MY STILL LIFE AS A PERSONAL OBJECT
9 November - 16 December 2007
Nick Goulis
Yu-Chen Wang
Andro Semeiko
David Blandy
Lakis and Aris Ionas
Opening Night: Thursday 8 November, 6-9pm (performance 8pm)
Gallery Opening Times: Fri- Sun, 12–6pm
Alma Enterprises: 1 Vyner Street, London E2
www.almaenterprises.com
Curated by BasementArtProject.com

www.BasementArtProject.com/mystilllife

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Two Hopes
17 – 26 October 2007
Andro Semeiko, Yu-Chen Wang, Mamuka Japaridze, Cyril Lepetit, Mathijs Lieshout, Nick Goulis, Mauricio Lupini, Charlie Tweed, Toin Klaassen and Clare Gasson
Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre. Tbilisi, Georgia
www.britishcouncil.org/ge-arts-events.htm
Curated by BasementArtProject.com
www.BasementArtProject.com/twohopes
Supported by the British Council, Georgia
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Manchester Urban Screens
The Bigger Picture: Best of Open Submissions

9 November - 16 December 2007

Outdoor screenings at Cathedral Gardens outside Urbis, and Grosvenor Square, All Saints, off Oxford Road
9 - 14 October 2007
Organised by BBC Live Events
The Bigger Picture screens on the Big Screen in Exchange Square
11 - 14 October 2007
Organised by Cornerhouse
Urban Screens Manchester 07 is both an international conference and an enthralling four-day programme of art and events in Manchester city centre. Struggle For Existence has been chosen to be shown on 3 big screens in Manchester as part of a ‘Best of Open Submissions’ programme to play alongside the Urban Screens Conference in Manchester on 9th - 14th October.
www.manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk
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New Life and the Dream Garden
13 April - 6 May 2007
Lakis and Aris Ionas | Andro Semeiko | Alicia Paz | Mathijs Lieshout | Nick Goulis | Sheena Macrae | Yu-Chen Wang | Mauricio Lupini | Toine Klaassen | Jorge Rivera | Gordon Cheung
Fieldgate Gallery, 14 Fieldgate Street, London
www.fieldgategallery.com
Curated by BasementArtProject.com
www.basementartproject.com/newlife
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Saison Vidéo 2007
22 March 2007
Éléonore de Montesquiou, Victoria Ilyushkina, Mayya Popova, Masha Sharafutdinova, Yu-Chen Wang and Dmitri Makhomet
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
www.fracnpdc.fr
Organised by Espace Croisé, Centre d'Art Contemporain, France
www.saisonvideo.com
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SATELLITE WORKS/ UVRES SATELLITES
BANDES VIDÉOS PERFORMATIVES ::
:: PERFORMATIVE VIDEO STRIPS
6th Jan. 2007 La Centrale, Montréal
www.lacentrale.org
12 Jan-11 Feb 2007 Galerie L'Oeil de Poisson, Quebec City
www.meduse.org/oeildepoisson
Erika Arzt, Tolia Astakhishvili & Dylan Peirce, Cat Barich, Tatiana Echeverri-Fernandez, Ben Fitton, Michael Grime & William Alexander, Lilly Hartmann, HK119, Toine Klaassen, Daniela Klein, Loukia Alavanou, Flavia Müller Medeiros, Noémi McComber, Dalia Neis and Yu-Chen Wang
Curated by Noémi McComber
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Recommendation of the fortnight: Animation & Drawing Programme
9-22 September 2006
BBC Big Screen Network, Exchange Square, Manchester
www.bbc.co.uk/manchester
Organised by Cornerhouse
www.cornerhouse.org
The first in the series of The Bigger Picture’s dedicated animation programme, introduces the work of Philip Day, Yu-Chen Wang and Sharon Keighley to Big Screen Manchester. The programme also includes animation from blink, a Gasworks open submission project. Selectors: Haluk Akakçe, Saskia Olde Wolbers and Nav Haq, Curator at Gasworks.
www.cornerhouse.org/events/info.aspx?ID=949&page=0
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Moving in Architecture
6-7pm Tuesday 12 September 2006
CURZON SOHO, London
www.curzoncinemas.com
Curated by Cyril Lepetit /International Exhibitionist
www.international-exhibitionist.org
A proposition by Cyril Lepetit from International Exhibitionist produced in collaboration with Camden Arts Centre to accompany the Archipeinture: painters build architecture exhibition. 'Moving in architecture' is an event in two parts. It starts with an installation of artists' films in the Artist's Studio of the Camden Arts Centre (July 2006) and following by a special screening at the Curzon Soho cinema, Including Martine Aballéa, Shezad Dawwod, Yu-Chen Wang, Giacomo Pica, Goshka Macuga, Anthony Gross, Paul O'Neill, Van Mc Elwee, Cyril Lepetit, Christophe Boulanger and Charlotte Ginsborg.
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Archipeinture: Artists’ Films: Moving in Architecture
26 - 30 July 2006
Camden Arts Centre
www.camdenartscentre.com
Curated by Cyril Lepetit /International Exhibitionist
www.international-exhibitionist.org
Short films by artists including works by Shezad Dawood, Charlotte Ginsborg, Anthony Gross, Goshka Macuga, Martine Aballéa, Yu-Chen Wang, Van McElwee (Carte blanche Heure exquise), Simon Aeplli, Cyril Lepetit, Christophe Boulanger, Martin Zet, Paul Hendrikse, Paul O’Neill, Graeme Miller and others... relate to the nature of architectural space and how we interact with it.
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Conjunction 06: Transpositions
15 - 28 July 2006
AirSpace Gallery, Falcon Works, Old Town Road, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
www.airspacegallery.org
Conjunction 06 ran throughout July across four different gallery spaces in London, Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent and hosted 46 artists based in seven countries.

