Event
Disguised as a Dog: artist talk and publication launch
6 Oct 2018
Event times
3pm exhibition open for viewing.
3.30pm Screening of Road Back to Relevance, followed by Dan Rees in conversation with Gareth Bell-Jones.
4.30pm publication launch.
Cost of entry
This is a FREE event. However booking is essential, for tickets please go to Eventbrite.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/disguised-as-a-dog-event-dan-rees-artist-talk-and-publication-launch-tickets-50497671896
Address
- 49 Staffordshire Street
- London
United Kingdom - SE15 5TJ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Peckham Bus Station and Peckham Library
- Queens Road Peckham and Peckham Rye
To mark the penultimate week of Disguised as a Dog, Dan Rees will be in conversation with Gareth Bell-Jones. The event will include a screening of The Road Back to Relevance and the launch of Solidarity a special edition book. Refreshments will be available throughout.
About
3pm exhibition open for viewing.
3.30pm Screening of Road Back to Relevance, followed by Dan Rees in conversation with Gareth Bell-Jones.
4.30pm publication launch.
Dan Rees (b, UK) is based between London and Berlin. His practice spans painting, sculpture photography and video. He studied at Camberwell College Of Arts (2001-2004) and at Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule, Frankfurt (2007-2009). Recent exhibition include: Ruins of the Cambrian Age, Tanya Leighton, Berlin; Depressed Earth, Múrias | Centeno, Lisbon; Road Back To Relevance, Nomas Foundation, Rome in 2016; Stimulate Surprise, Tanya Leighton, Berlin; Think Local Act Global, MOT International, Brussels in 2015; Top Heavy, T293, Rome and Kelp, National Museum of Wales in 2013.
Gareth Bell-Jones (b. 1982) is an independent curator and writer based in London and Berlin. For four and a half years to 2014 he worked as a curator for Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, where he has curated residencies, exhibitions, retreats, events and an annual music festival with a wide range of artists and practitioners including Jesse Darling, Gustav Metzger, Elizabeth Price, Ed Atkins and Keren Cytter to mention a few. For the same duration he has been a regular visiting tutor to the Royal College of Art Curating Contemporary Art Department. Before working at Wysing he studied curating at the RCA, where his thesis was on the theme of Boredom, and curated and ran the Tricycle Gallery in Kilburn for three years. Recent catalogue commissions and artists texts have included Laure Provost, Agata Madejska and Marlie Mul, whereby he generally takes a fictionalised approach to interpretation
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