NEWS

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Ian Breakwell: The Elusive State of Happiness

METRO Newspaper

22 February 2010

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Manifesta 8
TELEPRENSA.ES online newspaper

19 February 2010

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Ian Breakwell:

The Elusive State of Happiness

The Guardian Newspaper, Saturday 13 February 2010

This is the first major retrospective of the work of Ian Breakwell, who died just five years ago after establishing his reputation as the greatest artist to come out of Derby since Joseph Wright of Derby, and one of the most mischievously spirited artworld provocateurs of the late-20th century. Working in just about every medium, his deadpan take on the world amounts to a life long series of mundane epiphanies. One of the most engaging diarists of his time, he was arguably one of the last great diarists before the blog age. Typical is The Walking Man Diary 1975-78, a series of photographic and textual observations made from the window of his Smithfield home of a lone passerby imbued with pathos.

QUAD, Sat to 18 Apr
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Ian Breakwell:

The Elusive State of Happiness

Derby Evening Telegraph

12th February 2010

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February 12, 2010

Ian Breakwell:
The Elusive State of Happiness
13 February - 18 April 2010
Seminar Event 14 April 2010

QUAD
Market Place
Cathedral Quarter
Derby
DE1 3AS
UK
http://www.derbyquad.co.uk

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The Elusive State of Happiness is a major exhibition of the work of Ian Breakwell (1943-2005), a man with an eye for seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Breakwell was a world renowned prolific artist who took a multi-media approach to his observation of the minutiae of life through a wide range of media including dairies, film works, TV, audio and drawing.
Spanning a career of 40 years, his work is an attempt to subtract the obvious from the everyday, to isolate and bring it to another level of meaning, and aesthetic experience. The diary is the central motif of the exhibition, and the link of Ian's books and films with his video, drawing and audio works - all of them speaking as reference for his Continuous Diary lifelong project.
The humour, mischief and oblique wonder at the world that permeates his verbal and visual legacy is already legendary. His voyeurism -social rather than sexual- is always mitigated by humour: "The humour that I love is the morose, the deadpan, the seemingly unfunny stuff that is close to misery, but not quite." By presenting a continuous re-interpretation of what we already know, and have overlooked, Breakwell invites the viewer not to discard, but to reinvent the meaning of things. He invites us to see with other eyes.
Born in Derby and educated at the Derby College of Art, Ian Breakwell was a remarkably talented artist in any medium he handled, written, spoken and depicted, including media broadcasts, notably with adaptations of his Continuous Diary and Christmas Diary on Channel 4 in 1984 and 1988.
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Curated by Louise Clements & Alfredo Cramerotti, in partnership with Anthony Reynolds Gallery and Felicity Sparrow.
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A Seminar Event on Ian Breakwell will take place in QUAD, Derby, UK on 14th April 2010. Contributions by Breakwell's scholars and experts and special screening of the film works Auditorium (1993) and Variety (2001).

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A richly illustrated Exhibition guide with over 80 colour reproductions accompanies the exhibition with original texts and visuals on more than 20 works from Breakwell's illustrious career through a wide range of media. Full colour, Brossard cover, available through QUAD.

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During March a Film Season curated by Felicity Sparrow and David Sin will screen in QUAD's cinema, showcasing some of the films that impacted on the work and life of Ian Breakwell.
For more information:
http://www.derbyquad.co.uk
info@derbyquad.co.uk
Tel. +44 (0)1332 290606

Image: detail from: Walserings 1991
© the estate of Ian Breakwell
Courtesy Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

Manifesta Coffee Break 2009

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Manifesta Coffee Break is a recurring public meeting, serving as an active tool to discuss the concept of Manifesta within a larger critical context. The fifth Coffee Break takes place on 12 and 13 December 2009 in Murcia, Spain, in preparation for Manifesta 8, and in direct relation to the context of the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, which will take place in 2010. Titled Towards Manifesta 8, this Manifesta Coffee Break brings together both local and international artists, curators, theorists, writers and other art professionals to reflect on Manifesta's logic in direct relation to Murcia-Cartagena and its links with northern Africa. It is open for all who are interested, and consists of sessions by the three curatorial teams of Manifesta 8 together with invited speakers and guests.

Chamber of Public Secrets (CPS)
“Unfaithful Relations: Art, Engagement and Audience within the Biennial Model"
December 12, 10.00-13.30

with contributions by: Sara Black, Alfredo Cramerotti, Christine Eyene, Rian Lozano, Fay Nicolson and Khaled Ramadan

Through presentations and work groups at the Manifesta Coffee Break, CPS will start a dialogue about the role and involvement of the audience in the region of Murcia: visitors, artists, students and media presence. How can the local art scene, cultural producers and activists make a sustainable use of a biennial, in terms of time, space and continuity? What possibilities are there for audience development? And how to avoid or respond to the common skepticism of the local (art) scene towards a biennial which can be viewed as welcome/unwelcome or invited/invasive? The presentations by Sara Black (Great Britain) and Christine Eyene (France/Cameroon) do not attempt to answer these questions, but discuss potential approaches towards audience inclusion.

Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF)
“The Aesthetic Compass: Human Geography and its Reverberations in Art"
December 12, 16.00-19.30
with contributions by: Jeremy Beaudry, Sherif El Azma, Bassam El Baroni, Nida Ghouse and Yaiza Hernández Velázquez

tranzit.org
“Post-Communist as well as Post-Colonial"
December 13, 10.00-13.30

with contributions by: Zbyněk Baladrán, Erick Beltrán, Vít Havránek, Dóra Hegyi, Richard Kostelanetz, Boris
Ondreička and Georg Schöllhammer

For a video excerpt of MCB:

http://www.manifesta8.blip.tv/

QUAD Derby / Hayward Gallery 'MAGIC SHOW'

The Guardian Newspaper

Saturday, 28th November 2009

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The Times Newspaper

Saturday, 28th November 2009

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Alfredo CRAMEROTTI: Aesthetic Journalism
Book launch and lecture performance by Fay Nicolson

Sat 07.11.2009, 7.30 p.m.
Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen
Weiherburggasse 13, Innsbruck, Austria

AJ book launch innsbruck

New York Photo Festival Newsletter

New York, 27 october 2009

NYPH New York Photo Festival

Critical Photography call advert

Manifesta 8 Curators

Announced September 2009

Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art
		Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, will take place in 2010 in the Region of Murcia, Spain, in dialogue with Northern Africa.
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The curatorial team of Manifesta 8 is composed of: ALEXANDRIA CONTEMPORARY ARTS FORUM CHAMBER OF PUBLIC SECRETS TRANZIT.ORG Manifesta 8 taking place in the Spanish cities of Murcia and Cartagena in 2010, will be curated by Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Chamber of Public Secrets and Tranzit.org as the three collectives, who will together form the curatorial team of the next edition. In keeping with Manifesta's aim to experiment with innovative curatorial models and methodologies, no individual art professionals were considered for the position of curator of Manifesta 8. Instead, curatorial groups, artistic and interdisciplinary collectives and/or existing institutions were invited by the Board and the Director of the International Foundation Manifesta to propose a new working model for Manifesta 8. In doing so, the Board wishes to initiate a transcontinental collaborative strategy, connecting regions and institutions located around the Mediterranean. Opening on October 1, 2010, and continuing through the autumn in the Region of Murcia (Spain) in dialogue with Northern Africa, Manifesta 8 will explore the idea of Europe in the 21st century, focussing on the boundaries of the continent, and thus strengthening its international and intercontinental character. More specifically, the aim of Manifesta 8 will be to engage with Europe's present-day frontiers and its interrelation with the Maghreb region. As with each edition, the newly appointed curatorial team will develop Manifesta 8 in close collaboration with the permanent team of the Amsterdam based home offices of Manifesta together with local producers in Murcia and Cartagena. Inherent to Manifesta's nomadic character is the desire to explore the psychological and geographical territory of Europe, referring both to border-lines and the notion of nationality. This process aims to establish closer dialogue between particular cultural and artistic situations and the broader, international fields of contemporary art, theory and politics in a changing society. ALEXANDRIA CONTEMPORARY ARTS FORUM Curator/Team Executive: Bassam El Baroni Associate Curator: Jeremy Beaudry Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), founded in Alexandria (Egypt) in December 2005, focuses on contemporary art, new media and discursive practice, cultivating a deeper awareness of art in relation to all aspects of contemporary life and culture. Central to its mission is an ongoing engagement with projects that bring together established and emerging artists, university students, and diverse practitioners, in contexts that recognize the value of an informal, non-hierarchical, open-ended circulation of information and experience. The ACAF is in a constant state of flux and incorporates innovative activities, guided by its socio-cultural compass. CHAMBER OF PUBLIC SECRETS Curators/Team Executives: Khaled Ramadan / Alfredo Cramerotti Chamber of Public Secrets (CPS), based in Copenhagen (Denmark) and the Middle East, works as a network of artists, curators and thinkers who have been collaborating since 2004 in the organization, production and circulation of film and video festivals, art exhibitions, TV and radio programs, political fictions and documentaries. CPS also develops forums for debate and publishes books and articles about socio-political and cultural issues such as migration, mobility, representation, colonialism, gender and difference. CPS wishes to stimulate the role of debate, while reconstructing the role of art, its responsibility and its relation to society. TRANZIT.ORG Team executive: Vít Havránek Team assembly: Zbyněk Baladrán, Dóra Hegyi, Boris Ondreička, Georg Schöllhammer tranzit.org is a network of autonomous art associations, existing since 2002 in Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, who cooperate working across borders - between nations, languages and histories. Each tranzit group operates independently from each other, using different formats and methods - such as discursive platforms, exhibitions, publications and research initiatives - but always aiming to generate a deep involvement in the local artistic and intellectual context. At the same time each tranzit group carries out a re-assessment of contemporary history, challenging the canons, geography and master-narratives of post-war European (art) histories. The aim of tranzit is to act trans-locally, in constant dialogue with cultural narratives on a local and global scale. In the next few months the three selected collectives will define a mutual working methodology which will culminate in the concept and realization of Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art. Manifesta 8 is an initiative of the International Foundation Manifesta in collaboration with the Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia (CARM) and Murcia Cultural. The International Foundation Manifesta is supported by the European Commission Culture Framework program, The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of The Netherlands. Sponsors and Collaborators Government of the Autonomous Region of Murcia · City Council Murcia · City Council Cartagena Hedwig Fijen, Director International Foundation Manifesta, Amsterdam

