How to be a Magician in Your Spare Time - KP Poetry Volume II
July 2011
kunstprojects presents the second in a series of KP Poetry Journals. Each issue collects specially commissioned work from an invited group of artists, musicians and writers, redefining the term poetry in its loosest pictorial and compositional sense.
Natural acts, which are immediate and unfiltered, display the difference between the fantastical experience and reality. Language may attempt to illustrate the phenomena, that which is hidden beneath the ordinary.
The wizardry and illusionary capabilities of words.
Words as tricks.
‘How to be a Magician In Your Spare Time’ is the title of this journal and features:
Are You Meaning Company
Hugo Canoilas
James Clarkson
Neil McNally
Scott Rogers
Sarah Rose
Lotte Lindner and Till Steinbrenner
Tom Prado
24 pgs
Edition: 200
210 x 297 mm
Black and White
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Contributor Biographies:
Are You Meaning Company takes an interest in the forms of individual human daily life, and tries though its projects to see the various small aspects of our lives from new angles. It is important that the Company’s work develop through positive social interactions across cultural gaps. Established 1999, Tokyo. Live and work in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include ‘PEOPLE DON’T DO SUCH THINGS!’, Gallery Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne, ‘Promise, Practice, Protocol - Performing Future Presences’, (52_Lab), Akademi Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart and ‘Working Title’ Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw.
Hugo Canoilas was born in Lisbon Portugal in 1977, living and working in Vienna. He has had solo shows throughout Europe including Vota Octávio Pato at Frankfurter Kunstverein curated by Tobi Maier in 2008, Endless Killing at Huarte Art Center curated by Chus Martinez in 2008, A painting is getting it’s kicks at Galerie 1m3 in Lausanne, and this year’s Untitled (We can be altogether) at Chiado Museum, Lisbon and Opere Nomadi at Galeria Collicaligreggi in Catania. His work has been included in numerous group shows including Broken Fall Geometric at Galleria Astuni, curated by, Alessandra Pace and Giovanni Iovane, Drawing Time at FRAC Lorraine, Metz, curated by Marie Cozette in 2010, Just photography, curated by Bruce Haines at Martos Gallery New York and The days of this society are numbered, curated by Miguel Amado at Abrons Art Center, New York in 2011. He is represented by Galeria Quadrado Azul in Portugal and Nosbaum & Reding in Luxembourg.
James Clarkson’s practice addresses a hedonistic idealism surrounding modernist art, design and interior living. He creates sculptures and paintings, which act as references or cultural signifiers, exploring historical contradictions between high art & design and low-end mass production. He is interested in the relationship between form, functionalism and meaning as modes of value and experience. His work looks to the past as a means of understanding the way we live now, whilst retaining an ambiguity for past, present and future.
Neil McNally is a poet, writer and experimental filmmaker. He is currently involved in a collaborative project with the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, and is curating an exhibition at Newport Museum and Art Gallery called ‘The Institute of Mental Health is Burning’, which runs from September 25th to December 3rd, 2011.
Scott Rogers is a Canadian visual artist. He is currently completing his MFA at the Glasgow School of Art. ‘My work consists primarily of site-specific, context sensitive and collaborative projects which examine and critique architecture, identity, pedagogy and the nature and politics of creative activity. My recent interests have focused on experimental collaborations with artists and viewers and architectural interventions investigating the possible subjectivity of built environments’.
Sarah Rose is a New Zealand Artist who is completing her MFA at the Glasgow School of Art.
Lotte Lindner and Till Steinbrenner met in 2002 and since then have worked together. Working together means a state of suspension for them. Two different views meet and complement, or oppose, each other. Many works by Lindner and Steinbrenner are site specific and deal with the function or history of a setting. From this point of view they are reacting more than acting. This factual attitude gives them the appearance of visitors who interfere. When they leave they also leave a fleeting memory of something that has happened but cannot be defined as real or unreal. Born 1971 and 1967, live and work in Hannover, Germany.
Tom Prado is a multi-media conceptual artist who explores societal issues through an ironic lens. Current projects include “Double Take,” a series of diptychs, which challenge the veracity of the photographic image; “Chromatic Aberrations,” paintings in which colors stand in for words; and “Social (Network) Disease,” skull drawings relating to pornographic spam friending on social networks. Tom earned his BFA at Rhode Island School of Design and lives in New York City, where he has had a number of shows.
