the diagram
Sited amongst screens, reminiscent of office work cubicles and temporary exhibition stands, providing a spacial grid within the gallery space, discussion and short presentations of ideas relating to the diagram on Saturday 13th, followed by a day of display on the 14th of selected works.
13th and 14th February 2010
Form Content project space:
51-63 Ridley Road, London E8 2NP
Program
Start at 14:00
Brief introduction to the day and introduction of invited people.
Screening:
Dr John Mullarkey’s lecture: Diagrammatic Actualism, ACTUAL VIRTUAL (selected half hour)
“My argument is basically that, whereas Deleuze tends to think of his diagrams as virtual processes – as only a potentially concrete (or actual) thing – I believe that it is better to think of them as already actual processes.”
touching on ideas relating to the working drawing, and the performative object.
“My argument is basically that, whereas Deleuze tends to think of his diagrams as virtual processes – as only a potentially concrete (or actual) thing – I believe that it is better to think of them as already actual processes.”
touching on ideas relating to the working drawing, and the performative object.
Presentations:
David Berridge:
Presentation of An Improvised Diagram Syllabus - an overview of the diagram ranging from Rodchenko to Gabriel Orozco - and photographic and video work by Rachel Lois Clapham and Alex Eisenberg.
Julia Calver:
Reading of two recent texts and screening of her video work Jet (2’)
Patrick Coyle:
Presentation and discussion around his work Holding this objecty/making this objecty
Cressida Kocienski:
Presentation and discussion of the diagram as linguistic moment
Claire Nichols:
Presentation of a new series of drawings and of the most recent Empty Gallery Interviews
Tamarin Norwood:
Presentation of the artist book DO SOMETHING and of the radio/text work Musica Practica.
Gemma and Hannah Sharpe:
Works by Hannah Sharpe associated with text by Gemma Sharpe will be on display
Josh Baum
3 balloons - balanced to transcribe in mercurial lines a diagram of almost anything.
End at 18:00
http://www.formcontent.org/projects/diagram/
The Shandy Show
A selection of works from The Shandy Collection
In-Conversation event, 6.30pm, 11 November 2009, at the Arts Gallery. University Curator Medeia Cohan-Petrolino discusses work from the show. Rsvp essential to rsvp@arts.ac.uk
The Arts Gallery is proud to present the first major gallery exhibition of works from an unorthodox and intriguing private collection. The Shandy Show reveals an eclectic set of artworks amassed by an anonymous London-based collector over the last decade; uniquely, the majority of the works were accrued through an exchange of his skilled labour for art. Opening on 9 October, The Shandy Show will feature over twenty works by artists including Sarah Lucas, Mark Titchner, Andrew Grassie and Lisa Milroy among others, specially selected with a focus on alumni of University of the Arts London.
The Shandy Show presents a snapshot of a collection where the conventional financial requirements for collecting fine art have been subverted, substituting skilled work in exchange for acquisitions. Working as an art installer, art technician and builder, the collector has to date amassed an enviable collection of over 80 pieces.
Assisting an artist friend in 1999 the collector acquired his first
work; a painting given to him by the artist as a gesture of gratitude. Since
its inception, the collection has grown organically through donations,
exchange for labour or by direct purchase. The result is an egalitarian
collection that maps the chance interactions of the collector's life and
stands as a genuine testament to his passion for contemporary art.
The Shandy Collection does not adhere to any strict criteria governing media, content or size; the defining aim has been to acquire works that are representative of each artist’s practice. If anything unifies the collection it is the collector’s own life as he lives and works amongst the artists of East London. Indeed, the collection itself takes its name from the street in which the collector lived. The exhibition will feature over twenty pieces in a variety of media, including: Sarah Lucas’ Man Marrow, a sculptural piece in concrete and steel, which the artist gifted to the collection in 2004; Mark Titchner’s 2001 inkjet print Hell is Other People, which the collector requested in exchange for refurbishing the artist’s gallery; and Lisa Milroy’s oil on canvas painting Shoes, a recent artwork acquired by the collector, given in exchange for maintenance work at the artist’s home.
9 October – 14 November 2009Arts Gallery
65 Davies Street
W1K 5DA
Open Monday – Friday: 10am – 6pm
Saturday: 11am – 4pm
Nearest Tube: Bond Street
Admission free
Claire Nichols and I will be discussing The Empty Gallery Interview we conducted prior to my exhibition Unknown Unknowns, in
relation to the on-going Project Fold. It will be an informal discussion with other Goldsmiths Art Writing course students being held at Form
Content, Saturday 19th September. The gallery will be open to
all-comers, so please come and join us.
009
a project by FormContent with a permanent installation by Giada Pucci
- Saturday 19th September from 1 - 6
antepress
antepress is an imprint and project platform initiated by a group of art writing practitioners who began collaborating as a result of the MFA Art Writing at Goldsmiths College.
This season they will work side-by-side with FormContent in fostering a dialogue between exhibition formats and what constitutes art writing. This relationship will culminate in a publication released in 2010.
On September 19 antepress will present its activity and will discuss its future relation with FormContent.
For the whole month, FormContent’s office will be moved purposefully at the centre of the scene. Throughout the exhibition the space will be open to artists and curators to present and discuss projects. It will be a chance for developing future collaboration, to test out ideas or to have in depth discussions on specific interests.
