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On April 3rd, LONDON’S HAYWARD GALLERY…

Hayward Gallery terrace, London

…will be the site of the upcoming ‘Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics‘ – which will be perched on the southwest terrace – and with 24 hours in town I have the chance to check out our future digs, make plans, and meet with some local friends who will be involved, including one friend of a friend working on his thesis on queer domestication in London of all things.

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By Fritz Haeg on April 3, 2012 | London
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On March 11th, 2012, SUNDOWN SCHOOLHOUSE OF QUEER HOME ECONOMICS…

Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics

…is coming to the rooftop terrace of the Hayward Gallery in London this summer (from June 11th – July 11th for their pre-Olympics Wide Open School program) and we are now looking for local and visiting queers interested in participating, interning, contributing materials, and proposing activities. (preliminary info can be found on the webpage)

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By Fritz Haeg on March 11, 2012 | queer
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On November 30th, 2011, A COHABITABLE ARCHITECTURE BAT WORKSHOP…

a Cohabitable Architecture bat workshop meeting at the London Animal Estates HQ conference table

…kicked off the series today at the Animal Estates London HQ, Urban Wildlife Client Services, and we’re getting reports back of good times with bat ecolocation device demonstrations…

This workshop proposes the design of cohabitable space that is to be shared between bats and humans. Through the acts of drawing and model making we will attempt to explore means of cohabitation between species. In traditional bat mitigation projects a small percentage of space is given for bat habitation within agricultural buildings with the majority of space allocated for human habitation. In order to subvert this idea we will design structures where bats take up 90% of the space and humans the remaining 10%. Inverting the proportion of living space allows us to explore aspects of the bat world that will assist us in designing the human space. Aspects such as flight, blindness, suspension, inversion and clustering will be explored regarding the human side of the cohabitation.

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By Fritz Haeg on November 30, 2011 | Animal Estates
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On November 29th, 2011, A LONDON HONEY MAP…

honey from all over London

…by our friends at Åbäke is in the works for the Animal Estates London HQ, Urban Wildlife Client Services, and today we received this exciting preview planning picture of jars and jars and jars of the local stuff….mmmm honey.

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By Fritz Haeg on November 29, 2011 | Animal Estates, food
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On October 17th, 2011, THE ALLOTMENT AT KENSINGTON GARDENS…

The Allotment at Kensington Gardens punctuated endless rolling green fields, viewed through a window

…was a highlight find hidden in the endless fields and lawns of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens – first viewed through a mysterious high window…they have chickens that are regularly invited to wander the gardens, nicely designed wood compost bins, organized raised beds, and a welcoming outdoor conference room. (website)

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By Fritz Haeg on October 17, 2011 | gardens
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On October 16th, 2011, BRIAN ENO AND MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES…

Brian Eno and Mierle Laderman Ukeles at the Garden Marathon

…were the big hero highlights of the 2nd day of the Serpentine Garden Marathon – Eno giving an inspiring talk that had me scribbling notes for one of the first times since college, arguing for the approach of the bottom-up gardener vs. the top-down architect for the future where the creator/designer/composer/artist “…organizes only in parts…letting the dynamic create the rest…taking you in the direction you want to go…and their life (of the projects) is not exactly what you would envisage for them…” as evidenced in his own ‘generative music’ approach – and Ukeles talking about her time as the nonsalaried artist in residence at the New York Sanitation Department and series of  trash-related projects at the Fresh Kills Landfill for the past 40 years.

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By Fritz Haeg on October 16, 2011 | art
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On October 15th, 2011, MY PRESENTATION AT THE GARDEN MARATHON…

hey, I felt right at home in the the geodesic dome that the Serpentine erected just for the Garden Marathon, and interviewing Denise Withers, resident gardener at the London Edible Estate

…(part of a series of annual talks, performances, and interviews masterminded by the indefatigable Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Serpentine Gallery in London’s Kensington Gardens which has previously taken on maps, interviews, poetry, experiments, and manifestos – for which I contributed a London: A Manifesto from your Animals  in 2008 – with today’s line-up highlights including Elizabeth Diller, Gianfranco Baruchello, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cerith Wyn Evans, FIELDCLUB, Alice Rawsthorn, Something & Son, and muf architecture) – began with the reading of a short autobiographical garden story (read the text here), followed by an interview with Denise Withers – the Brookwood Estate resident, who has been the resident gardening force at Edible Estate #4: London (at the corner of Lancaster and Weber in the Southwark neighborhood south of the Thames) for the past 4 and a half years since it was planted.

