Saturday May 12th 

2pm  Opening

4pm  Performance by Francesco Pedraglio

Sunday May 13th

5pm  Performance by Eisklares Echo

(Reto Pulfer and Mia von Matt)

Tiergarten Eins, Altonaer Strasse 1, 10557 Berlin

Open 2-7pm with pastis and cheese

Victor & Hester Journal 27 / 'One of each of everything' by Francesco Pedraglio

RECTO

VERSO

Victor & Hester / Journal 27 / 'One of each of everything' by Francesco Pedraglio / with contingent shelving from Direct Criteria


The Journal is a series of 7 posters that will be presented with a performance on Sunday 29 April 6-8pm. Performance at 7pm.
The Old Hairdressers, 27 Renfield Lane, Glasgow


An online version of the Journal will be sent via email to all that wish to receive it digitally.
The first page (above) will be followed by the other 6 that will be sent between Monday 30 April and Saturday 5 May as jpegs recto/verso
Please write us if interested


Francesco Pedraglio is an artist and writer based in London. He is co-founder of FormContent and runs the journal The Mock and other superstitions.


Direct Criteria are Fiona Connor, Scott Barry and Neil Doshi, a performance group currently based in L.A.


Victor & Hester will be launching two more journals over the next two Sundays -29  April to 6 May.Sunday 6 May / Basement Flat 42 Carlton Place / Journal 28 / T.O.U.C.H Emma Fitts and Hirofumi Suda / with an intervention from Direct Criteria

All with support from the Glasgow Visual Artists Award Scheme

Parts and Labour - 1 - 26 May 2012 - Camberwell space

Parts & Labour’ is an experiment devised by John Chilver and Brighid Lowe to reflect on the material conditions of art production. The emphasis, as the title says, is on labour. Bearing in mind recent debates that have rightly underlined that both art and capital today value immaterial labour above getting hands dirty, this project examines relations to material labour that artworks remain dependent on, although these are typically concealed and devalued.

It will feature works authored by:

Leah Capaldi, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Charlie Jeffery, Gareth Jones, Francesco Pedraglio, Adrian Piper, Martina Schmuecker, Florian Slotawa, Sarah Staton and Richard Wentworth.

These artists were invited to provide instructions for works to be produced (in whatever sense they decide) in not more than 2 wo/man-hours by hired hands.

The artists are paid one hour at the UK minimum wage; the hired hands are paid 2 hours. Each work is thereby defined as the product of 3 hours’ labour paid at minimum wage: an hour for conception and 2 hours for execution.

The artists are provided with a common list of materials – defined by the curators – for which they determine operations or actions to be done. All the works are therefore produced within uniform constraints of materials and time.

Because this is a curatorial experiment and since none of the work exists at the time of writing, it’s impossible to anticipate how it will look, sound or feel. 

Word of Mouth

Francesco Pedraglio, Things are going just fine..., London 2012

Holly Pester (9-11 March, live performance on Saturday 10 March, 2pm)
Ruth Barker (16-18 March, live performance on Saturday 17 March, 12pm - 6pm)
Stella Capes (23-25 March, video installation throughout the weekend)
Francesco Pedraglio (30 March-1 April, live on Friday 30 March, 8pm)
Siôn Parkinson (13-15 April, live performance TBC)

Curated by Rose Lejeune

Word of Mouth brings together five artists who use the voice as a medium to produce and deliver their work.

Featuring live and recorded performance, song, poetry, text, sound and noise, video, and installation, Word of Mouth uses the intimacy of Cartel to explore the voice as an instrument and organ:– a personal and bodily medium, a tool for transmission or a material with sculptural and physical manifestations.

Word of Mouth is an exhibition about speaking, communicating and the possibility of meaning, through the presentation of speech acts. It is also an investigation into vocal potentiality beyond language. The artists in Word of Mouth utilise their voice (or the voice of others) to engender agency, conjure memories or create tension between proximity and distance. For them the voice as a medium can question authorial authority, force a blur between speakers and auditors and operate both as a negotiator of meaning and a primordial raw material that can provoke and lull with alternate force.

Word of Mouth is a group exhibition delivered as a linear progression. The artist’s projects will be delivered as a series of solo presentations over the duration of the exhibition. For their project each artist has been invited to inhabit the space as they wish - through installation and performance – in order for the mode of presentation to best address the complexity of their concerns and their audience. 

Apropos the Kissing of a Hand

Roman Signer, X Aktion, 2009, photograph. Courtesy: Hauser & Wirth

23 March – 28 April 2012 Preview: Thursday 22 March 5:30-7:30

Holly Antrum / Becky Beasley / Billy Childish / Robert Ellis / Catrin Huber / Sophie Macpherson / Jeremy Millar / Arnaud Moinet / Francesco Pedraglio / Roman Signer / Sylvia Vögel

‘Apropos the Kissing of a Hand’ forefronts the Festival Robert Walser. The exhibition at Vane consists of the work of eleven national and international artists who share a fascination with one of the major figures of modernist literature. Organised and curated by artist and writer Paul Becker and painter Catrin Huber.

The twentieth century Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) has had a huge influence on a long list of literary, artistic and philosophical figures, from Franz Kafka to Walter Benjamin, musicians such as Heinz Holliger, visual artists from Paul Klee to Mark Wallinger and Tacita Dean, and filmmakers including the Brothers Quay. Only translated into English comparatively recently, international interest in Walser’s work has generated a wealth of new art, writing and critical discussion, which continues to explore his unique legacy.

Walser worked as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle and an inventor’s assistant, at the same time producing several novels and more than a thousand stories and poems. In 1929 he checked himself into an asylum in Berne, Switzerland, where he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He remained in mental health institutions for nearly thirty years until his sudden death in 1956, whilst walking in a field of snow near the asylum. 

‘Apropos the Kissing of a Hand’ attempts to highlight Walser’s impact on a wide range of contemporary artists and, more particularly, seeks to present artists who attempt the complexities of referencing the influence and/or language of literature within their works.

Going public / Telling it as it is

Going Public - Telling it as it is?

22-23-24 March 2012 - Bilbao/ Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) Organized by ENPAP Programme22–24 March: Locating the Story in the City Throughout the city of Bilbao and in local mass mediaParticipating artists: Alex Reynolds (UK/ES), Itziar Barrio (ES/USA), María Ruido (ES), Martha Rosler (USA) and Phil Collins (UK)  23 March: Performances BizBAK UPV/EHU, BilbaoParticipating artists: Olof Olsson (SE), Falke Pisano (NL) & Francesco Pedraglio (IT), Asier Mendizabal (ES), Asli Cavusoglu (TR), Goldin + Senneby (SE), Patricia Esquivias (ES/VE) 23 March: Expanded storiesPavilion6/ ZAWP, BilbaoJeleton (ES), OJO (USA), Institut Fatima (DE/ES), Begoña+La Jawara Djs (ES) 24 March: ENPAP Caucus ARTIUM museum, Vitoria-GasteizClosed session by invitation only ENPAP partnersBAC-Baltic Art Center, Visby/ Swedenconsonni, Bilbao/ SpainMossutställningar, Stockholm/ SwedenSituations, University of the West of England, Bristol/ United KingdomSKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain, Amsterdam/ The NetherlandsVector Association, Iasi/ Romania

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.