Recent, current and up and coming exhibitions and performances
THE NOVEL OF NONEL AND VOVEL – TATE MODERN 25th November 09
PLEASE BOOK AND COME ALONG
LAUNCHING THE GRAPHIC NOVEL BY OREET ASHERY AND LARISSA SANSOUR
Reinventing Ritual – Group show at the Jewish Museum NY
September 13, 2009 – February 07, 2010
Hairoism – Durational interactive performance at East Room, Tate Modern, 27th of June 2009, 7.00pm-10.00pm. A reenactment of Eleanor Antin King video, 1972. Part of an event of performances responding to works from the Women’s Art Library.
Raging Balls participatory performance , part of Hesperides II performance festival,
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, 30th May 2009. Also as part of ‘I Confess’ programme, the Arches, Glasgow, June 12th-13th, 2009.
Raging Balls video will be exhibited at Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Chiasso, Switzerland, as part of the group show QUEER/SCHäG, curated by Mario Casanova, 25 April – 07 June 2009.
BHVR: Back in 5 minutes and Scratch Performance Golani Varanasi two video installations at the Arches, Glasgow, 13 Apr 2009- 05 May 2009
Self Images: Israel as seen through the arts at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, artist presentation and Dancing with Men video screening as part of the exhibition and event in Stockholm , April 2009.
re.act.feminism; performance art of the 1960s and 1970s today group show curated by Beatrice E. Stammer and Bettina Knaup, at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, December 2008. The Videoarchive has moved to The Festival of Women in Ljubljana. and now moves to Kunsthaus Erfurt, where it will feature from 19 April – 10 May 2009
Medium Religion Selected works from the group show will tour from ZKM to Model Arts and Niland Gallery in Sligo, Ireland, from May 23 to August 2, 2009.
Medium Religion is a group show curated by Boris Groys and Peter Weibel at ZKM |Center for Art and Media November 2008.
Looking at Others – group show at the Art Pavilion, Umjetnicki Paviljon, Zagreb, 12th February-15th of March 2009, curated by Radmila Iva Janković, with catalogue.
Crime and Punishment – The Sequel – group show at Kortil Gallery,
Strossmayerova, Rijeka, Croatia, 20th February – !3th of March, curated by Predrag Pajdic
Performance and Mimicry – group show
at Bodhi art NY July 2008
Whitstable Biennale 2008 – the Saint/s of Whitstable commission by the WB, two weeks of daily performances inhabiting a derelict fishermen’s hut. for visual documentation scroll down this page and also see the library section of this site under the Figure of Shabtai Zvi – Fictional
Here He Comes – intervention outside the Church of Scientology, part of the Plastique fantastique vs. Bughouse: channelling Performance event At FA projects, 1-2 Bear Gardens, London, SE1, Saturday the 10th of May 2008, 2-6 pm.
FEMACO art fair, Mexico with EDS Gallery, Mexico ~city, Curated by Raul Zamudio
A Biography of a Traveller exhibition at the living gallery, Lecce Italy, May 2008
Raging Balls – performance , part of Radar at Loughborough University. responding to the 40th anniversary of the 68 uprising in Paris. June 2008
Global Feminisms – Brooklyn Museum, NYC, March- July 2007, with catalogue, check out the feminist art base site
the show Remix from the Global Feminism show will continue at the Brooklyn Museum until March 2008 with my work included.
Updated 20.02.07
Dancing with Men book now available
To buy the book simply click here
Dancing with Men
Oreet Ashery
A new publication covering ten years of interactive performances, interventions and other artworks. This book provides an opportunity to explore Ashery’s influential performance and visual arts practice within one richly illustrated volume printed on art paper. The featured works explore the radical use of alter egos and fictional characters in relation to issues of identity and subjectivity, socio-political realities and the intersections of gender, ethnicity, race and religion.
Contributors: Gavin Butt, Dominic Johnson, Roberta Mock and Stephen Wilson with introduction by Lois Keidan.
Published by the Live Art Development Agency, London, 2009, 120 pages, full colour photographs throughout, 17cm x 24cm.
ISBN 9780954604097
Special pre-launch sale price of £12.50 (RRP £15.00)
£12.50
Posted 04.07.09
AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts
The AHRC fellowship for 3 years , starting October 2007, at the Drama Department in Queen Mary University of London is looking at the shifting political conditions in relation to collaborations between Palestinian and Israeli artists, through a long-term project with the visual artist Larissa Sansour. The fellowship also explores fictional chartcerts and alter egos in performative practices, particularly in relation to Shabtai Zevi, (17th century), an Izmir born Jew, who converted to Islam, also called the False Messiah. Kissing the Live Art Development Agency, 1 minute film celebrating their 10th anniversary
Posted 30.01.09
Up coming talks/panels
Friday 26th June 2009 – Extreme: Visual Representation and the Body, inaugural event for R.I.B., a research unit that deals with questions of representation, identity and body at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
19th of June 2009, 12.00-5.00 – at the Whitechapel Gallery
Arts Writing Symposium, organised by Gavin Butt, as part of Performance Matters.
