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Gillian McIver

GILLIAN MCIVER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GILLIAN MCIVER

 

Solo exhibitions and screenings

2010 Film screening, Sarai Centre, New Delhi

2005 PLACES: 5 films, The Collection, Lincoln

2003 “Open Space” - La Fabrik, Berlin

Group exhibitions and screenings

2010 Caught in Flux screening programme, UCL Bartlett, London

2010 CeC'10 India Global Art Video

2010 Diablos, Ruskin Cafe Gallery, London

2009 Optica 2009, Optica, touring exhibition of video based work. La Paz, Buenos Aires, Paris, Cordoba. Huarte, Gijon-Asturias.

2009 This Is Not A Gateway Festival, London

2009 The Irresistible District, Suvilahti, Helsinki

2009 Photocinema: Forum Festival of Photography 2009, Quad, Derby

2008 "The B Sides" CCA Glasgow, Touring internationally

2008 "Foreword" Contemporary Photography, Gallery at Menier Chocolate Factory, London

2008 Digital Media 1.0, La Nau, Valencia, Spain

2008 Postindustrial Baroque, Globe Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

2007 In Situ 07, La Farinera del Clot, Barcelona

2006 Kunstwinter, Factory Berlin, Berlin

2006 Luna Nera video art, Vidifest, La Sala Naranja, Valencia

2006 Transpositions, Falcon Works, Stoke-on-Trent

2005 l'Eta Nomade, Accademia dell'arte, Mattatoio di Testaccio, Rome

2005 Urban Clearance, PS2 Project Space and site-specific, Belfast

2004 Interconnection Kronstadt, Russia

2004 Tiefenrausch Ost, Factory-Berlin, Berlin

2003 The Derelict Sensation (site specific) Artist & Curator, The Midland Grand Hotel St Pancras, London (more info)

2002 Helden der Arbeit, Batteriefabrik Oberschoeneweide, Berlin

2002 Backup Festival Loungelab, Weimar

2002 Spider & Mouse Gallery, Moscow

2002 Other Than English - Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Canada

2001 Stockholm Art Fair, DNA Gallery, Stockholm

2001 Al Talaki: City Without Frontiers - Atelier des artistes, Alexandria Egypt

2001 Art Moscow Art Fair (with Dirizhable collective)

2000 London - Russia projects

Present Perfect – Centre for Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Poema Vremenyi/Floodplain of Time – Spider & Mouse Gallery, Moscow
Poema Vremenyi/Floodplain of Time – Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
The Thames-Oka Project – London.

1999 Colosseum V – The House of Detention, London

1997 - 1998 The Colosseum Project,London

Colosseum IV – Foundry Gallery
Colosseum III – The Whitechapel Gallery
Colosseum II – The Colosseum Theatre
Colosseum I – The Colosseum Theatre

Awards

Arts Council of England Grants for the Arts

Critics and Curators Award, Canada Council for the Arts

British Council Travel Grants

Education

2003 Master of Arts, MA by Project “Site Specificity and Site Response” practice-based research in site responsive art, looking at issues of curation, documentation and collaborative practice. Practical work inlcuded an edited e-book, photography and a series of short films.

Sir John Cass School of Art at London Guildhall (now part of London Metropolitan University), with research undertaken in St Petersburg, Zurich and Berlin. Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain (AHRC)

1997 Bachelor of Arts, Film, Video and Photographic Arts. University of Westminster.

Supervised by Jackie Hatfield and Richard Barbrook.

Catalogues

2009 Photocinema Louise Clements

2007 Prospero's Library, Mikhail Pogarsky

2005 Volgatronika, Evgeny Strelkov

2003 Paracrafts, Evgeny Strelkov

2003 Into the Deep Blue Leo Koenigsberg

2003 ArtDialogues Larissa Skobkina

2002 Other Than English Catherine Phoenix, Centre for Art Tapes

2002 Helden der Arbeit Michel Brand

2001 Art Moscow 2001

2000 Poema Vremenyi/Floodplain of Time Evgeny Strelkov

Commissioned Publications

“Site Specific Art Today” Arts Professional Jan. 2010

"Overflow: Ima Pico and the digital mural" Catalogue essay for Overflow, Milton Keynes Contemporary 2009

2008 "Schematic" Catalogue essay for exhibition Schematic: New Media Art from Canada 2008

2008 "Postindustrial Baroque" Globe Gallery. Catalogue introduction and essay for Postindustrial Baroque, ed. 2008

"Raw Earth: State of the Division" in Toprak Independent Publication of the 2007 Venice Biennial

“Interview with Nazir Tanbouli” Dialogue, Axis

"Voice of the Artist: Urban Intervention and Artistic Experiment" in Generalized Empowerment, Johan Moyerson, Saskia Sassen, Ana Betancour et al., ed. Jim Segers. Bruxelles, City Mined: 2006.

"Where Artists Lead: international practice and local networks" A-N 2006.

“Interconnection: life and art in a forgotten Russian town” Crosswalk (RI, USA) 1.2. 2005

“Collaboration as Practice” in DIY Survival ed. C6 Collective, Metamute: 2005

“Art as Collective Cultural Action” Contexts autumn 2003

“Artists Initiatives in Moscow” Variant 15 Summer 2002; reprinted in Contexts, summer 2003.

“Framing the 20th Century”, Year 01 Forum, 10 Spring (Toronto) 2002

“Lab Rats for Art”, Year 01 Forum, 11 Autumn (Toronto) 2002

Selected Commissioned Reviews

“The Museological Unconscious: Communal (Post)Modernism in Russia.” Book Review, MIT Press, 2009 A-N October 2009

ALTERMODERN, Tate Britain, London A-N March 2009

Expanded Cinema, The Live Record, BFI Southbank, London A-N January 2009

Turner Prize 2008 Tate Britain, London A-N November 2008

Talks and Papers

“Blogging, Podcasting, Vlogging. "DiY": modelo doméstico vs modelo institucional. Modelos comunicacionales y de distribución de la sociedad digital contemporánea” University of Valencia, 2006

"The 30 Second Dilemma: the fall & rise of video art" Academy of Fine Art, University of Valencia, 2006

Permanent Experiment: site-responsive art practice in context” British Art Show 06 Sideshow Symposium, Nottingham 2006

"Artistic Experimentation & Urban Change" Accademia dell Arte Roma

“Collaboration as practice: Collective action and Experimentation” Collision University of Victoria Canada 2005

“The Urban Desert” at Champ Libre, Montreal, 2004

“Luna Nera” at Hull Time Based Arts, Critical Platform, 2004

Luna Nera at Ruskin College, Oxford University 2003

ISEA 1998, LIverpool



 


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