encouraged to apply, if they are prepared to develop their ideas in co-operation with the publisher.

Ideas based in post-structuralist approaches to language, psychoanalysis and social critique of art and politics, cyberfeminist thinking, exploring new art forms, feminist post-colonial critiques, feminisms of the North and South/ East and West, approaches to global diasporas in contemporary art, issue-based political thinking about questions of social justice in relation to contemporary art are all welcome.
KT press operates as a not-for-profit company. Fees to authors will be paid and a royalty on copies sold.  This project is supported by a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York. Potential authors should write to Katy Deepwell at KT press, sending an outline of their idea for an e-book. katy@ktpress.co.uk

re.act.feminism @ Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain

re.act.feminism @ Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
15 November 2012 – 17 February 2013

re.act.feminism @ Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
21 June 2013 – 18 August 2013

After a short but successful presentation of the archive at the Tallinna Kunstihoone in Tallinn, Estonia, we are happy to announce the next opening of the “re.act.feminism #2″ – a performing archive at the Fundacio Antoni Tapies in Barcelona, Spain! The continuously growing archive has recently been enlarged by another 13 artists and contains currently more than 233 performance documents, mostly DVD and photography by 163 artists and artist collectives.

Opening: Thursday, 15 November 2012 at 7:30pm
Several artists and the curators Bettina Knaup and Beatrice Ellen Stammer will be present!

During its stay at the Fundacion Antoni Tapies the archive will be accompanied by a series of lectures & talks initiated in collaboration with Centre de Cultura de Dones Francesca Bonnemaison, the Goethe-Institut Barcelona, the Mercat de les Flors. An Activity Space for educational and research activities in the form of workshops, screenings and presentations will allow the audience to further engage in current questions on performance art and feminism.

The mobile archive will be showcased at the Fundacio Antoni Tapies from 16 November 2012 until 17 February 2013 before returning to Berlin in June 2013 to be presented at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

In order to find out more about re.act.feminism #2 and the show in Barcelona, please visit our website

http://www.reactfeminism.de/archive.php?l=lb

The Women’s Art Library/Make and Feminist Review £1000 research bursary

Living with Make: Art in the Archive

Call for proposals for written research projects based in the Women’s Art Library/Make at Goldsmiths, University of London. This call is open to all, including students.
This year the bursary is presented in association with the Whitechapel Gallery.

Deadline for proposals: 1 October 2013
Bursary period: Jan-Mar 2014
Public launch at Whitechapel Art Gallery: Spring 2014

Women’s Art Library/Make and Feminist Review are inviting artists and curators to propose an original engagement with the notion of archives and identities, starting with over/under/mis-identification with the material collection of the Women’s Art Library.

This is a call for speculative archive projects from which a shortlist of proposals will be selected for a future event at Goldsmiths to coincide with the programme of the newly established Feminist Research Centre. From this selection one project will be chosen and the final work will be presented in the Open Space pages of a forthcoming issue of Feminist Review and feature in a public launch event at the Whitechapel Gallery.

The £1000 bursary will support the successful applicant’s research time in the collection. 

The Women’s Art Library/Make is a collection of art documentation that began as a collective archive by UK-based women artists in the late 1970s. It has since developed into a research resource featuring a wide range of media that include emerging artists active internationally as well as historical archives of individuals and organisations. The Make collection is particularly rich in images and features a unique slide collection, poster collection, videos and photographs as well as audiotapes and ephemera.

Feminist Review provides an accessible site for creative debate in the form of writing and/or visual works that relate to and expand issues in gender scholarship.

The panel consisting of representatives from Feminist Review and Goldsmiths would look for proposals that engage the creative as well as academic sector. A proposal for development and a CV would be required, including good visual documentation if relevant.

For more info contact: Althea Greenan, e-mail: make@gold.ac.uk
tel. 020 7717 2295
Special Collections, Library, Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW