Past Events
Art 41 Basel and Liste: The Young Art Fair
– Wednesday 16 June 2010. 10:00
Visit us in the magazine section at Art Basel, at Hall 2.0 / Booth Z28, from the 16th to the 20th of June and Liste 15, Basel, from the 15th to the 20th of June.
Book Launch - Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés by Julian Jason Haladyn / Art Metropole
– Saturday 8 May 2010. 13:00
Please join us to celebrate the launch of the latest title from the One Work series Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés by Julian Jason Haladyn.
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Art and the Social: Exhibitions of Contemporary Art in the 1990s / Symposium
– Friday 30 April 2010. 10:00
Tate Britain Auditorium, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
Friday 30 April 2010, 10.00 to 18.00
£25 (£15 concessions)
This symposium will explore the social turn in exhibition-making
in Europe and North America in the 1990s, looking at the part
played by political activism, institutional critique and forms of
socialisation influenced by the media and the moving image.
Questioning labels such as 'Kontext Kunst', 'social engagement' and
'relational aesthetics', the participants will discuss developments
in recent contemporary exhibition history, including exhibitions
staged outside of the art institution that engaged with site in the
broadest sense. Speakers will include Doug Ashford, Claire Bishop,
Sabeth Buchmann, Charles Esche, Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, Stéphanie
Jeanjean, Renate Lorenz, Christian Philipp Müller and Stephan
Schmidt-Wulffen.
Organised by Afterall, at Central Saint Martins College of Art and
Design, as part of the Exhibition Histories project and in conjunction
with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Van Abbemuseum,
Eindhoven. Supported by the University of the Arts London, the
Institut Français du Royaume-Uni and the Goethe-Institut.
Realised within the framework of FORMER WEST, a
contemporary art research, education, publishing and exhibition
project (2008-2013). FORMER WEST is supported by the Mondriaan
Foundation, EU Culture Programme, European Cultural Foundation, and
the City of Utrecht.
For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888
Picture caption: Ute Meta Bauer and Yvonne P. Doderer, Raumstruktur, 1994. Photo: Esther Thylmann.
Art Brussels 28 Contemporary Art Fair
– Friday 23 April 2010. 10:00
Come find us in the magazine section at Art Brussels Contemporary Art Fair, Brussels, from the 23rd to the 26th of April.
PA/PER VIEW Art Book Fair
– Thursday 22 April 2010. 16:00
Visit us at PA/PER View Art Book Fair, from 22nd to 25th April at WIELS, Brussels. Special Subscription offers to Afterall journal will be available!
Afterall / The Showroom Seminar
– Saturday 27 March 2010. 15:00
The
Showroom
63 Penfold Street
London NW8 8PQ
£5 entrance fee
In this seminar, Emily Wardill will discuss her new feature-length film, Game Keepers Without Game (2009) in conversation with the poet J.H. Prynne.
Game Keepers Without Game is based on the seventeenth-century play Life is a Dream (La Vida es Suena) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. The film takes Calderón's story of an imprisoned prince and translates it into the context of contemporary London. The original's themes of morality, incarceration and truth resurface in Wardill's present-day narrative of a violent child, put up for adoption at an early age, who re-enters the family home as a teenager and a stranger.
J.H. Prynne studied at Cambridge and has taught there for some time. He has published twenty-nine collections of poems from 1968-2009, all but two reprinted in his Poems (2005), with another collection currently in press. Also there are a few extended commentary-essays: on the Han Chinese lyric, on a painting by Willem de Kooning, on a sonnet by Shakespeare and on a short poem by Wordsworth, and a lecture on 'Huts'. Recently he has been travelling in Nepal. Some fuller information can be found on websites.
Read a Guardian profile of J.H. Prynne here.
Emily Wardill is a London-based film-maker. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including solo projects at Spacex, Exeter (2009); ICA, London (2008); Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London (2005 and 2006); and STANDARD (OSLO) (2008). Her work has been screened at the Art Now Lightbox, Tate Britain; the International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Witte de With, Rotterdam; and the London Film Festival. In 2008, Wardill was nominated for the Jarman Award and performed Life is a Dream at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 2007.
Read an interview between Wardill and curator Mike Sperlinger from Afterall's 'Artists at Work' series here.
