What are the Photographers up to...
Åsa Johannesson is currently making work for her ongoing project 'The Boy' (see http://www.asajohannesson.com/) Paul Sucksmith will be showing a film piece in Pixel Pops!, based on his shopping series.PixelPops! 2009 will be held in December in The Corridor, an exhibition space of BolteLang gallery in Zürich, Switzerland. This year's curator is Aoife Rosenmeyer. The films will be shown on the website (www.poppingpixels.org) after the physical exhibit takes place. PixelPops! is an ongoing, traveling series of annual digital art exhibits. The series is uniquely organic in that it changes with each year's new locale and the creativity each new curator brings. Year after year, the online catalogue continues to grow and provide new resonances and global connections in artistic interpretation.
Carl Jaycock:
The Elizabeth
Garrett Anderson Memorial artwork created by artist Carl Jaycock. Evi Lemberger is working at the moment on a project in Hungary and has two
exhibitions in London during Photomonth coming up. One is a
solo exhibition with "EIN NICHTORT- OR THE FAIRY TALE ABOUT THE GALOSHES OF FORTUNE" at The Foundry, 86 Great Eastern St, EC2A 3DT, from the 17-22 November 2009, see http://2009.photomonth.org/ and http://2009.photomonth.org/listings#38. The other is a joint exhibition, Colours United, with Tanya Long as part of Photomonth:East
London Photography Festival. (Chicci Art Lounge, 516 Roman Road, E3
5ES. Mon to Fri 08.00 to 19.00. Sat 08.00 to 18.00. Joanna Kane Joanna Kane is currently working on a video installation project which will be shown in Berlin later this year... Paul Sucksmith has refurbished his website, at www.paulsucksmith.com. Check out the great new work in his gallery under Shopping, Urban Landscape and Wasteland. Article about Photo-ID published: Ruby Ormerod has written a terrific 4-page article about the exhibition called Photo-ID: So, Who Are You? It appears in the latest issue of the East Anglian art magazine Green Pebble (issue 11, Aug-Sept 2009). See www.greenpebble.co.uk Paul Sucksmith: is exhibiting in the ( Place / Identity / Memory ) exhibition at the Gracefields Arts Centre, Dumfries. Opens 23rd May to 28 June 2009, then tours libraries and other venues across Dumfries and Galloway, ending at Stranraer Museum in September / October 2009. Then he's included in the permanent archive at the University of Glasgow Crichton campus, part of the library of the University of Glasgow. Marlene Haring is also appearing in EASTinternational. The opening is Saturday 11 July 2009, 5-8pm, NORWICH Marlene Haring is now in Norwich shooting the 1000 rolls of film for her Choosing is Losing project for Photo-ID. Evi Lemberger Project Assistance Award longlist. Evi has a portfolio in the latest issue (July 7th) of the British Journal of Photography. Every week they showcase a personal project from a photographer looking for completion funding or assistance shooting another series. Each published is then longlisted for their £5000 Project Assistance Award. The week's featured photographer is Evi Lemberger! Åsa Johannesson Surfacing: Questions of identity by Swedish photographers from the Royal College of Art. 8 - 31 July 2009. These photographs and video works by a group of young Swedish artists, all graduates of the Photography Department at the Royal College of Art, share a common preoccupation with questions of whom we are, and who we are perceived to be in the eyes of others. Portraiture in its broadest sense is the working methodology of choice, whether investigating gendered identity, national identity, work identity or the unconscious. In Homeland, a photographic series by Nina Mangalanayagam, Swedish national identity is investigated through the artist’s collaborative self-portraits with her father, who immigrated to Sweden from Sri Lanka. Åsa Johanneson also sees her photographic work The Boy as a continual self-portrait, where aspects of her own identity and that of the depicted overlaps, and the portrait becomes a space formed by perception, both dismantling and creating identity. In the video installation På Kontoret (At the office), Cecilia Järdemar examines the everyday, raising questions about how our surroundings impact on our actions and behavior. The photographs and installations by Karin Gunnarsson deal with the flow between contrasting states of experience and representation, such as absence-presence, construction-rupture and inside-outside. Surfacing is part of the cultural programme of the 2009 Swedish EU Presidency. 12 Star Gallery is open Paul Sucksmith is in the middle of editing some new work; a series of photographs taken at the redundant magnesium works in Hartlepool that he did last month. It is an impressive place right next to the beach, and was an inspirational place for Ridley Scott, who made Blade Runner. Dave Lewis has won a major commission, the AOA Commission, from 14 April 2009 - 31 January 2010 Simon Terrill is having two showings as a Graduate Affiliate at the Slade School of Fine Art in Gower Street, London. They are both from 11-17 June and one, Double Orbit, involves rotating walls!
