Untitled, Syracuse 2009 (Syracuse, New York, USA) © Eileen Perrier

In 2008 The Whitechapel Gallery commissioned Perrier to take part in ‘The Street — a year-long series of artists’ commissions on and around Wentworth Street.’ Perrier has recently exhibitited this commissioned project at the Whitechapel Gallery.www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/eileen-perrier-wentworth-street-studios

www.whitechapelgallery.org/education/the-street
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In August 2009 Perrier compleated the residency in collaboration with ‘Autograph ABP (UK) and Light Work’, (USA) www.lightwork.org/residency/index.html www.autograph-abp.co.uk/
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Film and Video Umbrella worked with Perrier as part of the Free to Air Development Artists programme. This research finished in October 2009. www.fvu.co.uk/artists/details/eileen-perrier/
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Perrier is also mentioned in a recent issue of British Journal of Photography (BJP). Please see link attached.
www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=871250
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A USEFUL DREAM:
African Photography 1960-2010
Saturday 26.06 > Sunday 26.09.2010

In June 2010, for the third time, BOZAR EXPO presents the biennial Summer of Photography, a programme that includes some 30 exhibitions, colloquia, workshops, and other photographic events all over Belgium. The centrepiece of the festival is A Useful Dream, a retrospective exhibition of modern African photography. Western colonialism long monopolised how the African continent was seen. Until half-way through the 20th century, with a few exceptions, the pretext of “scientific” objectivity was used to reduce Africa to a series of exotic clichés. Since independence, African countries have undertaken an extensive process of emancipation, particularly when it comes to developing their own vision of themselves. Photography has played a key role in this process. The A Useful Dream exhibition retraces 50 years of history, showing how African photographers have seen their own continent. Over those years they have gradually broken free of the way of looking at Africa imposed on them by the West. The exhibition has been put together by Simon Njami, author of, among other works, the remarkable Anthologie de la photographie africaine.

www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=9463&
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RCA Secret
postcards 2010

Post card: 279;831 and 1317
(Found)

dams.rca.ac.uk/res/sites/RCA_Secret/artists.html
dams.rca.ac.uk/res/sites/RCA_Secret/o600/831.jpg
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Perrier's work features in:

Contact Sheet 157

$27.00

Paperback: 80 pages, includes two fold-out sections
Publisher: Light Work (July 1, 2010)
ISBN: 0935445684

Product Description: This catalogue features work produced by the 2009 Light Work Artists-in-Residence and the Light Work Grant Recipients with accompanying essays. It includes the work of Yolanda del Amo, Karen Garrett de Luna, Meggan Gould, Leslie Hewitt, Priya Kambli, Dean Kessmann, Doug Manchee, Rachelle Mozman, Demetrius Oliver, Eileen Perrier, Shawn Records, and Chad States. Also included are the Light Work Grant recipients Karen Brummund, Laura Adams Guth, and Stephen Shaner. Essayists include Laura Addison, Song Chong, Brian Paul Clamp, Jon Feinstein, Courtney J. Martin, Renee Mussai, Alison Nordström, Jon Raymond, Tate Shaw, Anne Wilkes Tucker, and Tim B. Wride.

lightwork.org/store/cs157.html
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Eileen Perrier | Pembroke House Studio - 16th July 2011
as part of the Wonderful Walworth Day.

Tate Local is working with Pembroke House
on the next community newsletter 'Tate Modern and You'.
Some of Perrier's portraits taken on the day, will be included in that publication.
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News - Eileen Perrier | SCHILLERMARKT STUDIO
On Friday, 19th August, 2011, Eileen Perrier took part in Playing the City 3, please see link below:

www.playingthecity.de/aktionen/schillermarkt-studio/

Playing the City 3
THE SCHIRN BRINGS ART INTO THE STREET FOR THE THIRD AND LAST TIME
11–25 August 2011

