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BLACCXN
is a global enterprise, part of our
common culture.

Please
feel free to use the BLACCXN logos
whenever the spirit moves you...

*All text,
images and logo under
'creative commons licence'
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Formerly,
www.alanajelinek.com was exclusively used as the portal for artwork:
a l a n a
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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:
Mayday
AM: - 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)
PM:
- 13.45
Canary
Wharf, Westferry Road
circus
- Painting
of London Stock Exchange computer hub
- 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
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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
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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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