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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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October 24, 2011
My hand-made and -cut rough mock-up of In Ramallah, Running this night…
I can’t resist sharing my pleasure at having assembled all the elements of In Ramallah, Running in hard form for the first time tonight in preparation for a big design and layout meeting tomorrow. It’s very strange to materialise something that has existed in my mind as a project and proposal, then a place and people as well as a piece of my own inevitably elliptical work, before becoming a project once more with a range of very special people responding to and contributing work to the book, for all of that to eventually come together from all over the world and now to have a dummy of it in my fingers and see that it is pretty much as conceived -albeit only held together by a single bulldog clip- except that it’s so much better in actuality! (more…)
Tags:black dog, guy mannes-abbott, in ramallah running, paul noble
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July 13, 2011
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories Installation shots CAMP with GM-A Folkestone Triennial [ongoing]
CAMPuter.org now has a good page on the film here with cat. text, shot-lists, stills, credits… There’s also a link here to pad.ma where the film is archived…
But I strongly recommend heading down to Folkestone, not only to see the film in situ where it’s installed beautifully and offers optimised-viewing, but also to see all the other art on show throughout a fascinating town. The harbour tastes irresistible and in the pubs on the water front a version of the film is always looping…
Folkestone Triennial’s page is here and they have weekend tours conducted by some high calibre guides not least this weekend with Achim Borchardt Hume here. It takes 53 minutes to get there…
Thanks everyone for the positive feedback.
Tags:achim borchardt hume, ashok sukumanar, CAMP, camputer.org, folkestone triennial, francis ponge, guy mannes-abbott, iyesha geeth abbas, nci folkestone, pad.ma, shaina anand, the country of the blind
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July 12, 2011
Shumon Basar and Jack Persekian Wash Hands…
Jack Persekian’s performance of Nablus Soap at the ICA, as part of the Mathaf’s Interference weekend, was brilliant.
The work takes off from a show he put on with Mona Hatoum back in the early days in Jerusalem. It recounts that earlyness, the basic space, cold and uninviting and the process of arriving at the piece -Present tense [1996]- by Mona H., its installation and the historical context of a disastrous willingness to compromise with Occupation in the form of ‘Oslo’. An apologetic Abu Amar is scratched-in which raised a big laugh and the whole piece is damn fine, not least as testament to Nablus.
As Jack and Shumon talked, the film was paused on one of the many Occupation watchtowers that terrorise the Palestinian Hills, lest any of us forget the bloody stain it represents… (more…)
Tags:abu dhabi, alexandria, algiers, ashkal alwan, deena chalabi, doha, emily jacir, folkestone triennial, gregor muir, guy mannes-abbott, ICA, in ramallah running, interference, jack persekian, jerusalem, mathaf, mona hatoum, nablus soap, occupation, qatar, ramallah, shumon basar, tarek atoui, wael shawky, zineb sedira
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June 27, 2011
In the Country of the Blind and Other Stories Installation NCI Folkestone [Ph. Guy Mannes-Abbott]
Adrian Searle’s review in The Guardian is so generous about the film I’ve been working on with Shaina, Ashok and Iyesha [CAMP] that I can’t help but post it.
“In the National Coastwatch Institution cabin, perched on a cliff above Folkestone, the volunteer guards scan the sea. Mumbai-based collective CAMP recorded the view, the constant traffic plying the Channel, and the volunteers’ casual commentary The result is an almost hour-long film recorded over a year. French church spires break the horizon, seen through a telescope. We follow tankers and canoes, ferries and fishing boats – and there’s the archbishop of Canterbury, helping out at an archeological dig along the coast, his hair a white, fluffy windsock in the distance. The artists in Mumbai recorded the observations and anecdotes of the volunteers via broadband. It’s a case of the watchers watched, and we watch too, following near-collisions out at sea, and blokes hauling up lobster pots. “Lobsters are giant Jurassic insects,” someone says. I’d happily stay all day.”
Read the piece here.
AS’s warm words had a warm affect, though I would only point out that it’s not a documentary and say no more -other than that Fruit Store loyalists and Dostoyevskians shouldn’t need me to!
Read the letter from the man, jocularly referred to as the ‘archbish’ on the soundtrack, here! And beware similar assumptions!
Probably should resist saying that I agree with him about the ill-judged mermaid too… I was too involved to see very much else other than Zineb Sedira’s very beautiful and complex film installation Lighthouse in the Sea of Time. I’ll post on what I think might well be her best work so far in time and definitely take the 57 minute train back for more of the Triennial and more of Folkestone itself too…
Tags:adrian searle, archbishop of canterbury, ashok sukumaran, CAMP, dostoyevsky, folkestone triennial, guy mannes-abbott, iyesha geeth abbas, lighthouse in the sea of time, shaina anand, the country of the blind and other stories, the guardian, zineb sedira
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June 23, 2011
PV Friday 24th 8-Late
Opens to public Saturday 25th June – 25th September
ARTISTS
Don’t miss this at the NCI on the east cliff [best view in and of the town]:
CAMP (Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran, Iyesha Geeth Abbas, with Guy Mannes-Abbott)
Title: The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
VISITING INFO
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Tags:ashok sukumaran, CAMP, folkestone triennial, guy mannes-abbott, iyesha geeth abbas, shaina anand, the country of the blind & other stories
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