Cornelia Baltes
The Great Loop Forward
Exhibition: Fri.22.Oct.2010 – Sat.06.Nov.2010
Private View: Thurs.21.Oct.2010 6-9pm
Tank is proud to announce the first solo exhibition in the UK for emerging German artist Cornelia Baltes. Presenting new paintings, drawings, photographs, digital and site specific works by this exciting young artist whose style is in constant flux, playing with the axis point at which each of these disciplines meet. Recently she became the first painter ever to use the wall of the famous Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, as a canvas, making the institute itself a part of her work in this year John Moores Painting Prize. Tank is excited to allow Baltes to spend two weeks doing exactly that within our walls and spaces.
Now in her final year of MFA Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, Baltes graduated from the Folkwang University of Art Essen in 2006, with a focus on visual communication. Throughout her practice, her background in communication design is revealed through her compositional approach. Ambitious, often large scale, paintings vary in character, from complex layered works with strong and expressive brushwork, to minimal and sharp illustrative forms. Manipulated photographs, which Baltes regards as digital paintings, aim to enhance distinct elements of the original atmosphere. Simple but bold adjustments result in subtle disturbances in the image, reconfiguring how the scene is understood.
The potential for energy and gesture are important for Baltes' practice. Intrigued by the aesthetics of change and chance, she switches from carefully planed elements, to immediately expressing an internal thought or idea before it is fully formed. Baltes works fast, cultivating the opportunity for change, revelling in the freedom to destroy or dramatically change an image, canvas or construction.
Inspiration comes from the everyday, with a special love of the banal, which she often reinvents in bright graphic forms. Lonely suburbnscapes, people, animals and snapshots of daily life are all given Baltes' playful and humorous treatment. High impact and direct we have the luxury of enjoying her purely visual concept.
Now in her final year of MFA Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, Baltes graduated from the Folkwang University of Art Essen in 2006, with a focus on visual communication. Throughout her practice, her background in communication design is revealed through her compositional approach. Ambitious, often large scale, paintings vary in character, from complex layered works with strong and expressive brushwork, to minimal and sharp illustrative forms. Manipulated photographs, which Baltes regards as digital paintings, aim to enhance distinct elements of the original atmosphere. Simple but bold adjustments result in subtle disturbances in the image, reconfiguring how the scene is understood.
The potential for energy and gesture are important for Baltes' practice. Intrigued by the aesthetics of change and chance, she switches from carefully planed elements, to immediately expressing an internal thought or idea before it is fully formed. Baltes works fast, cultivating the opportunity for change, revelling in the freedom to destroy or dramatically change an image, canvas or construction.
Inspiration comes from the everyday, with a special love of the banal, which she often reinvents in bright graphic forms. Lonely suburbnscapes, people, animals and snapshots of daily life are all given Baltes' playful and humorous treatment. High impact and direct we have the luxury of enjoying her purely visual concept.
word bites like a fish
poetry night
Sat.06.Oct.2010 7:30-9:30pm
Word bites like a fish is a new poetry event at Tank hosted by Gale Burns and Maggie Sullivan. Four fine poets will be reading plus open mic.
Jocelyn Page
Ronnie McGrath
Mark Thompson
Aoife Casby
Entrance £5 / £4 concessions
For more information
Maggie Sullivan email: [email protected] tel: 07887 938208
Gale Burns Tel: +44 (0) 208 291 4108, Mob: 07895 142640 (text only)
Jocelyn Page
Ronnie McGrath
Mark Thompson
Aoife Casby
Entrance £5 / £4 concessions
For more information
Maggie Sullivan email: [email protected] tel: 07887 938208
Gale Burns Tel: +44 (0) 208 291 4108, Mob: 07895 142640 (text only)
Water Music
Karl-Heinz Jeron
Thursday 30.Sept.2010 6-9pm
Location: Tamesis Dock, Albert Embankment,
between Vauxhall and Lambeth Bridge, London, SE1 7TP
Tank takes to the Thames as a chorus of robots perform Händel’s Water Music on a river boat.
20 tiny self developed robots improvise over themes from the Water Music by Georg Friedrich Händel. The Water Music is one of the greatest hits in Baroque music and consists of three suites. In 1717, Händel shook the London music scene when on a boat trip on the river Thames, he delighted the king with his 2nd Suite. “Our Händel”, as the English called their favourite composer at the time, had delivered another smash hit. One could rely on the Elton John of the Baroque age.
