Bank holiday weekend at Tate Modern will be London's most exciting contemporary art space including unmissable one-off performances in the epic Turbine Hall. The distortion-fuelled sounds of Congolese band Konono No 1 combine their live performance with groundbreaking film screenings from Djibril Diop Mambety plus a special presentation by Nan Goldin who will project two of her most seminal slide shows documenting vibrant New York subculture. Book now!

More infor here: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/thelongweekend2008/thelongweekend2008.htm

BERLIN, Saturday 10 May, 3 to 8pm

Ard Bia Berlin
39 Chodowieckistr.
Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin

You are invited to Production Meeting 3, this Saturday, 10 May 2008,
from 15.00 to 20.00.

The gallery becomes a film set as the Centre of Attention arrives in
Berlin for four weeks.

The exhibition consists of one space dedicated to photographs of
audience members who took part in the previous shoots. Here, the
stills are of four women who played the same role of the female lead.
The other space is given over to the set.

On Saturday 10 May, the Centre of Attention will be filming a number
of scenes, with visitors to the gallery being able to take part. The
rushes will then be screened in the gallery for the duration of the
show.

Production Meeting 3 is at once a work-producing exhibition, a
performance, a participatory event, a screening, a chance to see
artists at work and work with the artists. It is a further attempt by
the Centre of Attention to 'dematerialise' the audience. Using them as
a contingent found material, the artists attempt to fight consumption
with consumption, and selfishly pursue their own creative goals.

This remake or cover version of an older film, one that was produced
in the 1960s, is not aiming for professional film production values.
The lack of realism and naturalism, the use of unprofessional actors,
the artists' approach, focus on the subject as self-fashioning, on art
as portraiture and on life as art or as a role play with a
pre-determined script. They highlight the awkwardness of social
interaction and intercourse.

Production Meeting 3 in Berlin is part of the Centre of Attention's
project to produce a feature-length fine-art video work. This started
in Glasgow and Gothenburg last year. Using the popular template of
audience participation, Production Meeting 3 aims to reveal the
entrapment which comes with empowerment and the lure of escapism
mistaken for freedom.

For more information:
http://www.thecentreofattention.org/exhibitions/meeting.html

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LIVERPOOL, Thursday 15 May, 6.30pm

Martha Rosler Library at Site
Liverpool John Moores University
68 Hope Street
Liverpool L19EB

You are invited to our talk 'Martha Rosler vs the Centre of
Attention' on Thursday 15 May, 6.30 pm. Entrance is free

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STOCKHOLM AND WEBSITE

If in Stockholm, 'Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft' continues at Mejan
Labs, Akademigrand 3 until 15 June:
http://www.thecentreofattention.org/exhibitions/centre.html

Finally you can now view 'Nameless' on the internet. This recent
Centre of Attention video work was performed and exhibited at Cafe
Gallery Projects, London, March-May 2008:
http://www.thecentreofattention.org/centre/cafegallery.html

          
 
PRIVATE VIEW MAY 14th 6.30 – midnight
Exhibition: May 15th – June 14th 2008
RHYTHM FACTORY 16-18 WHITECHAPEL ROAD, LONDON E1 1EW
 
Hello. My name is RUSSELL HERRON and I am an artist.
Or maybe it’s all in my mind.
 
Well, let’s see. Back in the 90s I used to work with a woman and we did some work under the name SR, or sometimes SR London. We did lots of media based stuff using her image. Among other things we put a flyer in Art Monthly with an image of her saying Young British Artist. We did full page adverts in magazines like Dazed and Confused and i-D with her posing like a model. We did stickers with her saying I Am Everywhere which got put up all over the world and we made a small magazine called SR’s I AM EVERYWHERE magazine.
Then, not long after that she lost the plot a bit. We split. I didn’t do art for about three years because art for me was about her madness and I didn’t want to be mad. So I worked in a job for a bit, nothing to do with art…

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VLADIMIR DUBOSSARSKY & ALEXANDER VINOGRADOV
THE NEW PEOPLE ARE ALREADY HERE
MAY 9 - JUNE 14, 2008
OPENING FRIDAY, MAY 9, 6 - 9 PM