Please email info@theshowroom.org to reserve a place and to be sent the advance reading material selected by Wardill and Prynne.
Wavelength / The Drake Hotel
– Thursday 18 February 2010. 07:00
Wavelength, with Elizabeth Legge and Michael Snow
The Drake Hotel Underground, 1150 Queen Street West, Toronto
FREE. No reserve seating available
Launching her new book in Afterall's One Work series, Elizabeth Legge introduces a screening of Michael Snow's legendary Wavelength (1967, 45 min.), considered one of the most important experimental films of all time. Wavelength will be followed by a Q&A with Michael Snow, and preceded by Snow's short film Standard Time (1967, 8 min).
Copies of the book Wavelength will be on sale and Legge will be available to sign them at the event.
Co-presented with The Drake Hotel.
'[This book] is a work rich in ideas meriting our attention.' Riccardo Censi, 'Elogio del falso movimento. Wavelength,' 14.01.2010, Il Manifesto newspaper, Italy
Afterall / The Showroom Seminar with Eyal Weizman
– Saturday 31 October 2009. 15:00
665 The Lesser Evil
The
Showroom
63 Penfold Street
London NW8 8PQ
In this seminar, Eyal Weizman will present 'Only the Criminal Can Solve the Crime', chapter three of a trilogy concerned with the political and theological question of the lesser evil. (Chapter one, 'Arendt in Ethiopia', and chapter two, 'The Best of All Possible Walls', will be on display in advance of the lecture.)
Eyal Weizman is an architect based in London, where he is the director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His books include The Lesser Evil (Nottetempo, 2009), Hollow Land (Verso, 2007) and A Civilian Occupation (Verso, 2003). Weizman also co-authored an article on Israel's future colonisation that appeared in Afterall issue 20.
Paulo Herkenhoff on the XXIV Bienal de São Paulo
– Thursday 22 October 2009. 18:30
Lecture Theatre, Royal College of Art, London
Free admission
Paulo Herkenhoff will discuss his curatorial project for the XXIV Bienal de São Paulo (1998). Herkenhoff used the cultural concept of 'antropofagia' (cannibalism) as the basis for an international exhibition that is today considered as a landmark in the history of biennials.
This event is part of Afterall's research and publication project Exhibition Histories, which focuses on exhibitions of contemporary art from the past fifty years that have changed the way art is seen and made.
Talk introduced by Mark Nash, Head of Department of Curating Contemporary Art, RCA. Chaired by Teresa Gleadowe, Series Editor, Exhibition Histories, Afterall.
A collaboration between Afterall, the RCA and TrAIN.
Frieze Art Fair
– Thursday 15 October 2009. 11:00
Come and find us in the magazine section of Frieze Art Fair, London, from the 15th to the 18th October and take advantage of our special subscription offer.
Book Launch – Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel by Amna Malik and Michael Snow: Wavelength by Elizabeth Legge
– Friday 9 October 2009. 18:30
Please join us to celebrate the launch of the two latest titles in the One Work series Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel by Amna Malik and Michael Snow: Wavelength by Elizabeth Legge
Conor Donlon
Books
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For further information on thes new titles please see www.afterall.org/onework/
Afterall / The Showroom Seminar with The Otolith Group
– Saturday 3 October 2009. 15:00
No booking required but places are limited so please arrive
early to avoid disappointment.
The Showroom
63 Penfold Street
London NW8 8PQ
The Otolith Group was formed in 2002 by London artists Kodwo Eshun
and Anjalika Sagar. Their works have been exhibited in museums and
biennials worldwide including Tate Britain and The Hayward, London,
The International Centre of Photography, New York and Documenta 12.
They are the curators and editors of the exhibition and publication
'The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of The Black Audio Collective',
and are co-curators of 'Three Early Films: Harun Farocki' at Cubitt
(2009) and 'Against What? Against Whom?' (2009) in collaboration
with Tate Modern and Raven Row (2009). The Otolith Trilogy
(2003-2009) was presented at 'A Long Time Between Suns Part l and
ll', their two part exhibition, at Gasworks and The Showroom,
London, 2009.
London Art Book Fair
– Friday 25 September 2009. 17:00
Visit us at the London Art Book Fair, from the 25th to 27th September, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, gallery 5, stand 73. Special subscription offers to Afterall journal will be available.
