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Summer Newsletter 2023 LINK Realms This is an image that began as a tribute to Henry Darger, and has the primary goal to create something ethereal and unreal. It is based in a scene, where the upper half of the image is taken in Angkor Thom, Cambodia, using a Gigapan camara, which allows for a huge panoramic image, and th...

Summer Newsletter

Inspired by Bessie Anderson Stanley original essay.

WOULD YOU LIKE SOME COACHING FOR A WHILE?

Ok I am putting this out into the universe...I have started a certificated coaching course in the last years...and this year I would like to coach 4 creative people from different parts of the world over this year (online)...So, If you think you would like to be one of these people...please get in touch...or if you know anyone that may be interested as well...Pay what what you want...if you want...or it can be free as well...

An Interview about my work from the end of last year...I wrote this in Guanzhou China...fried and lost...trying to sort out my sons passport...wearing a mask...and feeling the world had gone mad...pass codes working then not working...hotel wanted things I didn't have...etc..all the computers are saying no...and I was trying to work out in the midst of all this...what the hell I was doing and what had I done...even though I felt somewhat like I have failed sometimes...as there is always more one wants etc...50 now and no-tuner prize for me etc...anyway despite that, I think I have made some important and significant works!!!...Anyway...Enjoy...

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johnson-perkins.co.uk

A little bit of punk has died...VW rip...long live punk...

If you are in Berlin, I will be showing Four Films in Reverse Again as part of this showreal event...

Bekarei Showreal Bekarei
Video Art Space
Wrangelstraße 44
(Kreuzberg)
10997
Berlin Berlin

2nd September - 2nd November 2022

Inspired by the 90’s Berlin art scene, Video Art Space is born. Art was all over the city and out of the established circuit, from video projections to many different kinds of art interventions. With this in mind, a new space like this for artists has been made to show artist work, for creative dialogue and reflection.

Here videos are projected on one of the central windows of the cafe’s facades, between the cafe and the public space. These will run everyday from 20 p.m. to 00 am.

As part of this international showreal James Johnson-Perkins will be showing Four Films in Reverse, 2020

In this Videostalgia work 4 Films in Reverse, Boundaries have a critical role in its development and take on the distribution of the cultural elements. In The Location of Culture, Homi Bhabha draws attention to interstitial spaces, where, frames and borders ‘in-between’ become ‘innovative sites of collaboration and contestation in the act of defining the idea of society itself’. In sympathy to this notion, this work explores art historical perspectives critically and creatively, exploring boundaries and their meaning, including: Religious, political, phycological and physical divides. This relates both to the artist's own creative internal spaces as well as toward a globalized society at large.

https://www.bekarei.com
https://www.instagram.com/pastel_bekarei/

See The Great Batlle @
Oxmarket Contemporary Open, UK, Aug 22

Oxmarket Contemporary Open

The exhibition dates are 2nd-28th August every day, except Mondays, 10am-4.30pm.

on Instagram
and

Oxmarket Contemporary, St Andrew’s Court, Chichester, West Sussex, UK, PO19 1YH

Experimental Film & Video 2022, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA), Gyeonggi-do, Korea

Featuring: "Four Films in Reverse, Videostalgia”, (2020)
by James Johnson-Perkins

June 22 – July 24, 2022
2022.04.27 – 2022.05.15

Featured Artists 참여작가: Marte Aas, AN SOH (안소현), Eve Barden, Anibal Catalan, Enzo Cillo, Celia Eid, Lejin Fan, Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa, Ciana Fitzgerald, Ali Georgescu, Marianne Hoffmeister, Young Hyun Jeon (전영현), James Johnson-Perkins, Sofia Rudi Kent, Eun Gyeong Kim (김은경), Kim tae hee (김태희), Zach Koch, Sivaroj Kongsakul, Kiki Kouniari, Olivia Faye Lathuilliere, Leticia Laxon, Sarah Legow, Sarah Ellen Lundy, Carol Anne McGowan, Leah Netsky, Areumbit Park (박아름빛), Park, In Ok (박인옥), Maria Pleshkova, Erica Schreiner, David Smith, Madeline Rile Smith, Annie Strader/Matthew Weedman, Jayne Struble, Claudia Ungersbäck, Luisa Vidales Reina, Vanja Vukovic, Sam Welch & Alex Popa, Filip Wierzbicki-Nowak, Chansong Woo (우찬송), Liqing Xu, Yoo Inseon (유인선), Māra Zoltners.

