The Work in Progress presents: Noisy Image
SATURDAY 27th June 2009
Times: 7pm
Tickets: £5 (tickets on the door only)
An evening of live and recorded artworks that use, reflect on and involve TVs and video monitors. Around thirty artists and musicians will perform and show works that exist in relation to a TV screen or video monitor.
SATURDAY 27th June 2009
Times: 7pm
Tickets: £5 (tickets on the door only)
An evening of live and recorded artworks that use, reflect on and involve TVs and video monitors. Around thirty artists and musicians will perform and show works that exist in relation to a TV screen or video monitor.
There will be TVs and monitors around the space, amongst the audience, and on stage. The programme will contain two modes of presentation: live works on stage alternating with recorded video works, shown on monitors positioned to offer the audience a closer in viewing distance. Introductions to artworks will be relayed to the monitors. Some works operate as sculptural objects and will run for the duration of the evening.
Featuring works by: Julia Calver, Lee Campbell, Paul Carr, Jenna Collins & Chris Scobie, Ami Clarke, John Clayman, Chloe Cooper, Amy Cunningham, Shaun Doyle & Mally Mallinson, Benedict Drew, Katharine Eastman, Emma Hart, Pierpaulo Inga, Dai Jenkins, Dean Kenning, Bob Levene, Louisa Martin, Jordan McKenzie, Bruce McLean, Rachel Mars, Harun Morrison & Helen Walker, Shane Munro, Erica Nordqvist, Tim Parkinson, Harriet Poole, Clunie Reid, Jack Southern, Corinna Till, Tetsuya Umeda.
For its next exhibition Campbell Works is pleased to present new work by:
Ami Clarke - Unknown Unknowns
15th May - 31st May
Opening Night: 14th May 6 - 9pm
Events:
Please Join us for a Film Screening Night and Discussion – 6.30pm – 9pm 29th May 2009.7pm screening.
Something Rich and Strange: The Life and Music of Iannis Xenakis. Mark Kidel, 50min.
20 minute break.
8.15pm Followed by a programme of artists short films.
The Empty Gallery Interviews
by Claire Nichols & Altair Roelants
Unknown Knowns - Ami Clarke
Friday 1st May 2009 7.00 pm
Introducing the second in the series of The Empty Gallery Interviews: A live conversation piece in which art
writers Claire Nichols and Altair Roelants will talk with artist Ami Clarke about the upcoming show Unknown Unknowns.
This interview will offer an insight into the methodology that informs the artist‘s response to the
Campbell Works gallery; tracing Clarke‘s evolving relationship to the space in the lead up to installing her work.
For further information please visit www.campbellworks.org
Campbell Works
Press Release
Ami Clarke - Unknown Unknowns
For this solo exhibition the artist will present a new body of work consisting of a conundrum of folding screens. The works self-assemblage flat pack form, references modular and temporary architectural space, and such structures as the ubiquitous ‘exhibition stand’ of the trade fair. The screen device unfolds in the gallery space, both navigating territory, whilst refuting permanence as it becomes its own logo; its own legend.
The title for the show draws on a comment made by Donald Rumsfeld, the former US Secretary of Defense during a news briefing in 2002 that betrays itself, in its seemingly absurd investigation into what might be regarded as the truth. As a statement essentially designed to put the general public and media off the scent, it displayed a remarkable lack of self-awareness, as it alludes to the actual activity of ‘covering up’ the truth, and mention of the ideological ‘unknown knowns’ that structure society itself.
Throughout the exhibition, a sense of device, of something happening just off-screen, lingers in the air. The shift in perception that is experienced whilst viewing ‘Studies in Space Intuitions’ hints at this human projection. Our world is revealed as artifice and design, riddled with device, wile and ruse, strategem and manoeuvre.
Created for Campbell Works editions, the audio work ‘Anti-clockwise’, a dub-plate recording of bathwater turning down the plug-hole in the northern hemisphere, takes a common misunderstanding; an international urban absurdity, as its reference point. The work itself relies on the clockwise device of the turntable, not only to play the recording, but in doing so, to simultaneously delete itself.
Unknown Unknowns… “ ..the things we do not yet know that we do not know.” Donald Rumsfeld
Ricochet
Saturday 30th May
7.30-11pm
Chip Projects, 10 Tavistock Road (off Romford Road), London, E15 4ER
(nearest tube/train: Stratford, buses: 25, 86)
The event combines contributions from a broad grouping of artists and others within the art field, and hopes to offer a look at things that, while peripheral to our practices and interests, still, for some reason, hold our attention.
Phone: Anna 07985 778 977
Stuart 07775 691789
annaajohnson@hotmail.com
7.30-11pm
Chip Projects, 10 Tavistock Road (off Romford Road), London, E15 4ER
(nearest tube/train: Stratford, buses: 25, 86)
The event combines contributions from a broad grouping of artists and others within the art field, and hopes to offer a look at things that, while peripheral to our practices and interests, still, for some reason, hold our attention.
