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Formerly, www.alanajelinek.com was exclusively used as the portal for artwork:
a l a n a
j e l i n e k
me - you - them
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me-you-them
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June 30th 2001 - June 30th 2004
as a bystander, as a victim and as a racist.
Please click any of the side links for the racism 'blog'.
a l a n a j e l i n e k
a r t :
online work 1: BLACCXN |
online work 2: me-you-them |
online work 3: Corporate Sponsorship |
online work 4: The People's Vote |
online work 5: Europe the Game |
online work 6: The Guidebook |
online
7: The
Third Wing @ Whitechapel Art
Gallery (60mins)
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Artwork since 1999 |
Curating for terra incognita |
text - essays |
Capital Growth
MayDay 2009 intervention
In various sites across London and Cambridge an exquisite oil-painting will be placed for Mayday. The six paintings are birds-eye views of specific corporate sites including the London Stock Exchange, the London Metal Exchange and the Lloyds building.The paintings are comprised of 9 canvases and measure 3sqm in total. They will be placed in an x-mark and left to the elements, the police, art-lovers...
The
above image is a birds eye view of the BLACCXN headquarters,
linking 'Capital Growth' to previous work including, The Third
Wing, and the BLACCXN website.For
images and details of the other 5 paintings before and after
the
intervention,
click
here.
Locations and times were:
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Mayday
- 07.00 Tate Modern, Bankside - near front lawn, on the eastern edge near Millenium Bridge.
- Painting of London Stock Exchange boardroom
- 09.00 Ministry of Defence, Victoria Embankment - either in the park or on the pavement. If there are major problems with police harassment we will be taking the paintings to Rt Hon John Hutton, Secretary of State for Defence as a gift.
- Painting of London Metal Exchange
- 10.00 Science Museum, Kensington Gore - in the shipping innovation part of floor two, near the BP sponsored 'Energy Exhibition'
- Painting of Lloyds building (original interior)
- 13.45 Canary Wharf, Westferry Road circus
- Painting
of London Stock Exchange computer hub
AM:
PM:
- 15.30 Olympic site, on the Greenway, nearest tube Pudding Mill Lane
- Painting of BLACCXN headquarters
- 17.45 Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics Building, University of Cambridge
- Painting
of London Stock Exchange foyer
A bit of biog info:
- AHRC Creative Fellow, Cambridge University Museum of Anthropology and Archeaology 2009-2014
- PhD
at Oxford Brookes University 2004-2008. 50:50 History of Art: Fine Art
Practice,
'Art as a democratic act: the interplay of context and content London 2000-2006' AHRC award. - MA (Gender,Society, Culture) Birkbeck college, University of London 1992-4
- BA
(Fine Art - Painting) Victoria College, Prahran, Melbourne, Australia
with modules in Philosophy and History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Melbourne 1987-90
Published
first novel 2007 'Ohm's Law' with terra incognita
(terra
incognita link)
ISBN: 978-0-9535045-3-4
Visual Art Exhibitions across England, Australia, Japan, and Bangkok, Thailand; Poznan, Poland; Moscow, Russia; Dniepropretrovsk, Ukraine.
Curating, art project management and exhibition design for various institutions since 1997. Co-founded terra incognita arts organisation 1997
Education context work since 1993, including schools, museums and galleries, further and higher education.
Contact :
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Log : moments where art and freedom of speech / thought / movement were deemed incompatible
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1989 - expelled from art college for taking courses in philosophy. |
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1994 - satirical icon in Russian Orthodox style of Lenin stolen from exhibition at Hall of Architects, Moscow |
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2000 - defaced tourist intervention at Grizedale, attempt at moving or destroying other tourist interventions in Lake District area |
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2000 - Attempts made by staff of the Australian High Commission, London, to silence and end early our very small intervention for 'Racist Australia Day'. |
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2001 - Writing for a Teacher's Kit for Tate Modern's 'Century City' exhibition, sponsored by CGNU (now Aviva), where the ambivalent (though not negative) tone regarding globalisation was altered without consent and changed to a wholly positive one. |
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2004 - While pacing out the area of Victoria Tower Gardens, next to the Houses of Parliament, to measure it for a future artwork, The Third Wing, was constantly followed by secret service agents in the manner of store detectives and photographed up close by an undercover agent pretending to be a tourist. |
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2005 - a series of interventions into the Jim Thompson House, Bangkok, which aimed at disrupting the easy 'tourist gaze' of the museum were taken away 3 months before the end of the exhibition. All documentation of the intervention was also apparently deleted. |
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2007 - engage: the journal for museum and gallery education refused to print a satirical essay about the artworld, gallery education and green-washing despite the green issue being published at my suggestion. |
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2007-9 - tampering of the satirical website for the 'metacorporation', BLACCXN. Various links broken and redirected. First began in response to the parody of prize culture with BLACCXN Prize for Culture. Information pages were redirected to error pages. Continued tampering has occured into 2009. |
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