ARTANGEL 2009 PROGRAMME
ALAN KANE: LIFE CLASS
In Spring 2009, Channel 4 will broadcast Alan Kane's Life Class. Amateur enthusiasts are invited to pick up pencils or charcoal and draw a different life model each day. The TV life classes will also inspire a network of 'pop-up' public life drawing classes in different locations around the country. Kane is best known for his Folk Art Archive, an ongoing collaboration with Jeremy Deller, as well as projects in a diversity of spaces from Stringfellows Nightclub to the Val D'Oro fish and chip bar in Glasgow. Life Class is Artangel's first foray into daytime TV. Following Ruth Ewan's Did You Kiss the Foot that Kicked You? and Roger Hiorns' Seizure, it is the third project to have been commissioned from the Jerwood Artangel Open.
RONI HORN: VATNASAFN/ LIBRARY OF WATER
May 2 marks the beginning of the summer season of Roni Horn's ongoing project in the coastal town of Stykkishólmur in Iceland. Acclaimed Canadian poet Anne Carson will be this year's writer in residence, and while there, plans to work on a new version of Prometheus with its fiery ending... for more information about the project, visit the Vatnasafn/ Library of Water website.
CHARLES LEDRAY
June 2009 will see the premiere in London of American sculptor Charles LeDray's installation of very small hand-tailored sculptures - immaculately stitched and detailed objects. LeDray has a growing number of admirers for his disarmingly diminutive and obsessive work, and his Artangel commission, developed over the past 3 years, will be his first major project outside the USA.
LONGPLAYER 2009
On 12 September 2009, 1000 minutes of Jem Finer's Longplayer will be played live at The Roundhouse in London. A specially trained ensemble will play, in real time, on a mass of Tibetan singing bowls tuned to different pitches. Longplayer was devised to play continuously and without repetition from 31 December 1999 to 31 December 2999, and is the core element of an installation situated in East London's Trinity Buoy Wharf. For more information about Longplayer and Longplayer Live, visit the Longplayer website.
