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»very private...*«
19. november 1999 – 5. december
1999, otvoritev 19.11.1999 ob 18. uri
Galerija likovnih umetnosti
Slovenj Gradec*
Kustos razstave: Vanesa
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Koordinacija: Katarina Hergold
Richard Crow
The presentation of Richard Crow's opening performance:
VERY PRIVATE
ART GALLERY SLOVENJ GRADEC
20 /11/99 - 5/12/99
*Opening 19th Nov*
Richard Crow (UK) 'Occupier/Executor'
Performance (duration 1 hour minimum)
for 'live' video camera/playback via
video projection.
Richard Crow
Richard Crow je zaslovel s svojo
domačo »Institucijo gnilobe« (Institution of Rot) – prostorom, ki ga je
uredil v svoji zasebni hiši v Londonu, in projekti, ki jih je realiziral
v njem. Združuje performans in to, čemur pravi »instalacija v razvijanju«.
Crow je mojstrski tehnik v umetnosti zavrženega in čustvenih drobcev.
Novejše mednarodne razstave: "Among
others" (Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Dunaj), "Multiples x 3" (Temple Bar Gallery,
Dublin), "Executor" (Blue Oyster Gallery & prizorišča okrog galerije,
Dunedin, Nova Zelandija), "Not I" (Consortium, Amsterdam), "Speaking the
shade" (Schlachthof, Bremen), "Grenzgänger (Artspace, Sydney).
EKSEKUTOR, video-performens, ki bo
potekal med otvoritvijo razstave »very private«
Performans je ponavadi javna manifestacija
umetnika, pri performansu Crowa pa gre za vpogled v intimno sfero »umetniškega
ustvarjanja«, toka misli, grajenja celote. Crowovi performansi pogosto
delujejo kot osebni rituali, v katerih objekti igrajo arhaično in liturgično
vlogo: skozi »ritual« dobijo nove pomene. Performans ne bo izveden neposredno
pred ljudmi, temveč ga bo mogoče spremljati preko videoprojekcije, kar
na paradoksalen način preko medija pretvarja intimno v javno.
»Umetnik bo izvedel performans v
posebno skonstruiranem (ali najdenem) skrivnem prostoru (instalaciji),
ki ga bo interpretiral, aktiviral in naselil v času otvoritve razstave
‘very private’. Dejanje bo potekalo v živo in prek video projekcije (ali
ekranov) z vnaprej posnetim materialom. Umetnik bo uporabljal različne
reči (odpadne in osebne predmete). Performans bo prikazoval obsesivno urejanje
in razporejanje teh predmetov, prekinjano z razmišljanjem. To dejavnost
vodi misel o zanikanju smrti predmeta s tem, da mu namenimo nove rabe.
Dejanja v performansu niso dobesedna, temveč vizualno simbolna; pomen reči
je prej metonimičen kot stvaren; predmeti in performans nakazujejo stvari,
h katerim težimo in o njih govorimo glede na usmeritev našega zaznavanja;
vsak predmet je mogoče brati na dva različna načina in lahko bi rekli,
da se nahaja med realim in namišljenim in hkrati znotraj obeh. Predmeti
se tukaj dotikajo našega sveta, ponujajo se nam kot artefakti skritega
reda, ki ga moramo še razvozlati.« (Richard Crow)
- Richard Crow gained a strong reputation with his home -based "Institution of Rot" an artist run space located in his private house in London and the projects realised there. He combines performance with what he calls 'installation in progress'. Crow is a master technician of the art of the abject, and the emotive fragment.
- Recent International exhibitions "Among others" (Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna) "Not i" (Consortium, Amsterdam) "Speaking the shade" (Schlachthof,Bremen) , "Grenzgänger (Artspace,Sydney)
- Executor
- the artist will make a performance in a specially constructed (or found) secret space (installation) which he will interpret, activate and inhabit during the opening of the exhibition 'very private' , this will be witnessed live (and prerecorded) via video projection (or monitors). The artist will work with a selection of objects (discarded items, personal objects.) The performance will consist of obsessively arranging and rearranging these objects, interspersing this activity with contemplation.(The notion that informs this activity is the reversal of the objects' 'death' by creating new uses fro them. The actions within the performance are not literal but are somehow visually symbolic, the significance is metonymic, rather than being the thing itself, the items and the performance gesture towards what is aspired to and alluded to,depending on how we focus our perception, an object can have two different readings, existing it might be said, both between and within the real and the imagined.Here the objects impinge on our world, being offered to us like arifacts from a hidden order that is yet to be decoded.)
