Past News: 2012
Group Show
2 November to 8 December 2012
Lincoln Arts Project in Waltham, Massachusetts USA
'Insider/Outsider' curated by Sandrine Schaefer features photographs, videos, and other traces of live
art pieces originally created in non-art contexts.
The video work and book from the project Along white lines is being exhibited in this show.
In the performance a group of people - milling around the gallery, talking, looking at the art, eating and drinking - simultaneously ‘limp fell’ and lay on the ground. Sometime later the performers all got up at the same time and continued doing what they were doing before the fall, acting as if nothing unusual had happened.
A special thanks to all those involved.
ANU School of Art Lecture Theatre, Canberra
I have been invited to deliver a lecture about my practice in the context of the theme 'Art & Other Realms'.
The ANU School of Art hosts a regular Art Forum program showcasing the work and research of high profile, highly regarded artists, practitioners, curators and writers.
Other artists curated in this program include: Joan Ross, Josephine Starrs, Tim Johnson.
Performance
Saturday, 25 August
From 4pm
If you would like to participate in this work, please email me at: mail@sylviaschwenk.com
This new work of participatory performance art is being created as part of a group show Going Gaga with Dada: A dedication to spontaneity, chaos, innovation and nonsense, curated by Akky van Ogtrop.
The performance is obviously dada inspired, so will be silly, fun and serious - all at the same time.
The exhibition includes works by Frank Badur, Joseph Beuys, Erich Buchholz, Max Ernst
five Prison stories
Solo Exhibition
4 to 28 July 2012
Wednesday, 4 July, 6-8pm
Artereal Gallery, Sydney
five Prison stories
is a video work that relays 5 stories about life in prison in a relaxed, private and almost humorous way.
Along white lines
Solo Exhibition
16 June to 21 July 2012
Saturday, 16 June, 12-5pm
dianne tanzer gallery + projects, Melbourne
Along white lines is a project that joins art with sport and community. This work was performed by over 400 people during half time at the NTFA Grand Final at Aurora Football Stadium, Launceston, Australia in September 2011. This exhibition re-presents aspects of the project for your viewing pleasure.
Book launch
Book launch: Along white lines
16 June to 21 July 2012
dianne tanzer gallery + projects, Melbourne
This 40 page colour book with over 30 photographs re-tells the story of Along white lines. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at dianne tanzer gallery + projects, this book includes an essay by Andrew Frost, the art critic, writer and television broadcaster.
This book is available from all bookshops (ISBN 978-0-9872673-1-3) or you can email me.
Here is an extract from the book.
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birds and clouds from one life to another
Solo Exhibition
29 April to 25 May 2012
Sunday, 29 April, 4-6pm at Dynamo Expo
Dynamo Expo Gallery, Enschede, Holland and
Het-Loket\Perron 1\MIKC Gallery Delden, Holland
In July
2011, over 300 people came together on the German/Dutch border town of Bad
Bentheim to watch and participate in birds and clouds from one life to another,
an art project conceived and created by Sylvia Schwenk and Nikola Dicke. This project was commissioned by the European Union's Grenswerte Program.
These exhibitions include videos, interactive installations, sculptures and photographs that re-present the project for your viewing pleasure.
I will be at the exhibition via skype from 16:30 until 17:00 on Sunday 29 April. Look forward to seeing you.
If you can't come to the opening - here is a preview of some of the works.
Book launch
Book launch: birds and clouds from one life to another
Sunday, 29 April, 4-6pm
Dynamo Expo Gallery, Enschede, Holland
This 50 page colour book wtih over 30 photographs re-tells the story of birds and clouds from one life to another. Published by the Grenswerte Program, this book includes an essay by Florian Waldvogel, the Director of the Hamburger Kunstverein, notes from participants, diagrams and origami crane folding instructions.
This book is available from all bookshops (ISBN 978-0-9872673-0-6) or you can email me.
Here is an extract from the book.
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The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge Festival
The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge Film Festival
My work, Sometimes awful things have their own kind of beauty will be screened on 11 February between 10 and 11pm Naherholung Sternchen Berolinastraße 7 10178 Berlin, Mitte
In silence and movement
This work is the subject of two essays that will be included in upcoming publications in: Emergency INDEX (New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012), and Practical tests. Projects which communicate art to the public (Schöppingen: Forum für Kunstvermittlung, 2012).