the centre of attention
exhibitions/works
Pierre
Coinde /Gary O'Dwyer
The Centre of Attention
67 Clapton Common
London E5 9AA
UK
tel +44 20 8880 5507
on@thecentreofattention.org
now:
the pavilion of postcontemporary curating; a semi-staged total art work
Sutton Scarsdale Hall
November 2009 - ongoing
previously:
2009
Lost & Found present: Graham Hudson and the Centre of Attention
Milton Keynes Gallery
Free art fair
Barbican (London)
AND Festival
FACT (Liverpool) and Cornerhouse (Manchester)
Action Diana (Mount Stuart)
Mount Stuart (Isle of Bute, Scotland)
Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin Madrid
(Berlin, Paris, Madrid) curated by Nathalie Hénon and Jean-François Rettig
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) and Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid)
Action Diana
Liverpool John Moores University and FACT [Foundation for Art and Creative Technology] (Liverpool) curated by John Byrne and Kate Taylor (images)
True riches
Live Art for the ICA, curated by Tim Etchells and Ant Hampton
Milton Keynes Gallery
Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute
action diana (Liverpool)
2008
Architectures of survival
Outpost for Contemporary Art (Los Angeles) curated by Komplot
Kingdom
of Darkness
Karlsplatz, Brut Künstlerhaus (Vienna) curated by Thomas Frank
Free
Art Fair
19 New Quebec Street (London) curated by Jasper Joffe
Resilience
Naturhistoriska riksmuseet (Stockholm) curated by Peter Hagdahl
with Frida Cornell (images)
L'Argent
Le Plateau FRAC Ile de France (Paris) curated by Caroline Bourgeois
and Elisabeth Lebovici
theme
for and winnebago (Cologne)
with nüans at New Talents (Cologne) and at Apartman Projesi (Istanbul)
Pose
plastique, Waltzing dollies und andere
Brut Wien Konzerthaus (Vienna) curated by Thomas Frank (images)
The
Centre of Attention
Mejan Labs, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Stockholm) curated
by Björn Norberg and Peter Hagdahl (images)
Production
Meeting 3
ArdBia (Berlin)
things
that go bump in the night
Cafe Gallery Projects (London) curated by Clare Goodwin and Liz
Murray (images)
art
in the life world
Ballymun Old Swimming Pool (Dublin) curated by Aisling Prior (images)
double
entry
Project(or) platform for current art stages, Art Rotterdam (Rotterdam)
Al and Al, Boyle Family, Marisa Carnesky, Tyler Coburn, Brice Dellsperger,
Sylvie Fleury, Jasper Joffe, House of O'Dwyer, Stina Ostberg, Tai Shani,
Tomo, Markus Vater, Andrea Winkler, Frida Yngstrom, Hendrik Zeitler (images)
swansong (Vienna)
pose plastique
Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (Stockholm)
2007
Production
Meeting 2
bezdomny (Göteborg)
Aggression
Kunsthalle Winterthur (Winterthur) curated by Oliver Kielmayer
and Dimitrina Sevova (images)
The
Centre of Attention Magazine No 4
31 March: Whitechapel Gallery (London)
16 June: Les Abattoirs (Toulouse)
29 July: Publish and Be Damned Fair (London)
17 November: CCA
Book Fair CCA Glasgow (Glasgow)
The
oubliettes of Wolstenholme
Wolstenholme Projects (Liverpool)
Oreet Ashery, Ron Athey, Vanessa Bartlett, Ann Course, Camille Henrot,
Seulgi Lee, Tony Chestnut Brown people's poet of Liverpool, Eric Rosoman,
David Sherry, Jamie Torode, Markus Vater, Adam Vaughan (images)
Free
Art Fair (London)
curated by Jasper Joffe
Production
Meeting
InterMedia, CCA Glasgow (Glasgow)
An installation/performance with works from Hayley Caradoc Hodgkins, House
of O'Dwyer and Colin Tennan (images)
Winnebago
Chamberlain Square (Birmingham), commissioned by Capital Art Projects
Gemeinschaft
und Gesellschaft
nüans gallery (Düsseldorf) (images)
Slow
Plymouth Arts Centre (Plymouth) curated by Paula Orrell (images)
Venedik-Istanbul
Istanbul Modern (Istanbul) curated by Rosa Martinez
