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 Curator Gemma Medina describes Mark Aerial Waller's work:

Approaching Mark Aerial Waller’s work is like unexpectedly entering the Babel library described by Borges, or falling down Alice’s rabbit–hole as Lewis Carroll told it: a deep, undetermined space laden with references, where the strange shakes us, awakens us from the dream of “normality”, giving way to a curiosity that claims to abandon our passive–receiving attitude, the voyeur comfort, to delve into the conscious research of the multiple constellations that connect his work to our reality. Then we regain the ability to extract our own memories and knowledge, stimulating the playful sense of breaking down those codes to be discovered.

Waller’s work is loaded with aesthetic sense, literary, scientific and philosophical references, nods to the history of art and pop culture, with irreverent twists that question artistic conventions and the cinematic medium. Waller takes on the languages of film, television, installation and performance by expanding the work beyond the screen. It is about opening the way to the possible, claiming the importance of the viewer within the work of art, questioning the artistic canon, the film medium and our attitude as spectators to life. As Augusto Boal argued: The viewer must be freed from his status as a spectator, then he can get rid of other oppressions (1977).

CATALOGUE: El Canon Rebelde / The Wayward Canon

Published by CAAM Gran Canaria.
Design & Layout :María José Arce
Edited by: Gemma Medina
Texts by: Mark Aerial Waller & Gemma Medina, Jennifer Teets with Lorenzo Cirrincione & Marie Bonnet, Mike Sperlinger

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'I Grog and its Alternatives' : Owen Land, 2003/2022

A residency and filmmaking process at LUX, London 2022

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Owen Land index card 186 'I Grog and its alternatives' 2003. The card contains writing: Malcolm [McLaren (redacted)] McDowell as Scott Bartlett, John Belushi as Her de Grasse, Woody Allen as Lenny Lipton, Bruce Dern as Owen Land, Jim Carey as Bruce Conner, Peewee Herman as George Kuchar,Richard Gere as Paul Sharits, Raquel Welch as Carolee Schneemann, Willem Dafoe as Malcom Le Grice, Jack Nicholson as Will Hindle (redacted), Peter Sellers as Will Hindle, Wally Cox as Tony Conrad, Tom Hanks as Jack Smith, Anthony Hopkins as Harry Smith

 Owen Land 'I Grog and its Alternatives' (2003) index card 186 (obverse) of 186 cards

Owen Land, AKA George Landow (1944-2011) was an experimental filmmaker, photographer, painter and writer. He was a significant pioneer of artist film who developed an oeuvre that shifted relationships between audience, subject and screen. His work has been important to Giles Deleuze in his seminar on cinema : The Movement Image and key to an understanding of the interaction of avantgarde film and conceptual art practices. In 2003 Land sent Lux artists' film a collection of index cards, entitled “I Grog and its alternatives”(2003). Little information was supplied with it, save for an annotated transcription of the index cards, but there was a sense, or perhaps a conversation, that these cards were a film script. Land admitted that his scripts resisted interpretation. The 186 cards, each written in neat letter forms, hold a humorous piece of literature with connection to historical events and people, etymology, religion, rock and roll, painting and avant garde filmmakers, but seen as a system, they reveal a possible fragmented story.

Waller is creating a film in relation to the script of 186 jokes to build a proto cinematic event.      

 

 Space Pursues Them, Athens June 2018 - A Wayward Canon Event'

An event featuring cinematic elements of Duelle by Jacques Rivette (1976), Rabbit’s Moon by Kenneth Anger (1950/72). A classic French feature film is revisited in expanded form, its fictional spaces & its music spilling out onto Daedalus street, from cinema into bar, gallery and dancehall. A live band of street musician, concert piannist and avant garde percussion playing Satie inspired music, we drank from the claws and dogs, a concoction made from bitter oranges of the athens streets...The dogs, wolves and claws were all constituents of the moon tarot card.

"My dear friend, after we ran through the dead of night together, after that film finished, I remembered you saying “I feel myself becoming space, dark space, where things cannot be put.” Let’s go there again, to the Rhumba. We can drink from wolves, dogs and lobsters, dance under the fractured moonlight for awhile, dawnless and alive."

Saturday 16th June 8:30pm

https://daedalusstreet.com/mark-aerial-waller

Space Pursues Them...has been developed in collaboration with Daedalus Street from a previous incarnation at Kunsthall Oslo.

Mark Aerial Waller at Magazin4 exhibtion 17x24 Every Day is a Good Day, with: Cullinan Richards, Fabienne Audeoud, H.K. Barath, Gottfried Bechtold, Jean-Daniel Berclaz, Ellen Cantor, Sevda Chkoutova, Roger Cremers, Laura Emsley, Ayse Erkmen, VALIE EXPORT, Alberto de Fabio, Al Fadhil, Thomas Feuerstein, Carsten Fock, H.R. Fricker, Matthias Herrmann, Gerhard Himmer, Richard Hoeck, Ronnie van Hout, Lee Holden, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Anna Jermaloewa, Gerhard Klocker, Schirin Kretschmann, Hofstetter Kurt, Liane Lang, Bo Christian Larsson, Peter Lewis und Makiko Nagaya, Christoph Lissy, Hubert Matt, John Miller, Harald F. Muller, Victorine Muller, Willem Oorebeek, Simon Patterson, Selina Reiterer, Felix Schramm, Simon Schunert, Tilo Schulz, Annie Sprinkle, Ernst Trawoger, Franco Vaccari, Rob Voerman, Simon Wachsmuth, Walker&Walker, Heike Weber, Heimo Zobernig

 

'The Wayward Canon: 40 Days at The Rhumba'
Sad Disco Fantasia - a festival of film-as-event
8.-11. februar at
Kunsthall Oslo

elements of Duelle by Jacques Rivette (1976) and Rabbit’s Moon by Kenneth Anger (1950/72). A classic French feature film is revisited in expanded form, its fictional spaces spilling out into Kunsthall Oslo, blurring the boundaries between cinema, gallery and dancehall. My dear friend, Your light footfalls at yesterday’s dance reminded me to ask; perhaps we could inhabit the glow at the end of cinema, even briefly, at the Rhumba, with Jacques Rivette and Kenneth Anger? The spirits can encroach upon and transform reality there, and we can enjoy a drink, and dance again.