Critical Photography book series

Announced August 2009

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National Photography Symposium

Manchester 19-21 June 2009

manchester symposium

Redeye Network Meeting
Tuesday 19 May 2009, 7.30pm
Speaker: Alfredo Cramerotti

Alfredo Cramerotti will present his recent project Faulty Lines. Shot in various cities around the world, the project explores the relationship between the two-dimensional photographic image and a three-dimensional built environment. Alfredo Cramerotti is an artist, curator and writer based in Derby. His work as an artist is primarily concerned with questions of narrative in photography, installation, video, performance and text. Organised in collaboration with Open Eye Gallery, Redeye's Liverpool Network meetings take place every couple of months. They offer photographers of all kinds the chance to meet, catch up on news and gossip, meet members of the Redeye and Open Eye Gallery teams and see short talks and presentations of work.

http://www.openeye.org.uk/events.asp

Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform without Informing

Intellect Books

In print from September 2009

Aesthetic Journalism book cover

Aesthetic Journalism
How to Inform Without Informing
By Alfredo Cramerotti

Intellect Books

ISBN 9781841502687
Paperback 112 pages 230x174mm
Published September 2009
Price £19.95

As the art world eagerly embraces a journalistic approach, Aesthetic Journalism explores why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries and reportage. This new mode of journalism is grasping more and more space in modern culture and Cramerotti probes the current merge of art with the sphere of investigative journalism. The attempt to map this field, here defined as 'Aesthetic Journalism', challenges, with clear language, the definitions of both art and journalism, and addresses a new mode of information from the point of view of the reader and viewer. The book explores how the production of truth has shifted from the domain of the news media to that of art and aestheticism. With examples and theories from within the contemporary art and journalistic-scape, the book questions the very foundations of journalism. Aesthetic Journalism suggests future developments of this new relationship between art and documentary journalism, offering itself as a useful tool to audiences, scholars, producers and critics alike.

ARTIST TURNS AUTHOR

Derby Evening Telegraph

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

A STAFF member at Derby's Quad arts centre has published his first book.
Exhibitions officer Alfredo Cramerotti's book, called Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform Without Informing, looks at how writing about art has become more journalistic in recent times.

Alfredo Cramerotti is an international artist, curator and writer and has worked in radio, TV and publishing.

Art and Design Industrial Liaison Committee

Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology

27 February 2009

Dear Alfredo

Out of respect and in recognition of your contribution to the creative industries you have been nominated by University of Derby, Art and Design academic staff for membership on the newly formed Art and Design Industrial Liaison Committee.

The committee is to be understood as a positive and dynamic link between the creative industries and respective subject areas of Art and Design education at the University; it will operate in an advisory capacity for future programme design, delivery and curriculum development; enabling us to maintain a relevant and pertinent portfolio of programmes which are in tune with the needs of industry and providing our students a more critical and creative edge when preparing themselves for future employment.

Scott Green
Head of Subject: ART
University of Derby

Exhibition Take a Line for a Walk

METRO Newspaper

26th January 2009

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QUAD Derby, UK & Radiator Biennial Festival of New Media Art Nottingham, UK

METRO Newspaper

14th January 2009

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Derby Evening Telegraph Newspaper

9th January 2009 AGM 09 DET cutting

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QUAD Latest News

12th December 2008

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Exhibition and Performance The17

METRO Newspaper

29th July 2008

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Derby Evening Telegraph

20th May 2008

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INTERNATIONAL APPOINTMENT FOR QUAD

QUAD Latest News

15th January 2008

Alfredo Cramerotti has joined the QUAD team as Exhibitions Officer. He will work closely with QUAD's senior curator Louise Clements to support, develop and coordinate the delivery of high quality exhibitions in QUAD and a related programme of events and talks with artists. Alfredo has moved to Derby from Bologna in Italy. The appointment shows the international appeal of QUAD even at an early stage of development.

Alfredo has extensive experience as a curator and commentator of contemporary art in Europe. Alfredo has an MA in Art in Context from the UdK Berlin (Germany); he participated in the Critical Studies Programme at the Malmö Academy-Lund University (Sweden) and Fellow Theory and Art Criticism at the Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Innsbruck (Austria).

Fellowships final lecture and presentation

Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Innsbruck, Austria

Tiroler Tageszeitung

25th January 2008

Concluding lecture Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen 25 Jan 2008