Solo Exhibition
11th Jul - 19th Sep 09
Private View: 13th Jul 12.30-1.30pm
This summer KUBE becomes another world - a fantasy world of robots, Lego, Megablocks, 1980’s computer games and a healthy slice of 80’s pop. – The Summer exhibition RETRO ROBOT has arrived. Enter the world of RETRO ROBOT and you might just be transported ‘scooby-doo’ style back to your childhood - to world of play, neon colour, New Order and Eurhythmics on the radio, Mr. T and the A team on the telly and frustrating Pac Man and Tetris computer games.
Artist James Johnson Perkins creates art from the ‘stuff’ of childhood and pop culture taking robots and 80’s music and mashing them together with the glue of childhood memories. Expect to encounter hundreds of Lego and Megablock robots.
During the preview event on the 13th July, There will be a record breaking attempt for the most people doing robotics at the same time, whilst James Johnson-Perkins will DJ with a selection of 80's tunes. For more information contact the gallery.
T: +44 (0)1202 205200
E: info@KUBEpoole.org.uk
Kube Gallery, Poole
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Irrepressible Movement
New Work from Sarah Foque & James Johnson-Perkins
Cecil Sharp House
Camden
London
10th Jul - 31st Aug
Preview, 9th July, 6pm
This exhibition showcases colourful new work from Sarah Foque & James Johnson-Perkins. Both artists' work is site specific and utilises intense colours in its execution. Sarah Foque creates installations with straight bands of colour, responding to a site's history and people's movement through it. James Johnson-Perkins uses references to popular culture of the 1980s to create works of play and nostalgia. His installation at Cecil Sharp House will span all four storeys of the building through the centre of the staircase, whilst Sarah Foque's multi-coloured lines will be immediately viewable from the main entrance.
Sarah Foqué is an artist/landscape architect. Her practice focuses on the mapping and exploration of space and its boundaries. She uses tape or occasionally other media to visualise her understanding of the context she works in. The coloured lines relate to the way people use the space without loosing a balanced composition. With this approach the artist aims to achieve the same aesthetics and sense of reality like maps. The directness and political impact of placing a line with tape within a space is something this artist and landscape architect thrives to experiment with.
Sarah Foqué Blog LINK
Greetings Programs...
Tron Theatre
63 Trongate,
Glasgow,
G1 5HB
James Johnson-Perkins & Conor Lawless
29th June - 25th July
Preview, Sun 28th June 6-8pm
This is the 4th collaborative exhibition between Newcastle based contemporary artist James Johnson Perkins and Bio-Mathematician/ artist Dr Conor Lawless. ‘Greetings, Programs!’ sees the duo create works produced by playing the classic 'light cycles' game inspired by the 1980's film Tron. This is a collection of 490 of these results and are exhibited in a giant grid system withing a 3D 'light cyles' tape installation.
In the film 'Tron', Light cycles are fictional vehicles designed by Syd Mead for the simulated world of the Tron universe. These futuristic two-wheeled vehicles resemble motocycles and create walls of coloured light. The vehicles were primarily used in a competition between humanoid computer programs, similar to an old computer game sometimes known as "Surround" or "Dominos". Players are in constant motion on a playfield, creating a wall of light behind them as they move. If players hit a wall, they are out of the game; the last player in the game wins.
Saturday 20 June - Saturday 1 Aug
Reception, Saturday 20th Jun, 2-4pm
Northern Stage
Barras Bridge
Newcastle
An exhibition of Mega Blok paintings by James Johnson-Perkins, The form of these paintings draw heavily on the modernist presidents and principles of Structuralism and Minimalism, sharing links in style to the works of: Kandinski, Malevich and Mondrian. Mega bloks are large building blocks which come a range of beautiful primary plastic colours.
For the reception event only the artist will also be building a Den-Like structure in the space out of: Tables Chairs, Sheets and Pegs.
James Johnson-Perkins is known for his artworks inspired by 80's nostalgia, where he often uses Lego, 80s TV programmes and computer games as his inspiration.
Teaching Out of the Box - KS3 Maths: Out of the Classroom into the Gallery
Synopsis
Two maths teachers from Framwellgate School in Durham are challenged to produce a lesson that combines both maths and art.
Elaine Fisher and Rosslyn Taylor are taken to Newcastle's Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, where they're met by artist James Johnson-Perkins. As stimulus, they investigate the four unique bridge designs on the Tyne, and then create a lesson combining algebra and art, challenging their Year 8 students to fill a gallery in the Baltic with 3D structures.
Later, they meet maths guru Steve Humble, and the Discovery Museum curator, Andy Goldwater, who provide them with objects to help inspire their lesson.
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James Johnson-Perkins is short listed for the Can Serrat International Residency Award - Jun 09
Can Serrat is an artist Organisation founded in 1988 situated at the foot of Montserrat, Spain.
James Johnson-Perkins facilitated a Mega May Pole workshop at Cecil Sharp House (Camden, London) on May 10th 2009.
The may pole which stood temporarilly that evening (pictures above) will form part of a mega blok tower which will be displayed at a forthcoming exhibiton by James Johnson-Perkins and Sarah Foque which will begin on the 9th July.
Cecil Sharp house is the home of the The English Folk Dance and Song Society. This was formed in 1932 by the merger of two organisations, the Folk-Song Society and the English Folk Dance Society formed by Cecil Sharp in 1911. The English Folk Dance Society was founded in 1911 by Cecil Sharp. The purpose of the EFDS was to preserve and promote English folk dances in their traditional forms.
EFDSS LINK
Meteoric Toy, Solo Show, DLI Museum Gallery, Durham, UK, Mar-Apr 09
Meteoric Toy
DLI Museum Gallery
28th Mar - 3rd May 09
Preview, Friday 27th March 6-8pm
Meteoric Toy is the most comprehensive and ambitious installation of James Johnson-Perkins’ work to date, filling all three exhibition spaces in the gallery. His work offers a nostalgic gaze at western popular culture, exploring subject matter related to adolescent experiences, including Lego models and 1980’s computer games and TV programs.
His work has a unique and bold style that is beginning to establish his importance in the UK. He has exhibited in major art spaces in the USA, Russia, Japan, Germany, Spain, Romania, Lithuania and the UK. Including the The IMAC Theatre, New York, USA, National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow, Russia, Toyota Museum of Modern Art, Japan, Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Glasgow and The Royal College of Art, London.
James Lowther, Curator DLIDurham Times, Article, Monday 30th, Mar 09
COMPUTER games and TV shows from the Eighties are at the heart of a quirky exhibition that opened at the weekend.
Meteoric Toy offers visitors a nostalgic look at popular culture and the chance to relive thier childhood. The exhibition is at the Durham Light Infantry Museum and Durham Art Gallery, in Aykley Heads, Durham, until May 4.
Among the displays are Lego features and exhibition creator James Johnson-Perkins is inviting visitors to help him build a giant Lego landscape.
From Monday to Friday, April 13 to 17, visitors can take part in workshops with the artist, at 10.30am and 1.30pm daily.
Picture: Sue and Bryan Gregg view figures in Meteoric Toy, an exhibition by artist James Johnson-Perkins at the DLI Museum, in Durham City .
The Cluny Gallery, Solo Show, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK - Mar /Apr 09
I thought I said that...
James Johnson-Perkins
2nd March - 16th April 2009
PV 1st March, 5-7pm
The Cluny Gallery
James Johnson-Perkins is known for his artworks inspired by 80's nostalgia, where he often uses Lego, 80s TV programmes and computer games as his inspiration. I thought I said that is a departure from this work, and a rather more personal exhibition featuring new and never before seen drawings. . This collection of work allows the viewer to engage with Johnson-Perkins' playful and funny world.
The Isolationist, Preview, Feb 08
Reminiscing about childhood is a practice routinely explored by those after a whimsical slice of the past, but it’s something that’s not regularly investigated in art. By offering a nostalgic and unapologetically adolescent gaze at pop culture through artworks based around Lego models and 1980s computer games, Newcastle’s James Johnson-Perkins has single-handedly set out to challenge that.
His latest collection, I Thought I Said That, opens on Monday and will run until mid-April at The Cluny Gallery. Interestingly, this new work is something of a departure for the artist. More personal than his previous pieces, the show features previously unseen drawings depicting Johnson-Perkins as a cartoon character accompanied by poignant observations set in speech bubbles. At the launch this Sunday Johnson-Perkins promises to deliver his own live soundtrack to the works, in a bid, we suspect, to personally entice us in to his playful and deeply introspective world.
Isolationist is an independent Newcastle-centric web publication providing information on arts-related news and events around town.
Emily Harvey Foundation Residency - 2010
James Johnson-Perkins has been accepted on the Emily Harvey foundation residency program in Venice, Italy in 2010.
The Emily Harvey Foundation offers residencies in Venice, Italy, for artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, videographers, choreographers, dancers, musicians, curators, arts administrators, architects, and other creative thinkers in mid to late career who are engaged in the project of change, and who work the leading edges of their disciplines.
This residency has close links with the FLUXUS art movement and has hosted many important artists including: A-Yo, Alison Knowles and Geoff Hendricks.
