Frieze London 2022 DB Lounge: Shezad Dawood in conversation with Alfredo Cramerotti
Thursday 13 October 2022, 5:00pm DB Lounge Frieze London
MOSTYN: Recent Press Coverage 2018
MOSTYN x DRAF Exhibition | Adam Carr and Olivia Lehay in Conversation
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Alfredo Cramerotti, Mike Perry and Shezad Dawood in Conversation | MOSTYN
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Art & Science Lecture Series | MOSTYN
Shezad Dawood & Mike Perry // In Conversation at MOSTYN
Saturday 23 June, 2018
12 Vaughan St | Llandudno | LL30 1AB | UK
11am Exhibition Tour | 2:30pm Conversation with Artists
The two artists, currently showing at MOSTYN, each address contemporary issues around environmental sustainability and the impact of human activity on our natural world.
Upcoming Exhibitions at MOSTYN
Shezad Dawood Leviathan Cycle, Episode 1: Ben (production still) 2017 HD Video, 12’52”. Courtesy of the artist and UBIK Productions
Shezad Dawood
Leviathan is an episodic narrative around notions of borders, mental health and marine welfare issues of foremost concern, resonating profoundly with both coastal locations and contemporary life.
A ten-part film cycle that will unfold over the next three years, the work draws connections between human activity and marine ecology. Three films have already been premiered in Venice, in conjunction with the 57th Art Biennale, with a fourth to be released in early September 2018.
In dialogue with a wide range of marine biologists, oceanographers, political scientists, neurologists and trauma specialists, Leviathan explores interconnections between these fields of work and will be presented through sculpture, textiles, museum specimens, films, conversations and online resource material.
As part of the first iteration of Leviathan after its Venice debut, Dawood will also show a newly commissioned painting drawing upon this specific context, and work with community groups based on the coastal location asking questions about how these issues might come to evolve in a future 20 to 50 years from now, and what that future might look like.
The exhibition is curated by Alfredo Cramerotti, MOSTYN Director, in dialogue with the artist.
Shoe 22, Playa Santa Maria, Havana, Cuba 2014. Fencing, Treadog Bay, Llŷn Peninsula, Wales 2016.
Mike Perry
Mike Perry’s work engages with significant and pressing environmental issues, in particular the tension between human activity and interventions in the natural environment, and the fragility of the planet’s ecosystems.
This major new exhibition brings together recent bodies of work addressing how the natural biodiversity of landscapes and marine environments is undermined and made toxic by human neglect, agricultural mismanagement and the pursuit of short-term profit at the expense of long-term sustainability.
Combining conceptual aesthetics with a pressing concern for the marine environment, Perry’s images shed a different light on the health of the seascapes one might see in tourist brochures.
Môr Plastig (welsh for ‘Plastic Sea’) is an ongoing body of work that classifies objects washed up by the sea into groupings; bottles, shoes, grids, abstracts, and others. By using a high-resolution camera to capture the surface detail, the artist allows the viewer to ‘read’ markings and scars etched into the objects by the ocean over months and, in some cases, years. The viewer is intrigued and challenged by how a polluting object can be so aesthetically appealing.
In Perry’s words, “in addition to seeing these pieces as symbols of over-consumption and disregard for the environment, I also see them as evidence of the beauty and power of nature to sculpt our world”.
Land/Sea is originally produced by Ffotogallery, Cardiff, and curated by David Drake, Ffotogallery, and Ben Borthwick, Plymouth Arts Centre. The exhibition in MOSTYN has been developed in dialogue with Adam Carr, Visual Arts Programme Curator, and Alfredo Cramerotti, Director. The accompanying publication includes contributions from the writers George Monbiot and Skye Sherwin.
Jonathan Monk, Picture Postcard Posted From Post Box Pictured, 2014.
In Addition
Participating artists from March 2018:
Nina Beier, Sol Calero, Gabriele de Santis, Alek O., Jonathan Monk, and Marinella Senatore
We are pleased to present ‘In Addition’, a new edition series of works, by internationally renowned artists, available to purchase at an affordable price.
MOSTYN is a charity registered in the UK and proceeds from the sales of the editions will be invested back into the gallery’s exhibition and engagement programme.
