Rainer Ganahl’s film ‘FRIEDRICH ENGELS: THE CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASS IN ENGLAND, 1844/1952/2011 (2011,Video/DVD, 7:12) made whilst on residence with ‘Reading for Reading’s Sake’ at Islington Mill, for the Bury Text Festival 2011 will be screened at Vox Populi Gallery as part of their Art Writing series. Ganahl made a body of work including videos, assemblage, photographs, paintings and prints from a reading of Engel’s 1844 book which describes the miserable lives of workers in England, in particular Manchester and Salford. Rainer Ganahl is a New York based visual artist who has been staging reading groups and documenting various didactic processes for over a decade. He has exhibited internationally and previously represented Austria in the Venice Biennale (1999).
“On Thursday 26 January, 7:30pm, AUX presents the second Art Writing event, following November’s kick-off. Curated by London-based collective KIOSK, who will remain “present” throughout the night via a Skype screening, the evening features art writing and performance from artists in the UK and the USA by Nightwatch, The Collect, The Original Copy, Bonnie Jones, and Helen Kaplinsky.
From London, Helen Kaplinsky is a curator and writer currently holding a curatorial fellowship related to the UK Arts Council collection, and who often curates programmes in collaboration with emerging contemporary artists in event-based, experimental formats. Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American writer, improvising musician and performer, working primarily with electronic music and text, interested in how people perceive, “read”, and interact with these sounds and texts given our current technological moment.”
http://www.kioskcollective.org/
http://www.voxpopuligallery.org/
Posted on January 22, 2012
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