From the Daily Courant of July 19, 1717:
“On Wednesday evening, at about 8, the King took water at Whitehall in an open barge … many barges with persons of quality attended and went up the river towards Chelsea. A city company’s barge was employed for the music, wherein were 50 instruments of all sorts, who played all the way the finest symphonies, composed express for this occasion by Mr Hendel, which his Majesty liked so well, that he caused it to be played over three times ingoing and returning.”
The robot orchestra will contemporarily reenact the historical performance on a river boat. With electronic bleeps and baroque choreography the robot orchestra will revitalize the probably best known suite of the Water Music, Suite No. 2, in D Mayor. Following the permiere on the Thames, the concert will take place on a boat. Some of the robots will improvise within the scope of Händel‘s composition, with the help of Euler‘s music theory. Euler (1707-1783) is a contemporary of Händel.
The methods described in Leonhard Eulers essay “Tentamen novae theoriae musicae” from 1739 set up the foundation for the improviations of the robot orchestra. In his music theory Euler describes mathematical methods for concord and dissonance problems. Eulers music therory suits well here, because there the ratio of frequency intervals play a major role. The robot orchestra uses the musical score of the Petrucci Music Library.
http://imslp.org/wiki/Water_Music,_HWV_348-350_(Handel,_George_Frideric)
Suite Nr 2 contains two dances – Menuet and Bourrée
The movement of the robots is directed by dance scores spread out on the ground. The robots are equipped with light sensitive sensors which allow them to move along the drawings.
download project description Water Music
Berlin based Karl-Heinz Jeron art focuses on the phenomena of everyday life, often using mathematics, robotics and logic he explores popular social issues such as labour, economy, ownership and authorship. Sourcing data and material from the media he created performances, installations, video or audio works. His often humorous works subtly deal with and shift perceptions about fundamental issues and reveal a great understanding of history, politics and sociology.
The performance will take place on the deck of Tamesis Dock, an old 1930's Dutch barge overlooking the Tate Britain and Westminster. Previously known as the Mary Rose it is now a bar and restaurant.
20 tiny self developed robots improvise over themes from the Water Music by Georg Friedrich Händel. The Water Music is one of the greatest hits in Baroque music and consists of three suites. In 1717, Händel shook the London music scene when on a boat trip on the river Thames, he delighted the king with his 2nd Suite. “Our Händel”, as the English called their favourite composer at the time, had delivered another smash hit. One could rely on the Elton John of the Baroque age.
From the Daily Courant of July 19, 1717:
“On Wednesday evening, at about 8, the King took water at Whitehall in an open barge … many barges with persons of quality attended and went up the river towards Chelsea. A city company’s barge was employed for the music, wherein were 50 instruments of all sorts, who played all the way the finest symphonies, composed express for this occasion by Mr Hendel, which his Majesty liked so well, that he caused it to be played over three times ingoing and returning.”
The robot orchestra will contemporarily reenact the historical performance on a river boat. With electronic bleeps and baroque choreography the robot orchestra will revitalize the probably best known suite of the Water Music, Suite No. 2, in D Mayor. Following the permiere on the Thames, the concert will take place on a boat. Some of the robots will improvise within the scope of Händel‘s composition, with the help of Euler‘s music theory. Euler (1707-1783) is a contemporary of Händel.
The methods described in Leonhard Eulers essay “Tentamen novae theoriae musicae” from 1739 set up the foundation for the improviations of the robot orchestra. In his music theory Euler describes mathematical methods for concord and dissonance problems. Eulers music therory suits well here, because there the ratio of frequency intervals play a major role. The robot orchestra uses the musical score of the Petrucci Music Library.
http://imslp.org/wiki/Water_Music,_HWV_348-350_(Handel,_George_Frideric)
Suite Nr 2 contains two dances – Menuet and Bourrée
The movement of the robots is directed by dance scores spread out on the ground. The robots are equipped with light sensitive sensors which allow them to move along the drawings.
download project description Water Music
Berlin based Karl-Heinz Jeron art focuses on the phenomena of everyday life, often using mathematics, robotics and logic he explores popular social issues such as labour, economy, ownership and authorship. Sourcing data and material from the media he created performances, installations, video or audio works. His often humorous works subtly deal with and shift perceptions about fundamental issues and reveal a great understanding of history, politics and sociology.
The performance will take place on the deck of Tamesis Dock, an old 1930's Dutch barge overlooking the Tate Britain and Westminster. Previously known as the Mary Rose it is now a bar and restaurant.
