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Berlin, Berlin
31 May - 16 June 2008
OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLIN 31/05/08-16/06/08 Laptop in bag, pushing it tight under my arm, I travelled to Luton airport and onto the plane where I sat next to a middle aged Geordie man with an intense phobia of flying. Read on…
Reviewed by: Alexandria Clark
Atruim Galery, London
16 June - 18 July 2008
The newly refurbished Atrium space of LSE launched the first exhibition in a yearlong schedule that aims to explore the relationship between art and the social sciences. Southpaw, the inaugural show in the imaginatively renamed Atrium Gallery, has Read on…
Reviewed by: Anna Hales
AirSpace Gallery, Stoke on Trent
1 - 12 July 2008
The camera has become an item that we take for granted; I remember my first camera, a plastic case with flip up view finder that I used to hang around my neck with pride on day trips. Now I forget that I carry a camera with me everywhere, because it Read on…
Reviewed by: Katie May Shipley
Various venues across Whitstable, Whitstable
21 June - 6 July 2008
The Whitstable Biennale 2008 has grown out of the areas developing artists' community and celebrates the quiet coastal town as an increasingly important centre for artists and curators. Arriving in the ‘Pearl of Kent’ I had visions Read on…
Reviewed by: Jack Hutchinson
AirSpace Gallery, Stoke on Trent
16 - 21 June 2008
Raw Material- Liz Lock and Mishka Henner. As a finale to the Place, Space and Identity project in Stoke on Trent, the AirSpace Gallery hosted an exhibition of documentary photographs of the events that took place, the people that were in Read on…
Reviewed by: Katie May Shipley
ArtWash , Headington Oxford
20 June - 20 July 2008
ArtWash is currently host to Graham Lister, a young painter from Glasgow. Whose series of paintings, Waiting on the Washing can be viewed in the working laundrette space during June and July 08. This artist is making quite a name for himself across Read on…
Reviewed by: Ann Rapstoff
Alexanderplatz, Berlin
8 June 2008
Throughout the past two months, “Cress starter packs” have been sent out internationally by the Nottingham, UK, based artist group Going Nowhere. With each pack comes the request that the receiver will grow the cress and if Read on…
Reviewed by: Alexandria Clark
New Life Berlin Shop, Berlin
1 - 15 June 2008
One of the most persistently visionary artists, US conceptual artist Barbara Rosenthal knows what she thinks. This is not so surprising as she’s been self-examining in her work for four decades. Most recent in her long and kaleidoscopic Read on…
Reviewed by: Clare Carswell
The Prince Albert, Brighton
31 December 2004 - 31 December 2008
A key activity of the newly formed Doomsbury Set, based in East Sussex, UK, will be to take the kinds of imagery and artefacts which escape critical attention more seriously. Generally it is seen as acceptable to state whether one does, or Read on…
Reviewed by: Micheal O'Connell
All around, Whitstable
21 June - 6 July 2008
On my train journey to Whitstable I was sat amongst a group of elderly ramblers, chatting excitedly about the coastal walk they about to embark on and swapping tales of past walking feats. Soon a raucous crowd of young boys in full tracksuit joined Read on…
Reviewed by: Maggie Tran
Various Locations, Whitstable
21 June - 6 July 2008
Seaside, oysters, quaint streets and pints on the beach. While for me the Whitstable Biennale is a day trip from the city, I am accompanied by art teachers Scott Grimshaw and Cat Taylor for whom Whitstable is their home and place of work. How Read on…
Reviewed by: David Foster
Wellington Terrace, Falmouth
6 - 7 June 2008
One of the great things about the category of ‘live art’ is that it isn’t really a category. Rather than being defined by use of materials or specificity of context, it is instead an attitude, a permissiveness, a deliberate Read on…
Reviewed by: Theron Schmidt
Wellington Terrace, Falmouth
6 - 7 June 2008
Continued from:4. The power of the image: http://interface.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/singl... Not all of the work at the festival takes place within the confines of the hosting university building, and a few works seek to intervene in the daily Read on…
Reviewed by: Theron Schmidt
Falmouth, Cornwall
6 - 7 June 2008
I remember the Safety in the Home obsession of the 1980s. In school we had to look at a picture, colour it in then identify the potential hazards. Was the cat about to be mown down? Was mummy’s apron dangling just a little bit close to the gas Read on…
Reviewed by: Megan Wakefield
Wellington Terrace, Falmouth
6 - 7 June 2008
Continued from:2. Do animals understand art? http://interface.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/singl... Bennett’s text piece suggests art as an autonomous zone, one in which its rituals follow their own rules and which creates its own Read on…
Reviewed by: Theron Schmidt
