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.

Update 03 Dec: On sale now! – Get it at Nightjar Press here.

My short story House Calls is being published by Nightjar Press in their gorgeous limited-edition single-story chapbook series.

Announced earlier this week at Manchester Book Fair, House Calls – together with Like a Fever by Tim Etchells – goes on sale next week on Nightjar Press site.

Tim Etchells and I are running one of Live Art Development Agency’s DIY peer-to-peer artist development projects, in partnership with Heart of Glass in St Helens, Merseyside.

A Way Away uses the old-school postal correspondence course model to explore ideas around distance – spatial and temporal, physical and social, imagined and real.

Open to artists working in any discipline, at any stage, from any generation, based anywhere in the UK where Royal Mail can reach you.

Deadline: 13 Dec 11.59 pm

Apply here:

https://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/opportunities/diy-2020-tim-etchells-and-vlatka-horvat-a-way-away-correspondence-course/

Very happy to have been invited to make one of 10 election scores for ‘1000 Scores’ project. Co-commissioned by 1000 Scores, Goethe-Institut Chicago and PACT Zollverein and launched today as an US election special (good luck to us all).

You can see my score, and those of many other artists in this growing archive at www.1000scores.com

1000 Scores – Pieces for Here, Now & Later is a project by Helgard Haug, David Helbich & Cornelius Puschke featuring new instructional pieces by various artists. It is produced by Rimini Apparat, and co-produced by PACT Zollverein, Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Goethe Institut/Federal Foreign Office of Germany and KANAL – Centre Pompidou.

My work and words are included in two new books that came out during the lockdown.

Invisible Wounds: Negotiating Post-Traumatic Landscapes, edited by Emily-Rose Baker & Amanda Crawley Jackson and published by The University of Sheffield and Museums Sheffield, includes a chapter on my work. Titled Something Former, it’s a conversation between Goran Vodicka and myself, talking about my works The Past Is Another Country; With the Sky on Their Shoulders; Up in Arms; After Tito, Tito; and Who Come to Stand.

The second publication is Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950 by Maja and Reuben Fawkes, published by Thames & Hudson. This new survey, part of T&H World of Art series, charts the rich and varied artistic practices from across Central and Eastern Europe from the period after World War II to the (more or less) present day. The chapter covering the 2010s includes my work Balance Beam.

A proposal by Tim Etchells and me for The High Line Plinth is amongst the 80 artists’ proposals being considered for the third and fourth High Line Plinth commissions.Very happy to have had the chance to propose an idea for this incredible site.

All the proposals can be see here:
https://www.thehighline.org/plinth-proposals/

And a direct link to our one is here:
https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/tim-etchells-vlatka-horvat/

Curator Tevž Logar and I had a chat on GAEP Gallery‘s FB channel about the lockdown, about presence and distance, about Instagram and images, about makeshift constructions and provisional stability, and a few other things!

Or if you prefer to view it on vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/443294754

The book Tim Etchells and I have been working on for the last 2 months is now on sale (yey!)

Published as a PDF book, it’s available to buy on a pay-what-you-choose basis, with 100% of proceeds to be donated to the Trussell Trust, a UK food bank charity.
If you are able to, please consider buying the book and help us raise funds for this (unfortunately) important cause.

Full details below.

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Seen from Here
Writing in the Lockdown

Edited by Tim Etchells and Vlatka Horvat
Design: David Caines

Seen from Here: Writing in the Lockdown is a collection of stories, flash fiction, poems, autofiction and conceptual writing gathered during the April and May Covid-19 lockdown, bringing together UK-based writers, poets, performance makers and artists.

Published in a PDF format by Unstable Object, an imprint launched by Etchells and Horvat for this occasion, the book is available to buy on a pay-what-you-choose basis, with 100% of proceeds to be donated to the Trussell Trust, a UK food bank charity.

The writing in Seen from Here is extremely diverse – spanning enigmatic fiction, poetry, powerful autofiction, prescient language artworks and compelling performance texts. While some of the work reflects directly or indirectly on the lockdown experience and the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, other pieces offer glimpses of past events, other realities and fictional landscapes. All but one of the texts included in the collection are previously unpublished and most are newly written, emerging from the isolating state of the lockdown to form a hallucinatory portrait of the concerns, intimate realities and fragile fantasies of the UK in the pandemic zone of 2020.

According to the Trussell Trust website, the period since the start of the pandemic (from the last two weeks of March), has been ‘its network’s busiest ever period, with 81% more emergency food parcels being given out across the UK, including 122% more parcels going to children, compared to the same period in 2019.’

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Contributors: Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Caroline Bergvall, Aisha Mango Borja, Season Butler, Hester Chillingworth, Augusto Corrieri, Will Eaves, Tim Etchells, Rachel Genn, Chris Goode, M. John Harrison, Vlatka Horvat, Wendy Houstoun, Sophie Jung, Andrea Mason, Harun Morrison, Courttia Newland, Katharine Norbury, Lara Pawson, Deborah Pearson, Fernando Sdrigotti, Maria Sledmere, Marvin Thompson, Selina Thompson, Rupert Thomson, Chris Thorpe, Tony White, Eley Williams, Aaron Williamson, Jacob Wren.

Seen from Here: Writing in the Lockdown is available to buy from the online bookshop Unbound, a Live Art Development Agency initiative.

ON SALE now at: https://www.thisisunbound.co.uk/products/seen-from-here

Silvia Costa and I talked about ways of going forward for KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen’s ‘They Havent Met Before’ conversation series: