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Our new solo exhibition No Escape opens at IMT Gallery, London from 7pm+ on Thursday 17th March, 2022. Come say hi if you can although the show runs from 18th March through to 1st May so there's plenty of time to visit.  For more infor, visiting times and the full press release, click through to the gallery website here:

https://imagemusictext.com/exhibition-thomson-and-craighead-no-escape/

Our Temporary Index will be part of The Work of Time exhibition which forms part of the opnening weekend of a new gallery at z33 in Hasselt, Belgium.  On 14th and 15th March there will be a whole weekend of launch events celebrating this major expansion of the z33 program and galleries so if you are nearby why not come and join us.

You can find out more about this at: https://www.z33.be/en/programma/the-work-of-time/

We will be showing the 4k version of Horizon (2009 - 2020) for the first time in London as part of The Habitat of Time curated by Julie Louise Bacon and opening at Arts Catalyst in London on February 19th 6:30 – 8:30PM

The exhibition runs from 20th February – 14th March and also includes work by five Australian artists all of which are showing in the UK for the first time.  They are Robert Andrew, James Geurts, Lucy Bleach, Josh Wodak and Eva Nolan.

Arts Catalyst Centre, 74-76 Cromer Street, WC1H 8DR
Free entry, everyone welcome!

Come along and say Hi! More information on the exhibition here

Two lenticular lightboxes from our Corruption series will be part of Taking the Leap exhibition opening tomorrow night at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre. Go take a look if you are in China!

More info:
https://artcollection.salford.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2019/09/1404-Arts-Collection-Shanghai-Brochure_Spreads.pdf

Our Temporary Index will be on show as part of the Learning from Deep Time exhibition days at NIRAS in Mol, Belgium on Sunday 29th September 2019.  Learning from Deep Time is organised by Z33 in Hasselt, Belgium and is part of an open day at the proposed surface nuclear waste repository in Mol in Belgium. 

Other artists included in the exhibition are Maarten Vanden Eynde (BE), Andy Weir (UK), Alexis Destoop (BE), Jesse Howard (US) & Tim Knapen (BE) More info here:

https://www.z33.be/blog/2019/8/29/niras

Our 'Here' plate is included in the Coventry Biennial this year which runs from 4th - 24th November 2019.  As long as the plate is rotated to point North or South when placed on a table, it will accurately state how far the plate is from itself.  More information on the exhibition and other participating artists can be found here (no pun intended):

https://www.coventrybiennial.com/exhibitions/the-twin-5/

If you're planning on spending some of your summer in London then we have a few works on public view; in Bloomsbury, Finsbury Park and Greenwich. Details below>

Here Not Here is our new public artwork in University College London Student Centre on Gordon Street -just next to Bloomsbury Theatre.  The Student Centre is open 24/7. Simply walk in up the central stairs and you will see Here Not Here on the right hand side.  There is also a wall based sculpture by Rachel Whiteread near the information desk so take a look at that too.  More information on Here Not Here can be found on our website:

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/herenothere.html

Our modified feature length movie, The Time Machine in alphabetical order is part of Time Portals exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery slap bang in the middle of Finsbury Park and is showing until the end of October. More information on the exhibition can be found here: http://www.furtherfield.org/time-portals-exhibition-2019/ and more information on The Time machine in alphabetical order can be found on our website:

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/thetimemachine.html

Finally, our sculpture Here remains part of The Line sculpture trail for another year and can be found on the south bank of the Thames at the Greenwich meridian.  More information about The Line can be found here: http://the-line.org and more information about Here can be found on our website here:

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/roadsign.html

So if it's a sunny day then grab a picnic, your keep cup or a gin in a tin and go take a look at any or all of what we have on show in London just now.

