Earth Body Art

Museo Civico di Santa Croce, Umbertide, Italy

13th July - 3rd November 2013

A collection of jewellery; necklaces, cuffs, rings and belt buckles in pure electroformed silver designed and made by the artist in Italy.
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HIGH-NORTH artists’ residency

HIGH-NORTH is an ambitious three-year artists' residency initiative linking the cities of Tromsø (Norway), Gateshead/Newcastle (England) and Glasgow (Scotland). The project is coordinated by NABROAD, and supported by Arts Council Norway, and The Royal Norwegian Embassy London.
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The Art of Not Making

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. 8th June - 25th August 2013 Hå gamle prestegard, Håvegen, Norway
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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

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'.
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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, 2012

Commissioned by MK Gallery and Milton Keynes Parks Trust as a sculpture beacon. Geometry and Light are the guiding threads of Lijn's work. The central concept of this sculpture is that of energy held within matter.
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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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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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