DEITCH PROJECTS
76 Grand Street
New York, NY 10013
(212) 343-7300
WWW.DEITCH.COM

Wednesday May 7th
THE RUSSELLETTES – Kora, Christine and Kay – will be at:
Artprojx NEW SPACE, inaugural show, DADADANDY Boutique, group show, 6-8pm, info www.artprojxspace.com
also on this night is:
Sartorial, Ode To Sartorial, 10 day group show of the usual suspects, 6.30-9pm, info: www.sartorialart.com
 
Thursday May 8th
The Printspace - 74 Kingsland Road - London E2 8DL’10’, print set organised by Carter Presents, 6-9pm, info: www.carterpresents.com
Parade, Stuart Andrew, Philip Caramazza, Gabriel Hartley, New Paintings, 7-9pm, info: www.paradespace.com
Centre For Recent Drawing, Diary Drawing, group show, 7-9pm, with a panel discussion with Paul Gravett and exhibiting artists: 6.15-7pm info: www.c4rd.org.uk
Shoreditch Town Hall, Empire and Daughter Isotope & Insectoid, part of the Institute of Psychoplasmics at Pump House Gallery, 8-9.30pm, info on this: www.kollectiv.co.uk
The Gallery on Redchurch Street, | 50 Redchurch St | London E2, The Cynthia Corbett Gallery presents Yvonne de Rosa Crazy God til 11 May 2008
Crazy God - Letters and photos from an Italian psychiatric hospital.Private View and Book Launch 6.30-8.30pm info: further information on Yvonne de Rosa, Press enquires or to RSVP please contact Celia Kinchington celia@thecynthiacorbettgallery.com T. +44 (0) 20 8947 6782
Blow de la Barra, Jo Robertson, What History Do They Represent, 6-8.30pm, info: www.blowdelabarra.com
Concrete Hermit, eBoy LA, 6-9pm, info: www.concretehermitgallery.com
Cubitt, Boris Groys, Thinking in Loop, 7-9pm, info: www.cubittartists.org.uk
In Brighton…
MODERN TOSS, A collection of artwork/silkscreens/original drawings/ from the cult comic/tv show, Ink_d gallery/studio 96 North Road Brighton BN1 1YE info: www.ink-d.co.uk
Meanwhile in Hertford,
Keeping it LIVE - A 3 day festival of Live Art, 8th-10th May 2008 at Courtyard Arts Centre, Hertford, Full programme details visit www.courtyardarts.org.uk
And in Sheff…
S1 Artspace, Katy Woods, The Great Inundation, 6.30-8.30pm, info: www.s1artspace.org
 
Friday May 9th
Fieldgate, Bass Diffusion Model, 6-9pm, info: www.fieldgategallery.com
Union Teesdale Street, Kyoko Kanda, 6-9pm, info: www.union-gallery.com
The Old Sweet Shop, Hayley Potter, Secret Creatures, 6-9pm info: www.theoldsweetshop.org
Elevator, Subb Urbe of Sound, writers, artists performance. 7pm, info: www.elevatorgallery.co.uk
In Nottingham…?
Moot, Sean Edwards, It’s not what we wanted but we’ll settle…, 6-8pm, info: www.mootgallery.org
 
Saturday May 10th
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, 7pm If Looks Could Kill. New artists film & video commissions from: Eloise Fornieles, Shannon Plumb, Paulette Phillips, Boudicca, Elizabeth McAlpine, Derrick Santini, Dino Dinco, Wendy Bevan: Curated by Laura McLean-Ferris and Louise Clarke. Info: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/14240.htm
Studio 1.1, Eduardo Padilha, Michael Schwab, "Full Circle", 6-9pm, info:
www.studio1-1.co.uk
Best Budgerigar Competition, All Saints Church Hall Haggerston Hackney, E8.
Budgerigars and owners arrive at 10am for photography session. Birds on public display from 1pm and the start of the event. £2 entrance fee to the public. Judging from 2-3pm. Winner and 2 runners up announced at 3.30pm. project put together by Susanna Edwards
( www.susannaedwards.com ). Too much info to list but refers to Jayne Mansfield and Iain Sinclair, oh just go along……The judges will be Iain Sinclair, Edwards and Rev Rose Hudson- Wilkinson…..
Residence, Curating Visitors, 7-10pm, info: www.residence-gallery.com
Studio Voltaire, Donald Urquhart, Plagues, 7.30pm, info: www.studiovoltaire.org
In Berlin….? Then why not:
Centre of Attention, Production Meeting 3, from 3 – 8pm. For more information:
http://www.thecentreofattention.org/exhibitions/meeting.html
 
Sunday May 11th
Dilston Grove, Ars Magna Lucis Et Umbrae, Mark Ingham, 1 – 4 pm, an installation of light devices and projected images, info: www.markingham.co.uk

After the double sole exhibition of the Dutch artists Peter De Boer and Radioqualia, the appointments of the exhibitions “With or without you” are going on at Marconi Gallery.

