Berlin, Jan-March 2009
Artivism: a week of anti-war creativity.
Art, workshops, music and poetry.
Brighton. 24th February-1st March 2009.
at the Wellcome Collection link
22 November 2008-15 February 2009
From the site: ‘Entitled Memory of Fire: the War of Images and Images of War, Brighton Photo Biennial 2008 will explore photographic images of war, their making, use and circulation, and their currency in contemporary society.’
Robert Capa at Work
Gerda Taro
On the Subject of War
Barbican Art Gallery reflects on conflict and its visual representation.
17 October 2008-25 January 2009 link
from the web page:
Zones of Conflict: Rethinking Contemporary Art During Global Crisis will consider how recent geopolitical crises have impacted visual culture and artistic practice. Comprising four research workshops, the series will assemble an international grouping of interdisciplinary participants—including artists, architects, curators, art historians and cultural theorists—in order to consider pressing questions concerning the intersections between contemporary art and war, statelessness, uneven geographies, and transnational communities. Organized by TJ Demos of UCL’s History of Art Department, the four events will be held in London at four partner institutions: the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), Tate Modern, Tate Britain, and UCL’s History of Art Department (in cooperation with its recently inaugurated Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art). The series is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and will run between October 2008 and February 2009.
William Gibson explores themes of surveillance, intelligence and security in his current novel, which also contains a strand on locative art, a practice that uses GPS, wi-fi etc (nice essay with lots of refs), in the case of the artists in the book to superimpose anomalous objects (such as crosses commemorating soldiers killed in Iraq) in material places (the urban landscape of LA)… In the novel the technical skills that allow the art to be produced are also useful to actors working within or with links to the covert world: spies, criminals, bankers and a character readers will know from Gibson’s previous book, Pattern Recognition (discussion), of which Spook Country is a continuation | blog on Spook Country by London based author |
other WoT-related novels… The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid; Surveillance by Jonathan Raban, excerpt from Chapter One here ; Saturday by Ian McEwan;
exhibition of works made by Peter Kennard following the events of 1968 | 22 May to 28 June 2008 at Gimpel Fils in London