Our limited edition perfume Apocalypse will be showing as part of The Perfume Shop exhibition at The Ryder Projects in East London.  Other artists in the exhibition are Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, littlewhitehead, Clara Ursitti and Kentaro Yamada. Private view: Thursday 29th November, 6 – 9 pm and the show runs from 30th November 2018 until 26th January 2019 (Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 6 pm). So come take a look and a smell if you're nearby.  More info here:

https://theryderprojects.com/exhibitions/the-perfume-shop-thomsoncraighead-fabio-lattanzi-antinori-littlewhitehead-clara-ursitti-kentaro-yamada/

OK, we are showing two works (Saffron and Inverness Wall) as part of the group show Trace Ingredients, which is on at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery from 22nd September until 17th November. 

Other artists in the exhibition are Alexander & Susan Maris, Cat Meighan and Clive Brandon.  The PV is this Friday from 6 - 8pm so if you're about come and say hi.

More information on this exhibition here: https://www.highlifehighland.com/inverness-museum-and-art-gallery/trace-ingredients/

We are showing our karaoke installation More Songs of Innocence And Of Experience and the second installment of our Flat Earth Trilogy, A short film about war in this major group show, which opened yesterday at MCA Chicago and runs through to October 14th 2018. More info on the exhibition here:

https://mcachicago.org/Exhibitions/2018/I-Was-Raised-On-The-Internet

We've also written a brief text called, The internet of living things for the catalogue accompanying the show due to be published during the exhibition so watch out for that!  If you're lucky enough to be in Chicago any time soon go take a look at this show.  Wish we could!

We are giving an artists' talk tomorrow at TENT in Rotterdam from 7pm.  It's FREE, so please do come along. We will be talking about the work we have in the group show AnyTime Now currently showing at TENT and a bunch of other stuff, but we will also be screening the single screen version of Belief which is the third part of our Flat Earth Trilogy.  If you're about please do come along and say hi!  More info here:

https://www.tentrotterdam.nl/en/event/artist-talk-thomson-craighead/

We will be showing our perfume Apocalypse and our Temporary Index as part of the group exhibition Anytime Now opening Thursday 19th April at the fabulous TENT in Rotterdam.  The other artists in the exhibition are Pedro Gómez-Egaña, Olphaert den Otter and Anton Vrede.  The exhibition runs until 10th June so if you're nearby do go take a look.

More information on the exhibition here: https://www.tentrotterdam.nl/en/show/anytime-now/

We are showing a miniature version of our Temporary Index alongside contextual research materials as part of School of Time, which will be at Milan Design Week from 17th to 22nd April courtesy of Z33 House of Contemporary Art.  The other artists contributing to these interactive installations are:

Commonplace, Studio Teis De Greve, Jasmine De Bruycker, Jesse Howard, Tim Knapen, Tobias Revell, Virginia Tassinari, Ive Van Bostraeten, Filip Van Dingenen and Maarten Vanden Eynde

Go take a look if you're nearby!

More information on School of Time here:
http://www.z33.be/blog/2018/3/22/school-of-time

More information on Temporary Index here:
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/temporary_index.html

Perpetual Uncertainty at MalmöKonstmuseum opens THIS FRIDAY 23rd February where our entire Temporary Index will be on display. The exhibition brings together artists from Europe, Japan and the USA to investigate questions of nuclear technology, radiation and the transmission of knowledge over deep time futures. How do we communicate to people 100 000 years from now about the radioactive waste we are leaving behind? Is it even possible to imagine what the world will look like then?

Participating artists: James Acord, Shuji Akagi, Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway, Erich Berger and Mari Keto, Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Don’t Follow the Wind, Finger Pointing Worker, Dave Griffiths, Isao Hashimoto, Erika Kobayashi, David Mabb, Cécile Massart, Eva and Franco Mattes, Yelena Popova, Susan Schuppli, Shimpei Takeda, Kota Takeuchi, Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead, Suzanne Treister, Andy Weir, Robert Williams and Bryan McGovern Wilson and Ken + Julia Yonetani.

Exhibition continues until 26 August 2018. More info:

http://malmo.se/Kultur--fritid/Kultur--noje/Konst--design/Malmo-Konstmuseum/Malmo-Art-Museum/Exhibitions.html

We are giving a lecture TONIGHT at Reed College in Portland, Oregon which will be followed by a reception for our solo exhibition The Academy of Saturn taking place at the Cooley Gallery. Work included in the show include Control Room, Portland Wall, Untitled (balloon work), a specially made Here sign that adheres to US road sign regulations and a 4k version of Horizon. Come take a look if you're in the area!