Emily Harvey Foundation LINK
Supersweet magazine features James Johnson-Perkins - Feb 09
Supersweet magazine features James Johnson-Perkins work online for the art section, 'artists: tipped for the top'
Not long before Louis XVI was beheaded, some French guy said ‘A child is the father of a man.’ Well, we cannot be so sure what he meant exactly but nobody would deny that one’s life is influenced by one’s childhood. This is rather obvious if you are loitering in any of James Johnson-Perkins’ exhibitions. What has Johnson-Perkins been showcasing around the globe? Troops of gigantic totemic Lego men, Lego plaques with retro statements and animations using 8 bit computer graphics and modernist geometric shapes.
All are the colourful reconstruction of Lego robots, computer graphics and games from the 80’s. Et, voila, a strong sense of nostalgia! Based in Newcastle, Johnson-Perkins is, indeed, a conceptual artist and his works find life in multiple forms—Lego sculpture, two-dimensioned graphic mosaic, graphic animations, etc. Whatever it is, it’s a way of looking back at the pop culture, the thing that tremendously informs his artistic creation. The result? Art that is playful and unique and bring—tragic as it may sound—some of us back to when we were young.
Supersweet Magazine
SUPERSWEET LINK
Building with colour - Inaugural exhibition, Gallery North, Northumbria University, UK - Jan 09
Thursday 15th January - Friday 27th February
Preview Wednesday 14th January 6-8pm
Building with Colour
James Hugonin, Sean Scully, Duncan Newton, Sian Bowen, Helen Baker, Tuesday Nesbitt, Claire Morgan, James Johnson-Perkins
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Gallery North's inaugural exhibition, Building with Colour (January 16 – February 27), profiles a host of self-described colourists ranging from the nationally-recognised Northumbria graduate Claire Morgan, whose Great North Run commission was installed at Newcastle's Laing Art Gallery, to the likes of James Hugonin and Duncan Newton.
Curated by Gallery Director Helen Baker, the exhibition seeks to thoroughly explore the way in which colour informs the construction of paintings in various innovative ways. Featured artist James Johnson-Perkins, for example, is showcasing Lego paintings inspired by Sean Scully, who will also have a work on display.
The Crack Magazine, Jan 09
Pixel Talk, Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, UK
6th Jan - 1st Feb (solo show)
Pixel talk is an exhibition, selected from an ongoing series of works by Johnson-Perkins, where he creates text walls using Lego and mega blok plaques with retro or site specific statements. As part of the U-hang series of exhibitions at Art Gene.
Art Gene is a leading independent International Research Facility and Agency engaging associate artists and architects in design led regeneration. Art Gene's research remit extends across its program of residencies, exhibitions, symposiums and projects focusing on the role(s) and engagement of our associates in the regeneration of the social, natural and built environment.
13th November - 20th December 2008
“I spent my whole youth building imaginary universes with children’s building blocks”. James Johnson-Perkins
James Johnson-Perkins (born Dover, 1972) has tirelessly explored the media of children toys and produced a remarkably varied body of work, including playfully digitalized images, nostalgic computer graphics prints, gestural and chromatic abstractions and chart grid model. In November EXHIBIT at Golden Lane Estate presents “50 Robots”, a major solo show by British artist James Johnson-Perkins comprising of three new bodies of works that are sure to thrill.
On the ground gallery space, Johnson-Perkins will display 50 new pieces of robot sculptures and furniture especially developed for EXHIBIT. These are composed by Megablock’s 2,800 construction bricks. For the basement installation, he has created two video projections using 8-bit computer graphics that beautifully explore the binary information shaped by animated geometric shapes. Alongside the video, akin to a three dimensional structuralism painting, is the third collection of work made up of a series of new paintings and megablock structures which, coincidently share the vision of Sarah Sze and Malevich, are essentially exploring spatial dynamics, colour relationship and geometry.
“50 Robots” is a continuation of Johnson-Perkins’ sculptural project developed since 2002. A close inspection on Johnson-Perkin’s megablock chart grid structure reveals the proximity and representation of the Swiss artist Paul Klee, especially with his work “Ancient Sound. Abstract on Black” (1925), which is characterized by “a rhythmic structure of squares and rectangles, assembled in a single musical movement in accordance with some visible law’ (Grohmann, W. 1967, p.102). Additionally Johnson-Perkins’ colorful megablock structures with these bright chromatic geometry adeptly arranged in a grid formation has created a remarkably stunning sheet of kaleidoscopic colour that transcends his favorite 80’s music into a visible form.
Johnson-Perkins’s oeuvre can be described as a nostalgia trip. His robots are in different sizes, colors and characters, which have powerful relationships between them. This new body of work concurs with the 1960’s Warhol’s Campbell Soup Cans presentation but in addition Johnson-Perkins creates the attraction and curiosity of involving the viewer to discover the particularity amongst individual robot and take us on a journey that invites the audience to have a direct dialogue with different aspect of the artist’s psyche.