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By Fritz Haeg on October 15, 2011 | lectures
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On October 14th, 2011, THE ANNUAL SERPENTINE PAVILLION…

in and out of the Peter Zumthor garden pavillion

…the most elegant, austere, and simple yet in the series – designed this year by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor and Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf in London’s Kensington Gardens – is in it’s final days and the inspiration for this years Serpentine Marathon series of talks taking place this weekend organized by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, and tomorrow I’ll be talking gardens at 19:40. (website)

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By Fritz Haeg on October 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
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On October 12th, 2011, OPENING EVENT FOR ANIMAL ESTATES 8.0: LONDON…

Animal Estates 8.0: London, poster #02 - opening event

…is tomorrow night!

ANIMAL ESTATES LONDON HQ: URBAN WILDLIFE CLIENT SERVICES
at ARUP Phase 2, 8 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 4BJ, October 13th, 2011 – January 20th, 2012

Opening Event…*
MEET THE ANIMAL CLIENTS Part I: Birds, Bees, & Bats, Thursday 13 October 2011, 6.00pm—8.30pm
*Produced in collaboration with the inmidtown Habitats Competition run by the Architecture Foundation and inmidtown

Presentations by local animal experts at 7.00pm…
KELLY GUNNELL will speak on London’s bats. Kelly Gunnell works for the Bat Conservation Trust as the Built Environment Officer with the remit to facilitate solutions for bat conservation in the construction sector and urban areas.
RICHARD JONES will speak on London’s bees. Entomologist Richard Jones has been fascinated by wildlife since a childhood exploring the South Downs and Sussex Weald; he now carries out invertebrate surveys, and writes about insects for BBC Wildlife Magazine and Gardeners’ World.
PETER HOLDEN will speak on London’s Common Swifts and House Sparrows. A senior RSPB manager for over 40 years, ornithologist and wildlife expert Peter Holden has written many books on birds, including the RSPB Handbook of British Birds.

Native London Wildlife…
8.01 Bees (multiple species)
8.02 Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus)
8.03 Common Frog (Rana temporaria)
8.04 Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)
8.05 Bats (multiple species)
8.06 House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
8.07 Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)
8.08 Common Swift (Apus apus)
8.09 Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
8.10 Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
8.11 Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
How did the Animal Client live on the land of London before human habitation?
What can we do or design for the city of London today to welcome them back?

More Information…
email london(at)animalestates(dot)org or visit www.animalestates.org

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By Fritz Haeg on October 12, 2011 | Animal Estates
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On October 11th, 2011, INSTALLATION OF THE ANIMAL ESTATES LONDON HQ…

preview of Animal Estates London HQ, competing reception desks for human and animal clients

…is keeping us (including design collaborator Benjamin from Åbäke) busy morning til night in preparation for the Thursday evening opening event ‘Meet the Animal Clients, Part I: Birds, Bees & Bats‘ organized with the Architecture Foundation.

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By Fritz Haeg on October 11, 2011 | Animal Estates, London
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On October 10th, 2011, TACITA DEAN IN THE TATE MODERN TURBINE HALL…

'Film' by Tacita Dean in the Tate Turbine Hall

…opened this evening with a packed Frieze Fair week art crowd filling the mezzanine overlooking the massive film projection of ‘Film’ created for the space (which is about 20,000 times bigger than last night’s art destination of the White Cubicle Toilet Gallery) by Tacita Dean as the latest edition of the much anticipated annual Unilever series of art commissions for the space.

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By Fritz Haeg on October 10, 2011 | art, London
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On October 9th, 2011, WHITE CUBICLE TOILET GALLERY…

Tom Dozol at White Cubicle Toilet Gallery

…a favorite art space in town which occupies the 1.40 x 1.40 square meter ladies bathroom of the great George & Dragon (the friendly East End where-everyone-knows-your-name sort of queer-arty hangout) founded and curated by Pablo Leon de la Barra featuring a history of exhibiting artists that would be the envy of any contemporary art museum, opened tonight with a ribbon cutting ceremony (with old friend, Jeremy Shaw aka Circlesquare djing and Michael Stipe making the rounds) to inaugurate the show by Thomas Dozol…

THOMAS DOZOL, I IS NOW
WHITE CUBICLE TOILET GALLERY is honoured to present an exhibition by Thomas Dozol. I IS NOW Dozol presents a series of new photographic work which explores the relationship between the body, sign language, abstract geometry and colour codes. For it, Dozol has created a whole alphabet of hand signs screen printed as black light posters. Writing with a non-letter alphabet, images become phrases which become haiku like texts, but which also refer to the silent languages of minorities and subcultures. The back light posters also remind us of propaganda and political posters of the seventies and of the aesthetics of lost utopias. For the exhibition Dozol transforms the White Cubicle into a glow in the dark installation.

