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Gillian Mciver
Gillian McIver is a photographer and film-maker, working in artist film and video. She is based at Studio75, London. Follow her on Twitter at Studio75London
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Michael Wolf [21 December 2011]
Michael Wolf Flowers Kingsland Road London 25 November - 7 January Flowers presented the first UK show of the Hong-Kong based German born photographer Michael Wolf. Wolf stands out in Flower's dynamic programming of photographers (Nadav Read on…
Flowers Kingsland Road, London
25 November 2011 - 7 January 2012
earth:NOW:being [10 October 2011]
Earth now being Valentin Manz and Christine Cynn earth:NOW:being is a project by artist Valentin Manz & film-maker Christine Cynn, made at Church Farm Ardeley (a high-welfare, ecological farm in Hertfordshire). For 15 weeks in summer 2010, Read on…
Hackney City Farm, London
8 - 9 October 2011
Nam June Paik [9 February 2011]
playing with light and time This retrospective of the work of Nam June Paik (1932-2006), sometimes called the pioneer of media art or the father of video art - though these terms don't begin to describe him - in the most important Read on…
FACT and Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
17 December 2010 - 13 March 2011
THE FREAKS [11 December 2010]
Invitation to a Freak Show Thursday night, December 9th. Images flash across the screen: fires outside the parliament building; National Gallery occupied; royals threatened; rioters and police on horseback. I'm heading out to Shoreditch, going to Read on…
SHOREDITCH TOWN HALL, LONDON
9 - 16 December 2010
ERNESTO NETO: The Edges of the World [19 June 2010]
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 / Rosalind Nashashibi [25 October 2009]
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
The Museological Unconscious: Communal (Post)Modernism in Russia [11 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
Tales from the electric forest [22 May 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
Cinetaxis [9 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 [12 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
Expanded Cinema, The Live Record [22 December 2008]
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 [17 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
Private Nightmares [6 September 2008]
“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
Vidifestival [15 January 2007]
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
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