Please see entries below with Past News:

Please note that some of the links may no longer work!

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Fast Forward: Women In Photography
From 6th -11th August 2018, Perrier will be a guest on Women In Photography’s Instagram page.

The Instagram is connected to the research project ‘Fast Forward: Women in Photography’. For more information, please visit the website (link in bio). #womeninphoto #fastforward #eileenperrier
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In A Different Light - a temporary archive display - showcases recent works acquired by Autograph ABP for its permanent collection of photography, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Collecting Cultures programme. Many works are printed and displayed for the first time.

Perrier’s work is featured in this selection of more than 50 photographs.

More than 175 works have been acquired for In A Different Light since 2015. Autograph ABP’s Archive and Research Centre has a unique remit: collecting, preserving and disseminating the work of a diverse constituency of contemporary artists and historical image portfolios that address critical questions of cultural identity, human rights, race, representation and difference.

autograph-abp.co.uk/exhibitions/in-a-different-light1

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Perrier has work featured in American Chordata - Issue Five - Spring 2017
The magazine can be viewed online, please see link below:
en.calameo.com/read/004369786e3629b7e744a
Or you can subscribe and purchase the magazine with the following link below:
https://americanchordata.org

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Portraits of a Global Law School

‘Portraits of a Global Law School’ brought together over 50 alumni, students and members of staff to have their photographs taken at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London.

A selection of the portraits have also been installed in the East Wing of Somerset House, alongside a specially curated series of images and texts related to the exhibition.

Everyone who took part in the project was also interviewed, by Kieran Mcgrath. Using these conversations, brief texts were written to accompany the portraits, describing each featured person’s relationship to the School. This combination of portraiture and narrative is designed to articulate the complex diversity that constitutes the School’s global community.

One major theme that quickly became apparent, even in the project’s early stages, was how the School’s progressive sense of inclusivity has allowed students to thrive. This was as true for those who studied here in the 1950s as it was for those who have only recently arrived, irrespective of whether they were born in the United Kingdom, or in places as diverse as Nigeria, Colombia, Hong Kong or Iraq.

In celebrating the achievements of our alumni, students and staff from a diverse array of backgrounds, the School is working in support of the university’s Race Equality Charter Mark. Creating a space for an open dialogue between the School and its wider community is central to tackling prejudice and perceived barriers. The project functions, not just as an opportunity for individuals to tell their personal stories, but also for an understanding of the School’s collective identity that goes beyond superficial categories of gender, race and ability.

Portraits of a Global Law School is displayed on level -1 in Somerset House East Wing.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kcl_law/sets/72157657014217240
www.kcl.ac.uk/law/about/vis-arts/global-portraits.aspx

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Perrier was part of the BP Family Festival that took place at Tate Britain on the weekend of 11 and 12 February 2017.

BP Family Festival: Play the Gallery was a participatory event for family members of all ages – inclusive of children, parents and grandparents – and invited participants to return to play the gallery again and again.

Other artists who too part in the festival are: Adam James and Hamish McPherson, Albert Potrony, Ania Bas, Daniel Oliver, Eileen Perrier, Freddie Opoku-Addaie, Kinetika Bloco, Mamoru Iriguchi, Evelyn Shlomowitz (with Nefeli Skarmea), Rebekah Ubuntu, Zinzi Minott and Pete Yelding.

Hydra Dewachi has produced a short film for this event. Please see link below:
www.hydardewachi.com/play-the-gallery/

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12 Oct 2016 | Photography

WeAreW12 is a free photography exhibition and a celebration of Shepherd’s Bush, created by photographer Eileen Perrier and the people of Shepherd’s Bush.

EILEEN INTRODUCES WEAREW12.

I have been taking portraits of strangers with my mobile phone since 2012, initially as a visual diary of my surroundings and now as a spontaneous alternative for taking portraits of strangers in situ. In some respects it reminds me of the point and shoot disposable camera aesthetic and in my early days working as a street photographer.

When I was commissioned by the Bush Theatre for the WeAreW12 exhibition focusing on the Uxbridge Road, Artistic Director Madani Younis explained it is one of the most diverse roads in Europe and I was compelled to capture the essence of this statement.

