Opening March 28, the show will feature the work of Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Heather Ainsworth, Lisa Barnard, David Cotterrell, Benjamin Lowy, Christopher Morris, Eugene Richards, Jamel Shabazz, Anthony Suau and Teun Voten. In addition to the artists’ work, the exhibition will also include the United States Military-designed war video game America’s Army and the US Army-designed digital comics for the iPad and Android tablets, “the military’s most effective recruiting tools to date,” Mulcahy says.

Gallery location :

Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc.
524 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011

Opening Reception (public) : Thursday 28th March 6-8pm

For Press and Private preview invitations please contact the gallery or David Cotterrell.

Press and Hi-Res Images :

Sue Selby: 917.697.6680 / sue@sueselby.com

The work is being represented by Danielle Arnaud alongside photographs from the Gateway series, and work by Suky Best, Katie Deith, Tessa Farmer, Polly Gould Helen Maurer, Paulette Phillips & Sarah Woodfine.

Opening Hours:

Tues 15 January
(Invited guests / Preview & Six Day Ticket Holders)
6:30pm - 9:00pm

Wed 16 January
11:00am - 9:00pm

Thurs 17 January
11:00am - 9:00pm

Fri 18 January
11:00am - 7:00pm

Sat 19 January
10:00am - 7:00pm

Sun 20 January
10:00am - 5:00pm

Venue:
Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, London N1 0QH

Please do not hesitate to contact the gallery for more information on any of the artists or to get invitations to the fair.

Danielle Arnaud
123 Kennington Road
London SE11 6SF UK
t/f +44(0) 207 735 8292

danielle@daniellearnaud.com

The artist's talk will take place on Tuesday 23 October 2012, 6.45pm in the project space, 13 Gibraltar Walk, London E2 7LH in the final week of the exhibition. Please rsvp info@noshowspace.com

Crossing Heaven ends Saturday 27 October. Final week exhibition opening hours are: Thursday to Saturday 12 - 6 pm.

Nation States, world power, economic models, the role of the citizen have all been in a state of change and flux over the last ten years. Historically art has been a good reflection of change and in some cases has led the way in reworking policy.

There is a resurgence of art work around new political agendas that either reflects directly current world themes or employs predominant new technologies or other materials and concepts inventively to make more subtle comment. While, since its inception, the photographic image has been questioned for its ‘truth’, it is now accepted that images are routinely manipulated and mediated in order to convey a message or context.

This event will address the ways that artists in 21st Century are using new technologies, reflecting new political agendas, and are constructing imagery or concepts to represent the current world situation.

Papers will explore issues surrounding the following themes:

Image Manipulation and Politics – How much has the ubiquity of image manipulation changed views on current affairs and their authenticity? How have artists responded to this?

Hacking, art and the political agenda – Artists have in the post WWII decades manipulated software and hardware to convey ideas and concepts. How are they responding now? How are they dealing with the standardisation of proprietary software and hardware? Is the current trend in content and platform separation appropriate for artists?

New display technologies, art and politics – After decades of working within the constraints of the screen or photographic image, artists are beginning to look at new forms of display. How have artists used new display devices as a conceptual tool? Which artists alongside David Cotterrell are using new displays to convey meaning?

New Politics and Artist Responses – Artists are beginning to emerge that embody strong political ideas in their work. How are they responding across a range of media? How is this different from previous work that has a strong political agenda?

Speakers:

Roger Kneebone Professor of Surgical Education at Imperial College London
Gunther Kress Professor of Semiotics and Education at the Institute of Education, University of London
David Cotterrell Artist, Monsters of the Id
Michaela Crimmin Course Tutor, Art in the Public Domain, Curating Contemporary Art Programme, Royal College of Art
Carina Brand Centre for Art, Design, Research and Experimentation, University of Wolverhampton
Mafala Dâmaso Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London
Ian Kirkpatrick Southampton-based artist and researcher
Neja Tomšič Researcher / curator at MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Georgina Williams Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
Matthew Cornford Artist, Cornford & Cross
Hydar Dewachi Photographer, artist and engineer
Ian Gwilt Professor of Design and Visual Communication, Sheffield Hallam University
Helen Sloan (Chair) Director, SCAN

Convened by John Hansard Gallery with SCAN (digital and interdisciplinary arts agency) as part of the extended programme for the exhibition David Cotterrell: Monsters of the Id (11 Feb – 31 March, 2012).

Location:

Building 58, Murray Lecture Theatre
10 March 2012 / 9.30am – 6.30pm

Tickets (Booking Essential):

Tickets: £10 (includes refreshments, light buffet and evening gallery reception)
To book: call 023 8059 2158 or email info@hansardgallery.org.uk

Limited student bursary places are available – for details contact Ronda Gowland Pryde at rjg3@soton.ac.uk

Derived from the artist's journeys to Afghanistan, Monsters of the Id tests our expectations of cinematic and media representation, presenting a series of new works that experiment with advanced display technologies. The exhibition captures the disorientation of a civilian observer within a militarised environment.