More information on both here:

https://www.artandeducation.net/announcements/176002/thomson-craighead-the-academy-of-saturn

Our perfume Apocalypse will be part of this group exhibition opening at MU, Eindhoven this Friday 1st December. Other artists in the show include Susana Cámara Leret (ES) & Sissel Tolaas (NO), Guo Cheng (CN), Gil Delindro (PT) , Xandra van der Eijk (NL), Noah Hutton (US), Fujita Keisuke (JP), Katie Paterson (UK), Thomas Thwaites (UK), Wild Vlees (NL), Jiwon Woo (KR), Timo Wright (FI).  The exhibition runs from 1st December 2017 – 18th February 2018. Go take a look!

There's a fb event invite here: https://www.facebook.com/events/391302277966880/

Our short mov London is part of the group exhibition Slow Violence opening tonight at UHArts in Hatfield including works by Ackroyd & Harvey, Adam Chodzko, Emma Critchley, Ellie Harrison, Tom James, Katie Paterson, Michael Pinsky

The exhibition runs from 29th November to 20th January. More info:
http://www.herts.ac.uk/uhbow/whats-on/2017-autumn-and-winter/slow-violence

You can also find out more about London here where you can also see a streaming version of the work: http://thomson-craighead.net/london.html

We are in a few shows just opening and coming up. As ever if you're nearby then please do go and take a look...  First off, our perfume Apocalypse is part of Humansbeingdigital which opened at The Lowry in Salford last Friday. More information here:

https://www.thelowry.com/exhibitions/humansbeingdigital

Our perfume will also be part of the group exhibition Life Time: biological clocks of the universe at MU, Eindhoven opening on Friday 1st December. More info:

http://www.mu.nl/en/exhibitions/life-time

Our karaoke installation More Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience is in the touring version of Electronic Superhighway, which also opening last week at MAAT in Lisbon, Portugal. More info here:

https://www.maat.pt/en/exhibitions/electronic-superhighway-1966-2016

Our short video work, London is part of Slow Violence opening at the University of Hertfordshire from 29th November.  More infomation here:

http://www.herts.ac.uk/uhbow/whats-on/2017-autumn-and-winter/slow-violence

We're premiering our new artwork, Recruitment Gone Wrong as part of the group exhibition The New Observatory launching at FACT, Liverpool on 22nd June 2017. The exhibition will run until 1st October and also includes work by Evan Roth, Julie Freeman, Wafaa Bilal, Natasha Caruana, Phil Coy and others.  For a full rundown go to:

http://www.fact.co.uk/projects/the-new-observatory.aspx

Documentation online here:

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/recruitment.html

Recruitment Gone Wrong was researched during an artist residency at The Open Data Institute (ODI) in 2016 and has been made with generous support from Arts Council England and curator Hannah Redler Hawes.  If you're in the Liverpool area on 22nd June come along and see the insallation in action.  Here's a bit more about the work:

In July 2013, a National Security Agency (NSA) recruitment drive held in Wisconsin University was derailed by students, who took the two recruiters to task over lies told by the agency as revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden's data leak in 2013. A few days later, an audio recording of this exchange was released by The Guardian newspaper. 

Recruitment Gone Wrong reperforms this exchange by animating each of its four main characters through the robotic automation of four ventriloquists’ half-masks.  Unlike conventional ventriloquists’ dummies, half-masks can be worn by an individual, transforming a person into a comical ‘living’ dummy, and so although each mask will be moving according to its assigned character even when left suspended and unworn in the gallery space, a visitor or group of visitors can also choose to wear any of them at prescribed times and channel the words of the students and/or recruiters through their own (cyborg) bodies.

We think of Recruitment gone wrong as an automated mechanical reenactment and a kind of karaoke, re-breathing life into a covert audio recording that touches on issues of privacy, surveillance and our human rights to freedom of information in our contemporary world.