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Gillian McIver

video and installation art

 

 

 

 

 

<contact details>
mail at artsite.org.uk

 

recent awards:
Art Council of England Project Award
Arts&Humanities Research Board
Canada Council Critics and Curators
Britsh Council Travel Grant

 

 

Solo Exhibitions
2005 “PlacesThe Collection, Usher Gallery, Lincoln. Video

Group exhibitions and Screenings

2008“ "BSides" CCA Glasgow
-----“ "Foreword", Total Image Nation, Menier Gallery, London
-----“"Digital Media 1.0" La Nau, Valencia
2007“ "BSides" Touring show, incl. Skopje, Belgrade, Vancouver, Boston
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"Prospero's Library" Central House of Artists and NCCA, Moscow
2006“ "Luna Nera Video Art" in Vidifestival 06, LaSalaNaranja, Valencia
----- “"BSides - Upgrade! International" Oklahoma City
----- “"Transpositions"” AIR Space, Stoke on Trent
2005 “"Volgatronika"“ Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
-----  “"Winter Werkschau"” Factory-Berlin.
-------“"Luna Nera Video Art"” 00130 Gallery Helsinki 
2004 “"Tiefenrausch Ost"” T.R.O. Berlin
2003 “"Wasserstadt"” Literaturhaus, Berlin
-----  “"Paracrafts"“ Touring exhibition, Russia
------“ "into the deep blue“ site-specific, Berlin
------ “"Open Space"”  OrtKultur  La Fabrik; Berlin KunstHerbst03
------“ "Reconcilable Differences" Jersey Galleries, London.
2002 “"helden der arbeit?" Kunstfabrik, Berlin
----- “ LoungeLab”, Strassenbahn Depot, Bauhaus University, Weimar.
----- “ Season of Video with Performance, Spider & Mouse Gallery, Moscow.
----- “ "Other Than English," Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Canada
2001“ "Mystique," DNA Gallery, Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden.
-----“  City Without Frontiers" Atelier des artistes, Alexandria Egypt. 
1997“  Riverside Studios, London
----- “ "Blue/Blu"-- The Millinery Works Gallery, London

Exhibiting with the Luna Nera Collective
2008“"Postindustrial Baroque" Globe Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
2007“ "In SITU" La Farinera del Clot, Barcelona
-----“ "Cold Store"
Kuhlhaus in Gleisdreieck, Berlin
2006 “Climatic Conditional” Prague
-------“Lighten Up” Wysing Arts, Cambridge
2005“Titanic HQ” and “Urban Playground” Gallery PS2 & site-specific, Belfast
------“ L'età nomade Ex Mattatoio,Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Rome
2004 “Interconnection” Kronstadt, Russia and Internet live streams.
2003 “Art Navigation: Cross Encounters”, Kronstadt, Russia.
------ “The Derelict Sensation”, Midland Grand, St Pancras, London..
------ “Evil Art” 291 Gallery, London
------ “Retinal Reaction” Cybersonica, Institute of Contemporary Arts London
2003    Dada Festwochen, Zurich
2001    ART MOSCOW Moscow Art Fair (collaboration with Dirizhable) catalogue
2000    "Present Perfect" Centre for Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
-----    "Poema Vremenyi/Floodplain of Time" Spider & Mouse Gallery, Moscow
-----    "Poema Vremenyi/Floodplain of Time" Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
-----    "The Thames-Oka Project" London.
1999   "Colosseum V" at the House of Detention, London
1998   "Colosseum IV" the Foundry Gallery, London.
-----    "Colosseum III " The Whitechapel Gallery Open, London
1997   "Colosseum II" The Colosseum Theatre, London.
-----    "Colosseum I" The Colosseum Theatre, London

Principal festivals and festival screenings
2006 “VidiFest: International Festival of Video Art,” Valencia
2005 “Art/Concept” Dostoyevsky Museum St Petersburg
2004 “Desert” Champ Libre Media Art Festival, Montreal 
2003 “Dialogues” Festival, St Petersburg, Russia
2002“ "link*age" Vancouver New Music Festival, Video In, Canada 
2001“ DEBOSHIR Film and Video Festival, St Petersburg, Russia
----- “ "Dialogues" Festival, St Petersburg
2000 “III International Festival of Experimental and Live Art, St Petersburg
1997“ European Short Film Festival, London (winner student film)