1st of April 2009 – at Pist interdisciplinary project space, Istanbul, artist presentation – Shabbtai Zvi and other Alter Egos, part of a research residency
12th of March 2009 – at Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge, MA module ‘New Practices’
27th of February 2009 – at Platform Istanbul, Larissa Sansour and Oreet Ashery discuss their project and upcoming graphic novel the Novel of Nonel and Vovel.
4-6th of February 2009 – International conference Feminist Research Methods, at the Centre of Gender Studies, University of Stockholm
Friday the 23rd of January 2009 – at Tate Modern, panel on The Politics of Space in the Middle East part of a two days conference on contemporary art in the Middle East
Wednesday the 10th of December 2008 – at MA Fine Art Central St Martins.
Friday the 7th of November 2008 – at the Royal Academy.
Wednesday the 15th of October 2008 – at Queen Mary University.
Posted 09.10.08
Raging Balls
In this performance the audience were asked by Ashery and Owen Perry to throw balls at them whilst angry speech written by Ashery and inspired by the artist David Wojnarowicz’s (1954 – 1992) potent diatribes was screened. Ashery and Perry were protecting themselves from the balls with the aid of Frieze and Art Forum. The speech is a rant, that uses protest rhetoric, about state control and the dilution of current political art practices. Chris McCormack read the text live along side the screen. Raging Ball’s video and script are available.
photos by Julian Hughes
Posted 21.07.08
Brooklyn Museum Contemporary collection
The print Self Portrait as Marcus Fisher I, 2000
( Photographer Manuel Vason) Found a home in the Contemporary Art collection at the Brooklyn Museum.
Posted 21.07.08
Whitstable Biennial 2008- the Saints of Whitstable
During the project the Saint/s of Whitstable, Ashery lived in a derelict fishermen’s hut by the beach, fictionalising the controversial figure of the 17th century false messiah Shabbtai Zvi. A play titled: Shabbtai, Sarah, Nathan; First Reading, charting Shabbtai’s transgressive and influential existence was performed in the hut daily by audience participants. The play includes silly actions like slapping and riding on one’s back, as well as historical accounts of relevant circumstances and characters’ analysis.
Four re-enactments of Shabbtai Zvi’s ‘Strange Acts’ were performed in collaboration with friends.
Fasting re-enactment with Andrew Mitchelson
Ashery and Mitchelson bought ingredients for a meal one at a time ( one tomato, one lemon, one fish, etc. That took 5 hours and about 50 kilometers). Then they fasted for 24 hours and cooked the meal by the sea for Gavin Butt and Dominic Johnson
Stopping the Sun re-enactment with Chris McCormack
Shabbtai claimed to have stopped the sun but Ashery and McCormack wanted to use the sun. They coated watercolour paper with Cyanotype emulsion at night, developed the paper in the sun light and fixed the prints in the sea water. 30 Cyanotypes were made
Posted 02.06.08
Oreet Ashery DVD now available
Oreet Ashery DVD now available to purchase on UNBOUND the Live Art Development Agency on line shop
Oreet Ashery presents a selection of her work spanning practice which is both conceptual and process based. The collection of works consist of visual and performative investigations into personal politics and its complex relationship to social realities, identity and cultural politics, and the nature of an art practice. Ashery has an ongoing interest in the intersections between Jewishness, race, gender and the Arab and Muslim world.
Live Art Development Agency, 2007, DVD-PAL, 104 minutes.
£10.00
Unbound
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Posted 01.10.07
Back In 5 Minutes now with Spanish subtitles
Back In 5 minutes, 2007, 10 min, has now Spanish, English and Hebrew Subtitles. Shown in the program I love my curator in spring 2008 in Paris ( Pompidou centre) and, at El Aguila, Madrid on
10th of May 2008 . Part of Rencontres Internationales
film festival.
Posted 29.05.07
100% Human Hair
a 120/100 cm rug made of 100% human hair at the Crime and Punishment group show, 198 gallery , London.
Posted 18.03.07
Left, Right Performance at the Freud Musem, part of PARANOIA
Until the 11th of March at the Freud museum the group show Paranoia
Arts Monthly, Andrew Hunt, February issue 2007
Oreet Ashery, Doug Fishbone and Emilia Telese all staged performances, and it soon became clear that current global tensions set the primary theme. Ashery’s action Left, Right, 2007, for example, involved two male figures fitted out in traditional Muslim and Jewish dress. While the performers sat and massaged the centre of visitor’s hands, the work dealt with the psychological pressure that an individual might experience while simultaneously trying to make sense of each religion’s perspective.
view a short film on the show and the perfromance Right, Left on Current TV
Posted 19.02.07