Upon entering the gallery, visitors are immersed in a landscape that crosses the physical and the virtual. The disquieting Observer Effect presents viewers with a projected image of a distant, self-absorbed population. As audiences remain within the space, this virtual community grows in number and becomes distracted by their presence.

Searchlight 2 reveals illusory human shadows traversing a low platform terrain, suggestive of the desert landscape as seen by an aerial drone. The unnerving movements of this unidentified population are computer-generated and directly mirror the actions seen in Observer Effect.

Apparent Horizon renders immersive, virtualised vistas of a desert landscape. As viewers, our role hovers between sublime reverie and the quiet anxiety between of periods of violence. The exhibition ends with a final cinematic flourish, enabling visitors to consider their role in the exhibition and its dialogue of control, observation truth and contradiction.

Monsters of the Id is a John Hansard Gallery exhibition co-curated with Helen Sloan, SCAN, and is accompanied by a new, fullyillustrated publication. The development of the exhibition has been supported through residencies with the Joint Forces Medical Group in Helmand province and civilian agencies in the northern provinces of Afghanistan enabled by Wellcome Trust and the RSA, and supported by a Philip Leverhulme Prize for research, Danielle Arnaud, Sheffield Hallam University, Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England.

Exhibition Preview
Saturday 11 February 2012 / 2– 4pm
Free / all welcome

Free London Coach
A free return coach will travel from London to the John Hansard Gallery, available exclusively to guests. Spaces are limited and available on a strictly first come, first served basis. To book email info@hansardgallery.org.uk by Friday 10 February 2012.

Coach departs from the Madame Tussauds coach dropoff point, Marylebone Road at 11.45am (guests can attend an optional tour of Kinetica from 10-11.30am*). The coach will leave the John Hansard Gallery at 4pm. Journey time approximately two hours.

*Requires ticket entry to Kinetica Art Fair. A 20% promotional discount is available to David Cotterrell Exhibition Preview guests. Visit http://www.kinetica-artfair.com/?visitors/tickets.html and enter "senses" (all lower case) in the promotional code box.

The artists participating in ‘Other Surfaces’, a single-projection show-reel of short films and videos, are essentially known for materially hands-on approaches to making. While there are some obvious points of connection -- few appear concerned with the conventions of the medium -- it’s unlikely these artists would ever be shown together as a group of object and mark makers. Yet, however diverse each individual line of enquiry, all use video as a research tool as much as a recording device: a means of finding other ways around the issues of representing ideas with things. This exhibition, sat somewhere between the screening and the group show, offers a quiet space in which to consider what these artists do, both behind and life-side of the lens.

Exhibiting artists include: Vanessa Billy, Lloyd Corporation, David Cotterrell, Tom Dale, Clare Goodwin & Paul Harper, Lee Maelzer, Sam Porritt, Magali Reus and John Strutton.

Private View: Thursday 12th January, 2012, screened twice between 6.30 and 8.30pm

Exhibition Dates: 13 January - 11 February 2012

Additional Screening Event: Wednesday, 1st February, screening at 7.30pm

Gallery Information: 

Poppy Sebire Gallery
All Hallows Hall,
6 Copperfield Street,
London, SE1 0EP

Opening hours:

Tuesday – Saturday 10am- 6pm or by appointment

Contacts and further information:

+44(0)20 7928 3096 / gallery@poppysebire.com / www.poppysebire.com

The Panel Discussion on 'Can-do: from DIY to Social Entrepreneurship will include Kate Bull (co-founder of The Peoples Supermarket in Holborn, London), Dr Lida Hujić (strategist advising market leader brands), Lois Keidan (co founder and Director of the Live Art Development Agency London), Amy Spencer (author of DIY: The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture and The Crafter Culture Handbook) & John Powles (Glasgow Caledonian University for 25 years, including 15 years managing the University’s collections of left wing political materials).

This event is part of Adhocracy- a weekend-long, mini-festival of creative thought and activity celebrating D.I.Y. cultures, collection action, creativity and can-do: – then and now.

Meet influential peace-makers, queer protesters, climate changers, up-cyclers, craftivists, artists, engineers, community orchards planters, independent publishers, pop-up retailers, bee-keepers, instrument makers, trend-setters, creative collectives, localists and social entrepreneurs.

Adhocracy is convened by New Work Network

Event Details:

Full schedule here

Time and Date:

Sunday 7th August, 4–6 pm

Venue:

Rich Mix
35-47 Bethnal Green Road
London
E1 6LA

Tickets:

http://adhocracy.info/booktickets

The exhibition, held at Peckham Space features a new two-channel video installation.

The ideas behind the work were discussed with David Dibosa on 9th July 2011 and are now the subject of a short film by Gordon Beswick.

Another on-line film by Terry Wilson shows artist David Cotterrell and Bradley Dilsworth from the Lea Valley Model Flying Club using the specially constructed aerial drone to film Slipstream in North Peckham.

