'The Old Police Station' - www.tempcontemp.co.uk/oldpolicestation.html

Brought to you by Anthony Gross of temporarycontempoary, the Old Police
Station is an artist-run project in the form of a propositional
'do-it-yourself art centre'. It is an experimental cultural and economic
model that aims at least for self-sufficiency.

Laden with police processes and signage, the facility is an archaeology of
institutional structures with period rooms, cinematic prison cells, an old
gym and operations yard. For the next 7 years, this architectural
infrastructure will house 30 studios, multiple gallery and rehearsal
rooms, independent project spaces, a potential residency programme, an
on-line radio station - and a 'Members Club', the social hub of the building.

’Event Horizon’, 30th Nov 08 - 19th Jan 09. GSK Contemporary. Co-curated with Jen Wu.
Programmed social club and sculpture rooms.
At the old Museum of Mankind, 6 Burlington Gardens,The Royal Academy, London.

Visit: http://www.tempcontemp.co.uk/eventhorizon.html
and: http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/gsk-contemporary-season/exhibitions/event-horizon/


Design with Jen Wu for a Social Club, details of hanging fabric wall panels, and line of events posters - South Wall.

Left: David Medalla, Homage to the Venus de Milo, 2008. Performance.
Right: Bob & Roberta Smith with Le Suisse Marocain feat. Leonardo Ulian, Bob Shop, 2008. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Jen Wu

S C U L P T U R E   B E C O M I N G :
Environments by Marc Camille Chaimowicz, David Medalla, Georgina Starr, Brian Griffiths, and Plastique Fantastique (David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan).


B E Y O N D   T H E  H O R I Z O N :
Installation, social events, and performance by Spartacus Chetwynd (Helmut Newton Ladies Nights), Bob & Roberta Smith (Bob Shop & piano bar), Mark Titchner (artist residency, Hawkwind acid test), Gail Pickering (focus group convention centre), Tai Shani (tableau performance feat. Guapo), Reza Aramesh (street occupation), Alexander Hidalgo (fashion and music), Lindsay Seers (cinema performance), Pil and Galia Kollectiv (sci-fi banquet), Adam Nankervis (performance), Luke Oxley (art/shop), Cara Ball Tolmie (performance), Richard Squires (performance), and David Burrows (contacting angels).


L A S T    D R I N K    F O R   1 0 0 0    M I L E S :
Live music by The Apathy Band, Mark Pearson, Omnivore Demon, The Beards, Ming Ming and the Ching Chings, selections by John Millar, Jason Underhill (karaoke), Hawkwind covers band, Young UK fashion show (Volume Magazine), Poker All Stars, a special web project by Nina Triveli and Catherine Borra, façade timelords by Anthony Gross, Bistrotheque Monday Cabaret, with Bourgeois & Maurice and Jonny Woo.

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Curated by Anthony Gross and Jen Wu.
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temporarycontemporary takes up residence at GSK Contemporary, the new contemporary season at The Royal Academy, 6 Burlington Gardens. Event Horizon appears in the form of a social club and sculpture rooms, where ‘sculpture becomes event’, examining installation and DIY social culture through nearly three months of actions and exhibitions.

Conceived to explore the dynamics of contemporary art and its relationship to other art forms, the GSK Contemporary season is curated by David Thorp. An extensive range of international artists from Europe, Asia and the US will participate in over 100 exhibitions, live events, film screenings, symposia, performance, experimental theatre and music.

Within this major new contemporary season, temporarycontemporary present Event Horizon, an occupation and programme of new commissions by London-based artists unfolding throughout the season tracing a timeline of sculpture transforming into social experience.

A social club installation by temporarycontemporary in the neo-classical ‘Senate Room’ functions as an infrastructure housing over 30 nights of live events including performances, artist residencies, club nights, music, banquets, poker and more. The social club hosts a bar-by-night by Bistrotheque and café-by-day by Elaine Chalmers and Douglas McFarlane.

Design for a chair
Using recalimed materials, a job lot of chair frames are re-used with rope to make indoor/outdoor seating

INTOPOSITION is a project which supports and communicates the activities of the younger Viennese artscene, as well as introduces international artists and independent art spaces in Vienna.