Scent of Scagliola
Michael Hampton / Peter Suchin
10.Sept.2010 - 02.Oct.2010
Private View THURS.09.SEPT.2010 6:00-9pm
This exhibition strategically offsets the works of two artists who are also practicing critics, writers whose visual work may also be read as a form of interrogative address, albeit of a kind that is inherent within artistic practice itself.
Michael Hampton’s drawings and constructions take as their point of departure the artistic and philosophical conventions of western picture-making, notably the issues of representation, support, structure, flatness and frame. He literally pulls apart these received but arguably outworn vehicles of expression so as to question and reinscribe the limits of their plausible operation. As Hampton himself remarks, in engaging with his work “the viewer’s stray focus is deliberately forced to confront the mute, intrinsic strangeness of the object”, to critically consider the ideological platitudes – and infringements – that comprise the artistic canon and its recurring conceits.
Peter Suchin, in employing and reworking a substantial range of established artistic codes, similarly addresses several prevalent tropes of recent and contemporary art. His paintings, as the writers David Hopkins and Sally O’Reilly have observed, are tightly composed yet border on chaos and dissolution, appearing to fall apart and re-form themselves like optical illusions or picture-puzzles designed to seduce – or to disorientate – the spectator. These complicated, layered, recursive paintings also provoke a wilful ambiguity with respect to their status as pictorial representation or unsullied abstraction, keeping both ends of the spectrum constantly in play.
The term Scagliola refers to a cheap but popular substitute for marble, first produced in Italy in the seventeenth century. Its various connotations include displacement or exclusion, cultural or economic depletion, dissembling and sleight of hand.
Above Image: Peter Suchin "Connotation Field"
Below Image: Michael Hampton "Breaking Up is Hard to Do"
Michael Hampton’s drawings and constructions take as their point of departure the artistic and philosophical conventions of western picture-making, notably the issues of representation, support, structure, flatness and frame. He literally pulls apart these received but arguably outworn vehicles of expression so as to question and reinscribe the limits of their plausible operation. As Hampton himself remarks, in engaging with his work “the viewer’s stray focus is deliberately forced to confront the mute, intrinsic strangeness of the object”, to critically consider the ideological platitudes – and infringements – that comprise the artistic canon and its recurring conceits.
Peter Suchin, in employing and reworking a substantial range of established artistic codes, similarly addresses several prevalent tropes of recent and contemporary art. His paintings, as the writers David Hopkins and Sally O’Reilly have observed, are tightly composed yet border on chaos and dissolution, appearing to fall apart and re-form themselves like optical illusions or picture-puzzles designed to seduce – or to disorientate – the spectator. These complicated, layered, recursive paintings also provoke a wilful ambiguity with respect to their status as pictorial representation or unsullied abstraction, keeping both ends of the spectrum constantly in play.
The term Scagliola refers to a cheap but popular substitute for marble, first produced in Italy in the seventeenth century. Its various connotations include displacement or exclusion, cultural or economic depletion, dissembling and sleight of hand.
Above Image: Peter Suchin "Connotation Field"
Below Image: Michael Hampton "Breaking Up is Hard to Do"
Artist Talks: Michael Hampton/Peter Suchin
Friday.01. Oct.2010 6-9pm
Talks start at 7pm
Closing event: artist’s talk and exhibition viewingPeter Suchin will discuss his practice as a painter and critic, with particular reference to his contribution to the present show. Michael Hampton will also be available to answer questions about his work during the open discussion after the talk.
Admission free.RSVP to [email protected]
Admission free.RSVP to [email protected]
GIVE ME WHERE I STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE EARTH
Harriet Piercy, Ese Erheriene, Polly Nash, Ciara Halpin
13.AUG.2010 - Sat.04.Sept.2010
PV THURS.12.AUG.2010 6:30PM – 9PM
Readings by James Kenward, Sonja van Linden Tol + more TBC
Music by Himali Dave
'I can resist everything except temptation.'