Directions and map to the gallery may be found here

With kind permission of Artwords Press, the chapbook is now available as a free downloadable PDF here.

Working with the 100 Field Squadron of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers to build the work, the artist has realised one of the most ambitious land art projects in the UK.

Landfill reclaimed from Eastern United Coal Mine is contained in HESCO Concertainer units, which are regularly used by the Army to build shelters and large-scale defence structures in Afghanistan, but also have pseudo-civilian applications and can be employed as flood barriers.

The pyramid-like work is informed both by Cotterrell’s memories of Mayan temples hidden in the rainforests of Central America and his experiences at Camp Bastion and Sangin, Afghanistan, where he was commissioned as a war artist by the Wellcome Trust in 2008.

Cotterrell’s inversion of conflict-specific design for civilian introspection invites consideration of the role of the military in contemporary Britain. The structure denies obvious monumentality – like Shelley’s Ozymandius, it is destined to return to its source, obscured by the plant life that takes root in its soil.

Of the work, Cotterrell says: “My early visits to the Forest offered an unexpected series of contradictory perspectives. The glades of bluebells, dappled light and fabulous weather offered an idyllic vision of natural beauty. However, it’s also a landscape shaped by historic industries and human intervention. Reclaimed through time, the residue of free-mining, charcoal burning and commercial forestry is discretely camouflaged beneath the prolific growth of plant life.”

Jake McQueen, Product Manager for HESCO Bastion comments: “David saw the HESCO walls and bunkers that protect our troops on operations in Camp Bastion and Sangin, Afghanistan. To the best of our knowledge the product has never been used to form an artwork so imaginative and exciting, which is why we are so delighted to support this project.”

Lieutenant Colonel Peter Fisk, Commanding Officer Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers, said: “The task provided a great chance for soldiers from the Royal Engineers Territorial Army to train for the very task they will conduct on operations. Using the very skills required of the modern-day military engineer on operations and under the watchful eye of the artist, the Territorial Soldiers used their training, experience and equipment to create Hill33.”

The Forestry Commission works with the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust to keep the Sculpture Trail relevant. Hill33 has been further supported by funding from the Gloucestershire Environment Trust and sponsorship from HESCO.

Sculpture Trust Projects Director Carolyn Black commented: “We were very excited to receive David’s proposal as it reflects the Forest’s unique heritage, as well as making a very unusual addition to the work already on the Trail. We are also very grateful to the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers, for helping to build this new work as a training exercise. To our knowledge, it is the highest HESCO structure ever made and the first sculpture in this particular material. I love the way it slowly reveals itself between the trees. I wonder how long it will take for the forest to reclaim Hill33?”

…

LAUNCH EVENT

Saturday 9th October 10am – 3pm:
Family workshops using miniature HESCO Bastion Concertainer®

Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th October 10am – 5pm:
Exhibition in the Loft at Beechenhurst Lodge, showing scale model of Hill33 and time-lapse footage of the build.

Saturday 9th October 2pm:
Launch of Hill33 at the sculpture (marked on the map linked here) 

Saturday 9th October 3pm - 5pm:
Refreshments in the Gavellers Café at Beechenhurst Lodge

VISITOR INFORMATION

The Royal Forest of Dean is situated on the English and South Wales border, 120 miles west of London (via the M4), 65 miles from Birmingham (via the M5), and 35 from Bristol to the centre of the Forest.

The Sculpture Trail is 3.5 miles long and starts and ends at Beechenhurst Lodge, off the B4226. It is open dusk to dawn every day of the year and there is no admission charge.

MAP

A map and directions to the trail may be downloaded here.

PRESS

For press information, images or directions to the site, please contact: Carolyn Black,
Projects Director for The Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust at: forestdean@gmail.com

David is intrigued by the ex-industrial landscape of the Forest of Dean, seeing it as “one of choreographed and manipulated tranquillity and contemplation.” On his appointment he said, “I would like to investigate construction techniques, which could provide a structural addition designed to be readily appropriated by the forest environment and a platform to consider the contradictions between human manipulation of landscape and the natural passage of time.”

David began his research in the Forest of Dean in 2009, having just returned from living at Camp Bastion as a war artist. The camp is surrounded and protected by HESCO Concertainer units (a form of gabion structure) and their industrial presence echoed in his thoughts as he met people in the Dean. Here he heard stories of how Nelson commanded the oaks to be planted; how the remnants of war had been put down redundant mine shafts; and how freemining rights are a legacy of service during conflict. These thoughts informed his research for this significant new sculpture.

Hill33 is the outcome of that research and is set to be a challenging and intriguing addition to the works on the Trail. Hill33 is a poetic sculpture, which is at once in the landscape and made of the landscape. It will be created by the manipulation of existing materials, filled with local coal spoil and topped up by soil from the site itself. Taking the form of a pyramid, it has been designed to evoke a sense of wonder, nestling in the woodland and reaching up to the trees that surround and partially conceal it, appearing as an enigmatic folly in the wood. 

