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Viviane Blanchard
Viviane Blanchard is an art historian and writer, with a particular interest in sound art and the gender perspective.
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Hand Made Tales: an in-sight into domestic art [1 April 2011]
In recent years there has been an increasing number of exhibitions devoted to craft objects in art galleries and museums, blurring the traditional distinctions between fine art and craft. Last year’s V&A's ‘Quilts: 1700 – Read on…
The Women's Library, London
26 October 2010 - 20 April 2011
Primal sounds of the machine [21 October 2010]
Since Kurt Schwitters wrote his Ursonate in the 1920s, dozens of performers have paid their respects by interpreting and performing his highly influential sound poem. Now is the turn of a digital German speech software programme to have a go at Read on…
Max Wigram Gallery, London
13 October - 13 November 2010
The Listening Chamber [13 October 2010]
The map of the town isn’t all that good. I am being followed by the hideous look of a satyr protruding its long, curly neck from the corner of an ancient house. I swiftly turn my back on it, guided by some intuitional sense of direction. The Read on…
Musee Reattu, Arles
1 July - 31 December 2010
Of flesh and blood [16 November 2009]
For the last five hundreds years, women have had the place of honour as subject of art – stripped off their clothes and re-fashioned, fully fleshed, in the nude by men who thought they knew better. Kenneth Clark’s seminal book The Nude Read on…
Rollo Contemporary Art, London
12 October 2009 - 20 January 2010
Revival of an old tired horse [15 July 2009]
'EmpathyBy the sea(…)A Coastal town view of it allAlternative viewalternative(…)Hello i'm waving at you!I'm ahead of timeNot too far ahead'Sue Tompkins' evocative poetry covers part of the walls of the upper room at the ICA, 15 sheets Read on…
ICA, London
15 June - 23 August 2009
Dangerously good vibrations [18 February 2009]
My world of art is on the move. From the subtle jolts of Margaret Michel’s motorised collages to the whirling guitars of Stephen Cornford via the long-awaited Kinetica Art Fair 2009 I can hardly sit still. Rollo Contemporary art gallery gently Read on…
Various art galleries, London
15 January - 28 February 2009
Better Things [31 January 2009]
Duane Hopkins' first feature film Better Things is not easy to put into words. They quickly accumulate into lumps in the throat. Last night at the Renoir launch screening, the director introduced it as a love story or, maybe more to the point, as an Read on…
Various cinema over the UK, London
23 January - 27 February 2009
The voice and nothing more [22 January 2009]
The Slade Research Centre on Woburn Square hosted a colourful festival last week centered on the voice both as medium and subject matter, culminating with the last night’s impressive stream of performances. Curated by Neil Luck and Sam Read on…
Slade Research Centre, London
12 - 16 January 2009
Contemporary violence - a feminist viewpoint [20 October 2008]
Nancy Spero's Take no prisoner (2007) is a shocking viewing experience. I rang the bell at the Anthony Reynolds' gallery on Great Marlborough Street and waited in the warm afternoon sunshine as street shoppers and delivery men passed by. I Read on…
Anthony Reynolds gallery, London
10 October - 15 November 2008
Hespera [20 October 2008]
An electric cello enters the stage. Behind it, a petite, intense-looking woman sits down and sets up her little orchestra of pedals, wires and amplifiers. When the first wining sound of the cello comes out, I'm already hooked. The bow strikes, Read on…
Cafe Oto, London and other venues around Europe, London/European cities
16 October - 31 December 2008
Wet sounds [7 July 2008]
On Sunday, I looked at the cumulus-accumulating London sky and decided I was not going to be fazed by the Great British Summer, picked up my swimming gear and headed down to the London Fields’ lido to enjoy the launch of an odd exhibition of Read on…
London Fields Lido, London
6 - 19 July 2008
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