so
sad
Guy Hilton Gallery (London) curated by Mark McGowan
la discorde (Kunsthalle Winterthur)
the oubliettes of wolstenholme
gemeinschaft and gesellschaft
2006
Petit
Pois
performances (London)
14 June: The
House of O'Dwyer at the Barbican
4 July: Theo
Cowley at Tate Modern
14 July: Rachel
Brooksby at the Camden Arts Centre
19 Sept: Relâche
(hommage to Picabia) at the Whitechapel Gallery
28 Sept: Eileen
Perrier at the Photographers Gallery
26 Oct: Children at Bischoff Weiss
31 Oct: Julie
Wells at the V&A
18 Nov: Anthony
Schrag at Carter Presents
23 Nov: Ben
Cummins at Anthony Reynolds
fast
and loose (my dead gallery)
Fieldgate Gallery (London)
New Vision Centre, Signals, London Free School, Indica, Arts Lab, Gallery
House, The Gallery, 2B Butler's Wharf, Fantasy Factory, Art Meeting Place,
B2, NeTWork 21, The Women's Art Library/Make, BANK, workfortheeyetodo (images)
Protections
(PROSUMER)
Kunsthaus Graz / steirischer herbst 2006 (Graz) curated by Adam
Budak and Christine Peters
The
truth about Susan Gescheidle
gescheidle Gallery (Chicago)
An installation with works from Franko B, Jessica Brouder, Robert Heinecken,
House of O'Dwyer, Karin Kihlberg, Steve Reinke, Dani Leventhal, Cath Rive,
Mariah Robertson and Ken Weaver (images)
re/location
I: Sanatorium
Schauspielhaus Zürich (Zürich) curated by Matthias von
Hartz (images)
the
miracle of Limerick
Giv(e)way, ev+ a 2006 (30th annual, 6th biennial Exhibition
of Visual Art), Limerick City Gallery of Art (Ireland) curated
by Katerina Gregos (images)
Leaving
on a flat-bed picture plane (London)
John
Armleder/Team 404, Emi Avora, Calum Colvin, Donna Conlon, Gareth Jones,
Valérie Mréjen, Frida Yngström (images)
fast and loose (my dead gallery)
leaving on a flat bed picture plane
2005
Embedded
frisbee, room 101, Cavalier Hotel, Ocean Drive (Miami)
the
Centre of Attention
Mercer Union (Toronto)
Fodder in PILOT (London)
The Centre of Attention ft. Franko B, Breyer P-Orridge, Jessica Brouder,
Ben Carpenter, Ann Course & Paul Clark, Tyler Coburn, Dave Critchley,
Sam Ely/Lynn Harris, Ken Friedman, Katharina Heilein, House of O'Dwyer,
Jasper Joffe, Susanne Oberbeck, ERIC Rosoman, Markus Vater
Critique
of Pure Image - Between Fake and Quotation
Center for Contemporary Art, Ancient Baths/Bania Starinna, Plovdiv
(Bulgaria) 8 October to 8 November curated by Dimitrina Sevova
On
Demand (London)
Oreet Ashery, Guerrilla Girls, Ben Morieson, Eileen Perrier, Markus Vater (images)
Always
a little further
Arsenale, 51st Venice Biennale (Venice) curated by Rosa Martinez (images)
The
Centre of Attention at the Rio Cinema (London)
Al+Al, Allsopp and Weir, Sebastian Buerkner, David Critchley, Bernard
Debaillie, France Dubois, Dan Kennedy-Martin, Susanne Oberbeck, Breyer
P-Orridge, Jean-Gabriel Periot, Mathieu Rouget, Anri Sala, Sebastiaan
Schlicher, Nicolas Schöffer, Erica Scourti, Wolfgang Tillmans, The
Vacuum Cleaner, Thomson and Craighead, Myriam Thyes and Erwin Wurm
Nicolas
Schöffer - a found exhibition
Villa des Arts (Paris) (images)
on demand
swansong (Venice Biennale 2005)
2004
The
3rd Centre of Attention Art Prize (London)
Al
+ Al, Chris Aldgate and Lee Johnson, Isobel Brown, Helena Kvarnström,
Thomson and Craighead (images)
Boyle Family (Internet)
Schwanengesang
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt)
The House of O'Dwyer (London)
Ken Friedman (London)Fluxus concert images 3 April 2004 conducted by Ken Friedman with Oreet Ashery, Darryl Biggs, Mertxe Cano, Eleanor Cracknell, Deej Fabyc, Tim Harrison, Davida Hewlett, James Hollands, Darran Leaf, Isabella Zuhal Parla, Yann Perreau, Tai Shani and Andrea Winkler
Baroque
Povera (London)
Jessica Brouder, Babak Ghazi, Damien Roach, Andrea Winkler
the
curators
the:artist:network, Soho (New York)
