| THE FIFTH FLOOR, TATE LIVERPOOL |
| STRAYLIGHT CAVERN, COOPER GALLERY DUNDEE |
| SAN FRANCISCO: ART, TART, NEW LANGTON, JESSICA SILVERMAN |
OTHER |
Lives and works in Glasgow & San Francisco FUCKING SELECTED... HELL, YES
Solo Exhibitions
Heavy Influence, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Magazine 09, Edinburgh Art Festival, 14–30 August 2009
A Million Lies performance at Reveal/Reset, Edinburgh Art Festival, InSpace, Art Late, Edinburgh, 27 August 2009 (*)
Garlands, The Park Gallery, August–September 2008, with Janie Nicoll with the installation Mineral Park, featuring: Zefrey Throwell, Desirée Holman, Lewis Holleran, Lucy Keany, Anne Colvin, and John Vitale
House/Lights, Park Gallery, May 4 2008
Meddle with the Devil, with Janie Nicoll, Park Gallery, Callendar Park,
April–June 2008
The Consequence, Alex Hetherington and Janie Nicoll, Intermedia, CCA, Glasgow, 2007
HOUSE/LIGHTS (a revival), Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, July 2007
The Fictitious On Kawara, Emerged [chronicler], Glasgow, UK, 2004
Group Exhibitions
Embassy Screen, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh Annuale, 20 June- 5 July 2009
Sarah Winchester Made Me Hardcore, film screening, File 2009, July–August, Sao Paulo, Brazil
OPA 0.2 Festival, Bios, Athens, Greece, May 2009
I Am Kurious Orange, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco May 2009 (Curated by Anne Colvin)
Sarah Winchester Made Me Hardcore, live performance, HALLelujah, Glasgow, curated by Janie Nicoll, April 2009
File Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oi Futuro Cultural Center, March–April 2009
The Colony Room, New Langton Arts/Tart, San Francisco, Sept-Oct, 2008
Fool’s Gold, Caravan of Horrors, the Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, October 2008
Another Roadside Attraction, Shoreditch, London, May, 2008
Hatch, Bradford, November 2008
Live Art Falmouth, Falmouth, UK, June 2008
The Sparky Show, Schroeder Romero / Winkleman Gallery, New York, 2008
File 2007, Sesi Gallery, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2007
Videononstop, La Isle, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2007
Visions in the Nunnery, The Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, London, UK, May 2007
Freshfest, Bracknell, UK, January 2007
winterwhite, Pretty Blue Sky, Chicago, USA, December 2006
Magazine, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 2006
File 2006, Sesi Gallery, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2006
60 Seconds of Play, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, USA, 2006
With screenings in Atlanta, Savannah, Athens, Georgia & Brooklyn, NY and New Delhi, India
Resonate, East Kilbride Arts Center, UK, 2005
File 2004, Sesi Gallery, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2004
Members Show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK, 2000
RC, Albion Street, Glasgow, UK, 1998
Travel Light, Birmingham Arts Trust, Birmingham, UK, 1998, with Fabienne Audeoud
Bibliography
Alex Hetherington: House/Lights, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Rosie Lesso, AN Magazine, July 2007
I Am Kurious Orange, David Cunningham Projects, Orlando Santos, Interface, June 2009
Grants/Awards
Creative Lab, CCA, Glasgow, April 2009
Glasgow Visual Arts, 2009
Alt-W, New Media Scotland, 2008
Scottish Arts Council, Professional Development Award, 2007-08
Hope Scott Trust, 2007
Scottish Arts Council, Professional Development Award, 2006
Robert Brough Travel Scholarship, Paris, France, 1990
Projects
Critical Writing
Annette Ruenzler: The power to faint at will - or not, Sorcha Dallas, The List, May 2009
Jimmy Robert, Grey Flannel Suits Any Man, Sorcha Dallas, The List March 2009
AN Interface
The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space, Tate Liverpool, UK, December–February
San Francisco: On Ben Shaffer, Anne Colvin, Julio César Morales
The Way that We Rhyme: Women, Art and Politics, Yerba Buena Arts Center, San Francisco
Joan Jonas, The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of things, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
Starship: Written on spiders, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
Skank Bloc Bologna, Number Two (Langton Edition), Tart, San Francisco
Once Within a Room/Phantom Rosebuds, New Langton, San Francisco
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, PS1, NYC
Minty Donald: Glimmers in Limbo, Tramway, Glasgow
Catherine Sullivan, Triangle of Need, Metro Pictures, NYC
Fabric of Protest and Turner Prize 2007, Tate, Liverpool
Three Years and Counting, Tart, San Francisco
Superhumanatural, Douglas Gordon, RSA, Edinburgh
An Magazine
Straylight Cavern, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, AN Magazine, February 2009
Minty Donald, glimmers in limbo, Tramway, AN Magazine, April 2008
Others
Prices, Cathy Wilkes, The Modern Institute, Matt Roberts Arts, London, 2008
On Brigid McLeer, Vexations, Site Platform, Site Gallery, Sheffield, January 2008
Three Years and Counting, Shotgun, San Francisco, September 2007
“All the Wild Children”, essay for Magazine Map, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 2007