David is planning to launch Hill33 in Autumn 2010.

Conversations Between Surgery, Pathology, the Humanities & the Arts

Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry, Truro/ Tate St Ives, Cornwall, UK

Mon 5th – Wed 7th July 2010.

Keynote speakers and conference themes:

AMH 2010 offers a stimulating group of keynotes, including talks, art interventions and performance, bringing new meanings to the medical and surgical humanities. David Cotterrell, an artist and professor of fine art, will discuss medicine in conflicted landscapes using front line surgery in Afghanistan as his focus and film as the medium for representation. Francis Wells, a heart surgeon and artist, discovered that study of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings revealed remarkable insights leading to a rethink of how mitral valve operations may be carried out. Francis shows how surgical practice is formed through visual thinking and this in turn is shaped by art history. Both David Cotterrell and Francis Wells ask us to re-imagine medicine and surgery through the lens of art.

Programme: Link here

Conference Book: Link here

David's work is being presented at Volta by Danielle Arnaud contemporary art.

The work references Hill33, a massive earthwork, due to begin construction in the Forest of Dean, UK, in the summer of 2010, a work that will recycle two thousand tons of landfill (originally taken from the Forest as the result of open cast mining) to produce a sculpture of grandiose proportions and employing indigenous waste and the construction materials of conflict.

further information on 1:25 can be found here.

Details:

Date: Wednesday, 09 June 2010
Time: 6 for 6:30pm
Location: Furnival Lecture Theatre (F9130), Furnival Building, City Campus, Arundel Street, Sheffield S1 2NU (view map)
To book: Places are free but must be booked in advance. Booking form link.
Further information: University event page or email events@shu.ac.uk

After the lecture, which will end around 7:30pm, guests will be invited to stay for wine and a light buffet served in the atrium area of the Furnival building. The rooms and gallery housing the Creative Spark exhibition will also be open for guests to view at this time.

The show displays artworks by five contemporary artists, David Cotterrell, Jane Prophet, Sachiyo Nishimura, Léon Ferrari and Sinta Werner.

Curated by MA Gallery Studies and Critical Curating students at the University of Essex, the exhibition uses a range of different media including photography, video projection, ink on paper and floor installation to give a sensorial and wide ranging viewing experience.

Structurescapes aims to reveal what is produced when utopian and dystopian ideologies meet in the juxtaposition of differing constructed ideals. This is to be done through the revelation of the fine line between these two concepts. This fine line can be termed as the Picturesque.

The exhibition is based upon the premise that all environments whether natural or built are constructed. Environments are synthetically arranged to reveal the idealisms of the creator. However, when differing ideals are juxtaposed their imperfections are emphasised as no utopian construction can ever be finite, as utopianism is subjective.

The exhibition will be presented at the University of Essex Gallery in Wivenhoe Park, Essex. As a picturesque estate, Wivenhoe Park is the very embodiment of these ideals, and with the juxtaposition of the Kenneth Caplon brutalist concrete architecture of the University campus buildings, this estate enacts the very contradictions and continuities that this exhibition explores.

Exhibition Dates:

01 June 2010 - 26 June 2010

Opening Times:

Monday-Friday 11am-5.00pm
Saturday 12.00pm-4.00pm

The exhibition will be accompanied by an events programme which will explore the issues raised as well as a catalogue offering diverse essays and explorations of the artworks and artist information.

Artist Talk:

As one of the artists featured in the Structurescapes exhibition, David will be contributing to this program in an afternoon event, 'Structurescapes Talk: An Interview with David Cotterrell' at the Headgate Theatre at 3pm on Saturday, 5th June.

This interview will discuss David Cotterrell’s motivations and themes within his artworks, his wider career as an artist as well as his role in the context of this exhibition.

Tickets: £2 - Please call 07821 438888 for general enquiries and to book seats.

Research as Exhibition: Research as Exhibition
Friday 14 May 2010, 10.00–18.30

Tate Britain Auditorium

The exhibition is increasingly being reframed as a 'research output', but what can new forms of research and collaboration bring to the concept and curatorship of the exhibition? Is the idea of the exhibition being distorted or creatively extended by new disciplinary practices and knowledge? In what ways do new forms of research exhibitions create new types of knowledge and experience for the audience?

Speakers include: Dr Gail Lambourne (AHRC), Dr Angus Carlyle (CRiSAP), Irene Revell (Electra), John Byrne (LJMU), Alistair Hudson (Grizedale Arts), Dr Leslie Topp (Birkbeck), Professor David Cotterrell (Sheffield Hallam University), Professor Felix Driver (Royal Holloway, UoL) and Kate Southworth (University College Falmouth), Professor David Solkin (Courtauld), Susan Pui San Lok (Artist), Dr Brian Dillon (University of Kent) and Dr Ken Neil (Glasgow School of Art)

Keynote: Professor Bruno Latour (Sciences Po)

Introduction: Dr Victoria Walsh (Tate Britain) Respondents/chairs: Sally Taylor (LCACE), Evelyn Wilson (LCACE), Oriana Baddeley (CCW, University of the Arts), Dr Ken Neil (Glasgow School of Art) and Dr Noortje Marres (Said Business School).

