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Gillian McIver is a photographer and film-maker, working in artist film and video.
The place to be if London ever gets any hot and sunny days will be the roof of the Hayward Gallery where Ernesto Neto has built an installation that includes a swimming pool and colourful poolside cabanas. At the opening I attended however it was Read on…
Hayward gallery, London
19 June - 5 September 2010
Sarah Turner "Perestroika" / Rosalind Nashashibi solo show The juncture of a screening of Sarah Turner's new feature film Perestroika, and the tail end of Rosalind Nashashibi's exhibition of film based art, came together briefly at the Read on…
ICA, London
21 October 2009
In THE MUSEOLOGICAL UNCONSCIOUS, Tupitsyn asks: what are the optical conditions that provide the context necessary to understand a work of art? The Museological Unconscious reveals that there is a "perceptual gap" between Western and Russian Read on…
Book Review, MIT Press, 2009
1 July - 31 December 2009
“Monsters of London!” the invitation proclaimed, like a 19th century penny dreadful. Under the city's surface, strange things slither, slink and breed. Not only in the city's physical subterranean chambers such as Read on…
The Crypt Gallery, London
22 - 30 May 2009
Are moths afraid of the dark? This is the question that video art duo SDNA – Valentina Floris and Ben Foot – ask in CINETAXIS, their spectacular exhibition in the sepulchral caverns of the Shunt Vaults, deep beneath London Bridge Read on…
Shunt Vaults, London
25 March - 4 April 2009
ALTERMODERN Although I am familiar with the writings of Nicolas Bourriaud, Altermodern's "supercurator", for a long time I misunderstood the meaning of the title. I took Altermodern as a kind of German neologism, as a hybrid of old Read on…
Tate Britain, London
3 February - 26 April 2009
This weekend conference and exhibition, coinciding as it did with Michael Snow's exhibition at the BFI gallery, offered an unexpected and welcome opportunity to reintroduce the issue of “Expanded Cinema” into current debate around Read on…
BFI Southbank, London
6 December 2008
Turner Prize 2008 I'm coming into the Turner Prize debate a little late. Probably all's been said now, prize given, done and dusted. I have a good-ish excuse though – while the prize was being dished out to Mark Leckey I was in Read on…
TATE BRITAIN, LONDON
30 September 2008 - 18 January 2009
“who can I tell my private nightmares to, if I can't tell them to you?” asks Samuel Beckett, and this forms the title and context of Nazir Tanbouli's first solo show in London. The Egyptian-born artist has assembled a monochrome Read on…
Redgate gallery, London
27 June - 3 July 2008
What exactly is video art? What's the difference between a video-art festival and a film festival? What's the function of video within the "art" world? Is video an art form or a tool to create art regardless of issues of "art Read on…
various venues, Valencia
10 October 2006 to 11 November 2006