This show invites the participation of temporarycontemporary to bring a discussion to the Vienna art scene about self-organisation and navigating the mainstream with alternate models, modes and behaviours of production. This episode, curated by Anthony Gross and Jen Wu, focuses on the practice - and alternate practice - of Reza Aramesh, Mark Pearson (also presenting Howard Dyke), Luke Oxley and John Russell in turn looking at the Centrefold Scrapbook, Backlands and Frozen Tears projects. It is the second part in an on-going project (see SPACE INVASION below).

This September INTOPOSITION brings a spectacular event to Vienna - 8 positions with contributions by David Shrigley, Spike Magazine, curators Elsy Lahner, Emanuel Layr, THE LAB with Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Roman Signer and many more. More detailed information about the Vienna project at www.intopos.com

Left: Frozen tears I, II & III. John Russell
Right: Pages from Centrefold Magazine, organised by Reza Aramesh

Left: The Origin of Goth, Mark Pearson
Right: Sign III, Luke Oxley

’Work Place Cabinet’,
Unit 1, 117-119 Denmark Road, London SE5 9LB

After combining the project space and studios at The Old Seager Distillery in Deptford (temporarycontemporary's HQ from 2004-2006, demolished end 2006), it became clear that due to property speculation and the process of 'gentrification', artist studio buildings would need to find another economic model in order to exist. Work Place Cabinet takes the form of a warehouse conversion that can provide permanent and rent- controlled studios and curatorial offices.

"The idea for a 'Work Place Cabinet' was invigorated with extended visits to China (British Council Artist links Residency 2006) with it's surge of artist-business activity in the Chaoyang district represented by amongst others, Ai Wei Wei's building for Urs Meile and AWW's own studio complex. Whilst clearly very much responding to the current climate in China, this activity seems to echo London in the mid 90's, the YBA art + entrepreneur practice + London property boom and bust. Now, in late 2008, London finds itself in a new economic circumstance that will create an artist and artist studio boom: recession, inflation, property boom and bust, property developments on hold etc etc. This is exactly when inventive and new economic/artistic models should be tested".

’Space Invasion’, Vienna
An International Offspace Exhibition Project
Riemergasse 4, 1010 Vienna
April 14 to 21, 2007

Participating Project Spaces and Initiatives:
CAPRI, Berlin, LE 9BIS, Saint-Etienne, LES COMPLICES*, Zurich, SEILERSTÄTTE OFF PROJECT, Vienna, SPACE INVASION WIEN, Vienna, TEMPORARYCONTEMPORARY, London

Participating Artists:
REZA ARAMESH, SARAH BAKER, Ruth Barabash, Ina Bierstedt, Barbara Breitenfellner, Nicole Bianchet, Markus Bösch, Bettina Carl, Eva Chytilek, Julia Cottin, Gaston Damag, Damien Deroubaix, Christian Egger, Lorenz Estermann, Dietmar Fleischer, Ingo Gerken, Christian Garrier, Jörn Gerstenberg, ANTHONY GROSS, Stephan Hafner, Geka Heinke, Tom Heinzer, Sofia Hultén, Anne-Marie Jugnet & Alain Clairet, Ilona Kalnoky, FRANCIS LAMB, Claude Lévêque, Joep van Liefland, Alena Meier, Christoph Raitmayr, Jean-Baptiste Sauvage, Fabian Seiz, Assan Smati, Adrien Tirtiaux, Wawrziniec Tokarski, Baltazar Torres, Yannick Vey, Johannes Vogl, MARK AERIAL WALLER, Albert Weis, Wladimir Winter, JEN WU.

http://www.spaceinvasion.at

Left: Reza Aramesh, Of This Men Shall Know Nothing, 2005.
Video documentation of performed still life at Thomas Goode Shop, London, installation view.
Right: Sarah Baker, I Have Nothing, 2007. Video, installation view.

Left: Anthony Gross, 1000 Years Empire, 2005. Computer animation, installation view.
Right: Francis Lamb, The Fantasist, 2003. Video, installation view.

Left: Mark Aerial Waller, Reversion of the Beast Folk, 2004. Video 8 min with 3 min music interval, video still.
Right: Jen Wu, YouthInAsia1: Killing Me Softly, 2005. Video, video still.