Exhibit Gallery
EXHIBIT is a Design Gallery at the renowned Golden Lane Estate in the Barbican area of London. The highly regarded 1950’s modernist architecture of the estate provides a living context for the work of the Gallery and direct dialogue between public interest and the modernism architecture through the transparent shop front of the gallery.
Exhibit Gallery Link
James Johnson-Perkins - Don't You Want Me? - Online Solo Exhibition - The Digital Arts Gallery - Sep 08
The Digital Arts Gallery
8th September - 5th October 2008
JAMES JOHNSON-PERKINS DON'T YOU WANT ME?
Johnson-Perkins' artwork reflects a retrospective and nostalgic gaze at pop culture, exploring iconic imagery and play. Recently he has used materials and subject matter which have a resonance with adolescent experiences such as Lego, 80's computer graphics, 80's TV programmes and pop music.
The digital arts gallery is an independent web-based gallery showcasing the work of leading contemporary artists. The gallery offers a virtual venue providing an informative and challenging dialogue between artist, artwork and a worldwide audience. It provides artists with a production support structure through solo exhibitions, virtual artist residencies, sale of artwork editions and web-site-specific artwork commissions from emerging and established artists.
For further information please contact
THE DIGITAL ARTS GALLERY
info@digitalartsgallery.co.uk
The Digital Arts Gallery Link
Underground Urban Art - The Foundry - London UK - Aug 08
The Foundry Gallery
86 Great Eastern Street
London
Old Street Tube (Exit 3)
www.foundry.tv
29th August 2008 - 7th September 2008
Preview: 28th August 2008
Saltburn Gallery - Artist Talk - Aug 08
Artist Talk
7th August 2008
7-9pm
Saltburn Gallery
30-32 Marske Road
Saltburn-by-the-Sea
UK
For this talk he will discussing: his work, recent exhibitions, exhibiting internationally and the use of different publicity strategies.
Studio Interview by David Float and Claudio Pascale from The Music Film Broth - Jul 08
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Robot Dreams Solo Show by James Johnson-Perkins
3rd July - 26th July 2008
Private view, 27th June, 2008
Red Gallery
19 Osbourne St
Hull
UK
James Johnson-Perkins is one of the UK’s most exciting contemporary artists. His brightly coloured drawings, sculptures and videos define an original and highly individual relationship to western popular culture and childhood experience.
This exhibition will show you rare glimpses into the mind of a male toy robot. How he dances, some of his intimate thoughts and how it looks for him when he watches his favourite episode of ‘Knight Rider’. It will also include an exceptional portrait of him done by his artist friend.
Red Gallery
Since RED opened in 1997 it has provided Hull with an independent exhibition space and 'laboratory' for contemporary art. RED is a non-profit making initiative and is one of the best artist run galleries in the country.
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15, Solo show & film preview, The star and shadow cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK , May 08
15
James Johnson-Perkins
The Star and Shadow Cinema
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Sunday 11th May 2008
6-8 pm
An exhibition of 15 Robots, 15 Drawings and 15 (80's) singles
8 pm
15, Preview of new experimental feature length documentary.
To see the exhibition will have to pay a £1 Membership fee
www.starandshadow.org.uk
CHRONICLE ARTICLE LINK
METRO ARTICLE LINK
May 09, 2008
Building on the past
by Andrew Fenwick
Reminiscing about childhood is a practice routinely explored by those after a whimsical slice of the past, but it's something not regularly investigated in art. Newcastle-based conceptual artist James Johnson-Perkins is about to change that.
Offering a nostalgic gaze at pop culture, Waygood gallery's artist-in-residence’s new exhibition looks at subject matter related to his adolescent experiences, including Lego models and 1980s computer games and TV programmes.
His debut film, 15, comprises a montage of footage of his life, with 15 seconds filmed every single day throughout 2007. The documentary offers a candid portrait of Johnson-Perkins, reflecting his philosophies on life and art, as well as his personal highs and lows. On a more practical level, it explores how artists' creations are inspired by their environment.
The exhibition will run at Star And Shadow Cinema until May 21, and also features an army of totemic Lego men, scrolling message boards showing jokes and an array of animations using 8-bit computer graphics.
At Sunday’s launch, meanwhile, Johnson-Perkins will spin his favourite 1980s singles wearing an oversized Lego mask. Perhaps childhood memories are worth more than a fleeting look after all?
How does it feel? Solo show, Nospace Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, May 08
How does it feel? James Johnson-Perkins
15th May - 15th June, 2008
Private view: 15th May 2008, 7-10pm
Nospace Gallery
Bangkok
Thailand
This is James Johnson-Perkins' first solo show outside of the UK.
