03 May 2012
Plat Time: Art in the Park
Keith Wilson, Steles, Olympic Park 2012
Jes has been commissioned by the London Legacy Development Corporation to organise a programme of studio visits, talks, walks, screenings and workshops which will take place around the Olympic Park from 2 - 7 July 2012.
The events are part of the LLDC’s programme to launch the new arts and culture strategy and will include artists such as Keith Wilson, Lucy Harrison and DJ Simpson.
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30 March 2012
Call for proposals
Writtle Calling: 2emmatoc
A temporary radio station by Melissa Appleton and Matthew Butcher
11 - 18 September 2012
Proposals from artists, curators, writers, musicians and farmers welcome.
Deadline: 15 April 2012
Writtle Calling: 2emmatoc is a temporary radio station that will broadcast from the Essex landscape during September 2012. The station will host a series of broadcasts which will culminate in a live public event on 15th September. The radio structure is to be sited in the grounds of Writtle College, Essex, where the first regular public radio broadcasts by Marconi Engineers took place in 1922.
Jes is acting as an advisor to this project.
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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