Catherine Sullivan, CCA, MAP, February 2007
Mark Raidpere, Shifting Focus, Tramway, MAP, November 2006
On Nadim Karam; Gina Saccone; Nina Edge; Adam Nankervis at Liverpool Biennial, Independents, Liverpool, October – November 2006
Like it Matters, CCA, Glasgow, Stretcher, San Francisco, US, 2006
Glasgow International, Stretcher, San Francisco, US, 2005 (www.stetcher.org)
Goya Vs Yoko Ono, Map, Edinburgh, UK, 2005
The Tramway, Shorts 5, Polygon, Edinburgh, 2002
Ellen Cantor, Transmission, Black Dog, London, 2002
Digital Dialogues, San Francisco Art Institute, Stretcher, SF, US, 2001
Stephen Skrynka: Tunnel, Sculpture Matters, UK, 2000
Continuum 001, CCA, The List, UK, 2000
Become Like Me, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, The List, UK, 2000
Group Show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, The List, UK, 2000
Neil Bickerton/Lorna MacIntyre/Knut Asdam, Transmission Gallery,
The List, UK, 2000
Crack is Wack, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, The List, UK, 1999
Publications
Yuck N Yum, Dundee, April 2009
Praktika, Deveron Arts, Huntly 2008
Fool’s Gold #2, edited by Lucy Keany, Edinburgh, January 2009
Flit Magazine, Portland, Oregon, October 2008
Mineral Park, The Park Gallery, Falkirk, 2008
Fool’s Gold #1, edited by Lucy Keany, Edinburgh, June 2008
The Village Voice, Falkirk Residency, February 2008
Skank Bloc Bologna #1, TART, San Francisco, February 2008
The New York Times, January 2008
The Consequence, Shaking Hands with the Devil, by Sarah Smith, UK, 2007
Notebook, Current Gallery, Baltimore, US, 2006
Prog:Me, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2005
Friends and Friends of Friends, Baltimore, US, 2005
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Screen Tests. Draft soundtrack. 3 screens. Filmed during a Creative Lab Residency at the CCA, Glasgow and on location. The distribution of Alt-w awards is managed by New Media Scotland and funded by Scottish Screen and Scottish Arts Council. ART TORRENTS: Jeremy Blake - Century 21 (2004) His latest subject is Sarah Winchester, the eccentric heir to a firearm fortune. .... Mark Leckey - Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) · Francis McKee - In ... - Similar pages 25 words This work, a multi-channel video and performance, commingles complex synchronised narratives, biographies and re-enactments investigating lies, need and imitation to scrutinize identity and its theft. 100 words A Million Lies; Once and Only Revealed After Death is a multi-channel video installation and performance, which deploys numerous references, fake identities, email scams, archetypes and biographies, texts and participants to scrutinize identity and its theft through an intense investigation on lies, need, deception, belief, imitation, superstition, deliberate misinformation equated with multiple theatre and cinematic genres, techniques and traditions. Using improvised performance-led processes it considers the fragility of identity and memory from external physical or technological sources or through the materialization of internal psychological or physiological distress. The work collides abrasively these narratives and chronologies using live and pre-recorded performance. 250 words A Million Lies; Once and Only Revealed After Death is a multi-channel video installation and performance which orchestrates exceedingly complex, abrasive and synchronised sets of ideas surrounding lies, imitation, deception, need, wealth, desire, belief, superstition and resources/means. Citing Nicolas Bourriaud’s Postproduction thesis its mirrors a contemporary alignment of visual art practice with DJ practice assembling and re-deploying pre-existing materials with the arbitrary, disordered, abstract. disorientating condition of the exploiting the ‘search engine’ to generate an intense narrative of collided, collage-led, editorialised extracts and references. The performance collides and synchronizes live and pre-recorded materials cued to a multi-channel video installation devised by a group of artist and performance collaborators who have worked with Alex Hetherington since November 2008. The story revolves round the correlation of four central inter-related narratives and artworks: the biography of eccentric gun heiress Sarah Winchester and the heir to her fortune and the Winchester Suite, a video installation by the artist Jeremy Blake with the falsified narratives of email scams, where a huge fortune is discovered following a violent death. The second narrative exploits and re-enacts elements of American artist Catherine Sullivan’s film works The Chittendens and Triangle of Need equating their distressing, disorientating sensibilities with the progressive dismantling of the memory and identity of Alex Hetherington’s mother. Alongside this are related references to the psychology and consequences of lying, the employment of disjointed chronologies, and extracts from selected correspondingly fake artworks, films, theatre and music, continuing to, at once, establish and dismantle identity and its values. Alex Hetherington is an air-head, with no personality and a shameless desire to be someone else. |