On Sunday 4th May “Metastasis the starting and the end” will be presented, a sole exhibition by Rita Vitali Rosati, curated by Claudio Libero Pisano, who is also the author of the critical text.

Vitali Rosati is a versatile and exuberant artist, who has always presented a research that represents our world in a disenchanted and ironical way. The sole exhibition at Marconi Gallery is an important evolution of her art research. The exposed works are flowers which, in a bunch or single, characterize the represented element in a closing contact with it, offering this way the reading key of her entire exhibition .The most interesting aspect of Metastasis is the theatrical and a little baroque representation that you can have from the flowers.

“All the flowers mean beauty, their message is clear and pure, whatever the context is. The flower is the symbol of the gift par excellence, there is a part of each of us in it. With the flower a part of oneself is given.

It is never dirty, the metastasis given by a flower is unnatural and unacceptable.

And yet just a series of bouquet or single flowers are testifying that illness is present in every context. It exhists, it is among us and the artist takes upon herself the responsability to state it, in a world where illness and deviance are banished or have a place only as human cases.

In this work by Rita Vitali Rosati illness is told as a part of our background, without any rhetoric or pietism. It exhists because life itself exhists, because the possibility of liberation and the regaining of sense go through the ability to be able to see the areas of shade without removing them”. (Claudio Libero Pisano)

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You are invited to ‘It's Not Me, It's You’
by The Hut Project

Opening Thursday 1 May 2008, 6.30 - 8.30pm
Open Thursday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm and by appointment.
Open until Saturday 31 May 2008

Method: The Hut Project have devised a scoring system to rate the cultural value of artists CVs and have scored the CV of every Limoncello artist. A factor has been determined to scale The Hut Project’s score to the average price of a work by The Hut Project. This factor has been used to multiply the score of each Limoncello artist, generating a set of financial values. The financial difference between The Hut Project and each artist has been calculated. That amount of money has been spent on a material that The Hut Project have chosen to represent the conceptual difference between the work of themselves and each artist.
 
It’s Not Me, It’s You: Vanessa Billy
It’s Not Me, It’s You: Lucy Clout
It’s Not Me, It’s You: Sean Edwards
It’s Not Me, It’s You: Josephine Flynn
It’s Not Me, It’s You: Tom Gidley
It’s Not Me, It’s You: Matthew Harrison
It’s Not Me, It’s You: Gemma Holt
It’s Not Me, It’s You: Giorgio Sadotti

THE HUT PROJECT
Chris Bird, B. 1971, Birmingham; Ian Evans, B. 1982, Glasgow; Alec Steadman, B. 1983, Sidcup, and all based London.
 
The Hut Project is an artist collective formed in 2005. Evans and Steadman completed their BAs in Sonic Art and Fine Art respectively in 2005, while Bird graduated BA Fine Art in 2006, all at Middlesex University. Evans also has a PGDip in Contemporary Art History from Goldsmiths College (2007).  Recent shows include Associates and The Showroom, both London (2007). They have forthcoming solo shows at ICA, London and BolteLang, Zurich (both 2008) and are currently working on a large-scale project entitled New Contemporaries: www.thehutproject.co.uk/newcontemporaries.

www.limoncellogallery.co.uk

If you think, TOYGIANTS is just another book about toys and designer-vinyl, you are wrong. It’s far more than that. In stunning photographies, TOYGIANTS is taking the viewer onto an epic journey into the bizarre and fantastic world of art toys, action-figures and manga superstars. The project TOYGIANTS is the product of more than four years of collaborative work between Daniel & Geo Fuchs and collector Selim Varol.

