Philip Lee

On Thursday 15th October 2009 there will be a closing reception from 6 to 9 pm, during which I will present Corpus Slip II, 2009, a live full-body performance with clay.
It will be a different performance from the one at the opening. I hope you will be able to come.
On 29th September I performed Corpus Slip I and two images by Julia Davy are attached.

My installation, entitled Slab Torsos II, 2009, forms the backdrop to the performances and comprises 21 ceramic male and female torsos. It can be seen throughout the show, which closes on Monday 19th October 2009.
Corpus will be closed on Monday 5th and Monday 12 October
and is open from 12 noon to 8 pm.

More details at the HRL Contemporary website www.hrlcontemporary.com

My website is being up-dated and so please check it out if you have not seen it recently.
I am particularly pleased to include an article by Marion Duquerroy entitled 'Mapping the performance: Romain Forquy and Phili Lee's Segments', which can be found on the portfolio page of May 2008.

Hoping to see you soon,
My very best wishes Philip

I will be presenting Corpus Slip I, 2009, a live full-body performance, starting promptly at 8 pm.

My installation, entitled Slab Torsos II, 2009 will form a backdrop to the performance.

The installation includes 20 ceramic male and female torsos
made between 2001 and 2003 and exhibited here together for the first time.

Corpus runs until Monday 19th October 2009,
Closed Monday 5th and Monday 12 October
open from 12 noon to 8 pm

On Thursday 15th October 2009 there will be a
closing reception from 6 to 9 pm, during which I will present another live body performance.

More details at the HRL Contemporary website - http://www.hrlcontemporary.com/ and in the press release attached.

Philip

Attachment: Press Release

Hop Skip is open until 1 am on Saturday and is a pop up night of performance and video, part of the Hackney Wicked Festival; it is curated by the wonderfully talented Martina O'Shea.

Come along to Hackney Wick this Friday to have a go at plunging your hand, foot or any other part of your anatomy you wish to try, into creamy clay slip. Tell me what you feel, think or any other inner thoughts and have your photograph taken too! You have all wondered what it feels like to do what I do and now you can find out first hand, or foot as the case may be!

Please see above flyer... Apologies for late notice and cross posting...

I am looking forward to seeing you there!

With all good wishes,
Philip

bookartbookshop is hosting an exhibition of artist books by AM Bruno

Private View

Friday 24th April
6 30 - 8 30pm

25th April – 2nd May 09
Wednesday to Friday 12 – 7pm
Saturday 12 – 6pm

Bookartbookshop
17 Pitfield St
London N1 6HB
020 7608 1333

AM BRUNO represents current artistic thought, practice and sensibility translated and expanded into book art form. The artists in the group are visual and conceptual practitioners in all media, including painting, photography, video, performance and sculpture.

The themes vary from inquiry into the nature of books/sketchbooks, human body/desire/private life, the value of artificiality, writing/image and time.

AM Bruno is an alliance of artists initiated by MA fine art graduates from Central Saint Martins.
Charlotte Andrew, Marco Cali, Nancy Campbell, Sara Dell'onze, Claire Deniau, Ana Efe, Francesca Galeazzi, Judy Goldhill, Jane Grisewood, Heather James, Anna Johnson, Philip Lee, Heidi Locher, Sophie Loss, Penny Matheson , Steve Perfect, Jeni Snell, Cally Trench, Paula Naughton, Alvin Watt, Mary Yacoob

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Between Gallery and Bookshop

Distribution and Artists' Books

Talk: 25th April 2009 18:00 - 21:00

IMT presents Between Gallery and Bookshop, a talk with Gordon Shrigley, Emily Speed and Kelly Wellman on artists' books to coincide with an exhibition of books by artists' collective AM BRUNO at the bookartbookshop. The talk is to address questions of distribution and display context for artists who use books as a medium for creative practice. How do different contexts of distribution affect the creation of and engagement with artists' books? Between Gallery and Bookshop attempts to look at artists' books via the channels through which they reach their readers.

In addition to the talk the gallery will be open from noon on the 25th of April with a curated display of books by members of AM BRUNO. The talk is free however places are limited.

Gordon Shrigley runs Marmalade and Filmarmalade, publishers of contemporary works of visual theory in the form of either drawing, text, photography or video. Both the artists' book publisher Marmalade, and the video DVD label Filmarmalade grew out of a desire to promote and distribute works that allow artists the space to ‘think the visual [. . .] through the act of a sustained looking, talking and working with and through media'.

Emily Speed is an artist based in Liverpool. She founded and coordinated Liverpool Artists' Book Fair in 2008 and is part of the artist-led space Wolstenholme Projects.

Kelly Wellman has an MA in artists' books. She teaches at Camberwell and runs bookartbookshop with Tanya Peixoto.

Between Gallery and Bookshop has been organised by artists collective AM BRUNO and IMT Gallery. AM BRUNO is an alliance of 24 artists initiated by MA fine art graduates from Central Saint Martins. AM BRUNO represents current artistic thought, practice and sensibility translated and expanded into book art form. The artists in the group are visual and conceptual practitioners in all media, including painting, photography, video, performance and sculpture. The themes vary from inquiry into the nature of books/sketchbooks, human body/desire/private life, the value of artificiality, writing/image and time.

An exhibition of artists' books by AM BRUNO will also be held at the bookartbookshop from 25 April - 2nd May 2009.

