see http://www.tumblr.com for more details of the double sited temporary installation at the Old Operating Theatre Museum
Old Operating Theatre Museum Installation images
Old Operating Theatre Museum, London Bridge. New installation. 4-7Dec 2009
Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret
9a St Thomas St
London SE1 9R1
Bioluminescent bacteria are widely used in scientific research, usually as internal markers. By inverting this practice and employing bacteria as an external light source, objects and bodies, surfaces and skin are exposed to the soft ethereal glow of the bacteria, establishing new points of contact and visual punctures. What is usually seen under the lens of the microscope is here the source of light that reveals the features of human bodies and enters the world of domesticity.
Festival @rt Outsiders 2009 Sep 9 - Oct 11 2009
(Un)Inhabitable? Art of Extreme EnvironmentsMaison Européenne de la Photographie. 5-7, Rue de Fourcy, 75004 Paris. Metro: Saint Paul or Pont Marie
September 9 - October 11 2009 Wednesday – Sunday / 11 am-8 pm
"(Un)Inhabitable? – Art of Extreme Environments" presents works that explore the meaning of living in extreme environments, in the imaginary realm as well as in the physical one, in the political, social and environmental fields as well as in the poetic ones. The 2009 edition of the @rt Outsiders Festival —celebrating this year its tenth anniversary—focuses on extreme environments.
These are environments that were, until recently, uninhabited by human beings and that contemporary science and technology turn into "inhabitable" places (Antarctica, underwater world, outer space, deserts); but also those that are becoming "uninhabitable" due to the impacts of our way of life (pollution, technological accidents, economical pressures and global warming).
Artists : Howard Boland & Laura Cinti ; Anne Brodie ; Peter Cusack ; Stephen Eastaugh ; Shiro Matsui ; Connie Mendoza ; Hu Jie Ming ; Forrest Myers ; Lucy + Jorge Orta ; Bradley Pitts ; Andrea Polli ; Catherine Rannou ; Ana Rewakowicz ; Yang Yi.
Curators : Jean-Luc Soret, artistic director of the @rt Outsiders Festival. Annick Bureaud, theoretician and art critic, director of Leonardo/Olats.
Press : Yannick Le Guillanton Tel : ++ 33/1 44 78 75 20 E-Mail : le.guillanton [@] art-outsiders.com
Bioluminescent updates
'Exploring the Invisible' is a current Wellcome funded project that will culminate in a temporary site specific installation at the Old Operating Theatre in London Bridge. Click on http://bioproject.tumblr.com/ to view recent images and video outcomes of this collaborative project, and Wellcome Library to read about the project as July's item of the month.
Anne Brodie & Yael Rosenblut - The Visitors
The Ice House, Helmsdale's monumental deep freeze. Once a store for salmon catch, later a coal fired fish and chip shop. TimeSpan's artist in residence and youth arts curator Ruth Macdougall has commissioned Chilean video artist Yael Rosenblut and myself to research and respond to the Ice House. The resulting work will constitute a double sited installation inside the ice house and in Timespan Galleryfrom 4July to 2nd Aug 2009. Read Scottish Art critic Giles Sutherland's review of the exhibition.
New Basement work
Part of an ongoing series of photographic images documenting the process and detritus of my working practice.