Dexter Sinister will occupy the Commander’s Room at the 7th Regiment Armory every day from 4 March to 23 March 2008 releasing a series of parallel texts through multiple channels of distribution which reflect on the 2008 Whitney Biennial.Rushton will work with them between 14th and 19th of March on a video release concerning media feedback loops.
‘The Blind Spot’ at JvE
January 17, 2008
Venue: Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht
Date: January 31st
In response to the propositions introduced in Katja Gretzinger’s project ‘Thinking Through Blind Spots’, Rushton will address different notions of criticality within the practices of art and design.
Lecture: After Neurath, The Global Polis
January 16, 2008
Venue: Debalie, Amsterdam
Date: February 8th
Time: 8.30 pm
As the After Neurath project enters a new phase, Rushton will respond to Nader Vossoughian’s lecture, After Neurath: The Global Polis
Links:
The book, Otto Neurath: The Language of the Global Polis (Nai, 2008)
Vossoughian explains the themes of Global Polis on youtube
‘Martin Beck in conversation with Steve Rushton’
January 4, 2008Casco,Office for Art, Design and Theory, Nieuwekade 213-215, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Sunday 13 January, 16.00
Casco write: “Steve Rushton will respond to themes arising from Martin Beck’s exhibition, followed by a discussion between Rushton and Beck. Martin Beck’s video work ‘About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe’ (2007) continues his longstanding interest in the history of exhibitions. The video shows the gradual assembley and disassembley of a reproduction of the 1948 Struc-Tube exhibition system, a portable and infinitely expandable display structure designed by the American designer George Nelson in 1948. The video is installed at Casco in a specially built screening-environment composed of four suspended panels, and is contextualized with works by Sol LeWitt, Eadweard Muybridge, and an assortment of books on modern exhibition history. The exhibition is accompanied by a new publication on the work with essays by Bill Horrigan, Emily Pethick and Martin Beck, which contextualize the work and elaborate on aspects of sovereignity and control in modern exhibition history, co-published by Four Corners Books, London. ‘About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe’ is a satellite programme of Utrecht Manifest, 2007, the second biennial for social design.”
Date Due
December 10, 2007Date Due is a publication project coinciding with a solo exhibition by the artist Mario Garcia Torres at The Kadist Art Foundation, Paris. Rushton was commissioned to write an adaptation of Hinrich Böll’s short story “Murke’s Collected Silences”. The Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2007.
In production: Flat Earth and Department of Reading
November 28, 2007
FLAT EARTH a film by Thomson & Craighead, with script by Steve Rushton
+ will be BROADCAST on Channel 4 this Sunday December 2nd at 00.00hrs. The program is an hour long and includes all six new Animate Projects and interviews.
+ is being SHOWN in Amsterdam as part of Montevideo’s exhibition, ‘Video Vortex 2′, which opens on 8th December 2007 and runs until 3rd February 2008: http://www.montevideo.nl
+ Flat Earth was screened at Whitechapel Gallery in London on 29th November http://www.whitechapel.org/content.php?
Also
THE DEPARTMENT OF READING. SYMPOSIUM FOR READERS will take place on the 1st and 2nd of November and will include a reading of Rushton’s text ‘wearable memory, work and text’.
For symposium on line go to:
http://www.reading.department.cc/
Venue: GfKFB (Gesellschaft für Künstlerische Forschung Berlin)
Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V.
Am Flutgraben 3
12435 Berlin
Masters of Reality
September 18, 2007The text Masters of Reality gives an overview of Rushton’s latest research. Click here to download the document [masters-of-reality-for-site.doc]
It examines three related subjects:
1) The notion that we are biologically and culturally encoded – a notion which is derived in the first instance from cybernetics and information theory and described by Catherine N. Hayles as “the ontology of the Code”
2)That contemporary media is essentially a ‘feedback’ system’ – a term also derived from cybernetics.
3)The degree to which the rise of ‘self-performing subject’ within the media (all those reality TV shows), and within culture in general (Myspace and blogs like this one), are predicated on the above.”
Keywords: behaviourism, cybernetics, feedback, media theory, the ontology of the code, re-enactment, self-performance.
Lectures:
September 9, 2007
May 26, 2007, talk outlining the ideas behind “Masters of Reality” to the symposium “Camouflage”, at the British Library, London (organized by Professor Sue Golding from Greenwich University).
May 25, 2007, lecture on Otto Neurath to staff and post-graduate students at Greenwich University.
28 April, 2007, Keynote lecture for the conference “Now (and Again), Re-enactment and the Moving Image”, at the BFI, London. Speakers included: Michael Witt, Nina Pope, Sarah Cook, Annie Siegel, Michele Pierson, Penny Woodcock, Paul Sutton, Jeremy Deller and Alison Ludlow.