Weblinks:

• IMT http://www.imagemusictext.com/
• AM BRUNO http://www.am-bruno.blogspot.com/
• bookartbookshop http://www.bookartbookshop.com/
• Filmarmalade http://www.filmarmalade.co.uk/
• Wolstenholme Projects http://www.wolstenholmeprojects.org/

Philip Lee performs Colours I 2009, a new live body piece performed for the first time incorporating body paints and water. Lee applies body-paint in a ritualistic and methodical way, from head to toe and then toe to head, and so on. Different coloured paints are used for each sequence, as the body's skin becomes an ever-changing palimpsest. Lee struggles to follow his self-imposed schedule in an action that is symbolic of the journey through life to the deep unknown. As a living sculpture, Lee interrogates artistic traditions while the viewer is forced to consider the terrifying transience of corporeal existence.

Yason Banal will present Untitled/Again (Marienbad); a video and performance inspired by Alain Robert-Grillet and Alain Resnais' cold classic Last Year at Marienbad. Untitled/Again (Marienbad) is a constellation of the space-time continuum, purgatorial ennui and art haut naturalism, as well as photographic amnesia, cinematic stillness and sculptural performance. Yason Banal forms a contemporary constellation around etiquette, lethargy and stupor by transporting Marienbad to different cities, inhabited by human figurines, sculptural garments and gallery artifacts. Courtauld Institute students will form a doom couture styled tableaux vivant that will accompany the video screening.

Due to popular demand, Stephen Walter’s exhibition of The Island: London Series has now been extended until July 2009.

If you require any further information or wish to arrange a private tour of the collection for yourself, friends or clients then please do get in touch. Catalogues will also be available for artists to collect for the duration of the weekend.

Check www.eastwing8.co.uk to see the range of forthcoming exciting events.

Many thanks
Kindest regards

Chloé Nelkin
Chair, East Wing VIII
07764 273 219
www.eastwing8.co.uk

Next openings:
Saturday 25th April
Sunday 26th April
Friday 22nd May - Museums at Night programme
Saturday 27th June
Sunday 28th June
Saturday 25th July
Sunday 26th July - last ever opening
Please see the website for further dates and full details of all performances.

At Play @ New Exhibitions at South Hill Park

18 April - 21 June 2009

Opening reception: Friday 17 April, 6pm - 8.30pm. All welcome!

I am delighted to invite you to the opening reception of the new At Play season at South Hill Park on Friday 17 April, 6pm - 8.30pm.

At Play in the Bracknell Gallery and Tall Hall explores ideas about play: making magic and being transformed, passing the time, messing about and making a mess, being yourself and pretending to be someone else, having secrets, making dens, belonging to gangs, creating rules and rituals, taking dares and chances, making and exploring small worlds. The exhibition re-creates in both adults and children a sense of what it is like to be a child at play. It encourages the viewer to gaze, to remember, to touch, to explore, to trust, to think, to laugh, to peer, to concentrate, to join in, to bend down, to take a chance … and to play. At Play 1 features work by Marco Cali, Marcin Gajewski, Rosie Gibson, Judy Goldhill & Sophie Loss, Susan Eyre, Cathy Hart & Esther Jervis, Aaron Head, Pernille Holm-Mercer, Ingrid Jensen, Philip Lee, Siobhan McAuley, Samantha Mogelonsky, Fedor Pavlov-Andreevich, Kay Sentance, Liz Whiteman Smith, John Tenniel and Cally Trench. At Play 2 returns on 17 April – 20 June 2010 for a mansion-wide exhibition. At Play 1 and 2 are co-curated by Cally Trench and Outi Remes.

The opening reception also celebrates the opening of the Images 32 group exhibition in the mansion spaces, presenting the best of British contemporary illustration and is the most prestigious and comprehensive illustration award show in the UK.

The At Play season includes the following live art events: Philip Lee explores extreme forms of child’s play and pleasure in doing something that an adult is not supposed to do. Lee’s Sitting Slip is performed on 17 April 2009 during the opening reception, 6.00pm – 7.30pm. Lee’s performance is followed by Dead Radio, a performance by Fedor Pavlov-Andreevich on 17 April 2009 during the opening reception, 7.30pm – 8.30pm. The audience is invited to twiddle the artist’s knobs making him physically switch from station to station – signing, reading news, quoting popular radio shows – all from the Soviet Union era. Also, don’t miss Sandcastles by Kay Sentance in the Bracknell town centre and the arts centre during the exhibition and opening day. Sandcastles, far from a beach, aims to provide playful reminders and surprising chance encounters between the sandcastles and the public.

I hope you enjoy At Play at South Hill Park.

South Hill Park
Ringmead
Bracknell
RG12 7PA
Tel: 01344 416240

Directions at: http://www.southhillpark.org.uk/aboutUsTravel.jsp

Mansion Space Galleries:

Monday to Saturday 9am - 11pm
Sunday and Bank Holidays 11am - 10.30pm

Bracknell Gallery opening times:

Wednesday 7.00pm - 9.30pm
Thursday to Saturday 1.00pm - 9.30pm
Sunday 1pm-5pm

Free Admission

South Hill Park | Ringmead | Bracknell | Berkshire | RG12 7PA | South Hill Park Trust Limited. A Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in England No. 265656 | Telephone: 01344 484 858 | Fax: 01344 411 427 | www.southhillpark.org.uk

Surface! is open 4th-26th April 2009. Opening times: Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10am to 5pm; Sundays, 2-5pm, Easter Bank Holiday Monday, 2-5pm. Closed Good Friday. Free admission.

Location: The Oxfordshire Museum, Park Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1SN.
Tel: 01993 811456

For more information, see http://www.callytrench.co.uk/surface.html

With my very best wishes
Philip