THE WHITE CUBICLE TOILET GALLERY measures 1.40 by1.40 metres, is located within the Ladies Toilet of the George and Dragon, and works with no budget, staff or boundaries. White Cubicle presents a discerning programme of local and international manifestations as an antidote to London’s sometimes extremely commodified art scene. Past exhibitions have included the work of Deborah Castillo, Gregorio Magnani, Butt Magazine, Federico Herrero, Terence Koh, i-Cabin, Steven Gontarski, Pixis Fanzine/Princess Julia and Hanah, General Idea and avaf, Basso Magazin, Carl Hopgood, Giles Round, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Superm, (Brian Kenny and Slava Mogutin), Elkin Calderon, Wolfgang Tillmans, Calvin Holbrook/Hate Magazine, Husam el Odeh, Simon Popper, Fur, Dik Fagazine, Rick Castro/Abravanation, Jean Michel Wicker, Noki, Ellen Cantor,Karl Holmqvist, Julie Verhoeven, Aldo Chaparro, Esther Planas, Nikos Pantazopoulos, Luis Venegas, Twinklife, Rocky Alvarez, Benedetto Chirco, STH Magazine, Elmgreen & Dragset, Francesc Ruiz, Sico Carlier, Stefan Benchoam…

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By Fritz Haeg on October 9, 2011 | art, London
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On October 8th, 2011, LONDON LANDING…

landing over London

…this afternoon to Heathrow where I rush through customs, Heathrow Express, Paddington Station, the Bakerloo Tube line, Regent Park Station, the nearby apartment to drop off bags, (all in under 60 minutes) and finally to the Fitzroy Street gallery at Arup where I meet the installation crew and get right to work  preparing for the Thursday opening of Animal Estates London HQ: Urban Wildlife Client Services on Thursday (and then a Saturday talk at the Serpentine Garden Marathon.

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By Fritz Haeg on October 8, 2011 | London
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On September 22nd, 2011, ANNOUNCING ‘ANIMAL ESTATES LONDON HQ: URBAN WILDLIFE CLIENT SERVICES’…

poster # 1 announcing Animal Estates #8: London, England

…coming soon to Arup in London:

ANIMAL ESTATES 8.0: LONDON, ENGLAND
Animal Estates London HQ, Urban Wildlife Client Services
at Arup Phase 2, 8 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 4BJ
October 13th, 2011 – Jan 15th, 2012

OPEN CALL!
We are looking for…
- EXPERTS on each of the 11 animal clients, interested in collaborating and advising
- VOLUNTEERS to assist in assembling the archival presentation about the 11 species
- DONATIONS of books and other relevant printed material for the resource library
- PROPOSALS for the space: presentations, seminars, meetings, events, displays…
- STORIES of your experiences with urban wildlife in the city of London for publication

ANIMAL CLIENTS
Native London wildlife species to welcome back into the city, which would benefit from human constructions, interventions, plantings, hosting, and accommodations:
8.01: Bees (multiple species)
8.02: Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus)
8.03: Common Frog (Rana temporaria)
8.04: Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)
8.05: Bats (multiple species)
8.06: House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
8.07: Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)
8.08: Common Swift (Apus apus)
8.09: Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
8.10: Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
8.11: Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)

DESCRIPTION
Animal Estates London HQ: Urban Wildlife Client Services opens this autumn in Arup’s ground floor gallery space Phase 2 at 8 Fitzroy St, London. This temporary headquarters will provide a place for activists, architects, artists, city-dwellers, designers, engineers, homeowners, and planners to research, discuss, plan, develop, and present initiatives to accommodate native London ‘animal clients’. Projects may range from simple wood nest-boxes that any local resident could construct and strategically install at home, to broad master planning for urban wildlife corridors throughout the city. The space will feature a front reception desk staffed by a full time director with a team of interns, an open area for the evolving display of estate prototypes, work stations about each of the 11 selected native London species, a conference room for meetings and presentations, a resource library, and a place to consult with local urban wildlife experts.

