I AM STILL WORKING

Working on work

2012-01-15T14:00:00.000Z

20th November's Mist

2011-11-20T16:54:00.001Z

2011-11-18T19:07:00.001Z

I am so happy!

Open studio 2011

2011-10-29T21:05:00.000+01:00

This month saw the annual Collective Studios open studio. I installed some documentation of a show I had some months ago on Charing Cross Road.

A Proposal for the North Laine

2011-08-17T12:16:00.000+01:00

WEBSITE!

2011-08-07T21:34:00.000+01:00

I have been working on my website for a while now, it is finally up... RobertKiff.com

Open Market- A Film About A Particular Motion

2011-08-04T10:44:00.000+01:00

A Film About A Particular Motion was exhibited for three days at an abandoned market in Brighton. Thanks to Compartment.

Unit 38, The Open Market 28th-30th July

2011-07-29T10:22:00.001+01:00

Firstsite - Interactive artwork proposal

2011-07-22T18:08:00.000+01:00

Earlier this year Jack George and myself proposed an artwork for the Firstsite Gallery in Colchester. The work consisted of a colourful box structure 2m high x 1.5m wide x 0.6m deep; the front side of

which bearing an incomplete text taken from the historian Tacitus’s account of the Roman

defeat of Boudica’s uprising in AD 60. The other side of the structure prompted the viewer for

a list of words of specific lexical categories. These words completed the text. The proposal for the interactive

sculpture invited members of the public to create, by way of a ‘madlib’, their own version of a

speech attributed to the Roman general Suetonius Paulinus.

Suetonius Paulinus/ Agricola/ Tacitus/ Webster/ You as the work is titled; reveals how historical

accounts can deviate from generation to generation as new mythologies are created and

distributed. Accounts of this particularly colourful episode in British history are subject to

these inaccuracies. The sculpture produces an opportunity for viewers to engage collectively

with this fact of historical research and to participate in the creation of their own myth.

The chosen text is a speech, alleged by Tacitus, to have been delivered to the Roman army before

the decisive battle that sealed Boudica’s defeat. Engaging with the speech in the proposed

manor is gently subversive and reflects the rebellious nature of Camulodunum’s (now Colchester's) inhabitants

then and now.

Images of 51.516728 / 0.074801445

2011-07-20T14:00:00.000+01:00

51.516728 / 0.074801445 was exhibited at the Window Gallery on Charing Cross Road . The exhibit was on from 5th - 26th May. Thanks to everyone who came down and saw it.

51.516728 / 0.074801445 at The Window Gallery, 107-109 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0DU

2011-07-16T10:38:00.000+01:00

Making New Work

2011-07-15T12:08:00.001+01:00

These are the production images of my exhibited work 51.516728 / 0.074801445. The revisited work uses a site in Beckton, East London as its focus. Beckton or rather Gallions Reach was a place that was once a gas works, then became a film site in the 80s and now is home to various 'drive-in' retail parks. In the work I recreate some of the landscape shots taken from the various films shot there including Stanley Kurbrick's Full Metal Jacket.

Cardboard City

2011-07-09T17:05:00.000+01:00

As part of the Wandsworth Arts festival 2011 Collective Studios created an event making a city out of cardboard for the Shimmy in Wandsworth Park. Many people showed up and helped to produce a walled city that even the strong winds on the day could not blow down.

Collective Studio's Garden Fete

2011-07-06T12:38:00.002+01:00

Saturday 21st May saw Collective Studios open its doors to the public for a good old British Garden Fete. Stalls were in laid out with lots of cakes and biscuits to buy. You could wang -a-welly, guess how many sweets were in the jar and even throw a sponge. For more information on the studio and upcoming events see: Collective Studios

Unrealised Projects Volume 4: A Considered Conclusion to a Journey into Material

2011-07-01T12:10:00.015+01:00

Unrealised Projects Volume 4: a considered conclusion to a journey into material

Sam Ely & Lynn Harris

ISBN 978-1-4467-9466-1

228.4 x 152.4mm

Braille insert page 12

48 pages

Published by Unrealised Projects

Available from MK gallery bookshop and online now.

http://www.unrealisedprojects.org/

£6 (including p&p, within the UK, for overseas shipping please contact: unrealisedprojects@hotmail.com

Unrealised Projects Volume 4: MK Gallery Scratch Nights

2011-06-30T15:34:00.000+01:00

My film entitled A Film About a Particular Motion was installed into the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes. The film sat alongside other works of art created that had been created in conjunction with Unrealised Project's 4th volume of work. Artists included Cecilia Wee and David Cunningham.

