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Critical art events, projects, exhibitions, and opportunities |
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X Street A performance by réaltympanica, taking the public on a live journey through a neighbourhood in stand-by. The project focuses on the social and sound landscape and lifestyle implications of the 2012 Olympic Games reconstruction plans in the Hackney area, East London. Where: Hackney Wick, London E9 When: Tue 9 - Sun 14 Feb 2010, daily at 8pm more... |
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Journeys With No Return Twelve artists from Germany, Great Britain and Turkey uncover themes around Turkish migration over the last 50 years, exploring archive images, cultural stereotypes and information systems. Where: A Foundation, London E2 When: Thu 18 Feb – Sun 14 Mar 2010 more... |
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Different Culture Photos - Roma London A collaboration between 10 teenage Roma women, photographer Manuela Zanotti and The Children’s Society, Roma London documents the complex transition from Eastern European segregation to attempted British multiculturalism. Where: Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, London E3 When: Thu 11 - Fri 19 Feb 2010 more... |
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Tim Etchells Tim Etchells' first solo exhibition in London features two new works which record his explorations in to different discourses and cultural frames and explores the potential for communication and miscommunication between them. Where: Gasworks, London SE11 When: Fri 5 Feb – Sun 28 Mar 2010 more... |
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“LOUDER THAN BOMBS” - Art, Action & Activism Stanley Picker Gallery will hand over its entire exhibition space to host a series of 7 week-long Live Art residencies focussing on challenging social, political and global issues of the day. Where: Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames When: Tue 9 Feb - Sat 27 Mar 2010 more... |
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Leo Fitzmaurice and Kim Rugg Through dissecting and re-arranging mass produced information, such as newspapers, brochures, comics and packaging, the artists fragment our visual and cognitive understanding of images and text, and force us to reconsider the familiar from new perspectives. Where: Castlefield Gallery, Manchester When: Sat 20 Feb to Sat 3 Apr 2010 more... |
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Scotland  |
Steffi Klenz - NUMMIANUS A photographic series that critically explores ideas of displacement and the collapse of rootedness in a sense of place, focussing on boarded up houses and social exclusion in the Greater Manchester area. Where: Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow When: Sat 30 Jan – Sun 28 Mar 2010 more... |
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rubric: document Call for submissions for the Spring issue of the experimental journal discussing art, writing, theory, and the points at which they intersect. Deadline: Fri 12 Mar 2010 more... |
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Worcester Contemporary Art Open Works in any media, live art proposals and texts are sought for a number of prizes, publications and exhibition opportunities. Deadline: Mon 1 Mar 2010 more... |
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You say tomato, I say tomato Call for submissions for works that engage with semantics in spoken language in order to explore the nature of dialogic disagreement, as part of the North by North Western Arts Festival. Deadline: Mon 3 May 2010 more... |
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ANTI Festival 2010 Call for submissions for an international contemporary arts festival in Kuopio, Finland, focussing on textual, written and language-based responses to site specificity. Deadline: Fri 19 Feb 2010 more... |
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