EVENTS
Confirmed events to date include:
- October 13th: ‘Meet the Clients’ – an opening event in collaboration with the Architecture Foundation
- October 25th: ‘Insect City’ – an all day workshop organised by UCL Urban Laboratory and UCL Environment Institute.

CREDITS
Animal Estates is an on-going project by Fritz Haeg
Graphic design and installation in collaboration with Åbäke
Director of Animal Estates London HQ: Joanne Bristol
Exhibition build: Richard Roberts and Nick Westby

MORE INFORMATION
Contact Joanne Bristol, London Animal Estates HQ director, at: london(at)animalestates(dot)org

webpage

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By Fritz Haeg on September 22, 2011 | Animal Estates
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On September 9th, 2011, A MORNING VISIT TO THE LONDON EDIBLE ESTATE…

corn popping up from the beds of Edible Estate #4: London

…(which was commissioned by Tate Modern in 2007) before heading to the airport for a flight to Istanbul, was a happy diversion (situated at the corner of Webber and Lancaster in Southwark, just around the corner from where I am staying) where I discovered the garden going gang-busters (as my aunt Kay says) with towering sunflowers, laurel bay trees filling out, rosemary plants now a hedge, strawberries trailing everywhere, robust apple trees coming into their own, plus chives, sage, chard, raspberries, and corn stalks popping up making ears lookeing about ready to eat, which I saw a father point out to his young daughter as he was walking her to school down the street. (garden webpage)

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By Fritz Haeg on September 9, 2011 | Edible Estates
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On September 8th, 2011, URBAN WILDLIFE CLIENT SERVICES…

Arup headquarters reception, soon to be home to the Animal Estates London HQ

…is the subtitle of the upcoming London Animal Estates HQ project (which I am in town preparing for) coming to the world headquarters of to Arup (the massive global firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants, and technical specialists with 10,000 employees and 92 offices in 37 countries) as a new temporary public division of their operation to be housed in their ground floor gallery from October 13th through January 15th…and official announcement with more information will be coming soon.

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By Fritz Haeg on September 8, 2011 | Animal Estates
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On September 7th, 2011, RIDLEY’S FOOD FOR FOOD TEMPORARY DINING EXPERIENCE…

Ridley's scaffolding in place for opening night featuring latex curtains, and a single central tricked-out 2nd floor table whose central panel decends with pulleys to the lower level open air kitchen

…opened tonight in the middle of London’s Ridley Road Market in Dalston – which I visited with my London Animal Estates collaborator Benjamin Reichen (of the super design collective Åbäke) whose former students had masterminded the project – alas, we were to early to eat, but were at least able to see the structure, seating, kitchen, coming together for this very cool project…

Ridley’s, a temporary dining experience in Dalston, is a project by The Decorators and Atelier ChanChan. This group of designers-artists-architects have transformed an exposed yet derelict void in Ridley Road market, into a podium for outdoor exhibitionist eating.

For the month of September a two-storey structure will rise above the stalls, housing a new kind of market food initiative. Come and exchange market produce for a meal if you’re having lunch or bring £15 if you’re looking for dinner (includes your dinner and a £5 food shopping voucher for use at the market ).

A lineup of guest chefs will create daily menus from market produce only, whilst diners share a communal table high above the market. Meals prepared in the ground floor kitchen, the hub of exchange and production, will be raised by a mechanical table up to the guests on the first floor. This scenographic journey emphasises the vertical transformation of the raw food at market level to the cooked meals at the elevated podium above.

This temporary summer installation is a means of demonstrating the kind of activities that could be created to make the life of this market sustainable and is an opportunity to re-imagine the possibilities for the regeneration of the area. (website)

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By Fritz Haeg on September 7, 2011 | food
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On September 6th, 2011, A WELCOME LONDON GLOOM…

welcome lush rainy back garden at friend's Elephant & Castle flat

…is what our flight from Italy descended into this afternoon, arriving into London City airport from Brindisi, and after ten days of constant summer heat and sun with barely a cloud in my memory I have been looking forward to an autumnal rainy chill here (as I settle in for five days to prepare for the October 13th opening of the London Animal Estates HQ) but still feeling the glow of the Puglia sun on my skin as I walk the city streets hunting for my first meal, struggling to locate some decent produce to make a stew – and it is at this moment that I am snapped back to reality of large northern contemporary metropolis life, where real food is not a basic pleasure and right, freely/simply/cheaply available around you, but a rare luxury – though what really did me in, and made me really miss Italy on my first hours out, was a display of figs – which once eaten off the trees around you, at the very moment they are ripe, during the few weeks they are in season, as a part of your daily life and landscape…you are ruined for good and never look at a shipped-in crate of them the same, did a tear come to my eye there in that supermarket? yes, maybe it did.