Mark Aerial Waller, 40 Days at the Rhumba,  Wayward Canon at Kunsthall Oslo poster40 Days at the Rhumba, poster for video event, Kunsthall Oslo, 2018

Mark Aerial Waller, 40 Days at the Rhumba,  Wayward Canon at Kunsthall Oslo ducumentation40 days at the Rhumba, documentation of video event at Kunsthall Oslo, 2018


Mille Feuilles performance at South London Gallery, May 2016

milles feuilles performance by Mark Aerial Waller at South London Gallery relating to John Latham exhibition at Flat Time House milles feuilles performance by Mark Aerial Waller at South London Gallery relating to John Latham exhibition at Flat Time House

A confluence of taste, memory, touch and video is put into action in this new arrangement between Latham's rarely seen Fragments and NOIT Intercouses and Waller's interdisciplinary practice of fractured time.

The Mille Feuilles sits on the plate, complete and parallel, each layer filled with action, memory and expectation. A fork presses down on its upper surface. The confectioners cream bulges sideways. What was once glue becomes lubricant as the thousand pages start to slide like tectonic plates over one another.

 

Mille Feuilles sculptural series at The Shift, Flat Time House, May 2016

milles feuilles  by Mark Aerial Waller  The Shift exhibition at Flat Time House

Photo: Planes of Consciousness: Milles Feuilles series, 2016, paper éclair case, gripfill, pigment

 

Time Together available to stream online in full now at:

http://luxplayer.org.uk

FREE DURING OCTOBER - promo code MINDAUGAS

 

 

LUX and Cranford Collection present: Phantoms of the Avant-Garde
Saturday 18 July 2015, 6pm

phantom avantgarde, by Mark Aerial Waller
Photo: Phantom Avantgarde, (2010) Mark Aerial Waller . courtesy Mark Aerial Waller & Rodeo

CGP London: Dilston Grove
Southwark Park, London SE16 2DD
http://www.cgplondon.org/

Free event, please book via Eventbrite

Phantoms of the Avant-Garde is the first in a series of monthly events (July to October 2015) exploring lines of connection and points of dialogue between the LUX archive and the Cranford collection. The first screening is presented in collaboration with CGP London at Dilston Grove. The series has been curated by Matt Carter (Distribution Manager, LUX) and Louise Chignac (Special Projects Manager, Cranford). LUX and Cranford Collection would like to extend special thanks to Judith Carlton, Director CGP London and the whole gallery team.

 

 

POPCORN CASTS

at RODEO, London

6 June - 1 August 2015

popcorn casts

 

DIAL-A-RIDE
A daily film in 3 parts :
FRIDAY 14th, SATURDAY 15th & SUNDAY 17th November 2014

Commissioned by Hayward for Mirrorcity: MORE INFO HERE

Dial-A-Ride Episode 1: Friday 14 November, 8.15-8.45pm
Dial-A-Ride Episode 2: Saturday 15 November, 8-8.30pm
Dial-A-Ride Episode 3: Sunday 16 November, 6.30-7pm

Supported by The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania

dial a ride, waller, mirrorcity, Monika Bičiunaitė, Smiltė Bagdžiūnė

Dial-A-Ride is a live science fiction/mystery film made daily in and around the Hayward Gallery's Mirrorcity exhibition, edited each afternoon, then shown at Hayward and streamed online each evening.

Two women (actors, Monika Bičiunaitė & Smiltė Bagdžiūnė), members of secret community, arrive from Eastern Europe to reach their London contact (artist, Douglas Park). He is able to join missing links to complete their mission, but can he be trusted?

The scripted scenarios meet headlong with documentary events, to make a film open to chance and outside influence, from the river's tidal flow to the presence of South Bank Centre visitors. Waller's film sits within the genre of science fiction/espionage but shares a sensibility with the mysteriously oblique French new-wave films of Jacques Rivette or the writing of Adolfo Bioy Casares and Philip K Dick.

"Waller's work then, in its conjunctions of past and present, might be a model of nonlinear time that allows for the influence of mysterious ambient forces on humanity; that puts faith at once in science and magic."
 
Martin Herbert, Art review Dec'12


Editors : MIKAS ŽUKAUSKAS & MARK AERIAL WALLER

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Time Travel and the Interzone City

Screening of video works by Rachel Reupke, Adam Chodzko, Mark Aerial Waller & Uriel Orlow.

BFI SOUTHBANK NFT3
Oct 29, 2014 8:30 PM

superpower dakar chapter

Mark Aerial Waller, Benjamin Nuel, Deimantas Narkevičius, Steina Vasulka,Marine Hugonnier, ,Jonas Mekas,Jessica Warboys, FRAC Aquitaine

 

Welcome to the Association Area
Film Program curated by Mark Aerial Waller

WHITSTABLE BIENNIALE

31.05 -15.06.2014

mark aerial waller painting, welcome to the association area at whitstable biennaleimage: 'Welcome to the Association Area' (2014) Mark Aerial Waller, aquerelle on paper (18cm x21.5cm) courtesy the artist and Rodeo

 

English Surrealism

midwatch, directed by mark aerial waller with mark e smith, steve evets and Rut Blees Luxemburg.
Mark Aerial Waller, Midwatch, 1999/2001, infra red, sound, 7 min. Starring Mark E Smith and Steve Evets.