The event is followed at 18.30 by a drinks reception.

In collaboration with and supported by LCACE

To receive the field broadcasts visit www.fieldbroadcast.org and click on 'download viewer' and follow the instructions. Once you have installed the viewer application, each broadcast will arrive directly through your internet connection, opening in a pop-up window.

Field broadcast will be live for 24 hours a day from May 8th to May 16th. Times of individual broadcasts will not be published in advance. All broadcasts are live and will not be repeated.

Broadcasts from: Bram Thomas Arnold, Ed Atkins, Dave Ball and Oliver Walker, Christopher Bassford and Jonathan Ryall, Richard Bevan, Sara Bjarland, Martin John Callanan, Susan Collins, Dan Coopey, Alexander Costello, David Cotterrell, Michael Cousin, Juan Cruz, Sean Edwards, Simon Faithfull, Florencia Guillen, Hamilton, Southern and St Armand, Toby Huddlestone and Sarah Jane Parton, Fritha Jenkins, David Kefford, Olivier Leger, Pernille Leggat Ramfelt, Neil Luck, Revati Mann, Elizabeth McTernan, Alex Pearl, Eric Rosoman, Jennie Savage, Rob Smith, Dan Walwin, Ian Whittlesea, Luke Williams, Laura Wilson

Field Broadcast is presented as part of Wysing Arts Contemporary Presents, a Field Broadcast bell will ring in Wysing’s gallery to mark the start of each new broadcast and there will be a special live screening at Wysing on the 16 May, for further details visit www.wysingartscentre.org

Field Broadcast is curated by Rebecca Birch and Rob Smith. PROJECKT was established on the 1 January 2009. Through curatorial experimentation it provides new and innovative contexts for contemporary artists and practices. www.projeckt.org.uk

For further information please contact field@fieldbroadcast.org / Tel: 07719 976830

Further information, courtesy of the Royal United Services Institute:

Details:

Date: Wednesday, 10 Mar 2010
Time: 7.00 - 9.15 pm
Location: RUSI, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2ET (view map)
Book your place: Please follow link.

About the event:

The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies and The Art Fund, Britain’s leading art charity, would like to invite you to a reception and debate on the topic of “Commemorating our Armed Forces: Remembrance in a Modern Society”.

Set against the backdrop of the Wootton Bassett phenomenon, a high-profile panel of speakers will come together to discuss our country’s historical approach to remembrance.

Chaired by Channel 4 television presenter, Jon Snow, the debate will hear contributions from:

• Former UK Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt GCB CBE MC
• Director General of the Imperial War Museum, Diane Lees
• Director-General of the Royal British Legion, Chris Simpkins
• David Cotterrell, Artist and Professor of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University

The debate will be preceded by a canapés reception between 1900-2000, where people can view Official Iraq War artist, Steve McQueen’s, Queen and Country artwork.

To attend this event, please register online using the "Book your place" link above. If you have any queries please contact Deanne Prudden, Events Manager, at deannep@rusi.org or call +44 (0)20 7747 2619.

Details:

Date: Thurs 19 November,
Time: 6.30-8pm
To book: email: caitlin.heffernan@artistresource.org.uk
Location: View Map

Fabrica is an art gallery in the heart of Brighton, on the South Coast of England. It is situated in the former Holy Trinity Church on the corner of Ship Street and Duke Street.

Travel Information:

TRAIN - Fabrica is close to Brighton station (10 to 15 minutes walk).

TAXI - If you are coming to Fabrica by Taxi, ask for the bottom of Duke Street, opposite Brown's Restaurant. Taxi ranks can be found at: Brighton station (10 minutes walk); junction of East Street and North Street (10 minutes walk or less); near the Clocktower at Queen Square (5 minutes walk).

BUS - Fabrica is 5 to 10 minutes walk from bus stops on North Street and at Churchill Square.

CAR - Finding parking space in central Brighton can be difficult, especially at weekends. Nearest car parks are: Churchill Square, Russell Road, Cannon Place, Church Street, West Street (10 minutes walk or less) North Road, Black Lion Street (10 to 15 minutes walk) Regency square (15 minutes walk) On street parking (using voucher or digital meter systems) can be found along the Seafront and on Middle Street, Duke Street and throughout the lanes. Car Parking for Drivers with Disabilities Fabrica is within 1 minutes walk of 2 spaces reserved for orange badge holders. Orange badge holders may also park on double yellow lines immediately outside the entrance. The gallery entrance in Duke Street is ramped.

The Trustees are pleased to announce the results of the 2009 competition for Philip Leverhulme Prizes. These Prizes are awarded to outstanding young scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field, are recognised at an international level, and whose future contributions are held to be of correspondingly high promise.

Further details can be found at the Leverhulme Trust website.