baroque povera
2003
feat. (London)
Al + Al, Oreet Ashery, the estate of Hans Shielder, Simeon Banner, Benedict
Carpenter, Rosie Cooper, Greg Daville, Eveleigh and Evans, Nooshin Farhid,
A.M.Hanson ('alexcalledsimon'), Jasper Joffe, Tina Keane, Josie McCoy,
Wiebke Morgan, Eileen Perrier, Brian Reed, Catherine Rive, Tai Shani,
Erasmia Stravoravdi feat. the Centre of Attention
Aperitif (London)
International
Art Blog (Internet)
Matti Blind+Lotte Møller, Adam Chodzko, Meredith Etherington-Smith,
AmirAli Ghasemi, RoseLee Goldberg, Dave Muller, Abner Nolan, Steve Reinke,
Martha Rosler, Chiara Somajni, Johnnie Walker
Paris
Beaux-Arts (London)
Eric Baudart, Rada Boukova, David Cousinard, Emmanuelle Lainé, Mohamed
Louanjli, Chen-Yu Wang, Virginie Yassef (performance: Emmanuelle Laine)
To
predict the future you must change the past
Beckford Tower (Bath)
The
Centre of Attention Magazine No3
Royal College of Art (London)
The
Center of Attention Search Engine
Spanganga Gallery, Mission District (San Francisco)
Gobbledygook (London)
Jessica Broas, Susan Collis, Kristian Hornsleth, Simon Lewandowski, David
Medalla, Gary O'Dwyer, Breyer P-Orridge, Scott Redford (performance: John
Rogers)
2002
The
Centre of Attention at Shoreditch Church: Art Video
Screening (London)
Franko B and Tim Etchells, Michelle Barber, Matti Isan Blind, Sylvie Fleury,
Matthieu Laurette, Trine-Lise Nedreaas, Gary O'Dwyer, Tai Shani, Paul
Rooney, Konstantin Skotnikov, Dmitry Bulnygin, Slava Mizin, Markus Vater,
Kay Walsh (performance: Lee Adams)
The
second Centre of Attention Art Prize 2002 (London)
Benedict Carpenter, Eric Rosoman, Becky Hunt, Martina Mullaney, Hrafnkell
Sigurdsson, Erasmia Stravoravdi, Danny Treacy (performance: Wiebke Morgan)
EMail Art (Internet)
Simon Faithfull, Sylvie Fleury, Ken Friedman, Jenny Holzer, Simon Poulter
and Andrew Childs
Viva
la Republique! Pagan images of the last Queen of the British Isles by
her indigenous subjects
Genesis P-Orridge, Jamie Reid, Banksy, Mike Dawson, Andy Watt, Fiona Banner,
Brian Jones, Tim Flitcroft, Josie McCoy, Jasper Joffe, Gary O'Dwyer, Tai
Shani, Rachael House, Little Richard and Richard Torry (performances Little
Richard/Richard Torry and Rachael House)
at the Centre of Attention and at Window Gallery, Central
St Martins School of Art and Design (London)
Versus (London)
Otiose
vs. Marty St James
Tai
Shani vs. Kristian Hornsleth
Thomas
Raschke vs. Abigail Durrant
The Centre
of Attention Magazine 2
the
Green Room, Soho (London)
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (Berlin)
2001
A
Man, A Woman, A Machine (London)
Gary O'Dwyer, Carly Rogers, Leon Steele, Liu Zheng, Oreet Ashery and Shaheen
Merali
The
Centre of Attention Magazine No 2
Galapagos, Williamsburg (New York)
Jasper Joffe (1975 - ) (London)
Gypsies,
Jews, Blacks and Queers and other free radicals: nu elementz in Performance
Art
Notting Hill Arts Club (London)
Oreet Ashery, Marisa Carnesky, Roney Fraser-Munroe, Larry Large, Gary
O'Dwyer, LRP, Paper People (Richard Torry, Little Richard, Michael K),
Dave Pop, Tomomi Takahashi, Andy Watt
Eric
Heist & Genesis P-Orridge (London)
(performance: Little Richard)
The Centre of Attention Permanent Collection (London)
Eileen Perrier (London)
The
Centre of Attention Painting Prize (London)
Mel Brimfield, Luke Caulfield, Claire Heathcote, Wawa Kosugi, Josie McCoy,
Gary O'Dwyer, Catherine Rive, June Sira, George Toth, Markus Vater
2000 (London)
13
artists : 13 films at Wiltons Music Hall
Genesis P-Orridge, Orlan, Franko B, Steve Reinke, Carlos Bayala, Matt
Calderwood, Li Cassidy, Oliver Husain, Annis Joslin, Gary O'Dwyer, Anna
Thew, Twenteenth Century, Emily Wardill (programme
notes)
1999 (London)
Tomorrow belongs to me: Gary O'Dwyer