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Artists Biography
Richard Crow, b 1961
Richard Crow studied electro-acoustic
and experimental music, with Philipp
Wachsmann in London at the City
Literary Institute.
He gained a strong reputation
as artist/curator in residence at his own
(well documented) private house
in London, The Institution of Rot (Circa 93
-96.) Time is probably his most
important material, this finds its form in
performances, images, video works
and 'Installations in progress'.Crow is a
master technician of the art of
the abject and the emotive fragment.
Recent International exhibitions
"Among others" (Kunsthalle Exnergasse,
Vienna) "Not i" (Consortium, Amsterdam)
"Speaking the shade"
(Schlachthof,Bremen also Goethe
Institut,Sydney) , "Grenzgänger
(Artspace,Sydney)
He Lives and works in London.
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Richard Crow
Born 1961, Somerset, England
Lives and works in London
Relevant Studies
1984-7 City Literary Institute,
London (theory and practice of
electro-acoustic and experimental
music, with Philipp Wachsmann)
Exhibitions (selection)
1999
"Multiples X", Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Eire (scheduled)
1999
"Very Private", Art Gallery Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia (scheduled)
1999 "Executor",
Blue Oyster Gallery (& off site locations), Dunedin,
New Zealand (solo)
1999 "Among Others",
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
1999 "Not I",
Het Consortium, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1998 "Attaché
Gallery", London, England
1998 "Stream TV''
ICA, London, England
1998 "Reality
Check" (in collaboration with Anna Scheer) ,
Kulturbraueri, Berlin, Germany (performance)
1998 "Speaking
the shade", Schlachthof, Bremen, Germany (solo)
1997 "Performatrix",
Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany (performance)
1997 "Wahn-Bild",
Gießerei-Projektraum, Berlin, Germany (performance)
1997 "Heretic",
Old Operating Theatre, London, England (performance)
1997 "Life/Live",
Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
1997 "Speaking
the shade', Goethe Institut, Sydney, Australia (solo)
1997 "Art(iculations)",
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth,
Australia
1997 "Opening
of the Mouth", Midland Railway Yards and Foundry, Perth,
Australia
1996 "Bad Habitus
Project", John Paynter Gallery and Police Museum,
Newcastle, Australia (solo)
1996 "Life/Live",
Musée d'Art Modern de la Ville de Paris, France
1996 "Grenzgänger",
Artspace, Sydney, Australia (solo)
1996 "Theurgy
- Messe Basse", The Performance Space, Sydney, Australia
(performance)
1996 "The Noisiness
of Bodies", The Institution of Rot, London, England
1995
"Blind site - Death words", Roxy, Prague, Czech Republic
(performance)
1995 "Royal
Sweat Bath", Den Anden Opera, Copenhagen, Denmark (performance)
1995 "Imperial
Wardrobe" (in collaboration with Nick Couldry and Tobias
Laukemper),
Heinrich Roller Str 1, Berlin, Germany (performance)
1994 "Fleischerei",
Knaack Str 34, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1994 "Nächtlich
Geshürtz", 53 Cross Street, London, England (in
collaboration with Rut Blees
Luxemburg)
1994 "Klammer
auf Klammer zu", (Ratten Nagen Beckett) with Die Ratten,
Karlsruhe, Germany; Paris, France; and Parma, Italy (performance)
1993 "Klammer
auf Klammer zu", (Ratten Nagen Beckett) with Die Ratten,
Directed by
Roland Brus,Premiered 'Beckett Late Nights', Volksbühne,
Berlin (performance)
1993
"Bar Godot", Beckett Late Nights, Volksbühne, Berlin,
Germany (in collaboration with Roland
Brus and Carl Hegemann)
1993 "Black Iris
- Nigredo" (basement of eighteenth century house), 53