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By Fritz Haeg on September 6, 2011 | London
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On June 10th, 2011, LONDON SOUTHBANK CENTRE ROOF GARDENS…

the new Southbank Centre roof garden at Queen Elizabeth Hall

…newly installed on top of Queen Elizabeth Hall, in partnership with the Eden Project in Cornwall, is what I am admiring out the window on this alternately warm sunny/cool rainy typical London day from a neighboring conference room where we are planning an upcoming 2012 project at the Hayward Gallery.

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By Fritz Haeg on June 10, 2011 | gardens
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On June 9th, 2011, EDIBLE ESTATE #4: LONDON…

Denise Withers, the force behind Edible Estate #4: London

…is what I am always most keen to visit whenever I find myself back in town, and this morning on my way to meetings at the Hayward Gallery I make my garden pilgrimage to the corner of Webber and Lancaster in Southwark to check on it’s current status, where I immediately find Denise Withers – the Brookwood Estate resident who has been the great nurturing, cultivating, and protecting force behind the continuing life of the project since it was first planted and commissioned by Tate Modern in Spring 2007 – who was out of work and suffering from depression at the time (having never previously gardened she is now proudly employed by the project partner Bankside Open Spaces Trust), is now a passionate gardener at the Edible Estate just below her balcony – currently featuring a mini-hothouse for starting seeds, an extensive composting system, a green roof over an existing shed that collects rainwater, and a collection of little fruit trees really starting to produce. (garden webpage)

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By Fritz Haeg on June 9, 2011 | gardens
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On June 8th, 2011, MICHAEL CLARK COMPANY…

Michael Clark at Tate Modern

…presenting their first public performance of new work in Tate Modern‘s Turbine Hall tonight was a lucky stroke for me, having just arrived in town this morning, and being such a super big Michael Clark fan (by way of his films with Charles Atlas - who did the lighting for tonight’s show, and who we had the pleasure of sharing late-night post-show drinks and felafel – especially ‘Hail the New Puritan 6‘ from 1985-86, but also the other editions like this and this) – and from the smart seating position at the far end of the hall we enjoyed a long view towards the distant vertical stripe industrial windows – reflected in the black stripes painted on the dance floor – on the custom made bleachers next to dear old NYC artist friends I happened upon – to watch the evening of new work, entitled th, to the tunes of David Bowie, and Kraftwerk, Pulp, featuring a corp de ballet of 48 non-professionals of all shapes, sizes, ages, and abilities clad in black terry bath towel togas, plus his own company of stunning movers with amazing bodies encased in geometric patterns of tight lycra graduating from black/white, to silver, to radiant red with snappy stripped sport coats for the finale, was an ideal mix of the pleasure from watching amazing dancers perform gorgeous sequences of precise movements across the stage together and alone AND the delight in seeing our 48 surrogates sharing the stage, in a way that we could all imagine sharing the stage, while performing simple mechanical synchronized movements in a grid, turning, running, laying on the ground…though my favorite sequences involved the company of 12 – each a dream to watch in their own way – occupying the stage like a meadow, where movements come and go, in unison, and then apart, close-up and in the deep background, fast and then slow, migrations and herds, alone and in a group – never sure if you were the only person who actually witnessed a particular moment, was that just for me?

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By Fritz Haeg on June 8, 2011 | dance
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On December 4th, 2010, THE MAYOR OF LONDON AND CAPITAL GROWTH…

Somerford and Shacklewell Estate (Hackney), winner of the Best Estate Garden

…announced a winning London housing estate community garden last month for the competiton inspired by Edible Estate Regional Prototype Garden #4: London, England, commissioned by Tate Modern in 2007; and with the 2012 Olympics coming up I also hope that my 2007 manifesto originally presented at the Turbine Hall on June 23rd, 2007, ‘Olympic Farming 2012,’ will pick up some steam too. (more info on the mayor’s Edible Estates competiton)

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By Fritz Haeg on December 4, 2010 | gardens
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On July 10th, 2010, MICHAEL CLARK, THE FALL, LEIGH BOWERY, CHARLES ATLAS…

…and one of my favorite pieces of choreography for the camera.