We are used to fighting - lovers, parents, the state, ourselves. We pick our demons and turn aggressor. Resistance spans the religious, the political and the mundane. But how do we resist? In physics, resistance occurs when a conductor has the property of opposing the flow of electrical current. For Freud, our unconscious resisted attempts to drag repressed emotions into the light of consciousness through defence mechanisms. We are also familiar with the brave acts of political resistance, but this exhibition also celebrates the smaller, quiet acts against which we rage silent battles: ageing, self-corruption, and the loss of love. It looks at how much the human body and mind can bear, and at the extent and, sometimes, futility of resisting. A definition of resistance is never addressed, but is played upon in an attempt to confront blindspots and prejudices, while at the same time refusing knowledge of any overt intentions in the hopes that the audience will resist the passive acceptance of ideas they have not created, and instead choose to understand or to misunderstand or to not undertsand the pieces as they will.
Curated by Ese Erherien
Image: From "Lead and I will Follow" by Ciara Halpin
We are used to fighting - lovers, parents, the state, ourselves. We pick our demons and turn aggressor. Resistance spans the religious, the political and the mundane. But how do we resist? In physics, resistance occurs when a conductor has the property of opposing the flow of electrical current. For Freud, our unconscious resisted attempts to drag repressed emotions into the light of consciousness through defence mechanisms. We are also familiar with the brave acts of political resistance, but this exhibition also celebrates the smaller, quiet acts against which we rage silent battles: ageing, self-corruption, and the loss of love. It looks at how much the human body and mind can bear, and at the extent and, sometimes, futility of resisting. A definition of resistance is never addressed, but is played upon in an attempt to confront blindspots and prejudices, while at the same time refusing knowledge of any overt intentions in the hopes that the audience will resist the passive acceptance of ideas they have not created, and instead choose to understand or to misunderstand or to not undertsand the pieces as they will.
Curated by Ese Erherien
Image: From "Lead and I will Follow" by Ciara Halpin
The Misty Moon Craft and Art Fair Presents A Week Long Exhibition
02.AUG.2010 2pm - 08.AUG.2010 10pm
Preview Night TUESDAY.03.AUG.2010 from 7pm till late
The Misty Moon Craft and Art Fairs has been running since November
2008, set up by myself as a way to showcase and sell my wife Jen's
jewellery - The Sequined Moon. As the first fair was really successful
we started to hold fairs locally every 6 to 8 weeks and building up a
great following. More recently we have had celebrities from The Bill
attending our events and Michael Barber who played DC Poirot in BBC1's
Ashes To Ashes has now become our patron.
Misty Moon is now developing for a wider audience, so not only are we
holding craft and art fairs, but we are branching out into music events
and exhibitions.
Our first exhibition was in June at The Tank Gallery, showcasing work
by Beckenham artist Tim Feltham.
Our next week long exhibition at The Tank Gallery, will showcase work
from
Cassandra Kyle
Tim Feltham
Darrell K Morris
Sarah Garrod
Deni Lavender and Hayley Pellant
Helena Sivak-Bihercz
Jen Morriss
Michael Thompson
Simon King
The work ranges from paintings and 3D sculptures, photographs,
ceramics, stained glass jewellery and comic lamps. All original
pieces.
For further information, please contact Stuart Morriss at [email protected]
Image: Stained glass "Judith" by Simon King
2008, set up by myself as a way to showcase and sell my wife Jen's
jewellery - The Sequined Moon. As the first fair was really successful
we started to hold fairs locally every 6 to 8 weeks and building up a
great following. More recently we have had celebrities from The Bill
attending our events and Michael Barber who played DC Poirot in BBC1's
Ashes To Ashes has now become our patron.
Misty Moon is now developing for a wider audience, so not only are we
holding craft and art fairs, but we are branching out into music events
and exhibitions.
Our first exhibition was in June at The Tank Gallery, showcasing work
by Beckenham artist Tim Feltham.
Our next week long exhibition at The Tank Gallery, will showcase work
from
Cassandra Kyle
Tim Feltham
Darrell K Morris
Sarah Garrod
Deni Lavender and Hayley Pellant
Helena Sivak-Bihercz
Jen Morriss
Michael Thompson
Simon King
The work ranges from paintings and 3D sculptures, photographs,
ceramics, stained glass jewellery and comic lamps. All original
pieces.
For further information, please contact Stuart Morriss at [email protected]
Image: Stained glass "Judith" by Simon King
Tail of Two
Robin von Einsiedel / Malgorzata Bany
Exhibition: 28.JUL.2010 - 31.JUL.2010
Private View WEDNESDAY.28.JUL.2010 7pm onwards
Tank Gallery presents two exciting young artists with a sense of urgency in their step. Both have recently graduated from Falmouth College of Art, the Cornwall coastline and landscape are clearly a source for the form and texture of their work.
