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April 25, 2012
March Meeting Sharjah 2012 Every which way… Photo G Mannes-Abbott
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Tags:1395 days without red, arabic art glossary, bait al naboodah, bait al shamsi, calligraphy square, dar al mamun, dar al nadwa, global art forum, guy mannes-abbott, in ramallah running, kalba, lara khaldi, march meeting, marrakech, omar berrada, revisiting tarab, sharjah, sharjah art foundation, shumon basar
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April 24, 2012
I am running in Ramallah and it is in audio in the current issue of Manifesta Journal #14 which you can read online here, download the complete pdf here, or go straight to the Translated By pages here. Scroll down to where it says ‘You pick a random number’ and 3, etc., and listen to the audio of my excerpt. All this running makes it a bit less painful -and In Ramallah, Running proper will be here soon!
Do have a look at MJ14 edited by Rasha Salti et al and with some great sections; conversation with Naeem Mohaimen, and one on Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige’s Lebanese Rocket Society, the main monument of which stands today in a public square in downtown Sharjah -a SAF commission from 2010′s Biennial. Manifesta as such kicks off in Genk, Belgium this year of course; end of May slash start of June. Be there!
Tags:geoffrey streatfeild, guy mannes-abbott, in ramallah running, joana hadjithomas, khalil joreige, lebanese rocket society, manifesta, manifesta journal #14, naeem mohaimen, palestine, ramallah, rasha salti, saf, sharjah art foundation, sharjah biennial, translated by
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April 23, 2012
Sejla Kameric 1395 Days on the Frontier Photo G Mannes-Abbott
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Tags:1395 days without red, adeela suleman, alanna heiss, art on air, basma alsharif, bidoun, defne ayas, didem ozbek, FACT, giorgio agamben, guy mannes-abbott, in ramallah running, kachhch, kalba, karachi, khalil rabah, kori creek, lakhpat, march meeting, negar azimi, nikolaj larsen, omar kholeif, PiST, PS1, rana sadik, sama alshaibi, sarajevo, sejla kameric, sharjah, sharjah art foundation, sindh, VASL, witte de with, words on the frontier, ziad antar
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April 23, 2012
Murtaza Vali Artists & Audiences Photo G Mannes-Abbott
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Tags:abed al ju’beh, amal khalaf, ashkal alwan, CAMP, dia foundation, dirty utopianism, edgeware road project, guy mannes-abbott, louise hui-juan hsu, march meeting, mathaf, michelle dezember, murtaza vali, ramallah, sakakini centre, salah hassan, sharjah, sharjah art foundation, townhouse gallery
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March 26, 2012
March Meeting Day 1 Falling, Flying, photo G Mannes-Abbott
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Tags:1395 days without red, anri sala, artangel, guy mannes-abbott, march meeting, notes from a march meeting, sejla kameric, sharjah art foundation
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December 28, 2011
2011 Folkestone Triennial
VARIOUS VENUES, FOLKESTONE, UK
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[NB Collaborations are a particular, demanding and beautiful form of work which I seem to have developed a taste for, at least in a visual art context and since 1997!
2011 was a year of varying forms of artful collaboration, each very special but none quite so intimate as this one for me; how it came about, whom it involves and the result of our efforts. To avoid the obvious-but-hideous potential problems of collaboration, a certain more or less unspoken [else endlessly detailed!] but deeply-shared approach to all-things essential is elemental. (more…)
Tags:andrea schlieker, ashok sukumaran, CAMP, colin perry, folkestone, francis ponge, frieze, guy mannes-abbott, iyesha geeth abbas, lighthouse in the sea of time, national coastwatch institution, richard wentworth, seashores, shaina anand, sharjah biennial, the country of the blind and other stories, zineb sedira
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December 23, 2011
In Ramallah, Running due Feb. 28th 2012
Gertrude Stein didn’t think much of commas, you remember? I think a lot of Gertrude’s work and Gertrude herself, as Fruit Store regulars will know, but disagree with her about the comma.
Commas break-up, complicate, deepen, add dimension to statements and any prose that takes ‘sense’ for granted. They elucidate, make-difficult, render actual complexity. The comma in In Ramallah, Running does these and many other things for me…
Above is a graphic rendering of a tiny part of the cover-image of the book [actual cover image coming soon], in which the sticking-out comma sticks out!
Commas are inconvenient, never quite fit, force you to notice that which you might not, condense and disrupt [presumed, heh Adania?] sense, etc. They are abyss and peak, add crucial [a]rhythms and make for the elliptical.
Writing without these things is almost literally nothing…
Tags:adania shibli, artschool palestine, black dog, emily jacir, francis alys, gertrude stein, guy mannes-abbott, in ramallah running, jananne al-ani, jean fisher, khalil rabah, mark titchner, najwan darwish, olaf nicolai, paul noble, samar martha, sharif waked, sharjah art foundation
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December 12, 2011
Translated By – London 2011
Translated By, Shumon and Charles’ exhibition of audio recordings of writing about place by a range of writers including myself, with a short excerpt from In Ramallah, Running in the form of cut-together running texts, is currently on show at CCA KITAKYUSHU Ogura Gallery December 12, 2011 – January 20, 2012. (more…)
Tags:architectural association school of architecture, cca kitakyushu, Charles Arsène-Henry, charles arsene-henri, geoffrey streatfeild, guy mannes-abbott, in ramallah running, mavi armara, newt gingrich, shumon basar, translated by
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December 8, 2011
I’ve always felt there were many uses for a ‘Gordon Matta-Clark’ and can only approach life, especially urban life, as or through art in the broadest sense, that sense being not a Marxian one but a making something-from-nothing one. I’m [to a fault] less interested in exploiting my own having-made something-from-nothing -except to the extent of being able to make it in the first place and make something else subsequently! Only an idiot wouldn’t be interested in or cognisant of the abysmal world of surplus value, however there is a certain idiocy in being transfixed by it too…
One use for a Gordon Matta-Clark is to help think through the question of whether art can be food or food art. The answer is obviously in the affirmative but I have something quite specific in mind. Food, itself. As such. The piece that was also a place which was also a community-borne restaurant called Food, that is. (more…)
Tags:arthur ransome, beauborg, CAVAT, charlotte road, chearsley copse, colin ward, conical intersect, cuddington copse, david zwirner, dirty utopianism, dirty-utopian, folkhusset, forest food, freedom press, gordon matta-clark, guy mannes-abbott, kensal rise, lend lease, lime tree, norway maple tree, office baroque, phaidon, prince street, russian revolution, southwark council, splitting, talbot road, the elephant and castle urban forest, the peace garden, the six old men, the sweet chestnut slopes, thomas crow, thresholes, ubuweb, wooster street
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December 6, 2011
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Tags:bidoun, guy mannes-abbott, leighton house, parastou forouhar, red is my name green is my name, rose issa, the funeral, thousand and one day
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