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new socio-political + experimental videos now uploaded to TheSmack77 channel. get in touch if you have anything to say with possible video/film/music works: ew artist experimental videos uploaded to TheSmack77 channel:…
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FTSE/Pixel-Breakdown -take1edit.Simon Mack 2011

capiltalism in breakdown, unstable, Lehmann Brothers, Eurozone, FTSE, Stocks+ shares, wealth re-distribution, inequlaity,unstable, global market meltdown fro...
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new experimetnal video works added to TheSmack77 channel . talented artists plse apply if you woul dlike to be included or for…
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Website
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSmack77?feature=watch#p/a/u/1/TRYSM3...
College / University
UNL / Metropolitan - London
Program
BSc Hons
Graduation
June 6, 2002
Member type
Artist, Curator, Producer
If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
Conceptual, Installation, Photography, Video
I am...
a socially concerned artist,photographer + curator who has lived/exhibited in Lpl and Ldn over the last 10 years having exhibited in the UK and Internationally since 2000 to date.

Current Projects 2011/12:
1) "Norm/No-madic Lives" - Melbourne,Liverpool,London,LA,Berlin : TBC
2) "The Garden of Eden" - social photo series as part of LOOK11 International Photo festival, Liverpool :
http://www.look2011.co.uk/gallery/the-garden-of-eden/
3) ArtDriveJapan :online interactive art bid project in aid of disaster in Japan :http://www.artdrivejapan.com/
4) "Little Benefits" group show - Cultivate gallery, vyner st, London - Oct 2011
5) "Easy Objects"- group exhibtion, Dirty Linen gallery, Queensland,Australia
- Dec 2011
6) TheSmack77 channel on YouTube - visual experiments in short film/art video + music. solo artist + collaborative projects channel

former Curator of the Lauries Centre - Birkenhead, nr.Liverpool 2009-2010:
evolving multimedia exhibtion:"Zero BLank Eye Candy" - featuring artists from the UK , Japan , Germany, Greece, France etc as part of Liverpool Independents Biennial sept- nov 2010.

email: simonmack77@gmail.com
www.artreview.com/profile/simonmack
http://www.look2011.co.uk/gallery/the-garden-of-eden/
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSmack77?feature=mhee
http://www.artdrivejapan.com/
http://www.independentsbiennial.org/2010events/1221-zero-blank-eye-...
http://www.artinliverpool.com/?s=simon+mack
www.myspace.com/artnut77

CV :
Formal training :BSc in Urban/Social Policy, but largely self-taught in art.
Lives: London (N16) : 1996-2004
Returned to Merseyside: 2004 to 2011
Statement:
Central Themes: society + contemporary life : excesses of capitalism ,media + social control, consumerism, belief systems + their disjuntions , the struggle for freedom and autonomy. people’s perceptions of power + its mechanisms. Formative influences: contemporary design/advertising, FTSE, designers republic, mtv,Erich Fromm, Soviet Suprematism, J.M.W.Turner, Kruger

the first decade- solo artist show 2010 -
"0-10: Primarni Nation": 2-16 July at The Gallery, stanhope st.,Lpl (www.thegalleryliverpool.co.uk)

Exhibtions -2000 to date:

Globe café gallery,Shoreditch,London 2000
View Gallery, Liverpool 2000
Hanover Gallery, Liverpool(Curator/artist-joint exhibition 2001
View Gallery, Liverpool 2001
Stringray café gallery, London N1 2001
Jump Ship Rat group show, Liverpool 2002
Liverpool Biennial (Independent group show):2002
Islington Arts Factory, London
(curator + artist of Int'l group show):2003
Public Notice live events - music/film projection series - Liverpool 2004/5
Freestyle group show, TheEggspace gallery,Lpl 2005
First solo exhibition : The Lauries Centre, Birkenhead, Merseyside 2007
Novas Gallery, summer show, Camden, London 2007
Dot Art , Liverpool (ongoing exhibiting artist) 2007 + 2008
Eggspace gallery,Liverpool 2008
Lpl IndependentsBiennial / dot-art warehouse exhition 2008
The Lauries Centre,Birkenhead :"[this was-now]" solo exhibtion March/April 2009
Bereznitsky Galerie/museum man, Berlin :"reliquaries of empires dust" April 2009
LCDP/dot-art public art Commission,Liverpool - July 2009
The Foundry, London "post-financial/meltdown/logo/ownership/reversal" exhibition Aug/Sep 2009
Tee Haus Project artshow(w/St.+St.), Berlin - November 2009
Zero BLank Eye Candy (as Curator/artist) at the Lauries Centre, Birkenhead : year long evolving exhibition - and as part of Liverpool Independents Biennial 2010
Solo artshow : 0-10: Primarni Nation": 2-16 July at The Gallery, stanhope st.,Lpl
(ten year solo retrospective)
Video work showing :If Only performance night-the Bluecoat, Liverpool - Oct 2010
"Garden of Eden" series: Look11 Liverpool Festival of Photography - April-2011
work shown/bid as part of ArtDrive Japan - May 2011 :http://www.artdrivejapan.com/
About my artwork
conceptual/political/collaborative/coded/minimal/maximal/image+object/perceptual + visual reconfiguration
Artists I like
malevich,turner,kruger,tillmans,schwitters,tarkovsky,maholy-nagy, halley,rehberger,reyle,hatoum,rodchenko,june paik,eggleston etc
Interests
art, society, power + politics, music, travel, people: their motives+beliefs
What exhibitions are good at the moment?
Richter at the Serpentine Ldn -for its sheer cheek (aug'09), NOT the Hirst paintings at the Wallace collection (nov'09), Zero BLank Eye Candy in 2010 at the Lauries Centre,Merseyside. Bill Viola at Blaine gallery, Ldn 2011,Taryn Simon atTate Modern - Oct 2011
Centre of the artworld:
my studio, online, nowhere and everywhere
instead of talking about it - just get out there and DO it, but be brilliant in doing it....