Marlene Haring has just completed a project over three weeks called "Living in Hope" in a bar in a suburb of Linz. She did this performance for the Austrian art event "Festival of Regions" which had the theme "Normality".
Åsa Johannesson had her MA show at the RCA from 29 May – 7 June, 2009 (for more see here). The works are very relevant to the Photo-ID project, and she says "My work explores self and otherness, with a focus on gendered identity. I see my projects as a continual self-portrait; I feel that my sitters and I share our identities in various ways, but never completely. I am interested in how perception can form the image, which becomes a sphere where identity is dismantled, but also a space where it is created. My work is informed by fears and fantasies surrounding questions of who we are, mentally and physically, and who we feel we are in the eyes of others."
Dumb-bells (from the series The Boy), Asa Johannesson, 100 x 120 cm, C-type print Geoff Dyer We now have confirmation that the author Geoff Dyer will be opening the exhibition on 31 July (www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth233) Simon Terrill was up in Norwich on Saturday 7th March, busy researching a variety of graveyards and cemeteries in the area with a possible view to using one for a photoshoot! Below is Simon at the tiny, quiet Quaker burial ground in Chatham Street, Norwich.  What remains of our identity when we die? Is this a crowd? What aspects of our identity do we wish to remain here? NEW: Simon did a shoot in the Rosary Cemetery in Norwich between 2.00 and 4.00 on the 23rd May. He borrowed Mark Edwards enormous tripod and step ladder (see below), and we mustered a crowd of around 35 people for the photograph, which will go in the exhibition alongside the Abney Road Cemetery photo he has already done. This is a press photo of Simon at the top of his ladder that appeared in the 25th May Eastern Evening News!  Kim Cunningham has a show of her photographs documenting St.Joseph’s, (more fondly known as ‘Holy Joe’s’) Irish Social Centre in North London. The exhibition, from 10th - 20th March is in the Lower Ramp at City Hall, London, and captures this haven for Irish immigrants in London for over five years, as it declined in numbers. This project pays homage to this generation of dedicated believers where traditions and customs were preserved by the experience as an Irish immigrant. Part of the St Patrick’s Day celebrations. For details see: www.london.gov.uk/gla/city_hall/city_hall_exhibitions.jsp  I went along myself to catch the exhibition on the 11th March, arriving at City Hall after crossing Tower Bridge (see below). The security was tight and they took away the pathetic pair of scissors in my briefcase (in case, as a serial iconoclast, I savaged one of Kim's images, I suppose). The show runs right along one wall of the descending ramp, shown below, and is well hung and very well lit. A sense of contemplative nostalgia for those clinging, as emigrants, to an identity and set of social interactions left behind, is compelling, yet at the same time affectionate and pragmatic. I really liked this exhibition and hope it gets a worthy number of visitors. Well done Kim.   Carl Jaycock has been selected to create a memorial artwork on Elizabeth Garrett Anderson's life for the E.G.A. wing of the University Central London Hospitals, Euston. He will be using archive material from the Wellcome Trust Library. Åsa Johannesson has provided a research and progress update for her Photo-ID project. She is working with her granddad's photographs of herself and her twin-sister. She has spent some time in Sweden and gone through 11 years of negatives, from 1982-93. Her granddad is a painter and used his camera for his own research and inspiration for his artistic work. Asa's research focuses on 'double identity' and she is looking into twin identity. The images are from her grandparent's house in Sweden (with one of her granddads paintings on the wall..) and from her black and white darkroom in London, where she is printing from his negatives.   