Further information, courtesy of Jes Fernie, follows:

"The programme will coincide with the showing of Steve McQueen's Queen & Country project at the University of Essex Gallery.

Internationally acclaimed artists Paul Seawright and David Cotterrell will be talking about their experiences of working in Afghanistan as representatives of the Imperial War Museum and the Wellcome Trust.

Seawright visited Afghanistan in 2002 where he created Hidden, a powerful series of photographs which depict minefields and battle sites devoid of people, highlighting the fact that so much of the conflict in Afghanistan is invisible. Cotterrell spent time in Helmand Province with the Joint Forces Medical Group in 2007 witnessing operations on combat trauma victims in the field hospital at Camp Bastion."

Bearing witness: the role of war artists in the 21st century
Speakers: Paul Seawright and David Cotterrell
Chair: Jes Fernie, Associate Curator, firstsite
26 October 2009, Headgate Theatre, Colchester
7.00 - 8.30pm

The festival will showcase works from international artists in the form of video installations, video art, experimental, VJ and live audio visual perfomances.  In addition they will host the Skype symposium series where scholars and video artists from around the world will lecture and participate in panel discussions on a wide range of topics from art to technology.  There are also a series of workshops scheduled to coincide with symposium topics, focusing on techniques and innovation.  The philosophy of Videokills and the international festival is accessibility, open exchange of art and ideas and a dedication to the preservation, invention and evolution of the medium of video art.  The location is in the underbelly of Stattbad, a re-appropriated swimming complex, come cultural venue.

From September 20 to December 13, 2009 the Hyde Park Art Center presents the exhibition featuring the video work of eighteen international artists who explore aspects of Shanghai’s rapidly evolving urban culture. Held in the Art Center’s Black Box Gallery, the exhibition, Shanghype! dismantles perceptions of the city’s identity, stimulating complicated visions of the Far Orient and asking the public to reevaluate notions of neoliberalism and globalization.

Focusing on a city that is constantly in flux—having been built from scratch, rebuilt, and overbuilt—the exhibition reveals a generation’s dramatic achievements while questioning the sustainability of existing urbanism. Using the notion of China at its height as a beginning metaphor, the exhibition works to explore Shanghai’s aspirations and desire to regain its once legendary reputation, the reflected need of China to be recognized as international and modern, and the power struggle between Shanghai’s local and global identity. Organizers of Shanghype! worked closely with selected artists on specific projects “pushing the place of Shanghai in the imaginary”.

All artists involved with the exhibition have spent significant time in China conducting conceptual and visual research on cultural authenticity. Artists include: Sun Xun, Qiu Anxiong, Tang Maohong, Bu Hua, Song Tao, Cao Fei, Zhang Ding, Yang Fudong, David Cotterrell, Xu Zhen, Yang Zhenzhong, Pierre Giner, Olivo Barbieri, D-fuse, Jin Shan, Speedism, Mathieu Borysevicz, and Zhou Xiaohu. The works were selected by Davide Quadrio, a Shanghai-based curator and founder of BizArt, one of China’s oldest and most renowned independent spaces for contemporary art. Co-curating the exhibition is Dan S. Wang, a widely published Chicago-based writer and artist.

Shanghype! will be held in conjunction with the exhibition Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. Both exhibitions explore the cityscape of Shanghai as conceptual terrain. This program is part of a college-wide initiative at Columbia called Eyes on China. This exhibition and related programming has been supported in part by The Center for The Arts of East Asia at the University of Chicago, Dr. Samuel Wang, and anonymous donors.

Shanghype! will be on view from September 20 to December 13, 2009 at the Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 South Cornell Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60615; 773.324.5520 and www.hydeparkart.org. Hyde Park Art Center exhibitions are always free and open to the public.

Exhibition Reception: Sunday, September 27, 3–5 pm

Black Box Gallery Hours:
Monday – Thursday: 10 am – 8 pm
Friday – Saturday: 10 am – 5 pm
Sunday: 12 pm – 5 pm

Artist’s Talk: Sunday, September 27, 2 pm
Peggy Wang and Qiu Anxiong will discuss the current state of video art in China.

Sponsored by the Center for the Arts of East Asia at the University of Chicago.

David is intrigued by the ex-industrial landscape of the forest, seeing it as "one of choreographed and manipulated tranquillity and contemplation." He is considering the use of ‘gabions’, used for military and land fortification, which he saw in Afghanistan. "I would like to investigate construction techniques, which could provide a structural addition designed to be readily appropriated by the forest environment and a platform to consider the contradictions between human manipulation of landscape and the natural passage of time."

Project Director for the Sculpture Trust, Carolyn Black, commented “This is fantastic news for the Sculpture Trust. David’s work is always sensitive and considerate of the people and the places where he works, and the Trust encourages people to become involved in some way. David will present his proposal to the public in the autumn of 2009, as part of programme of artist’s talks we are planning. We can’t wait to see the outcome!”

Searchlight is the story of a politically influential art event. Offering an alternative public art model to the monumental sculpture traditionally aligned with inner-city regeneration, it is an experimental journey through technology, contested territories and fragmented communities.