Cross Street, London, England
1993 "The Institution
of Rot - a house with objects", Institution of
Rot, London, England (solo)
1992 "Hospital
of the Soul", London Filmmakers Co-op, London, England
(performance)
1989 "Live Electronic
Dissections", ICA, London, England (performance)
Curatorial Projects
1996 'The Four
Humours' (text based performances by Iain Sinclair, Paul
Buck, Caroline Bergvall and others),
'The Noisiness of Bodies' (site
specific performances by Maria Loura
Estevao, Heimo Lattner, Adrian
Schiesser, Anna Scheer, Sarah Marrs
and
others),
Institution of Rot, London, England
Audio
1999 'The Institution of Rot (Revisited), Underwood Audio (CD) scheduled
1999 'Kantine Wien',
on 'Among others 3', Various Artists, Durian
Records (CD) scheduled
1998 'erethism(a)',
Diastolic Murmurs, (CD)
1995 'Music for
blind limbs', on 'Variations - A London Compilation',
Paradigm Discs (CD)
1993 'Hospital
of the Soul', Diastolic Murmurs/Furt, Vintage Productions
(MC)
1989-90 'Live Electronic Dissections
4 / Hyperaesthesia', Diastolic Murmurs
(MC) 'Nervenkrankheiten', Diastolic
Murmurs, (MC) 'Purgations (flushed)1 x
10', Diastolic Murmurs (MC) 'Live
Electronic Dissections 1 & 2', Diastolic
Murmurs, (MC)
1987 'Electro-Medicine',
Diastolic Murmurs, (MC)
Selected Film/Video
1997 'eiderphusikon'
#1, (A Re-Projection of the Grenzgänger) 23 mins, video
'fragments from Theurgy - Messe Basse',11 mins, video
1996 '23 Spectres',
10 mins, video
'The Noisiness of Bodies', 20 mins, video
1994 'Black Iris
- Nigredo', 10 mins, video
1990 'In Statu
Pupillari - Secret Litanies', 15 mins, Super-8 film
1989 'Namonan'
(with Anna Scheer), 4 mins, Super-8 film
1986-7 'Lead (Sehnsucht)',
10 mins, Super-8 film
Grants/Awards/Sponsorship
1999 Creative New
Zealand, The British Council, New Zealand
1998 Live Art
and Interdisciplinary Practice Travel and Research, Arts
Council of England (Berlin)
1997 Goethe Institut,
Sydney, Australia, Visiting Research Artist,
Department of Drama & Faculty
of Art and Design, University of Newcastle,
Australia,The British Council, Australia
1996 Live Art
Venue Development, London Arts Board (for The Noisiness of
Bodies at the Institution of Rot)
Literature Live, London Arts Board, (for The Four Humours at the
Institution of Rot)
1995 Live Art
Travel and Research, Arts Council of England (Berlin and
Prague)
1993 Research
and Development, London Arts Board for founding of the
Institution of Rot (in collaboration
with Nick Couldry)
Collections
1999 Dunedin Public
Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, Stichting Vedute,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Talks/Lectures/Conferences
1999 The Physics
Room, Christchurch, School of English, Film and
Theatre, Victoria University, Wellington
(Theatre studies), School of
Architecture, Wellington, The Waikato
Polytechnic, Hamilton (Media Arts),
UNITEC, Auckland, all New Zealand
1997 Auto-manic,
University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia,
1996 100 years
of Cruelty, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
1995 St Martin's
School of Art, London, England, Camberwell School of
Art, London, England (both with
Nick Couldry)
Residencies
1999 Visitors Programme,
Otago School of Art, Dunedin, New Zealand
1996-7 Visiting Research Artist,
Department of Drama & Faculty of Art and
Design, University of Newcastle,
Australia
1996 International
Artist-in-Residence, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Professional Experience
1998-9 Tutorials, MA
Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, England
1997
Assisted on 'Hermann Nitsch - Orgies Mysteries Theatre',
(The first Uk show), 30 Underwood
St Gallery, London, England.
