30.6.08 We are DJing with Tai Shani at the Haggerston on 4.7.08, 21:00 - late:
18.6.08 The Future for Less and Better Future, Wolf-Shaped will be on show at Grey Area in Brighton:
The Future So Far
Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Exhibition: Sat 21st June - Sun 6th July 2008
Private View: Fri 20th June, 7-9pm
Open: Thurs - Sun, 1-5pm
Artist Talk: Sat 28th June, 7.30pm
An exhibition of video works featuring parts one and two of Pil and Galia Kollectiv’s Future trilogy, which takes the 2005 IKEA riot as the starting point for a speculative history of a fictional future revolution.
The Future for Less (2006) imagines the consumer riot as the foundation of a new totalitarian state religion imposing the tenets of modernism on the masses.
In Better Future, Wolf-Shaped (2008), the sequel, a rural cult perverts this official creed through pagan rituals of architectural worship performed at Celtic burial sites in Cornwall.
Grey Area
Lower Ground Floor
31 Queens Rd
Brighton
East Sussex
BN13XA
www.greyareagallery.org
thegreyarea@hotmail.co.uk
23.5.08 We are staging a new performance piece at the Berlin Biennale:
| No Haus like Bau at HAU Pil and Galia Kollectiv 14.06.2008 19:30 - 21:00 |
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Russian Constructivist theater of the 1920s portrayed “industrial man” as part of a bio-mechanical symbiosis with the factory. For the 5th berlin biennial, Pil and Galia Kollectiv stage a new theatrical piece, a post-Fordist neo-Constructivist mime entitled No Haus Like Bau, which asks what becomes of this overidentification with the system in the wake of industrial manufacture: what would it mean in relation to the flexible ideology of late capitalism? With the boundaries between work and leisure diffused by the employment model of a post-Fordist creative industry, the critique of the mechanization of labor becomes ineffectual. Marx wrote that revolutionary transformation borrows the slogans and costumes of the past to stage the new world-historical order so that they may part happily from the past. Incorporating a stage set based on flatpack furniture and inspired by Soviet theater design, No Haus Like Bau happily parts with revolution. Featuring eight performers, with a live score by Steven Kado (The Blankket, The Barcelona Pavilion, Blocks Blocks Blocks), the performance juxtaposes Bauhaus dance theory with the story of the privatisation of Russia and elements of Mozart's Magic Flute to forge a new mythology for the DiY consumer and the subject of immaterial labor. Through the performance, the heavy symbolism of state theatre and mass spectacle is reduced to the ergonomics of interior design to form a provisional aesthetic for a new politics. HAU 1, Stresemannstrasse 29, 10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg, U1/U6 Hallesches Tor Admission 11,- € / reduced rate 7,- € |
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Also, we are screening Kustom Kar Inferno at the Whitechapel Gallery on the 15th of June:
and performing Better Future, Quad-Shaped at Cubitt gallery on the 22nd of June, at 21:00:
Seven Times Two or Three
on and beneath communication
curated by Bart van der Heide and Binna Choi
Sunday 15 June to Sunday 22 June 2008
Private View: Sun 15 Jun 2008, 7:00PM to 9:00PM
A one-week long series of events featuring works and research by over 30 artists, designers, musicians and writers in the form of live performances, lectures, dialogues and appropriations.
and finally, we are in this exhibition at Cafe Gallery, opening on the same day, 22.6.08:
18.5.08 The Future for Less and Better Future, Wolf-Shaped will be screened at Loughborough University as part of Life Is Interesting...When You're Furious, a series of projects which mark the 40th anniversary of the wave of student protest movements that broke out in 1968, often dubbed as the 'year of the barricades'. The artists involved either respond directly to the historical events of that year or create work that further explores the theme of protest, political action and resistance:
A Staged Dissent
Wednesday 18 June 2008, 7.15pm
Leonard Dixon Drama Studio, English and Drama Department, Loughborough University
An evening of performances and films centred around the theme of protest, rebellion and revolt.
Programme:
* Gail Pickering - Zulu (Speaking in Radical Tongues)
* Pil and Galia Kollectiv - The Future for Less and Better Future, Wolf Shaped
* Oreet Ashery - Raging Balls
* Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen - Complaints Choir
* Mark Wilsher - King
* Oliver Ressler and Zanny Begg - What Would It Mean To Win?
27.4.08 The final instalment of The Institute of Psychoplasmics will take place on the 8th of May at Shoreditch Town Hall with an evening of live performance from Tai Shani and Insectoid:
23.4.08 The Institute of Psychoplasmics discussion panel, book launch and Game of War workshop will take place this Saturday, 26th of April at the Pump House Gallery:
Discussion Panel, Book Launch and Game of War Workshop
Saturday 26 April 2008
12.00 - 4.oopm
Free but booking is recommended
Pump House Gallery
Battersea Park
London SW11 4NJ
020 7350 0523
pumphouse@wandsworth.co.uk
(Please note the times for this event have changed and are different to those that were previously advertised)
A discussion with Amanda Beech, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Suhail Malik and Roman Vasseur to discuss ideas and themes explored in the exhibition and new publication.