This publication celebrates the risk and uncertainty of the project, drawing attention to unresolved questions being explored by Britain’s public art community as it seeks to re-evaluate its relationship to context.

Details:

Event: An Evening with David Cotterrell
Date: Tuesday 23 June
Time: 6.30 - 8.30pm (refreshments from 6pm)
Location: The Place, Athenaeum Street, Sunderland SR1 1QX
Free (booking required): bookings@northernarchitecture.com

Further information about the publication may downloaded as a one page document here.

In September of 2009 the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, is opening an exhibition curated by Davide Quadrio entitled Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture. The city of Shanghai is known for its impressive population growth, the increasingly rapid rate of its cultural and environmental transformations, and the tension between Western and traditional Chinese values, lifestyle, and work habits. Within this environment, the role of the artist becomes ever important as they look to interpret the experience of inhabiting a city and a time that’s looking to define itself between the contradictory natures of its past, present and future. The participating artists in this exhibition take various approaches in capturing a city that from day to day seems to transform before our eyes.

Artist included:
Olivo Barbieri, Isidro Blasco, David Cotterrell, Su Chang, Yang Fudong, Xu Zhen, Shi Guorui, Xu Xixian and Xu Jianrong, Birds Head–Song Tao and Ji Weiyu, Speedism–Julian Fridauer and Pieterjan Ginckels, Hu Yang, Ma Liang, Zhu Feng, Zhou Xiaohu, Jin Shan, Cao Fei, Mathieu Borysevicz and Lu Yuanming.

Exhibition Dates:
September 24 – December 23, 2009.

The New Silk Roads is a highly constructed and symbolic subject that keeps fascinating East and West alike as a source of never ending story-telling. The New Silk Roads are a variable place for instable connections and uncertain achievements: leading all to cultural hybridity. ArtHub, a Hong Kong based non-profit dedicated to art creation in China and the rest of Asia, is organizing a four-day symposium Friday, August 27th through Sunday, August 30th to take place in Bangkok University Gallery (BUG), in collaboration with the Prince Claus Fund, Bangkok University (BUG) and National Research Center of the Kingdom of Thailand.

Arthub’s summit will examine the recent rapid developments in Asia, its cast of characters, issues and mediums as the impetus for artists, curators, and cultural thinkers from a wide array of viewpoints to imagine, challenge and transform our visions for arts and culture in progress in Asia in relation to the rest of the world.

A select group of China and Asia’s leading academic and cultural institutions will present lectures and works in a semi-public forum. The panels will be designed to provide a channel for dynamic, cross-disciplinary conversations among artists, curators and scholars in order to expound on strands of investigation pertinent to the subjects such as cultural development, and non-profit management. Arthub will explore connections between cultural circulation, activism, and social/political issues by creating an international platform for the examination of and response to Asia’s cultural issues. The organizations individuals invited will present artworks/ presentations/ installations that can summarize or represent a possible story-telling about a specific condition.

The symposium will be orchestrated by Arthub as a two day happening where each of the participants will perform/ present a specific condition/ angle of the already specific area (both physical and artistic) in which they operate.

The event will be staged within the 250m2 exhibition space of BUG. At the end of the symposium, the space will be opened as a public exhibition. The process will be video recorded and a film + catalogue will be produced. The exhibition will then tour internationally later in 2010.

Participants include:

Ark Fongsmut, independent curator, Bangkok University Gallery , Thailand, Agung Kurniawan, artist/curator, Indonesia, Alexander Ugay, artist, Kazakhstan, David Cotterrell, artist, UK, Els Silvrants, Curator, Belgium/Beijing Theatre in Motion, Gary Pastrana, artist, Philippines, Ho Tzu Nyen, artist, Singapore, Howard Chan, Artist/Curator, Hong Kong, Iani Arahmaiani, Artist, Indonesia, Jiang Jun, Urban China, Beijing China, Kyong Park, Architect, University of California USA/Korea, Lina Saneh artist, Lebanon, Mu Qian, Ethnomusicologist, China, Nikusha Chkhaidze (Nika), artist, Georgia, Onno Dirker, artist/ Architect/ Researcher, The Netherlands, Pratchaya Phinthong, artist, VER Gallery , Thailand, Rahraw Omarzad artist, Afghanistan, Samah Hijawi, artist, Space Makan, Jordan, Shaarbek Amankul, artist, Kyrgyzstan, Stefan Rusu, Artist/ freelance Curator, Project Manager Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau, Moldavia, Hakan Topal, artist/curator Xurban.net, Turkey, Zoe Butt, curator, Long March Project, Beijing/South East Asia, Seph Rodney, Ph.D. candidate at the University of London- Birkbeck College, UK, Veronica Sekules, Head of Education at the Sainsbury Centre, UK, Adeline Ooi, curator and arts writer, RogueArt, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Agung Hujatnikajennong, artist, Indonesia, Nguyen Trinh Thi, filmmaker, Hanoi, Vietnam, Supersudaca, architect/artist collective, South America/ The Netherlands, Edwin Zwakman and Liu Gang, the Netherlands/ China, Speedism, collective, Belgium/ Germany.

at the Architectural Association, London : AAIS Salon

26th May 6.30-8.30pm.