Feb 27, 2014 6:20 PM

BFI Southbank

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This screening presents a selection of films by artists who explore theatricality and the non-realist, internal, metaphysical, visionary processes of the mind. It is a rare chance to see a well considered comination of works spanning a period of 70 years. Works by Humphry Jennings, Len Lye, Jayne Parker, Bernard Penrose & Dora Carrington, Jeff Keen, Bruce Lacey & Jill Bruce and Mark Aerial Waller.

Midwatch presents Mark E Smith (The Fall) & Steve Evets (Pirates of the Carribbean, Looking for Eric, Robin Hood) as characters who descend into a vertiginous battle of wills aboard a ship returning from the first British nuclear tests off Western Australia. The ship's caterer (Smith) casts a language of poetryover the military-technological language of a mutineer(Evets), who has entered the galley looking for biscuits. Meanwhile the sound of deformed crewmen waddle across the decks above their heads. Adapted from interviews with British Nuclear Veterans.

More on Midwatch HERE

 

Artists' Film Club: Random Acts

12 Dec 2013
8:00 pm | Theatre | £5.00


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An event celebrating the ICA's Channel 4 Random Acts commissions with artists Duncan Campbell, Steven Claydon, Gail Pickering, Elizabeth Price and Mark Aerial Waller (with Douglas Park and Tim Goldie) featuring a unique screening of the newly commissioned shorts alongside live extensions of the work.

Duncan Campbell, Steven Claydon, Gail Pickering, Elizabeth Price and Mark Aerial Waller (with Douglas Park and Tim Goldie) contribute to a live event celebrating their commissions for Channel 4’s Random Acts series. The event profiles the five newly commissioned films, alongside a series of live performative events by Steven Claydon, Gail Pickering and Mark Aerial Waller that expand upon their new 3 minute works.

The broadcast of the ICA’s season of Random Acts commissions for Channel 4 commences on 4 December 2013 with the screening of Gail Pickering’s Karaoke (2013) and continues into early 2014 with works by Duncan Campbell, Steven Claydon, Elizabeth Price and Mark Aerial Waller.

The new short artists’ films commissioned and produced by the ICA and made by artists Duncan Campbell, Steven Claydon, Gail Pickering, Elizabeth Price and Mark Aerial Waller build on our strong reputation for championing artists’ film and moving image. These films will also be available to watch on the ICA and Random Acts websites.

Part of: Artists' Film Club

 

Live From The Crucible by Mark Aerial Waller 2013
Mark Aerial Waller, Live From The Crucible, 2013, colour, sound, 3 min

ICA
Culture Now: Mark Aerial Waller
6 Dec 2013
1:00 pm | Studio | £5.00

Book Tickets

This lunchtime talk features artist Mark Aerial Waller, one of the ICA’s Random Arts commissioned artists, in conversation with Steven Cairns, ICA Associate Curator of Artists’ Film and Moving Image, on his film, the process and how the projects fits into his wider practice.

The broadcast of the ICA’s series of Random Acts commissions for Channel 4 will commence on 4 December 2013 with the screening of Gail Pickering’s Karaoke (2013) and continue into early 2014 with works by Duncan Campbell, Steven Claydon, Elizabeth Price and Mark Aerial Waller.

The new short artists’ films commissioned and produced by the ICA and made by the artists build on our strong reputation for championing artists’ film and moving image. These films will also be available to watch on the ICA and Random Acts websites.

An event celebrating the new commissions is taking place at the ICA on 12 December, profiling each of the artists with new live and performative works that interact with the 3 minute films to be broadcast on Channel 4.

 

 

time together, poster by mark aerial waller, with Darius Miksys, Monika Bičiunaitė, Smiltė Bagdžiūnė at CAC Vilnius [TIME TOGETHER] PREMIERE, VILNIUS, LITHUANIA

CAC VILNIUS CINEMA 29th November 2013
Astronomical presentation by physicist Dr Gediminas Žukauskas on Friday 29th November.

Screenings:
2013.XI.29 18:00
2013.XI.30 15:30

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14-os dalių filmo „Laikas kartu“ istorija vyksta patraukliame vasariškos Lietuvos fone, kur pasiklydusi moteris (Smiltė Bagdžiūnė) susidraugauja su nepažįstamąja (Monika Bičiunaitė), vedančia ją per eilę ritualinių patirčių, formuojančių kultą ar politinę grupuotę. Pasakojimas pilnas paslapčių, o keisti, dėmesį prikaustantys siužeto vingiai verčia žiūrovo mintis klajoti ieškant atsakymų. Saviti Marko Aerialio Wallerio filmai tarsi sukuria kitą dimensiją, susiejančią juos su moksline fantastika ir mįslingais Adolfo Bioy Casareso ar Philipo K. Dicko tekstais.

Apie režisierių:
Mark Aerial Waller yra Londone gyvenantis ir kuriantis menininkas. Jis kuria videofilmus, skulptūras ir situacijas, savo darbuose aprėpdamas platų temų ratą nuo biocheminių mechanizmų, kurie nulemia mūsų socialinius santykius sąveikas, iki branduolinio sektoriaus darbuotojų Jungtinėje Karalystėje. Savo meninę praktiką jis papildo tiriamuoju organu „Savivalės kanonas“ – įvykių-intervencijų į kino praktikas platforma, kur kitų menininkų videokūriniai ar komerciniai filmai pristatomi remiantis specialiai sukurtais scenarijais ir socialinėmis interakcijomis.