Wellington Terrace, Falmouth
6 - 7 June 2008
(Continued from http://interface.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/singl...) Easing my way into the festival, my attention is initially drawn to experiences which are not that dissimilar from everyday life. Some of these, like Alice Read on…
Reviewed by: Theron Schmidt
Wellington Terrace, Falmouth
6 - 7 June 2008
Continued from:3. The autonomy of ritual: http://interface.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/singl... For some of the work in the festival, it is necessary to experience it evolving and unfolding over time in order to take it in. Others work with Read on…
Reviewed by: Theron Schmidt
Wellington Terrace, Falmouth
6 - 7 June 2008
Continued from:1. Performance and everyday life: http://interface.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/singl... If one strand of work in the festival took its focus to be human interaction, then another wholeheartedly embraced the non-human. This Read on…
Reviewed by: Theron Schmidt
Site Gallery, Sheffield
3 May - 14 June 2008
Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci premier at the Site Gallery Sheffield with a joint exhibition of video works and live actions. Cool spends a durational time in the exhibition space, performing daily an ongoing series of actions. Cool is both mediated Read on…
Reviewed by: Joanna Loveday
New Life Berlin Festival, Berlin
1 - 15 June 2008
'Flash Job', EuroGida supermarket, Neukölln, 10.30am, Thursday 12th June'Flash Job Campaign Presentation', 220 Greifwalder Str., 2-4pm, Sunday 15th June The Flash Job Campaign (FJC) began with a flurry of controversy as Read on…
Reviewed by: Eleanor Hadley Kershaw
New Life Berlin Festival, Berlin
15 June 2008
Recipe for a more open society Ingredients1 artistic company 1 city2 sponsors (e.g. traditional bakery)unlimited number of participants1 urban venue edible wall (2m high x 4.5m long) For the accompanimentMusic and laughter, to tasteTake an artistic Read on…
Reviewed by: Eleanor Hadley Kershaw
New Life Berlin Festival, Berlin
3 - 15 June 2008
As the late afternoon sun blazes in through the glass frontage of the ‘Assisted Living studio’ and our host, ‘Martha Scissors’ takes her place on set, four audience members and four crew members wriggle uncomfortably in the Read on…
Reviewed by: Eleanor Hadley Kershaw
Part of New Life Berlin, KUNSTRAUM KREUZBERG/ BETHANIEN , Berlin
10 May - 23 June 2008
A CURATORIAL COLLISION HACK.FEM.EAST KUNSTRAUM KREUZBERG/ BETHANIEN 10 MAY - 23 JUNE PRESENTED AS PART OF ARTS AND CONVERSATION, 9 JUNE Some days, following a breakfast of tea, toast and apples, I can remain staring at the Read on…
Reviewed by: Claire Louise Staunton
Bonington Building, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
7 - 12 June 2008
June has arrived, bringing with it the latest offering from Nottingham Trent University’s Fine Art department -the culmination of three years of study, and featuring works by eighty young art hopefuls- the 2008 Degree Show. Irrespective Read on…
Reviewed by: Hugh Dichmont
New Life Berlin Shop, Berlin
1 - 15 June 2008
Sandwhich Box and BaseNorth at the New Life Berlin Festival The Sandwich Box is a metal carry box that contains a small gazebo tent for artists to erect and use as they wish in order to generate an art outcome. It has travelled widely and Read on…
Reviewed by: Clare Carswell
Live Art Falmouth, Falmouth
6 - 7 June 2008
The manifestations of a compulsion to repeat that we have described with respect to the early activities of the infant psyche and also with respect to our experiences in the course of psychoanalytic practice, plainly bear the stamp of Read on…
Reviewed by: Mark Greenwood
New Life Berlin Shop, Berlin
1 - 15 June 2008
Friendship, generosity and hospitality are essential human impulses and welcome aspects, hopefully, of all our lives. There is a lot of all three in the New Life Berlin festival. There needs to be, there isn’t much of anything else to Read on…
Reviewed by: Clare Carswell
Fictive Days Apartment, Griefswalder Str 220, Berlin
8 June 2008
It was the strangest 12th birthday party I have ever been to (granted I haven’t been to one for a decade but I presume this cannot be what’s ‘in’ or the norm?!). A birthday barbeque: bunting in the trees with the Read on…
Reviewed by: Alexandria Clark
Wellington Terrace Studios, Falmouth
6 - 8 June 2008
MYTH AS CONTEXT'The sublime emerges when there is no longer a beautiful form.' (Lyotard, 1989)Jon Fawcett: Transformer (kazakhstan) [film: 7 mins]Transformer (Kazakhstan) is an exercise in observation, focus, anticipation. It demands a Read on…
Reviewed by: Alexandra Glanville
New Life Berlin, Berlin
31 May - 10 June 2008
Nathan Peter’s installation in the New Life Shop has already been and gone, so the following is in the past tense. This may not fit the interactional immediacy of Open Dialogues, but might work as memorial, in a similar fashion to the Read on…
Reviewed by: Matthew Mackisack
