WINTER PAVILION
25 Jan– 18 Feb 2012
Private view: Friday 25th of January from 6-9pm
An outdoor public installation by Marcin Dudek in Hackney, on the green between Wilkinson House and Vinson House - back of the Waterside gallery.
Screen House is a modular and portable building that originally housed the artist’s studio in Whitechapel, and will now become an interactive viewing platform. Entering Screen House, visitors will be able to experience an alternative landscape consisting of peep-holes, collages and projections.
www.waterside-contemporary.com
From the series Katowice, oil on paper, 2004
AXIS AT SHAMS - BEIRUT / LEBANON
31 Aug – 3 Sept 2011
The Sunflower Cultural Space
Blvd. Sami-el-Solh, Tayyouneh
Beirut, Libanon
Axis, video still, HD video, 2010, in collaboration with Renata Gaspar
NO SPITTING
30 July 2–8pm
No Spitting' is a community based arts event taking place at the Dorset Estate, London E2 between 23-30 July 2011. Organized by local resident, Dominique Baron-Bonarjee & Mihaela Varzari and is kindly sponsored by Tower Hamlets Homes.
Magma Sack, plastic, adhesive tape, air blower, dimensions variable, 2011
A/FFAIR OF PUBLISHING
23 – 24 July 2011
A weekend affair paying homage to essayistic forms bound through art, this two day event showcases artist books, editions, graphic novels, innovative and experimental publishing and media projects.
Galerie8
195-205 Richmond Road
London E8 3NJ
16th BIENNIAL OF CERVEIRA
16 July – 17 September 2011
Cerveira Biennial Museum
Largo do Terreiro no 48
Villa Nova de Cerveira
4920 - 296
Portugal
Exico, 2011
VIENNA ART FAIR
12 – 15 May 2011
Private view: Wednesday 11 May 6-10pm
Waterside Contemporary
Booth A505
Halle A
Messeplatz
A-1021 Wien
Austria
Cellar Television, Installation view at Vienna Art Fair 2011
AXIS part of the "CORPORATE URBAN INTERVENTIONS"
CologneOFF VI Baltic Sea
12 May 2 June 2011
The screenings will be held at:
Szczecin (PL)
12 May, from 6 - 8 pm
Stowarzyszenie OFFicyna
Al. Wojska Polskiego 90
70-482 Szczecin, Poland
St.Petersburg (Ru)
19 May, from 6 - 8 pm
Smolny University
Bobrinsky Palace, Galernaya Ulitsa 58-60
St. Petersburg, Russia
Tampere (Fi)
26 May, from 5 - 6 pm
Arteles
Hahmajärventie 26
38490 Haukijärvi, Finland
Tallinn (Estonia)
2 June, from 12 pm
Estonian Academy of Arts
Tartu mnt 1
10145 Tallinn, Estonia
Axis, video still, HD video, 2010, in collaboration with Renata Gaspar
PROJECT OF ABSORBING THE OTHER
Grange Gardens Sculpture Project
12 March – 27 March 2011
Private view: Friday 11 March, 6-9pm
GALERIE8
Grange Gardens Walk Bermondsey
London, SE1 3EH
United Kingdom
Opening Hours 12-27 March:
Wednesday – Friday: 12 – 8 PM
Saturday – Sunday: 12 – 6 PM
Project of Absorbing the Other, Mixedmedia on Paper, 2011
DIGGING AND CLIMBING FOR A FEW MINUTES
Artists in conversation
February 16, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Nearing the conclusion of the exhibition I Will Eat This Sleepy Town, the artists Ben Washington and Marcin Dudek, joined by director of Waterside Project Space Pierre d’Alancaisez and former curator of architecture and design at MOMA Tina di Carlo, discuss their attempts to describe the world. They will consider the exhibition in relation to the visionary architectural practices of the 1970s and the role of the 'model' in building, design and research.
Waterside Project Space
Unit 8, Waterside, 44-48 Wharf Rd, London N1 7UX
Nearest tubes: Angel and Old Str
United Kingdom
I WILL EAT THIS SLEEPY TOWN
13 January – 20 February 2011
Private view: Wednesday 12 January, 6.30-9.30pm
Waterside Project Space
Unit 8, Waterside, 44-48 Wharf Rd, London N1 7UX
Nearest tubes: Angel and Old Str
United Kingdom
AXIS AT THE CologneOFF VI PREVIEW ON DELHI INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL
11 & 12 December 2010
The screenings will be held at:
Alliance Française
72 Lodi Estate,
New Delhi, India
Axis, video still, HD video, 2010, in collaboration with Renata Gaspar
THE PICCADILLY SELF PUBLISHING FAIR AND EXHIBITION.