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douglasism festival seoul, Douglas Park, Monika K. Adler, Gavin Broad, Matthew Burbidge, Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, Alex Chappel, Jean-Philippe Convert, Cel Crabeels, Michael Croft , Richard Crow, Kris Delacourt, Clementine Deliss , Anaid Demir, Rik Desaver, Nico Dockx, Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield, David Evrard, Dirk Fleischmann, Claire Fontaine, Maria Teresa Gavazzi, Anthony Gross, Ann Veronika Janssens, Oan Kim, Kosten Koper, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Olive Martin, Jan Mast, Christina Mitrentse, Michelle Naismith, Sebastian & Thierry Paulico, Anne Pigalle, Owen Piper, Rckay Rax, Aeon Rose, Kurt Ryslavy, Ilona Sager, Paul Sakoilsky, Gideon Cube Sherman, Simon Tyszko, Rob Voerman, Mark Aerial Waller, Piers Wardle, Keef Winter DOUGLASISM FESTIVAL
SEOUL 2013

OCT 15 - NOV 12 2013

Curated by Kim Kim Gallery, Seoul
at
National Press Gallery Seoul,
Ilmin Museum, Seoul, Korea.

See: http://bit.ly/GGPHvi

 

Douglas Park (UK), Monika K. Adler (PO),
Gavin Broad (UK), Matthew Burbidge (UK),
Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly (UK), Alex Chappel (UK),
Jean-Philippe Convert (BE), Cel Crabeels (BE),
Michael Croft (UK) , Richard Crow (UK), Kris Delacourt (BE), Clementine Deliss (UK), Anaid Demir (FR),
Rik Desaver (BE), Nico Dockx (BE), Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield (UK), David Evrard (BE), Dirk Fleischmann (DE),
Claire Fontaine (FR), Maria Teresa Gavazzi (I), Anthony Gross (UK),Ann Veronika Janssens (BE), Oan Kim (FR), Kosten Koper (UK), Rut Blees Luxemburg (DE) ,
Olive Martin (BE), Jan Mast (BE), Christina Mitrentse (UK), Michelle Naismith (UK), Sebastian & Thierry Paulico (FR), Anne Pigalle (FR), Owen Piper (UK), Rckay Rax (UK) , Aeon Rose (UK), Kurt Ryslavy (A), Ilona Sager (UK), Paul Sakoilsky (UK), Gideon Cube Sherman (UK), Simon Tyszko (UK), Rob Voerman (NL),
Mark Aerial Waller (UK) , Piers Wardle (UK), Keef Winter (UK), others



 

Douglasism Festival addresses relationships between art and society,through the paradigm shifting interdisciplinary and socially active works of Douglas Park and the artists with whom he has been associated, actively participated or collaborated for over 20 years. Douglas Park is a polyvalent artist, actor, narrator, writer, curator. in his own words:

“Born in 1972, UK based, internationally active and exposed visual artist, writer (of literary prose and critical essays,
both mostly art connected), exhibition curator, as well as all practices and roles combined.”

 

TIME TOGETHER movie BY MARK AERIAL WALLER

 

Premiere of Time Together (2013) with presentation by artist Darius Mikšys

LUX at Hackney Picturehouse
Mon 23 Sept 18:45
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Time Together, a film in 14 episodes, is set against the luscious backdrop of summertime Lithuania, where a lost woman (Smiltė Bagdžiūnė) is befriended by a stranger (Monika Bičiunaitė) and lead through a series of ritual exercises towards the formation of a cult or political cell. The story is deeply mysterious, yet the strangely compelling scenarios, each with a cliffhanger, leave the mind racing. What-if’s on a cosmological scale. Mark Aerial Waller’s unique films almost come from another dimension, from a position shared with the science fiction and mystery writing of Adolfo Bioy Casares or Philip K Dick.

In Lithuanian with English subtitles

Commissioned by the Centre for Contemporary Art Vilnius as part of Midaugas Triennial, The 11th Baltic Triennial of International Arts

Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania

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TIME TOGETHER: GRAVITATIONAL EQUILIBRUM (Ep 8)

MoCA MIAMI

optic nerve MOCA miami finalist, time together by mark aerial waller,

SCREENING FRIDAY AUGUST 23, 8 PM
PRECEDED BY TALK AT 7 PM WITH ARAM MOSHAYEDI CURATOR,
HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES, CA

MORE INFO

 

 

Nuclear Culture on Film

panel discussion with kodwo eshun, liam sprod and mark aerial waller, chaired by artist Susan Kelly


Mark Aerial Waller / Isao Hashimoto / Sandra Lahire / Otolith Group / Eva & Franco Mattes / Chris Oakley / Yelena Popova

Douglas Park in Interview with a Nuclear Contract Worker and Glow Boys by Mark Aerial WallerDouglas Park in 'Glow Boys' & 'Interview with a Nuclear Contract Worker' by Mark Aerial Waller

Sunday 28 April 2013

The Arts Catalyst
50-54 Clerkenwell Road
London EC1M 5PS

A programme of artists’ films investigating nuclear culture from the perspective of the 21st Century reflecting on 1980s feminist experimental film and activism, gritty dramatic satire of the 1990s, and recent video-essay works from 2009 – 2012. Artists narrate their own experience of nuclear environments in Britain, the Urals, Estonia, Ukraine, Japan and Canada, traveling back home or to sites of disaster to try and capture the invisible or the unimaginable. Investigating the aesthetic implications of radiation reveals the impossibility of capturing an energy that bleaches the images from film and erases the hard drives of digital devices.

The day includes a roundtable discussion on nuclear critique from nuclear entropy, utopian and dystopian belief systems, questioning scientific certainty, political agency and the proliferation of nuclear culture. Including artists Kodwo Eshun (Otolith Group) and Mark Aerial Waller in conversation with philosopher Liam Sprod, chaired by artist Susan Kelly.