Robin von Einsiedel's b.1988, paintings have moved a long way from their primary image. Intuitively van Einsiedel reforms the observed terrain using heavy black lines which twist and string apart their original structure. They are vast and spatial, with aspects of formalism and colour-field painting echoing throughout the works. The effect is a fragmentation of landscape, a single line to tell a story, to see glimpses of life through a different eye.
Malgorzata Bany b.1987, lives and works in Poland and the UK. The young artists drawings of everyday life transcend the mundane preconception one has with still lives and drawing from nature. Reality meets imagination; mixed media drawings combine with photographic images where the meeting of the land and sea create powerful contrasts. Vivid bold lines of black and thick brush strokes juxtapose the soft and delicate colour pencil marks that divide the paper into these charming and full of life compositions.
Robin von Einsiedel's b.1988, paintings have moved a long way from their primary image. Intuitively van Einsiedel reforms the observed terrain using heavy black lines which twist and string apart their original structure. They are vast and spatial, with aspects of formalism and colour-field painting echoing throughout the works. The effect is a fragmentation of landscape, a single line to tell a story, to see glimpses of life through a different eye.
Malgorzata Bany b.1987, lives and works in Poland and the UK. The young artists drawings of everyday life transcend the mundane preconception one has with still lives and drawing from nature. Reality meets imagination; mixed media drawings combine with photographic images where the meeting of the land and sea create powerful contrasts. Vivid bold lines of black and thick brush strokes juxtapose the soft and delicate colour pencil marks that divide the paper into these charming and full of life compositions.
Objects, Space & Place Exhibition
Exhibition Wed.07.July.2010 - Sunday.11.July.2010
Private view: Tuesday.06.July.2010 - 6-9pm (All welcome)
Objects, Space & Place will feature work from established and emerging artists, Fiona Donald, Jane Draper and Sam Kirk. A variety of work will be on display including painting, photography and photograms. Interpreting natural elements of the world in which we live inspires the artwork from all three artists.
Fiona Donald is exhibiting drawings and photograms, which demonstrates the process of making, of revealing, it is the result of a struggle to find the ‘essence’. She seeks to explore the subtle forms of communication beyond the use of language, the moments in our lives when words are redundant. The look, the touch, the thought, the spaces between, the pause, time passing, in Japanese the ‘ma’.
Drawing allows Fiona to visualise what she is thinking. It is a process of discovery, of searching out and becoming. The ‘Points of Departure’ drawings are derived from familiar motifs: trees from the Rushford Park Conservation area opposite Fiona’s studio in Manchester and the smell of her children’s hair.
The ‘Conversation’ photograms capture a specific moment in time, freezing and suspending the beauty to take note of the ordinary. The blackness has ambivalence alluding to the space between.
http://suite-studiogroup.co.uk/?page_id=104
Jane Draper is exhibiting works in oil on canvas. Jane’s work is a study of natural forms in urban surroundings. They are painted with a predominately cool pallet, punctuated with touches of vibrant, rich colour. The natural forms contrast with the old weathered surfaces they are set against. The work also tries to convey the rhythms and pattern found in the way the plants grow. The overall effect is that of intimate still life that take on an air of quiet and tranquillity.
[email protected]
Sam Kirk is exhibiting a series of photographs for the first time. Sam’s love of nature has inspired her to strive to capture and share her view of its beauty and in particular the small things that are so often overlooked, unnoticed and unseen in all its detail. Sam prefers, although not exclusively, to take photographs of the less ordered, wilder side of nature rather than the more formal arrangements that are often now seen in an effort to keep areas pristine.
The Daisies series evoked in Sam the feeling of youthfulness and lazy summer days lying in the grass as a child. Sam wanted to capture the essence of a daisy by only focussing on one delicate flower leaving your imagination to fill in the details of tranquillity and movement in the grassland beyond.
God of Small Things epitomises the world of nature and how it continues on around us, unaware of man’s existence, in all its beauty. The purple ‘weed’ caught Sam’s attention and, in particular, the shower of purple powder that littered the pavement. Sam was drawn to the delicate quality of the grape hyacinth as it grew out of a crack in the pavement and was fascinated by the mound of moss, so sensual with its ethereal seed heads. Sam love’s to search out these alternative perspectives on nature that, to her, are awe-inspiring.
www.naturesinspires.co.uk
REACT SAT.03.JULY.2010
Emerging artists present a one-day, arts event at Tank
Private View: Friday 2nd July, 6-10pm
Public Event: Saturday 3rd July, 1-6pm
KidZone: Saturday 3rd July, 11.30-1pm
FREE ADMISSION
Helen Bower and Sarah Telman are proud to announce the debut event by cutting-edge new arts organization, REACT.
