Full review can be found on IDEA13 http://www.idea13.org

EXHIBITED ARTISTS: Richard Cox, Jon Fawcett, Adam Henry, Jitka Hynková, Monica Ursina Jäger, Andreas Kaufmann, Christopher Labzda, Chris Littlewood, Eleanor MacFarlane, Ben Nathan, Štepánka Šimlová and Reinhard Schleining

+ FILM SCREENINGS:

2 APRIL: Marc Atkinson & Leslie Deere, Jozef Amado, Morgan Beringer, Christophe Bruchansky, Vera Brunner-Sung, Mattia Casalegno & Michael Langeder, Joe Clark, Janet Curley Cannon, Disinformation, Manuel Drexl, Tessa Garland, Jakub Geltner, Lucas Gervilla, Consuelo Giorgi, Thomas Guichard, Saman Kamyab & Jon Eirik Kopperud, Audrey Lam, Lemeh42, Jan Polverini, Elizabeth Riley, Maciek Stepinski, Darshana Vora, Yu-Chen Wang

30 APRIL – Jan Fabian – Patricio Forrester – Mattia Costa – Theo Tagholm – Siobhan Wanklyn – Edwin Rostron – Audrey Lam – Laura Napier – Nora Razian – Jesse Reding Fleming – Emma Grace – Lokaz Nokaz & Hajdelak – Sophie Jerram – Zbigniew Kotkiewicz & Marta Stysiak

UNDERGROUND CITY uncovers unseen, forgotten corners of metropolis, city within a city, sense of inhabiting one’s little space as affirmation of belonging and urban undergrowth – surprisingly hidden after all that discovering – but also what is part of thefantasy inspired by the city, visions and dreams (or nightmares) of the future of the pulsating cityscape. Each metropolis becomes a unique organism that breathes and develops. It’s created by humans so their creation is no more artificial than any other accidental or incidental nature’s creation or advancement, even if “building itself has become an act of destruction”.

More info http://www.michaelafreeman.com/undergroundcity/

This is 10-interview long feature I wrote for Photoicon magazine earlier this year:

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In 2000, I did a project called COOKING – where I collected recipes and cooked them in a final performance in Roxy, Prague:

See the COOKING WEBSITE.

In 1999, I set up HYBRID- a curating group – together with Joanna Krysa, Vasillios Doupas and Elena Vallet. We curated a group exhibition JEUX D’AMOUR at Wigmore Fine Art and Battersea Arts Centre in January -Febraury 2000.

ABOUT HYBRID
Creative Curating is a London based curatorial collective. It favours open and fresh approaches to contemporary art and aims to contribute to cultural exchange between the UK and other art centres via exhibitions, lectures, artist’s talks and special events.Merging different cultures, disciplines and languages is our strategy towards the result that defies any rigid de-finition.
In a story by Czech writer Karel Capek, the dog and the cat are making a cake together. Each of them tend to put their favourite stuff in it and, naturally, the final product makes their guest sick. Working with material from different cultural contexts and environments does require a very critical approach and sensibility. Even now in so called “globalisation age” it might look as if there is no need for cultural exchange because the Internet would do all the work. But the truth is that even here various subcultures still create their own virtual barriers. We want to work towards overcoming them without losing the privilege of individual approaches.

SEE THE WEBSITE FOR JEUX D’AMOUR.