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Tomorrow! Friday, 10 June at 6pm at the ICA London:

I’m convening the opening session of Choreographic Devices – a 3-day symposium developed by Murat Adash, Ofri Cnaani, and Edgar Schmitz, in dialogue with the ICA.

For my session I will be joined by 7 other artists looking at instances of dysfunctional spatial (and social) relations – in art and in life.

With these wonderful people: Augusto Corrieri, Critical Interruptions (Diana Damian Martin & Bojana Janković), Edwina Ashton, Florian Roithmayr, Harun Morrison, Lara Pawson, Rebecca Moss.

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Around Apart Under Behind Through Ahead: A Partial Lexicon of Spatial Dysfunction
(Vlatka Horvat and invited guests)

Focused on rethinking built and social space as an inherently choreographic act, Vlatka Horvat’s A Partial Lexicon of Spatial Dysfunction brings the artist into dialogue with seven invited guests – artists, writers, performance makers – in an event that shifts dynamically between talks, readings, discursive presentations and performative actions. Interrogating the relation between space, objects and human interactions, especially at the point where spatial relations collapse or transform unexpectedly, Horvat’s unruly reflection on the spatial/choreographic in daily life both performs and at the same time elaborates theoretically on the ways in which normative spatial practice might be reordered to create new social, artistic and political possibilities.

Full symposium programme and booking here.

My solo show at PEER closed recently. Thank you to all who visited, and extra thanks to all who left comments in the gallery book – it was really heartening to read.

Here’s the press roundup:

Interviews
Studio International (link) – Vlatka Horvat in conversation with Veronica Simpson
recessed.space (link) – Vlatka Horvat in conversation with Will Jennings

Reviews
artforum (link) – Review (critic’s pick) by Jonah Goldman Kay
Camera Austria (pdf) – Review by Orit Gat
Era Journal (link) – Reviewby Romilly Schulte

Featured lists
Artforum (link): MUST SEE
FAD magazine (link): The top 5 exhibitions by female artists – Micro feature by Tabish Khan
Evening Standard (link): “Culture in London: the faces to watch in 2022 – Visual art” – Feature by Ben Luke
a-n newsletter (link): “This month’s must-see exhibitions and events” – Feature by Ellen Wilkinson 
FAD magazine (link): The top 6 art books to read in spring 2022

Evenings with WHW Akademija

Thinking Back to What You Said, Tim Etchells and Vlatka Horvat

Tim and I are in conversation as part of the public programme Evenings with WHW Akademija.

Details below and at this link, where you can also find the Zoom link. Today, Monday, 25 April, 7pm CET / 6pm UK time.

https://akademija.whw.hr/posts/thinking-back-to-what-you-said

The series of public events Evenings with WHW Akademija is continuing with the public online conversation Thinking Back to What You Said in which Tim Etchells and Vlatka Horvat exchange a series of fragmentary reflections on their own practice and that of other artists.

Conceived as a dialogue improvised inside a rule-based structure, the presentation involves the two artists speaking about their own and about each other’s projects, as well as about select works by other artists that continue to inspire or inform their own work. Thinking Back to What You Said is a conversation and an improvised essay, an attempt to speak about art practice in a form born out of it. It’s also a glimpse of the ongoing conversation between Etchells and Horvat, whose occasional collaborations on exhibitions, publications, and other kinds of projects are buttressed by a longstanding and continually evolving shared discourse about processes, art works and their relation to viewers.

You can watch the whole program here:

The second evening of artist conversations around seeing the city ‘otherwise’.

By Hand on Foot conversations, Part 2
Thursday, 24 March 6-8pm
at PEER
97-99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL

with Andy Field & Beckie Darlington, Maria Mahfooz, Rebecca Moss and Graeme Miller.

By Hand, on Foot has been selected a Critics’ Pick on artforum.com. A great review of the show by Jonah Goldman Kay – in the press section here and on artforum.com.

By Hand, on Foot is reviewed in the new issue of Camera Austria. A generous reading of the show by Orit Gat – in the press section – here.

Join us tomorrow, Thursday 10 March at PEER, for the first of two artist conversations around seeing the city ‘otherwise’. 6pm start.