A range of art (including graffiti, textiles, sculpture, and poetry) will be on display to captivate art lovers from all walks of life. In addition, REACT will transcend the conventions of an art “exhibition” with live music, film, dance and spoken word performances. Aspiring to “inspire impulsive artistic responses”, everything at REACT’s debut event will have been created in response to ‘Refraction’, a piece of music for solo violin and electronics. ‘Refraction’ will also be performed live, set amongst the art it has inspired!
Throughout the duration of the event, REACT will consider the audience as vital contributors, rather than merely spectators. Visitors to Tank Gallery can take part in a Q&A session with the event organisers, ‘REACT-2-REACT’ (a space where everyone is invited to create their own artistic response) and ‘KidZone’ (a family-friendly workshop).
Helen and Sarah envisioned a project that would support cross-art collaboration, unite talented artists and bring an innovative arts event to a local community. We hope you can be part of transforming our vision into reality! Join us!
Discover your own creative REACTion…
For further information please visit: http://www.react-events.blogspot.com/
For all enquiries please email: [email protected]
Books in Limbo
EXHIBITION 28.MAY.2010 – 19.JUN.2010
PV TUES.01.JUNE.2010 6-9PM
CLOSING PARTY SAT.19.JUNE.2010 6-9PM
Aoife van Linden Tol, Deeqa Ismail, Ese Erheriene, Samantha Huang
Clare Stanhope, Peter Suchin, Sally Kindberg, Anne Sheridan, Stella Duncan-Petley, Judy Brown, Renata Kudlacek, Koenraad van Linden Tol, Zoe Cobb
A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance’
Drawing inspiration from Stephane Mallarmés idea of “The Book” not rooted in a psychological function for the artist, nor a cultural function but rather a metaphysical investigation the power of the book is that it existed alone, “happens all alone; made, being.
TANK artists and curators Aoife Van Linden Tol, Deeqa Ismail, Ese Erherien, and Samantha Huang have taken a abstract response to the traditional book form thus created an exhibition devoted to discarded and abandoned books whose fate hang in limbo in a rather prismatic way, a show so obscure that it must be read with commentary as these books transgress the measure of our internet obsessed cult. These found books communicate the antique awe liberating these books in their postmodern free form.
Aoife Van Linden Tol: London based artist and founder of Tank whose work takes explosive forms, careful measurements, layered performance, ghost forms, paradox pushing words apart, creating gaps in language, relishing the confusion and clarity of arts discourse.
Deeqa Ismail: Printmaker, collage, barest of materials, creating equilibrium, love of the discarded, using the rejected, erosive objects, the dissolving of mass, the binding of scattered ideas.
Ese Erheriene: A poet, philosopher an advocate of language, creating her own patterns through words and texts and their innate dynamism.
Samantha Huang: Playful curiosity, decadent, erotic collisions of pages, experimentation, sculptural, architectural, pushing kneading forms.
The artists have influenced each other, collaborated and sometimes merged in areas. They have also left their own personal and distinctive mark in the space. For details about individual elements of the installation please ask at the desk.
PV TUES.01.JUNE.2010 6-9PM
CLOSING PARTY SAT.19.JUNE.2010 6-9PM
Aoife van Linden Tol, Deeqa Ismail, Ese Erheriene, Samantha Huang
Clare Stanhope, Peter Suchin, Sally Kindberg, Anne Sheridan, Stella Duncan-Petley, Judy Brown, Renata Kudlacek, Koenraad van Linden Tol, Zoe Cobb
A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance’
Drawing inspiration from Stephane Mallarmés idea of “The Book” not rooted in a psychological function for the artist, nor a cultural function but rather a metaphysical investigation the power of the book is that it existed alone, “happens all alone; made, being.
TANK artists and curators Aoife Van Linden Tol, Deeqa Ismail, Ese Erherien, and Samantha Huang have taken a abstract response to the traditional book form thus created an exhibition devoted to discarded and abandoned books whose fate hang in limbo in a rather prismatic way, a show so obscure that it must be read with commentary as these books transgress the measure of our internet obsessed cult. These found books communicate the antique awe liberating these books in their postmodern free form.
