As rivers / disappear / the thing, becoming - Cubitt gallery

As rivers / disappear / the thing, becoming
Reading groups in the Dan Cox Library for the unfinished concept of Thingly Time


Each reading group will delve into The Dan Cox Library for the Unfinished Concept of Thingly Time. The first week will explore the river and the flow of time, taking its starting point from a selection of novels found within the Library. From here the reading groups will develop and grow in an exploration of Thingly Time, combining readings and discussion, and each time ending with a short performance. The reading groups have been conceived by Francesco Pedraglio, artist and co-founder of FormContent.

Text selected for discussion and animation will be available in the Library and on our website in the downloads section the week before the reading group.


As rivers
Monday 27 February, 7 – 9 pm
Led by Francesco Pedraglio and artist Paul Becker
The pair will exchange ideas and read passages from the waterways and tributaries found in books within the Library. With lakes, islands, streams and storms, through dreams, spit, vomit and piss, with teardrops, bridges, floods and corpses, they will open up to a general discussion on the nature of flow, erasure and time.
The night will end with a reading by artist Katrina Palmer.

disappear
Wednesday 7 March, 7 – 9 pm
Led by artist David Raymond Conroy and writer Gil Leung
This evening will consider ideas within the library that help us perceive the residue of absence and will include a few acoustic songs by the Grubby Mitts.

the thing, becoming
Wednesday 14 March, 7 – 9 pm
Led by artist Ed Atkins and Andy Holden
The final week will make an investigation into Thinglyness, ending with a performance by Heather Phillipson.

The Starry Rubric Set

The Starry Rubric Set

05.02.12-12.03.12

New Work By: Marjolijn DijkmAn / Ruth Beale / Nicholas Deshayes / Rob Filby / Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry / Kate Owens / Laure Prouvost / Giles Round
Sculptures By: HilAry Koob-Sassen in Wysing’s grounds
Live Works By: John Latham / Francesco Pedraglio / Cally Spooner / Emma Smith

Preview Saturday 4 February 6–8pm
Including live performances and launch of a new publication by An Endless Supply.

Saturday 10 March
A day-long series of performances and events including The Government of the First and Thirteenth Chair, the performance of a play by John Latham as re-interpreted by Mark Aerial Waller.

Wysing Arts Centre
Fox Road near Bourn
Cambridgeshire
CB23 2TX

www.wysingartscentre.org

Banner Repeater - Saturday 28th January 2012

Ten Chapters Seven Chapters, A Contents Page, Parenthesis and Footnotes

Andrew Lanyon, Rebecca Lennon, Jenny Moore, Francesco Pedraglio, Monica Rivas

Saturday 28th January 2012 - 19:35 - 21:00

The evening begins at Liverpool Street Station at 19.35pm. 

Board the 19:45 train to Cheshunt five stops to Banner Repeater.

Promptness is essential, especially if prone to missing trains, and in this case missing the train means missing a one-time-only performance!

(If you're unable to catch this train, please still come to Banner Repeater for additional performances and readings from 8pm-9pm)

Ten Chapters Seven Chapters, A Contents Page, Parenthesis and Footnotes is a new publication featuring works by: Davide Balliano, Ami Clarke, Emma Hart, Andrew Lanyon, Rebecca Lennon, Louisa Martin, Jenny Moore, Tamarin Norwood, Francesco Pedraglio, and Mónica Rivas. The individual chapters announce their arrival via an evolving contents page which diagrammatically charts the evolution of the book's existence though it's myriad and disparate events; performances, films, drawings, text, sculpture, and printed materials - each suggesting the nature of the book which itself continually escapes full comprehension. 

This event marks the project's first public outlet, and features chapters by Andrew Lanyon, Rebecca Lennon, Jenny Moore, Francesco Pedraglio and Mónica Rivas.

Exhibition continues on 29th January.

