Lanchester Gallery Projects announces an international exhibition of visual art in collaboration with Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Including artists from Thailand, Ireland, Singapore, Taiwan and Britain – though many have transnational affiliations – Unspeaking Engagements was shown at the Art Center of Chulalongkorn University during 2009.

The artists in Unspeaking Engagements explore processes of physical and/or durational engagement as a means of constituting the artwork. Each address their own or the viewers’ awareness of their body in relation to time and space.  At issue are questions of how such awareness can be cultivated, felt, represented and ultimately proliferated through the work of art. Unspeaking Engagements showcases artworks as sites of shifting experiences, in differentiation from artworks that require detached observation and propose fixed or final interpretations.

This exhibition proposes a detailed understanding of major questions within international contemporary art practices – who does what, how, when, and to whom – and consequently links theoretical debates about the intersection of performance and performativity to more recent critical issues of relational or participatory art. Moreover, the international basis of Unspeaking Engagements highlights different terms for understanding common methods and aims. Theories and sensibilities developed in one part of the world can be radically tested in another, provoking unexpected intensities and new formations.

Works to be included are drawing, video, interactive media, site-specific installation, performance and objects.

Exhibiting Artists;
Tintin Cooper
Institute of Beasts
Adam James
Michael Lee
Tanya Madsen Mahon
Brigid McLeer
Ho Ming-Kuei
Be Takerng Pattanopas
Kamol Phaosavasdi
Nigel Power and Elias Wyber
Hester Reeve
Jonathan Shaw
Carl von Weiler

Note on the Curators
Dr. Brian Curtin is a freelance art writer and curator based in Bangkok, and is currently an adjunct lecturer on the PhD program in Design Arts at Silpakorn University.

Steve Dutton (RCA) is an artist and Professor in Creative Practice at Coventry University in the UK. His projects have been exhibited throughout the UK and internationally.

Gallery 13 seen here installed as part of the Time|Motion exhibition.

Gallery 13 is now back on show in gallery 20 at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. 7 years after it was originally commissioned, shot, exhibited and subsequently acquired for the Museums collection.

Crash has been beautifully designed by James Langdon and is now available and being distributed by Cornerhouse Publications at a bargain price of £10!
The 44 page hard back publication comprises of a single image which flows across each spread and uses japanese binding techniques to allow the image to physically continue across the outside edge of the pages. The effect that is achieved is similar to ‘concertina’ folding however, the key difference is that the viewer is NOT able to open out the folds in order to see the entirety of the image.
It has been published by New Art Gallery Walsall, supported by Arts Council England and Coventry University.

Featured on Wayne Ford’s (Group Design Director of Haymarket Business Media, London & Hong Kong) Posterous.

Upon entering the car park to mac you will notice a large scale photograph adorning the temporary hoardings. This piece of work has been commissioned by Calthorpe Estates during the development of the Edgbaston Mill project in association with mac.

The installation is due to be completed early next week.