Kleftes! (Thieves!) (performance of protest)

Performance by Maria Agiomyrgiannaki & Roberto Sánchez-Camus @ MKII in Clapton, London

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Ancient Evenings by Matthew Barney, Act Two: Khu

When huge budgets, great connections, and good ideas meet: Matthew Barney's 'Khu'.

Artforum nauseatingly focuses on the shoulder bumping but manages to get in some gems of description for this massive performance art meets Detroit rock city:

http://www.artforum.com/diary/id=26563

Susan Philipsz: SURROUND ME

Cycled around the desolate centre of the financial district in London searching for Philipsz sound installations. It was beautiful to wander around trying to find this secluded location and hearing the song from a main road which would lead us into a secluded area. The work itself made all sounds in the city heightened and navigated us to new locations which would have alternately been undiscovered or easily looked over....

Susan Philipsz: SURROUND ME

A Song Cycle for the City of London
Saturdays & Sundays only, 10am - 5pm
9 October 2010 - 2 January 2011

At the weekends an eerie quiet descends on the City of London, in offices, squares, churchyards and streets, broken by the occasional sound of traffic and church bells. The silence of the city has inspired artist Susan Philipsz’s first commission in the capital. Her unaccompanied voice resonates through empty streets around the Bank of England, across postwar walkways and medieval alleyways and along the banks of the River Thames.

SURROUND ME: A Song Cycle for the City of London takes inspiration from the heightened presence of the human voice in Elizabethan London.

Padded Cell and Other Stories - Gallery Exhibition

The new show by Gerard Mannix Flynn and Farcry Productions will be opened officially in October 2010
The space will be open from 16th Sept onwards to view Padded Cell and Other Stories

After decades of cover-up, recent State investigations have, at last, uncovered the scale of the abuse perpetrated against Irish children by Church and State. The reports published answer in painful detail the questions of what was done to children in Irish institutions, how it was done and where it was done, but other more disturbing questions remain; the questions of why this abuse was allowed to happen and what is to be done now.

This exhibition creates a fictitious character James X, an victim archetype complete with student reports, psychological assessments and police records detailing a horror story of criminal abuse inflicted upon a child lost within a civic-religious state system of 'care'. Based upon actual records the work is engaging and provocative and unfortunately completely believable.

Performances to be announced:

Dialogue Artspace

at 43A Vyner Street, E2

Participate in Things exhibition at Wellcome Trust

London:

A call to update Henry Wellcome’s curious collection. Please give us a 'thing' no bigger than your head.

• Bring us a thing during our great bring-a-thing-athon
• Bring this, bring that, bring the other, just nothing bigger than your head
• Lend it, gift it, or if you can't bear to part with it, upload a photo of it
• Snooping is positively encouraged, so tell your friends about Things. No one should miss this feast for the voyeur!

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/things.aspx