Each participating artist has produced work using paper and has been asked to reconsider the traditional model of producing an edition, where each version of a work is identical. Although appearing formally similar, each In Addition piece will offer deviations and nuances that set apart each edition as a unique work, thereby playing with ideas of the original, the copy and work made in series.
In Addition will be permanently installed as an exhibition in MOSTYN’s Gallery 2 from March 2018, and will change shape over time as editions are purchased and as further artists participate in the future.
In Addition has been curated by Adam Carr (Visual Arts Programme Curator, MOSTYN).
Modes of Curating / Curating as Research
Curatorial study day led by Alfredo Cramerotti at GSA – The Glasgow School of Art
31 January 2018
I conceive and understand “research” as a form of curating – namely, organizing connections and defining touchstones in contemporary visual culture by means of my work as a writer, speaker and visual project organizer – developing a discourse, or a statement through works of art, which of course can also overwhelm or enhance the project’s rationale.
In the course of this research, I have found myself working in a combination of modes, according to the various tasks I set myself. Sometimes taking a more authorial role and developing concepts and frameworks, some others becoming a conduit for ideas not mine, but translated and transformed by the visual authors I was working with. Thus, as a curator, I have acted as meta-artist; the work undertaken is less about the “what” and more about the “how”.
PART ONE
The Curator as Meta-Artist.
Presentation of three curatorial drafts recently delivered by Cramerotti: Michael Takeo Magruder’s De-Coding the Apocalypse at the King’s College Cultural Institute London (2015), Marinella Senatore’s The School of Narrative Dance at MOSTYN (2016), and Shezad Dawood’s Leviathan at Palazzina Canonica / Fortuny Factory Venice (2017). An insight into the research involved in developing the various themes and approaches for these exhibitions, the conversation with the artists, the solutions in relation to the spaces, and the mediation tools adopted in each case.
PART TWO
The Social, Humanitarian, Historical, Scientific, Logistics as Art.
Participants are invited to discuss and present to the group their views / answers to questions such as: What does beauty has to do with, for instance, migration, climate change, mental or physical conditions? What is our understanding of aesthetics in relation to ethics? How do we tackle themes that lend themselves awkwardly to a presentation in the (critical) visual realm? Could the initiative be produced somehow else? Is new media and digital platforms following the concept and the execution or preceding it? Is the selection of artists or speakers leading to unexplored territories or consolidating an approach?
IDEAL-TYPES
An exhibition at HE.RO [Maurits Hertzberger and Gabriel Rolt], Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Exhibition Dates: 27 January 2017 – 31 March 2018
Formulated by Alfredo Cramerotti, with additional input by Elsa Barbieri on behalf of Art Contemporary, Partnership.
Exhibition Launch Evening: Saturday 27 January 2018 from 17.00 hrs
With performances by:
Tomoko Mukaiyama
Gernot Wieland
See full exhibition details here.
HE.RO
BEITELKADE 4, 1021 KG AMSTERDAM
THE NETHERLANDS
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Press Coverage for Shezad Dawood’s Leviathan
Shezad Dawood – Leviathan – Fabbrica Fortuny
Link: http://www.rivistasegno.eu/events/shezad-dawood/
Un’ antiguida tra illusioni e leviatani
Il trailer di Leviathan, il nuovo film d’artista di Shezad Dawood
Link: http://www.artribune.com/television/2017/05/video-leviathan-nuovo-film-shezad-dawood/#
“Leviathan”, e resilienza. Ecco il progetto di Shezad Dawood, a cura di Alfredo Cramerotti, al Villino Canonica
di Irene Guida
Link: http://www.exibart.com/notizia.aspIDNotizia=53708&IDCategoria=59
Little Atoms (UK)
Passing but very positive mention, describing the show as “not to be missed”!
