Holiday Recommendations Guest Post #9: Scanner

Ben Rivers
The Sky Trembles And The Earth Is Afraid And The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
Artangel/Whitworth Art Gallery
128 pp., 18 x 13 cm., softcover
Edition size unknown

Available from Cornerhouse Books, here, for £15.00.

"British filmmaker Ben Rivers creates dark, frequently unsettling films, drawn from real life and his inventive mind, often like casting spells onto the screen. Mysterious, caught in the debris between the lived and the imagined, his work remains in your mind long after you’ve experienced his films. British arts curators Artangel recently presented his new work in the former BBC Television Centre in London, accompanied by this beautiful publication, The Sky Trembles and The Earth Is Afraid and The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers."


http://www.artangel.org.uk/projects/2015/the_two_eyes_are_not_brothers

"Since 2000, Cabinet Magazine has been a continued source of compelling information, teaching you about things you never thought it necessary to even know about, with theme based issues on Catastrophe, Inverted Languages, Weather, Animals, Evil, Flight, Doubles, Chance, Ruins and so on.
Treat yourself to a subscription and enjoy days of sudden illumination and clarity. I’ve kept and treasured every copy since the first edition since it’s most definitely a journal worth returning to."

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org




Scanner (British artist Robin Rimbaud) traverses the experimental terrain between sound and space connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings. He scored the hit musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba (2007), Philips Wake-Up Light (2009), The Big Dance in Trafalgar Square for 1000 dancers and the re-opening of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 2012. Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners, he has collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Wayne MacGregor, Mike Kelley, Michael Nyman, Steve McQueen, Laurie Anderson and Hussein Chalayan.
www.scannerdot.com

Holiday Recommendations Guest Post #1: Jason De Haan

Matthew Buckingham,
Mount Rushmore in 500,000 Years
New York City, USA: Cabinet Magazine, 2002
17 x 23" poster
Open edition

Working with a geologist, artist Matthew Buckingham conjured a fantastical moment far in the future, when the contours of one of the United States' most recognizable—and controversial—monuments have eroded to a point pitched uncannily between the familiar and the unfamiliar.
Originally included in Cabinet no. 7, the Failure issue.

Available here, for $15.00. 

Jason de Haan (1981) is a multidisciplinary Canadian artist. He received his MFA (Sculpture) from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY in 2014. Recent solo exhibitions include the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax (2014); Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto (2014); Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (2014); Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (2012) Museo de la Ciudad, Querétaro (2012); with Miruna Dragan at The Khyber, Halifax (2011); ODD Gallery, Dawson City (2010) and Access Gallery, Vancouver (2010). His work has been presented in a number of group exhibitions including Scrap Metal, Toronto (2014); Bond House Projects, London (2013): Century City, East St. Arts, London (2013); Oakville Galleries (2012); with Miruna Dragan at 98 Weeks Research Project at the Thessaloniki Biennale (2011); Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto (2011); MOLAF, Bergen (2011); Art Gallery of Alberta (2013 & 2010); OK Quoi?, Sackville (2010) and Galleri Kling & Bang, Reykjavik (2009). de Haan participated in the Arctic Circle 2012 residency, the residency “The Soiree Retreat: A bit of a Chekhovian Situation” at the Banff Centre (2011) and is a founding member of the Corbin Union Residency in Corbin, BC, a ghost town in the East Kootenays. Upcoming exhibitions include MASS MoCA, North Adams in 2016. de Haan is the recipient of grants from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Canada council for the Arts and in 2012 he was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award, representing the Prairies and the North. His work has been reviewed in The Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star and in Canadian Art Magazine, Art in America and Art Forum. He is represented in Canada by Clint Roenisch Gallery.