1993 Created (as
The Institution of Rot) and hosted, spatial and
psychological 'situations' for Austrian
machine artist Just Merit as part
of 'Radical Disruption of
a Gyroscopic Device with Heterodyne Mutations',
Meltdown, South Bank Centre, London,
England (curated by Rob La Frenais)
1985-9 Member, London Filmmakers
Co-op, London, England - experience in
Administration and Cinema, exposure
to international experimental and avant
garde film, video, and performance
Selected Bibliography
1999 'Of Milk and
Atmospheres', Edward Scheer, Log Illustrated, #8,
Christchurch, New
Zealand, article (scheduled)
1999 Institutions,
Deviations, Text: Edward Scheer, Photography: Heidrun
Löhr, Artspace Publications,
Sydney, Australia, catalogue (scheduled)
1999 'Exhibitions:
Dunedin - Richard Crow, Emma Kitson, Matt de Gennaro
& Alistair Galbraith', Susan
Ballard, Art New Zealand # 92, Spring 1999,
Auckland, New Zealand, review
1999 'Unerwartet
Kulinarische Gigaloge', Doris Krumpl, Der Standard, 8th
May, 1999, Vienna, Austria, review.
1999 'Dissolving
Presence', Maartje den Breejen, Het Parool, 4th
February, 1999, Amsterdam,
Netherlands, review
1998 'Theatre of
Putrefaction - Crow and the aesthetics of dereliction',
Edward Scheer, Everything 2:3, Summer
1998, London, England, article
1997 'Opening of
the Mouth - Designing Space and Sound', Text: Paul
McGillick, Photography: Ashley De
Prazer, Monument #18, May 1997, Sydney,
Australia, article
1997 'Machinations
of the Mouth', Peter McCallum, Sydney Morning
Herald,11th March,1997, Sydney,
Australia, review
1997 'Decay, rot,
putrefaction, garbage, detritus and filth', Edward
Scheer, Real Time #17, Feb/March
1997, Sydney, Australia,article
1997 Life/Live
- Anthology of Artist Run Spaces (curated by Laurence
Bossé and Hans-Ulrich Obrist), Centro
Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal,
catalogue
1996 'Sydney sidelines',
(Theurgy/100 Years of Cruelty), Rob Garrett,
Monica, Jan 1997, Auckland, New
Zealand, review
1997 'The Shamanism
of Intent' (pg269) Iain Sinclair, Lights out for the
Territory - 9 Excursions in the
Secret History of London, Jan 1997, Granta
Books, London, England
1996 Life/Live
- Anthology of Artist Run Spaces (curated by Laurence
Bossé and Hans-Ulrich Obrist), Musée
d'Art Modern de la Ville de Paris,
France, catalogue
1996 Performance
Research, Volume 1, No. 3, Autumn 1996, (pgs 70-71
éclat sites 1-10 / Caroline Bergvall)
Routledge, London,England
1996 'I think therefore
I am ...I think', (100 Years of Cruelty) Angela
Bennie, Sydney Morning Herald, 11th
Sept, 1996, Sydney, Australia, article
1996 'Weird Art
Happenings - In a house near you soon', Judith Palmer,
Dazed & Confused # 24, Sept
1996, London, England, article
1995 'Royal Sweat
Bath', Andreas Beyer, Informationen,17 June,1995,
Copenhagen, Denmark, review
1995 Uber Leben
Spielen - Obdachlosentheater Ratten 07, Photography: Ute
Mahler, Berlin, Germany, March 1995,
limited edition book
1994 'Obdachlosentheater
Ratten 07', Photography: Ute Mahler, Text:
Lukas Lessing, Sibyille #12, Jan/Feb
1994, Berlin, Germany
1994 'Crow: London
Lives', Photography: Barry J Holmes, Text: Linton
Chiswick, Time Out, July 13 - 20
1994,London, England, profile
1993 'Black Iris
- Nigredo', Emmanuel Cooper, Time Out, Nov 24 - Dec 1
1993, London, England, review
1993 'Die Absurditat
der Welt - Ratten spielen Beckett', Sabine Henkel,
Die Welt, 7 Sept 1993, Berlin,
Germany,
article
1993 'London's
Secret Spaces - The Institution of Rot', Chris Blackford,
Variant #15, pg 45, Autumn 1993,
Glasgow, Scotland, review
1993 'The Institution
of Rot', Josephine Leask, Hybrid #5, Oct/Nov 1993,
London, England, review
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