’Pool Hall Frieze’, proposal with Jen Wu shorlisted for the Frieze-Cartier Award.
A proposal for a structure covered in woodgrain effect Fablon plastic coating. This 'pool hall' contains three pool tables that are free to play. We would invite players from the Camberwell Snooker Hall to play all day everyday during the Frieze opening hours. The internal walls of the hall are lined with artworks, a curated group show of London-based artists in vitrines. Playing is free and if you beat one of our players you get to choose an artwork of your choice. The sold artworks would be replaced by a polaroid photgraph of the winner shaking hands with the pool player. Whilst obviously a witty critique in the context of an art fair, the project also brings other qualities to the fair, the notion of the dive, the hang out, the hussle, the wager, art as trophy...

drawing Anthony Gross

’Nekromantik', Zoo Art Fair, London

A project space is a Frankenstein creation - an assemblage of culture parts that has a single main purpose : a moment of vitality. Awaking in Zoo, our wooden structure embodies a project space in flux. It holds a 2 year ethnography as a salon and library.

Caroline Achaintre, Reza Aramesh, Sarah Baker, Sam Basu, David Burrows & Simon O'Sullivan, Lorin Davies, Ian Dawson, Patricia Ellis, Anthony Gross, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Denise Kum, David Medalla & Adam Nankervis, Cedar Lewisohn, Paul O'Neill, Luke Oxley, Alicia Paz, Mark Pearson, Sarah Pierce, Lindsay Seers, Tai Shani, Markus Vater, Annie Whiles, Jen Wu

SPECIAL GUEST ARTISTS: Han Bing, Rafael Rozendaal. SPECIAL PROJECTS: David Burrows & Simon O'Sullivan, aka Plastique Fantastique, Paul O'Neill, 'Our Day Will Come' a project that invites: Dave Beech & Mark Hutchinson, 'The First Condition', Vaari Claffey, 'Feint Magazine',Sarah Pierce, 'The Metropolitan Complex'

’Video Cocktail’, exhibition at Tate Modern.
A selection of 4 video works by Lali Chetwynd, Oriana Fox, Lindsay Seers and Joe Walsh.
In an evening curated by Cedar Lewisohn also including Guerilla Girls and PLANNINGTOROCK
and a screening by Laurie Simmons selected by Stuart Comer.

SHOWING:
Joe Walsh. Mister Miguel (2004) 5 min. Music by Kevin Blechdom (Chicks On Speed Records)
Oriana Fox. Our Bodies, Ourselves (2003) 2 min 20 sec. Tale of Narcissus (2003) 4 min 50 sec.
Lindsay Seers. Extramission (2005) 12 min.
Spartacus Chetwynd. Born Free - The Death of a Conservationalist (2004) 10 min 46 sec.
Courtesy Herald St, London.

’Metropolis Rise : New Art from London’. Shanghai + Beijing April/May 06

Group show curated by Anthony Gross and Jen Wu touring to the Moganshan area of Shanghai and the 798 Space in Beijing. Including 58 artists from the London scene and a 198 page colour publication with essays in English and Chinese by David Burrows, David Madella, Suhail Malik and others. Supported by Arts Council England, British Council Shanghai, British Council Beijing, CQL Centre, Bizart and Thinking Hands.

Here we developed reading table structures that can be repeated and adapted to suit sculpture, video, photography, ephemera etc. The light wood tables reference both an anthropoligical display as well as a customs inspection desk. This allows one to take a different view of the idea of a 'survey' instead creating something more immediate, less museological. The customs notion address our thoughts on 'import / export' for this exhibition: going against the grain to 'import' UK art rather than 'export' art from China as would be the expectation. In this sense this exhibition, in fact the first survey show of art from the UK, breaks new ground and looks forward to the next stage of China's development culturally...

Please visit www.metropolis-rise.co.uk for more information

installation view Shanghai
from left to right: Sam Basu, Cedar Lewisohn, David Lock

installation view Shanghai
from left to right: Hideyuki Sawayanagi, Annie Whiles, Mayling To

installation view Shanghai

installation view Beijing

’Stuff from China’, Art Car Boot Fair, Truman Brewery, London.

A market stall in London selling goods bought at markets in China.

