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  • London, until 22 Jun 2013: Oreet Ashery

    Posted: 09 April 2013

    Various venues: Part travelling troupe, part takeaway delivery service, part bizarre dream, this is a party like no other: a party for hire that costs nothing but demands your full investment. A project by London-based artist Oreet Ashery, Party for Freedom is a performance and moving-image work for anyone to host and experience. It can take place in any private or public space from a sitting room to an office, a university or nightclub, for a minimum of 10 people.

    To accompany the Party hires, Party for Freedom will also host a series of special events across London exploring themes in the work such as immigration, visas and state control, the right to insult and be insulted, and the right to own.

    More information at the Party for Freedom section of our website.

  • Venice, until 14 Jul 2013: Anri Sala

    Posted: 08 May 2013

    Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi: Anri Sala's film, 1395 Days without Red (2011) – in collaboration with Liria Begeja and from a project by Šejla Kamerić & Anri Sala in collaboration with Ari Benjamin Meyers – screens on Thursdays and Saturdays.

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  • Sheffield, until 20 Jul 2013: Mike Kelley

    Posted: 29 April 2013

    Site Gallery: Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead Videos, presented by Site Gallery in collaboration with Artangel, will feature three videos made in Detroit by Mike Kelley (1954 – 2012) as a key part of his last work.

    In 2010, Laura Sillars, now Site Gallery’s Artistic Director, worked in Detroit with Mike Kelley and Executive Producer James Lingwood of Artangel over four months as Location Producer on the project; Site is hosting the European premiere of the exhibition of the videos.

    Exhibition information at the Site Gallery website.

    Or for more on Mobile Homestead see the project section.

  • Francis Alys, Guards

    Sunderland, until 31 Aug 2013: Francis Alÿs

    Posted: 09 April 2013

    Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art: Works from Francis Alÿs's Seven Walks (2005) form part of Walk On: 40 Years of Art Walking, an exhibition examining the astonishingly varied ways in which artists since the 1960s have undertaken a seemingly universal act – taking a walk – as their means to create new types of art. Also features work by Marina Abramovic, Janet Cardiff, Richard Long, Richard Wentworth and many more.

    Exhibition information at the NGCA website.

    Or for more on Seven Walks see the project section.

  • Zürich, until 18 Aug: Cameron Jamie

    Posted: 04 June 2013

    Kunsthalle Zürich: a comprehensive solo exhibition by American artist Cameron Jamie includes Artangel project Kranky Klaus (2002–2003), a film tracking a herd of Krampus: strange mythical beasts with shaggy coats and serious attitude that appear in snowbound Austrian villages at around the same time as St Nicholas.

    Exhibition information at the Kunsthalle website.

    Project material at the Kranky Klaus section of our website.

  • Bexley, until 1 September 2013: Francis Alÿs

    Posted: 07 June 2013

    Hall Place & Gardens: Francis Alÿs’ The Nightwatch from his Seven Walks project is currently on display as part of the group exhibition Beastly Hall at Hall Place & Gardens, Bexley, Kent.

    The exhibition draws parallels to the Queen’s topiary beasts featured in the landscaped gardens with a presentation of contemporary and fantastical creatures imagined by internationally acclaimed artists. Curated by Artwise, the exhibition also includes works by Charles Avery, Peter Blake and Damien Hirst among others.

    More information at the Artwise website.

    Or for project materials from Seven Walks, visit the project section on our website.

  • Basel, until 1 September 2013: Steve McQueen

    Posted: 04 June 2013

    Schaulager: A comprehensive exhibition of work by the radical British video artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen includes Artangel commissions Caribs' Leap and Western Deep (both 2002).

    Exhibition information at the Schaulager website.

    Project background and materials at the Caribs' Leap / Western Deep section of our website.

    Image: Still from Steve McQueen: Western Deep (2002)

  • Yorkshire, from 15 June 2013: Roger Hiorns

    Posted: 04 January 2013

    Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Roger Hiorns' Seizure (2008) was created by pumping 75,000 litres of liquid copper sulphate into a former Southwark council flat, coating its interior in a blue, crystalline growth. The dwelling was extracted from its original building, and is now being relocated to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

    More information at the YSP website.

    Or for more on Seizure see the project section.

  • Hobart, until 21 April 2014: Lindsay Seers, Kutlug Ataman

    Posted: 17 June 2013

    Museum of Old and New Art: Current group exhibition The Red Queen is "an assemblage of major commissions, exciting loans, and yet-unseen works from our own collection". One such project is Lindsay Seers' Nowhere Less Now2, the latest manifestation of a co-commission between Artangel, the Sharjah Art Foundation and MONA originally presented London in 2012 at The Tin Tabernacle, a 19th century corrugated iron chapel in Kilburn. Another is Kutlug Ataman's Küba (2004), a series of video portraits mapping the physical and pyschological territory of a neighbourhood of makeshift dwellings in Istanbul.