Aoife Van Linden Tol: London based artist and founder of Tank whose work takes explosive forms, careful measurements, layered performance, ghost forms, paradox pushing words apart, creating gaps in language, relishing the confusion and clarity of arts discourse.
Deeqa Ismail: Printmaker, collage, barest of materials, creating equilibrium, love of the discarded, using the rejected, erosive objects, the dissolving of mass, the binding of scattered ideas.
Ese Erheriene: A poet, philosopher an advocate of language, creating her own patterns through words and texts and their innate dynamism.
Samantha Huang: Playful curiosity, decadent, erotic collisions of pages, experimentation, sculptural, architectural, pushing kneading forms.
The artists have influenced each other, collaborated and sometimes merged in areas. They have also left their own personal and distinctive mark in the space. For details about individual elements of the installation please ask at the desk.
SATURDAY.19.JUNE.2010
6PM-2AM
The Artful Badger @ TANK
The Ladywell Tavern 2nd Birthday Party
Books in Limbo closing party
Installation Book Sale!!
HILLY FIELDS FAYRE
2-4PM The artful Badger performance team will join the Hilly Fields Fayre (On Hilly Fields, Brockley from 12noon-5pm) interacting with the public and playing games in full costume. See if you can spot us!
THE ARTFUL BADGERS IN LIMBO + GUEST READINGS
6-8PM
Jason Shelley reads a poem by Judy Brown that was inspired by one of the more sinister books in the installation which is also on show.
Freddy Drabble, Zoe Cobb, Aoife van Linden Tol
A performance that takes place in Tank where Feral creatures will read from the books in the installation, discuss concepts, scurry around busy building and rebuilding makings nests of knowledge and challenging each others construction technique both physically and theoretically. The discourse of art.... sometimes opening new horizons in creativity and thinking and at other times descending into nonsensical babble. The performance will conclude at 8pm with a final collapse of everything...
FREE ENTRY
BOOKS IN LIMBO SALE
8PM-10PM
Take home a piece of the installation...all the books will go on sale immediately after the performance. Pick a book and make an offer. Each book bought will be stamped with an official Books In Limbo seal as a record of its participation in the exhibition. Bring a box and fill it up for a great deal!
LADYWELL TAVERN 2ND BIRTHDAY PARTY
9PM-2AM
We move into the Tavern where The Badger Badger band, the Artful Badger house DJ's as well as local musicians and acts will take over to groove the night away in the Ladywell Tavern.
The Artful Badger are an events production team encompassing theatre, walkabout performance, art, music and dance. The house band Badger Badger are a seven piece percussion heavy live band that weave their black magic though intense improvisations that redefine the live experience - journeying Disco, Funk, Dub, Jungle and Rap Samba.
www.myspace.com/badgerbadgerofficial
2-4PM The artful Badger performance team will join the Hilly Fields Fayre (On Hilly Fields, Brockley from 12noon-5pm) interacting with the public and playing games in full costume. See if you can spot us!
THE ARTFUL BADGERS IN LIMBO + GUEST READINGS
6-8PM
Jason Shelley reads a poem by Judy Brown that was inspired by one of the more sinister books in the installation which is also on show.
Freddy Drabble, Zoe Cobb, Aoife van Linden Tol
A performance that takes place in Tank where Feral creatures will read from the books in the installation, discuss concepts, scurry around busy building and rebuilding makings nests of knowledge and challenging each others construction technique both physically and theoretically. The discourse of art.... sometimes opening new horizons in creativity and thinking and at other times descending into nonsensical babble. The performance will conclude at 8pm with a final collapse of everything...
FREE ENTRY
BOOKS IN LIMBO SALE
8PM-10PM
Take home a piece of the installation...all the books will go on sale immediately after the performance. Pick a book and make an offer. Each book bought will be stamped with an official Books In Limbo seal as a record of its participation in the exhibition. Bring a box and fill it up for a great deal!
LADYWELL TAVERN 2ND BIRTHDAY PARTY
9PM-2AM
We move into the Tavern where The Badger Badger band, the Artful Badger house DJ's as well as local musicians and acts will take over to groove the night away in the Ladywell Tavern.
