A Hundred Days of Manifestation

NO-BORDER-CAFE, täglich 14-17 Uhr

In der fünften Saison angelangt, arbeitet das bblackboxx Netzwerk weiter an einer künstlerischen Manifestation an der Otterbachgrenze und bietet diesen Sommer einen kollektiven Projektaufenthalt für Kunstschaffende aus der Schweiz, Europa und Übersee an, der zeitlich wie ein Staffellauf strukturiert ist: 10 Positionen sind eingeladen, jeweils rund 14 Tage in der bblackboxx zu verbringen, gestaffelt von Woche zu Woche. Die meistens Projekte haben den Charakter von „Durational Workshops“ die während den Öffnungszeiten des NO BORDER CAFE stattfinden, dass täglich zwischen 14-17 Uhr geöffnet ist. Dazu gibt es auch ausserhalb der Öffnungszeiten Performances, Lesungen, Filmscreenings, Kochaktionen und Rundgänge von Kunst- und Theorieschaffenden aus dem bblackboxx Netzwerk. Diese zusätzlichen Programmpunkte werden laufend ergänzt und manchmal kurzfristig kommuniziert: per Newsletter, auf Facebook und via Plakatanschläge in der Öffentlichkeit oder per sms kommuniziert. Falls Sie Informationen per sms wünschen, bitte Handynummer schicken an 079 791 00 43 mit einem kurzen Hinweis.

On reaching the fifth season, the bblackboxx network continues to work on an artistic manifestation of the Otterbach border and offers this summer to a collective project stays for artists from Switzerland, Europe and overseas, which is structured chronologically like a relay race is 10 positions are invited to each spend about 14 days in the bblackboxx staggered from week to week. The projects usually have the character of “durational workshops” held during the opening times of the NO BORDER CAFE, that is open daily between 14-17 Clock. There are also outside opening times of performances, readings, film screenings, cooking activities and tours of art and theory from the creators bblackboxx network. This additional program items will be added to and sometimes short communication: email newsletters, on Facebook and via billboard posters in public or communicated via sms. If you want information via sms, phone number, please send to 079 791 00 43 with a short notice.

Kuratorium: Heath Bunting / Almut Rembges

GESAMTPROGRAMM (Details siehe unten)

Staffel 1: 20. Juni-bis 2. Juli !Mediengruppe Bitnik (Zürich): „Wer ist Aischa D.?“

Staffel 2: 28. Juni-12. Juli Anna Szwajgier, Zorka Wollny (Krakau): „bblackboxx forest fairytales (experimental sound project“

Staffel 3: 4. Juli-31. Juli Der Subkultur Skulpturen Klub (Basel): „Eine Kettenreaktion“

Staffel 4: 12. Juli-26. Juli Katie Herzog (Los Angeles), James Kennard (Bristol): „Dictionary of Displacement & Unmanned Ariel Vehicle“

Staffel 5: 19. Juli – 2. August Kale Brandon, Lady Lucy (Bristol): „Drawing Exchange“

Staffel 6: 26. Juli-9. August Aviv Kruglanski (Barcelona), Txus Pedrosa (Barcelona) Vahida Ramujkic (Belgrad): „Practical Contemporary Archeology Project“

Staffel 7: 4. August-20. August Adam Zaretsky (New York): „Non-Human Enrichment Art“

Staffel 8: 16. August-30. August Alfonso Borragan (Bristol): „Manifestation Games“

Staffel 9: 6. September-20. September Luke Slater (Bristol): „Tree Platform“

Staffel 1-9: Jeden Freitag Abend AuQuarellclub sans frontières: “Open Source Painting Circle”

Installation Documentation

http://60volunteers.wordpress.com

I am currently in residence at The Southbank Centre for the
Festival of Britain celebrations.

I have a studio in the old box office of The Royal Festival Hall where I am painting portraits of the festival volunteers. More information on this very shortly.

Please read excerpt from the Press release.

People of Britain
This theme appears at various points across the Festival site with the aim of evoking questions around how the British identify themselves today. The centrepiece is a new installation made by
artist Gitta Gschwendtner, evoking the Lion and Unicorn Pavilion at the 1951 Festival of Britain which depicted a flight of ceramic birds symbolising liberty. In homage to this piece, the artist,
working with 50 young refugees and 4 poets has made a new piece for the terrace outside the Royal Festival Hall and in the outdoor corridor linking Hungerford Bridge to Waterloo Station.
Additional People of Britain exhibits are housed in an Avenue of Portraits in the newly created ‘High Street’, leading from Southbank Centre Square to the riverfront. The Avenue of Portraits features a wide range of portraiture in different media, created by artists and young people, and an audiovisual installation from B3 Media including a series of photographs by Franklyn Rodgers of African-Caribbean elders who travelled to Britain in the late 50s and 60s and a soundscape by
Gary Stewart.

