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Wall Works: Selected Writings and Performances
About this book
A selection of writings and performances by visual artist, Silvia Ziranek, produced 1976-2011, including ICI VILLA MOI (1990) and NOT UNDIRTY (2011). This ebook includes links to 5 video clips of Ziranek in live performances in the UK at conferences and exhibition openings, with the full script of the performance and photographic documentation. The ebook is introduced by the artist. All the performances and texts circulate around the idea of architecture.
Silvia Ziranek is an artist based in London, known for her performances: http://www.silviaziranek.com/
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Education
1970-1972 Russian and Arabic, Leeds University
1972-1973 Foundation Studies, Croydon College of Art
1973-1976 BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths' College, University of London
Exhibitions / performances
2013
I THINK NOT performance Totemic Festival, Freud Museum, London, curated by Lili Spain
MAKING ART exhibition, co-curated with Sandra Higgins and a Reading Performance with John James, Gallery Petit, Chelsea, London
A ROSE IS performance, LUPA, Bethnal Green, London
mORe rISk performance, openartscafe, London
THIS, HERE performance, LUPA, Bethnal Green, London
JUST PERFECT promenading performance, The Big Bamboozle, Camden Art Centre, London
(JUST) BE…(ING) text work and performance for Do You Remember It – or Weren’t You There exhibition, Gallery West at University of Westminster, curated by Cally Trench and Philip Lee
2012
Bodies of Memory, performance, directed by Fiona Templeton – Late at Tate Britain as part of Acts of Legacy programmed by New Work Network, (5 October)
SOVIET SENSATION Silvia Ziranek At The Other Art Fair (8 August)
Ciao Modernism (A Hello, A Performance, A Talk, A Diatribe, A Goodbye) curated by Anna Bunting Branch, Guest Projects, London (21 Jan)
2011
TÊTE-A-T8 performance Collaboration programme, curated by Marcus Dickey-Horley, Tate Britain (7 August)
WANT/MAKE/WEAR/LOVE (IT) performance to launch Tatty Devine’s How-to-make jewellery book (Virgin Books, 2011)
NOT UNDIRTY performance x 3, The Dirt programme, Wellcome Collection, London (June)
2010
Working tour to N. America and Canada with talk/ performances to Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary (10 Nov 2010); Artists Talk, Canada organised by Illingworth Kerr Gallery;WAFFLE SHOPperformance curated by Professor John Carson, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and talk at Sotheby’s Grad School, New York, curated by Kathy Battista
HOW NOW AFFECTS HOW, a pre-pudding performance in the Sculpture and Performance conference, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, curated by Dr Jonathan Wood How Now Affects How, text online
FOOT FOOD AGO performance with Lisa Z. Morgan, National Review of Live Art, curated by Nikki Milican, CCA, Glasgow
2009
The Festive Tree Installation for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London
TEN TIARAS (DOWN TO MY LAST) photographic work & performance for Art for Africa Auction, Sotheby’s, London
THE POM POM YEARS performance, Victoria and Albert Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood as part of Kid’s Fashion through the Ages exhibition, curated by Rhian Harris
2008
WALLWALK performance to move The Photographers Gallery, Photographers Gallery, London, curated by Clare Grafik
WALL WORDWORK reading and artwork for Concrete Dreams, APT London, curated by Fran Cottell and Liz Harrison
DECLINING SILENCE a communication speech performance presentation for BSL Summer Event, Tate Modern curated by Marcus Dickey-Horley (4 July) with Aldo and Yma Ziranek Wilson
CHASING SPACES performance in the Marking Space Symposium, curated by Angela Maddock, University of Swansea (June)
2007
BIGGER ART THAN LOOK performance with Yma Ziranek Wilson, Barnet Arts Depot
MORE OR, LESS ORDER performance, National Review of Live Art, Tramway, Glasgow, curated by Nikki Milican
RISK TOO performance, C.A.T. Festival, curated by Andre Stitt, Cardiff School of Art
NOT BRICK BUT BEING performance & artwork, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, for the It Starts From Here programme, curated by Celia Davies
I ARE OR performance, Imperial War Museum, London, part of Camouflage programme, again at Leeds City Gallery, Lightnight, curated by Nigel Walsh
Recipe reading with Clarissa Dickson Wright, Ilkley Literature Festival
This Will Not Happen Without You: From the collective archive of The Basement Group, Projects UK and Locus+ 1977-2006, exhibition, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (21 November 2006 - 20 January)
2006
I DO SHOE a curious live work as part of Shoes - the Agony and the Ecstasy, a Discovery Museum touring exhibition at Gateshead Museum and Norwich Castle, curated by Janice Blackburn
EAT ART’S DANCE performance and publication, celebration of the first birthday of the Contemporary Patrons Group, Royal Academ, London
DRESS MESSAGES performance and installation, Art textiles 3, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Exeter
BIGGER ART THAN LOOK performance, Watermans Art Centre, London
2005
A FEW BIG FROCKS a personal interpretational performance, Frida Kahlo conference, Tate Modern, curated by Oriana Baddeley
BIGGER ART THAN LOOK performance with Yma Ziranek Wilson to open Raised Awareness curated by Bill Woodrow and Marcus Horley for Tate Modern (19 July-30 September) and PINK SHOES ARE BETTER art work.