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Römerberg, D-60311 Frankfurt
welcome@schirn.de
T (+49-69) 29 98 82-0
F (+49-69) 29 98 82-240

www.schirn.de
www.schirn-magazin.de


Playing the City—take three. From August 11 to August 25, 2011, more than fifteen international artists will occupy the inner city of Frankfurt with their actions, performances, and installations. Art will take to the street again. Playing the City 3 will focus on public space as a venue for artistic activities involving the city and its inhabitants in a variety of ways again. Each day will see new participatory projects by such artists as Tania Bruguera, Minerva Cuevas, Jacob Dahlgren, Tim Etchells, Christian Jankowski, San Keller, Kommando Agnes Richter, Levent Kunt, Eileen Perrier, Il-Chin Atem Choi, Sans façon, and Upper Bleistein. Political manifestations, demonstrations, or markets and stands specially organized by artists will help carry on the discussion on the collective, free and designable space, its limits, and not least its inhabitants' involvement.

The works presented in the context of the project Playing the City 3 show a wide range of what art in public space can be today. The performance Demonstration, 16th of August 2011, Frankfurt by the Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren will change our traditional understanding and image of manifestations. Instead of political banners and appeals, the participants will confront us with abstract works they have painted in the vein of Olle Bærtling (1911–1981), a representative of Swedish Modernism. The resultant "tableau vivant" will surprise passersby and perhaps motivate them to join in. The performance and installation artist Tania Bruguera will bring her long-time project Immigrant Movement International 2010–2015 from Queens, New York to Europe for the first time to promote a new society together with local groups and associations in the form of a manifestation on Frankfurt's Römerberg. The group of artists Sans façon will subtly furnish public space with two theater spotlights by hitching them to the street lighting in a nearly parasitic manner, so that their circles of light will offer a stage for passersby and residents when night closes in. The Swiss artist San Keller's Markt der Freiwilligen (The Volunteers' Market) will offer an opportunity to meet voluntary unpaid attendants in charge of stands who will deal in free will, selling voluntariness to their customers. On Frankfurt's famous Schillermarkt, passersby will meet the photographer Eileen Perrier asking people into her photo studio—which recalls the classical studio of the nineteenth and early twentieth century—for a special kind of portrait session complete with historical headrest. If people in Frankfurt start behaving differently all of a sudden in the days of Playing the City 3, they might be following the British artist Tim Etchells' instructions. Titled Ways Out, his new work is comprised of a series of postcards with twenty instructions playfully inviting viewers to change their usual conduct.

In parallel to the activities unfolding in the city, the project team will do its work in public in headquarters set up in the Schirn—feeding the website, answering questions about the exhibition, and organizing and documenting all activities. Playing the City 3 can also be followed on the Internet as a digital extension of public space: the webpage www.playingthecity.de.

DIRECTOR: Max Hollein. CURATOR: Matthias Ulrich (Schirn). ASSISTANT: Clara Wörsdörfer.
HEADQUARTER: SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT, Römerberg, D-60311 Frankfurt, city center. OPENING HOURS: Tue, Fri–Sun 10 a.m.–7 p.m., Wed and Thur 10 a.m.–10 p.m. INFORMATION: www.schirn.de and www.playingthecity.de, e-mail: welcome@schirn.de, phone: (+49-69) 29 98 82-0, fax: (+49-69) 29 98 82-240. ADMISSION: free. GENERAL GUIDED TOUR: Tuesday, August 16, 2011, 4 p.m., meeting place: project headquarters. PRESS CONTACT: Dorothea Apovnik (head Press/Public Relations), Giannina Lisitano (press officer), phone: (+49-69) 29 98 82-148, fax: (+49-69) 29 98 82-240, e-mail: presse@schirn.de, www.schirn.de, www.schirn-magazin.de

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Perrier had images from the 'Nation' series included in the Royal College of Arts | Black Exhibition.
31 August – 6 September 2011: RCA Black

www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=514615&groupID=514615

The RCA Students Union in collaboration with the African and African Caribbean Design Diaspora (AACDD), is proud to present RCA Black, an exhibition celebrating art and design by African and African Caribbean graduates. More than 20 artists, designers and makers are confirmed, including Chris Ofili, bespoke tailor Charlie Allen, photographer Eileen Perrier, painter Frank Bowling RA, contemporary artists Harold Offeh and Faisal Abdu’Allah and designer Simone Brewster.