ArtAngel Current Projects http://www.artangel.org.uk/current Artangel.org.uk en-us Wed, 23 May 2012 22:16:45 +0100 Wed, 23 May 2012 22:16:45 +0100 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Webmatrix info@artangel.org.uk (Artangel) info@artangel.org.uk (Artangel) Artangel at The Whitworth Art Gallery http://www.artangel.org.uk/home/news/artangel_at_the_whitworth A woman makes her way through an empty city. At every crossing she stops. Should she wait or should she run? Should she wait or take the risk on her own? The city is Sarajevo, and the route the woman takes became known as Sniper Alley during the siege of the city endured by its citizens for 1395 days between 1992 and 1996. The woman, played by Spanish actress Maribel Verdu, is reliving the experience of the trauma of the siege. It is her individual journey through the collective memory of the city.

This compelling 60 minute film is the first cinematic collaboration by two acclaimed artists from the Balkans, Šejla Kamerić and Anri Sala. To accompany the performance, music from Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique has been arranged and conducted by Ari Benjamin Meyers.

Running alongside the world premiere of 1395 Days without Red is Projections: Works from The Artangel Collection. Featuring ground-breaking film and video installations from two decades of Artangel commissions, Projections includes High Wire, Catherine Yass’s multi-screen installation of a vertiginous walk in the sky. The Nightwatch by Francis Alÿs which tracks the nocturnal wanderings of a fox through a gallery at night and Atom Egoyan’s Steenbeckett, based on the moving monologue from Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape.

Outside, a spectral son-et-lumière called The Influence Machine has been created by Tony Oursler, and will project onto trees and smoke
haunting Whitworth Park after dark.

]]> Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:34:54 +0100 http://www.artangel.org.uk/home/news/artangel_at_the_whitworth The Artangel Longplayer Conversation 2011: John Gray and James Lovelock http://www.artangel.org.uk/news/the_artangel_long_conversation_2011 RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects)
66 Portland Place
London W1B 1AD
7pm, 18 April 2011

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The Artangel Longplayer Conversation 2011 introduces two of the world’s foremost modern thinkers: climate-scientist and ‘futurologist’ James Lovelock and political philosopher and author John Gray, who will embark on a discussion inspired by the philosophical implications of long time.

An annual event, The Artangel Longplayer Conversation invites two cultural thinkers to engage in a discussion inspired by the philosophical premise of Jem Finer’s Longplayer, a musical composition playing, in real time, over the course of an entire millennium. Commissioned by Artangel and launched in 2000, Longplayer suggests a projection of growth and change and a timescale beyond our lifespans.

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]]> Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:19:48 +0000 http://www.artangel.org.uk/news/the_artangel_long_conversation_2011 In Conversation: Šejla Kamerić and Atom Egoyan http://www.artangel.org.uk/home/whitworth_talk In Conversation: Šejla Kamerić and Atom Egoyan
Saturday 2 July, 2.30 – 4pm, free
The Whitworth Art Gallery
Oxford Rd
Manchester M15 6ER

Artists Šejla Kamerić and Atom Egoyan were in conversation with Pavel Büchler to mark five Artangel projects - including theirs - going on show at the Whitworth Art Gallery as part of the Manchester International Festival. For more on Šejla Kamerić and Anri Sala's 1395 Days Without Red plus Atom Egoyan's Steenbeckett and the three other projects exhibiting as part of Projections: Works from the Artangel Collection, please click here.

Image: Still from 1395 Days Without Red (photograph: Milomir Kovačevic Strašni)

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