The inhabitants are eclectic and, on the whole, warm and friendly. Some would give me a snippet of information such as the Mormons on their first day out together; the lady fixing her makeup – an actress currently in Motown The Musical; the expectant mother, due the following Friday, who looked so amazing; the gentleman in the laundrette who shared an in-depth conversation about his family history; the man reciting poetry to his possible love interest, or maybe they were just friends…

These subjects were proud to be part of a community project run by the Bush Theatre. It’s clearly held with great admiration which is why I was able to capture more than 50 people in three days. Most extraordinary really.

To focus this ongoing mobile phone portrait project in Shepherd’s Bush and relating back to the plays commissioned about the area for This Place We Know has enabled me to gain a sense of place both through the eyes of the writers and of the community.

WeAreW12 is displayed on the Bush Theatre building on Uxbridge Road throughout Winter 2016. It is free to view. Share your photos with us of faces and places in Shepherd’s Bush using #WeAreW12.

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Other exhibitions:

25 November–5 March 2017
Peckham Platform Retrospective

Perrier has work featured in Peckham Platform Retrospective.

The exhibition showcasing all twenty of Peckham Platform’s artist commissions will be the last exhibition in the gallery on Peckham Square.

www.peckhamplatform.com/whats-on/exhibitions/peckham-platform-retrospective

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Perrier was part of ‘BP FAMILY FESTIVAL: PLAY THE GALLERY’ from 11 FEBRUARY 2017 -
12 FEBRUARY 2017 and produced site specific work called ‘Still Moving Still’.

www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/festival/bp-family-festival-play-gallery

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12 Oct 2016 | Photography

WeAreW12 is a free photography exhibition and a celebration of Shepherd’s Bush, created by photographer Eileen Perrier and the people of Shepherd’s Bush.

EILEEN INTRODUCES WEAREW12.

I have been taking portraits of strangers with my mobile phone since 2012, initially as a visual diary of my surroundings and now as a spontaneous alternative for taking portraits of strangers in situ. In some respects it reminds me of the point and shoot disposable camera aesthetic and in my early days working as a street photographer.

When I was commissioned by the Bush Theatre for the WeAreW12 exhibition focusing on the Uxbridge Road, Artistic Director Madani Younis explained it is one of the most diverse roads in Europe and I was compelled to capture the essence of this statement.

The inhabitants are eclectic and, on the whole, warm and friendly. Some would give me a snippet of information such as the Mormons on their first day out together; the lady fixing her makeup – an actress currently in Motown The Musical; the expectant mother, due the following Friday, who looked so amazing; the gentleman in the laundrette who shared an in-depth conversation about his family history; the man reciting poetry to his possible love interest, or maybe they were just friends…

These subjects were proud to be part of a community project run by the Bush Theatre. It’s clearly held with great admiration which is why I was able to capture more than 50 people in three days. Most extraordinary really.

To focus this ongoing mobile phone portrait project in Shepherd’s Bush and relating back to the plays commissioned about the area for This Place We Know has enabled me to gain a sense of place both through the eyes of the writers and of the community.

WeAreW12 is displayed on the Bush Theatre building on Uxbridge Road throughout Winter 2016. It is free to view. Share your photos with us of faces and places in Shepherd’s Bush using #WeAreW12.

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VISUAL ARTS IN THE DICKSON POON SCHOOL OF LAW
Upcoming Exhibitions
www.kcl.ac.uk/law/about/vis-arts/global-portraits.aspx
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kcl_law/sets/72157657014217240/?share=mail

Perrier was commissioned to take a series of portraits featuring our alumni, students and staff.

The Dickson Poon School of Law is pleased to announce that we will be launching Portraits of a Global Law School, which has recently been installed on Floor -1 and published online. The project brought a group of over 50 alumni, staff and students together to have their portraits taken and to speak about their time at the School.

In celebrating the achievements of our alumni, students and staff from a diverse array of backgrounds, the School is working in support of the university’s Race Equality Charter Mark. Creating a space for an open dialogue between the School and its wider community is central to tackling prejudice and perceived barriers. The project functions, not just as an opportunity for individuals to tell their personal stories, but also for an understanding of the School’s collective identity that goes beyond superficial categories of gender, race and ability.

