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Alex Hetherington
Visual artist and writer based in Scotland and the USA.
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What Structures, Kate V Robertson [11 February 2010]
… I watched enthralled from the empty deck as, every day, for the space of a few minutes, in all quarters of a horizon vaster than any I had ever seen before, the rising and the setting of the sun presented the beginning, development and Read on…
Intermedia, CCA, Glasgow
12 - 19 February 2010
The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space [4 February 2009]
Central to The Fifth Floor is a responsive, calculated, engaged curatorial trick, one that assembles a kind of push and pull between the external – Liverpool, its geography and multiple communities – and the internal – artists Read on…
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
16 December 2008 - 1 February 2009
Straylight Cavern [19 December 2008]
Douglas Coupland, the Canadian author of Generation X and Microserfs, and a visual artist, observed as a motivation for his work a despondency at being denied the opportunity to "see the twenty-fifth century". His 'generation' of principally male Read on…
Cooper Gallery, Dundee
15 November - 13 December
The House of Books Has No Windows [12 August 2008]
So here is an exhibition to make you feel like a loser. Its not the content, the context, the images, video, sound, robots, old interconnected detritus, books, taped voices, video projections or general haphazard bewilderment of it all, but Read on…
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
31 July - 28 September 2008
The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics [7 August 2008]
This is how Yerba Buena Arts Center in downtown San Francisco describes this show: ‘The Way That We Rhyme’ showcases the politically charged work of a new generation of women. Emphasizing performativity, collaboration and coalition Read on…
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
29 March – 29 June
The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics [5 June 2008]
This is how Yerba Buena Arts Center in downtown San Francisco describes this show: The Way That We Rhyme showcases the politically charged work of a new generation of women. Emphasizing performativity, collaboration and coalition building, the works Read on…
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
29 March - 29 June 2008
Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things [27 May 2008]
Joan Jonas is a leading figure within a group of artists whose use of live action and video at the beginning of the late 1960s and early 1970s gave rise to the contemporary genres of video and performance art. From her seminal performance-based Read on…
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
17 October 2007 - 20 July 2008
Starship: Written on spiders [22 May 2008]
Starship Magazine was established in Berlin in 1998 by Hans-Christian Dany, Martin Ebner and Ariane Müller. The rationale behind the publication is based on the artists’ speculation that it will be produced to accompany the final one Read on…
Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
15 May - 14 June 2008
Skank Bloc Bologna, Number Two (Langton Edition) [22 May 2008]
Skank Bloc Bologna, devised and curated by San Francisco–based Scottish artist Anne Colvin takes its inspiration from Semina, a free-form journal published sporadically by artist Wallace Berman and his circle in California in the 1950's Read on…
Tart, San Francisco
10 April - 31 May 2008
Once Within a Room/Phantom Rosebuds [22 May 2008]
Alejandro Cesarco/Dexter Sinister, Featuring: Ayreen Anastas, Robin Carlson, Alejandro Cesarco, Fia Backström, Rene Gabri, Kevin Killian, Post Brothers, and Gary Wilson, among others.The word (spoken, recorded, filmed, printed, indexed) has Read on…
New Langton Arts, San Francisco
10 April - 31 May 2008
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution [7 March 2008]
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, housed at the cavernous PS1, is a vast international survey of over 120 artists, collectives and collaborations with over 400 works exhibited and all produced from the period 1965-1980. The scope of the work Read on…
PS1, MoMA Affiliate, Long Island City, New York
17 February - 12 May 2008
Minty Donald: Glimmers in Limbo [4 March 2008]
Tramway is a decaying, ascetic exterior, shedding paintwork, shedding particles of old architecture, mended, repaired and remodelled with fillings on fillings, painted-out windows, bricked-up deleted functionless voids, cobwebbed gaps collecting Read on…
Tramway, Glasgow
16-17 February (continuing in part until 16 June)
Catherine Sullivan Triangle of Need [28 February 2008]
Narrative is a fraudulent extinct melodramatic speciesE-mail spam scams from African dignitaries, bank managers and accountants fill our in-boxes with deals to share in vast wealth and assets from deceased individuals (who have died under tragic and Read on…
Metro Pictures, New York City
7 February - 15 March 2008
Fabric of Protest and Turner Prize 2007 [16 January 2008]
Give sympathy for the 7” vinyl record: two recordings bound by alienated separation; bound together by a conjoined synthetic whole. A Side is the main attraction, glistening with pop pulling power, B side a sonic shadow, a slighter song Read on…
Site Gallery and Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
19 October 2007 - 13 January 2008
Three Years and Counting [25 September 2007]
Some kind of unstructured modifications/Tart elastics This show suggests a kind of psychological analytical theatre, a stage set full of poignant ‘props’ (that quietly talk to each other, their own script, part improvisation, a devise Read on…
TART
9 September 2007 to 10 October 2007
Superhumanatural Douglas Gordon [29 November 2006]
Douglas Gordon is no longer human. The Glasgow born, New York residing artist is now a vampire feeding from the memory of artists, actors, composers, soccer players and filmmakers: Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp; Scorcese's Taxi Driver and Read on…
National Galleries of Scotland
11 November 2006 to 1 January 2007
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