Link: http://littleatoms.com/art-design/private-politics-2017-venice-biennale
Un Ospite di Venezia (IT)
Nice local coverage of the film programme in collaboration with MUBI
Link: https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/venice-2017-26-recommended-pavilions-shows-individual-works
Agenda Venezia (IT)
Leviathan featured in their agenda
Link: http://www.agendavenezia.org/it/evento-38029.htm
Exibart (IT), Matteo Bergamini, 11.12.2016
IL FUTURO DELLA VIDEOARTE? TRA HBO E NETFLIX. E INTANTO L’ARTISTA INGLESE SHEZAD DAWOOD ANNUNCIA IL SUO FILM IN DIECI PARTI, APPUNTO
Link: http://www.exibart.com/notizia.asp?IDNotizia=51713&IDCategoria=204
ARTINFO (US), Nicholas Forrest, 12.12.2016
Shezad Dawood to Launch ‘Leviathan’ Film Cycle in Venice
ArtTribune (IT), Santa Nastro, 24.01.2017
Leviathan, parte da Venezia con una serie tv il progetto dell’artista Shezad Dawood
Aesthetica (UK), no byline/15.02.2017
Dystopian Communities
Link: http://www.asff.co.uk/dystopian-communities/
Flash Art (IT), Sara De Chiara, 25.04.2017
Flash Art 50
Link: http://www.flashartonline.it/2017/04/gli-eventi-collaterali/
The Guardian (UK), Hettie Judah, 7 May 2017.
I’ve created a monster! Shezad Dawood on his oceanic epic Leviathan
Il Manifesto (IT), Arianna di Genova, 9.05.2017.
Leviathan featured amongst top picks of the “alternative” guide to the Biennale. Includes Leviathan film still as central image.
Mr Porter/The Knowledge, Hettie Judah, 11.05.2017.
Shezad Dawood featured amongst Mr. Porter’s selection of industry heavyweights to look out for at the Venice Biennale
WHO TO SPOT AT THE VENICE BIENNALE
Link: https://www.mrporter.com/journal/the-knowledge/who-to-spot-at-the-venice-biennale/2132
ATP Diary (IT), Marco Arrigoni, 13.05.2017:
In-depth interview with Shezad and Alfredo on the origins of Leviathan and the issues it tackles.
Shezad Dawood | Palazzina Canonica e Fabbrica Fortuny, Venezia
Link: http://atpdiary.com/shezad-dawood-venice/
Artribune (IT), Ludovico Pratesi, 14.05.2017:
Biennale di Venezia. L’editoriale di Ludovico Pratesi
Al Jazeera (ME), Charlie Angela, 15.05.2017:
Interview with Shezad and filming in the library of the Canonica as part of broadcast feature on the Venice Biennale.
Venice Biennale: Refugee crisis takes centre stage
ArtAsiaPacific (MENASA), HG Masters, 15.05.2017
57TH VENICE BIENNALE, PART 4: COLLATERAL EXHIBITIONS
Link: http://artasiapacific.com/Blog/57thVeniceBiennaleDay4
South China Morning Post (CN), Enid Tsui, 15.05.2017
Venice Biennale 2017 round-up: political undertones everywhere, but it’s not all despair and anger
artnet news, Hettie Judah (US), 14.05.2017
The Turned-On Biennale: An Orgy of Liberal Sex and Liberal Guilt Greets Visitors in Venice
Link: https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/the-x-rated-biennale-venice-2017-960158
L’Uomo Vogue (IT), Elena Bordignon, May Issue.
DOMUS (IT), no byline, 16.05.2017
Shezad Dawood’s exhibition in Venice is a reflection on where we could be if a deeper understanding of trauma and climate erosion is not found. #BiennaleArte2017
Link: http://www.domusweb.it/content/domusweb/en/news/2017/05/16/leviathan_shezad_dawood.html
BBC Wales (UK), Evening News, 16.05.2017
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ql51q
Sky Arte (IT), Giovanni Zaninotto, 22.05.2017
Vogue India (IN), Shahnaz Siganporia
Socialter (FR), Manon Grad Manoukianand
Crash (FR), Annabelle Leturq
DAWN (PK), Virginia Whiles
Mutual Art: APT Collection
Shezad Dawood | Leviathan, 7 May-24 September 2017 Palazzina Canonica, Venice, Italy
The Artnewspaper
Collaterals and extras: the Biennale’s other shows
Downloadable PDF: TANMay2017
Shezad Dawood: Leviathan; 2017, courtesy of the artist and UBIK Productions
ATP diary – Interview
【娱乐】LEAP Forum Venice
Link: http://www.iqiyi.com/w_19ru524kct.html
Elephant Issue 33 |Shezad Dawood: Leviathan
The Absence of Path
Leviathan Episode 2 – Yasmine
Link: http://www.theabsenceofpaths.com/commission/leviathan-episode-2-yasmine
Socialter
Plongée dans le Monde Catacysmique de Shezad Dawood
Face à la mer
Read full article here
Vogue India | July 2017 Issue
Great lengths
Read full article here
Art Radar | June 2017
Shezad Dawood launches his ten-part film cycle during the 57th Venice Biennale
La Stampa | Venezia l’arte sull’ambiente invade Campi e Calli
Artarius Media | My Art Guide
Shezad Dawood — Venice
Alfredo Cramerotti: Modes of Curating / Curating as Research @ Valletta 2018 International Curatorial School, Malta
Valletta Campus of the University of Malta
28 August – 1 September 2017
Conceiving and understanding “research” as a form of curating – namely, organizing
connections and defining touchstones in contemporary visual culture by means of my
work as a writer, speaker and project organizer – the 5-day curatorial course will focus on developing a discourse, or a statement through works of art, which of course can also overwhelm or enhance the project’s rationale.