Curated by Ele Carpenter with students from MFA Curating, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Further Info http://nuclear.artscatalyst.org/content/nuclear-culture-film

BOOKING:
£8/£4 including refreshments and lunch.

Book Here http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5394942418?ref=ebtnebtckt#

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DESIRE LINES
An exhibition curated by Lorena Munoz-Alonso & Barbara Rodriguez Munoz

Desire Lines, Espai Cultural CAJA MADRID, Barcelona 2012

Paris FRANPRIX installation stills
Paris FRANPRIX thumbnails
  1. Paris FRANPRIX, 2003

    installation shot, PVC Curtain and video projection, Desire Lines, Espai Cultural, CAJA MADRID, Barcelona.
    DESIRE LINES, FRANPRIX by Mark Aerial Waller, Abu Hamdan, César, Oldfield Ford,
  2. Paris FRANPRIX, 2003

    installation shot, Desire Lines, Espai Cultural, CAJA MADRID, Barcelona, PVC Curtain and video projection.
    cassiopeia plan mark aerial waller
  3. Paris FRANPRIX, 2003

    installation shot, Desire Lines, Espai Cultural, CAJA MADRID, Barcelona, PVC Curtain and video projection.
    The Cassiopeia Plan offering transmission mark aerial waller

MARK AERIAL WALLER, *ar5s fran*r5x

video projection with PVC curtain


Artists: Laurence Abu Hamden, Mark Aerial Waller, Francis Alys, Francisca Benitez, Mircea Cantor, Filipa Cesar, Cyprien Gaillard, Regina de Miguel, Laura Oldfield Ford, Alejandra Salunas & Aeron Bergman, John Smith.

The Espai Cultural Caja Madrid is delighted to present Desire Lines, an exhibition that gathers works by twelve international artists that – through video installation, drawing, photography and performance– propose alternative ways of navigating the urban landscapes, by integrating poetics, playfulness, irrationality, oneirism and disruption into our experience of the city.

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desire lines is an exhibition curated by Lorena Munoz-Alonso and Barbara Rodriguez Munoz with artists Laurence Abu Hamden, Mark Aerial Waller, Francis Alys, Francisca Benitez, Mircea Cantor, Filipa Cesar, Cyprien Gaillard, Regina de Miguel, Laura Oldfield Ford, Alejandra Salunas & Aeron Bergman, John Smith.

 

SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
WITH MARK AERIAL WALLER

WEDNESDAY 21st November 2012 at 3pm

AT JERWOOD VISUAL ARTS, within "NOW I GOTTA REASON", a Jerwood Encounters exhibition co-curated by Marcus Coates and Grizedale Arts that focuses on art production as a useful and productive activity.

171 Union Street, Bankside London SE1 0LN

karpouziaaa, a live work by mark aerial waller, made for the whitley arts festival, reading

SHOWING: KARPOUZIAAA (2009) 18min

Karpouziaaa is a video document of a live event by Mark Aerial Waller commissioned by Whitley Arts Festival, Reading.

This project is an extension of Waller's practice of introducing fictional scenarios to participants of a video production, in which the fiction edges into an intense experience, where the audience and participants overlap. Here in Karpouziaaa, the audience are also in the video, the audience being the people of Whitley who are participating in the fictional sales experience. The improvised public performance, becoming shopping experiment, was held for a single day at the end of September 2009, and documented on video with participation of the community of Whitley.

Karpouziaaa means 'watermelons' in Greek, the word can be heard in urban streets and villages, called out over loudspeakers from open backed trucks, mobile fruit and vegetable shops.

"Having spent several weeks visiting the area, meeting young people and organiser Angela Bovell at the youth and community centre, I saw that the area didn't need a film, but did need more activity in the empty streets. So the work became a production of a situation. The local community and I set up a mobile fruit and vegetable shop for the day, always knowing that it was being prepared for a film, it was as if the mobile shop was being art directed and we were the extras on the scene. We set up a workshop thinking about what we might shout over the loudspeakers as we drove through the estates of Whitley, a young poet prepared some work and others thought of a dance routine."
 Mark Aerial Waller

Karpouziaaa tests the edge between fiction and action, between make-believe play and work. For one day Waller set up a mobile vegetable shop with residents of Whitley, calling out songs and items for sale over a megaphone. The salesperson’s voice becomes a bold rhythmic poem – a public voice usually associated with political canvassing and totalitarian science fiction dystopias. The realm of poetry is made concrete for a day through the routine of buying and selling.

The final film was screened on a domestic television in the home of one of the participants for the exhibition Whitley Arts Trail (2011), where residents opened their front rooms to the public for the exhibition. Children, local families and visiting art enthusiasts mixed in the milieu of the front rooms of Whitley.

FOLLOWED BY A DISCUSSION OF THE IDEAS SURROUNDING THIS EVENT BASED PROJECT

 

 

EXHIBTION : SO-LA at Cell Project Space, London
from 14th September until 28th October, Friday - Sunday
(or by appointment) at info@cellprojects.org
+44(0)20 7241 3600

 

Cell Project Space

'TIME TOGETHER' produced by CAC Vilnius for the Baltic Triennial

 

 

MINDAUGAS TRIENNIAL
THE 11th BALTIC TRIENNIAL OF INTERNATIONAL ART

TIME TOGETHER BANNER

TIME TOGETHER - DAILY VIDEO (wednesday-sunday until 9th Oct)

TIME TOGETHER PILOT EPISODE from MARK AERIAL WALLER on Vimeo.