NOSPACE LINK
Article in BK magazine LINK (Thailand largest english magazine)
Illuminators, Russia, April-July 2008
James Johnson-Perkins & Conor Lawless
Illuminators international group exhibition
Yekaterinburg Koltsovo airport
Russia
11th April - 11th to July 2008
Fishmarket Gallery - Play/Pause - May 08
Films by James Johnson-Perkins
Play - Pause, Fishmarket Gallery
Bradshaw Street, Northampton
Saturday 10th May 2008
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed, Sensoria festival, Sheffield & CCA, Glasgow - Apr-Jul 08
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed
Featuring James Johnson-Perkins & Mat Cowan
Sensoria Festival, Sheffield, UK
Opening: Friday 4 April 2008, 6-8pm
Exhibition: 4 – 18 April 2008
The Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow
21 June - 26 July 2008
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed starts its UK tour at Sensoria in Sheffield, a new festival fusing music and film.
The exhibition brings together the work of eighty-four leading artists and musicians, who were each invited to make a visual artwork in response to one track from the groundbreaking music release the Anthology of American Folk Music. The Anthology was edited by seminal New York artist, musicologist and experimental filmmaker Harry Smith, and first published by Folkways in 1952. It is considered to be one of the most important collections of information in modern society, creating a folk canon and contributing to numerous folk revival movements.
This exhibition creates a new visual collection of the Anthology, as seen through the eyes of contemporary visual artists and musicians. The exhibition includes artists from the US, Europe and Japan, reflecting a diverse and exciting range of practice including: visual art, outsider art, comic book, design, craft and illustration.
Exhibition curated by Rebecca Shatwell.
The artists are:
Dave Allen, Jonathan Allen, Diane Barcelowsky, Marcia Bassett, Eric Beltz, Hisham Bharoocha, Jesse Bransford, Vashti Bunyan, Jelle Crama, Jaron Childs, Rob Churm, Marcus Coates, Karen Constance, Christian Cummings, Dearraindrop, Arrington di Dionyso, Graham Dolphin, Bill Drummond, Jorn Ebner, Peter J.Evans, Yamataka EYE, Jad Fair, Feathers - Meara O'Reilly, Kyle Tomzo, Shayna Kipping, Kyle Field, Alec Finlay, Devin Flynn, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Luke Fowler, Chris Graham, Susie Green, Doug Harvey, Rama Hoffpauir, Dan Howard-Birt, Zoe Irvine, Rich Jacobs, James Johnson-Perkins and Mat Cowan, Juneau Projects, Seth Kelly, Jeffrey Lewis, Linder, Derek Lodge, Lone Twin, Robert AA Lowe, Ant Macari, The Matinee Orchestra, Maya Miller, Paul D.Miller aka DJ Spooky, Gean Moreno, Heather Leigh Murray, Michael Nyman, Dylan Nyoukis, John Olson, John Orth, Paper Rad, Mike Paré, Plastic Crimewave, Dave Portner, Devin Powers, Adam Putnam, The Rebel, Ginny Reed, Clare E.Rojas, Chris Rollen, Arik Roper, Giles Round, Royal Art Lodge, Mathew Sawyer, David Sherry, Brooke Sietinsons, Ross Sinclair, Andre Stitt, Philip Taaffe, Vernon & Burns, Daryl Waller, Flora Whiteley, Michael Wilson, Simon Woolham, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, C. Spencer Yeh, Yokoland, :zoviet*france:
CCA LINK
Hal 9000, Urban Identity Event, New York , USA, Mar 08
Hal 9000
James Johnson-Perkins
30th March 2008
Urban Identity - New York
Video Art & Architecture event
Monkey Town - 58 N 3rd St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
Many will recall the grandiose prophesies of the early 1980s about the "telematic city" and from then the recurrent rumors, fed by numerous conventions, articles, interviews and so forth regarding the "cabled city" the "telematic city" and related issues. And if you add to that the concept of the computerized home, home-based jobs from which, in combination, said the prophets, would have emerged an abstract city suffused by the glow and hum of personal computers, but devoid of energy, in which the only problem would have been the alienation of citizens separated one from the other by the cold video grids and plasma screens. These new technologies can ameliorate the sense of depersonalization because they are deconstructing our ideas of social behaviors.
Luca Curci
art art art magazine, James Johnson-Perkins - Baltic Article, Mar 08,
James Johnson-Perkins writing about Baltic, first published in Pnemonia Magazine.
Edited version in new edition of 'art art art' magazine.
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James Johnson-Perkins - Selected Artist - 6th Edition of Fefe Magazine - Rome, Italy 08
FEFÈ
Under the acronym FEFÈ, a group of Italian professionals has created an international magazine. In each issue 25 “free entry” guests and one child are invited to enter into the creative process of the magazine itself, interpreting the leading theme of the magazine.