The event will take place from 6pm on Wednesday 30 September in the Ante Room/Moot Court at Somerset House East Wing. RSVP use this link:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/portraits-of-a-global-law-school-registration-18497444354
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Perrier had work included in the event listed below:
Official launch party invite for Anna Fox event ft. Yousef

We’d really like to draw your attention to this incredible, one off event, which also forms the platform for LOOK/15’s official launch.

Celebrating contemporary female photography, Anna Fox has story-boarded the work of several contemporary female photographers in to a (largely) Gothic/Baroque installation that will play out - emotionally and visually - across screens in the TATE foyer. Using this narrative, international DJ Yousef will create a live soundscape.

Taking place at TATE Liverpool (venue 32 on the map), starting at 8pm the event is free and open to all. Our official launch speeches will start at 8.30pm; but don’t worry - we’ll keep them short! This event sets the scene for the official aftershow party, Disco Glitter Love, at Constellations (tickets available from Skiddle, £6 adv if you didn’t tell us you wanted to attend or want additional tickets for friends, venue 7 on the map). Featuring DJ Luxxury and House of Disco, against the back drop of Michael James O’Brien’s Girlfriend, Constellations is the next go-to destination.

www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Liverpool/Constellations/Disco-Glitter-Love-with-Luxxury-and-House-Of-Disco/12406396/?utm_source=LOOK%2F15+artist%27s+dinner+invitees&utm_campaign=bae4d1529c-LOOK15-5daycount&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c1cdfd78d2-bae4d1529c-121885229
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RCA Secret… (2015)

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Goa International Photo Festival 2015
10-21 February 2015
https://www.goaphotofestival.com/exhibitions/

PORTRAITS FROM AN ISLAND
Curated by Anna Fox and Amit Sheokand
The idea that a photograph can represent who a person actually is has long been debated, and it has been generally accepted that though the image of a face and body represented in a photograph might tell you something about a time and a place, it does not so often tell you much about that individual person.
This new exhibition brings together contemporary photographic portraits by British photographers of British subjects.

Perrier is one of the artists whose work was exhibited as part of the curated show by Anna Fox and Amit Sheokand. Other artists shown were:
ARTISTS
MARTIN PARR
ANNA FOX
NATASHA CARUANA
KAREN KNORR
SHARON BOOTHROYD
JASON EVANS
EILEEN PERRIER
NIGEL SHAFRAN
CLARE STRAND
ANTHONY LUVERA
WENDY MCMURDO
NEETA MADAHAR
TRISH MORRISSEY
DANIEL MEADOWS
GARETH MCCONNELL
ANDREW BRUCE

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I was fortunate to be interviewed by Dodge and Burn.
Below is a link to all the interviews they did in 2014.
A great Photographic resource.

DODGE & BURN
DIVERSITY IN PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORY
The Photographer Interviews of 2014

Interviews are not easy. With hours of collaborative work behind each one, our photographer interviews are produced over the course of a few weeks, sometimes over a year or more. Despite the labor, after each one, I’m always encouraged to keep making new work. This year I was fortunate to interview 13 photographers, check the links below if you missed any. I hope they too leave you refreshed. Let’s look forward to 2015!

dodgeburn.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/the-photographer-interviews-of-2014.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+DodgeBurnPhotographyBlog-AfricanAmericanLatinoAsianInternationalIndigenous+(Dodge+%26+Burn+Photography+Blog:+Diversity+in+Photography)

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Eileen Perrier | Artist Talk at Peckham Platform
As part of the (Peckham Platform + Autograph ABP) Newspaper Launch for Peckham Square Studio project.
www.peckhamplatform.com/media/artist-talk-eileen-perrier
PDF of Newssheet
www.peckhamplatform.com/system/files/022015/54f1b9af7d6368779a0001b7/original/FINAL_Eileen_Perrier_Newsheet.pdf?1425127855

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HAVE YOUR PORTRAIT TAKEN AT GILLETT SQUARE
SAT 15TH NOVEMBER, 2014
by Eileen Perrier
12 - 4PM
&
Eileen Perrier & Claire Haddon
6 - 8PM

GILLETT SQUARE, DALSTON
LONDON, UK

Free, no booking required

Organised by Autograph ABP (as part of the exhibition) ‘Black Chronicles II.’

