ARTSIDE

I am co-curating ARTSIDE which takes place in 19 venues in and around the High Street in Southend – 10-23 JULY 2010.

The artists are: Karen Apps, Claudie Bastide, Katy Beinart, Dominic Bradnum, Natasha Carsberg, Frankie Charles & Ashley Gallant, James Clarkson, Debora D’Auria, Birgit Deubner, Kelda Free & David Brazier, Jessica Fuller, Seth Guy, Ann Harvey, Tom van Herrewege, Will Jennings, Laura Keeble, Sally Kidall, Grace Lau, Hayley Lock, Liz Murray, Madelaine Murphy, Alex Pearl, Grant Philpott, Jonas Ranson, Paul Russell, Elaine Smith, Bathsheba Sporle, Helen Sturgess, Lois Elizabeth Taylor, Natasha Vicars, Caroline Wright

More information is on http://www.artside.org.uk

Reviews of Please Touch

Dee Liquent has posted a review + photos from the exhibition her her blog:

http://chocolategirl64.blogspot.com/2010/06/please-touch.html

LAST FRIDAY SHORTS IV – 28 MAY

3 artists from Southend show and introduce their video works:

AARON FOSTER – Lucy Lolly
FRAN WILDE – Handed
GONCALO NASCIMENTO – White
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PLAYERS needed for PLEASE TOUCH

I am looking for a couple of people to perform FLIRTMAN mobile phone game at the opening of PLEASE TOUCH interactive exhibition at CoExist Galleries at TAP, next Thu 3 June. Even if you want to do just half an hour, that would be fine. Travel expenses covered.
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PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITY

Performance opportunity: We are looking for 5 people, ideally from Southend, to take part in a performance which takes place at the opening of Please Touch exhibition at CoExist Galleries, TAP on 3 June 2010. Any age from 6 years upwards. Read more

PLEASE TOUCH exhibition opens 3 JUNE!!

I am in process of preparing for the show that opens in two weeks:

FOR MORE INFO and IMAGES – go to http://www.michaelafreeman.com/pleasetouch

Video from INTERRUPTIONS OF THE ORDINARY

I did a video from an INTERRUPTIONS OF THE ORDINARY exhibition at TAP:

FULL POST IS HERE: http://idea13.org/2010/04/io/

LAST FRIDAY SHORTS – Friday 30 April

LIZZY LE QUESNE – Reflections on Shop Window – A video about a performance which sought to challenge the stereotypes of female body as portrayed by the media.

GILLIAN MCIVER – Tarkovsky’s River –  Tracing a river journey along the Upper Volga to Yureyvits, Tarkovsky’s birthplace, “journey into landscape, into the deep heart of a place where the river is as wide as a sea, where skies are vast and time stands still.”

CATHIE COX – Midnight Encounter

RODRIGO REIS – Omulu – A woman. Different realities. Present, past and future. Inspired by the Afro-Brazilian religions and their archetypes

+ Screening of TANK.TV – Fresh Moves anthology with works by: David Blandy, Ben Callaway, Duncan Campbell, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Spartacus Chetwynd, Kate Cooper, Ann Course, Katy Dove, Max Hattler, Runa Islam, Kevin Heavey, Anja M. Kirschner, Zineb Sedira, Andrew Kötting, Torsten Lauschmann, Daria Martin, Alexander Heim, Ben Rivers, Samuel Stevens, Stephen Sutcliffe, Mark Aerial Waller, Saskia Olde Wolbers, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Cerith Wyn Evans

Thanks to TANK.TV – click here for their WEBSITE.

For more information about LAST FRIDAY SHORTS and how to submit your work – see the ARCHIVE.

LAST FRIDAY SHORTS

At the moment, I am looking for more art videos for the next Last Friday Shorts, an educational series of time-based art evenings, launched at TAP last Friday.

ABOUT:
Three of the artists will also be present to introduce their work and answer any questions after the screening.

JANET CURLEY CANNON (UK) – Urban Collection – 4 films – 9’
PETE GOMES (UK) – Central Control 4’53”
THEO TAGHOLM (UK) – The Persistence of Vision 4’58”
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LEMEH42 (IT) – 12 Night – 1’25”
EDWIN ROSTRON (UK) – Palmersville – 6’43”
JOZEF AMADO (UK) – War is Beautiful – 1’25”
AUDREY LAM (AU) – Under-development – 7’33”
MATTIA COSTA (IT) – Down – 2’19”
SOPHIE JERRAM (NZ) – Fatty – 10’33”
JESSE REDING FLEMING (USA) – Circuit – 16’43”

Tris Vonna-Michell video from his show at Focal Point Gallery

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