Andrew McNiven: Calton Hill Solar

Calton Hill Solar (2025, 17’ 59”, HD digital video, digital stereo audio), was conceived initially as a site-specific work, made in a studio in Edinburgh in close proximity to the studio of photographic pioneers David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) and Robert Adamson (1821-1848) during the 1840s. Their calotype process required both long exposures and high levels of light, the only source of which at that time was sunlight and the effect and evidence of sunlight can be seen in many of their images.

Calton Sun Solar ‘borrows’ the same sunlight as Hill and Adamson, a simple acknowledgement of or parallel to their practices and presence in the city. However, there are wider and further implications to any image of the sun, described by Francis Ponge in ‘The Sun Placed in the Abyss’ as “the formal and indispensable condition of everything in the world… The condition of sight itself.” There is an inescapable paradox of representing something which it is impossible to gaze at directly, (as in Michel Foucault’s unrepresentable ‘blind spot’), and which we can only really comprehend through its effects and influence. To use the camera to gaze directly at the sun and to record and represent this is, in effect, to create an ‘impossible’ image. 

Calton Hill Solar was made with the support of the Outer Spaces’ Cube Studio Programme,
part of the 2025 Edinburgh Art Festival.

Andrew McNiven

Residue, what remains

Unnoticed Art Festival and TheConceptBank.org
will be part of the project residue, what remains
Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
6 February – 7 June, 2026 

The title of the show, residue, what remains suggest the transience of many of the works, whether scores to be performed or marks left after an event. The exhibition draws on the logics of choreography and performance to reimagine what an exhibition can be. Scores suggest moments yet to happen, documents capture moments past and the exhibition provides a stage for live activity whose remains then integrate into the exhibition.

The festival and exhibition have been curated by
Sue Schroeder, artistic director of Core Dance Company.

Please Remember

The performance as a pointless exercise.
The performer draws attention to a (similarly pointless) series of numbers,
to which he adds a red ball.

Performance ‘Please Remember’
Frans van Lent
Belgium Performance Festival III,
-How to document a performance-
VUB Brussel, October 5 2016.

video©Karina Beumer

Heinrich Obst: I consider this to be a work (2025)

Heinrich Obst during the online preparation of his work for the 3rd Nieuwstraat Festival (google streetview):
“I consider this to be a work,
in the sense of Duchamp asserting that the fifth person /five minutes carrying whatever is an artwork.
This young woman walking down the Nieuwstraat reading the label of what I assume to be a flask of motor oil.
Anonymous conjecture to be sure, but a moment caught on disinterested camera for a reason still to be investigated”.

Bureau Gruzemayer

Sifra Coulet: Reaching Hands and Boundary Objects (2025)

I was thinking about how doing is inherent to our hands.
We handle things. We make, break, manipulate, caress.
We reach out, let our hands travel trough free space
until we encounter a border; an object, a body.

When we shake the hand of another human being,
we minimize the free space between us, to be able to perform a joint action.
A handshake is something we do together.

I did a ritualistic performance during a groupshow by Mondag (mondag.org) at Vrijpaleis Amsterdam.
I asked participants to capture in clay that minimal free space in a handshake.

Sifra Coulet


underpermanentdeconstruction.com

Open Call: 3rd Nieuwstraat Festival

The Nieuwstraat is an average street in the city center of Dordrecht, the Netherlands. The festival will take place in this street on an unannounced Saturday in June 2025, between sunrise and midnight. From the received submissions, a varied program will be compiled. The performances will be carried out by volunteers, unannounced and with no explanation.
Taking place in everyday settings, the performances involve hiding the unusual within the usual. Passersby may perceive these actions, but not recognize them as performance art.

The Open Call:
Please describe your concept in a clear and accessible language, more or less as a manual. The performances will be carried out by (often unexperienced) volunteers.
Don’t forget to mention the preferred time of the day (in relation to the opening and closing of shops, outdoor cafes, the fruit/vegetable-market).
We can only accept your submission if you include links to a website or page with some information about your practice.

Please send your submission to mail@unnoticedart.com.
Deadline: Monday, 31 March 2025, 23:59 (CET).
https://unnoticedartfestival.com

The Nieuwstraat festival is organised by
UnnoticedArt.com / TheConceptBank.org.

Pepe Romero: Cartografie Doméstica, Permeabilidad 4

But it was three months ago that I started an intense dialogue with the second material: the painting of one of the walls that was collapsing due to moisture and beginning to crumble. Some small fragments fell to the ground.
Cleaned up the debris right away and noticed larger blocks of paint coming off the sandy concrete showing cracks from which required action and speed.
I patiently stripped bits of paint off and gently rearranged them on a damp surface of scalyola bandage. I was moving them and experiencing the joy of that new arrangement and that new bracket.
And so I made new wall fragments, this time, more crazy, cheerful and invigorating. I could feel that from his interstitions I heard the words of a text that, at times, I could understand.

peperomeroescultor.wixsite.com

Valérian Goalec: Act. 12

Act. 12
#202309.1
The exhibition space offers a coffee in exchange for the contents of your pocket every day.
 
Lunar Practices
At B09k, Changsha (China)

Curated by Yue Yuan

Valérian Goalec

 

 

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