All Change Please

We’re moving, or to be more accurate, we have moved. Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of background work to move the blog and hopefully this will have been a seamless move. Unfortunately I know we have lost a few comments, a few tags and twitter, but all the content has been transferred to our new servers. A new design is now in the works and will appear gradually plus things will change over the week, I expect everything to settle down by next week. So it’s up to you, check out the blog now in it’s new location, or wait till next week for a bigger surprise!

There will be new posts all week, but only in our new location.

http://www.nocliches.co.uk

Eureka iPad app

I have been working on the Eureka iPad app for the last few months and am really happy to announce that it has now been released. Check out my personal website for more information, or visit The Times’s website if you are a subscriber. The Eureka iPad app is available in the App Store for 59p. For those without an iPad here are some enticing screenshots.

Design Editor: Matt Curtis
Picture Editor: Madeleine Penny
Design: Oliver Bothwell, Fraser Lyness, Peter Robertson

Update

Apologies for the long absence, it’s been a busy time. I’ve been working on a really exciting project for The Times, stay tuned for more information. Also I’ve got a huge backlog of work to share so expect to see this trickling down over the coming weeks.

Super Graphics Live Feed

A fantastic project from final year students at the London College of Communication during the run up to their deadline:

Supergraphics Live Feed is a project set up to document the working patterns of the London College of Communication’s Final Year Students during the countdown to their deadline. It provides an ever changing snap shot into students’ working patterns and environments through images captured by participant’s webcams.

http://www.supergraphics2010.co.uk

Live until 4pm May 14th 2010, updated every 5 minutes.

Penguin on iPad

An interesting insight into how Penguin envisions publishing titles for the iPad.

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot has a new commission for The Curve at the Barbican. It’s on until the 23 May and admission is free.

Times: Open daily 11am-8pm
Open late every Thu until 10pm

Trained as a musician and composer, French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways. His installation for The Curve will take the form of a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other instruments and objects. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.

Michael Landy

An interesting new exhibition at the South London Gallery, I have some work I wouldn’t mind getting rid of!

Michael Landy transforms the South London Gallery into ‘Art Bin’, a container for the disposal of works of art. As people discard their art works the enormous 600m³ bin becomes, in Michael Landy’s words, “a monument to creative failure”.

Landy famously destroyed all his possessions in his 2001 installation ‘Break Down’ and this major new work also raises issues around disposal, destruction, value and ownership. ‘Art Bin’ foregrounds the role of subjectivity in the attribution of value, as well as the significance of emotional attachments. Exposing the ultimate power and influence of both perceived and actual monetary value, the work also questions the relationship between ownership and authorship. ‘Art Bin’ toys with the role of art institutions in making and possibly breaking careers, acknowledges their important role in the art market, and makes reference to the derision with which contemporary art is sometimes treated.

Until 14 March 2010 works can be brought to the South London Gallery to be disposed of in ‘Art Bin’ from Tuesday to Sunday, 12-6pm. Alternatively, artists and collectors can visit www.art-bin.co.uk to apply to dispose of works, multiple applications are welcome.

Michael Bierut

I really admire Michael Bierut and just discovered this video originally for TheAtlantic.com. Unfortunately I can’t embed the video but it is available here. If you have a spare ten minutes it makes for an interesting watch.

Julie Ault and Lars Bang Larsen in conversation

Julie Ault and Lars Bang Larsen in conversation

Sunday 7 March, 4pm

Julie Ault, founder member of the New York artists’ collective, Group Material (1979–1996), talks with Lars Bang Larsen, curator of the exhibition ‘A History of Irritated Material’, about working with Group Material’s archive, which has recently been made available. Group Material’s exhibitions dealt with political and cultural participation, as well as the AIDS pandemic and other issues. Four exhibitions from the eighties and nineties have been revisited for this exhibition. This discussion will focus around ideas of historicising exhibitions and what it means to work with this material again.

This event is free but booking is essential as space is limited. Please email info@ravenrow.org to reserve a place.

‘A History of Irritated Material’ is an exhibition that samples art’s relation to politics and the archive, using examples from each decade since the Second World War. It includes Group Material, Inspection Medical Hermeneutics, Sture Johannesson, Ad Reinhardt, and Lygia Clark, from Object to Event, produced by Suely Rolnik. Activist films from Disobedience, an ongoing video archive are also shown.

The exhibition is designed by John Morgan studio, Gorka Eizagirre and Xabier Salaberría, and curated by Lars Bang Larsen, with Petra Bauer, Dan Kidner, Alex Sainsbury, and Marco Scotini.

‘A History of Irritated Material’
25 February to 2 May 2010

Wednesday to Sunday 11am–6pm

Raven Row
56 Artillery Lane
London E1 7LS
T +44 (0)20 7377 4300
info@ravenrow.org
www.ravenrow.org

Homework: Modern Polish Poster Design

Homework have a new exhibition at the Kemistry gallery on modern Polish poster design. The exhibition opens on the 5 March and runs till the 17th April.