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Isotopica Interview on Resonance FM
April 23rd 2013
Listen again to Liliane Lijn's interview with Simon Tyszko for Isotopica on Resonance FM
'This weeks Isotopica features a wide ranging and difficult to edit (so much wonderful material) discussion with kinetic/science art/multidisciplinary artist Liliane Lijn. We discuss her works and life touching on projects that include Chemin De Fer (The Power Game 1970-present day), Prisms, working with NASA scientists and much in between. this just may be part one of two…'
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Visual Poetics
12th February - 5th May 2013
This group exhibition, curated by David Miller and Chris McCabe, focuses on the ways in which poetry has moved into a visual dimension in work by recent practitioners.
The Poetry Library, Royal Festival Hall, London
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Liliane Lijn, Cosmic Dramas
mima, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
30th November 2012 - 28th February 2013
Mima is proud to premiere Cosmic Dramas, three important installations by Liliane Lijn, long recognised as one of the most interesting and innovative artists on the international art scene. From the early 1980s, Lijn began to develop a new female archetype, using a broad range of materials, media and new technologies, referencing mythological beings and merging them with images from both nature and industry. Bridging art and drama, Conjunction of Opposites [Woman of War & Lady of the Wild Things], The Bride and The Electric Bride are 'the beginnings of a consciousness of spectacular feminist contemporary art'. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication, in which texts by Althea Greenan and Guy Brett are accompanied by drawings and excerpts from the artist's notebooks.
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The Fabricated Object
Building on Michael Petry's book, The Art of Not Making: the new artist/artisan relationship, this group exhibition explores some of the different factors that motivate artists to use assistants or make outsourcing part of their practice today.
28th November 2012 - 18th January 2013
Sumarria Lunn, 36 South Molton Lane, Mayfair, London W1K 5AB
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Light Pyramid, Milton Keynes
Unveiled 4th June 2012
Commissioned by MK Gallery and Milton Keynes Parks Trust as a sculpture beacon, Light Pyramid is sited in Campbell Park, Milton Keynes. The site affords extensive views of the surrounding Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire countryside, from which the pyramidal sculpture is itself prominently visible.
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Solar Beacon, Golden Gate Bridge
Solar Beacon is a sci-art installation on top of the two towers of the Golden Gate Bridge that reflects the Sun's light throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, celebrating the man-made structure's 75th anniversary. It is a white-light variation of Solar Hills, the ongoing collaboration between John Vallerga and Liliane Lijn to delineate the horizon with point of spectral light. Observers of Solar Beacon will see two points of white light, one on each tower top, that are as bright as the Sun, but much smaller in size.
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Review of Power Game, Zabludowicz Collection by Paul Hardman
"This is Power Game, an invention of Liliane Lijn, it is billed as a performance, and indeed it does have qualities of a performance, but the players are not actors, they are participants, and the arguments they use in this power struggle are their own."
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Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon Book Launch
6-8pm Tuesday 15th May 2012, Free Entry
Koenig Books, 80 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0BB
This 728-page tome commemorates the Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon 2009. The book launch at Koenig Books will include poetry readings by Michael Horovitz and Liliane Lijn, a discussion and refreshments.
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Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language
6th May – 27th August 2012, MoMA, New York
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language is a group exhibition that brings together 12 contemporary artists and artists' groups working in all mediums including painting, sculpture, film, video, audio, and design, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of language—visual, aural, and beyond.
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Power Game, Zabludowicz Collection, London
19th April 2012
Originally staged by Liliane Lijn in 1974 and renacted at the ICA in 2009, Power Game is concerned with the power of words and how people interpret meaning depending on their interests and preconceptions.
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CAUTION MATTER by Liliane Lijn and Jamie Allen
17th – 26th January 2012, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge CB1 1PT
CAUTION MATTER by Liliane Lijn and Jamie Allen is a new exhibition about configurations within art, industry, space and mythology which will highlight the luminous and exciting work of Lijn, a poet and visual artist and sound and media artist Allen, the deputy director of Newcastle's Culture Lab.