Z SAID performed text, Hull Literary festival, June, with Hull Arts Lab
Reading, Southwark Literary festival, Peckham Library, May, curated by Maria Chevska and Michael Petrie
MOST/LY MOTIF/LY reworked presentation, American International University, London, curated by Verdi Yahooda (Feb)
DRESS MESSAGES performance, Art textiles 3, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Rugby Art Gallery, Artsway, and The Harley Gallery, Welbeck
2004
A birthday affair for Mrs (now Lady) Ritblat
FOR YOUR OWN G(O)OD performance, The Veil exhibition, Modern Art Oxford, curated by Andrew Nairne
tANDem, edited performance, for Soprimaverdada, Area 10, Peckham, London
JAM TODAY (I’M HERE TO SAY) performance to assess and celebrate the new Arts Council London’s first year, curated by Greg Hilty
Monday Monday part of series of events at Wapping Pump House, London, curated by Jules Wright
AN ARTIST (TALKS), twice actually, performance, to celebrate twenty years of the Café Gallery, Southwark Park, London, curated by Ron Henocq
DRESS MESSAGES performance / installation / publication, Art textiles 3, (Bury St Edmunds and Edinburgh City Art Centre) (touring, 2004-2006) selectors, Susan Hiller, Jonathan Watkins, Professor Sarat Maharaj and Sarah Quinton (also performed as a reading at Nathalie Hambro’s Boutique, London).
A SLICE OF SILVIA readings and performances for Arts Admin, London
2003
ZFX a teatime experience (also edible) Surrey Docks Farm, London
SOMETIME SUNDAY RISKS performance in seminar on The Risk Factor, curated by James Putnam & Sacha Craddock, Blacks, London
wORk performance, Kathy Battista’s ‘Women’s Work’ course, Tate Modern
tANDem performance to open RSA Art for Architecture annual conference, curated by Ingrid Swenson.
IN THE NAME OF performance at James Putnam’s and Sacha Craddock’s ‘Love’ salon, Blacks, London
2002
MOST/LY MOTIF/LY performance, Pattern Crazy exhibition, Crafts Council, London, curated by Jacqui Poncelet & Carol McNicoll
In education programme, Z WALKS two local primary schools walk to the Crafts Council, London, to investigate physical, environmental, and artistic, patterns
2001
RECAF: MORE NEW ENCORE (TO YOU?) performance to re-open Café Gallery, London, curated by Ron Henocq
2000
WHY A BUCKET? WHY? performance, Live in your Head conference, curated by Alastair Raphael
Live in Your Head print & wall text piece for group exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London, curated by Andrea Tarsia
(Also worked for education programme, WALLWORKS walking local primary schools with Art-as-We-Go)
1998
BIG PINK I performance to close (for rebuilding) Café Gallery, London
1997
HEY PESTO wall work, Café Gallery, London
1995
text work in The Boat Show, Café Gallery, London (see publications below)
1994
FEET WALKING performance and photographic exhibition, Brecht Zentrum, Berlin, curated by Inge Gellert
1993
ALSO SPRACH Z&W performance collaboration with Wagner on his Siegfried’s Tod for PROT Theater, Munich
A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A performance and artwork, Wewerka Gallery, Berlin
1992 (15 month move to Berlin)
BELEGTE WOERTCHEN performance and reading, T & A Gallery, Ber...
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- SOVIET SENSATION: A SEVENTIES SOLILOQUY, 1976
- CHEZ Z (SHE SAID), 1983
- HOW TO IN TEN EASY, 1988
- ICI VILLA MOI, 1989-1990
- A FROM WHEN UPON WHERE, 1993
- tANDem, 2003
- NOT BRICK BUT BEING, 2007
- CHASING SPACES, 2008
- WALL WALK, 2008
- NOT UNDIRTY, 2011
- About SILVIA ZIRANEK
- KT press books