    Exhibition information at the MONA website.

    Artangel's online project section for Nowhere Less Now includes an ebook for iPad, video footage from the Tin Tabernacle and essays by author Ned Beauman and Bergson scholar John Mullarkey.

    The online section for Küba includes several slideshows and an essay by Bill Horrigan.

  • Berwick-upon-Tweed, 22 Jun - 15 Sep 2013: Catherine Yass

    Posted: 07 May 2013

    Berwick Gymnasium: Catherine Yass's multi-channel video installation High Wire (2008) follows the French high-wire artist Dider Pasquette as he walks a wire strung between two towers on the Red Road Estate in Glasgow. Originally commissioned by Artangel with the Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art. This presentation is part of Walk On, Art Walking Northumberland.

    Exhibition information at the Festival of the North East website.

    Or for more on High Wire see the project section.

  • Kendal, 6 Jul - 8 Sep 2013: Bethan Huws

    Posted: 21 May 2013

    Abbot Hall: This presentation of Huws' mesmerizing 1993 film marks the 20th anniversary of the original performance, in which a group of traditional Bulgarian singers, The Bistritsa Babi, stood at high tide and sang for an hour each evening to the sea. [More]

     

  • Online and worldwide, until Dec 2999: Jem Finer

    Posted: 20 March 2013

    Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on 31 December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again. Conceived and composed by Jem Finer, it was originally produced as an Artangel commission, and is now in the care of the Longplayer Trust.

    Longplayer can be heard in the lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, where it has been playing since it began and at several other listening posts around the world. It can also be heard globally via a live stream on the Internet.

    Current listening posts:

    The Lighthouse, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, UK
    The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, UK
    The Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London, UK
    Bibliotheca Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
    The Long Now Foundation, Fort Mason, San Francisco, USA

    More information here.

  • Mobile Homestead in Detroit

    Detroit, ongoing: Mike Kelley

    Posted: 25 March 2013

    Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit: Mobile Homestead is a permanent art work by late artist Mike Kelley located on the grounds of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. It's both a public sculpture and a private, personal architecture – based on the artist's childhood home on Palmer Road in Westland, a neighborhood which primarily housed workers for the Big Three auto makers: Ford, Chrysler and General Motors.

    More information at the Mobile Homestead project section.

  • Stykkishólmur, ongoing: Roni Horn

    Posted: 29 May 2013

    Since her first encounter with the island as a young arts graduate, the work of artist Roni Horn has been intimately involved with the distinctive geography, geology, climate, and culture of Iceland. For some time, Roni Horn cherished an ambition to realise a long-term project in Iceland, which could incorporate many of her abiding artistic concerns - with water and weather, identity and enlightenment. After a lengthy period of research, Artangel and Roni Horn realised a long-term installation, VATNASAFN/LIBRARY OF WATER, in the small town of Stykkishólmur on the southwest coast of Iceland. The Icelandic word 'Vatnasafn' can be translated as 'Library/Collection/Museum of Water'.

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  • Online: A Room for London

    Posted: 04 March 2013

    Adonis, Naomi Alderman, Amadou & Mariam, Laurie Anderson, Fiona Banner, Andrew Bird, James Bridle, David Byrne, Natalie Clein, Jarvis Cocker, Teju Cole, Jeremy Deller and Chuck, Geoff Dyer, Tim Etchells, Charlie Fink, Heiner Goebbels, Imogen Heap, Roni Horn, Maya Jasanoff, Sven Lindqvist, Baaba Maal, Alain Mabanckou, Michael Ondaatje, Josh T Pearson, Caryl Phillips, Johny Pitts, Kamila Shamsie, Ahdaf Soueif, Stornoway, Colm Toibin, tUnE-yArDs, Luc Tuymans, Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Jeanette Winterson

    Artangel invited writers, musicians and artists from across the globe to create new work during micro-residencies in A Room for London, a one-bedroom hotel perched above the Thames. These works can now be freely downloaded, streamed or viewed on this website: A London Address writers' podcasts are here, Sounds from a Room musicians' videos are here and Hearts of Darkness artists' projects are here. Read the background to the project here.

    Photograph by Charles Hosea

  • Crossing on Commercial Street

    Whitechapel (audio walk): Janet Cardiff

    Posted: 04 March 2013

    Through 1999 Janet Cardiff realised what was her most ambitious work to date, The Missing Voice (Case Study B), in London's East End. Part urban guide, part detective fiction, part film noir, Cardiff’s British debut entwined you in a narrative that shifts through time and space. Seductive, intimate, even conspiratorial, Cardiff’s audio-walks are psychologically absorbing experiences - for an audience of one at a time.

    The 50-minute audio walk, which begins outside The Whitechapel Gallery, is still freely available to download as an mp3 from this site. [More]