Sundey 3rd October 2010
Middle Unit, Piccadilly Place,
Manchester M1 3BN
United Kingdom
www.publishpiccadilly.blogspot.com
VENEZUELAN PAVILION at HOTSHOE GALLERY
11 September – 8 October 2010
Private View: Friday 10 September, 6-9pm
29-31 Saffron Hill
London EC1N 8SW
United Kingdom
Venezuelan Pavilion is the second in a series of exhibitions at HotShoe Gallery that examine a particular countrys artistic cultural individuality through architectural installation, photography and moving image, with a particular focus on experimental practices. This series was
inaugurated in May 2010 with Romanian Pavilion.
Participating artists: Daniel Medina, Magdalena Fernandez, Jaime Castro, Federico Ovalles-Ar, Javier Rodriguez and Ivan Candeo
ROMANIAN PAVILION at HOTSHOE GALLERY - Exhibition Talk
Friday 4 June, 7pm
29-31 Saffron Hill
London EC1N 8SW
United Kingdom
Vlad Morariu in conversation with the curators and artist Dan Acoatioaei
ROMANIAN PAVILION at HOTSHOE GALLERY
15 May – 18 June 2010
Private View: Friday 14 May, 6-9pm
29-31 Saffron Hill
London EC1N 8SW
United Kingdom
Romanian Pavilion brings together five Romanian video artists whose works address Ceausescu’s failed utopian social experiments and subsequent dehumanizing conditions, with an emphasis on the reality of built environment and private life in Romania.
Participating artists: Dan Acostioaei, Sebastian Moldovan, Joanne Richardson, Mona Vatamanand Florin Tudor.
Curators: Marcin Dudek and Simona Nastac.
Exhibition design: Ioana Iliesiu.
AXIS at TERRITORIAL PLAY
Video piece Axis has been selected for the platform event, Territorial Play, part of Radiator Festival's forthcoming project Tracing Mobility, a pan-European programme launching in Nottingham mid May 2010 and travelling to Warsaw (June/July 2010), Amsterdam (2011) and Berlin (2011).
Territorial Play aims to illustrate, annotate and animate discourse around the current trend towards a 'mobilised city'. With the emergence of location aware mobile devices and near ubiquitous access to electronic networks in urban and rural areas, a new city is emerging beneath our feet.
Axis, video still, HD video, 2010, in collaboration with Renata Gaspar
KOPALNIA /MINE PROJECT
Extract from review by Rebecca Lewin
"Entering Marcin Dudek’s installation for the basement of the Edel Assanti Project Space in Victoria is quite an experience. With little more than cellophane and tape Dudek has transformed the studio into a miniature labyrinth entitled Kopalnia (Polish for mine). Sounds and lights come from videos placed in unexpected corners, their projections stretching across the surface of the tunnels. The visitor’s path is already laid out, and we move into the space, wondering what is around the next corner; just as we begin to worry about getting out again we find ourselves unexpectedly back in the stairwell.
(...)
< p>‘When I’m stretching the tape…I’m producing time’ he explains. ‘Thirty centimetres equals five seconds. So I’m constantly producing time, through the tape, and the tape is an archive of time.’ The sounds made by stretching tape can also be heard coming from one of the two videos playing in Kopalnia, thus inserting the sound of the object being made even as we are moving through it as a finished piece.(...)
In a sense Kopalnia is a sculpture that has formed itself around the movements of the viewers rather than guiding them. With two areas for viewing the video elements of the installation and a corridor that connects them, the ‘perfect cinema’, as Dudek describes the tape and cellophane structure, is an anarchic (but equally carefully structured) echo of the white walls and bright lighting of the galleries upstairs. In many ways it is more of a shock to leave the basement than it is to enter it, and Dudek hopes that visitors will carry an air of unreality around with them after they emerge."
Photograph by Manuel Vazquez
KOPALNIA / Mine Project
25th of March - 17th April 2010
HIVE Projects | T1+2 Gallery in Victoria
276 Vauxhal Brighe Road
London SW1V 1BB
Opening times: Thursday - Sunday 12-6pm, and by appointment.
Marcin Dudek’s new installation explores architecture under the surface. This work takes the visitor through a series of ‘illegal tunnels’, mine-like constructions and underground networks. These spacial interventions seek to reveal something of the lesser-visited areas of the building; spaces that are overlooked by many.
Dudek’s installations are parasites. Much like these organisms, this installation forms a symbiotic relationship with the space, existing to both overpower it (with contrasting materials and shapes) and to reflect its architectural characteristics (understanding that the building plays the role of ‘host’ and in that sense dictates the direction of its growth).
This work builds upon the transient character of Dudek’s previous installation Tunnel Recording I, 2006; an artwork that referenced the illegal construction of a series of underground tunnels at both the US - Mexico border and a tunnel built in Sarajevo by the Bosnian resistance army, where the simple process of ‘walking- through’ begs more profound questions about survival (the transportation of medical supplies, fuel and weaponry), profiting (drug trafficking) and escape (illegal immigration).