https://cicamuseum.com/experimental-film-video-2022/

唯物思维
MATERIAL THINKING
首届国际当代材料艺术双年展

1st International Contemporary Material Art Biennale

Opening from June 20, 2022

Featuring: Gigatage works
by James Johnson-Perkins

Tsinghua University, Beijing/Haitian Sky Art Center, Qingdao, China Jun 20th - Sep 20th, 2022

https://www.international-material-art-study.org/biennale

You can see my THE GREAT BATTLE, GIGATAGE work in Rotterdam from 18th May...

https://www.rotterdamphoto.eu/exhi.../james-johnson-perkins/

Rotterdam Photo Fair, PLANET HUMAN X THE HUMAN BLUEPRINT, May 2022
PLANET HUMAN X THE HUMAN BLUEPRINT
18 – 22 May, 2022
More information about the date, time and location?

https://www.rotterdamphoto.eu/program-2022/

The edition 2022 is unique for the Rotterdam Photo. Due to several postponements and cancellations caused by COVID-19 spread, for the first time, the festival has two themes at the same time – PLANET HUMAN X THE HUMAN BLUEPRINT.
Under the umbrella of these two themes, more than 100 photographers from all over the globe will show their projects this May. All photographers from Rotterdam Photo 2021 edition ( PLANET HUMAN theme) and photographers from Rotterdam Photo 2022 edition (THE HUMAN BLUEPRINT theme) will become part of the new Rotterdam Photo 2022 XL edition.

I am pleased to announce the opening of the Limitless online exhibition.

@ Florence Contempory Gallery, Italy

https://www.florencecontemporary.com/limitless

Here is the list of the selected artists:

SELECTED ARTIST / ARTISTI SELEZIONATI:

Matthias Lück, Michael J. Lindow, Christian Door, Zoie Lam, Andrea Ehret, Artmoods TP, Carolina Ramos, Marilena Ramadori “Zizza”, Francesco De Lorenzo, Marta Nyrkova, Dan Obana, Salome Kobulashvili, Meri Aisala, René Siepmann, Maja Puda, Jasmine Liaw, Laura Dimitrova, Eri Kato, Snezhina Biserova, Paul-Yves Poumay, Ivana Dukic, Jack Savage, Martinu Schneegass, Marine Kearney, Var Sahakyan / Vartist, Sofya Danilova, Mandelbroz, Nero Cosmos, Natalie Sobo, Ayuko Dan, Alexandra Ghimisi, Bianca Paraschiv, Ryo Kajitani, Victor Hernandez, Yin Lu, Max Wolf, Nino Memanishvili, Maria Di Gaetano, Emily Zou, Flavie Guerrand, JAMES JOHNSON-PERKINS, Raquel Gandra, Ambra Scali, Anna Hrbacova, Pantelis Nicolaou, Steve Jensen, Ulyana Korol, Yvonne Welman.

Air Land 4.0 Nature, Technology Exhibition, Energy, Barge, Italy
Opening Saturday

December 11 h.18: 00
11/12/21 - 02/25/22

Former workshops Railway Barge
Street Assarti, 12032 Barge CN
Air Land 4.0
Nature, Technology, Energy
Organized by Associazione Quasi Quadro

The fourth edition of the international contemporary art competition Air Land 4.0 | Nature, Technology; Energy organized by the Quasi Quadro association reaches the final event at the Ex Officina Ferroviaria di Barge (CN), where the presentation and exhibition of the finalist and winning artists of the 2021 edition will be held.