AA School Director Brett Steele hosts a conversation between pairs of collaborators who discuss their joint projects as well as the joys and pitfalls of working together. With Dr Ken Arnold (Wellcome Collection) + David Cotterrell (Artist); Patrick Dickinson (film director) + Andrew Graham Dixon (art critic); Richard Wentworth (artist) + Kit Grover (designer); Gavin Turk (artist) + Deborah Curtis (artist).

Set in a former Georgian drawing room in the heart of today's Architectural Association, the exhibition Salon aims to restore the room to its original function as a place of stimulating conversation and the pursuit of knowledge. The AAIS is a new AA programme that gives experienced individuals an opportunity to step away from their existing professional or academic activities and enter the unique AA environment in order to see their own field and interests in a new light.

Supported exclusively by the Cultural Leadership Programme, Method focuses its agenda on the development of 21 independent leaders in the cultural and creative industries in the UK, offering participants leadership learning in the context of their own place of work.

The Cultural Leadership Programme (CLP) was set up to address a significant historical under-investment, when compared to other sectors, in the professional development of people operating in the creative and cultural sector. The work of the programme is diverse, exploring a wide variety of approaches to and understanding around what effective leadership means in a diverse and fast-changing set of contexts, and drawing upon relevant models, expertise and thinking. 

It proposes to define and determine new ways of supporting individual artists and practitioners who are seeking to develop their leadership skills and behaviour, exploring how artists might organise themselves to influence through their own practice, often beyond organisational settings. 

The programme is being delivered by Solar Associates and will take place over the next four months.

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Part 4 : 'Other Pages and Functions'

Downloads - The site also contains a growing archive of downloadable documents and media. Reports, Reviews, Interviews and Transcripts can be accessed in the ‘Downloads’ section. As with other indexes you can view the items by text summary or thumbnails.

The details pages for Downloads function in the same way as other details pages except that clicking the image in the right pane will automatically open or download the attached document.

Search - The content of the site is indexed and a plaintext search will produce a list of items from all sections of the website. Eg. If you type the word ‘Afghanistan’ you will be offered an index of works, shows, publications and downloads related to this topic.

The web-address of the generated search result is unique and can be emailed to others if you wish to refer to this subset of information.

Contact - The contact section provides details of phone and email contacts for visitors from varying countries. It also allows you to subscribe to future occasional bulletins about shows, events and publications. You can also choose to hear about updates by subscribing to the RSS news feed or the Twitter updates (links on contact and home pages).

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Part 3 : 'Detail Pages'

Once you have selected an item from any index you will navigate to a detail page. Regardless of section the controls and buttons are similar.

Basic information is offered in the header section, with a narrative explanation in the left pane. The right pane is used for displaying still and video-based documentation. If there is more than one image/video thumbnails will appear below the pane you can either click the thumbnail to view the full-size image or click the main image to automatically progress to the next one in the series.

If there is video documentation available a triangle will be displayed as one of the thumbnails. Click this to view an embedded Vimeo or YouTube video within the pane.

The most powerful feature of the details page is the ‘Links’ tab. Click the chain link thumbnail to the left of the text pane (beneath the ‘T’) to view a complete set of direct links to other related material within the site. For example from the ‘Becks Futures 2002’ exhibition detail page you will find links to the work ‘Borrowed Time’ featured within the exhibition and the publication produced to document the show.

All detail pages have the ability to generate a printable pdf of the displayed content. This can be accessed by clicking the small ‘document’ icon in the lower right corner of the right pane

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Part 2 : Index Pages

In Icon view items will generally be displayed in reverse chronological order (ie most recent first). You can switch to A-Z view by clicking the ‘A-Z’ link within the header text. If there are more than 40 items within the index you can advance to a the next page by clicking the ‘->’ symbol displayed beneath the Icon grid or to the right of the Icon grid.

Rolling over an Icon displays the thumbnail in colour, displays the name of the Item within the lower information bar (and within a ‘tooltip’ if the mouse is paused above the icon.)

A more selective index may be displayed by clicking one of the Filter Icons in the bottom right of the screen (eg Within the Projects Index, you can choose to view only Projects in Galleries / Public Realm or Proposals). To view the entire index again, simply click the filter once again.

You can toggle between ‘List’ and ‘Icon’ view using the button to the far right of the filters.

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Part 1 : 'General'

The menu tabs at the top of the screen allow access to content sorted in a variety of ways. If you select to view information by ‘Project’ or ‘Exhibition’ you are initially presented with a Thumbnail or Icon-based index. Other menu tabs take you to index’s of content displayed in List view.

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Or click on the following links to find out more about the functions available in:

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Index Pages
Detail Pages
Other Pages and Functions