 

Audio – Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction Discussion Event
Posted on May 8, 2012

On Sat 5 May exhibition curators Nav Haq and Al Cameron discussed ideas related to Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction with exhibiting artist Mark Aerial Waller. This discussion looked at the different reasons and methodologies employed by artists in the exhibition, and what it is that the science fiction genre offers to the debate about representations of Africa. An essay written by the curators can also be downloaded here

After the Superpower - Africa in Science Fiction discussion at Arnolfini, Bristol on saturday, I met Science Fiction Publisher and critic, Cheryl Morgan, who shared amazing information on current african science fiction novelists, here is a link to her blog: http://www.cheryl-morgan.com/?p=13748

le fouquet's

LE FOUQUET'S
9:30pm, 4th May2012,
Spike Island, Bristol.

A gesture to the cult senegalese club for fine dining and afro-cuban salsa. This becomes a backdrop for a specially made version of Superpower-Dakar Chapter, fractured into reflective discs, like a particle cloud sighted in outer space.
with Afro-Cuban Salsa and Mbalax dance led by Batch Gueye:

 

More info on the exhibition HERE

 

 

 

 

 

OFFERING TRANSMISSIONS
EXHIBTION AT RODEO, ISTANBUL - UNTIL 31.03.2012

Offering Transmissions Rodeo 2012

offering transmission installation stills
offering transmission thumbnails
  1. The Cassiopeia Plan (Detail), 2011/12

    installation shot, Rodeo, Istanbul, 8 Books
    cassiopeia plan mark aerial waller
  2. Offering Transmissions installation shot

    installation shot, Rodeo, Istanbul, The Cassiopeia Plan (Thermal insulation foil, training video, instruction video, 3 chairs, 8 books),Offering Transmissions (Graphite on paper + projection of recent episode of The Simpsons)
    cassiopeia plan mark aerial waller
  3. The Cassiopeia Plan (foreground), Offering Transmission (behind), 2011/12

    installation shot, Rodeo, Istanbul, (Thermal insulation foil, training video, instruction video, 3 chairs, 8 books)
    The Cassiopeia Plan offering transmission mark aerial waller
  4. Offering Transmission 04, 2011/12

    Graphite on paper,191cm x 143cm, projection of recent episode of The Simpsons
    offering transmission mark aerial waller
  5. Offering Transmission 05, 2011/12

    Graphite on paper, 100.5cm x 78.5cm, projection of recent episode of The Simpsons
    offering transmission mark aerial waller
  6. Offering Transmission 03, 2011/12

    Graphite on paper, 100.5cm x 78.5cm, projection of recent episode of The Simpsons
    offering transmission mark aerial waller
  7. Offering Transmission 02, 2011/12

    Graphite on paper, 190cm x 143cm, projection of recent episode of The Simpsons
    offering transmission mark aerial waller
  8. Offering Transmission 02, 2011

    Graphite on paper, 190cm x 143cm, projection of recent episode of The Simpsons
    offering transmission mark aerial waller
  9. Offering Transmission 02, 2011

    Graphite on paper, 190cm x 143cm, projection of recent episode of The Simpsons, 2 minute pause on black
    offering transmission mark aerial waller
  10. Offering Transmission 05, 2011

    Graphite on paper, 100.5cm x 78.5cm, projection of recent episode of The Simpsons, 2 minute pause on black
    offering transmission mark aerial waller
  11. Offering Transmission 03, 2011

    Graphite on paper, 100.5cm x 78.5cm, projection of recent episode of The Simpsons, 2 minute pause on black
    offering transmission mark aerial waller
  12. Offering Transmission 02, 2011

    Graphite on paper, 190cm x 143cm, projection of recent episode of The Simpsons, 2 minute pause on black
    offering transmission mark aerial waller
  13. Offering Transmission 01, 2011

    Graphite on paper, 190cm x 143cm, projection of recent episode of The Simpsons, 2 minute pause on black
    offering transmission mark aerial waller
  14. Popcorn Casts, 2011/12

    Installation view, framed photographs, 27.1cm x 20.5cm
    offering transmission mark aerial waller
  15. Popcorn Casts: The Illusionist, 2011/12

    framed photograph, 27.1cm x 20.5cm
    offering transmission mark aerial waller
  16. Popcorn Casts: Beyond the Planet of the Apes, 2011/12

    framed photograph, 27.1cm x 20.5cm
    offering transmission mark aerial waller
  17. Popcorn Casts: Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D, 2011/12

    framed photograph, 27.1cm x 20.5cm
    offering transmission mark aerial waller
  18. Popcorn Casts: The Skin I Live in, 2011/12

    framed photograph, 27.1cm x 20.5cm
    offering transmission mark aerial waller
  19. Popcorn Casts: Avatar 3D, 2011/12

    framed photograph, 27.1cm x 20.5cm
    offering transmission mark aerial waller

MARK AERIAL WALLER, OFFERING TRANSMISSION

graphite on paper with recent episode of The Simpsons

 

 

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government of 1st and 13th chair

 

The Government of the First and Thirteenth Chair

Seminal British conceptual artist John Latham’s performance work re-worked at Wysing Arts Centre as part of a day of performances and live works that look at ideas around space and time.

Conceived and Performed by: Gillian Bexfield, Christopher Brazier, Darrell Broom, Denzil Dean, Josh Lockwood, Hannah Wallis.
Dramaturge: Mark Aerial Waller

Saturday 10 March 2-7pm

WYSING ARTS CENTRE, FOX ROAD, BOURN, CAMBRIDGE CB23 2TX

The performance of the late John Latham’s work at Wysing is the first of a series of new re-workings of the artist’s play The Government of the First and Thirteenth Chair, for camera, for live audience and for publication.  In the collaboration between Wysing, Flat Time House (Latham’s studio and home in Peckham) and Norwich University College of the Arts (NUCA), artist Mark Aerial Waller has reworked Latham’s original script and stage directions with students from NUCA to develop a new version of the play, which expresses Latham’s theories of space and time.

