'A Time for Dreams' - Moscow International Biennale for Young Art

Ongoing project, The Study of Peter Pan,  has been selected as part of the main project, A Time for Dreams, at the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. I travelled to Moscow last week for the Opening. 

See below for a selection of installation shots and click here for a full list of participating artists. 

The entrance to the Biennale at The Museum of Moscow

 The Study of Peter Pan, photo and video installation

Installation photographs of work included in A Time for Dreams at The Museum of Moscow

All content © the artists, installation photographs © Kate Elliott

The Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, one of the largest and most ambitious projects in the field of contemporary art, combines the creative initiatives of artists of the new generation from Russia and abroad.  

For this fourth edition of the Biennale artistic director David Elliott has chosen the title A Time for Dreams in acknowledgement of the chronic precariousness of our own times and the urgent need for the dreams and visions of younger and future generations to break the barrier of ‘things as they are’ to make things better.  

The main project of the Biennale in 2014 will be presented in the Museum of Moscow. The educational programs of the Biennale will also be organized in collaboration with the museum. 

Click here for further information and a full list of participants. 

Founders: The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Department of Culture of the City of Moscow, National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) Organizers: National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)
Co-organiser of the Main Project: The Museum of Moscow
Artistic Director of the Biennale: David Elliott
Biennale Theme: «А Time for Dreams»
Event Dates: 26 June 2014 — 10 August 2014
Main Project Venue: The Museum of Moscow
Venues for Strategic Projects National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)
Curator of the Educational Program: Antonio Geusa

Moscow International Biennale for Young Art - coming soon

The Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, one of the largest and most ambitious projects in the field of contemporary art, will be taking place this summer. The Biennale combines the creative initiatives of artists of the new generation from Russia and abroad. 

For this fourth edition of the Biennale artistic director David Elliott has chosen the title A Time for Dreams in acknowledgement of the chronic precariousness of our own times and the urgent need for the dreams and visions of younger and future generations to break the barrier of ‘things as they are’ to make things better.

The main project of the Biennale in 2014 will be presented in the Museum of Moscow. The educational programs of the Biennale will also be organized in collaboration with the museum.

Click here for further information and a full list of participants.

Founders: The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Department of Culture of the City of Moscow, National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)
Organizers: National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)
Co-organiser of the Main Project: The Museum of Moscow
Artistic Director of the Biennale: David Elliott
Biennale Theme: «А Time for Dreams»
Event Dates: 26 June 2014 — 10 August 2014
Main Project Venue: The Museum of Moscow
Venues for Strategic Projects National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)
Curator of the Educational Program: Antonio Geusa

EXHIBITION: Boys at Home - The Library Space, Battersea

A three day pop-up exhibition to coincide with London Collections: Men and the latest issue of Boys by Girls Magazine 'The Truth About Boys' which is in shops now.

Click here for further information

MULL IT OVER - INTERVIEW

A few weeks ago photographer and curator Jonathan Cherry approached me to answer some questions for MULL IT OVER - a series of web based interviews with innovative contemporary photographers from around the world.  

You can read the interview, and have a look at some photos, here.

Uncertain States Newspaper

The Study of Peter Pan features in the latest issue of Uncertain States - a quarterly, artist led photography newspaper.

You can pick up a copy at the V&A, Rich Mix, Flowers East, Four Corners, Baltic Newcastle, Ikon Birmingham, Open Eye Liverpool, Impressions Gallery Bradford, or please get in touch if you would like me to send you a copy. 

Capricious No.15 — Boundaries

The latest issue of Capricious (featuring my work) has just been launched at the L.A Art Book Fair, and will hit European bookshelves over the next couple of weeks...

 

Capricious No.15 — Boundaries
This 120-plus page, full-colour issue ruminates on eleven photographer’s work, with a curation of text by Litia Perta.

Featuring /
 
Photographers

Kate Elliott / Claudio Nolasco / Bindi Vora / Colleen Maria Lenihan / Christine Haroutounian / Pauline Miko / Annegien Van Doorn / Kyler Zeleny / Charlotte Lybeer / João Grama / Virginie Rebetez
Writers

Dylan Mira / Litia Perta / Matt Longbucco

From the exploration of an undocumented family caught between counties, to the blurred lines of witchcraft in South African society, and onto the cliffs of a Portuguese seaside village, we feature work that walks the perimeters of its borders, illuminating the expanse and constraint. Capricious Boundaries is a state of mind, the deciding moment before crossing or retreating, the limbo that brings into focus the fragile lines between one world and another.

Here I Stand for Five Minutes

Here I Stand for Five Minutes is a KEEM project, made during the month-long residency at the Farringdon Factory.

KEEM set up a blog, and put up posters, asking occupants of the neighbouring building (5 Fleet Place) to stand in the window at a certain time in order to pose for a five-minute group portrait.

KEEM were interested in creating a dialogue between the Factory and the surrounding external world, and in exploring the act of performance involved in portraiture, and the relationship between the public and private. 

Click here for further information.

Season's Greetings

 

(In) The landscape darling © Kate Elliott

 

Wishing you all a happy 2014!

Open Factory - 18 December

The month-long occupation of the Farringdon Factory culminates in a one day event on 18 December from 
13:00 - midnight. For information on times of screenings and events click here.

 

                            The Factory © Kate Elliott 2013

To an outsider 20 Farringdon Street appears to be out-of-service. An unregulated and unlit building whose surfaces have lost their gleam; an out-of-date monument to the not-so-distant past. Situated in the City of London, the surrounding architecture is permanently illuminated as the bulk of multinational corporations forms the backdrop to the labours of a workforce that operates into the night. 20 Farringdon Street is a seven-story building that has been stripped back to its skeletal structure. It is a hermetically sealed space formed of a series of cavernous L-shaped rooms which each encompass an entire floor of the building. 

Between the 25 November and 18 December, this empty space operates as the Farringdon Factory; an open studio complex for live events, screenings and installations, performances and talks. 

The Factory Cinema is located on the ground floor and will host a programme of short films made by both resident and invited artist/filmmakers. This curated programme will seek to connect the studio practice upstairs with both visitors and the pedestrians on the street, locating the building itself as a unique site for observation and discussion.

The Factory builds upon research by artists Natasha Cox and Keira Greene, whose collaborative practice engages with the construction of the photographic image and the mechanisms of cinema.

Resident artists include:
Max Atkins, Cilla Berg, Verity Birt, Lucy Clarke, Alex Culshaw, Amy Dickson, Hazel Dowling, Kate Elliott, Stephen Emerson, Sara Hibbert, Elizabeth Homersham, Emily Iremonger, Rebecca James, Benji Jeffrey, Ann-Marie LeQuesne, Genevieve Lutkin, Girolamo Marri, Bella Marrin, Ella McCartney, Emma McGarry, Isobel Mei, Justine Melford-Colegate, Jenny Berger Myhre, Karolina Magnusson Murray, Mette Boel Olesen, Karolina Raczynski, Annette Robinson, Jack Strange, Will Ward, Bea Wilson.

Click here to visit the Farringdon Factory website, and here for the Farringdon Factory's Facebook page.

Farringdon Factory - The Seagull

This work is being made as part of the Farringdon Factory. Click here for further information.