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Thursday 30 November 2006
TRANSMISSIONS: Put Your Foot Down
William Hunt's most recent performance Put Your Foot Down, at Vilnius/London gallery IBID Projects involved submerging himself in a black BMW worth of cold water and singing with the emptying of his lungs - a spectacle that elicits a combination of empathy and trepidation from the attendant audience.
By Christabel Stewart, 16:41 Thursday, 30 November | Click to view this project
Thursday 23 November 2006
Following on nicely from Pablo Bronstein's celebration of the surface appeal of postmodern architecture comes a look at some recent films by "one of the earliest manifestations of Jencksian post-punk art in Britain, the adolescent historicist neo-kitsch of Duggie Fields."* In a presentation of his digital films during a performance night, "Live Humans" at The George Tavern -though not live themselves- the audacity and energy of Fields' hard-edge post-Pop figuration - the benchmark of his owrk for three and a half decades (see pictured invite card from 1971) - stood out as the liveliest contribution. Fields is currently in vogue at Commes des Garcons' London Dover Street Market where his imagery appears on badges and T-Shirts.
[*Quote from a text by Neil Mulholland, 2003].
By Christabel Stewart, 16:29 Thursday, 23 November | Click to view this project
Thursday 16 November 2006
TRANSMISSIONS: Decadent pretensions
Enjoy Pablo Bronstein's irreverent tour of Postmodern London architecture - a special commission by the Frieze Art Fair. Throwing a critical eye over fashionable modernism, and re-appraising the brickwork and stylistic humour above your local Argos, Bronstein continues his investigations into the merits and 'decadent pretensions' of the dominant 1980s style. A drive past TV AMs once jolly, egg-cupped headquarters is the convincing crescendo of both the tour and the argument presented.
By Christabel Stewart, 16:40 Thursday, 16 November | Click to view this project
Monday 6 November 2006
TRANSMISSIONS: Do you think you have a nice bohemia here?
With their professorial collaborator Stephan Dillemuth, artists' collective k2 Aufbau Organisation staged 'Bohemian Lobotomy' at the Frieze Art Fair this year. A critical investigation of the state of 'lifestyle' culture through the prism of certain historical events of Munich (where they are currently based), the film/performance takes the audience from the ciy's rebellious bohemianism of the early 20th century to a comparison of the condition of the Frieze Art Fair with the Munich's beery Oktoberfest, and literally turn a reflective gaze onto the audience for London's premiere contemporary event-based art scenario.
By Christabel Stewart, 16:59 Monday, 6 November | Click to view this project
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