Concept: Louisa Martin

www.bannerrepeater.org

Again, A Time Machine

17 JANUARY 2012
6–9.30PM
THE SHOWROOM
63 PENFORLD STREET
LONDON NW8 8PQ

The Time Machine is a project that asks us to forget about archives and embrace the confusion of the present, in order to consciously experiment with all our imaginable histories and expected futures. Presented as part of Again, A Time Machine at The Showroom, words and archives are discharged into the present, through a series of performative talks and events. This event sees performances, readings and sound work by Alex Cecchetti, Mark Geffriaud, and Kit Poulson with Alex Baker, at the launch of their three publications: A Society that Breathes Once a Year by Alex Cecchetti, The Curve of Forgotten Things by Mark Geffriaud, and The Ice Cream Empire by Kit Poulson. The Time Machine, selected and edited by Francesco Pedraglio from open submission, is a project that asks us to forget about archives and embrace the confusion of the present, in order to consciously experiment with all our imaginable histories and expected futures.

Performance as Publishing - Kunsthalle Basel - 13 January

Performance as Publishing, 21:00 – 01:00
Performance as Publishing is an event that investigates the shifting relations between performance practice and discourse, event and writing.
The event furthermore explores the work of contemporary artists who use text as the base for their performance. Text does not primarily appear as a means of communication but as something, which has a shape and structure of its own. The performative act appears as an investigation into how meaning can be transformed and constructed through speech act and the voice. Performance therefore emerges as the main tool to make a text presentable and accessible. Through the implementation of voice, gestures and technical amplifiers a wider field of mediation is possible. Language may then be used in different terms (abstract, concrete) for unconventional mediations (fiction, fact), which challenges the perception and questions our daily cognition. Performance as Publishing looks at how language shapes and creates our world and how the corporal act is part of the linguistic mediation.

Nicole Bachmann (CH)
Ruth Beale (UK)
Michael Dean (UK)
Beatrice Gibson (UK)
Francesco Pedraglio (I)
Heather Phillipson (UK)
Reto Pulfer (CH)

Concept: Nicole Bachmann, Ruth Beale
Curated by: Manuela Schlumpf

Katrina Palmer presents dubious objects and made-up texts, readings and performances - Transmission Gallery - Glasgow

06 December - 10 December 2011

3^rd December 7 – 8pm

FRANCESCO PEDRAGLIO performs a discursive tale with an abstract object

CLAIRE MAKHLOUF CARTER sells-out

10^th December 7 – 8pm

KATRINA PALMER reads a very short story

JEFFORD HORRIGAN performs plus special guest Parisian musician René Salemi

STEWART HOME recites while standing on his head

Claire Makhlouf Carter generates performances that take place within art openings, artist talks and galleries. Sometimes Berber Carpet is rolled out as if a stage and subsequently unpicked by a team of carpet pickers. Carter has hired other temporary workers as part of her performances including a sniffer dog, two mercenaries, a make-up artist cum cloakroom attendant, a psychiatric nurse and a tombola man. Carter’s recently shown work includes DEMO WALWORTH ROAD The Hole London; DAY TRIP TO St LEONARDS-ON-SEA The Lido St Leonards- on-Sea and Art Monthly; Performance Nights at The Barbican Gallery London; Seven Day Weekend, Beaux Arts de Paris andSinpodium The Museum of English Rural Life. Carter’s performances in art school seminar rooms include the Royal College of Art, Kingston University and Chelsea School of Art.

Stewart Home has been a cultural activist since the late-1970s – starting with punk bands and fanzines and moving on to gallery exhibitions, live art and commercial publication in the 1980s and beyond. He is the author of thirteen published novels, one collection of short stories, six works of non-fiction and the editor of various anthologies. His most recent solo exhibition was Again A Time Machine at White Columns in New York (October/November 2011). His last novel was Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie (Book Works, London 2010).

Invariably Jefford Horrigan makes performances with furniture, lamps and other household objects. Moving and placing them until they become a different entity, half dreamt and half observed, often devoid of common sense but answerable to its own intrinsic logic. Most recent performances, installations, exhibitions and screenings include Out of the Corner of The Eye at the James Taylor Gallery London, Makura at White Deer Projects London and The Table for Portrait of Space at Clonlea Studios, Dublin in 2011. Forrella (Rella - Michael Curran/ Lucy Gunning) at Beaconsfield, London, La Folia for Preludes and Nocturnes (Laura Wilson) New Dalston Library London in 2010 and The Dissolve for the Clockwork Gallery Berlin and THE DRESSER (Talk Show/ Speakeasy) Institute of Contemporary Art London in 2009. The Four Stages of Cruelty Tate Britain London and Past Lives (Body Parts III) Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh 2007.

