TAGO MAGO 2

TAGO MAGO 2 AT THE SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS

Tago Mago returns on Saturday 7th May at Dalston's most exciting, exclusive new venue.

[Details on Request] 1ST BIRTHDAY PARTY

A night of Esoteric, Majik and Shadows

Shed your earthly skins and join the Carnivalesque

New art happenings and sounds from the ether designed to shift yo asses

Featuring Live Performances from:

Orchestra Elastique
(Expansive Improv FreakOut)
http://www.myspace.com/orchestraelastique

Happy Home
(Deluxe Chamber Psychedelia)
http://happyhome.bandcamp.com/

Paul Hanford presents… Beat Girl
A one off 60s French Beat DJ Set

Mystic Rock / DJ set
Kosmische Disco
http://soundcloud.com/the-beat-1/exclusive-mix-mystic-rock

Gentleman Ditch / DJ Set

Plus TM resident DJs

Tago Mago is East London’s very own multi sensory night of the wild and electric… experimental yet fun, bridging the gap between all things great.

Inspired by the multi-sensory music of the Krautrock legends, where no one sound dominated, where James Brown was worshipped equally with John Cage, where experimentation was transformed into freaky dancing. Our aim is not to look back but move forward with a music policy as suprising as it is consistent…

Art curated by [Details On Request]

PERFORMITIVITY at BATH FRINGE FESTIVAL

OPENING ON THE 27TH MAY 2011

35-36 STALL STREET, BATH, AVON, BA1 1QG

Live art and performance have been used to immediately engage the audience and film, and the photograph before it, have been used to document this first hand happening. However, the experience of seeing it again through a video or image separates the viewer and the work and completely alters their interaction with it. It demands that the audience takes a more passive role. This exhibition will bring together the work of artists who challenge these constraints to use the camera as a view finder to create a first hand experience for the audience.

Artists include: Laurence Payot, Black Dogs, Laurie Lax, Alice Vandeleur-Boorer, Joanne Masding, Tim Stock Curated by [Details on Request].

ARTISTS CRIT- 02.04.11

[Details on Request] Artist Critique

Through out 2011, [DoR] will be holding a series of group crits for artists. The crits will be an opportunity for artists outside of education to discuss their work and practice to help maintain and encourage development and to be involved in regular critical analysis of their work. Work can be in any medium; sculpture; painting; video; drawing; performance.

We are now accepting proposals for the first workshop, which will be taking place on the 2^nd April in Broadway Market, E9. The workshop will run from 10am to 4pm and artists need to be available for the whole of the day; each artist will be allocated approximately 45 minutes to discuss their work within the group.

Submitted proposals should include a brief description of your practice and an outline of why you wish to take part in the workshop. Time based work should not exceed 10 minutes to allow enough time for discussion. If work is in any other format all equipment must be supplied by the artist, i.e. computer, projector.

Please send proposals, a CV and a brief covering letter to

info@detailsonrequest.com

Many thanks and we look forward to receiving your proposal.

AIRIMAGES/ DETAILS COLLABORATION

A couple of weeks ago, [Details on Request] were invited by the fashion/art/photography group, Airimages, to take part in a collaborative project. Using religious imagery as our starting point we create 3 tableaux of images: medieval statuettes; gothic and Latin religious shrines.

The day was great fun and we learnt a lot about how a photography shoot is put together- many thanks to Jaime, Bettina and Maria!

The images will be displayed as part of out upcoming On line Exhibition Launch- more details to follow.

http://http://airimages.org/

http://www.airimagestalk.blogspot.com

http://www.mariavargascolor.blogspot.com

WOLFGANG TILLMANS LECTURE

On tuesday the Royal Academy Schools Annual Lecture will feature Wolfgang Tillmans, not to be missed.

22 February 2011 at the Royal Institution, Albemarle Street, W1S 4BS

Wolfgang Tillmans’ comprehensive and diverse body of work is distinguished not only by an attentive and insightful observation of his surroundings but also by an on-going, systematic investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations. Winner of numerous prizes, including the Turner Prize in 2000, Tillmans' works have been the subject of major international exhibitions and are represented in private collections and public museums internationally. Tillmans was born in Remscheid, Germany in 1968. He lives and works in London and Berlin.