Residencies
2004 Centre for Contemporary Art St Petersburg, Kronstadt Residence
2001 Atelier des artistes et ecrivains, Alexandria Egypt
2000 Luna Nera group residency.  Centre for Contemporary Arts, Nizhny Novgorod

Curating
2008 “ "Postindustrial Baroque" Globe Gallery, Newcastle
2006 “Platform for Urban Interventions” Conference and Exhibition, London  [co-curator]
2004 “Interconnection” Kronstadt, Russia and Internet live streams. [site-specific]
2003  “The Derelict Sensation, former Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras, London. [co-curator, site-specific]
2003  “Art Navigation: Cross Encounters”, Kronstadt, Russia.
------ “Evil Art” 291 Gallery, London, video exhibition.
2000 "The Thames-Oka Project" (collaboration with Dirizhable) London.
1998 "From Here and Beyond" video exhibition of artists from Sarajevo and Kiev
1997 - present Luna Nera artist-run organisation. [site-specific]

Publications
"Voice of the Artist: Urban Intervention and Artistic Experiment"” in Generalized Empowerment, Johan Moyerson, Saskia Sassen, Ana Betancour et al., ed. Jim Segers. City Mined, 2006.
"Where Artists Lead: international practice and local networks"” A-N 2006.
"Interconnection: life and art in a forgotten Russian town"” Crosswalk (RI, USA) 1.2. 2005
" Collaboration as Practice"” in DIY Survival C6 2005
Art/Site Site Specificity in Contemporary Art OutletOne 2003
"Art as Collective Cultural Action"” Contexts autumn 2003
"Artists Initiatives in Moscow" Variant 15 Summer 2002; reprinted in Contexts, summer 2003.
"Framing the 20th Century," Year 01 Forum, 10 Spring 2002
"Lab Rats for Art," Year 01 Forum, 11 Autumn 2002
1997 Media and the Spectacular Society London: Hypermedia Research Centre, University of Westminster

Talks/Papers
2006 "The 30 Second Dilemma: the fall and rise of video art" Vidifestival 06, School of Fine Art, University of Valencia
2006 “Permanent Experiment: the challenge of site-responsive art practice” Sideshow Symposium of the British Art Show 06, Nottingham
2005 “Collaboration as practice: Luna Nera, collective action and experimentation” Collision Symposium on Interdisciplinary Arts, University of Victoria,  Canada
2004 “Playing In/On the Urban Desert” Champ Libre Media Festival, Montreal  [with Hilary Powell]
2004 “Art and Site: Luna Nera Critical Platform” Hull Time Based Arts
2003 “Public Space, Private Spaces: Site-Specific Art and Reclamation of Local History” IV Conference of Public History and Culture, Ruskin College, University of Oxford.
2001 “Mapping Simultaneity” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1998 “Bio-Geography and Urban Space,” ISEA 1998 Liverpool.

Reviews
The Guardian, 16.02.2008 review by Robert Clark
BBC Radio Ulster Arts Extra 2005
Ein Held, wer Arbeit hat, Neues Deutschland  18.03.2002 Jack Rodriguez
Artists Love Old Industry, Nizhegorodskii  Rabochii, no.109 15.06.00, Oksana Zemskaiya

Catalogues
2007 Prospero's Library, Mikhail Pogarsky
2005 Volgatronika, Evgeny Strelkov
2003 Paracrafts, Evgeny Strelkov
2003 Into the Deep Blue  Leo Koenigsberg
2003 ArtDialogues Larissa Skobkina
2002 Other Than English Catherine Phoenix
2002 Helden der Arbeit Michel Brand
2001 Art Moscow 2001
2000 Poema Vremenyi/Floodplain of Time Evgeny Strelkov


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