The announcement saw the participation of numerous candidates from all over the world and after the success of the previous editions, once again the Quasi Quadro association is pleased to present the winning artists.

The collective exhibition

James Johnson-Perkins, Sabino de Nichilo, Marco Fiume, Claudia Fuggetti, Samantha Heydt, The skillful Theater, Alisa Marchenko, Lucia Marchesin, Alexandra Marinova, Samantha Passaniti, J, Giorgio Saved, Alessandro Scaglione.

The event is organized thanks to the patronage of the Municipality of Barge and is part of the VOLVER project, supported by the CRC and ITT Foundation.

https://www.quasiquadro.eu/

You are invited to visit:
One Out of Many
A Digital Exhibition by
The Digital Art Observatory
Starts today 16th November

HERES THE LINK:

https://www.daobservatory.art/final-projects

Featuring my new Virtual Gallery - Lost and Found Services

The Digital Art Observatory (DAO) Residency began at the end of summer 2021. Artists were paired up, each team counting one artist based in Ukraine and another based in the United Kingdom. The residency’s mission was twofold: to look at the practical as well as the conceptual problems and possibilities of a cross-cultural creative digital collaboration.

Each two artists set out to explore what it is like to carry out an artistic project via two screens situated on the farthest ends of what may, or indeed may not, be considered culturally and continentally Europe. As they started to work with their hands and minds, the mission of the residency resurfaced, and the artists confronted two hurdles:

1. How will we communicate? What tangible tools and mediums will we use? What software? What messaging apps? What online drives and what platforms?

2. What will we communicate? What ideas and feelings will we attempt to conceptualize, first to each other, and then to an audience?

These two points stood at the heart of DAO. It’s possible to say that the first is answered by the Whitepaper, and the second by the exhibition One Out of Many - the former offering practical guidance for online artistic collaboration, the latter displaying the products of this collaboration. However, it may also be argued that these matters were answered in tandem with each other, the practical and the conceptual always inextricably linked.

The very basic question underlying this all is: what do geographical location and cultural context mean, the moment that these things enter a digital arena? Did it matter that the creators of the works you are about to see found themselves in different worlds? What happens to the specific cultural context that something is from, when it is placed amongst the multitudes of decontextualized fragments of visuals, narratives, identities and data of a much larger whole - the internet?

May the things displayed in this exhibition show one out of many ways of negotiating being one out of many stories, and the ways in which the modern world is making us increasingly aware that we are but one - out of many.

Nina Lisson

LOST AND FOUND SERVICES
A virtual space for special things that have been lost in time. As custodians of this space we will offer the chance to view and retrieve these precious items, such as: the fabulous ‘Portrait of a Young Man’ by Raphael, Mondrian’s mythical Solitary ‘Sculpture’, the legendary Japanese swordsmith Goro Nyudoo Masamune’s ‘Katana’, A section of Leonardo da Vinci’s fabled ‘The Battle of Anghiari’ and the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s illustrious ‘God’ readymade. Lost and Found Services also offer the chance to retrieve personal items like memories and keys, and long-lost treasures that you thought you would never see again.

I am thrilled to annouce here that I won the Bath Open, People's Choice Art Prize with my work, The Great Battle (after Canaletto), Venice, Italy, 2010-21⁠
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The Great Battle is an ultra-large scale digital montage, part of James' GIGATAGE series.
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"The Great Battle very much relates to childhood memory and thinking of nostalgia, relating to all the things that I thought were “good” and all the things that I thought were “bad” in high or low culture. I basically trawled through a nostalgic past thinking of everything. I literally had a blank book and I wrote down all of the things in my memory that I considered as “good” or “bad” and then found that image in some kind of creative commons place. I placed all the bad elements on the left side and all the “good” elements/characters/memories on the right. These are all involved like life itself, in a giant battle."⁠
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⁠A huge thank you to The Bath Art Prize organisers and to Minerva Arts Supplies
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Also thank you to everyone who voted! ⁠
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www.bathopenartprize.co.uk ⁠
https://www.instagram.com/p/CV0Q5CNsNgp/

I am really happy to annouce that I won the Mediterranean Contemporary Art Prize, President's Award.

