Liverpool to Liverpool: Chronicles of an Aimless Journey

Liverpool to Liverpool tells the story of an epic journey by Simon Faithfull from Liverpool, UK, to Liverpool, Novia Scotia. Faithfull made about six drawings a day throughout his journey, documenting the minutiae of daily life on land and sea, from Liverpool to Liverpool, with his Palm Pilot. This book includes 181 digital drawings, and Faithfull’s often wry, imagist commentary on the landscapes he was passing through and the humans he encountered – from English Liverpudlians crouched under umbrellas to Canadian Liverpudlians with moustachioed lips and pick-up trucks – as he drew them. The book serves as a reminder of Liverpool’s maritime past, its historical dependence on the shipbuilding industry and transatlantic trade, and the survival of these global connections today. Both the words and images in this fascinating book attest to the survival of the texture and detail of individual everyday lives even in our restlessly mobile world.

SPRING UPDATE 2008 / THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD

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Hello, here are details of two exhibitions we are in this spring.
Remember also to check out http://www.thomson-craighead.net

++ The New Normal. Artists Space, New York

Works by: Sophie Calle, Mohamed Camara, Hasan Elahi, Eyebeam R & D/Jonah Peretti & Michael Frumin, Kota Ezawa, Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher, Guthrie Lonergan, Jill Magid, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Trevor Paglen, Corinna Schnitt, Thomson & Craighead, Sharif Waked

April 26 – June 21, 2008.
Opening Reception: Friday, April 25, 6-8PM
Curated by Michael Connor & Co-organized with iCI (Independent Curators International)

http://www.artistsspace.org/exhibitions/future.html
Cocktails generously provided by CAMPARI

Artists Space,
38 Greene St.
3rd Fl, NY NY 10013

+ Social Networking Unplugged. Cube Gallery, Manchester and Citywide

New artworks by Thomson & Craighead, plan b, Grennan & Sperandio, Simon Yuill, Aram Bartholl, Rajni Shah, Last.fm & Futuresonic, Improv Everywhere, picidae (Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud), David Merrit and Julian Priest, and You And Me featuring Cybersonica.

May 1st – May 17th, 2008.
Opening reception, Wednesday 30th April.
Curated by Drew Hemment and Futuresonic.

http://www.futuresonic.com/08/2008art.html

Cube
113-115 Portland St
Manchester, M1 6FB
0161 237 5525

THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD / UPDATE WINTER 2008

Hello. Here’s a brief update on what we’re doing just now:

+ Our desktop documentary, ‘FLAT EARTH’ will be at AV 08 Festival in Newcastle next weekend as part of the screening, ‘Works for Television’ / http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/events/works-for-television

+ We have made a new artwork called, ‘FLIPPED CLOCK’ available at http://www.flippedclock.com and hosted courtesy of GIMA Gallery for Media Art in Berlin

+ Finally, A new large-scale permanent outdoor version of, ‘DECORATIVE NEWS’ has been switched on at The Junction in Cambridge. We’re still tweaking the software and an official launch will come later, but it’s there to be seen right now if you are passing by / http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/decncam.html

best wishes,

Jon & Alison
http://www.thomson-craighead.net

One Thing and Another in 2007, a top ten from Steve Dietz

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I asked Steve Dietz, Artistic Director of ZERO1 and former Walker New Media Curator if he would prepare a top ten list for our roundup. Steve is busy these days, but he managed to indulge and put together a list, if a little late. Thanks, Steve. — Ed.

I’ve never really understood Top Ten or “Best of” lists. Can’t we all just get along? Probably it’s just some kind of Walter Mondale self-loathing gene, but really, who cares if yet another person does – or doesn’t – think Matthew Barney is the greatest living vaseline artist of his generation…..>

Original post by Justin Heideman at 11:45 am 2008-01-17

The rest of the post is here… http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/01/17/2007-top-ten-steve-dietz/

Multiplicities at ARC Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria

15 December 2007 – 26 January 2008

Multiplicities is the first group exhibition at ARC Projects featuring half the current roster of sixteen artists – four based in the UK and four in Bulgaria. This is the first exhibition in a Sofia gallery for mid-career international artists Susan Collins, Alec Finlay, Thomson & Craighead and Mare Tralla. This is also the first occasion their work will be seen alongside that of their Bulgarian peers Luchezar Boyadjiev, Alla Georgieva, Ivan Moudov and Kamen Stoyanov.

“Multiplicities” is a term borrowed from mathematics, which speaks of the condition of being multiple, the relation between a number of identical objects or entities; It has also been used by theorists Gilles Deleuze and Manuel DeLanda to describe how our perceptions of reality change through time, in a constant flow of variety and heterogeneity at a single point in space. Multiplicities can encompass the relationship between original artwork and copy, but also how artists transform supposedly fixed meanings during the process of viewing the work.

Multiplicities showcases new and recent works, all multiples and limited editions, including prints, objects, Internet transmissions, and photographs. The exhibition captures the multifaceted approaches of contemporary artists to traditional genres such as the treatment of landscape, the self-portrait and the still life, or abstraction. Multiplicities also reveals the artists’ commentaries on the historical legacy of movements including Dada, Pop, and Socialist Realism. Works include a re-enactment of Vera Mukhina’s iconic sculpture from 1937; Self-portraits as Lenin; Fortune teller readings from cups of Turkish coffee; A hybrid of carnation and electric fan; Sexually suggestive cushions; Decorative live Internet newsfeeds; The visual cacophony of contemporary Moscow; Colonies designed for different species of bird; Webcam images of the quintessential Scottish landscape.

ARC Projects, 4th Floor, Boulevard Vitosha 90, 1463 Sofia, Bulgaria
www.arcprojects.org
Multiplicities is from 15 December 2007 – 26 January 2008
Exhibition open Wednesday – Saturday, 3 – 8 pm
Seasonal closure from 23 December, open again 3 January

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