autograph-abp.co.uk/events/have-your-portrait-taken-at-gillett-square

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Please see links to interviews for the Peckham Square Studio project, with Dodge and Burn, and photomonitor.
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Photographer Interview
6th October 2014
Dodge and Burn: Diversity in Photography History
Interviewed by Qiana Mestrich

dodgeburn.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/photographer-interview-eileen-perrier.html

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Eileen Perrier / Peckham Square Studio
18th October 2014
Interviewed by Yvette Greslé

www.photomonitor.co.uk/2014/10/peckham-square-studio-2/

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Peckham Square Studio: Newspaper Launch & Artist Talk
6 November 6 - 7.30pm

The launch of Peckham Square Studio newspaper, produced in partnership with Autograph ABP.
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Perrier took part in an Events Series at Tate Britain, please see details below:

Mobile Portrait 2014 | © Eileen Perrier - Commissioned by Tate Learning

Mobile Portrait 2014 | © Eileen Perrier - Commissioned by Tate Learning

Event series
BP Family Festival: Close Encounters of the Art Kind
Saturday 25 October and Sunday 26 October 2014, 11.00–16.00
A free event inviting families to discover, explore and create throughout the galleries of Tate Britain
Part of the series: BP Displays

www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/eventseries/bp-family-festival-close-encounters-art-kind

Embark on a voyage to discover new art forms and probe 500 years of British Art.

Led by artists, performers and musicians, visitors to the BP Family Festival will be taken on a creative exploration of the unknown planet of Tate Britain and the life forms of British art within it – through film-making, experimental electronic music, and live performance throughout the galleries.

Be part of a film production line including costume, performance and props that squeezes the imagination out of anybody who comes along and turns it into a movie, hear experimental electronic music created using vintage and obsolete equipment, catch a guided tour of the history of your birth years through performance and TV, explore Henry Moore’s sculptures through movement, and encounter playful, evocative, humorous and surprising performances in response to artworks.

Participating artists are The People Speak, Langham Research Centre, Mamoru Iriguchi, Aya Kobayashi, Eileen Perrier, Robinson Stirling and Sarah Cole.

This event has been devised by Tate’s Early Years’ and Families team and artists Harold Offeh and Neil Luck.
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Peckham Platform presents:

Peckham Square Studio | 2014

This exhibition, features black and white portraits of local people taken by Perrier on Peckham Square on Friday, 11th and Saturday 12th July 2014.

16 September – 16 November 2014

www.peckhamplatform.com/media/peckham-square-studio-gallery
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Event with:
Peckham Platform

Peckham Platform has commissioned Perrier to take portraits on Peckham Square.

11 July | 12 July |
Peckham Square Studio

Do you want to take part in a new photography project here at Peckham Platform? There are limited sessions available on a first come first serve basis *. The selected portraits will be included in an exhibition at Peckham Platform from 16 September – 16 November 2014. To thank you for your participation you will be presented with your photographic portrait at the end of the project.

NB: To register your interest please come to Peckham Platform on the dates advertised above to book a session for the Peckham Mobile Studio. Please note that each session will last approximately 15mins.

www.peckhamplatform.com/whats-on/events
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Event with:
The Photographers’ Gallery

The Social
MENTORSHIP
Thu 10 Jul, 18.30

Have you ever wondered how to get a mentor? Selected FF+WE exhibiting artists are paired with one of the judges for a year-long mentor programme. Come and hear about their experiences and learn valuable insight into the role of the mentor from former FF+WE participant Sunil Shah and mentor Eileen Perrier.

FREE, JUST TURN UP

thephotographersgallery.org.uk/mentorship

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RCA secret… (2014)

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I am happy to announce that I have just sold a print from my Ghana 1996 series, to a private buyer in the U.S.A. (04.04.14)
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Perrier is featured in the Queens Park Community Schools recent magazine, for the photography workshops she provided while being resident at The Albert Studios.