www.airspacegallery.org/Exhibitions/Conjunction

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Darklight Festival
22 -25 June 2006
Film Base, Curved St. Temple Bar, Dublin 2
23rd June - Struggle For Existence was included in Dark Shorts programme 2006
www.darklight-filmfestival.com/archive/Dark.htm

Struggle For Existence was included in Dark Shorts programme 2006.

24th June - Space II was shown as part of Light Short Films programme 2006
www.darklight-filmfestival.com/archive/films_screenings.htm
 
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The Bigger Picture, Manchester

15-21 April 2006

BBC Big Screen Network, Exchange Square, Manchester
www.bbc.co.uk/manchester

Organised by Cornerhouse
www.cornerhouse.org
... Yu-Chen Wang's, River Islington, a short abstract film that documents burst water pipes in a way that draws out beauty from life's failures - what we are offered are astonishing water falls, waves, small streams and mini lakes emerging in between cars, walkways, street corners and lights.
www.cornerhouse.org/events/
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Athens Video Art Festival

7-9 April 2006

Athens Video Art Festival is an international festival dedicated to digital culture and new media, and the festival that represents Video Art in Greece.

www.athensvideoartfestival.gr

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Videonale

25 February 2006

Lenin Never Died was screened in the cinema, UNION.
UNION Filmtheater, Bölschestraße 69, Berlin, Germany

www.kulturpfeiffer.de/vid_2006_forum4.html

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Saison Vidéo 2006: PARCOURS # 1
9 February 2006
Éléonore de Montesquiou, Victoria Ilyushkina, Mayya Popova, Masha Sharafutdinova, Yu-Chen Wang and Dmitri Makhomet
539 AVENUE DES NATIONS UNIES. 59100 ROUBAIX
River Islington and Spark were shown in the screening event.

Organised by Espace Croisé, Centre d'Art Contemporain, France
www.saisonvideo.com

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Sequence
10 Janurary 2006
Wouter Sibum, Aris & Lakis Ionas, Sheena Macrae, Mathijs Lieshout, Maurice Bogaert, Maia Naveriani, Jetske de Boer, Daniël Dennis de Wit, Jeroen Offerman, Yu-Chen Wang, Clare Gasson, Danielle Drainey, Mauricio Lupini, Toine Klaassen, Liane Lang, Andro Semeiko and Julian Ewart.
The Space, 269 West Ferry Road. London E14
Curated by Yu-Chen Wang and Mathijs Lieshout

www.basementartproject.com/4sequence/yuchenwang.html

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the 3rd HALLOWEEN Short Film Festival
5 - 9 January 2006
VX Vauxhall Auteur Theory
ICA, London
www.ica.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=14620

