January 2012
3 posts
Auto Italia in Art Monthly
Pick up the February issue of Art Monthly to read Paul O’Kane’s article on redefining ‘outsider’ art. Featuring Auto Italia LIVE and the possibilities of online production…
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Radical content deserves radical form
Whether our interest has been ignited as a result of our recent collaboration with Cinenova – or whether a galvanizing of enthusiasm is happening more generally – there seems to be a plethora of re-visitings, re-stagings and re-imaginings of both seminal and peripheral works from women filmmakers taking place.
For a historical perspective, we enjoyed visiting the upper level of the Dara Birnbaum...
Happy New Year from Auto Italia
HAPPY NEW YEAR - some of our favourite moments of 2011.
Celebrating Rob Carter’s birthday in the run up to Auto Italia LIVE
Charlie Woolley proudly exhibits his tape graffiti that appeared before We Have Our Own Concept of Time and Motion
Leslie Kulesh and Andrew Kerton strike a pose while rehearsing for Auto Italia LIVE
What we do without the amazing Matt Welch
A team meeting...
December 2011
2 posts
Bodies Assembling
Bodies Assembling consisted of 10 film screening events happening over 9 days each reflecting personal projects, responses and ideas relating to the films and videos distributed by Cinenova. Over the course of the screenings we covered a whole range of topics including the contemporary media representation of HIV, the creation of the image of women, the transgendered body and the affect of...
Working with an absence of vocabulary
Richard John Jones and Michael Oswell interview Terre Thaemlitz, 2011.
Terre Thaemlitz is a transgendered performer, house DJ and extremely articulate commentator on audio within its specific economic, political and social contexts. This interview was conducted when Thaemlitz was touring with her latest project entitled ‘Soulnessless’. It was printed to accompany a screening that was part of...
November 2011
2 posts
Art Review features Auto Italia
Pick up a copy of the latest Art Review (December 2011) for Auto Italia’s feature in their ‘Off-Space Travels’ section. Finding strength through critical mass…
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Temporal Drag
“‘Generational’, a word for both biological and technological forms of replication, cannot be tossed out with the bathwater of reproductive thinking. Instead, it may be crucial to complicate the idea of horizontal political generations succeeding one another, with a notion of ‘temporal drag,’ thought less in the psychic time of the individual than in the movement of...
October 2011
4 posts
auto italia live episode 3: C2C P2P
Broadcast on Saturday 8th October.
Rob Carter, Leslie Kulesh, Rachel Pimm, Lorenzo Tebano.
Featuring: Blanch & Shock, Cedric Fargues, Aoife Flynn, Fleetwood Mac, Marina Gasolina, Haworth, The Haircut Before the Party, House of Drama, Stella McCartney, Peggy Noland, Open Barbers, Rikslyd and Julia Tcharfus.
the final episode of auto italia live is...
and the studio has been given a whole new look for Episode 3, complete with a fully functional bar and seating area:
Leslie Kulesh gets her game face on as she rehearses with Marina Gasolina.
Linda Roser talks to camera as part of Rachel Pimm’s piece.
Lorenzo Tebano and Rob Carter bring the noise as Fleetwood Mac.
AUTO ITALIA LIVE EPISODE 2: COSMOSIS
Broadcast on Saturday 1st October.
Andrew Kerton, Eddie Peake, Francesco Pedraglio, Heather Phillipson
Featuring: Sam Belinfante, Naomi Belshaw, Georgina Cavendish, Sarah Mujinya, Lizzie Sells, Rosanna Ter-Berg, Roberta Vaz, Helena Webb, Matthew Newbigin, Jess Wiesner, Thais Wizenberg and Molly Wright.
Episode 2 Preparations
Rehearsals are well underway for Episode 2 of Auto Italia LIVE and with a whole new set for this week’s episode it’s all hands on deck to get the preparations done.
Art Director Luke Collins looks on as production assistants rehearse collapsing the walls of Francesco Pedraglio’s set.
Camera angles for capturing Heather Phillipson’s performance are discussed.
...
September 2011
3 posts
Auto Italia LIVE Episode 1: Talking Objects in...
Broadcast on Saturday 24th September.
Nathan Budzinski, Benedict Drew, Benedictions (Patricia Lennox-Boyd and Jamie Stevens featuring Jeremy Glogan, Steve Kado and Morag Keil)
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
With a discussion performed by: Robert Carter, Tim Ivison, Andrew Kerton, Leslie Kulesh, Huw Lemmey, Michael Oswell, Julia Tcharfas, Lorenzo Tebano, Jess Wiesner and Charlie Woolley
Team Auto Italia!
