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ARTIST TO ARTIST INTERNATIONAL 2010

Visiting Arts announces participants for Artist to Artist 2010 Edition

Visiting Arts, in partnership with The Delfina Foundation, is delighted to announce the launch of Artist to Artist International 2010. Now in its sixth year, the scheme enables artists from the UK to invite artists from overseas for up to two weeks. The selected overseas artist will spend a week with the UK artist, visiting their studio, meeting key contacts, networking and exchanging ideas. Participants will spend up to two weeks together between 8-21 March 2010

Image. The girl splendid in walking, Doa Aly.
(Shown at Istanbul Biennial 2009)

Artists Biographies:

Doa Aly (Egypt) is interested in society's economy of role-play, the use of different types of behaviour and how these vary depending on different situations and contexts. Aly has recently taken part in a number of group shows such as Port City at the Arnolfini Museum, Bristol, UK; Recognise at the Contemporary Art Forum, London, UK; Dessins Projets at l’Appartement 22 in Rabat, Morocco. In 2006 and 2007 she participated in the 7th Dakar Biennial, Senegal; Snap Judgements at the International Center of Photography in New York, and The Maghreb Connection at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève.

Volkan Aslan (Turkey) is an artist and curator, who in 2008 founded 5533 along with Nancy Atakan and Marcus Graf, an independent space for research, discussion and exhibition of contemporary art. Located in a former shop in Istanbul Textile Trader’s Market, 5533 turns a former business environment into a contact zone where visitors experience various artistic forms in a non exclusive, non-elitist atmosphere.

Ali Cherri (Lebanon) is a graduate in Graphic Design from the American University in Beirut and completed his Masters in Performing Arts at DasArts (Amsterdam). He designed the stage set for Biokhraphia by Lina Saneh and Rabih Mroué and collaborated with Rabih on the installation I Feel A Great Desire To Meet The Masses Once Again. He presented Give me a body then (performance, 2005) as part of Diskurs 05, Giessen, Germany and Home Works III, Beirut (2005). His work was screened as part of a Tate Modern 'In Focus', included in Out of Beirut, Modern Art Oxford (2006) and Fantasy for Allan Kaprow at Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, a show that paid homage to Kaprow through a series of re-interpretations.

Robin Deacon (UK) is an artist, writer and filmmaker. His work has included a series of performed lectures that explore journalistic and documentary approaches to arts practice. His works have been presented in the UK and internationally at venues such as; The ICA, London (1996), The Young Vic Theatre (2000), Centre for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona (2006) and Tanzquartier Wein, Vienna (2007). Recent projects include, A Portrait of Stuart Sherman (Film/Installation), Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool (2010) and Approximating the Art of Stuart Sherman (Spaghetti Spectacle), Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York. >

Iz Oztat (Turkey) explores how the notion of “sacred” materialises and shapes the body, memory, time and space. In her recent work, she used pre-modern tools and technologies as her departure point to reflect on contemporary processes of social engineering, homogenization and control. Her solo shows include Read/ OKU at PiST, Istanbul (2008), Love It or Leave It, Ohio (2005) and Nothing Disappears Without a Trace, Ohio (2004). Iz is the co-founder of Cura Bodrum residency in Mugla with Emincan Alemdaroglu, in the context of which she participated in unitednationsplaza, Mexico, Resartis General Meeting, Amsterdam, Prishtina Contemporary Art Library Workshop, Kosovo and Cairo Residency Symposium.

Delta Arts (UK) was formed in 2008, by Emma Smith and Oliver Sumner, as a practice to initiate projects with others. Delta Art’s activities include art practice, interaction and research. Past projects have included rural residentials with young offenders and a mobile allotment project with local residents.

The Western Alliance (UK) is made up of 8 artists / activators who are based in the South-West of England. Each member is engaged, through various projects, in furthering the debased around contemporary art and its production, nationally and internationally. Current members are Sovay Berriman, Paul Carter, Steven Paige, Alison Sharkey, Olivier Sutherland, Rebecca Weeks and Alexandra Zeirle.

Artist to Artist provides a unique opportunity to bring together pairs of artists to initiate dialogues across international borders. The structure of the programme is tailored by the artists themselves and places emphasis firmly on research and the exchange of ideas rather than production.

Events:

Doa Aly in conversation with Eline van der Vlist 10 March, 19:00 - 20:00 - Due to unforeseen visa delays, Doa Aly was unable to travel to London as planned, to take part in Artist-to-Artist 2010. We regret to announce that the Workspaces event, Doa Aly in conversation with Eline van der Vlist, has been cancelled.

Doa Aly, recent video works A Tress of Hair (2008) and The Girl in Splendid Walking (2009) 10 - 12 March, 10:00 -18:00

Ali Cherri, recent video works Un Cercle Autour du Soleil (2005), Slippage (2007) and Untitled (2006) 15 - 17 March, 10:00 -18:00

A dialogue between Ali Cherri and Robin Deacon 16 March, 19:00 - 20:00, Arts Bar & Cafe, Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London, E1 6AB

URGENCY / AGENCY: a publication by The Western Alliance, Volkan Aslan & Iz Oztat Live production day: 18 March, 10:00 - 18:00 Presentation/Performance: 18 March, 18:00 - 20:00 Editions on show: 19 March, 10:00 - 18:00

Notional Studio - round table discussion Hosted by Emma Smith and Oliver Sumner of Delta Arts, with all Artist-to-artist participants and more. 19 March, 18.30 - 20:00, followed by drinks reception.

All events are taking place at The Delfina Foundation (unless otherwise stated) All events are free. Limited capacity, early rsvp essential: info@delfinafoundation.com

A2A Extra’s

Artist to Artist: A Dialogue between Robin Deacon (UK) and Ali Cherri (Lebanon)
The Light Studio, Arnolfini, Bristol
Thu 11 Mar, 6.30pm
£3.00/£2.00 Concs

This conversation, which will take place through extracts of work, marks the start of Deacon and Cherri's artist's exchange. The artists will discuss works past to present to think around future collaboration. They will draw on shared interests in re-enactment and re-contextualization of others' works, as well as the connection between biography and location.
The event will be facilitated by Paul Clarke and Ruth Holdsworth
http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/events/details/642
Box office: 0117 917 2300 / 01

For more information about the scheme or any of the artists, contact Adam Knights, Arts Projects Manager at adam.knights@visitingarts.org.uk