www.shortfilms.org.uk

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Sequence
9 October 2005
Wouter Sibum, Aris & Lakis Ionas, Sheena Macrae, Mathijs Lieshout, Maurice Bogaert, Maia Naveriani, Jetske de Boer, Daniël Dennis de Wit, Jeroen Offerman, Yu-Chen Wang, Clare Gasson, Danielle Drainey, Mauricio Lupini, Toine Klaassen, Liane Lang, Andro Semeiko and Julian Ewart.
de Roode Bioscoop, Amsterdam
Haarlemmerplein 7, Amsterdam 
Curated by Yu-Chen Wang and Mathijs Lieshout

www.basementartproject.com/4sequence/yuchenwang.html

Supported by the British Council and Royal Netherlands Embassy
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Media Art Festival Friesland
6 September- 2 October 2005
Hoofdlocatie, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
River Islington and Struggle For Existence (selected for The Best Video of 2005) were shown as part of Videosalon programme.
www.mediaartfriesland.nl/2005
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Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival
'Crossing Borders’, the Big M
16-25 September 2005
Berwick-upon-Tweed, England
www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com/programme/film-25_big-m.php
24-25 September 2005t
The Big M, the Blue Carpet
outside of Newcastle’s Laing Gallery
www.visitnewcastlegateshead.com/eventDetails.php
Presenting a new programme of short films and videos selected for the festival from an international open call. This programme will go on to tour throughout the UK and Europe. The Big M is a futuristic inflatable screening space that functions as a temporary and mobile venue for the presentation of video and digital media. Struggle For Existence was selected as part of Big M touring programme.
www.isisarts.org.uk
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Bow Festival - Roman Road Party
B.O.W. Social Club
Andro Semeiko, Yu-Chen Wang and John Milroy
July 2005
Roman Road, London
bowfestival.spacestudios.org.uk
Curated by BasementArtProejct.com
BasementArtProject.com/project/2005/b.o.w.socialclub
Organised by SPACE, London
www.spacestudios.org.uk
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Synch Festival
Electronic Music and Digital Arts
Lavrio Technological and Science Park, Athens, Greece
www.synch-festival.com/site/content.php?artid=202
Struggle For Existence was selected as part of video screening programme: 17 < 5' = too short. Selected solely on the basis of their very short duration (<5'), peculiar snapshots, humorous detections, acute observations and little formal studies compose an anthology of seventeen thematically varied cinematic haikus.
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Island Art Film & Video Festival
9 - 24 April 2005
Prenelle Gallery, London
www.prenelle.co.uk/Island2005
Struggle For Existence was selected as part of curated gallery screening.
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Caution : Uneven Surfaces
4 Dec - 9 Jan 2004
Curated by Anthony Gross & Jen Wu
temporarycontemporary, London
www.tempcontemp.co.uk/Caution.html
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YESVEMBER
Nov 2004
Curated by Andreas Leventis
The House Gallery, Camberwell, London
www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1099569246
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Pattern
11 artists' films Sunday 11th November 2007
V22
10-16 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8

www.v22ashwinstreet.com

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Tank.TV
June 2004

www.tank.tv

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Pizza Express Prospects Drawing Prize 2004
1-31 May 2004
Tea Building, London
Selected by Graham Gussin and Tim Marlow
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ShortCuts
3–7 April 2007
David Bethell, Andrew Branscombe, Vikki Brown and Richard Brammer Berned Charnley, Brian Holdcroft, Emily Kydd, Katie May Shipley, Matt Roberts, Chris Simcox and Yu-Chen Wang
AirSpace Gallery
Falcon Works Old Town Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
www.airspacegallery.org/Exhibitions/Shortcuts

www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content

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Elusive
20 January - 24 February 2008
Yu-Chen Wang, Cyril Lepetit, Andro Semeiko and Mamuka Japaridze
The Parlour Studios & Project Space, London
185 Queens Crescent, London NW5

www.basementartproject.com/elusive

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De Kunstvlaai A.P.I. (Art Pie international)
10 May - 18 May 2008
The Culture Park Westergasfabriek
Pazzanistraat 41, 1014 DB Amsterdam
www.kunstvlaai.nl
Out of Place Day to Day
Curated by BasementArtProject.com

www.basementartproject.com/kunstvlaai

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    [exhibitions] [publications]
   
Selected Exhibitions
  2008 Kunstvlaai, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam  
    Elusive, The Parlour Studios & Project Space, London  
  2007 Pattern, V22 Ashwin Street, London  
    My Still Life as a personal Object, Alma Enterprises Gallery, London  
    Two Hopes, Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre, Georgia  
    The Bigger Picture: Best of Open Submissions - Manchester Urban Screens
Outdoor screenings at Cathedral Gardens, All Saints and Exchange Square, Manchester
Organised by BBC and Cornerhouse
 