Over the past few weeks we’ve seen our base on the Old Kent Road transform into a myriad of spaces; casting rooms for a selection of suave elderly gents, offices for our Production Design team who have been slaving over cardboard maquettes and a runway for a dolly-mounted camera. Many artists from our previous programme were invited to discuss ideas of collaboration versus cooperation amidst...
Auto Italia LIVE: Coming Soon!
We have just finished working on the promos for our forthcoming series Auto Italia LIVE. Each week will see our space transformed into a live TV studio, working with ideas such as ‘edutainment’, permacultures and ecology and the expanded notion of the televised live performance. Here are some photos from the promo shoot we did earlier this week, with artists Leslie Kulesh, Rob Carter, Lorenzo...
August 2011
17 posts
WE HAVE OUR OWN CONCEPT OF TIME AND MOTION
We have our own concept of Time and Motion is a four day long series of events produced by Auto Italia in collaboration with Federico Campagna, Huw Lemmey, Michael Oswell and Charlie Woolley. The project comes from a network of artists who have formed around Auto Italia. It is a product of artists finding affinity with each others’ projects, ideas and aspirations. It draws on the intangible...
DAY ONE
Day one of We have our own concept of Time and Motion saw a comfortable crowd gather on our tailor made bean bags by Charlie Woolley for Keir Milburn from The Free Association. Keir led a workshop about the forms of action and politics that are appropriate to the present state of things - listen HERE.
Ian Bone, editor of Class War was the first person to arrive to the event and took a moment to...
Day One Ian Bone in conversation with Charlie...
Day One Free Association: Living with an...
Day One Mark Fisher and Marina Vishmidt...
DAY TWO
Day two of We Have Our Own Concept of Motion followed on the discussions that had continued through night on twitter on the #timeandmotion tag. The group took stock of the previous day and anticipated the evening presentation with Nina Wakeford.
Nina Wakeford who is a sociologist, anthropologist and artist discussed the issues around self organization within the Women’s Movement in...
Day Two Presentation and workshop from Nina...
DAY THREE
Day three saw Franco Berardi and Mark Fisher meet and discuss in an informal setting the progress of the event so far and reflect on the conversations, discussions and criticisms generated by the project.
In the evening The Alliance of Radical Booksellers, a network supporting independent radical bookstores in the UK were present for the launch of the Book Bloc Bookshop with Anne Beech (Pluto...
Day Three Book Bloc Launch with Anne Beech (Pluto...
DAY FOUR
On the last day of Time and Motion, Federico Campagna, from online publishing platform Through Europe, chaired a discussion with Nina Power and Franco Berardi. Earlier in the day, Huw Lemmey recorded an interview with Alex Andrew discussing similar themes to Thursday’s presentations - Listen HERE.
In the evening Nina Power, founding member of the Defend the Right to the Protest Campaign and...
Day Four Alex Andrew in conversation with Huw...
Day Four Nina Power in conversation with Franco...
Ever-CHANGING MOODS Closing event
Some final images from Jess Wiesner and Rachal Bradley’s show.
One of the sculptural pieces in the warehouse space.
A performance staged amongst the sculptural works.
Rachal Bradley and Jess Weisner perform at Ever...
25 artists who were either involved in the new commission ‘Ever Changing Moods’ or with a proximity to the production of it turned out for a special performance/presentation given by Rachal Bradley and Jess Weisner with assistance from Andrew Kerton. Seated on straw bails in the main space, the artists discussed methodologies and concerns related to the working process behind the...
EVER-CHANGING MOODS - Rachal Bradley and Jess...
Performers walk through the space on opening night as part of performance piece ‘Working Tax Credits; Full time, Full ON’.
Andrew Kerton performing.
A selection of reading material installed in the showroom space.
Auto Italia produces Activity Guide for Camden...
Auto Italia was commissioned to produce the new Activity Guide aimed at families for the David Askevold and Mathilde Rosier exhibitions at Camden Arts Centre this summer. The guide features a full page poster on one side which is an image taken from the Matmos event that happened at Auto Italia in May. The guide entitled ‘Looking with Auto Italia South East’ includes activities and...
Matmos video goes live on Wire Magazine's website
The video documentation of the Matmos event organised by Auto Italia in collaboration with Upset the Rhythm is now available to watch on Vimeo. It was filmed by Nathan Budzinski with help from Tim Ivison for Wire Magazine.
