CURATORIAL

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A series of curatorial propositions and structures that often investigate curating as an architectural
process, resulting in 'Social Structures for Enabling' - Event, The Social, Pleasure and a Living
Anthropology of Display.

Curatorial projects have taken three forms: 'temporarycontemporary' - a project with Jen Wu; 'structures
for display' - collaboratively developed designs for physical exhibition structures; finally are the studio
building(s), combining artistic and curatorial practice within architectural infrastructures.

 

 

 

2012

 

Enclave, 50 Resolution Way, Deptford, London. Ongoing arts infrastructure with gallery, project space and curatorial club room, residency cabin tbc, and hosting 9 independent artist-run project spaces. Founded and directed by Anthony Gross. www.EnclaveProjects.com

 
2009 'The Old Police Station', 114 Amersham Vale, New Cross, London. Ongoing.
A seven-year project founded and directed by Anthony Gross.


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2008 'Event Horizon', Royal Academy of Arts, London. Curated by temporarycontemporary (Anthony Gross and Jen Wu) as part of GSK Contemporary curated by David Thorp. 30 Oct 08 - 19 Jan 09.

Georgina Starr - event horizonBob and Roberta Smith - event horizon
Georgina Starr, Flesh: Six Sculptures. Bob & Roberta Smith with Le Suisse Marocain, Bob Shop. Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Some, Some Not.


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 • Plastique Fantastique (David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan) • temporarycontemporary

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 (acid test) • Gail Pickering (animal convention centre) • Tai Shani (tableau extravaganza) • Reza Aramesh (street occupation) • Alexander Hidalgo (fashion music event) • Lindsay Seers (cinema performance) • Pil and Galia Kollectiv (sci-fi banquet) • Adam Nankervis (fragile luminescence) • Luke Oxley (gift shop) • David Burrows & Kit Poulson (contacting angels) • Paul O’Neill (General Idea films and DJ set) • David Blamey and Craig Richards (somnabulent sound)

L A S T    D R I N K    F O R   1 0 0 0    M I L E S :
Mark Pearson (stagtronic) • Jason Underhill (karaoke) • Bistrotheque Monday Cabaret with Bourgeois & Maurice and Jonny Woo • temporarycontemporary's Poker All Stars • Bob & Roberta Smith with The Apathy Band, the No No Band, Victor Mount, Leigh Clarke • Evil Gazebo play Hawkwind's 'Space Ritual’ • Young UK fashion show (Volume Magazine) • 'Sawing Off the Branch I'm Sitting on' selection by John Millar inc. Cara Tolmie, Richard Squires, Ming Ming and the Ching Chings, and others • web project by Catherine Borra and Nina Trivedi • and more

The social club hosts a bar-by-night by Bistrotheque and café-by-day by Elaine Chalmers and Douglas McFarlane.
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2007 Bauernmarkt 1 and 9, Vienna. Curated by Anthony Gross as part of 'INTOPOSITION’ curated by Elsy Lahner and Emanuel Layr. www.intopos.com

INTOPOSITION invites 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, 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.


Frozen tears I, II & III, John Russell. Pages from Centrefold Svrapbook, organised by Reza Aramesh. Mark Pearson, The Origin of Goth. Luke Oxley, Sign III.
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  ∞ 'Work Place Cabinet', Unit 1, 117-119 Denmark Road, London. Project by Anthony Gross.

After combining the project space and studios at The Old Seager Distillery in Deptford (temporarycontemporary's HQ from 2004-06, demolished 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 its 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."


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  ∞ Riemergasse 4, Vienna. Curated by temporarycontemporary as part of 'Space Invasion: An International Offspace Exhibition Project' curated by Elsy Lahner. www.spaceinvasion.at
Reza Aramesh • Sarah Baker • Anthony Gross • Francis Lamb • Mark Aerial Waller • Jen Wu


Reza Aramesh, Of This Men Shall Know Nothing. Sarah Baker, I Have Nothing. Francis Lamb, The Fantasist. Mark Aerial Waller, Reversion of the Beast Folk.
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2006 'Nekromantik', Zoo Art Fair, London. Stall by temporarycontemporary.

Caroline Achaintre • Reza Aramesh • Sarah Baker • Sam Basu • 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 • Plastique Fantastique (David Burrows & Simon O'Sullivan) • Lindsay Seers • Tai Shani • Markus Vater • Annie Whiles • Jen Wu

GUEST ARTISTS: Han Bing • Rafael Rozendaal. SPECIAL PROJECTS: 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'

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 two-year ethnography as a salon and library.

temporarycontemporary zoo art fair
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  ∞ 'Pool Hall Frieze' - proposal with Jen Wu. Shortlisted for the Frieze-Cartier Award.
A proposal for a pool hall within the art fair - an installation containing three pool tables with a player from the Camberwell Snooker Hall resident during fair opening hours. Set in vitrines embedded in the internal walls of the hall is a curated group show of London-based artists. Playing is free and if you beat one of our players you get to choose an artwork of your choice; the artworks are otherwise not for sale. The 'won' artworks are replaced by a polaroid photograph of the winner shaking hands with the pool player. A playful subversion of the art fair, the project imagines its latent dynamics - the dive, the hang out, the hustle, the wager, art as trophy...

Frieze Cartier pool hall
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  ∞ 'Video Cocktail', Tate Modern, London. Curated by temporarycontemporary as part of UBS Openings.
Lali Chetwynd • Oriana Fox • Lindsay Seers • Joe Walsh.


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  ∞ 'Metropolis Rise: New Art from London', CQL Design Center, Shanghai & Dashanzi Festival @ 798, Beijing, Apr-May. Curated by temporarycontemporary.