May 28, 2007, Behave Yourself – talk and film programme curated by Steve Rushton as part of the video weekend at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht (2007)
Otto Neurath, Art and Economy. Lecture to students of ArtEZ, MA in fine art programme, Arnham at Stroom, The Hague (2007)
Otto Neurath, Art and Economy. Lecture to students of the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (2007)
After Neurath, Chair and organiser of two-day symposium, Stroom, The Hague, (2006)
Behave Yourself, Project Art Centre, Dublin, (2006)
Re-enactment and Early News Footage, lecture to accompany the exhibition Greenwich Degree Zero by Tom McCarthy & Rod Dickinson, Beaconsfield Gallery, London (2006)
Re-enactment and the Distribution of Bodies in Space, lecture to accompany the exhibition Muzealine Covery by Hubert Czerepok, National Art Museum, Krakow (2006)
Re-enactment and the Distribution of Bodies in Space (part of the series Pixels of our Reality), Public Space With a Roof, Amsterdam (2006)
Course lecturer and seminar leader, BA Media Theory level 2, University of Greenwich (2005-2006)
Editing and Practice, London College of Communications, London (2005)
Interlude, The Reader’s Traces, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2005)
Never Odd or Even, Maares Contemporary Art Centre, Maastricht (2005)
Introduction to Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park.
Part of the screening/lecture series Re-enactment, Experience and Memory.
Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. (2004)
Introduction to The Milgram Re-enactment, and Pierre Huige’s The Third Memory followed by discussion with Rod Dickinson. Part of the screening/lecture series Re-enactment, Experience and Memory, Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam (2004)
Re-enactment and Documentary,
VidioLisboa (Lisbon Video Festival), Lisbon (2003)
The Milgram Re-enactment and discussion with Rod Dickinson at Tourettes, Gallery 139, Amsterdam (2003)
Editing in Practice (with Isabelle Graf and Norman Bryson),
Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht (2002)
Assessing Documenta
Panel discussion and screening of my short film ‘Documenta 12’
Erasmus University/TENT., Rotterdam (2002)
In the Name of Science
Lecture on the exhibition The Tenth Level
Contemporary Art Centre, Glasgow (2002)
In Production…
September 9, 2007Recent publication: “ Date Due” is a publication project coinciding with a solo exhibition by the artist Mario Garcia Torres at The Kadist Art Foundation, Paris. Rushton was commissioned to write an adaptation of Hinrich Böll’s short story “Murke’s Collected Silences”. Publication date and opening of Garcia Torres’ exhibition, September 20, 2007.
Publication: “He Lived In a Duplex…”, with texts by Steve Rushton and Illuminations by Hubert Czerepok (see image above), goes to press in January 2008.
Film: Flat Earth, a film by Thomson & Craighead with Steve Rushton, will be broadcast on Channel Four (UK TV) in the autumn of 2007.
Exhibition: The first half of 2008 will see a touring exhibition featuring vintage issues of everything Magazine (1992-2001), which was edited by Steve Rushton, Luci Eyers and John Timberlake (AKA everything Editorial). More details to follow…
(Above, everything issue 3, volume 3, 2000, cover by Paul Elliman)
Researching: “Masters of Reality, Part Two”
Exhibition: History Will Repeat Itself
September 9, 2007Curated by Inke Arns, was recently at the HMKV at Pheonix Hall, Dortmund.
The show included The Milgram Re-enactment by Rod Dickinson (in collaboration with Graeme Edler and Steve Rushton). It tours to the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin from November 18, 2007 – January 13, 2008
A retrospective of the collective Irational was also at the HMKV at Pheonix Hall, Dortmund earlier this year and then at the CCA, Glasgow. Steve Rushton, Luci Eyers and Rachel Baker’s Cramley (1995-1999) was included.
Cramley: A Brief History
In 1995 the fictitious borough is established as letters demanding payment to Cramley Borough Council for the infringement of bylaws are posted to innocent individuals.
In 1996 Luci Eyers and Steve Rushton are commissioned by Cramley to produce a web site that profiles the borough. The arts policy was particularly noteworthy, with its mission to be “both cutting edge and a service to the community”. From that date the Borough becomes one of the main sponsors of everything Magazine and also supports many on line artists projects.
In 1998 Irational’s Rachel Baker organizes the Cramley Election. Rushton and Baker go head to head in a battle between Christian morality (Rushton) and new technology (Baker). Baker wins the on line poll by a landslide (accusations of vote rigging persist to this day). In 2003 the Framley Examiner appears. Its resemblance to Cramley (and particularly to The Cramley Chronicle which was printed in1998) is noted. However, the Borough’s moral rights division takes no legal action.