Mark Edwards has recently been making work for the Photo-ID commission in a beautiful old vegetable garden on the edge of Norwich. His plate camera is seen below....  Joanna Kane: Four images from her Somnambulists series appear in the exhibition, 'The Russian Linesman', curated by Mark Wallinger and showing at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank, London until May, then touring to Leeds and Swansea. For her research for the Photo-ID project Joanne has visited Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery and has been photographing items in the archives.... Dave Lewis is a contributing artist to Assembling Bodies Art, Science & Imagination, a major interdisciplinary exhibition at the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, open from March 2009 to November 2010. The Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology is located on Downing Street, in the centre of Cambridge. Open Tuesday - Saturday 10:30am - 4:30pm. Admission Free. The exhibition explores some of the different ways that bodies are imagined, understood and transformed in the arts, social and bio-medical sciences. The project is part of the Leverhulme Research Project ‘Changing Beliefs of the Human Body’ (2004-2009), which has brought together researchers in archaeology, ancient history, social anthropology. Additional support was provided by the Wellcome Trust, Arts Council England (East), and the Crowther-Beynon Fund, University of Cambridge. How do we know and experience our bodies? How does the way we understand the human body reflect and influence our relations with others? Assembling Bodies reveals and challenges preconceived notions of the human body by exploring some of the different ways that bodies are imagined and understood in the arts, social and bio-medical sciences. See more at http://maa.cam.ac.uk/assemblingbodies  Paul Sucksmith has produced a book entitled “The dysfunctional life of a dyslexic waif and stray” for an exhibition called: PLACE IDENTITY AND MEMORY, at Gracefield Arts Centre, a major centre for the visual arts in the south of Scotland. It is hosting Place, Identity & Memory in partnership with the IRIS group, from 23-May-2009 to 28-Jun-2009  More info at: www.axisweb.org/ Marlene Haring has a solo show in Vienna, it was a major task to produce around 40 videos:
Invented 1865 by Felicitas Zopp, the
innovative technology and astonishing capability of the
Photoboothautograph were quickly recognised. A patent was granted the
same year. For a short period in 1866 a Photoboothautograph was
installed as an attraction in the famous Vienna Prater fair grounds.
But shortly afterward the technology was declared a military secret and
thus fell into oblivion.
Recently, the Photoboothautograph and its unique potential for
replication, repetition and self-fragmentation was rediscovered in the
Austrian State Archive and updated using latest digital technology. From
20 March until 12 April the prototype tested by Marlene Haring will be
presented to the public at Passagen Galerie, Künstlerhaus, Vienna,
Austria.
(Karlsplatz 5, A - 1010 Vienna) www.k-haus.at/ Evi Lemberger is currently in the Ukraine, in Transcarpathia, working on the Photo-ID project. She will be there until the 14th April..... Workshop at the Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich 26th Feb 2009Eight of the commissioned photographers met in Norwich, with Paul Grace from the Art School, to make a series of presentations about their previous and current practice to a lecture theatre full of students ranging from 2nd year degree to 2nd year MA courses. In the afternoon they split into four interactive workshops with groups of students to provide feedback and thoughts on their work, followed by a well deserved social event in the Student Union Bar.....(photos here) |  Åsa Johannessonn Whitevest  Carl Jaycock Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (detail)  Carl Jaycock Elizabeth Garrett Anderson  ...and Alistair Darling!  Dave Lewis: Image detail - Untitled 1 from the series Black Youth & Mental Health 1991 |
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