BOOK TICKETS HERE or on 01954 718881.
This event is FREE and Wysing are considering organising transport by coach from London (£18 return) and Cambridge (£8 return) if there is enough demand. If you would like to take advantage of this then please let Wysing know when booking.

For further visitor information see www.wysingartscentre.org

Emma Smith’s ongoing project ∆E=W, developed with the support of Artsadmin from a series of experiments involving touch, the gaze and spatial harmonics, looks at the experience we have in a gallery through a series of vocal and physical responses to the work on display.  Mark Essen shows a new short video work. Francesco Pedraglio’s The Evidence of an Object focuses on the conceptual and practical difficulties of storytelling, reflecting on the idea that any narrative, as much as it creates dependency for its listeners, relies on their interpretative will.  Cally Spooner reads a score for a new theatre production on the possibility of not performing. A film programme for a phosphorescent screen has been curated in collaboration with Gil Leung of LUX and artist Ed Atkins.  

 


Round Table Discussion
WARD MAGAZINE ♯7
Mark Aerial Waller, Ed Atkins, James Richards, Gil Leung discuss art's adoption of the moving image

Artists Mark Aerial Waller, Ed Atkins, James Richards, Gil Leung and  Ben Clarke discussion for Ward Magazine

 

Artist Talk /Screening

Broadway cinema Nottingham
MONDAY 5th DECEMBER

phantom avantgarde, mark aerial waller 2010
IMAGE: PHANTOM AVANTGARDE COURTESY MARK AERIAL WALLER & RODEO

This programme of films examines the cultural evolution of images within society and the influence they have over an individual. The artists presented explore the relationship of historic images in the present day. The screening will include works by Doug Fishbone, Oliver Laric, Duncan Marquis, Mark Aerial Waller, Jennifer Ross, Clare Harris and Emily Wardill.

Following the screening there will be a Q&A chaired by Joanne Lee (Senior Lecturer, Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University) alongside artists Doug Fishbone and Mark Aerial Waller. The discussion will explore the contemporary use of images and re-appropriation, contemplating on where it is we are going.

MORE DETAILS /BOOK HERE

 

 

Community without Propinquity

End of Show Event - Milton Keynes Gallery 26/11/11

disintegrating solitude
[Image: detail of Disintegrating Solitude, Aquerelle on paper, Mark Aerial Waller 2011]

READ INTERVIEW WITH CARRY GORNEY, WRITER AND SYSTEMIC PSYCHANALYST

Community without Propinquity* is a project, curated by Claire Louise Staunton and Inheritance Projects, exploring the role of contemporary art and understandings of community in New Towns across the globe. For October and November, the The Project Space at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes has been an active Research Laboratory and forum for public events and new artist commissions. The focus of the research has been on the meaning of "community" in New Towns.

The closing event will frame this work and research within a panel discussion, the launch of a publication published by ANDPublic and And Endless Supply and the first chance to see new work by the six commissioned artists including Caroline Devine, Patrick Staff, Emma Smith, Kelly Large and Mark Aerial Waller.

MORE DETAILS

 

 

 

NEW PUBLICATION:
From Berkeley to Berkeley, Mai Abu ElDahab (Ed.)

CONTRIBUTION : INTERVIEW WITH MIKE SPERLINGER

From Berkeley to Berkeley, ed Mai Abu ElDahab,Sternberg Press

Objectif Exhibitions, 2008-2010 Interviews: Mai Abu ElDahab by Will Holder, Guy Ben-Ner by Jan Verwoert, Mariana Castillo Deball by Giovanni Carmine, Sancho Silva by Luca Cerizza, Michael Smith by Larissa Harris, Yael Davids by Frédérique Bergholtz, Mark Aerial Waller by Mike Sperlinger, Anne Daems by Ronald Van de Sompel, Chris Evans by Francesco Manacorda, Antonio Ortega by David G. Torres, Sharon Hayes by Roger Cook, Christian Jankowski by Raimundas Malašauskas, Michael Stevenson by Esperanza Rosales; glossary by Dexter Sinister

The publication includes a series of interviews with artists who exhibited at Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, over a two-year period, along with a collection of secondary and parallel material produced in collaboration with each artist. Ranging from the humorous to the pseudo-scientific, the artists discuss the methods by which their research is transformed into practice. Both the artists and the interviewers constitute a community of active and concerned arts practitioners who, through art-making, writing, curation and teaching, deal with issues of representation, behavioral patterns and historical legacy.

Co-published with Objectif Exhibitions
Design by Will Holder
Inside cover design by Frances Stark

September 2011, English
10.5 x 14.9 cm, 370 pages, softcover with dustjacket
ISBN 978-1-934105-34-4
$24.95 | €18.00
MORE INFO/ ORDER HERE

 

 

ICA    Artists' Film Club: Mark Aerial Waller

Wednesday 26 October 6.30pm

includes performance : YOGA HORROR
A confluence of instructional video, classic british horror, Dead of Night and a hybrid of the two.

ICA ARTIST FILM CLUB: WALLER
Script page 14, Dead of Night (1946)

ICA    Artists' Film Club: Mark Aerial Waller

Wednesday 26 October 6.30pm

 

A screening of work by London-based artist Mark Aerial Waller followed by a conversation between Waller and Francis McKee, director of the Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow

Mark Aerial Waller is an artist working in video, sculpture and event based practices which explore arcane gateways between reality and fiction. Waller defies conventional screening formats, integrating sculptural objects and live performances for an experience of cinema defined in spatial and situational terms. He is also the founder of The Wayward Canon, a platform for event-based interventions in cinematic practices.