Now, the second edition of the successful book is published as Silver Edition by Gingko Press. The Silver Edition additionally includes previously unreleased artwork from the TOYGIANTS series, a removable poster and an exclusive interview with the artists Daniel & Geo Fuchs and collector Selim Varol. To celebrate the book release, Daniel & Geo Fuchs are presenting in co-operation with artempus con-temporary gallery, Düsseldorf, the exhibition TOYGIANTS at Gingko Press’ own gallery Rebel Arts Gallery in Hamburg. The exhibition starts at the “Night of the Museums” weekend from April 26 on until July 31, 2008.

www.toygiants.com
www.gingkopress.com

Daniel & Geo Fuchs at Exhibitions / Art fairs:
until 04.06.08 - Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, solo-exhibition: "Stasi - secret rooms"
11. - 14.04.08 - CIRCA Puerto Rico, Galerie Caprice Horn Berlin
16. - 20.04.08 - Art Cologne, Galerie Clairefontaine Luxemburg
18. - 21.04.08 - Art Brussels, ADN Galeria Barcelona
23. - 27.04.08 - MACO Mexiko, Galerie Caprice Horn Berlin
25. - 28.04.08 - Art Chicago, Galerie Caprice Horn Berlin
25.04. - 24.05.08 - Galerie Clairefontaine Luxemburg, solo exhibition: "Stasi" and "Toygiants"
14. - 18.05.08  - Art Moscow, Galerie Caprice Horn Berlin
14. - 18.05.08 - Art Hongkong. Galerie Caprice Horn Berlin
15. - 18.05.08 - swab Barcelona, ADN Galeria Barcelona
16.05. - 31.07 - ADN Galeria Barcelona, group exhibition, "5 is just a number"

LET'S GO!
 
Tuesday April 22nd
THE RUSSELLETTES – Kora, Christine and Kay – will be at
Lost In Beauty, launch of new beauty emporium, with works by Cathy Lomax, Graffiti artist Inkie, Jessica Albarn, plus Burlesque girls and goodies…website not quite finished at www.lostinbeauty.com
Monika Spruth Philomene Magers, Film Screening: ‘Not The Girl Who Misses Much’: Female Filmmakers Around 1980, 7pm, info: www.spruethmagers.com
Limoncello, punctuation programme, Bulletin Board, Matthew Richardson, 7pm, info: www.limoncellogallery.co.uk
White Cube, Mason’s Yard, Gregory Crewdson, 6-8pm, info: www.whitecube.com
 
Wednesday April 23rd
South London Gallery, Ryan Gander, Heralded as the New Black, 6.30-8.30pm, info: www.southlondongallery.org
RUN RIOT LIVE! Shunt Vaults, Joiner Street, 6pm- til late, tickets, all info: www.run-riot.com/LIVEatShunt
Thinking of going to Bath…?
Staging Sound, Queen Square, David Cunningham, Lina Dzuverovic, Robin Rimbaud (scanner), 7-8.30pm, info: www.mediaartbath.org.uk
 
Thursday April 24th
Nettie Horn, Annie Attridge, 6-9pm, info: www.nettiehorn.com
Siobhan Davies Studios, Nathaniel Rackowe, Preverberation, 6-8pm, info: http://siobhandavies.com/art
Vegas, Patterna, group show,6-9pm, info: www.vegasgallery.co.uk
Wyer, Insight Out, group show, 6.30-8.30pm, info: www.thewyergallery.co.uk
Modern Art, Nigel Cooke, New Accursed Art Club, 6-8pm, new premises, info: www.stuartshavemodernart.com
Forster, Ryan McClelland, The Sleep of Reason, 6-8.30pm, info: www.forstergallery.com
In Walsall?
The New Art Gallery Walsall, Starstruck, group show includes Jessica Voorsanger, Gavin Turk, Alison Jackson, more, 6-8pm, info: www.artatwalsall.org.uk
 
Friday April 25th
Whitechapel, Ravage Me Savagely, 7pm, info: www.whitechapel.org
Limoncello, punctuation programme, Bulletin Board, Matthew Richardson, 7pm, info: www.limoncellogallery.co.uk
Stephen Friedman, Stephan Balkenhol, 6-8pm, info: www.stephenfriedman.com
In Glasgow?
Rodney Graham Band, ABC Sauciehall Street, www.thecommonguild.org.uk
 
Saturday April 26th
In Weston-Super-Mare?
Lloyd Gill, ‘Long established medium’s harmonize with new media’, group show, 7-10pm, info: www.thelloydgillgallery.com