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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Solar Beacon, Golden Gate Bridge, 2012
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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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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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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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 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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Light Years at the Soane
Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 2011.
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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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Signals and Indica
24th October 2011 - 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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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.
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Crossing Map on Resonance 104.4 FM
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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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.
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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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