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| Status Project, 2010, courtesy the artist |
GALERIE8
Arthaus, 203 Richmond Road, London E8 3NJ
presents:
Artist Talk: Heath Bunting in conversation with Mihaela Varzari
Tuesday 15 May 2012, 6PM
Artist Heath Bunting will discuss
his vision of the artist collectives in the 90′s and their gradual or sudden
progression towards a new possible way of active resistance to societal
hierarchies. Perhaps best known for his performance BorderXing, 2007,
Bunting illegally crossed a number of frontiers throughout Europe as an enquiry
into the notion of borders within the current social landscape, which can give
meaning to either external or internal senses of limitation. His latest
work Status Project, 2011 deals with contemporary understandings of class
systems within our contemporary society.
In her research, Varzari is interested
in raising issues such as authorship and authenticity in the age of the
commons, the versatile nature of collective work – often described as social
rather than artistic – and the contemporary artist as the model of a new
transnational citizen. The discussion will also aim to reveal the manners in
which artists groups have emerged, articulated and presented themselves in the
last 15 years in the European cultural context, paying close attention to the
current financial and ideological crisis as it affects the relation between
artistic individuality and group dynamics.
Heath Bunting was born a Buddhist in Wood Green, London, UK
and is able to make himself laugh (currently, reduced to only smile). He is a
co-founder of net.art, irational.org,
and sport-art movements. His self taught and authentically independent work is
direct and uncomplicated and has never been awarded a prize. He aspires to be a
skillful member of the public and is producing an expert system for identity
mutation. At 01:42 on 31/12/2011 at his home in Bristol, he invented web 3.0 and is offering
it for sale for 100 million dollars.
Mihaela
Varzari is a London-based
researcher in contemporary arts and art critic. She holds an MA in History of
Art from Birkbeck College, University
of London has curated No
Spitting, a community based art project supported by Tower Hamlets Council, London. She is a contributor
to the magazines IDEA art+society, ARTA & www.thisistomorrow.info.
for video pls follow vimeo link
https://vimeo.com/55438007
for video pls follow vimeo link
https://vimeo.com/55438007