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/events/talks/wolfgang-tillmans,1554,EV.html

ADIDAS DIESEL LAUNCH

Last night [DoR] and [DoR] collaborator Stephany Pollard were invited to the launch night of a new collaboration between Adidas and Diesel (Thanks to FolkinGoodMgmt). We were treated to great music by DELS, Teeth!!! and Lou & Nova and some delicious rum and ginger beer to wash the music down.

Stephany Pollard designed the posters for our exhibition Loot & Everything Else and worked on DELS video Trumpalump:

Here more about DELS here:(http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jul/13/new-band-dels)

MODERN BRITISH SCULPTURE AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY

The first room of the exhibition has no sculpture on show, however it is dominated by a towering eight meter high model of the Cenotaph, designed by Edwin Lutyens, the curators offer the Cenotaph as the first 'sculpture', suggesting that perhaps it was the first act of minimalist sculpture. The Cenotaph is surrounded by Jacob Epstein's Cycle of Life, the room is titled Monumentalising Life and Death.

The exhibition then leads you through a room full of pieces loaned from the British Museum and the V&A, a varied collection of sculptures displaying traditional techniques and the importance of 'truth to materials'.

The galleries that follow exhibit works such as Jacob Epstein's Adam, a dominating sexually masculine piece that demands complete attention.

Other stand out works included Alfred Gilbert's Jubilee Monument to Queen Victoria, his sculpture is lavish and gaudy. Queen Victoria sits in the gallery with three other sculptures, all made by one time presidents of The Academy, Frederic Lord Leighton, Charles Wheeler and Phillip King.

Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore fill a gallery with two large works, this room leads to the galleries Environmental Construction and Early One Morning. From here you enter a gallery challenging conventional sculpture and referencing british landscape including works by Richard Long and Carl Andre.

In one of the final galleries Jeff Koon's vitrine, covered in dust and not quite straight, stands opposite Damien Hirst's Let's Eat Outdoors Today, mirroring certain similarities including cubic form, Hirst's installation makes reference to british social class and behavior. Unfortunately the scene presented within the vitrine was impaired by the lack of attention to detail, it was obvious that elements of the piece were fabricated - the flies were not feeding off the decapitating cows head nor the left over meat on the barbec

ue, they were in fact eating from petri dishes placed on the ground. The fly killer was also not switched on the day we visited.

Urs Fischer's sculpture hanging overhead echoed Koon's suspended object and mirrored the supposed decay occurring in Hirst's piece.

One of the final works I found the most engaging was a film about Richard Wentworth's photographic practice, Making Do and Getting By. A series of photographs depicting placements of objects he has come across accidentally - cups holding open windows, ladders blocking doorways, 'My work comes from chance encounter'.

I felt, with the exception of a handful of works, the exhibition was a huge disappointment. You expect The Academy to be one of the leading environments to view art. It really did seem that the curators had to pull this exhibition together with anything they could get their hands on, it was quite obvious that they had to make do with what they were lent, it seemed it wasn't conciuosly chosen. It was not a strong collection of works for such a major show and we all wonder where some of our great bristsh sculptors were.

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/modernbritishsculpture/

Secret Cinema February 2011

Shh we can't tell you where we went or what we saw but we looked a little like this:

TONIGHT ]performancespace[ +++ ArtEvict

London is giving birth – On the 4th and 5th of February 2011, ]performancespace[ opens its doors for the first time and in collaboration with ArtEvict, draws the attention of the UK’s art scene to the exciting talent that is performance action, now.

Partake in this moment as we witness a rejuvenating mix of emergent and established artists - lone and group actions - champagne, glitter and hard labour.

]performnacespace[ and ArtEvict want to celebrate a renewed and integral interest in community and collaboration – NOW – and we want to do it with you.

Leibniz
Nathalie Bikoro
Mark Greenwood
Scarlet Lassoff
Nathan Walker
Htein Lin
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Group Action
Jenna Finch
Kiki Taira
Lyn Lu
Agnes Yit
Jamie Lewis Hadley
Benjamin Sebastian

www.artevict.com
www.performancespace.org