For the duration of the Festival, artist Lady Lucy will have a studio in the original Royal Festival Hall box office, where Festival volunteers can have their portrait painted and visitors to the site will be able to see her work in progress.

Full Festival Press Release

The Naming Ceremony

Thursday 7 April, 7pm

Lady Lucy invites artists Katie Guggenheim, Adam Chodzko and Olivier Castel to explore the idea of naming as ritual, a myth-generating process and a tool for disturbance. Newly named young curators group Duchamp and Sons mark the occasion with a new work of art. Supported by Louis Vuitton.

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/product/category_id/22/product_id/862

http://pagesofexhibitions.blogspot.com/

http://www.adamchodzko.com/
http://oliviercastel.blogspot.com/

Whitechapel Gallery Staff Portrait Studio
18th March – 22nd May 2011
The Naming Ceremony
April 7th 2011

Whitechapel Gallery Staff Portrait Studio
Gallery 5&6

The portraits assembled in this work map the staffing structure of The Whitechapel Gallery. The artist Lady Lucy has taken an original organisational chart produced byThe gallery and has annotated, inserted, deleted and re-ordered it’s content. What results is a view of the organisations structure from a particular view point.

This immersive three dimensional diagram references the conventions of institutional portraiture. Historically, large organisations including corporations, schools, professional guilds and town councils have commissioned portraits of their staff. These works are usually exhibited behind the scenes in board rooms and offices rather than in a public context as they are here.

Lady Lucy is an artist whose work hinges on identity and biography. Her tendency to document social moments and people is informed by an interest in the interview, the portrait, the documentary and the act of naming. Drawing and painting are central to her practice, but operate as conduits for communication and understanding.

Each of the portraits incorporated into this display were produced by people aged 16 – 19 from across East London taking part in an introductory course to the Gallery.

Supported by Louis Vuitton.

Pendragon Fine Art Frames ltd

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/lady-lucy-whitechapel-gallery-staff-portrait-studio

A few new gouache and pen drawings done in 2011

I am delighted to announce

Lady Lucy – Whitechapel Gallery Staff Portrait Studio

18 March-22 May 2011
Gallery 5&6

In the corridors of the Houses of Parliament and the back rooms of third division football clubs, hang portraits of heads of state and treasured past employees. Artist Lady Lucy follows in this tradition, and uses portraiture as a process of communication and interaction.

She led a group of young people aged 16-19 in setting-up a portrait studio at the Gallery, where staff from the Gallery were invited to sit and reveal aspects of themselves and the institution. Step behind the scenes of the Whitechapel Gallery to view the organisation’s pantheon of staff portraits.

Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org

Drawing Exchange

Islington Mill, Salford.

Residency: 15th — 19th November 2010

Drawing Exchange day tour with Art Academy Meet at Mill 10.30 AM
Drawing Exchange Event : Thursday 18th November 7-10 pm

Drawing Exchange is a social drawing programme organised by Artists Lady Lucy and Kayle Brandon . They have been creating events together since 2006, where the amateur and the expert, the drawn and the drawer, the traditional drawing class and a night out down the pub, merge and lose their distinction.

After an ambitious 4 year long programme of events including inviting over 20 Artists to present events in a Bristol City Wide Event Drawing Exchange Festival (2009) Kayle and Lucy decided to take a closer look at a particular interest. For this they chose The Graveyard Tours and focussed research in setting exchange events in various Cemeteries of the UK.

Lady Lucy will spend a week researching Manchester and Salford Cemeteries – The Cities of Cemetery Gates hosted by Islington Mill. On Thursday in the day there is an opportunity to join Lucy and some members from Islington Mill Art Academy on a day tour from 11 – 4 pm. and in the evening The Cities of Cemetery Gates Drawing Exchange will take place at The Mill with exercises gathered from the research and tour. All are welcome to attend.