This 112-page publication includes texts and stories by Suhail Malik, Amanda Beech, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Gilad Elbom, Tom McCarthy, Emily McMehen, Travis Jeppeson and a popup artwork by Diann Bauer. The book is also available for £15 via PayPal from psychoplasmics@yahoo.co.uk .
This event will be followed by a demonstration of Guy Debord's The Game of War by Class Wargames using a replica of Debord's original 1977 military strategy board game.
For further information: http://www.classwargames.net/
Also, Harold Offeh's Damn! I wish I'd done that. Artists' works I wish I'd made..., which features The Future for Less, is on at Chapter:
Damn! I wish I'd done that. Artists' works I wish I'd made...
Curated by Harold Offeh
Exhibition: Friday 25 April - Sunday 4 May / Arddangosfa: Dydd Gwener 25 Ebrill - Dydd Sul 4 Mai
A selection of single-screen works by a range of national and international artists including Olaf Breuning, Doug Fishbone, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Ming Wong, Mark Aerial Waller, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Anu Pennanen and Esra Ersen.
The 80-minute show reel was inspired by ongoing dialogues that Harold has had with the artists over many years; encounters that have inspired and shaped the development of his own practice through shared formal and conceptual concerns including role play, sci-fi, social engagement, globalism, and commentary on music and popular culture. The programme - as the title suggests - aims to highlight the impact of other contemporary artists' practices on Harold's own work as an artist and comments on how this relationship fuels envy, admiration and discourse.
The screening room is open Wednesday - Sunday 12-8pm / Ar Agor Dydd Mercher - Dydd Sul 12-8pm
And finally, we have some new work on /seconds, here.
21.3.08 Our exhibition The Institute of Psychoplasmics, featuring our new film Better Future, Wolf-Shaped, opens at The Pump House Gallery on the 8th of April, details below:
THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOPLASMICS
a.a.s. / Insectoid / Diann Bauer / Amanda Beech / Mikko Canini / Seth Coston / Rod Dickinson /
Pil and Galia Kollectiv / Tai Shani / Francis Upritchard / Roman Vasseur
Curated by Pil and Galia Kollectiv
9 April 2008 to 25 May 2008
Preview: Tue 8 April 2008, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Open Wed, Thurs & Sun 11am – 5pm
Fri and Sat 11am – 4pm
Closed Mon and Tues
Pump House Gallery
Battersea Park
London
SW11 4NJ
Map
T: + 44 (0)20 7350 0523
F: +44 (0)20 7228 9062
www.wandsworth.gov.uk/gallery
The Institute of Psychoplasmics is an exhibition about cultic social groupings and how they challenge the integrity of the social body by producing another within it. The show takes its name and inspiration from the eponymous fictional institute in David Cronenberg’s 1979 film ‘The Brood’, in which rage is encouraged to take the form of a cancerous schism within the body. Recreated within the Pump House Gallery, the Institute will investigate cults, brainwashing, war games, rituals and other explorations through new commissioned work including videos, paintings, sculptures, sound and object based installations.
The Institute of Psychoplasmics will also be accompanied by an offsite evening of live art on the 8th of May at Shoreditch Town Hall (tickets £4 via PayPal to psychoplasmics@yahoo.co.uk or from the Pump House Gallery; £5 on the door). Tai Shani’s one-off performance Empire and Daughter Isotope will feature epic prog band Guapo and electroclash diva Angie Reed . Cannibalizing pulp film and fiction through black magic cult rituals, a Mini Mouse anti-sacrifice of twelve virgins is crowned by five tableaux of notorious Satanist Anton Lavey posing in nudist magazine Jaybird. Meanwhile performance collective Insectoid’s hive also colonise the stage and perform their own entomological rites, exploring insect behaviour to produce exoskeletal sounds.
Accompanying the exhibition will be a 112 page hardcover publication with texts and stories by Suhail Malik, Amanda Beech, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Gilad Elbom, Tom McCarthy, Emily McMehen, Travis Jeppesen and a pop up artwork by Diann Bauer , £15 via PayPal to psychoplasmics@yahoo.co.uk or from the Pump House Gallery. The book, funded by Outset, will be launched on the 26 of April with a discussion panel with Suhail Malik, Amanda Beech, Roman Vasseur and Pil and Galia Kollectiv , followed by a demonstration of Guy Debord's strategy board game by Class Wargames with Rod Dickinson.
Also, another Ranters' Cafe is coming up:
Ranters' Cafe
Wednesday 02 April, 7.00 - 8.00pm
Admission free
'Too Theatrical':
Should artists value authenticity and spontaneity over exaggeration and virtuosity?
Join artists, critics and curators as they discuss the merits of the staged, the improvised and the deskilled. Come to spectate, debate and have a beer in the Café.