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Solar Hills
Solar Hills, in collaboration with NASA astronomer John Vallerga, are large-scale solar installations in the landscape that define the horizon with light. With Solar Hills, we are creating a new awareness of the beauty and poetry of our star.
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Light Years at the Soane
4th-26th November 2011, Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3BP
In collaboration with the Riflemaker Gallery, Sir John Soane's Museum is staging an exhibition by Liliane Lijn, including work from her early utopian projects through to more recent sculptures that explore space, light and vision - something which heavily influenced Sir John Soane's approach to his architecture.
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Light Years at Riflemaker
From 8th November 2011, Riflemaker, 79 Beak Street, London W1F 9SU
Liliane Lijn's Light Years, running concurrently at Sir John Soane's Museum and at Riflemaker features the artist's work using light and energy as materials. As well as Lijn's new Poemdrums, Riflemaker will show The Ruins of Kash, part of her ongoing Stardust project, which combines the artist's use of Aerogel, a weightless material developed by NASA for space research, with the artist's vision of stardust as fragmented ancient cosmic ruins.
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Moonmeme
Interactive Artwork
In Moonmeme, the artist reveals her concept to write on the Moon from the Earth using a laser beam. The word 'SHE" is projected onto the surface of the moon, the meaning of this word being gradually transformed as the Moon moves through its phases.
Moonmeme is being shown as part of Republic of the Moon/Moon Futures, 15th December, FACT, Liverpool
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Signals and Indica
24th October - March 2012, Gallery One, New Vision Centre, Tate Britain, London
A look at the work of four avant-garde London galleries in the 1950s and 60s, including work by Yves Klein and Hélio Oiticica.
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United Enemies
1st December – 11th March 2012, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
United Enemies looks at sculpture made by artists in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s, a time when the idea of sculpture was being radically contested.
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Moonmeme review by Mark Sheerin
21st December 2011
criticismism is a journal of art and ideas inspired by work in Brighton, UK, and beyond. It is written by Mark Sheerin, who also contributes to Culture24 and Mono.
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Very Magazine
Liliane Lijn's recent work as featured in her Lightyears exhibitions is featured in a four page article in Very Magazine 16. Her Nine Layer collage animation is featured in the forthcoming Very iPad issue.
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Crossing Map on Resonance 104.4 FM
1pm Sunday June 12th - July 3rd 2011
Liliane Lijn will be serialising her book Crossing Map for Resonance 104.4 FM. She will perform live for 30 minutes starting at 1pm every Sunday from June 12th to July 3rd during the course of the Gone With The Wind exhibition at Raven Row. Crossing Map was published by Thames & Hudson Ltd in 1983 and produced by Editions Hansjorg Mayer with a grant from Arts Council England.
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In Search of Alchemic Times
5 August – 3 September 2011
In Search of Alchemic Times is an exhibition bringing together a group of artists working with installation, text, sculpture, drawing, performance and moving image to explore notions of transformation, demise and regeneration, examining how commonplace resources are reconfigured or repurposed to conjure up new utopias.
Aura Satz, Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann, Jennifer Walshe, Liliane Lijn, Nathan Witt, Peter Lewis and Makiko Nagaya, Rowena Harris, Steven Ounanian, Tom Badley, Unrealised Projects. Curated by Cecilia Wee.
Thursday – Saturday 12-6pm
Wednesdays by appointment235 Brompton Road
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Power Game Online, Netaudio London 2011
15th May 2011
Power Game Online is a collaborative performance artwork produced for Resonance 104.4 FM as part of the Netaudio Festival at the Roundhouse.
In its new digital incarnation, Power Game uses twitter feeds, and is viewable on a specially made web site where registered players and the MC are represented by their twitter avatars. Power Game on twitter no longer uses the gambling metaphor as in previous incarnations. Money is not needed to play the game and its rules have, therefore, been radically altered and transformed, focusing the entire content of the game on exploring the way meaning changes from individual to individual.
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ATOMANOTES by Liliane Lijn
Published by Piece of Paper Press
14th September 2010
In 1967, inspired by analogies formulated from her scientific readings, between the structure and behaviour of matter with that of human beings, Liliane Lijn began writing them down in her notebook under the heading Atom-Man Notes.
