Anya Gallaccio - Camden Arts Centre
11 July - 14 September 2008Anya Gallaccio develops a new piece specially commissioned for Camden Arts Centre.
Steve McQueen wins Camera d'Or
Steve McQueen's first feature film, 'Hunger', has won the prestigious Camera d'Or.Steve McQueen has co-written 'Hunger' with acclaimed playwright Enda Walsh and directed the film which follows the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strikes.
The film was produced by Blast! Films, backed by Channel 4 / Film 4, Northern Ireland Screen, The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland 'Sound and Vision' Fund and the Welsh Creative IP Fund. 'Hunger' stars Michael Fassbender, recently seen in 'Ozon's' Angel.
McQueen's Queen and Country moves to Barbican
4 June -26 July 2008Barbican
Queen and Country continues it's tour and can be seen this week on the Mezzanine level by the entrance to the Barbican Theatre.
Visitors will be invited to take part in Steve McQueen’s vision and sign The Art Fund’s online petition asking Royal Mail to issue the stamps. Find out more at www.artfund.org/queenandcountry
The display complements the run of Black Watch at the Barbican.
Paul Pfeiffer - Sydney Biennale
18 June - 17 September 2008Paul Pfeiffer will exhibit work at the 35th Sydney Biennale, curated this year by Carolyn Christov-Bahargiev.
Anya Gallaccio
'Motherlode''Motherlode' is Anya Gallaccio’s response to an invitation to make a site-specific work in Sonoma, California by the San Francisco-based New Langton Arts. The artist’s project is a unique attempt to produce a portrait of the county, using the essence of the land; its soil and the fruit it bears, to create six distinct Zinfandel wines.
The final result is that Gallaccio has created two editions of the six different bottles of wine with offset labels designed by the artist and wax seals in the same colour as the soil samples where the vines grew. The bottles are housed in pine and redwood boxes, branded and signed by the artist.