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1001 TV Sets (End Piece)’ features 1001 cathode ray tube TV sets of all ages and conditions, filling the massive Ambika P3 subterranean space. The TVs had been tuned to different analogue stations that played randomly in a cacophony of electronic signals. The signals gradually reduced between 4 and 18 April 2012, as the final analogue signals were broadcast from London’s Crystal Palace.
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http://www.jerwoodvisualarts.org
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Film and Video Umbrella and Jerwood Visual Arts announce that Ed Atkins and Naheed Raza have been chosen to receive commissions of £20,000 each in the next phase of the new Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards. Chosen from four shortlisted artists, both will now work with Film and Video Umbrella on major new moving image projects, which will premiere at Jerwood Visual Arts, London in 2013, before opening in Glasgow at CCA (Centre for Contemporary Art).
This significant new opportunity for moving image artists has so far supported four of the most exciting new talents to emerge on the contemporary art scene, providing each with a development fund and exhibition opportunity. Those shortlisted artists -Ed Atkins, Emma Hart, Naheed Raza and Corin Sworn – were selected by a panel of judges from a nominated long-list of more than 50 proposals from across the UK. Each artist was awarded a bursary of £4,000 to develop pre-production proposals.
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http://www.artmuseum.pl/wydarzenie.php?id=Angry_Birds_eng
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Artists: Eric Binder, Ivan Brazhkin, Alexandra Galkina, Ivars Gravlejs, Alina Gutkina, Valya Fetisov, Zhanna Kadyrova, Polina Kanis, Irina Korina, Laura Kuusk, Camille Laurelli, Lena Martynova, Misha Most, Anton Nikolaev, Anastasia Potemkina, Sergey Sapozhnikov, SOSка (Mykola Ridnyi, Anna Kriventsova and Sergey Popov), David Ter-Oganyan, Sveta Shuvaeva, Igor Shuklin, Grigory Yushchenko.
curator: David Ter-Oganyan in cooperation with Daria Atlas and Katia Szczeka.
The exhibition presents works of a young generation of artists, important for the Moscow art scene today. It includes not just Russians, but also artists from former Soviet republics and from Western countries.
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http://www.iwm.org.uk/exhibitions/ori-gersht-this-storm-is-what-we-call-progress
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Gersht’s work often deals with conflict, history and geographical place. The three central works in this new exhibition each disguise dark and complex themes beneath seductive, beautiful imagery.
Will You Dance For Me? depicts an 85-year-old dancer rocking back and forth in a chair, slowly recounting her experiences as a young woman in Auschwitz. Her punishment for refusing to dance at an SS officer’s party was to stand barefoot in the snow, and she pledged that if she survived she would dedicate her life to dance.
The two-screen film Evaders explores the mountainous path of the Lister Route, used by many to escape Nazi-occupied France. The film focuses on the ill-fated journey of Jewish writer and philosopher Walter Benjamin, whose own words give the exhibition its title.
The photographic work Chasing Good Fortune examines the shifting symbolism of Japanese cherry blossoms, which came to be linked with Kamikaze soldiers during the Second World War.
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http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/unilever2011/
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FILM is an 11-minute silent 35mm film projected onto a gigantic white monolith standing 13 metres tall at the end of a darkened Turbine Hall. It is the first work in The Unilever Series devoted to the moving image, and celebrates the masterful techniques of analogue film-making as opposed to digital. The work evokes the monumental mysterious black monolith from the classic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film feels like a surreal visual poem, including images from the natural world among others, with the epic wall of the Turbine Hall showing through, in a montage of black and white, colour, and hand-tinted film.
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