I am very pleased to announce that I will be exhibiting my GIGATAGE work 'The Great Battle' starting today at the Mediterranean contemporary art prize, exhibition.

The venue is Monteserico Castle, and is located just outside the town of Genzano di Lucania, Italy.

The programme of the ten days for this, is at the following link https://www.mcartprize.org/en/programme-2021/

The opening ceremony will be held at 5:30 pm. (Italian Time) and will be broadcast live on the prize's FB page https://www.facebook.com/mcartprize/ (simultaneous translation into English will be provided)

Please wish me luck...

https://www.ifpa.gr/james-johnson-perkins/

My work will soon be shown at Ars Electronica. Here .ART Gallery presents a selection of mixed VR and AR artworks. Linz, Austria (8th – 23rd September 2021)

https://art.art/blog/ars-electronica-art-gallery-x-vr-all-art-present-concretehouseart-virtual-exhibition

and also at The International Forum of Performance Art, a three-day event dedicated exclusively to the performance arts that takes place every September, from 2019, in Drama, Greece (9th-11th September 2021)

My work will soon be shown at Ars Electronica. Here .ART Gallery presents a selection of mixed VR and AR artworks. Linz, Austria (8th – 23rd September 2021)

https://art.art/blog/ars-electronica-art-gallery-x-vr-all-art-present-concretehouseart-virtual-exhibition

and also at The International Forum of Performance Art, a three-day event dedicated exclusively to the performance arts that takes place every September, from 2019, in Drama, Greece (9th-11th September 2021)

https://www.ifpa.gr/

I am pleased to inform you that tomorrow 6/9 at 11:00 a.m a press conference will be held to present the exhibition of the finalists (of which I am one) of the Mediterranean Contemporary Art Prize.

This will take place in the Council Chamber of the Municipality of Genzano di Lucania (which is the municipality where a wonderful Monteserico Castle is located, which will host the exhibition). The international jury and the most important events of the calendar will also be presented.

Here is the link to the press release that will be issued tomorrow morning https://www.mcartprize.org/press-kit-2021/

Artist- James Johnson-Perkins

Honored to be selected among 3 video artists (along with Jun-Yuan Hong and Bruno Pavić) whose works will be exhibited in Berlin as part of the exhibition ′′Boundary", Bekarei Video Art Space. Presenting the video work ′′Four Films in Reverse′′ that will be exhibited in public space, the central window of the facade of the Portuguese cafe Pastel and will be visible to passers-by daily from 20:00 to midnight, from 4.9. to 5.11. The works will be part of the creative space inspired by the Berlin art scene of the 90 s that aims to encourage thinking and dialogue.

Bekarei, Video Art Space, Wrangelstraße 44, (Kreuzberg)
The Opening Event will be on 4th September 6-9pm. So if you are in Berlin please come along!

′′Four Film in Reverse′′ is a loop video installation Where Boundaries have a critical role in its development and take on the distribution of the cultural elements. In The Location of Culture, Homi Bhabha draws attention to interstitial spaces, where, frames and borders ‘in-between’ become ‘innovative sites of collaboration and contestation in the act of defining the idea of society itself’. In sympathy to this notion, this work explores art historical perspectives critically and creatively, exploring boundaries and their meaning, including: Religious, political, phycological and physical divides. This relates both to the artist's own creative internal spaces as well as toward a globalized society at large.