New blog! I AM STILL WORKING

2011-06-30T12:43:00.000+01:00

The new blog is finished and I have made some changes. I will be posting the up this spring's works within the next week. Hope you enjoy.

Watch this space

2011-05-21T10:20:00.001+01:00

New blog coming soon.

Unrealised Projects: Volume 4, a considered conclusion to a journey into material.

2011-02-10T00:33:00.002Z

Thursday 10th February 2011 6.30-9pm

Initiated in 2003, by artists Sam Ely and Lynn Harris, Unrealised Projects is an active investigation into the potential of unrecognised, unfinished and unfulfilled ideas. Collecting proposals from artists, designers, curators, writers, performers and musicians which have yet to be realised or remain unwritten, UP provides a space and context for these concepts to exist in circulation and ultimately challenge the viewer to ‘realise’ the work through their own imagination.

This event marks the conclusion of Unrealised Projects Volume 4: a considered conclusion to a journey into material. Several submissions, ranging in media, have been ‘realised’ through an experimental process of negotiations between artist and curators and will be presented over the course of the evening.

Artists include:

David Cunningham

Cecilia Wee

Cecile Gravesen

Neva Elliott

Robert Kiff

Paul Stanley

featuring

Jonny Hill

Edd Simpson

with guest curation by Josh Love

Part of Scratch Nights at MK Gallery

Thursday 10 February 2011

Address:

MK Gallery

900 Midsummer Blvd

Milton Keynes MK9 3QA

http://www.mkgallery.org/events/2011_02_10/unrealised_projects/

http://www.unrealisedprojects.org/

Moving out of the Wandsworth Studio

2011-01-20T19:40:00.000Z

As of December 31st 2010 Wandsworth Art Studios are no more. A new space has been found around the corner from the old building and will be up and running within a few week.

Realising Welwyn Garden City

2010-11-18T15:39:00.000Z

Last week saw the shoot for a video-work I have been eager to make for the last year and a half. The work will eventually end up in the MK Gallery in for a night curated by Unrealised projects.

Talk at Space Hackney.

2010-11-11T21:50:00.001Z

I was invited by Sarah Jury from the Pigeon Wing to join in a panel discussion on ideas of Authorship, within a part of an exhibition by Charlie Woolley at the SPACE studios in hackney. We discussed the role of benevolence in young art scenes and routed out a general skepticism of certain commodified relational practices.

The discussion was part of a larger online radio show, which consisted of live music, poetry readings & debates.

Unfortunately my camera run out of battery so I only managed to take one picture!

Open Studio - Wandsworth

2010-09-30T18:18:00.001+01:00

This coming weekend sees the start of Wandsworth Artist's Open House. My studio will be open all day saturday & sunday 9 - 5:30pm on the 2nd, 3rd, 9th & 10th of October.

"From old clock factories, working studios, garden sheds and front rooms across the borough - we have around two hundred artists showing and selling their work" - Wandsworth Council

for more details please visit. http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk

I have installed some work entitled JVC-GR-60.

Scouting for a Location

2010-08-31T19:42:00.000+01:00

I have recently been on a reconnaissance mission to find a location for a film I am planning. The site is fundamental to how the video operates as I am wishing to explore the perceived depth and layers of varying histories and how site is mediated by the display & re-presentation of these histories. The work will hopefully navigate itself between a reach for political output and of a quasi-historical, adjacently headed method of time travel.

I am keen to make a comment of the modern.

Well..middle August seems to be a slow time for Art

2010-08-12T19:11:00.000+01:00

Not me for me, have had my good friend Imi round doing some editing. We're always rocking in the studio!!!!

Studio 302

2010-07-29T19:05:00.000+01:00

I have moved into a new studio in Wandsworth with Collective Studios.

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The space is good and I have made some small changes to it.

A honorary member

2010-07-20T14:25:00.003+01:00

At long last I have been let in!

Cathode Ray Mission

2010-07-13T18:59:00.009+01:00

I was asked to put some work in a show called Cathode Ray Mission at Waterside Project Space.

The show's curator Josh Love took his impetus from a scene in David Cronenberg's apocalyptic feature length film Videodrome.Cronenberg paints a dystopian future in which all forms of media are inextricably tied up into the human consciousness. The scene in the film which was re-appropriated depicted what would be most comparable to a homeless shelter, but instead of keeping people from the street fed and being given shelter the Cathode Ray Mission was for people to reconnect with tele-visual world. For in Cronenburg's film television is provider, the mediator and of course the real.