The originality of the artworks and the attentive cultural research of the guests make FEFÈ an essential instrument to update on the latest visual art’s phenomena and talents.
"Imagine a sort of diary made only of images, intuitions, flashes. a true diary doesn't tell events, but moods. imagine a diary made of glimpses into a world created by all those who look from the south of any north".
Riccardo Mannelli
FEFE LINK
The originality of the artworks and the attentive cultural research of the guests make FEFÈ an essential instrument to update on the latest visual art’s phenomena and talents.
"Imagine a sort of diary made only of images, intuitions, flashes. a true diary doesn't tell events, but moods. imagine a diary made of glimpses into a world created by all those who look from the south of any north".
Riccardo Mannelli
FEFE LINK
Hal 9000 James Johnson-Perkins
Liquid Room - Video Art & Architecture
National Center for Contemporary a
Arts (NCCA), Moscow, Russia
This event is organised by ART EXPO. ART EXPO is an international organisation specialising in new media. Using new technologies to globalize the language of art and to connect the conceptual points of contact with artists.
Play
Solo Show
Fermoy Gallery
King's Lynn
10th November - 21st December 2007
James Johnson-Perkins’ brightly coloured and light-hearted artworks define an original and highly individual relationship to western popular culture and childhood experience. He uses materials and subject matter which have a resonance with his nostalgic memories such as: building blocks, 80’s computer graphics and 80’s TV programs. In Play he is exhibiting his army of plastic toy brick figures, which he calls ’robots’, scrolling message boards with jokes, colourful banners and dazzling films using 8 bit computer graphics with animated geometric shapes. Based in Newcastle, his bold, bright and colourful style has made him a leading component of the current flourishing North-East art scene. (King's Lynn Art Centre Brochure)
The Fermoy Gallery is one of King’s Lynn Art Centre spaces. The current program has important exhibitions by international artists, including shows by: Julian Opie, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Liu Jianhua, and Dana Claxton. They also organise the Eastern Open which is the largest and longest running regional open competition in the country.
How Does It Feel 2007
How Does It Feel Video, Gallery Glue, Newcaslte Upon Tyne, UK, Nov-Dec 07
Serious Playtime
Gallery Glue, Newcastle Upon Tyne
9th November - 8th December
PREVIEW, 8 Nov, 6-8pm
Curated by Edwin Li
Lady Kitt, Andrew Sandercock, Paul & 'Big Ritchie' Dixon,Hedley Sugar-Wells, Toby Lloyd, Sally Madge, Hannah Gillespie & Neesha Champaneria, Andrea Dietz, Anne Gutt, Geoff Fazan, Adham Tawfik & Ben Pearson, Carole Luby, James Johnson-Perkins, Richard Phipps, Fin McMorran, Kate Penrice
Hal 9000 James Johnson-Perkins
Hal 9000 is an animation which uses different geometric constructions, created using set mathematic patterns. These patterns merge into each other and are looped, creating a mesmeric and hypnotizing effect. The movement of forms creates a form of moving painting and draws heavily on the modernist presidents and principles of Structuralism and Minimalism, sharing links in style to the works of: Kandinski, Malevich and Mondrian.
Touring at these Video Art festivals
8th September, 2007
After Urban - International ArtExpo Collection at the Cultural Center of Spain in El Salvador (San Salvador, Colonia San Benito - Calle La Reforma No. 167 bis). The event is organized by LA FABRI-K, Colectivo de artistas visuales
3-7 October, 2007
After Urban - International ArtExpo Collection at the NOMAD (Load/Flow/Mix) urban video festival in Tineretului Park and Herastrau Park, Bucharest, Romania
10th November, 2007
Digital Long Island Media Festival, IMAC theater, 370 New York Avenue, Huntington, New York, USA. Digital Media Festival is one of the 4 core exhibitions of Digital Long Island.
7-23 December, 2007
After Urban - Video Art & Architecture, Monkeytown in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
These events are organised by ART EXPO. ART EXPO is an international organisation specialising in new media. Using new technologies to globalize the language of art and to connect the conceptual points of contact with artists.
I won the maths prise at school
James Johnson-Perkins in collaboration with Dr Conor Lawless
Project New City Building, 56 Nile Street, Sunniside, Sunderland
Residency dates: 24, 25, 26 Sept & 2,3, 4 Oct (between 10-4pm)
Exhibition dates: 6-13 Oct (10-4pm everyday)rednile
For this exhibition James Johnson-Perkins and Conor Lawless will be collaborating on a series of new works which will interact with the Rednile project space including a giant mathematical Lego model and complex geometric animations based on mathematical principles. This collaboration between artist and mathematician aims at expressing the beauty and wonder within mathematical structures and theories.