Phone: Anna 07985 778 977
Stuart 07775 691789
annaajohnson@hotmail.com
The work 'Folly' : composite picture titled 'The Clearing'
is included in /seconds, on-line publication, by Peter Lewis, April 2009.
The Dreamachine
Useless Beauty and Fuzzy Logic: correlations of violence
Peter Lewis
http://www.slashseconds.org/issues/003/002/articles/aclarke/index.php
The Clearing.
"[...] Cryptic architecture, where form no longer reveals function. They seem to contain the codes of some mysterious mental process" J.G. Ballard - The Atrocity Exhibition 1969.
is included in /seconds, on-line publication, by Peter Lewis, April 2009.
The Dreamachine
Useless Beauty and Fuzzy Logic: correlations of violence
Peter Lewis
http://www.slashseconds.org/issues/003/002/articles/aclarke/index.php
The Clearing.
"[...] Cryptic architecture, where form no longer reveals function. They seem to contain the codes of some mysterious mental process" J.G. Ballard - The Atrocity Exhibition 1969.
http://www.amiclarke.com/folly.htm
Unknown Unknowns is soon to be included in Lynn Harris and Sam Ely's; Unrealised Projects Volume 4.
The project is currently in transition to another format on-line, but you can get there via this link:
http://www.unrealisedprojects.org
'Unknown Unknowns" will also exist as a soon to be launched lone web-page, which will link back to this site and the descriptive text. This will be navigatable by reference to the selection of tagged terms of Unknown Unknowns ........Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns and Unknown Knowns.
The project is currently in transition to another format on-line, but you can get there via this link:
http://www.unrealisedprojects.org
'Unknown Unknowns" will also exist as a soon to be launched lone web-page, which will link back to this site and the descriptive text. This will be navigatable by reference to the selection of tagged terms of Unknown Unknowns ........Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns and Unknown Knowns.
Half Pint - a work that was first shown in the Hare pub exhibition in 2006, is to be dusted off and shown in the exhibition; "ENCOUNTERS WITH SCALE" opening Thursday March 26th 4- 8pm at the Portman Gallery.
Portman Gallery, Portman Place, London E2 OPX.
http://portmangallery.blogspot.com/
Exhibition continues until Sat 4th April
Open Thursdays and Fridays 4 - 7pm
Sat - 1-6pm
Portman Gallery, Portman Place, London E2 OPX.
http://portmangallery.blogspot.com/
Exhibition continues until Sat 4th April
Open Thursdays and Fridays 4 - 7pm
Sat - 1-6pm
Ami Clarke, Naomi St. Clair-Clarke, Mikey Cuddihy, Dean Kenning, James R. Ford, Oliver MacDonald, Michael Sinclair, Andro Semeiko, Christopher Stevens, John Workman
A selection of the proliferation drawings series will be shown at Not Outer Space opening on February 13th 2009 Manchester.
http://www.amiclarke.com/proliferationseries.htm
Frunt & Nexus Art Cafe are proud to present -
Not Outer Space
An exploration of here.
A new exhibition considering the way we negotiate space around us.
Opening Friday 13h February 7pm - 9pm.
open 10am - 7pm, 7 days until 1st March @ Nexus Art cafe, Dale st. The Northern Quarter, Manchester.
Artists:
Emma Kemp, Nicola Farington, Kate Astbury, Maya Harding, Ami Clarke, Jenni Danson, Oliver Palmer, Becca Smith
For more information including directions see www.nexusartcafe.com or e-mail liznexus@hotmail.co.uk
http://www.amiclarke.com/proliferationseries.htm
Frunt & Nexus Art Cafe are proud to present -
Not Outer Space
An exploration of here.
A new exhibition considering the way we negotiate space around us.
Opening Friday 13h February 7pm - 9pm.
open 10am - 7pm, 7 days until 1st March @ Nexus Art cafe, Dale st. The Northern Quarter, Manchester.
Artists:
Emma Kemp, Nicola Farington, Kate Astbury, Maya Harding, Ami Clarke, Jenni Danson, Oliver Palmer, Becca Smith
For more information including directions see www.nexusartcafe.com or e-mail liznexus@hotmail.co.uk
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"Something for the weekend" (text work)
is in the on-line publication /seconds, issue no 9;
Vanishing Point: The Vicious And Virtuous Circle; edited and curated by Peter Lewis
http://www.slashseconds.org/issues/003/001/articles/aclarke/index.php
Cut-up text work combining text from; newspapers, advertising, the Wizard of Oz film-script, old car manuals, and other self-penned, but un-used text from over the years. It was put together with the syncopation and meter of the words foremost in mind. At the time it seemed non-sensical. In hindsight it may have more to it than first expected.
Tristan Tzara's guidelines for 'recipe for a Dadaist poem" - "take a newspaper, take scissors, cut out the article and then cut it into words; put them in a bag, shake gently, and take out one by one..... the poem will resemble you."