ArteLibro Bologna
– Thursday 24 September 2009. 12:00
Visit us at ArteLibro Bologna, from the 24th to 27th September, Palazzo di Re Enzo e del Podestà. Entrance is free and we will be at the stand 14-15A on the first floor. Special subscription offers to Afterall Journal will be available.
Afterall / Showroom Seminar with Irit Rogoff
– Saturday 11 July 2009. 15:00
Participation: A User's Guide
Seminar with Irit Rogoff
The
Showroom
63 Penfold Street
London NW8 8PQ
What does it mean to take part in culture beyond the roles that
culture assigns to us, beyond the roles of viewers and voters,
listeners and demonstrators, visitors and protestors? Can we find
new modes of engagement within the spaces of contemporary art,
perhaps by galvanising the attention that these spaces demand, in
search of some other form of inhabitation?
Over the past few years of thinking and writing about
'participation', I have been struck by just how much our
terminology of 'art', 'exhibition', 'audience', etc. fails to
capture the emergent dynamics within the expanded field of art.
This talk explores the different models of participation which we
forge through affective regimes, sites of knowledge-production and
circulation, conversation and unexpected exchange, as well as the
possible new vocabulary we need in order to work critically with
it.
Chris Marker: La Jetée by Janet Harbord Book Launch
– Tuesday 19 May 2009. 19:00
Institut français du Royaume-Uni
17 Queensberry Place
London SW7 2DT
To celebrate the launch of the latest title in Afterall's One
Work series, Chris Marker: La Jetée by Janet Harbord,
we are pleased to invite you to a special event at the French
Institute in London, with a screening of Marker's films La
Jetée and Remembrance of Things to Come, introduced
by Janet Harbord.
Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962) is considered one of the
greatest experimental films of all time. This short film, a
compelling science-fiction story set in a post-apocalyptic future,
where humanity searches to save itself through experiments in time,
is composed almost entirely of black-and-white photographs. It will
be also be a rare opportunity to see Marker's more recent
Remembrance of Things to Come (2002) which is both a
documentary portrait of the French photographer Denise Bellon and a
reflection on the two momentous decades between 1935 and 1955.
Following the screenings, drinks will be served and copies of the
book will be available at a special discounted price.
Afterall / Showroom Seminar with Annie Fletcher
– Saturday 25 April 2009. 15:00
The
Showroom
63 Penfold Street
London NW8 8PQ
Annie Fletcher is curator at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven,
where she developed a two-year project, 'Be[com]ing Dutch' during
2007-2008. With Frederique Bergholz she is the co-director of the
rolling platform If I Can't
Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution which
initiates programmes of performances and art projects realised in
collaboration with various partner institutions in the Netherlands
and beyond. Fletcher and Bergholz are also co-curating Art
Sheffield 10: the fifth city-wide biennial festival in March and
April 2010.
This event is free, but there is a limited capacity. Please RSVP to
Emily Pethick, emily@theshowroom.org to secure
a place. Related background reading will be sent out to those who
RSVP.
For further information see www.becomingdutch.com
Shelf Life: A Big Day for Small Press
– Saturday 18 April 2009. 12:00
USC Gin d. Wong Auditorium
850 West 37th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Please visit us at this freewheeling bazaar of smart, fun, cool,
strange, beautiful, outrageous, idiosyncratic, rare, limited,
low-run, hard-to-find, much-coveted, and bound-to-become-important
books, magazines, and objects from many of the finest independent
artists, publishers, and vendors around. With free food and music
by DJ Wendy Yao (Ooga Booga).
At 1pm, a panel discussion on independent publishing, featuring:
BRUCE CAEN (artist, publisher of No Magazine and author of
Sub-Hollywood)
JOE CARDUCCI (writer, producer, former A&R executive of SST
Records)
BRIAN KENNON (artist and publisher of 2nd Cannons)
RACHEL KUSHNER (critic, novelist, and editor of Soft
Targets journal)
AARON ROSE (artist and publisher of ANP Quarterly)
EMILY ROYSDON (artist and editor of LTTR)
V. VALE (founder/publisher of Search & Destroy and
RE/Search Magazines)
Admission is FREE.
