iWitness by Tom Stoddart at Refugee Week – Bristol

14th-22nd June 2008

15 images from Tom Stoddart’s classic of photojournalism iWITNESS will be on display from June 12th at Bristol Temple Meads train station, enlarged onto banners that occupy the length of the platform on the main concourse.
Measuring 4 x 4m each, these large-scale images set in the station are part of Refugee Week in the town, organised by the Pierian Centre. In total the event will encompass 9 days of art, stories, people & ideas, and all events are free.

Refugee Action’s Refugee Awareness Project and Time Together volunteers will be at the station throughout Refugee Week to answer questions and share their experiences.

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LE GUN IN LE GUARDIAN!
13/06/08

‘Died Happy’, an exhibit by Le Gun from the current show at Trolley Gallery ‘Don’t Stop Me Now – the body beyond death’ courted controversy last week when it entered the Guardian Diary section…

Hardly any risks are acceptable these days. We shield ourselves from peril. That’s just sensible. But whatever happened to buyer beware? At the Trolley Gallery in the East End of London, artists have come together for the show Don’t stop me now – the body beyond death, among them the renowned collective Le Gun. Their installation Died Happy consists of a boxed clay figure in a hole in the floor, and there is no doubt that he indeed died happy. A protrusion rising to floor level is testament to that. All was well until one woman stood on this proof of his happiness. It snapped and she was banned, but she exacted her revenge. “We got a visit from Tower Hamlets health and safety,” explains director Gigi Giannuzzi. “Apparently someone had reported our exhibit as a danger to society! No prizes for guessing who.” The sculpture endures but it is surrounded by a fence and hazard tape. Itself a comment on modern life, you might think.

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ART CAR BOOT SALE 2008

Sunday 8th June
The Old Truman Brewery

Peter Blake selling T shirts and Gavin Turk selling tyre treads, it could only be the annual Art Car Boot Sale…

Trolley joined in with ‘Spot The Dictator’ out of the book ‘Official Portraits,’ with all the faces from the United Nations current heads of state, there was also colouring in from ‘Mariomandala Colouring Book’ and Indian firework posters from ‘Cock.’

Exhaust 19-06-08
until 19th July 2008

50 Princes Gate
Exhibition Road
London
SW7

Admission free

On the 19-06-08 David Rickard spent a 24-hour period breathing out his exhaled air, via a respiratory mask, into a series of large silver foil balloons. The final arrangement of balloons demonstrated consumed space in the form of a long vapour trail of balloons that rose up the three floors in the stairwell of the Goethe Institute, London. The performance demonstrated our daily consumption of fresh air, and in a quantifiable manner revealed our constant demand for fresh air and our active relationship with the space that surrounds us.

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Cinema Visionario
via Asquini 33 Udine

9 giugno – fino agosto

9th June – end of August

There is an exhibition in Italy of ‘Chernobyl – The Hidden Legacy’ by Pierpaolo Mittica in Udine, Italy, until the end of August 2007.

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TROLLEY BOOKS SELECTED AT PHOTOESPANA 08

M.A.S.H. I.R.A.Q. by Thomas Dworzak and Double Dactyl by Nick Waplington were chosen by the jury of Photoespana as among the best books of the past year. With over 400 books entered from around the world, an exhibition and display of all winning books will be at the National Library of Madrid until July 27th. The Jury was composed of Hans-Michael Koetzle (writer and curator of photography), Oscar Mariné (graphic designer), Alberto Anaut (President of PhotoEspana), Milagros del Corral (Director of the National Library.)