This Thursday night July 9th Alife Presents will feature the west
coast premiere of Captured a film Produced by Ben Solomon and Dan
Levin at Alife Hollywood, documenting 30 years of the Lower East side
and Clayton Patterson a photographer film maker and pioneering public
figure.. the event will feature an instore installation of Claytons
work as well as a limited dvd and print for the event..Clayton will be
in attendance there will be a short q&a after the screening..

L'Atlas opens a new show in Paris.  From the 11th March - 7th April the Galerie de l'Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture will be showing a photographic exhibition of the artist's work.   For more information please visit:

www.esa-paris.fr

www.latlas.net

IngridMwangiRobertHutter will be participating in Urban Scenographies Johannesburg, 2009.

The project runs from the 11th to the 15th March and will be staged across the inner city of Johannesburg. It involves a series of interventions, inquiries and provocations developed by more than twenty artists from across Africa and Europe during the course of the past three weeks. Site-specific artworks will be realised during the four day period in relationship with the people, spaces and buildings of the Joubert Park/Doornfontein neighbourhood.

For more information, programme details and updates please consult the Urban Scenographies website and blog:

www.urbanscenographies.wordpress.com

http://www.eternalnetwork.org/scenographiesurbaines

Il Trifoglio Nero will be participating in ArteGenova, from 27 February – 2 March (preview, Thursday 26 February, 18.00). You can find us at Stand 180, on the upper floor of Padiglione C.

Work by: L’Atlas, Pietro Geranzani, Haze, IngridMwangiRobertHutter, Keiichi Nitta, Mélik Ouzani, José Parlá, Lee Quiñones, Rostarr. We hope to see you there!

Gasworks and The Showroom are collaborating to produce a two-part exhibition titled A Long Time Between Suns, the first solo presentation of The Otolith Group’s work in London. The Otolith Group, comprised of artists Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, approach questions of archive and futurity through a moving image practice which often adopts an essay-like form.  Rather than returning to the past as a means to reconnect with its perceived historicity, the Group envisages a future in which the past is treated as a relic that has the potential to inform the present and modify the future.

A Long Time Between Suns will begin at Gasworks with the artists’ first two films Otolith (2003) and Otolith II (2007). Otolith is set in the 22nd Century, when the human race is no longer able to survive on earth and must live outside its gravitational pull, on the International Space Station. Dr. Usha Adebaran Sagar, the future descendent of Otolith Group member Anjalika Sagar, is an exo-anthropologist researching life on an earth that she can experience only through media archives. Otolith imagines a mutant future that simultaneously harks back to the post WWII era of non-alignment so as to indicate a connection between the production of commonality in South Asia, USSR and the present.

Otolith II is set in the near future and mixes fiction, archival material and documentary footage filmed in Mumbai and Chandigarh. The film explores the affective pressure exerted upon inhabitants living in contrasting and competing versions of the city of tomorrow. Otolith II investigates the politics of futurity in which predictive models of the masterplan, the corporate scenario and real estate speculation converge to extract labour, convert attention and capture potential for profit.

The second part of A Long Time Between Suns will take place at The Showroom's new location in June 2009 and will present Otolith III (2009), the final film in The Otolith trilogy. Otolith III takes The Alien, the unrealised screenplay of the legendary Bengali director Satyajit Ray, as its point of departure. Written in 1967, The Alien would have been the first science fiction film to be set in contemporary India. Otolith III returns to 1967 to propose an alternative trajectory in which the fictional protagonists of The Alien attempt to seize the means of production in order to create the conditions for their existence as images. Filmed in London, Otolith III is an experiment in temporal and geographical displacement which The Group call a premake, a remake of a film before the original.

Gasworks

155 Vauxhall Street

London SE11 5RH

www.gasworks.org.uk

This exhibition features two videos by artist IngridMwangiRobertHutter, Neger (1999) and Cutting the Mask (2003). IngridMwangiRobertHutter is a Kenyan-born artist who and lives and works in Germany. She uses sound, photography, video, performance and installation that incorporates her body to explore identity and social and political conventions. About the use of her body, the artist writes:
"My body is the only thing that I own... I react, interpret and question the clichés and stereotypes with which I am faced... I use art to awaken consciences."

Like the two videos that will be shown at the Emerson Gallery, IngridMwangiRobertHutter's performances and videos often include hair—cutting hair, using hair as a mask, dreadlocked hair.  Critic Laurie Ann Farrell writes about IngridMwangiRobertHutter: "Working with video as an open medium of image and sound, Mwangi began to work with and alter images of her body as a means of collapsing oversimplified narratives of race, gender and sexuality....Mwangi's videos blend beautiful images with the edge of brutality embedded in racial stereotypes."

