Posts By: Edd Hobbs
TJ Demos’ Essay: The Unfinished revolution: Oreet Ashery’s Party for Freedom
The essay can be found on the Artangel website and as sprinted booklet with the DVD Party for Freedom in Unbound. “…Ashery’s video interweaves complex elements of experimental performance, nude theatre and political satire, punk music… Read more »
Party for Freedom solo show at Overgaden, Copenhagen, 6 September-27 October 2013
For her first solo exhibition in Denmark, Ashery presents the installation Party for Freedom, a moving-image audiovisual album of 10 tracks. Traversing the territories of Western leftist sentiments emergent in 1960s and 70s’ experimental and avant-garde… Read more »
Extensive feature on Party for Freedom and other works, The Wire, March 2014
Unfinished revolutions: Oreet Ashery’s Party For Freedom March 2014, Nathan Budzinski. “…It’s a mood of vagueness, but Party For Freedom is definitely not at peace with that ambience. It is an attempt to punch through it forcibly, with feeling”.
Monkey Bum Factory Performance
Details of workshop and performance for IM/MUNE can be found here (website in French).
On the Agency of Humour LAB for Metal
As part of the R&D for Party for Freedom, Oreet will be facilitating an artists’ comedy lab with Simon Poulter at Chalkwell Hall, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. More information can be found here.
An Act of Hairoism
Call for volunteers to be given a Ringo Starr makeover for As Salam Wul Hub as part of Abandon Normal Devices festival in Liverpool. Click here for more information and contact details.
Party for Freedom R&D/Film Shoot at Trashing Performance
For more information, please click here.
Ashery’s work featured in re.act.feminism performing archive
To find out more about the project, please click here.
Naked as a Jaybird Artsadmin Weekender
12-13 February 2011 Toynbee Studios, London Oreet will be running a weekend workshop based loosely on the work of the Naked as a Jaybird group. Click here for more information and booking details.
Solo Show, Beijing: Raging Balls
June 12th – July 12th, 2010 Other Gallery: Beijing Space, 706 North 3rd Street, Jiuxianqiao Road, 798 Art Zone Chaoyang District, Beijing China Raging Balls asks how should artists and audiences deal with politics, increased… Read more »
Solo Show, Shanghai: The Beautiful Jew
June 19th – July 19th, 2010 Other Gallery Shanghai Space, 50 Moganshan Road, Building 9, Shanghai This show is an installation comprised of works that Ashery performed, filmed, photographed, painted, assembled, stitched and collected since… Read more »