If you would like to contact them please drop them an e-mail at info@formcontent.org
Special thanks to Luca Frei who for the occasion lends the bookshelves he designed for the exhibition ‘It’s not for reading. It’s for making’
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FormContent
51-63 Ridley Road
E8 2NP London
www.formcontent.org
Fri-Sun 12-6
009
a project by FormContent with a permanent installation by Giada Pucci
- Saturday 19th September from 1 - 6
antepress
antepress is an imprint and project platform initiated by a group of art writing practitioners who began collaborating as a result of the MFA Art Writing at Goldsmiths College.
This season they will work side-by-side with FormContent in fostering a dialogue between exhibition formats and what constitutes art writing. This relationship will culminate in a publication released in 2010.
On September 19 antepress will present its activity and will discuss its future relation with FormContent.
For the whole month, FormContent’s office will be moved purposefully at the centre of the scene. Throughout the exhibition the space will be open to artists and curators to present and discuss projects. It will be a chance for developing future collaboration, to test out ideas or to have in depth discussions on specific interests.
If you would like to contact them please drop them an e-mail at info@formcontent.org
Special thanks to Luca Frei who for the occasion lends the bookshelves he designed for the exhibition ‘It’s not for reading. It’s for making’
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FormContent
51-63 Ridley Road
E8 2NP London
www.formcontent.org
Fri-Sun 12-6
POLYTEK
Private View: Saturday 29th August 2009, 5.30 - 9pm.
Form 82 & Associates, Josh Baum, Ami Clarke, Warren Garland, Le Guo, Gabo Guzzo, Stephen Harwood, Sadie Hennessy, Michael James, Nick Judd, Russell Maurice, Scott Robinson, Teresa Schweiger, Katrina Sluis, Clare Smith.
30th August - 13th September 2009
Opening times Thurs - Sun 12-6pm or by appointment.
Water Lane, Exeter, EX2 8BZ.
Train to Exeter St Thomas
www.thelazysusan.net
Private View: Saturday 29th August 2009, 5.30 - 9pm.
Form 82 & Associates, Josh Baum, Ami Clarke, Warren Garland, Le Guo, Gabo Guzzo, Stephen Harwood, Sadie Hennessy, Michael James, Nick Judd, Russell Maurice, Scott Robinson, Teresa Schweiger, Katrina Sluis, Clare Smith.
30th August - 13th September 2009
Opening times Thurs - Sun 12-6pm or by appointment.
Water Lane, Exeter, EX2 8BZ.
Train to Exeter St Thomas
www.thelazysusan.net
antepress presents Digestives
What is to be made of art writing?
Resonance104.4FM invites antepress to explore the contemporary position of art writing through an ongoing experiment with radio.
Digestives is an assorted collection of new radio works by antepress and their invited collaborators, comprising performance, discussion, storytelling and sound.
ProgrammeMondays 4.30pm and repeated Fridays 7.30pm
The Empty Gallery Interview with Ami Clarke at Campbell Works
When: Mon, July 27, 4:30pm, repeated Fri, July 31, 7:30pm
Where: Resonance 104.4FM
Published for Resonance 104.4FM by antepress, an imprint and project platform set up by a group of art writing practitioners who began collaborating last year as a result of the MFA Art Writing at Goldsmiths. Resonance invited antepress to explore the contemporary position of art writing through an ongoing experiment with radio. Their current series, Digestives, investigates the question, ʻwhat is to be made of art writing?ʼ with a collection of new radio works by antepress and their collaborators. antepress curate a diverse programme of publications, events, projects and exhibitions.
http://www.antepress.co.uk
The Empty Gallery Interviews make public the anticipatory dialogue that exists between the exhibitor and the exhibition space. Here Claire Nichols and Altair Roelants interview Ami Clarke at Campbell Works gallery, tracing Clarke's evolving relationship to the space in the lead up to installing her work.
Published for Resonance 104.4FM by antepress, an imprint and project platform set up by a group of art writing practitioners who began collaborating last year as a result of the MFA Art Writing at Goldsmiths. Resonance invited antepress to explore the contemporary position of art writing through an ongoing experiment with radio. Their current series, Digestives, investigates the question, ʻwhat is to be made of art writing?ʼ with a collection of new radio works by antepress and their collaborators. antepress curate a diverse programme of publications, events, projects and exhibitions.
http://www.antepress.co.uk
Device
http://www.amiclarke.com/device.htm
is to be published in
/seconds, the online journal of contemporary art and its research
www.slashseconds.org
Issue 11: If X, then Y, A Pure Condition: Proposals and Rehearsals (re: construction, enactment, invention)
Unrealised Projects launched the Volume 4 publication (a partial
introduction to a process in progress) at the Liverpool Artists Book
Fair on Saturday 20th June 2009 at A Foundation, 67 Greenland Street,
Liverpool.
Unknown Unknowns - Unknown Knowns http://www.amiclarke.com/unrealisedprojects.htm
The publication aims to show the open process and development of the concepts and concerns of volume 4 as a starting point and will be developed and added to as the process evolves.
You can see some images and a PDF at http://www.unrealisedprojects.org/coming-soon/liverpool-artists-book-fair/
www.afoundation.org.uk
Unknown Unknowns - Unknown Knowns http://www.amiclarke.com/unrealisedprojects.htm
The publication aims to show the open process and development of the concepts and concerns of volume 4 as a starting point and will be developed and added to as the process evolves.
You can see some images and a PDF at http://www.unrealisedprojects.org/coming-soon/liverpool-artists-book-fair/
www.afoundation.org.uk
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."