Speakers:
Lois Keidan
Pil & Galia Kollectiv
Seth Kriebel
Sally O'Reilly
Camden Arts Centre
Arkwright Road
London NW3 6DG
T: 020 7472 5500
www.camdenartscentre.org
5.3.08 Kollectiv/Gelbart collaboration record launch and artist talk in Berlin on Saturday 15/03/08:
>Ard Bia Berlin
presents
economic thought projects
Launch:15/03/08
Stephen Brandes, Lorraine Brennan, Nina Canell, Gelbart, Jo McGonigal, Isabel Nolan, Si Schroeder, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Robin Watkins,The Walter Smith Project
Exhibition/ Stephan Brandes, Lorraine Brennan, Russell Hart, Jo Mc Gonigal, Isabel Nolan, Pil and Galia Kollectiv
15 - 29/03/08 Opening 16.00, 15/03/08
Artist Talk/ Pil and Galia Kollectiv
15.00, 15/03/08
Music event/ Gelbart, The Walter Smith Project
22.00,15/03/08 at Ausland, Lychener Str. 60, 10437, Berlin
Economic Thought Projects is a DIY independent record label set up to investigate collaborative and multidisciplinary practice by Irish based curator Russell Hart in 2006. Hart invited a group of ten artists and musicians to collaborate on the design, content and sounds of a series of 7" records. A lengthy process of discussion has resulted in a diverse range of responses. The project launch in three parts; exhibition, talk, music, will explore these separate aspects.
Ard Bia 's new satellite space located in Berlin, incorporates a residency program and exhibition space with a mission to cultivate research, exchange and experimentation in the contemporary visual arts field, it is aimed at promoting Irish artists in an international context.
www.economicthoughtprojects.com
Ard Bia Berlin 39 Chodowieckistr.
+49 (0) 30 486 2537 Berlin 10405/Germany.
+49 (0) 175 781 2741 www.ardbiaberlin.com
24.1.08 New film Better Future, Wolf-Shaped, will be screened at the Whitechapel Gallery as part of The Sensible Stage:
Thu 28 February, 7.30pm
New Work UK: Curated by Bridget Crone
film programme
New Work UK presents the best of British film and video. Following and open call for curatorial proposals, Bridget Crone’s programme was chosen from a diverse number projects to be realised as the next in our series of screenings.
featuring Mikko Canini, Lucienne Cole, Sebastian Buerkner, Louisa Fairclough, Clare Gasson, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Gail Pickering
The Sensible Stage explores the idea of staging. Throughout the programme there is a play between the staging of the self and staging as a theatrical device. The Sensible Stage takes its title from Jacques Rancière’s ‘common sensorium’, in order to explore the idea of the ‘stage of the sensible’; that is, the staging of a common ‘moment’. Using the real and metaphorical frames of the stage and the camera, The Sensible Stage treads the ground between the possibility and impossibility of this ‘common moment’. Blurring the frame of the stage and the frame of the camera opens up questions around participation and spectatorship as the immediacy of the live experience is restaged. In some works, the restaging of historical and avant-garde references acts to provide a stop point within the constant flow of information. And in others, there is a framing (or staging) of a quiet or personal moment that places the viewer in a very particular relationship with the camera.
For further info:
http://www.mediaartbath.org.uk/intro.php
http://www.whitechapel.org/content.php?page_id=4170
£5
Free for Whitechapel Patrons and Associates
Booking essential
Also, The Future for Less will be screened (on the same night!) at:
Damn! I Wish I’d Done That!! Artist’s Works I Wish I’d Made
Thursday 28th February at 7pm
Artists' film and video selected and introduced by Harold Offeh
Featuring works from by
Olaf Breuning
Pipilotti Rist
Doug Fishbone
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsey
Ming Wong
Mark Aerial Waller
Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Anu Pennanen
Esra Ersen
At 176 Gallery, Zabludowicz Art Projects
176 Prince of Wales Road
London NW5 3PT, UK
T: +44(0)20 7428 8940
F: +44(0)20 7428 8949
www.projectspace176.com
Booking Essential, book online at www.projectspace176.com/events-calendar/
Free to members, Membership and Entry Free to Artists & Arts Professionals
Admission / Annual Membership: £5
Nearest Tube: Chalk Farm.
And we will be participating in Ranters' Cafe, Wednesday 06 February, 7.00 – 8.00pm
Admission free:
The End of The Museum...
Is the dismantling of cultural hierarchies by 'democratic' new media a good thing?
Join artists, critics and curators as they discuss issues of access, quality and the proliferation of content. Come to spectate, debate and have a beer in the Café.
Speakers
JJ Charlesworth
Lisa Le Feuvre
Pil & Galia Kollectiv
Sally O’Reilly
Simon Pope
Camden Arts Centre
Arkwright Road
London NW3 6DG
T: 020 7472 5500
www.camdenartscentre.org
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