By Hand on Foot conversations, Part 1
with Jemima Yong, Lucy Joyce, Tara Fatehi Irani and me.

PEER is at 97-99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL.

Book here.

In conjunction with my exhibition at PEER, I have invited seven artists, writers, and performance makers to join me in conversations exploring different ways of encountering, looking at, and imaginatively transforming, the spaces we occupy. The invited artists will each present a work of theirs that in some way speaks to these processes and concerns.

Themes explored in the invited artists’ projects and in my exhibition at PEER – especially the idea of seeing things ‘otherwise’ – will become starting points for the conversations, to reflect on our interaction with the city and its spaces, and consider how we might reimagine our relation to the urban landscape, to nature, and to people and communities.

Part 1: Thursday 10 March, 18:00 – 20:00
with Lucy Joyce, Jemima Yong, Tara Fatehi Irani and Vlatka Horvat

Part 2: Thursday 24 March, 18:00 – 20:00
with Andy Field, Graeme Miller, Lauren Elkin and Maria Mahfooz

Both events will take place at PEER.
Spaces are limited so please book in advance.

Event info and participant bios are here. And Eventbrite booking page is here.

Really enjoyed talking with Veronica Simpson in the early days of my show at PEER. Our conversation was just published on Studio International here.

Just before my show opened, I had a rich conversation with Will Jennings for recessed.space – a repository for writing about projects at the intersection of art and architecture – you can read it here. And there is a review of the show by Romilly Schulte in Era Journal here.

I could not be more excited to have the physical book in my hands! Advance copies arrived yesterday, with the rest of it due in tomorrow. It is SO pretty (and very chunky!).

Here’s T demonstrating:

“This month’s must-see exhibitions and events” by Ellen Wilkinson in a-n. Link here.

Happy to be in such amazing company in this feature by Ben Luke in the Evening Standard. Link here.

I’m part of this year’s professorial team for WHW Akademija and I’m doing a ‘thing’ on the 17th as part of WHW Akademija’s online event series.

Here’s the blurb:

In Walking Distance, Vlatka Horvat reflects on a series of projects she undertook during Covid lockdowns from spring 2020 to summer 2021. Diverse in form and ranging from drawings, collages and other kinds of works on paper to video, photography and writing – each of these projects begins with an encounter with local landscape which for Horvat becomes a space for exploration of ideas around presence and absence, proximity and distance, mobility and stuckness, memory and projection.

The presentation Walking Distance adopts a collage-like form, interweaving elements of artist talk, fiction, speculative writing and communal viewing to construct a compelling essay on artistic process, the role of place in the organisation of experience, and the interaction between landscape, perception and imagination.

At the heart of Horvat’s works produced during the last fifteen months is a daily practice which stages a negotiation between the ‘infraordinary’ of everyday life and its counterparts in the realm of the fictional, the speculative and the impossible. The projects featuring in Horvat’s presentation all stem from related processes through which the local geography, quotidian urban spaces and experiences of the pandemic are seen, re-seen and ultimately transformed.

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Realized in cooperation with the project Curating in Context, organized by the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb, within the Erasmus+ program.

The program is supported by: Kontakt Collection / ERSTE Foundation, Foundation for Arts Initiatives / European Cultural Foundation / City of Zagreb / Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia / Kultura Nova Foundation

Join on Zoom here or you can watch it livestreamed on WHW Akademija’s FB page here.

After endless pandemic-induced recasting and rethinking, Until the Last of Our Labours Is Done is finally happening!

What was in another reality going to be a live durational performance is now a 25-minute film, made with the fabulous team of Hugo Glendinning (cinematography and editing), John Avery (sound design), Alex Fernandes (production) and Karen Christopher, Tim Etchells, Nicki Hobday and Greg Wohead (performers).

A commissioned production of KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, the film will be available for streaming on demand from this evening 8pm Europe / 7pm UK until 6th June 2021 at
https://dringeblieben.de/videos/until-the-last-of-our-labours-is-done-vlatka-horvat

Below are some production pics. For more info on the film and some film stills, see the project page here.

A new short story of mine is published today in Minor Literatures journal.

You can read it on ML here.

Ian Pedigo has written a sharp and generous feature on my work across performance, installation, sculpture and collage.

Read it on ArtPyre here.