REDNILE LINK
NEWS ARTICLE
James Johnson-Perkins in collaboration with Dr Conor Lawless
Project New City Building, 56 Nile Street, Sunniside, Sunderland
Residency dates: 24, 25, 26 Sept & 2,3, 4 Oct (between 10-4pm)
Exhibition dates: 6-13 Oct (10-4pm everyday)rednile
For this exhibition James Johnson-Perkins and Conor Lawless will be collaborating on a series of new works which will interact with the Rednile project space including a giant mathematical Lego model and complex geometric animations based on mathematical principles. This collaboration between artist and mathematician aims at expressing the beauty and wonder within mathematical structures and theories.
REDNILE LINK
NEWS ARTICLE
Get with the Colour, James Johnson-Perkins & Dr Conor Lawless, Animation, 2007
Structurally this video is a sequence of graphical representations of lists of complex numbers, with real and imaginary parts plotted against each other in order. These are represented using a dazzling range of bold colours. Each new structural pattern is surprising in it’s detail. The increase in complexity from the beginning to the end of the video, gives us a guide fro what to expect as time goes on.
Do Billboards Dream of Electric Sheep?
This programme of video works will be launched in late September 2007 for public screening on the new projection screen of the Royal Centre, Nottingham, the Derby Big Screen in Derby's Market Place and a temporary screen erected on the facade of the Phoenix Arts Centre in Leicester.
Derby – Big Screen Derby - 22th Sep – 5th Oct throughout the day and evening *
Leicester – Phoenix Arts Centre - 22nd – 30th Sep dusk – 11pm *
Nottingham – Royal Centre - 24th Sep – 30th Sep dusk 2.30am
Manchester - All Saints Gardens – Urban Screens - 11th – 14th Oct
* Get with the Colour will be shown at these events.
Participating Artists
Adi Shniderman, Merav Ezer, Collectif Fact, Corine Stübi, CutUp, Frank Abbott, Frauke, Havemann, Eric Schefter, Neal Wach (On Air), George Drivas, Gob Squad, Harry Sachs, James Johnson-Perkins & Dr. Conor Lawless, Jonathan Velardi, Kim Collmer, Lizzie Hughes, Martha Gorzycki, Miles Chalcraft, Oliver Husain, Pat Lockle, Petra Weidemann, Robert Bischof, Sean Capone (Supernature) , Susanne Schuricht, Suzanne Moxhay, Xtine Hanson, 8gg
Organised by Trampoline
Trampoline/Do Billboards Dream Of Electric Screens? LINK
Structurally this video is a sequence of graphical representations of lists of complex numbers, with real and imaginary parts plotted against each other in order. These are represented using a dazzling range of bold colours. Each new structural pattern is surprising in it’s detail. The increase in complexity from the beginning to the end of the video, gives us a guide fro what to expect as time goes on.
Do Billboards Dream of Electric Sheep?
This programme of video works will be launched in late September 2007 for public screening on the new projection screen of the Royal Centre, Nottingham, the Derby Big Screen in Derby's Market Place and a temporary screen erected on the facade of the Phoenix Arts Centre in Leicester.
Derby – Big Screen Derby - 22th Sep – 5th Oct throughout the day and evening *
Leicester – Phoenix Arts Centre - 22nd – 30th Sep dusk – 11pm *
Nottingham – Royal Centre - 24th Sep – 30th Sep dusk 2.30am
Manchester - All Saints Gardens – Urban Screens - 11th – 14th Oct
* Get with the Colour will be shown at these events.
Participating Artists
Adi Shniderman, Merav Ezer, Collectif Fact, Corine Stübi, CutUp, Frank Abbott, Frauke, Havemann, Eric Schefter, Neal Wach (On Air), George Drivas, Gob Squad, Harry Sachs, James Johnson-Perkins & Dr. Conor Lawless, Jonathan Velardi, Kim Collmer, Lizzie Hughes, Martha Gorzycki, Miles Chalcraft, Oliver Husain, Pat Lockle, Petra Weidemann, Robert Bischof, Sean Capone (Supernature) , Susanne Schuricht, Suzanne Moxhay, Xtine Hanson, 8gg
Organised by Trampoline
Trampoline/Do Billboards Dream Of Electric Screens? LINK
Turn me on, Solo Show, Waygoood Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, May 07
Turn Me on
An Outdoor Solo Exhibition of Robot Sculptures
by James Johnson-Perkins
Waygood Gallery
Newcastle upon Tyne
Private View, 7pm-9pm on Saturday 19th May 2007.
Exhibition begins on Thursday 17th, and contuinues on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th May 2007. (opening times 11am-6pm. Free)
Behind Waygood's LITTLE JEWEL CINEMA, High Bridge, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Gauntlet is a collection of robots which takes its name from one of the first dungeon and dragon style arcade games of the 1980's. James Johnson-Perkins uses lego, named after Danish phrase 'Leg Godt' meaning playful, to construct these scultures which express his interest in issues of childhood, enjoyment, narrative and play.