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Tank and the Misty Moon Christmas Art Fair and Market
Exhibition Fri.10.Dec.2010-Sun.19.Dec.2010
12-11pm every day
PV: Thurs.09.Dec.2010 7-11pm
Sat.11.Dec.2010
Ladywell Christmas Market on Railway Terrace. 12-6pm &
Ladywell Village Improvement Group Fundraiser Party @ The Ladywell Tavern. From 6pm
Pick up a Christmas bargain! The Tank Christmas market is being run in conjunction with our regulars The Misty Moon arts and crafts fair. Paintings, jewellery, lighting, sculpture, prints ceramics and more....
The first weekend of the fair will coincide with the Ladywell Christmas Market organised by the Ladywell Village Improvement Group situated by the train station on the 11th of December. There will be a fund-raising event for the LVIG afterward in the Tavern with live music and entertainment. Ladywell will be heaving and we will open late making. It will be a fantastic date to visit Ladywell. Come and join us and pick up a Christmas bargain and keep warm in the Tavern with some hearty food and mulled wine!
CALL FOR ARTISTS AND STALL HOLDERS:
The beauty of this is, that the Misty Moon staff are curating and invigilating, so the artists/stallholders do not have to be there (but can be if the want) They only need to set up and to leave a float and more stock that will be kept in the room next to gallery under lock and key. We are open long hours and your work is inside so no mater the rain, sleet or snow customers will be warm and there is no shortage of audience from the Tavern.
Stall holders:
Each pitch is £25 per day, £45 per weekend or £150 per for the whole period of the fair.
Wall Space:
Wall space for artists is between £60 and £100 for the period of the fair depending on the size of the wall.
The Misty Moon have had great success in selling work whenever they are at Tank. If you would like to take part please contact Stuart Morriss:
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 07960 993737 to register.
If you know anyone else that maybe interested please feel free to pass the details on!
The first weekend of the fair will coincide with the Ladywell Christmas Market organised by the Ladywell Village Improvement Group situated by the train station on the 11th of December. There will be a fund-raising event for the LVIG afterward in the Tavern with live music and entertainment. Ladywell will be heaving and we will open late making. It will be a fantastic date to visit Ladywell. Come and join us and pick up a Christmas bargain and keep warm in the Tavern with some hearty food and mulled wine!
CALL FOR ARTISTS AND STALL HOLDERS:
The beauty of this is, that the Misty Moon staff are curating and invigilating, so the artists/stallholders do not have to be there (but can be if the want) They only need to set up and to leave a float and more stock that will be kept in the room next to gallery under lock and key. We are open long hours and your work is inside so no mater the rain, sleet or snow customers will be warm and there is no shortage of audience from the Tavern.
Stall holders:
Each pitch is £25 per day, £45 per weekend or £150 per for the whole period of the fair.
Wall Space:
Wall space for artists is between £60 and £100 for the period of the fair depending on the size of the wall.
The Misty Moon have had great success in selling work whenever they are at Tank. If you would like to take part please contact Stuart Morriss:
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 07960 993737 to register.
If you know anyone else that maybe interested please feel free to pass the details on!
Christmas Decoration Workshops for Children
Sat.11.Dec.2010
10am-1pm
Two workshops for making Christmas decorations from different continents. These will include Christmas cards, African beaded angels, Indian clay oil lamps, Polish pajaki (paper chandeliers), Chinese paper lanterns, stockings decorated with designs from the children’s cultural background.
The first workshop will be held at the Tank Gallery where children will have the opportunity to sell their work at the Misty Moon Craft Fair taking place on the same day.
To attend please come allong at 10am to the entrence to Tank on Slagrove Place. All Childeren must be accompanied by an adult for the duration of the workshop.
Look forward to seeiing you there!
The second workshop will take place during Montage Theatre’s Christmas Fair at Prendergast School in Ladywell, where children can drop in to the workshop and have the opportunity to sell their decorations at the fair. 18 December at The Brockley Social Club, 240 Brockley Road, Brockley SE4 2SU 12 -3pm
The first workshop will be held at the Tank Gallery where children will have the opportunity to sell their work at the Misty Moon Craft Fair taking place on the same day.
To attend please come allong at 10am to the entrence to Tank on Slagrove Place. All Childeren must be accompanied by an adult for the duration of the workshop.
Look forward to seeiing you there!
The second workshop will take place during Montage Theatre’s Christmas Fair at Prendergast School in Ladywell, where children can drop in to the workshop and have the opportunity to sell their decorations at the fair. 18 December at The Brockley Social Club, 240 Brockley Road, Brockley SE4 2SU 12 -3pm