ATOMANOTES is an illustrated book containing both the questions originally asked by Lijn in 1968 and the answers of four scientists today: John Vallerga, Laura Peticolas, John Bonnell and Ilan Roth.
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Milton Keynes shopping centre becomes Grade II listed
16th July 2010
Milton Keynes shopping centre, featuring 'Circle of Light' by Liliane Lijn is given Grade II listing
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Cabaret Futura
The Paradise, Kensal Green, London
21st June 2010
Invited to perform at Richard Strange's resurrection of his 1980's Cabaret Futura, Lijn performed Poem Game. Inviting two audacious members of the audience to join her on stage, she used her especially designed word-cards to write a poem.
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Inner Space Outer Space
A film by Liliane Lijn with Richard Wilding
AV Festival 10: Energy
Film screening and Talk, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
7th March 2010
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Power Game, BALTIC, Newcastle
5th March 2010
Originally staged by Liliane Lijn in 1974 and renacted at the ICA in 2009, Power Game is concerned with the power of words and how people interpret meaning depending on their interests and preconceptions.
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Narec Residency
Liliane Lijn has been appointed as artist in residence at Narec, in a partnership project under the aegis of Inspire Northumberland and Narec (New and Renewable Energy Centre) in Blyth.
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What is the sound of one hand clapping?
Oporto, Lisbon
Film screening, February 6th, 2010
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In This Light and on This Evening by 'Editors'
Album cover artwork by Liliane Lijn
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Solar Hills
Solar Hills, in collaboration with NASA astronomer John Vallerga, are large-scale solar installations in the landscape that define the horizon with light. With Solar Hills, we are creating a new awareness of the beauty and poetry of our star.
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Earth Art
Jewellery 2008 – 2010
Willer
November 2009
I intend my jewellery to be worn, as if one were moulding a clod of 'glebe' to a part of one's body. I want people to wear the earth.
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Pinch Pots and Pyramids
Kate Werble Gallery, New York City
November 2009
Liliane Lijn, Sam Moyer, Ryan Reggiani, Halsey Rodman, Susana Rodriguez and Molly Smith
"Pinch Pots and Pyramids", on view at Kate Werble Gallery, invites viewers to reconsider basic geometric shapes as well as the human ability to create them.
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Serpentine Poetry Marathon
October 18 - 19th 2009
Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and held in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA over the weekend of 17th and 18th of October 2009.
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Power Game, ICA London
28th July 2009
Originally staged by Liliane Lijn in 1974 and renacted at the ICA in 2009, Power Game is concerned with the power of words and how people interpret meaning depending on their interests and preconceptions.
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Poor.Old.Tired.Horse
ICA, London
17th June – 23rd August 2009
Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. takes an expansive look at text-based art practices, inspired by the concrete poetry movement of the 60s which explored both the literary and graphic potential of language.
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Space - Time
National Glass Centre
April - August 2009
Curated by Grainne Sweeney
'Space-Time' draws together works that reflect upon applications of astronomical observations and the role of time in our everyday lives, memory and future.
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Stardust
Riflemaker, London
April - September 2008
The exhibition follows on from the artist's 2005 residency at the Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
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Centrifugal
Liliane Lijn & Annabelle Moreau
Royal Academy Summer Schools Gallery, Hornsey
21st March - 11th May 2008
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Nyehous Becomes Indica
Nyehous Gallery, New York City
November 2007
A group exhibition curated by Riflemaker Gallery, an homage to John Dunbar's Indica Gallery and the artists who exhibited in it from 1965 to 1967.
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Liliane Lijn Selected Works 1959 - 1980
England & Co, London
May - June 2006
A retrospective exhibition curated by David Alan Mellor and accompanied by a publication inspired by Signals, the Signals Gallery catalogues and journal published in the 1960's.
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Liliane Lijn Selected Works 1959 - 2005
Austin Desmond Gallery, London
April - May 2006
A selection of works spanning four and a half decades, the exhibition was curated by Catriona Colledge.
Dr. Sarah G. Wilson, professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art wrote the introduction to the catalogue.