As curator, I act as meta-artist; the work undertaken is less about the “what” and
more about the “how”.
PART ONE
Keynote speech: Beyond and Besides Me: The Curator as Meta-Artist.
Presentation of three curatorial drafts recently delivered: Michael Takeo Magruder’s “De-Coding the Apocalypse” at the King’s College Cultural Institute London (2014/15); Marinella Senatore’s “The School of Narrative Dance” at MOSTYN (2016); and Shezad Dawood’s “Leviathan” at Palazzina Canonica Venice (2017). An insight into the themes and approaches to these exhibitions, the conversations with the artists, the “research outcomes” in relation to space, mediation and diffusion as a form of research.
PART TWO
Research Module 1: The Social, Humanitarian, Historical, Scientific as Art.
What does beauty has to do with, for instance, migration, climate change, social cohesion, mental or physical conditions? What is our understanding of aesthetics
in relation to ethics? How do we tackle themes that lend themselves awkwardly to a
presentation in the (critical) visual realm?
PART THREE
Research Module 2: The act of thinking, planning, resourcing,
delivering, closing and finalising your next exhibition or curatorial project.
Speculations. Three type of curating (from Cook / Graham):
Project making as exchange / trade show: the modular model, based on one incarnation of a multilevel event structure / platform with the possibility to scale up / down elements of the project without affecting its overall coherence (curator as filter / stylistic editor)
Project making as broadcast: the distributed model, based on “exhibitions” where different curators create their own infrastructure / agency or occupy existing platforms to circulate art and the process of curating itself (curator as node / translator).
Project making as software program / data flow: the iterative model, based on change from one venue to another (or one exhibition to another) each time – growing around a selection of key works (curator as maker / producer / managing editor)
PART FOUR
The Pitch (one day): Poster(ing)
An “exhibition of ideas” where curators can get an inkling of what has been taking place in other workshops. A collective poster session during which participants present a diagrammatic idea of their individual concept / project to each other, and particularly to participants and curators in other groups, informed by both feedback and speculations of the days before.
The Valletta 2018 International Curatorial School, Malta is organized by Raphael Vella with the participation of Alfredo Cramerotti, Sebastian Cichocki, Mick Wilson, Bassam El Baroni, Fulya Erdemci, and Maren Richter.
Friday | 12 May No Way Out. Notes on the Philosophical Implications of the Concept of Anthropocene with Franco “Bifo” Berardi in conversation with Sandro Carniel (CNR – ISMAR)
Friday | 12 May 2017
5pm
No Way Out. Notes on the Philosophical Implications of the Concept of Anthropocene with Franco “Bifo” Berardi in conversation with Sandro Carniel (CNR – ISMAR). Introduced and moderated by Alfredo Cramerotti.
Palazzina Canonica
Riva dei Sette Martiri, 1364
Vaporetto Giardini
See full schedule below
Thursday | 11 May Leviathan: A Beginning. Shezad Dawood in conversation with Alfredo Cramerotti
Thursday | 11 May 2017
2pm
Leviathan: A Beginning. Shezad Dawood in conversation with Alfredo Cramerotti
Palazzina Canonica
Riva dei Sette Martiri, 1364
Vaporetto Giardini
Shezad Dawood, Leviathan Cycle (production stills), 2017. HD video. Courtesy of the artist and UBIK Productions.
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