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Zoo 2009 at Zoo 2009

info@artvehicle.com (Natalie Hope O'Donnell) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:00:31 +0800

The name change from as Zoo Art Fair to Zoo 2009 was not the only alteration to this London event in its sixth instalment. The venue last year was the grand building behind the Royal Academy of Arts. In 2009, Zoo moved to the East End to be housed at a rough ex-industrial site off Shoreditch High Street. Traditionally the 'young galleries' fair', Zoo 2009 had to adapt to Frieze Art Fair's usurpation of their usual ambit with the Frame section. ...

Female Fragrance: Video Art Screenings at The Swedish Ambassador's Residence

info@artvehicle.com (Keiron Phelan) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:32:14 +0800

Gunvor Nelson, Lisa Jeannin, Anita Wernstrom. October 8, 2009. Annika Strom, Petra Lindholm, Malin Stahl. October 15, 2009. 'And now for something...completely different' deadpans the Swedish Ambassador, welcoming us to his mildly palatial and decidedly Rococo dwelling and drolly introducing the first of two evenings of modern Swedish women's Video Art. ...

Interview with Phil Hale

info@artvehicle.com (Rose Lejeune) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:10:12 +0800

Urge Ourselves Under - Warren Carvery, Thomas Meissner, Toren Schvantzi and Adrian Lee Five Hundred Dollars, 12 Vyner Street, E2 9DG 15 October – 6 November 2009 Open late Thursday 5 November, as part of Time Out's First Thursdays. Rose Lejeune: You are currently exhibiting in the exhibition, Urge Ourselves Under, at Five Hundred Dollars as under three different pseudonyms. ...

Postcard from Scandinavian Biennals 2009: Gothenburg and Momentum

info@artvehicle.com (Natalie Hope O'Donnell) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:54:03 +0800

As prominent researchers and practitioners gathered in Bergen for a conference on 'To biennial or not to biennial? That is the question', two such events were already underway in Norway and Sweden. In the small town of Moss, an hour south of Oslo, Momentum - the Nordic biennial of contemporary art was on display across two venues; three hours further down the Scandinavian coast, Gothenburg hosted their international art biennial across several art institutions. ...

Postcard from Istanbul: through crimson tinted glasses

info@artvehicle.com (Shamita Sharmacharja) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:48:40 +0800

I wasn't quite sure what I would make of the 11th Istanbul Biennial, or its curiously monikered curatorial collective What, How and for Whom (WHW). Its title, 'What Keeps Mankind Alive?', didn't inspire much confidence, calling to mind the lofty meta-conceits that have become both characteristic and clich� of the international biennial circuit. ...

Postcard from Theatricality: via Vue Leicester Square and 'Ben Hur Live'

info@artvehicle.com (Richard Whitby) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:19:16 +0800

On an illicit afternoon cinema trip recently, I was struck by the weirdness of the first thirty minutes of proceedings. �Leaving sunlit Leicester square and entering the warren of different screens, bars and toilets somehow packed in, Tardis-style, behind the fa�ade of the building; proceeding to our seats without ever having our expensive tickets verified by anyone and coming to rest in an almost entirely empty theatre, we then settle down to a soundtrack of soundtracks, strung together ...

Asides no. 11: The Hurt Locker

info@artvehicle.com (Ed Atkins) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:32:29 +0800

The opening shot of ‘The Hurt Locker’ is through the grainy camera of a bomb disposal robot as it trundles towards a suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) beside the road somewhere in contemporary Baghdad. We cut to the soldier remotely operating the ‘bot, waggling joysticks and switches, and trying to persuade the robot’s clumsy pincers to lift the edges of a suspect tarpaulin. ...

Adrian Lee artist's page

info@artvehicle.com (Adrian Lee) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:31:00 +0800