This exhibition is organized by Ian Berry, Consulting Director for the Emerson Gallery and Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs at Skidmore's Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery.

https://my.hamilton.edu/college/emerson_gallery/Exhibitions/IngridMwangiRobertHutter.html

Genova, Palazzo Ducale, Loggia degli Abati

25 gennaio - 15 febbraio 2009

www.palazzoducale.genova.it

Le opere esposte, oltre venti, tra dipinti di grande formato e disegni, una grande scultura e un video realizzato dall'autore, non hanno intenti didascalici o descrittivi: semplicemente si rapportano, quanto a carica emotiva, alla tensione ideale che anima le celebrazioni del Giorno della Memoria in concomitanza della quali vengono presentate.

In the Eye of the Beholder   INGRIDMWANGIROBERTHUTTER
5th Feb. - 27th Feb. 2009, DARB 17 18, Cairo

A woman's eyes are her greatest asset. Cast low, aglow, full of lust, love, enchanting, disenchanted. 'Beauty, in the Eye of the Beholder' is a disturbing rendition of womanhood, one of a pair of video works portraying two woman that are the pivotal point for this solo exhibition of IngridMwangiRobertHutter's work. 'Constant Triumph' is an homage to Mwangis sister, who died at an early age. The video captured the last phases of her life, through the fear, hope and final acceptance of the most difficult moment of life. Between these emerge seven further video and photos works that together sketch out remembrance of a human family; where the artist presents his/her own vulnerable bodies as canvases for poetry, and children seem to whisper to us out of their scenes.

Le bussole di L'Atlas, disseminate in città, segnalano ai camminatori i quattro punti cardinali e sono un invito alla pausa, alla reflessione.

Motivo ricorrente nella sua opera, il labirinto comporta l'erranza, pegno di scoperte e di incontri.

Può essere letto come metafora della città, il cui dedalo di strade ci fa talvolta girare a vuoto ma senza mai rinchiuderci.

Bisogna saper trovare il tempo di perdersi per poter trovare la via d'uscita. Per (ri) trovarsi, riconoscersi...

Galleria Il Trifoglio Nero vi invita ad assistere e participare alla creazione di un'opera di L'Atlas in Piazza Matteotti, Genova, sabato 15 novembre 2008 ore 15.00.

L'artista dirigerà l'allestimento di una bussola gigante, come quella che ha fatto con la collaborazione del Centre Pompidou, a Parigi.

José Parlá opens a new exhibition in New York on November 8th, 2008. For more information please visit   

www.cristinagrajalesinc.com

IngridMwangiRobertHutter will be participating in the 11th Cairo Biennale which is to be held at 1 Kafour Street, Oman Post, Giza in Egypt from December 20th 2008 until February 20th 2009. The theme this year is ‘The Other' described as  ‘a motto that is declared and manifested every day in world politics, military strife, clash of civilizations, conflicting ideologies, numerous ethnicities and beliefs.
The Cairo Biennale, aware of such juxtapositions, will probe what we perceive today as the other; we are inviting creators/ artists to explore the realms of the other within and without. Contemporary art practices today assimilate native and universal cultures, as well as local specificities of history, heritage and legacy, and produce artworks representative of the artist in her/his social milieu; the art production is an authentic documentation of space and time.
Common belief with or without evidence raises doubts about, the other: the other tries sometimes to undermine the other's culture, heritage and/or history.
Human wealth is in our diversity; The Cairo Biennale, in its eleventh edition encourages artists to foster diversity and tolerance.'

www.cairobiennale.gov.eg

IngridMwangiRobertHutter will be showing work at the 2008 Taiwan International Video Video Art Exhibition to be staged at the Hong Gah Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan (R.O.C.) from November 8th 2008 until the 28th December. The exhibition, titled ‘Dwelling', will explore issues pertaining to city and country landscapes, personal living environments, changes in habitats, community cultures, family attribution, and living environments of the working class.

www.hong-gah.org.tw
http://twvideoart.blogspot.com/

A huge thank you to everyone who came out for the opening on Saturday, over 1500 people came to see the exhibition on the opening night and made it a great night. A massive thank you to all of you who came from the UK, from France, Switzerland, Poland...
Particular thanks must also go to Bobbito who flew over from New York to DJ the after-party and to Lee Quinones and Rey Parla who also made the trip.