Istanbul Residency Program Open Studio Day

Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre hosts an open studio event with its Istanbul Residency Program artists; Katherine Hymers, Can Altay, FrenchMottershead, Stefanos Tsivopoulos,  Hans Rosenström, Asli Cavusoglu, Alina Viola Gumiller, Emre Hüner, Karolin Fisceki and Ha Za Vu Zu. 

Participating artists are supported by the Arts Council, England; EU Culture Fund; FONDS BKVB, The Netherlands; FRAME, Finland and Platform Garanti, Istanbul. 

Time is a leitmotif underscoring much of Hymers work, heightened by the use of carefully framed, composed images and a refusal of the conventions of plot and narrative within the moving image. For Platform Garanti's Open Studio Day, Hymers will present a work in progress. This double screen video brings together two independent images, captured in Istanbul, to create a sense of implied narrative, without explicitly detailing any narrative for the viewer. Instead, movement, or a lack of movement, are used to create a tension between presence and absence between the two given images, while simultaneously encouraging the viewer to read these images as a whole. 
 

Wysing Arts Contemporary: Performed

Wysing Arts Contemporary: Performed

Launches 4-6pm Saturday 16 May 2009 and runs until 28 June 2009

Wysing Arts Contemporary presents a selection of video, photography, installation, performances and documentation of performed actions and interventions for it's second curated selling exhibition. Performed presents the work of artists Elena Colgni, Simon Davenport, RJ Hinrichsen, Andy Holden, Katherine Hymers, Olga Jurgenson, CJ Mahony, Rob Smith, Townley & Bradby and Mark Wilsher. 

Symposium - 30 May 2009 11am - 4pm

A one day symposium on performance and contemporary art practice today. 

Chaired by Dr Gavin Butt of Goldsmiths, London. Invited speakers: artists Mel Brimfield & Elena Colgni; Dr Amelia Jones, Professor in Art History, Manchester University; Kathy Noble, Assistant Curator, Tate Modern.

Booking essential, please contact info@wysingartscentre.org or call 01954 718881, cost: £15 or £7.50 concessions, includes lunch.

Special Performance Event - 12 June 2009 7pm onwards

Mark Wilsher - '5 estimated Minutes'

Andy Holden & The Grubby Mitts

For further information, please visit: http://www.wysingartscentre.org

Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre Residency April - June 2009

I am in residence at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul, from 11 April 2009 to 11 July 2009. Platform Garanti CAC acts as a dynamic catalyst for the dissemination, research and practice of contemporary art in Istanbul, providing a meeting point for exchange between contemporary artists, curators and critics. 

Platform Garanti holds the most comprehensive library of art publications in the city, alongside an archive of work by more than 140 artists from Turkey, the Istanbul Residency Program, and an exhibition space committed to exhibiting contemporary art from Turkey and abroad. Since the centre's inauguration in late 2001 over 600,000 visitors have passed through their doors and they have organised 43 exhibitions, over 120 lectures, 4 major international conferences, and co-published 3 internationally distributed publications.

 This residency is kindly supported by the Arts Council England. 

http://www.artscouncil.org.uk

http://www.platformgaranti.blogspot.com

Det Andet Rum - NLH Space, Copenhagen

An exciting programme of artists film and video curated by Nanna Lysholt-Hansen at NLH Space in Copenhagen, Denmark. With artists from Copenhagen, Greece and the UK, including Stine Marie Jacobsen & Ina Viola Blasius, Stathis Tsemberidis, Nanna Lysholt-Hansen and others. 

I will be showing new work, Untitled (Curtain) 2008, filmed in Jerxheim Bahnhof in August, alongside Untitled (Morning Light) 2007, which will be screened on a monitor in NLH Space throughout the programme.

For further information, please visit:

http://www.nlhspace.dk 

Axis Open Frequency

New artist profile on Axis website - the online resource for contemporary art, with images of work in progress and a text on Untitled (Morning Light) 2007 written by Donna Lynas, Director Wysing Arts Centre.

To visit this new profile, please click on the link below:

http://www.axisweb.org/openfrequency/katherinehymers

Open Frequency is a forum for curators to nominate artists living and working across the UK, and presents an eclectic group of new artists each month.

Closer - ANTI 2008

Closer - 26 October 2008 12noon- 10pm Private home (Snellmaninkatu 22 C)

Entering a small apartment, alone, the viewer detects faint traces of a possible occupant. The ticking of clocks in empty rooms further emphasising the quiet intimacy of this private space.

Closer is a further development in Hymers' interest in the idea of the gaze, and the viewer's complicity within the work.

Please see comments section for review.

ANTI Seminar - How Contemporary Art Came Home

25 September 2008 

Artists have long been drawn to the potential dramatics of domestic space. Filmmakers, painters, theatre- makers and any number of novelists have mapped our living spaces through centuries of change. 

But what happens when contemporary artists move beyond description and illustration and enter these spaces, producing work in them rather than about them? What happens when artists use these private worlds as both a place to make work and a place to show work? What happens when the private becomes public as audiences enter a living space which is not their own?

It is these questions that this years artists working in private homes will have approached throughout their process. And it is these questions that this year's seminar seeks to investigate - what happens when contemporary art approaches domestic space as a generative environment? How Contemporary Art Came Home gathers artists, writers and curators to discuss this central theme to ANTI 2008.

Speakers include Jane Greenfield, Pekka Kantonen, Curious, Teema Maki, Katherine Hymers and xxx Group.