To celebrate the beginning of the redevelopment of Wards Building into Waygoods' new galleries and studios James Johnson-Perkins will site 'Gauntlet' where the tower-crane will be located during the build period.
Helen Smith Director Waygood Gallery and Studios.
WAYGOOD GALLERY LINK
NEWS ARTICLES
No Sir/May 07
No Sir is a collaborative work between
James Johnson-Perkins and Matthew Cowan
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed
alt.gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Opening night: 8 May 2007, 6 - 9pm
Exhibition: 9 May - 30 June 2007
alt.gallery launch exhibition HARRY SMITH ANTHOLOGY REMIXED brings together the work of 84 artists and musicians, who have been invited to make a visual artwork in response to 1 track each from the groundbreaking music release the Anthology of American Folk Music. The Anthology was edited by seminal New York artist, musicologist and experimental filmmaker Harry Smith, and first published by Folkways in 1952.
Featuring works by: Michael Nyman, Marcus Coates, Ross Sinclair, Andre Stitt, Graeme Dolphin and Bill Drummond
HARRY SMITH ANTHOLOGY REMIXED is curated by Rebecca Shatwell
ALT GALLERY LINK
James Johnson-Perkins and Matthew Cowan
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed
alt.gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Opening night: 8 May 2007, 6 - 9pm
Exhibition: 9 May - 30 June 2007
alt.gallery launch exhibition HARRY SMITH ANTHOLOGY REMIXED brings together the work of 84 artists and musicians, who have been invited to make a visual artwork in response to 1 track each from the groundbreaking music release the Anthology of American Folk Music. The Anthology was edited by seminal New York artist, musicologist and experimental filmmaker Harry Smith, and first published by Folkways in 1952.
Featuring works by: Michael Nyman, Marcus Coates, Ross Sinclair, Andre Stitt, Graeme Dolphin and Bill Drummond
HARRY SMITH ANTHOLOGY REMIXED is curated by Rebecca Shatwell
ALT GALLERY LINK
Hal 9000/USA, Lithuania, Mar-Apr 07
Hal 9000 is an animation which uses different geometric constructions, created using set mathematic patterns. These patterns merge into each other and are looped, creating a mesmeric and hypnotizing effect. The movement of forms creates a form of moving painting and draws heavily on the modernist presidents and principles of Structuralism and Minimalism, sharing links in style to the works of: Kandinski, Malevich and Mondrian.
Touring at these Video Art Festivals
March, 2007 - Liquid room - Videoart & Architecture Cultural Communication Centre of Klaipeda Lithuania
EVENT LINK
April, 2007 - After Urban - Videoart & Architecture. University of Pennsylvania, 34th & Walnut Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – USA
EVENT LINK
Both these events are organised by ART EXPO. ART EXPO is an international organisation specialising in new media. Using new technologies to globalize the language of art and to connect the conceptual points of contact with artists.
ART EXPO LINK
ZX A-Team, Hau 2, Berlin, Germany, Oct 06
First Play Berlin
12-15 October 2006
12-15 October 2006
ZX A-team is 45 minute animation created using an episode of the 80's TV program the A-team by converting each frame (90,000 frames) into ZX spectrum 8 bit computer graphics.
FIRST PLAY BERLIN presents an international programme of live media art and the fusion of performance and mobile technology. Expanding the frontiers of interaction and participation, the viewer is invited to navigate virtual data space through simultaneous journeys in the real, physical world. Giving media art a human interface. FIRST PLAY BERLIN explores how the perception of our reality has changed with the digital age of networks.
Curated by Trampoline
TRAMPOLINE LINK
FIRST PLAY BERLIN presents an international programme of live media art and the fusion of performance and mobile technology. Expanding the frontiers of interaction and participation, the viewer is invited to navigate virtual data space through simultaneous journeys in the real, physical world. Giving media art a human interface. FIRST PLAY BERLIN explores how the perception of our reality has changed with the digital age of networks.
Curated by Trampoline
TRAMPOLINE LINK
Jet Pac, Arts Council, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, Jun-Aug 06
Arts Council
Newcastle
June-August 2006
This video references modernist painting, 80’s pop culture and Disco Nostalgia Comprising of 16 rectangular coloured boxes, which individually change colour 64 times on a loop, to mesmerising effect.
A series of Short Video Art works curated by Rebecca Shatwell
Newcastle
June-August 2006
This video references modernist painting, 80’s pop culture and Disco Nostalgia Comprising of 16 rectangular coloured boxes, which individually change colour 64 times on a loop, to mesmerising effect.
A series of Short Video Art works curated by Rebecca Shatwell
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