Organized by Ewa Wojciak and Michael Ned Holte (USC Roski School of
Fine Arts).
Exhibitions and the World at Large
– Friday 3 April 2009. 10:00
This Symposium examines the contemporary art exhibition in a global context by considering three case studies from 1989, a pivotal year for both art and politics: 'Magiciens de la Terre' at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, 'The Other Story' at the Hayward Gallery, London, and the third Bienal de La Habana.The event will open with a keynote speech by Sarat Maharaj and other speakers will include Thomas Boutoux, Sonya Boyce, Jean Fisher, Cuauhtémoc Medina and Gerardo Mosquera. Organised by Afterall and TrAIN.
For programme: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/17464.htm
For audio recording: http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/podcast/
Image credit:
Neil Dawson, Globe, 1989. Musée national d'Art moderne. © the artist. Photograph: Bill Nichol
Afterall / Showroom Seminar with Neil Cummings
– Saturday 28 March 2009. 15:00
The Cockpit Theatre, Gateforth Street, London, NW8 8EH
Cummings will present the film Museum Futures: Distributed (32min),
made in collaboration with Marysia Lewandowska and commissioned by
the Moderna Museet for Stockholm's Jubilee year in 2008. Museum
Futures: Distributed is a machinima record of the centenary
interview with Moderna Museet's executive Ayan Lindquist in June
2058. It explores a possible genealogy for contemporary art
practice and its institutions, by re-imagining the role of artists,
museums, galleries, markets, manufactories and academies.
The film screening will be followed by a discussion on issues
related to the films exploration of how we might imagine the future
of art practice, arts institutions and the museum.
For further information see
www.theshowroom.org
www.chanceprojects.com
CAA Conversations Lounge
– Thursday 26 February 2009. 11:00
Thursday 26 February 2009. 11 am - 4pm.
Friday 27 February 2009. 11am - 4pm.
Saturday 28 February 2009. 11am - 2pm.
CAA Book and Trade Fair
Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 S. Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015
As a complement to the College Art Association's 2009 Annual
Conference program sessions, Afterall hosts a series of
30-60 minute conversations offering insights into Los Angeles and
its cultural history, present and future. Scheduled events include
interviews with local artists, roundtable discussions, and talks by
critics, curators and scholars that bridge the distance between
early artistic developments and current practice.
Art and the Moving Image Book Launch
– Thursday 18 December 2008. 18:00
TANYA LEIGHTON
Kuerfurstenstrasse 156
10785 Berlin
www.tanyaleighton.com
Gluehwein will be served
Art and the Moving Image: A Critical Reader
Tanya Leighton, ed.; Charles Esche, general ed; Tate, London, in
association with Afterall, 2008.
For further information on Art and the Moving Image please click
here (inset link to reader page)
The Tiniest Book Fair / Holiday BBQ
– Sunday 14 December 2008. 16:30
510 Bernard Street
Los Angeles, California 90012
Please join us in Chinatown for an afternoon holiday BBQ and the
tiniest of tiny book fairs, featuring publications by 2nd Cannons,
Afterall, Animal Shelter, Dot Dot Dot, Material and Semiotext(e).
http://www.2ndcannons.com
http://www.dot-dot-dot.us
http://www.materialpress.org
http://www.semiotexte.com
Art and the Moving Image Conference
– Sunday 7 December 2008. 11:00
BFI Southbank
London
For the past fifty years, the love/hate affair between art and
cinema has triggered vital aesthetic, social and political
responses that constantly renew the way we understand our age. This
symposium traces the story from early spatial experiments with film
and video technologies to the current widespread use of projected
images in museums and galleries.
This event also marks the launch of the critical reader Art and
the Moving Image. Series editor Charles Esche will introduce
presentations (including short screenings) by a number of the
authors: Sabeth Buchmann on Helio Oiticica's Quasi-Cinemas, Bruce
Jenkins on Fluxfilms and William Kaizen on the changing status of
video. The artist Chantal Akerman will present her own work. Esche
will close the event by chairing an open discussion on Art and the
Moving Image with the writer and LUX Assistant Director Mike
Sperlinger.
Please book online at www.bfi.org.uk
Or call the BFI Box Office: +44 (0) 20 7928 3232
Tickets £15, concessions £11
