Elizabeth Price and 'Trophy' - history of exhibitions

Got this from Tessa this morning regarding the Trophy work...


Hello Tessa,

Sorry not to get back sooner - yes this seems a good idea. I don't have all the press releases, but they shouldn't be too tricky to track down. I'll try to remember the show titles or any other info:

The engravings on the trophy are below - for each of them I've added what I know/have/remember

4 May - 4 June 2000 Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
3 Rooms, Other artists Matthew Higgs Angela de la Cruz

22 June - 3 Sep 2002 Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich
AM ANFANG DER BEWEGUNG STAND EIN SKANDAL Lenbachaus Museum, Munich.
Other artists: Mark Titchner, ArtLab, Volker Eichelmann, Jonathan Faiers, Roland Rust, Kaye Donachie, Szuper Gallery, Salon de Fleurus, Liam Gillick, Pavlo Kerestey, Alun Rowlands, Alexander Brener & Barbara Schurz, Markus Vater, Chris Warmingtom, Inventory, Tilo Schulz, Mark Dickenson & Martin Clark, Flatpack 001. Reviewed by Peter Suchin in Frieze.

3 May - 8 June 2003 Mobile Home Gallery London
DENNESS One Person Show. Mobile Home, London. Reviewed by Jessica Lack in The Guardian, Sally O Reilly in Time Out, John Michie in the Independant

17 July - 8 August 2003 Houldsworth, London
Imaging London

11 October - 2 November 2003 1000000mph London
Taking Speed

14 January - 15 February 2004 Jerwood Space London
JERWOOD ARTISTS PLATFORM Solo Show, Jerwood Gallery. National competition to select 4 emerging artists for solo show at Jerwood. Catalogue essay written by Sally O’Reilly.
Reviews by Jessica Lack in The Guardian; Sarah Kent in Time Out; Peter Suchin in Artists Newsletter

18 January - 18 February 2006 Gimpel fils, London
WANDERING ROCKS Group Show Gimpel Fils Gallery, London.
Curated by David Waterworth. Other artists: Mike Nelson, Marc Chaimowicz & Nadia Wallis, Simon Faithfull, Adam Gillam, Renata Hegyi, John Kindness, Graeme Miller, Lindsay Seer

17 August - 27 August 2006 The Spiral House, Tensta Konsthalle, Stockholm

12 - 15 October 2007 The Royal Academy of Arts, London
Zoo Art Fair

17 May - 24 June 2008 Dispari e Dispari, Reggio Emilia
http://www.dispariedispari.org/
THE SOCIETY OF LONDON LADIES.
Group Show, Dispari e Dispari Project, Reggio Amelia . Curated by Arnaud Desjardins. Other artists: Fiona Banner, Lolly Batty, Ellen Cantor, Charlotte Cullinan and Jeanine Richards, Sarah Dobai, Alison Gill, Margarita Gluzberg, Sarah Jones, Lucy Reynolds, Bridget Smith. With accompanying publication.

29 June - 5 October - Basel Kunsthalle
Word Event

André Avelãs, Stuart Bailey & Frances Stark, Becky Beasley, Walead Beshty, Julia Born & Alexandra Bachzetsis, George Brecht, James Lee Byars, Paul Elliman, Aurélien Froment, Dora Garcia, Will Holder, Alon Levin, Amalia Pica, Falke Pisano, Michael Portnoy, Elizabeth Price, Mandla Reuter, Dexter Sinister, Sue Tompkins, Edward Underwood, Emily Wardill
extended until October 5, 2008

Can a gesture be a word?

Word Event looks at a select group of makers who carry on a tradition of subversive methodology in their practice and attitude.

Word Event is a multi-level cross-sectioned exhibition of contemporary works, events, performances and informances, scores, printed matter and film. Taking George Brecht’s “Word Event” (1961), a handwritten Event Card, as its starting point, the exhibition attempts to displace itself by purposely seeking out confrontation and synchronization thus landing in the exhibition space as an active dialogue. Word Event points to a possible return of a fluxus sensibility via a new, contemporary, proverbial linguistic turn.

Artists today – or more precisely, ‘cultural producers’ – are reactivating a language based and, specifically, narrative based practice. Creating room for conversation and leveling the hierarchy of production between sketch, thought and product, this linguistic turn approaches the surface of the metaphorical page as an ‘exchange surface’, ‘as a space of shift between different mediums, in which, as Rancière puts it, “signs become forms and forms become acts.”’ [1]

Works by the artists in Word Event contain an active ‘displacement’ (or exchange) between word and image, the narrative and the picture, which occurs on many levels, in different media – from the more ephemeral to the concrete, as rumours, scripts, instructions, lectures, posters, objects and a seance. A sculpture turns into a conversation, a lecture into a series of posters, the unassuming viewer into a story; he receives directives by photograph, listens to a score purposefully mirrored while gambling to new rules under the watchful eyes of the Jack of Spades. Word Event is the happy hijacking of space by language where installations, film, the stage, the book and sound live together in one converged setting.

Curated by Maxine Kopsa and Roos Gortzak

[1] Quoted from ‘The Space of Words’ by Christophe Gallois, Metropolis M, nr 2 2008, who cites Rancière’s L’Espace des mots, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, 2005, p. 13, translation by Christophe Gallois.

Online review and video of the opening at Vernissage-TV

A series of performances took place on the opening night, Saturday, June 28, 2008:

7 – 9pm Abstract gambling at the solid felt table with Dir. of Behavior, Michael Portnoy (video of the performance at Vernissage-TV)
7.30pm Performance by André Avelãs (video of the performance at Vernissage-TV)
8pm John Cage: Indeterminacy*, recited by Will Holder and accompanied by Falke Pisano’s A Sculpture Turning Into a Conversation

This exhibition has been generously supported by:
Annemarie Burckhardt

28 June - 20 August Stephen Lawrence Gallery London
“The Eagle Document: The New Collection of Enumerated Things” is curated by Monika Oechsler.
The exhibition considers the place of the collection in contemporary society and reinvents the collection in a new and imaginative form. ‘The New Collection of Enumerated Things’ is neither static nor institutional, but exists as a creative interplay between artists, artworks, and situation. ‘The New Collection’ presents a group of artists whose sensibility and mode of production is concerned with aesthetic reception as a shared social activity. ‘The New Collection’ does not prioritise art objects but instead creates rhizomatic relationships between ‘Enumerated Things’ (works in progress, research material, found and ready-made objects, props, contextual material, scientific models, interventions and ideas for future situations). Hence, “The New Collection” consists of an assemblage of visual markers of creative research and production, which invites the viewer to engage in the imaginary act of editing and re-assembling the items in collection. In this sense, “The New Collection” considers the spectator as a social agent, embedded in the wider cultural network, and as an active participant in the creation of new ideas, thoughts, and associations. Thus, ‘The New Collection’ exhibition creates a performative and dialogic situation between viewer and art works, which does away with passive spectatorship. “The New Collection” challenges the notion of the ‘art object in collection’ and instead configures the collection as a contextual and relational situation.

“The Eagle Document: The New Collection of Enumerated Things” will be certified as an art collection and will be bequeathed to the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, which will become its honorary custodian. However, the individual items of the collection will remain with and in the ownership of the individual artists/creators. The New Collection can be hired and toured for exhibition and will expand in time through new contributions.

“The Eagle Document: The New Collection of Enumerated Things” is curated by Monika Oechsler.



Elizabeth Price
Senior Tutor in Research, Painting
Tutor in Research, Sculpture
020 75904404

Painting School
Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore
London SW7 2EU