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a l a n a j e l i n e k

me - you - them
Original link
Situated in DearDiary.net
Rolling text link
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Calendar style link
similar to original
A record of everyday encounters with racism
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
NOW ON:
  • Exhibition - intervention 
  • Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge
  • 23 October 2009 - early 2010

BLACCXN sponsorship of the archaeology gallery, celebrating a version of Darwinian evolutionary theory and its links with neo-liberalism. Three cheers for the hierarchical society - it's all just part of the natural order!
PV Thursday 22 October 2009, timed to intervene into
The Cambridge Festival of Ideas 

  • Click for link to museum website

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)
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 were 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 were 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.

 

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I became an artist for reasons now largely art historical - where art is the expression of freedom of thought and speech, and not simply another commodity. The following is a log where this freedom was deemed incompatible with art-making or exhibiting for one reason or another.

1989 - expelled from art college for taking courses in philosophy.

1994 - satirical icon in Russian Orthodox style of Lenin stolen from exhibition at Hall  of Architects, Moscow (destroyed?). Told by ex-KGB officer in Dniepropretrovsk that 'I must be very brave' to bring images of steroetypes of Russia to ex-Soviet territories.

2000 - defaced life-sized tourist figure intervention at Grizedale, attempt at moving or destroying other similar interventions in Lake District area

2000 - Attempts made by staff of the Australian High Commission, London, to silence and end early our very small intervention for 'Racist Australia Day', calling the police on three separate occasions, ending with the riot police. There were 2 of us, flowers and leaflets one early morning ending at 11am.

2001 - Writing for a Teacher's Kit for Tate Modern's 'Century City' exhibition, sponsored by CGNU (now Aviva), where the ambivalent (though not entirely negative) tone regarding globalisation was altered without consent and changed to a wholly positive one.

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, there was a  constant presence by secret service agents, acting in the manner of store detectives. Very close up photography by an undercover agent pretending to be a tourist was also done.

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.

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.

2007-9 - tampering of the parodic website for the 'metacorporation', BLACCXN. Various links broken and redirected. This first began when the parody of prize culture with BLACCXN Prize for Culture was redirected to error pages. Continued occasional tampering of the rest of the site has occured into 2009 with other redirections to error messages from all sorts of links including plans for the new wing on the Houses of Parliament, the BLACCXN House of Corporations.

2009 - Beck's Beer, past sponsors of ICA's 'Beck's Futures' exhibitions - apparently 'one of the bolder art prizes' - censored art-intervention into open submission for 2-for-1 offer 'Do Something Different', refusing to include BLACCXN's offer to run seminars on 'How to be a Hedge Fund Manager'. The artwork was even billed as comedy to help frame the experience as ironic. Perhaps the beer company is not really all that bold...

 

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External Links : if you liked this artist, you might also like:
Links:
» Mongrel
» Melanie Gilligan
» Carey Young
» Platform
» Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
» Average Citizen
» Space Hijackers
» James Accord
» Lucy Panesar
» critical art ensemble
and the US based other Alana Jelinek (alphagirl)

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