For the past four years Matmos have been re-enacting experiments into telepathy that were done in the 1960s. They were basic sensory deprivation set-ups in which the...
June 2011
1 post
Matmos with J. Lesser, John Wiese and Birds of...
Matmos, the experimental music duo from San Francisco, performed in collaboration with J Lesser at Auto Italia on Thursday 19th May 2011. The event marked to opening of our massive new space just off the Old Kent Road and was produced through a partnership with Upset the Rhythm. The pair, who started working together in the mid-1990s, make music out of the sounds of objects, animals, people...
December 2010
6 posts
Auto Italia LIVE: Episode 5
Rachel Pimm presents a variety of contributions from Marcus Gallan Mitchell, David Graeber and the Open Music Archive from her unique perspective as ‘real’ broadcasting icon. For the first time in this micro-series our ever-present live studio audience becomes incorporated into the set design. There is also some live interaction in house form Arran Ridley and Daniel Swan and the...
Auto Italia LIVE: Episode 4
This week was presented by Leslie Kulesh who introduced a variety of video works from the States including the first episode of Hooper Place by Dis magazine, an exclusive interview with Megan Mantia from the Kansas City hit show ‘Whoop dee doo’. Also featuring an infomercial and guest appearance from Sonja Khalecallon, a painting tutorial from the now legendary Chas and contributions...
IL TRASLOCO (MOVING OUT OF THE FUTURE)
As part of an ongoing project at Auto Italia http://tinyurl.com/38d8dmk Il Trasloco (Moving out of the Future) was made available for the first time to an English speaking audiences. After its debut at Auto Italia the film toured to the ICA London as part of their Artist’s Film Club series. It was introduced by Federico Campagna and Richard John Jones and featured a newly recorded...
Auto Italia LIVE: Episode 3
Another week and we cranked up a gear to present an unparalleled showcase of artistic talent presented by Richard John Jones. We watched TV with Olivia Plender who takes us through her investigations into early cultural programming on the BBC and questions the romanticism and authority implied in the representation of the artist and documentary narrator that have now become an unquestioned and...
Auto Italia LIVE: Episode 2
This week was hosted by anonymous members of “The Clubbing Society”, a mysterious cult like group who are communing across a variety of London suburbs to bring you live salutations to the moon. This also features the debut of Jessica Weisner, Andrew Kurton, Katie Horwich and Sophie Rook’s new mini series called ‘Events Unfold’. A highlight of the show, this drama...
Auto Italia LIVE
From Lucky PDF TV this was Auto Italia LIVE transformed the project space into a functioning independent TV studio. Produced by Auto Italia this project showcased new work from both established and emerging artists, with the weekly episodes presenting projects engaged with the traditions and contemporary forms of broadcast media. The programme focused on artistsʼ relationships to mainstream media...
November 2010
10 posts
Auto Italia's take over day at SPACE
Listen to the audio tracks below from Auto Italia on Charlie Woolley’s Radio Show at SPACE. The seven week project saw the gallery transformed into a live sound stage and radio booth, inviting artists, gallerists, comedians, musicians, lecturers, playwrights and djs to create work and host their own shows broadcast live over the internet.
Kate Cooper, Richard John Jones in the booth...
Counter Contructs: Nicholas Brooks, Paul Kneale,...
Richard John Jones reads The Rocking Horse Winner ...
Rachal Bradley FM
Recorded as an homage to John...
Paul Pieroni and Charlie Woolley play the...
Kate Cooper & Claire Titley Kate Cooper...
Revolting Music
“We’ve gone through...
John Hill of LuckyPDF and Jonathan Watts of YH485...
Amanda Dennis and Gili Tal read “Pay...
Same Actor, Different Series
Rachel Pimm
A...
October 2010
1 post
Counter Constructs
Counter Constructs brings together seven artists from the UK and North America in an exhibition exploring strategies of representation and critique of the urban built environment. Responding to the undead ‘regeneration’ of global development projects and the geologic sediment of spatial histories, the exhibition is a series of implicit proposals and contestations. Unfinished maps, unspecified...
September 2010
1 post
YES WAY
Yes Way Live was a specially constructed television station brought to you by LuckyPDF TV, from inside Auto Italia. The three day television broadcast opened up the festival to an online audience and transmitted live throughout the weekend. You can watch the Yes Way Live here
Auto Italia teamed up with Upset the Rhythm, London’s premier independent music promoter and record label, for YES...