A Digital Suicide
Over the past year and a half Liam Scully has measured out and reclaimed his digital life. The artist has taken a full data download of his Facebook activities, printed it onto electrocardiograph paper, drawn, rubbed out and marked each detail, rendering permanent and physical the digital detritus of his online past. A WAKE, celebrating this life on Facebook (2008-2013) launches the resulting artist’s book and an obituary publication written by (real) friend and art writer Elizabeth Homersham.
Friday 13 November 2015, 6.30pm, X Marks the Bokship, Matt’s Gallery, London E3.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/a-digital-suicide
5×5
Blue Monkey Network continues its popular pecha kucha-style crit events at the Towner, with a slight twist. This time the five-minute presentations are from four artists – Jill Tattersall, Kristina Veasey, Julia Hilton, Julia Andrews-Clifford – and gallerist Joe Nguyen, who is opening a new commercial space in nearby Bexhill-on-Sea. Free to Blue Monkey Network members, £5 non-members.
Wednesday 18 November 2015, 6pm, Towner, Devonshire Park, Eastbourne.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/5-x-5-five-sussex-artists-talk-about-their-work-for-5-minutes-each
The Contingent Image
Trevor Abbott explores the medium of the digital image, the processes it passes through and how these engender arbitrary or obscured meanings. Winner of the 2014 biennial neo:printprize, the new works on display have been developed during his resulting 12-week residency at neo sponsored by The University of Bolton and Great Art.
19 November 2015 – 3 January 2016, neo:gallery27, The Market Place, Bolton.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/the-contingent-image
AntiUniversity Now!
Inspired by the short-lived and mysterious 1968 AntiUniversity of East London (see below) that included intellectuals such as R.D.Laing and Stuart Hall among its members, a new UK-wide festival invites individuals and groups to ‘teach and learn any subject’. Of the 55+ events, Brett Scott and The London School of Financial Arts will lead two-days of workshops at Furtherfield Commons creatively unpicking the financial sector; in Sheffield, Radical Theory group host a day of events and performances on ‘uselessness’ and in Bristol, SATmag host an event exploring how technology can be used to create a cultural information system that includes people who don’t have online access.
20-22 November 2015, UK-wide.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/integrated-cultural-information-system
Moving Mountains – Wandelbar Art International
Pan-european collective Wandelbar are touring their mountain-inspired exhibition around Celtic countries. Intriguingly the network of predominantly Swiss artists only accepts members over the age of 35. During their time in Wales they will discuss this approach and the context of the arts in Switzerland during a public conversation titled How to be an Artist Abroad.
21 November – 18 December 2015, (talk: 21 November, 3pm), BayArt, Bute Street, Cardiff.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/moving-mountains-wandelbar-art-international
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Pictures of… gallery visitors in a disorientating mist by Stephen Palmer
