Recent, current and up and coming shows and performances
Whitstable Biennale 2008 – the Saint/s of Whitstable
Residing at the derelict fishermen’s hut, by the beach.
with a series of performances and interventions
see the library section of this site under the Figure of Shabtai Zvi – Fictional
Performance and Mimicry – group show
at Bodhi art NY
July 2008
here he comes – 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.
Medium and Religion curated by Boris Groys and Peter Weibel at ZKM | Center for Art and Media, october 2008
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
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 Saint/s of whitstable duration, Ashery lived in the fishermen’s hut by the beach. Fictionalising the controversial false 17th century false messiah Shabbtai Zvi. A play titled: Shabbtai, Sarah, Nathan; First Reading was performed in the hut daily by audaince participants. four re-enactments of Shabbtai Zvi’s ‘Strange Acts’ were performed in collaboration with friends.
Fasting re-enactment with Andrew Mitchelson
Buying ingredients for a meal one at a time ( that took 5 hours, 50 kilometres), fasting for 24 hours and cooking the meal by the sea for Gavin Butt and Dominic Johnson
Stopping the Sun re-enactment with Chris McCormack
Coating paper with Cyanotype emulsion at night, developing in the sun light and fixing in water. 30 Cyanotypes were made
Walking a fish in a pram re-enactment with Brian Lobel.
Walking a fish in a pram in Whitstable, a sign on the pram says that Whitstable will be saved under the sign of Pisces. Proceeding to snog the fish in relevant locations.
free School looking at Giorgio Agamben text from The Time That Remains
1000 meter green thread re-enactment with Dalia Neas
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
An online shop for Live Art books and dvds
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
Village Series in Manchester
The Village Series will be shown in April 2007 in Holden Gallery, Manchester as part of the show Make it a Better Place.
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