    ShortCuts, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent  
    New Life and the Dream Garden, Fieldgate Gallery, London  
    Saison Vidéo 2007, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France  
    Satellite Works/ Oeuvres Satellites, La Centrale, Montreal
Galerie L'Oeil de Poisson, Quebec City, Canada
 
  2006 Recommendation of the fortnight: Animation & Drawing Programme
the Bigger Picture/BBC Big Screen Network, Exchange Square and Cornerhouse, Manchester  
 
    Moving in Architecture, Curzon Soho, London  
    Archipeinture: Artists’ Films: Moving in Architecture, Camden Arts Centre, London  
    Conjunction 06, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK  
    Darklight Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland  
    the Bigger Picture, BBC Big Screen Network, Exchange Square, Manchester  
    Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece  
    Videonale, Kino Union, Berlin, Germany  
    Saison Vidéo, Espace Croisé, Roubaix, France  
    Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Short Film Market - British Council Stand, France  
    Sequence, The Space, London  
    Halloween Short Film Festival, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London  
  2005 Sequence, de Roode Bioscoop, Amsterdam  
    Media Art Festival Friesland, Hoofdlocatie, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands  
    Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed  
    Bow Festival, SPACE, London  
    The Vauxhall Auteur Theory, Curzon Soho, London  
    Synch Festival, Electronic Music and Digital Arts, Athens, Greece ^ top ^
    Island Art Film & Video Festival, Prenelle Gallery, London  
  2004 Caution : Uneven Surfaces, temporarycontemporary, London  
    YESVEMBER, The House Gallery, Camberwell, London  
    Tank.TV, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London  
    Tank.TV, www.tank.tv  
    PizzaExpress Prospects 2004, Tea Building, London  
  2003 Randomize Film and Video Festival, Beijing, China  
    The Random-ize Taipei Video Art Show, Taipei, Taiwan                 
  2002 tent. Podion Gallery, Amsterdam  
       
  Collection
  2005 SLG Video Lounge (video library), South London Gallery, London  
       
  Publication
  2007 New Life and the Dream Garden, ex. cat., essay by JJ Charlesworth  
    University of the Arts London Magazine / springsummer 2007  
    Saison Vidéo 2007, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France  
  2005 Media Art Festival Friesland, Hoofdlocatie, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands  
    Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed  
    University of the Arts London Magazine / springsummer 2005  
  2004 PizzaExpress Prospects 2004, Tea Building, London                              
  2003 Randomize Film and Video Festival, Beijing, China2003                 
    The Random-ize Taipei Video Art Show, Taipei, Taiwan ^ top ^
       
  Curatorial Projects
  2007 My Still Life as a Personal Object, Alma Enterprises Gallery, London  
    Basement Screen, cumberto/space, Tbilisi Georgia  
    Two Hopes, Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre, Georgia
(Supported by the British Council, Georgia)
 
    New Life and the Dream Garden, Fieldgate Gallery, London
(Supported by Arts Council England, Embassy of Mexico, Royal Netherlands Embassy, Cultural Division-Taipei Representative Office in the U.K. and PROduction NETwork.)
 
  2006-07 AirVideo, AirSpace, Stoke-on-Trent, England (co-curated with Matt Roberts)
(Supported by Arts Council England)
 
  2006 the Suspicion of Beauty: New Romanticism, BasementArtProject.com  
    Basement Screen, the Residence Gallery, London  
    Sound Invades Vision, IC Radio  
    Sequence, The Space, London
(Supported by the Royal Netherlands Embassy)
 
  2005 Sequence, de Roode Bioscoop, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
(Supported by the British Council)
 
    founder of BasementArtProject.com  
    B.O.W. Social Club, Bow Festival, London
(Organised by Space)
 
       
  Awards
  2007 the Grants to Artists, the British Council Georgia  
    Grants for the arts, Arts Council England  
  2005 Selected for The Best of 2005, Media Art Festival Friesland, the Netherlands  
    Awarded the Grants to Artists, the British Council, UK  
    Shortlisted for The Vauxhall Auteur Theory Film Competition, London  
  2004 Finalist for PizzaExpress Prospects2004 Drawing Prize, London  
  2002 Shortlisted for young graduate of the Guardian/ Observer Award, UK ^ top ^
       
       
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