The Work was recently featured in AUSTRAL Festival Internacional de Performance Art de Buenos Aires, Argentina (June 2021) and will also be shown at the International Forum of Performance Art in Drama, Greece (9th to 11th September 2021

The Alpine Fellowship Prize Winner, Runner Up (Visual Arts)

https://alpinefellowship.com/visual-art-prize

I MADE A NEW FILM
https://vimeo.com/376726568

I HOPE YOU LIKE IT...ALL COMMENTS ARE VERY WELCOME...

B_S_R (640x480) This is "B_S_R (640x480)" by James Johnson-Perkins on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

JAMES JOHNSON-PERKINS
SUMMER NEWS 2019

James presented a paper at the Arts in Society Conference, Lisbon, Portugal about his experiences in Oman, Muscat. Read here:
http://www.johnson-perkins.co.uk/Catalogue%20pdfs/Art%20at%20the%20Oasis-%20Reflections%20on%20Art,%20Education%20and%20Culture%20in%20Muscat,%20Oman,%20June,%202019%20.pdf

James was shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Award 2019. He was selected to participate on the NWCDTP Research Programme at The British School at Rome, in November 2019 and he was also selected for the Emily Harvey Foundation Residency Venice, Italy, in August 2020.

James' latest Catalogue 16 INTERMADES can be read on his website here:
http://www.johnson-perkins.co.uk/Catalogue%20pdfs/16%20Intermades.pdf

James' new work The Great Battle, Version 2 can be viewed here:

http://www.johnson-perkins.co.uk/1%20BATTLE.html

www.johnson-perkins.co.uk

http://www.johnson-perkins.co.uk/1%20BATTLE.html

The Great Battle, After Canaletto, Venice, Italy, 7m x 2m, 2010-12

I have been selected to do a Presentation on my Teaching practice In Lisbon...I am super excited about this...It will be about my time and experiences in Oman...and will take place at the following Art's Conference...https://artsinsociety.com/2019-conference

2019 Conference | The Arts in Society Research Network The Fourteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society will be held at Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 19-21 June 2019

I have finally finished the EPIC Gigatage...THE GREAT BATTLE...Your comments would be very welcome...Enjoy...

I have finally finished the EPIC Gigatage...THE GREAT BATTLE...Your comments would be very welcome...

is coming!

James Johnson-Perkins Demetrio Di Grado Silvia Wladimirski Nadina Maggi Leticia Polaco Pasquale de Sensi Gibson Jinhyuk Kim Tomokazu Shibayama Luke Jordan Cory Peeke Phil Carney Betty Klaasse Silvio Crisóstomo Will Dameron - Artist Nina Fraser Antonio V. Luzzu Quisilio Miraglia Eleonora Capodiferro Gregory Vincent St Thomasino Leonid Bilmes Alessio Mosça Mark Watkins

My artist page for The
Quickest Via Pavilion

https://www.thequickestvia.org/james-johnson-perkins

The Quickest Via Pavilion | James Johnson-Perkins Curatorial Pavilion for Artists by Susana G. Romanos inside The Wrong Biennale.

I am happy to say I am one of the artists involved with this:

https://www.thequickestvia.org/rooms

The Quickest Distance is Not Always Via a Straight Line.
A Pavilion of THE WRONG.
New Digital Art Biennale.
From November 1st, 2017 to January 31st, 2018

The Wrong
New Digital Art Biennale

The Wrong is the largest and most comprehensive international digital art biennale today

https://soundcloud.com/artist-james-johnson-perkins/ehf-ha-jjp-podcast-music

LONGER CONVERSATION- JAMES JOHNSON-PERKINS & HELEN ADKINS, EHF, VENICE, ITALY, 2017 IN CONVERSATION WITH ART HISTORIAN DR HELEN ADKINS THE EMILY HARVEY FOUNDATION, VENICE, 2017

Selected for the Quickest Distance is Not Always Via a Straight Line...More details to follow..

The Great Battle (Ver. 2)

Now it's easier to send James Johnson-Perkins a message.