SHOWS - Polytechnic at Raven Row, London E1

Selection of video work produced in the UK in the late 1970's and early 1980's exploring ways of engaging with narrative and content. Curated by artist curator and writer Richard Grayson.

Highlights:

Cornelia Swann

Graham Young

At Raven Row, 56 Artilery Lane, London E1 7LS

www.ravenrow.org

PHOTOGRAPHY- Diamonds

"Sayag Your photographs are all full frame. Do you ever crop your images?

Rauschenberg I don't crop. Photography is like diamond cutting. If you miss you miss. There's no difference with painting. If you don't cut you have to accept the whole image. You wait until life is in the frame, then you have full permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.


Sayag You don't miss very often, from looking at the contact sheets.


Rauschenberg It's because I wait; I wait until it's there again. Whatever is there is a truth, but a truth you have to believe in. What you see in front of you is a fact. You click when you believe it's the truth. The information is waiting to become in essence a concentration, concentrated so clearly that it can be projected back into real life, into your recognition. It could be any size."


- Robert Rauschenberg and Alain Sayag, extract from interview, in Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs (New York: Pantheon Books, 1981- Reprinted in Chance, Documents of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel Gallery, 2010




This interview was on my mind when I shot this photographs today.
Location between Liverpool street and Old Street, London
Camera: Canon EOS 1000D
Photographs where not digitally manipulated.

QUOTE- Yoko Ono

Beginning of Yoko Ono's Snow Piece (Tape piece III):

Take a tape of the sound of the snow falling. This should be done in the evening. Do not listen to the tape. Cut it and use it as strings to tie gifts with. 

Yoke One stated:

 "The only sound that exists to me is the sound of the mind. My works are only to induce music of the mind in people.' ...'There is a wind that never dies.'... 

 The wind is the moving mind, the mind that according to John Cage, 'is part of the air',the mind that is able to transcend 'the falsehood of consciousness' and fly. (Jacqueline Baas, The Sound of the Mind, 2005. Published in Chance, Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by Margaret Iversen, published by The Whitechapel Gallery)

DANCE- Performance with Michael Clark Company

From 27/08/2010 to 30/08/2010 at the Tate Modern London.
More info at: www.michaelclarkcompany.com

Michael Clark

Full dress rehearsal Thursday 26/08/2010.
Photo found on Michael Clark Company Facebook page. 

Tracks used in the performance:

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3)

It's No Game by David Bowie - Group 2

4)

Artist book - Flownatomies

Copyright (c) Ana Vicente 2008

Flownatomies ... is inkjet printed on handmade paper. Reproduced from the original 40 X 50 cm ink and pencil drawings. First edition of 7 copies hand numbered and signed.

London,  2008

QUOTE- Jean Tinguely

'In his 1959 Manifesto For Statics Tinguely exhorted his fellow artists to "stop painting time. Cease building cathedrals and pyramids that crumble away like sugar decorations. Breathe deeply, live in the now, live on and in time. For a beautiful and absolute reality." He then abridged his manifesto, had 150,000 copies printed and dropped them from airplanee over Dusseldorf.'

- extract from Art of the 20th Century, Taschen

Jean Tinguely - Homage to New York (1960) from Stephen Cornford on Vimeo.

Artist Book - UNTITLED

Copyright (c) Ana Vicente 2009-2010

yet to be titled, in progress

found diary

defective photographs 

split

cross

sellotape

DANCE- rehearsal with Michael Clark Company

I am very privileged to have been given the opportunity to take part in this project. Here is a video of one of the rehearsals with Michael Clark Company at the Turnbine Hall in the Tate Modern, on Friday 13th August 2010.

Tate Live:

Michael Clark Company at Tate Modern

Part I: residency, 13 July - 30 August 2010

Free public showings in the Turbine Hall

Friday 27 & Saturday 28 August 21.30

Sunday 29 & Monday 30 August 17.30

For Part I of his choreographic project at Tate Modern, Michael Clark and his company have been resident in the Turbine Hall for seven weeks, making the development and rehearsal of his work publicly visible for the first time.

The Company's presence has transformed the monumental space into an arena for experimentation and practice, foregrounding the processes - both artistic and practical - behind making and performing Clark's work.

As well as devising movement for his company's trained dancers, Clark has invited over 75 non-dancers to join weekly workshops with the company. The group of untrained dancers have learned a piece of dance, specially devised by Clark, which will be performed en-masse in the space over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

Clark has presented work within gallery spaces on many occasions, but this residency enables him to respond directly to the iconic architecture and specific character of Tate: as a communal space and as a museum.  This series of experiments is, in part, preparation for a new, large-scale performance commission due to be premiered as Part II of the project in June 2011.

QUOTE- Man Ray

"...a certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realisation of this idea..." - Man Ray 1934

Artist Book - Walls

Copyright (c) Ana Vicente 2007

Walls

Exploration of imaginary spaces and architectural environments through drawing.

Experimentation with available materials and utilisation of what is at hand, as part of the realisation of an idea.

Book case [London 2007]- cardboard, cello-tape, metal sheet, light-blue ribbon, pencil and polaroid.

Series of 13 drawings [Hatfield 1999]- ballpoint pen, felt tip pen, marker pen, pencil, oil pastel on newsprint paper.

Book dimensions - 33.5 X 23.5 cm