22 February 2012
The Starry Rubric Set
The Starry Rubric Set
Edition of 200
Published by Wysing Arts Centre, February 2012
Edited by Gareth Bell-Jones with An Endless Supply
Set in AES Curwen Sans
ISBN 978-0-9539222-3-9
Jes has contributed to a publication produced to accompany the exhibition ‘The Starry Rubric Set’ at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, February to March 2012. The show considered classical astrology as a device to bring together new works made by artists who were in residence at Wysing during 2011 and to introduce the three themes of the 2012 programme: The Cosmos, The Mirror and The Forest. Participants - including artists, non-artists, writers, musicians, academics - were invited to respond to the question, ‘From your position predict two points in motion that will come into alignment’.
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03 February 2012
New talks programme for firstsite announced
Jes has organised a programme of talks for firstsite’s new display of cloud studies painted by Constable during the 1820s and Carl Andre’s Equivalent VIII of 1966. Speakers include Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery; William Feaver, Guardian art critic and co-curator with Lucian Freud of the Constable exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2002; Gavin Pretor-Pinney, author of The Cloudspotter’s Guide; Professor Neil Cox and Alistair Rider, author of a recent Phaidon monograph on Carl Andre.
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13 January 2012
Unexpected Encounters
Situations of Contemporary Art and Architecture since 2000 (Turkish only, English coming soon) is out!
Editor: Fatos Ustek
Jes has contributed a text to this book which features artists such as Allora & Calzadilla / Andreas Slominski /Doris Salcedo / Elmgreen & Dragset / Gelitin / Gregor Schneider / Heather & Ivan Morrison / Hector Zamora / James Turrell / Janet Echelman / Jenny Holzer / Jeppe Hein / John Kormeling / Jurgen Bey / Langlands & Bell / Maider Lopez / Mandla Reuter / Matthew Ritchie / Michael Asher / Michael Strasser / Monika Sosnowska / Murat & Fuat Sahinler / Nathan Coley / Nevin Aladag / Olafur Eliasson / Peter Fischli & David Weiss / Renata Lucas / Richard Wilson / Roman Ondak / Sarkis / Tatzu Nishi / Tobias Putrih / Tomas Saraceno / Tue Greenfort / Wolfgang Winter & Bertold Horbelt
Book Concept and Design: Bulent Erkmen
PrePress: BEK
© Zorlu Center, 2011
14 December 2011
Hengrove Park commissions programme
Independent curators Theresa Bergne and Jes Fernie are working together to deliver a two year programme in Hengrove Park, south Bristol. Working with members of the Hengrove and Stockwood Neighbourhood Partnership as well as Bristol City Council, the programme will build on Phase 1 of the public art programme.
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09 November 2011
Olympic Park Arts & Culture report published
Aerial view of the Olympic Park in July 2011. Photo: by Anthony Charlton, copyright ODA 2008
‘Square pegs and round holes: a report on the ODA Arts and Culture programme’
Published November 2011, Open City
Authors: Jes Fernie and Rachel Fleming-Mulford
This report charts the journey of the Olympic Delivery Authority’s Arts and Culture programme and outlines recommendations and lessons learned that can be used by regeneration bodies, developers, local authorities, curators and Olympic host cities, when embarking on art commissioning schemes and regeneration projects in the future. It also includes recommendations for the future of the Olympic Park in London.
The programme is contextualised through a number of case studies of recent art commissioning programmes both in the UK and abroad including Beyond, in the Netherlands and Sculpture Projects Munster in Germany.
To download a PDF please visit the Open City website.