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"NORM/No-madic Lives": pan-global narratives - multi- City travelling Exhibition :2012

 

 Project - "NORM/NO-madic Lives"

travelling art exhibition for multi-city exhibition + online channel 2012/2013:…

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Posted on January 10, 2012 at 8:30pm

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solo exhibition : "0.10:Primarni Nation",Liverpool 2-16 july 2010





solo exhibition : “0-10 : Primarni…

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Posted on June 27, 2010 at 8:00am

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"Zero BLank Eye Candy" exhibition 2010 - Lauries Centre UK

[Zero/Blank/Eye Candy] -/£$//|--



A n o n g o i n g A r t E x h i b i t i o n b y –

s i m o n m a c k

+ invited artists

from the : UK, Japan Philippines+ Germany



@ the Lauries Centre : 17 Jan 2010 until further notice..



[Blank – absence of progressive ideology, nothing to say, nothing to believe in, secular consumerism

Zero – start afresh, from… Continue

Posted on March 3, 2010 at 3:30pm

simon mack

back in Berlin - new group artshow :Nov 09

i am delighted to be part of a select group artshow during NOV 09 at :



Rigaer 105 e.V

Friedrichshain

RigerstraSSEE 101

BERLIN

http://rigaer-105.blogspot.com



other exhibiting artist TBC : but including Stephan Halter + Stephanie Gerner. many thks for the return favour guys !



i will have a new work entitled "FREIHEIT" (Freedom/Delete--) questioning our perceptions to real or our preconceived illusions of our freedom ,are we free ?, do we decide… Continue

Posted on October 27, 2009 at 11:05pm

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London exhibition at the Foundry, Hoxton :26 aug -6 sept

exhibiting at the Foundry, hoxton 26 aug-6 sept 09

now that i've finished the projects in Berlin and Liverpool, all are very welcome to meet me , visit and give me feedback on my work to be exhibited at the Foundry - the great alternative art venue in hoxton (just 200 yds from Old st tube). oh and i'll be back dj g there for the opne nigh tonthe 26th also. with some eclectic tunes+beats + possibly with sax player. but thats TBC.



www.foundry.tv



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Posted on August 13, 2009 at 9:32am

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Berlin, Liverpool ,London - artshows + projects in 2009

>> artshows / projects - 2009/b>/b>





1) solo artshow - "this-{ was now}-" @ the Lauries Centre , birkenhead nr.Liverpool



march -may 09





2) Berlin - may 2009 :part of "reliquaries of empires dust" group show @Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin



curated by Adam Nankervis (www.museumman.org)





3) Liverpool public art commission - june 09



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Posted on June 2, 2009 at 12:46pm

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At 9:20pm on October 12, 2011, Mirsafi AndikolaeiMirsafi Andikolaei said…

Hi dear friend

Thanks for your adding .

At 12:05pm on August 23, 2011, Lorna CraneLorna Crane said…

I have a LIverpool and Berlin connection too

 

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At 2:56am on August 12, 2011, Khairy HirzallaKhairy Hirzalla said…

Hello Simon, Thank you for comment, 

Greeting from Amman

Khairy

At 5:53pm on March 14, 2011, International ArtExpoInternational ArtExpo said…

Call for Artists: Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities  –  Croatia / Greece

Deadline: March 28, 2011

International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short.films to include in the next 2011 Exhibitions.

http://www.lucacurci.com/artexpo/call-for-artist-croatia-greece.htm

Participation open to: professional artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.


Luca Curci
Director

At 6:18pm on January 20, 2011, gingerliugingerliu said…
Contact me here - gingerliu@yahoo.com
At 6:17pm on January 20, 2011, gingerliugingerliu said…

Hi Simon,

I'm Ginger. Liu is my last name.

I know DRKRM. They are one of my clients and I've exhibited my work there.

How are you on for Wednesday in Liverpool for a meet. I have to be at an exhibition with my sister at 6 pm. Any time late afternoon would be good. No worries if you can't.

 

Cheers,

ginger

At 7:25pm on January 12, 2011, gingerliugingerliu said…

Hi Simon,

 

Thanks for your email.

I'm all for putting in the work if you need me. I see at experience. I live in LA and I'm spending time in the UK to do a little work but mostly to be with family and intend to be back for long periods of time every year -preferably he summer. :) I'm hoping to be back in LA in the next few months but will be back in the UK again this year. I want to eventually start up my own gallery in LA and create more a photography scene there in the future years. I promote photo galleries there and in London as well as exhibit my own work. Your project sound big and exciting. Love to chat more in Liverpool soon.

 

Best,

Ginger

At 8:37am on January 5, 2011, JungHwan SeoJungHwan Seo said…

Hi Thatnks for inviting me. your work is so awesome, wonderful. something different with another works. ^^

 

-Seo-

At 11:10pm on January 4, 2011, RARE GalleryRARE Gallery said…

Hi Simon,

    Let us know what you had in mind for a collaborative show and which artists you were interested in.  Thanks for writing.

 

 

Gabe Strader-Brown

RARE Gallery

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