Caroline Achaintre • Reza Aramesh • Sarah Baker • Sam Basu • Diann Bauer • Dave Beech • Anat Ben-David • David Burrows • Lali Chetwynd • Dan Coombs • Lorin Davies • Ian Dawson • Jeremy Deadman • Patricia Ellis • Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard • Matt Franks • Babak Ghazi • Brian Griffiths • Anthony Gross • Mark Hutchinson • International Necronautical Society (INS) • Heidi Kilpelainen (HK119) • Klega • Pil and Galia Kollectiv • Denise Kum • Francis Lamb • Cyril Lepetit • Cedar Lewisohn • David Lock • Caroline McCarthy • David Medalla • Flávia Müller Medeiros • Jo Mitchell • Suzanne Mooney • Alex Gene Morrison • Sophie Newell • Harold Offeh • Paul ONeill • Luke Oxley • Douglas Park • Mark Pawson • Mark Pearson • Gail Pickering • John Russell • Hideyuki Sawayanagi • Lindsay Seers • Tai Shani • Bob & Roberta Smith • Mark Titchner • Mayling To • Markus Vater • Stella Vine • Jessica Voorsanger • Joe Walsh • Martin Westwood • Annie Whiles • Jen Wu • O Zhang



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∞ ’Stuff from China’, Art Car Boot Fair, Truman Brewery, London.
A market stall in London selling goods bought at markets in China.

Anthony Gross
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2005 'Kernel Panic', temporarycontemporary, London. Curated by Anthony Gross.
Group show engaging with the contemporary digital condition.
Dusu Choi • Dædalus • Anthony Gross • Faiyaz Jafri • Miltos Manetas & Luuk Bouwman • Rafaël Rozendaal • DJ /Rupture & Daniel Perlin. In collaboration with Deptford X: Bernadette Corporation • Raqs Media Collective. Installation structures by Jen Wu.


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  ∞ temporarycontemporary's 'Video Cocktail’, The Albany Pub, London, coinciding with Frieze Art Fair.
Anthony Gross • Cyril Lepetit 'International Exhibitionist' • Miltos Manetas & Luuk Bouwman • Damon Packard • Joe Walsh • Julie Wells • Jen Wu • In collaboration with Glassbox, Paris: Thomas Barbey & Olivier Cazin, Dominique Blais, John Lalor.

temporarycontemporary video cocktail
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  ∞ 'Poker Redux', ®edux Gallery, London. Curated by temporarycontemporary as part of 'Coalesce: The Remix' curated by Paul O'Neill.

Over the week leading up to the 3rd June, temporarycontemporary will curate three group shows, each taking the form of a private poker game. In this metaphorical situation, with the curators as dealers and exhibitors as gamblers, the card playing becomes a stand-in for the to and fro of socialised culture production. The outcome is partly the imagined potential exhibitions but also the conversations, the creation of networks and the exhaustive adrenalin and power play of winning and losing. The sessions will be filmed with techniques familiar from televised poker, with a specially constructed table allowing for under- and overhead footage and recordings. This material will be edited and screened on the night of June 3rd against Leesa and Nicole Abahuni's performative experiments in synesthesia and collaboration with electronic sound musician Scott Hewitt.

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


Poker table designed by Anthony Gross.
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  ∞ 'Flea Market II', temporarycontemporary, London. Curated by Anthony Gross.
Artist exhibition and garage sale with over 60 artists revisiting art as bazaar. Market: Sat-Sun 12-6 pm. Live music: Sat-Sun 5-10 pm.
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  ∞ 'Biennale! Artist Film and Video', temporarycontemporary, London. Curated by Anthony Gross.
Group show of international video art with tour to China and Berlin.

Guest Selectors: Jananne Al-Ani (London) • Christian Chapelle (Copenhagen) • Nataline Colonnello (Beijing) • Stuart Comer (London/Los Angeles) • Ben Cook (London) • Edward Mitterrand (Paris, Geneva) • Flemming Neilsen (Miami) • Paul O’Neill (London) • Davide Quadrio (Shanghai)

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
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Biennale! in London, Shanghai, Berlin
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2004 'Shapeshifters', M-Project, Paris. Curated by Anthony Gross.
Ian Dawson • Matt Franks • Brian Griffiths • Denise Kum • Sheena Macrae • Jen Wu


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  ∞ ''Blind Date', temporarycontemporary, London. Curated by Anthony Gross.
Expanding upon the exquisite corpse and open studio, an exhibition where studio 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
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  ∞ 'FleaMarket', temporarycontemporary, London. Curated by Anthony Gross.

A social-selling-swap-meet event lasting for one weekend with over 80 participating artists, galleries, musicians, collectives and curated projects.
“…one formal system has been substituted for another: since the early nineties, the dominant visual model is closer to the open-air market, the bazaar, the souk, a temporary and nomadic gathering of precarious materials and products of various provenances. Recycling (a method) and chaotic arrangement (an aesthetic) have supplanted shopping, store windows, and shelving in the role of formal matrices.” Nicolas Bourriaud, ‘Postproduction’


Luke Oxley. M'Aidez! curated by Alexander Hidalgo. Far right, Mauricio Guillen.
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  ∞ 'Mesmer', temporarycontemporary, London. Curated by Anthony Gross.
A group show about the artist's hypnotic gaze.
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


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2001 'Houseworks', 30 Underwood Street, London. Curated by Ciara Ennis and Anthony Gross.
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Installation Structures
2009 'Starmaker', E:vent gallery, London. Curated by David Burrows and Mark Harris.
Installation design collaboration with David Burrows
2006 'General Idea', Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Curated by Paul O'Neill.
Design of exhibition display structures.


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2004 'Tonight', Studio Voltaire, curated by Paul O'Neill.
Collaboration & design of exhibition display structures.

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