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By Fritz Haeg on July 10, 2010 | dance
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On June 19th, BISTROTHEQUE’S ROOFTOP “STUDIO DINING EAST”…

Bistrotheque's Studio East Dining Architecture by Carmody Groarke

…opened a few days ago on a rooftop overlooking the construction site of London’s Olympic Park…

Bistrotheque‘s Studio East Dining, 16 JUNE – 4 JULY 2010,
London’s most amazing rooftop dining experience; Bistrotheque opens a 3 week temporary dining room, and pavilion designed by Carmody Groarke, perched 35m atop Westfield Stratford City’s 1.9 million sq ft site, overlooking the Olympic Stadium and Zaha Hadid’s 2012 Aquatics Center. A fast build with a life span of just 3 weeks, weighing 70 tons, it is constructed from hired materials borrowed from the existing construction site, including: 2000 scaffolding boards, 3500 scaffolding poles, and reclaimed timber, used to create the walls and floors of the 800 square metre dining space. The cladding material which encases the roof, is a semi-translucent membrane, using industrial grade heat retractable polyethylene, all returned to the site afterwards and recycled without any waste.
www.studioeastdining.com

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By Fritz Haeg on June 19, 2010 | architecture, food
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On May 26th, 2010, LITTLE JOE: A MAGAZINE ABOUT QUEERS AND CINEMA, MOSTLY…

Little Joe Magazine No. 1

…“a new biannual publication looking at film from a different perspective. It is a direct move away from the traditional method of reviewing all current and future releases towards a more selective and eclectic focus on films that inspire alternative discourse.” …celebrates tonight (7pm) at London’s Bistrotheque (23-27 Wadeson Street) the release of issue No.1 – which includes a little essay of my own – a personal & queer perspective on the 1985 Merchant and Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster’s “A Room With a View” – plus contributions by: Cam Archer, Jack Barnes, Paul Burston, Rick Castro, Stuart Henderson, William E Jones, Hynam Kendall, Michael Linington, Feargus O’Sullivan, William Maltese, Yvan Martinez, Frederico Pellacin, Ryan Powell, John David Rhodes, Stuart Sandford, Joshua Trees.- (Little Joe website)

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By Fritz Haeg on May 26, 2010 | publications
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On May 14th, 2010, SIMON FUJIWARA…

Simon Fujiwara - photo by Carla Verea

…Berlin-based British friend, super intriguing young artist, in the band Asia Today (with b-friend Ingar Dragset), who recently finished writing a novel while in residence at L.A.’s MAK Center – is just announced as the winner of this years Cartier Award – kudos!

Frieze Art Fair is delighted to announce that the winner of The Cartier Award 2010 is the British/Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara, who is based in Berlin and Mexico City. His previous works have encompassed performance-style lectures, fictional writings and installations. The winning proposal was selected from over 500 applications.

At Frieze Art Fair 2010, sponsored for the seventh year by Deutsche Bank, Fujiwara plans to present a new site-specific work, Frozen; an installation based on the fictive premise that an ancient lost city has been discovered beneath the site of the fair.

The Cartier Award is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading art awards and forms an exciting and visible element of Cartier’s long-standing commitment to the commissioning and display of contemporary art. It allows an emerging artist based outside the UK to realise a major project at Frieze Art Fair as part of the critically acclaimed Frieze Projects programme, this year curated by Sarah McCrory.

The award provides production costs of up to 10,000 GBP, an artist’s fee of 1,000 GBP and a three-month residency at Gasworks, an arts organization in South London which houses 12 artists’ studios. The award is open to non-UK-based artists within five years of graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree, or under 30 years of age.

Simon Fujiwara studied Architecture at Cambridge University and Fine Art at Städelschule Hochschule für Bildende Künst in Frankfurt am Main. Selected shows and projects from 2010 include Manifesta 8, Murcia; 29th São Paulo Biennial; Bringing Up Knowledge, MUSAC, Leon; Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco; 100 Years, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf. Forthcoming shows include a week-long performance project for Performa 11, New York, curated by Jens Hoffmann, and a solo exhibition at TATE, St.Ives.

Frieze Art Fair takes place from 14-17 October 2010 in Regent’s Park, London.

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By Fritz Haeg on May 14, 2010 | art
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