£5 / Free to ICA Members
ICA Membership is just £10 for students

→ Booking information

 

 

 

A CLOCK THAT RUNS ON MUD

an online exhibition curated by Jennifer Teets for NERO

runs on mudWith 'muddy time' contributions by:

Mark Aerial Waller, Aslı Çavuşoğlu / Burak Arıkan, Vava Dudu, FRANCE FICTION (Marie Bonnet, Stéphane Argillet, Eric Camus, Lorenzo Cirrincione and Nicolas Nakamoto), Valentinas Klimašauskas, Darius Mikšys, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Francesco Pedraglio, PERENNIAL (Arnaud Hendrickx, Michael Van den Abeele, Richard Venlet), Tania Pérez Córdova,Michael Portnoy, Mateusz Sadowski, Carson Salter, Fatoş Üstek/Per Hüttner+counting

Jennifer Teets's exhibition is now online. You can visit the show HERE

 

caribic residency

Resident 30: MARK AERIAL WALLER

Sexta, 17 Junho 22h
Raiders Jacket, Ecko Jeans in the pool

Sábado, 18 Junho 22h
SUPERPOWER- DAKAR CHAPTER (2004/2011)


Rua Diogo Do Couto, 5a 
1100-195 Lisboa
www.caribicresidency.com

Sexta, 17 Junho 22h: Raiders Jacket, Ecko Jeans in the pool


Total derive on commodity fetishism: born again, perverted and reclaimed
There is some kind of sacrifice, once these clothes have been baptised they are not refundable or returnable, their commodity value has been washed away.
The submerged are both serious and exultant. There is a sense of triumph around. The years spent infusing the garments with corporate branding and pseudo philosophy have been dismantled in an instant by powerful niche eroticism.

Bring your Reeboks, Nike gear, combats, Armani, Gucci, Burberry. See them shine in the wet, floating and dripping, weaves reordered.

Sábado, 18 Junho 22h: SUPERPOWER- DAKAR CHAPTER
Mark Aerial Waller 2004/2011

12min + 12min music entr'acte
continuous

 

 

Bonn University is pleased to announce a BYOB session on Thursday 19th of May 2011 at 6pm. BYOB BONN will take place at the foyer of the Art History Department, the oldest in the world.

Curated by Angelo Plessas, Patrick C. Hass and the curating team of Bonn University

Mark Aerial Waller
Andreas Angelidakis
Kristina Buch
Tobias
Daemgen
Gia Edzgveradze
Carolin Eidner
Spiros Hadjidjanos
Harald Hoppe
Mischa Kuball
Sylbee Kim
Jon Moscow
Martina Mrongovius
Nicolas Pelzer
Angelo Plessas
Liv Schwenk
Wei Shao
Sabine Voltz

many more (list is being updated)

animated gif by SundaySunday

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midwatch and nelsons timeoutpost solo exhibition march 1st

Offering Transmission No 1
graphite on paper with video projection, 190cm x 150cm

 

Installation view:Offering Transmission No 1(left), Midwatch (right)
left:graphite on paper with video projection, 190cm x 150cm
right:Scorched plywood container with video monitor and seats, 4m x 2.5m x 2.5m

 

Installation view:Offering Transmission No 2 (right) Midwatch (left)
Right:graphite on paper with video projection,190cm x 150cm
Left:Scorched plywood container with video monitor and seats, 4m x 2.5m x 2.5m

 

Opening night performance:

Ron and John at Operation Mosaic
Interview Conducted by Mark Aerial Waller with two veterans of the first british nuclear tests.
Read by Douglas Park, with music by "                    "[sic] TIM GOLDIE

+ performance by Douglas Park of:
Loop & Pinhole Duct/Punctuation-Mark Crumb/Laser-Beam
Sewing-Thread/Mirror-Tile Picture-Window/Brick-Wall Control-Panel
Keyboard/Pharmaceutical Paramedic Plague.

 

"                     "[sic] TIM GOLDIE is one of the most original noise musician/performers on the European scene. His double album "ABJECTOR"[sic] is a violent and considered examination of the fragmentation of language, the de-composition of instrumental research and the painful suffering that accompanies it. Far from any current or cultural influence, Goldie's work places itself in a unique conceptual universe, and its cruel voice warbles a mix of agony and ecstasy. Netmage Festival, Italy 2009
http://www.myspace.com/sarcomasign

Douglas Park

born: 23-01-'72, United Kingdom, visual artist, writer (of literary prose and critical essays, both mostly art connected), sometime exhibition curator (and increasingly all practices and roles combined), currently U.K based and internationally active.
http://www.myspace.com/douglas_park

 

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LES GRANDES ORGUES DE FRANCE FICTION #2
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A new CD of music and sound recordings available now through France Fiction

france ficion Les Grandes Orgues

Lancement de l'album
Samedi 8 janvier 2011
A partir de 18h

à FRANCE FICTION
6bis, rue du Forez, Paris 3e

Avec : Adrial Solstice, Aniaetleprogammeur, Anna Zaradny, Arne Vinzon, Belleville Boy, Berglind Augustsdottir, Colin Johnco, Dandy Lion Syd, David tv, Dominik Emrich, La Chatte, Jennifer Teets, Lasser Moderna, Le Grand Bizarre, Lorenzo Cirrincione, Mark Aerial Waller, Marc Poitvin, Marie Bonnet, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Nikolu, Notsocöld, Paul Gellman et Hedi El Kholti, Peebles + Brettles, Peine Perdue, Saint Germain des prés c'est moi, Simon Madeleine, Stéphane Argillet Stereovoid