I was working on a small sketch or 'map' for a film that is still in the pipeline, the video lasts 3 minutes and is a practice for a longer and much smoother series of shots. The video was displayed on an old CRT television from the 70s to early 80s. Office divides were used to block off each artist's work. The show performed much the same function as it did in the film but now the cliental was young artist and enthusiasts who came to reconnect with more nostalgic forms of screen-related mediation.

FLATLINE 2009

2010-07-01T19:37:00.004+01:00

I Played a reunion gig with my old band supporting the Gallows.

Check the video here.

Unrealised Presentation: The Old Friends

2010-06-08T17:05:00.016+01:00

It was almost a year ago that I had a presentation for the Unrealised Projects at my old residence. I simply set up a 35mm slide projector in a spare room. I found it was difficult to revisit a body of work from two years previous, I had changed and so had the motives behind the project. Myself, Joshua Love & Sam Ely spoke for hours.

OR

2010-05-26T13:27:00.005+01:00

OR OR

WGC: Free Tea & Coffee [Factory Archive]

2010-04-22T13:47:00.004+01:00

Have just transferred a whole reel of 35mm slide negatives to digital.

Unrealised Projects The rebirth of the Welwyn Garden City Project

2010-04-18T22:07:00.008+01:00

I was contacted by an organisation called Unrealised Projects that knew of my work from college.Unrealised projects are a small, artist-run organisation that provides a space for discussion and thinking, a space where ideas are in a state of flux. The agency has had three previous volumes of work and given assistance to, distributed and curated artists. I was asked if I was interested in submitting a proposal that would allow me, to some capacity, realise a piece of work that had as of yet not been finished. I submitted a text which was chosen along with fifteen other artists to be included in the agencies fourth volume of work.

The Cost of Art - Georgian Television

2010-04-12T15:55:00.004+01:00

I was looking through materials of shows I had been involved with in the last year and it turns out that the Cost of Art show at the Foundry was featured on a Georgian News. The program is a feature on London and visits a few place including the Foundry. Enjoy, I hope you're Georgian is better than mine.

What Do All Artists Fear?

2010-04-12T12:53:00.003+01:00

Click here

Luxury Goods London - The Cost of Art - 28th-1st Feb 2009

2010-04-08T21:24:00.006+01:00

I put my work JVC-GR-60 in a show called the Cost of Art held at the Foundry on the top of curtain road at the start of last year. The people from Luxury Goods London wanted the show to articulate concerns of how value systems in art are produced, I don't think I really got very far with inquiry but was opportunity to show new work.

http://luxurygoods.freevar.com/the%20cost%20of%20art.html

JVC-GR-60 (2009)

2010-04-06T18:57:00.001+01:00

JVC-GR-60 was a video work shot on a camera of the same name from the 1990 period. The works seeks to find the relationship between camera and user taking in the temporal aspects of the working object itself into account. The rather slap-dash aesthetic of the film and its subjects seems reminiscent of old videos like BMX Inferno and Ride On.

I AM WORKING

2010-04-06T18:35:00.002+01:00

EC2

2008-07-08T18:48:00.004+01:00

This needs a sense of scale. No really! Thanks to Marv for the forks and Jonny G for the bars plus the photograph.

Wear(ing) a suit.

2008-07-02T15:21:00.007+01:00

I had a suit made for me by the fabulous Gabriella Gonzalez.

check out her blogspot for more treats.

Photography by Leon Mark www.leonmark.co.uk

Build your own modernist chair.

2008-07-02T13:07:00.006+01:00

Following instructions given over by a project created by George Thomas (Design Product RCA) myself and Jamie Galliford proceeded to build our own modernist chair.

The chair we were to replicate was originally designed by Gerrit Reitveld; its charm laid in its ability to be easily re-produced. A large part George's project was to allow the manufacturer free reign, sizes were not specified neither was the fixing method. The chair was built from an old futon found in a skip just off Shoreditch High street.

The end of an era, the start of something new.

2008-07-02T11:48:00.010+01:00

The St.Martins 2008 Fine Art degree show was held at 107-109 Charing Cross road, WC2H 0DU. It ran from 14th June - 19th

I decided to join up with eight other students in a co-collaborative exercise, an exercise that would at times test the nerve and critical ability of the most practiced of artists.

We co-wrote a semi-fictional narrative that became a map of sorts to how the degree show's social architecture would be created. The story Pipesmoker wound up in the degree show catalogue. Nine pages nine writers.

One can download it here.

The degree show itself was constructed by a ongoing process of discussion and the movement of objects, we took an approach that would see ourselves immersed into the aesthetic realm.

The creation of my Blogspot.

2008-04-13T12:02:00.001+01:00

Check back here soon, i will actually have something up by then.