“So we go inside and we gravely read the stones, all those people, all those lives, where are they now ? ” Cemetery Gates, The Smiths 1986

http://www.islingtonmill.com
http://irational.org/drawing_exchange

Islington Mill James Street Salford M3 5HW

ART BLITZ

25-27 November 2010, 12-6pm
Live event: 27 November, 7-9pm

Henny Acloque, Susan Aldworth, Dominic Allan, Phillip Allen, Michael Ajerman, Majed Aslam, Emi Avora, David Blandy, Sarah Baker, Mike Bartlett, Olly Beck, Kirsty Buchanan, Jorge Cabieses, Caravan Gallery, Rachel Cattle, Jake Clark, Jessica Coates, Andrew Curtis, Sam Dargan, Annabel Dover, Sarah Doyle, Tamara Dubnyckyj, Tom Hunter, Leo Fitzmaurice, Kate Garner, Damian Griffiths, Stephen Harwood, Nadia Hebson, Sigrid Holmwood, Paul Housley, Jasper Joffe, Reece Jones, Paul Kindersley, Lady Lucy, Peter Lamb, Damian Le Bas, Delaine Le Bas, Mindy Lee, Iwan Lewis, Peter Liversidge, Hayley Lock, Cathy Lomax, Jeff McMillan, Zoe Mendelson, Alex Michon, Eleanor Moreton, Marianne Morild, Paul Murphy, Harry Pye, Marcus Oakley, Laura Oldfield Ford, Michael O’Mahony, James Payne, Alex Pearl, Edd Pearman, Mike Perry, Claire Pestaille, Rachel Potts, Princess Julia, Emma Puntis, Clunie Reid, Norbert Schoerner, Twinkle Troughton, Yinka Shonibare, Corinna Spencer, Emma Talbot, Mimei Thompson, Alli Sharma, Katherine Tulloh, Lara Viana, Stella Vine, Jessica Voorsanger, David Webb, Jo Wilmot, Rose Wylie, Isabel Young, Yolanda Zappaterra

Nicholas Serota’s recent comments that the government’s funding cuts will cause an ‘arts blitzkrieg’ have inspired Transition Gallery to stage ART BLITZ, a fundraising event which references and updates the confrontational politics and unique style of the 1980s.

For eight years, the artist-run gallery, Transition, has been at the forefront of the East London art scene, staging exhibitions and producing exceptional publications (including Garageland and Arty). With the ill wind of spending cuts threatening to curtail the gallery’s progress, Transition have garnered the support of many leading artists and will be launching a not-to-be-missed art auction on this website on 15 November. Viewing will be in the form of an exhibition at Transition from 25-27 November, culminating in a live auction on the evening of Saturday 27 November. Bidding will be possible in advance online or by telephone or at the live event. There will also be an ARTY DIP where £10 will secure an original drawing or print many of which have featured in Arty.
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The May Queen   (2010)

40 Gouache and Indian Ink  drawings on musical score,  music stand

I will be giving a project on the project that Kayle Brandon and I collaborate on The Drawing Exchange at Art School Alternatives. I will also be setting a Drawing Exercise later in the day.

A Corridor8 Symposium
Liverpool John Moores’ University
7th October 10 – 6pm

Art School Alternatives

A Corridor8 Symposium
Liverpool John Moores’ University
7th October 10 – 6pm

About

Is school a place, an institution, a set of facilities, a situation, a
circumstance, an attitude, or a constellation of relationships of the
transfer of acquired, invented, and accumulated knowledge…?
- Raqs Media Collective, ‘Art School: Propositions for the 21st
Century’, MIT Press (2009)

Drawing together a range of practitioners whose work looks to the
communal, collaborative and participatory, Corridor8 contemporary
visual art magazine presents a participatory symposium that explores
methods of learning and ideas of schooling.

Speakers include: Department 21, Heath Bunting, Kate Rich, Islington
Mill Art Academy, Lady Lucy, Circa Projects, Megan Wakefield, Black
Dogs, A Latento, No Fixed Abode, Disrupt Dominant Frequencies and
Artmarket/Kunstfreund.

The symposium will also include a preview screening of a new film work
by audio-visual artist Paul Rooney.

The event is free but booking is required.

For more information on the event or to book a place please email
lm@corridor8.co.uk

The symposium is supported by Liverpool Biennial and Liverpool John
Moore’s University.

http://artschoolalternatives.info

S DEB   (2009)

Ink on found book.

Just an Echo In the Valley, Sierra Sue, Old Mammy Mine

pen on found music sheet.

Read a review of Prop on Cultures 24 by Mark Sheerin

http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/art80083

I will be showing some new work Musicals and S D E B ( An epic redaction) at Prop.

http://propshow.wordpress.com
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