Projection at the Tate Modern, 31st October 2009

Tate Modern

I'm showing a new piece - a resubtitled version of Wolf Rilla's 'Village of the Damned' on Saturday 31st October, Halloween, at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, it's open from 7. I'll also be showing 'Barenzirkus', both films as projections without sound.

Incident

Patricide : Common Purpose

Live at Basso, Berlin

The Fool

Barenzirkus is installed at this show for a couple of months :
















The Fool

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland

Dates: 31st July–19th September 2009

With Katia Bassanini, Natasha Caruana, Marcos Chaves, Moyna Flannigan, Michael Gardiner, Alexander Heim, Jim Hollands and Nick Osborn


More than an amusing diversion, the fool, with his bursts of cautionary homespun wisdom, had a very real function. The clown has been a staple subject in Western art for hundreds of years; a prime vehicle through which to ask fundamental questions.” Iain Gale on Alex Pollard, 2007

‘The Fool’ re-imagines the figure of the clown, the jester and the dandy for the twenty-first century, where the role of the Shakespearean ‘fool’ has a new relevance in contemporary art. Following the examples of predecessors like Bruce Nauman and Paul McCarthy, artists here, repeatedly portrayed comic or tragic fool-like figures to articulate their ideas.

For the artists the figure of ‘the fool’ is a way of taking a ‘vantage point’ – we might say a disadvantage point – from which to view society’s rituals and codes of conduct. For painters like Moyna Flannigan and Alex Pollard, their images almost resemble those of fairground mirrors, in which everything is distorted, and yet we recognise something new about ourselves. For filmmakers like Nick Osborn, drawing on the theatre of Antonin Artaud and Samuel Beckett, ‘the fool’ is the only figure able to discuss those subjects forbidden in polite society. For photographers like Michael Gardiner, the age-old tradition of the ‘carnivalesque’ in which the rules of our ordinary life are upended, is alive and well – and to be found in the most unexpected places.

‘The fool’ makes strange our relations to one another: he can tell uncomfortable truths when everyone around is bowing to received wisdom.

Here updates

Follwing successful screenings at the Liverpool Biennial :

http://ccmedia.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/made-up-weekend-at-liverpool-biennial/

and a residency in Basso, Berlin

http://www.basso-berlin.de/

Patricide are currently working on new material, you can hear new tracks and see videos from Berlin here :

http://www.myspace.com/killyourfather

Please contact jim@chantdownbabylon.com for further information

HERE

JIM HOLLANDS


3rd December 08 – 31st January 09


Bureau presents Here by Jim Hollands; a hallucinogenic dissolution between the screen and the viewer forming a radical new art agenda for the 21st century.

Here is a seventy-minute remix of a rarely seen existing work written by Joe Orton, called ‘The Erpingham Camp’. Originally screened on TV in 1966, it has been experimentally remixed in sound, image and words, with subtitles, and partly in anaglyphic (red/cyan) 3D. Large parts of the work operate under flicker frequencies of 8-13hz, and as such are viewable by epileptics or those prone to seizure at their own risk.

Called 'one of the most important new videos to be made in the UK in recent years' by Ian White, film curator at the Whitechapel, London, its psychic 3D odyssey erases and re-inscribes Orton’s play with a viral anti-narrative. Here transposes modern life into a structure, drawn as much from the cut-ups of William Burroughs, as it is from the psycho-social machinations of the internet, and by doing so becomes video as radical communication.

Jim Hollands is an artist working across film, sound and performance. He was the resident curator of a major avant-garde centre in London, The Horse Hospital, between 2000-2006, and is a member of the experimental sound group, Patricide.


LISTINGS INFORMATION


Exhibition: Here
Please note: The film Here is 70 minutes long and will screen at 12.30pm, 2pm and 3.30pm daily, during the gallery opening hours. 3D glasses and refreshments will be provided.

Artist: Jim Hollands

Exhibition Dates: 3rd December 2008 – 31st January 2009

The gallery will be closed for Christmas & New Year as of 21st December 2008 to 14th January 2009.

Venue: Bureau, Ground Floor, Islington Mill, James Street, Salford / Manchester. M3 5HW
Email: info@bureaugallery.com
Website: http://www.bureaugallery.com

For further information about Jim Hollands: http://here.chantdownbabylon.com


Gallery Opening Times: Wednesday to Saturday 12 - 5pm
Admission: Free. Fully Accessible.


A live performance by Patricide (Jim Hollands, Aryan Darzi and GazCloud) will take place alongside the exhibition in late January. Details to be confirmed. Please visit the Bureau website for information.

For further information & images please contact Bureau at:
press@bureaugallery.com