Curated exhibitions at temporarycontemporary (www.tempcontemp.co.uk),

’Video Cocktail ’, off-site group video show co-curated by Jen Wu at The Albany Bar, great Portland Street. Coinciding with Frieze artfair 2005.
In collaboration with Glassbox, Paris. With: Thomas Barbey & Olivier Cazin.* Dominique Blais.* John Lalor.* Anthony Gross. Cyril Lepetit 'International Exhibitionist'. Miltos Manetas & Luuk Bouwman. Damon Packard. Joe Walsh. Julie Wells. Jen Wu.
http://www.tempcontemp.co.uk/cocktail.html

’Kernel Panic’, group show engaging with the contemporary digital condition. With: Dusu Choi, Dædalus, Anthony Gross, Faiyaz Jafri, Miltos Manetas & Luuk Bouwman, Rafaël Rozendaal, DJ /Rupture & Daniel Perlin. Installation by Jen Wu, incorporating public areas with Bernadette Corporation & Raqs Media Collective
http://www.tempcontemp.co.uk/kernel.html

Man from Uranus

’Poker - redux’, group shows co-curated with Jen Wu consisting of 3 poker private games. Video footage of the played hands relayed to Redux gallery.
Show/game 1: Lorin Davies / Cyril Lepetit / Caroline Mccarthy / Lindsay Seers / Tai Shani
Show/game 2: Sarah Baker / Monica Biagioli / Monika Oechsler / Paul O'neill / Luke Oxley
Show/game 3: Diann Bauer / Ian Dawson / Marcus Harvey / Denise Kum / Mark Pearson / Mark Titchner
http://www.tempcontemp.co.uk/coalesce.html

’FleaMarket II’, group show with 60 artists revisiting art as bazaar. With live bands including Man from Uranus.
http://www.tempcontemp.co.uk/FleaMarket3.html

'Biennale! Artist Film & Video', group show of international video with tour in Berlin and China. + catalogue. Guest Selectors: Jananne Al-Ani (London) Christian Chapelle (Copenhagen) Stuart Comer (London/Los Angeles) Ben Cook (London) Nataline Colonnello (Shanghai) Flemming Neilsen (Miami) Paul O’neill (London) Davide Quadrio (Shanghai) Edward Mitterrand (Paris, Geneva) Curated By Anthony Gross (London) Selected Artists: David Blandy Gerard Byrne Lu Chunsheng Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard Oriana Fox Jonah Freeman Jonas Fromm + Andreas Schulenburg Anthony Gross Anne Marie Kennedy Francis Lamb Michelle Naismith Damon Packard Giles Perry Josefina Posch Jimmy Robert Mark Aerial Waller Grace Weir Jen Wu Yang Zhenzhong Panel Discussion With: Jananne Al-Ani Stuart Comer Mike Sperlinger. Supported By Arts Council England.
http://www.tempcontemp.co.uk/Biennale.html

'Biennale! Artist Film & Video' - China tour 2005/6 to Dashanzi Festival, Beijing; Bizart, Shanghai; RedSkyArt, Haikou; TankLoft, Chongqing
http://www.tempcontemp.co.uk/dashanzi.html

‘Mesmer’, group show about the artist’s hypnotic gaze. With: Jonathan Allen / Diann Bauer / Ian Dawson / Howard Dyke / Peter Fillingham / Anthony Gross / Laurie Hill / Francis Lamb / Cedar Lewisohn / David Lock / Paul O'Neill / Luke Oxley / Seb Patane / Giles Round / Lindsay Seers / Mark Titchner / Jen Wu.
http://www.tempcontemp.co.uk/mesmer1.html

’FleaMarket’, group show with 80 artists in the form of a market. With live bands including thrash metal band 'Veto'.
http://www.tempcontemp.co.uk/FleaMarket1.html

‘Blind Date’, group show co-curated by Jen Wu where invited artists select further artists who select further artists.
Jen Wu invites Suzanne Mooney invites Runa Islam
Mark Pearson invites Cedar Lewisohn invites Patricia Ellis
Anthony Gross invites Juan Bolivar invites Mauro Bonacina
In partnership with the Creative Lewisham Agency and the Culture 2000 Programme of the European Union, temporarycontemporary hosts RADAR Project artist Svetlana Mircheva.
+ special guests Utrophia
http://www.tempcontemp.co.uk/BlindDate.html

’General Idea ’, curated by Paul O'Neill. Design of exhibition display structures for 'Project', Temple Bar, Dublin

’Tonight’, curated by Paul O'Neill. Studio Voltaire, London. Collaboration & design of exhibition display structures.

'Shapeshifters', Galerie M-Projects, Paris. Group show with
Brian Griffiths, Ian Dawson, Matt Franks, Denise Kum, Sheena Macrea, Jen Wu