Katrina Palmer is an artist and writer. Palmer’s texts feature objects in the imagination and amidst the paranoia and the social/sexual dynamics of art and its spaces. Ordinary things appear alongside discourse and sculpture (the subject in language and the object in action). The work is disseminated through publications, performances and readings. Her book, The Dark Object was published by Book Works 2010. Other work includes:mmmm a CD at Art House Foundation, London 2011; Relief in the Modern British Sculpture catalogue, Royal Academy, London 2011. Live readings include: Head in 3 parts at Hole, London 2011; Under The Desk at Again A Time Machine, Motto, Berlin 2011; Tutorial at These Silences Writing Festival, Summerhall, Edinburgh 2011; Chair-Bed at Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing, Whitechapel Gallery, London 2009.

Francesco Pedraglio is an artist, writer and co-founder of FormContent project space. Through short-stories, performances and installations, his work reflects on the mechanics of storytelling. Writing directly in a foreign language, he focuses on straight narratives facing the problematic of ‘making sense’ while delivering a story to an audience. He has been performing a.o. at Auto Italia South East, The National Portrait Gallery, ICA, Wysing Arts Centre, Hollybush Gardens. Next to FormContent's activity, he has been curating numerous exhibitions a.o. 'Session_15' (BolteLang, Zurich) 'The Responsive Subject' (Mu.Zee, Ostend), 'Through Body and Text' (La Galerie, Paris) and 'The Young People...' (GAM, Turin). He is editor of the fanzine 'The Mock and other superstitions' and Book Works guest-editor with the project Time Machine.

An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again - One Thoresby Street, Trade Gallery & Bonington Gallery, Nottingham - 11 Nov 23 Dec

An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again

11 November - 23 December 2011

ATHANASIOS ARGIANAS, BRUCE ASBESTOS, ROBERT ASHLEY, RACHEL COLDICUTT, KATIE DAVIES, DANI GAL, YOUNG HAE CHANG, HEAVY INDUSTRIES, CANDICE JACOBS, SALLY O'REILLY, FRANCESCO PEDRAGLIO, MARK TITCHNER, JACK STRANGE, NAM JUNE PAIK, RUTH PROCTOR

An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again looks at repetition as a tool for the manipulation and control of the masses, thinking about the relationship between repetition, sound and the image; how sound activates text and how the repetition of words, images and actions can create a sense of familiarity or a relationship with something.

Thinking of the television as a sound, image and text provider through its programming and advertising, and advertising and marketing as the manipulation of these subjects; repetition and repetitive techniques are employed to create structures and narratives that are key elements to the success of many sitcoms, TV programmes and magazines. This type of marketing strategy is able to draw in an audience and keep them there, transfixed.

Repetition is also a key element of many music genres; techno, trance, pop, electronica, drum & bass, house; is there a similar formal structure or strategy in place here? An established structure that has the power to control its audience?

This exhibition uses selected artworks, situations and conversations to understand some of these thoughts and ideas by providing a structure where the viewer is free to make their own connections between the works and the ideas within the project.

Trade Gallery have been working in collaboration with artist and producer of this project, Candice Jacobs to develop an exhibition within an exhibition alongside the main gallery at One Thoresby Street. Trade will be screening Perfect Lives by Robert Ashley.

Ashley is a distinguished figure in American contemporary music working in new forms of opera and multi-disciplinary projects. His recorded works are acknowledged classics of language in a musical setting and are distinctly original in style, subject matter and use of language. Co- produced with Channel Four, in August 1983, Ashley’s opera for television is widely considered to be the pre-cursor of "music-television."

This project has been financially supported by the kind generosity of the Arts Council England