Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret
9a St Thomas St
London SE1 9R1
Bioluminescent bacteria are widely used in scientific research, usually as internal markers. By inverting this practice and employing bacteria as an external light source, objects and bodies, surfaces and skin are exposed to the soft ethereal glow of the bacteria, establishing new points of contact and visual punctures. What is usually seen under the lens of the microscope is here the source of light that reveals the features of human bodies and enters the world of domesticity.
Festival @rt Outsiders 2009 Sep 9 – Oct 11 2009
July 20, 2009
(Un)Inhabitable? Art of Extreme Environments
Maison Européenne de la Photographie.
5-7, Rue de Fourcy, 75004 Paris.
Metro: Saint Paul or Pont Marie
September 9 – October 11 2009
Wednesday – Sunday / 11 am-8 pm
“(Un)Inhabitable? – Art of Extreme Environments” presents works that explore the meaning of living in extreme environments, in the imaginary realm as well as in the physical one, in the political, social and environmental fields as well as in the poetic ones. The 2009 edition of the @rt Outsiders Festival —celebrating this year its tenth anniversary—focuses on extreme environments.
These are environments that were, until recently, uninhabited by human beings and that contemporary science and technology turn into “inhabitable” places (Antarctica, underwater world, outer space, deserts); but also those that are becoming “uninhabitable” due to the impacts of our way of life (pollution, technological accidents, economical pressures and global warming).
Artists :
Howard Boland & Laura Cinti ; Anne Brodie ; Peter Cusack ; Stephen Eastaugh ; Shiro Matsui ; Connie Mendoza ; Hu Jie Ming ; Forrest Myers ; Lucy + Jorge Orta ; Bradley Pitts ; Andrea Polli ; Catherine Rannou ; Ana Rewakowicz ; Yang Yi.
Curators :
Jean-Luc Soret, artistic director of the @rt Outsiders Festival.
Annick Bureaud, theoretician and art critic, director of Leonardo/Olats.
Press :
Yannick Le Guillanton
Tel : ++ 33/1 44 78 75 20
E-Mail : le.guillanton [@] art-outsiders.com
Bioluminescent updates
May 22, 2009
‘Exploring the Invisible’ is a current Wellcome funded project that will culminate in a temporary site specific installation at the Old Operating Theatre in London Bridge. Click on http://bioproject.tumblr.com/ to view recent images and video outcomes of this collaborative project, and Wellcome Library to read about the project as July’s item of the month.
Anne Brodie & Yael Rosenblut – The Visitors
May 17, 2009
The Ice House, Helmsdale’s monumental deep freeze. Once a store for salmon catch, later a coal fired fish and chip shop. TimeSpan’s artist in residence and youth arts curator Ruth Macdougall has commissioned Chilean video artist Yael Rosenblut and myself to research and respond to the Ice House. The resulting work will constitute a double sited installation inside the ice house and in Timespan Gallery from 4July to 2nd Aug 2009. Read Scottish Art critic Giles Sutherland’s review of the exhibition.
'Sandy' installed in the Ice house. Photo Ruth McDougall
'archive1' fingernails and bone
'archive2' lightbox and paper print detail
'Smokehouse' video still1
'Smokehouse' video still2
'Smokehouse' video still3
'paper projection'
New Basement work
April 16, 2009
bee
Part of an ongoing series of photographic images documenting the process and detritus of my working practice.
Watermans Gallery 40 High St Bretford, London TW8 ODS
Antarctica -a choice? part of Rothera collection showing in Sunderland
Successful Wellcome Trust Arts funding for ‘Exploring the Invisible’ Bioluminescent project
February 5, 2009
Dr Park, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology, University of Surrey, and Dr Caterina Albano, Research fellow and Curator for ArtAkt, The Innovation Centre, Central St Martins and I will be collaborating in researching the bacterial communication and light producing properties of P. phosphoreum outside of the usual confines of purely practical scientific practice and developing a body of work based on less traditionally scientific quantifiable attributes; an alternative data collection based on subjectivity, emotion, playfulness and instinctive human enquiry.
For more details and up to date information on the project see Exploring the Invisible
I will be showing a photographic/sound piece of work ‘Do I dare disturb the universe?’ as part of ‘Diverse Practices – celebrating 20 years of the City Lit Ceramics Diploma course’. 11 past sudents will be showing at the Barrett Marsden Gallery alongside a slideshow of images by the current teaching staff.
Evening event at the Dana Centre 26th November
November 24, 2008
Dana centre talk (photo by D. Epstein)
Dr Park and I will be exhibiting and taking photographs in the living photograph booth and participating in a discussion at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre on the evening of Wed 26th November.
‘Bioluminescence-held’ Copyright Anne Brodie 2008