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Perrier is featured in London Print Studios ( www.londonprintstudio.org.uk ) current news letter.
dmtrk.net/BHC-1XVYT-4F9ACVEVC5/cr.aspx

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© Eileen Perrier | The Albert Studio 2013 | Billboard Project ( displayed from: 15th - 27th October 2013)
The Albert Studio series is now on display on a Build | Billboard

Displayed from: 15th October 2013 – 27th October 2013
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Perrier had work shown in an exhibition called, My Hair: Black Hair Culture, style and Politics.
maa.cam.ac.uk/maa/origins-of-the-afro-comb-6000-years-of-culture-politics-and-identity/
www.originsoftheafrocomb.co.uk/
2 July – 28 September 2013

“…At the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology the story is brought to the present day with three connected contemporary art installations by artist and writer Michael McMillan. The installations show the development of the global black hair industry, the politicising and popularisation of Afros and Dreadlocks, and bring to life the ‘Cottage Salon’ in the Home, The Barber Shop and The Hairdressing Salon. Explaining black hair culture, styling and politics as we know it today, the installations are complemented by a film showing different hands styling hair, and a series of soundbites, which can be heard by sitting under one of the hairdryers.”
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Perrier had studio space at The Albert…
www.thealbert.org.uk/

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Perrier had two images from the ‘Afro Hair and Beauty Show’ series shown at the following event,
Africa Centre Summer Festival
3 - 4 August 2013
A festival weekend of music, fashion, dance, food, performances and film in and around Covent Garden Piazza
- See more at: www.africacentre.org.uk/event/exclusive-photographic-exhibition/
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Perrier showed work on 27th April, At Home with the Ludskis at the Rio Cinema Hackney.
Please see link below:
grannyludski.wordpress.com/

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Intensive care
or
such urgent times we live!

Preview of Part 2 in Enclave gallery
Denise Hawrysio, Steven Morgana, Harold Offeh, Eileen Perrier, Chris Rawcliffe, James Robertson

Late opening of Part 1 at news of the world
Sam Curtis, Rose Gibbs, Richard Parry, Esther Planas, Markus Vater, Stephen Wilson

On Friday, Harold Offeh will attempt to transform a series of music album covers from 70s and 80s into durational performances (Covers, an ongoing series of performances). The performances will be accompanied by music from the original albums.

Saturday, and every Friday and Saturday over the coming weeks, one of the artists will be present in the space with the curators. Join us on the following dates:

Saturday 27 April, 12-6pm: Chris Rawcliffe
Friday 3 May, 12-6pm: Eileen Perrier
Saturday 4 May, 12-6pm: Denise Hawrysio
Friday 10 May, 12-6pm: James Robertson
Saturday 11 May, 12-6pm: Steven Morgana

Both spaces:
Resolution Way
London
SE8 4NT

Text, images and further information: www.thecentreofattention.org/notw.html
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Perrier had a body of work in Tehran Calling London / London Calling Tehran
Please see link below:
dmtrk.com/BHC-1BMVY-4/sv.aspx
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Perrier was one of the Judges for The Photographers’ Gallery | Fresh Faced + Wild Eyed 2013
Please see link below:
ffwe2013.thephotographersgallery.org.uk/
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Perrier took part in a one day event on Saturday, 13th October 2012.
Images are now posted in the gallery section under Six Acres STUDIO, 2012.
For more information please see link below:
www.sansfacondailyrecord.blogspot.co.uk/

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The World in London was an ambitious photography project for 2012, celebrating London’s diversity and photography’s unique role in capturing the human form.
Coinciding with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the project brought together 204 specially commissioned photographic portraits of 204 Londoners, each originating from one of the competing nations.

The World in London celebrated London as a place where individuals from all parts of the world live side by side, each of them contributing to make London the unique city it is. The 204 portraits were exhibited as large-scale posters in Victoria Park in East London, and in Oxford Street opposite Selfridges.

The Photographers’ Gallery commissioned acclaimed and emerging photographers to take portrait shots of the sitters over the last three years. Involving Londoners of all ages and from all walks of life, each portrait is unique in its composition, setting and style, and provides the viewer with an insight into the individual’s story.

Victoria Park Dates: 27 July 2012 – 12 August 2012
Soho Dates: 27 July 2012 – October 2012
Admission: Free

Please see link below:

www.theworldinlondon.org.uk/#gha
www.theworldinlondon.org.uk/#

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London Calling – Tehran

There is a thriving and sophisticated underground art scene in Tehran that is both socially critical and engaged in cutting edge contemporary art.

londonprintstudio has developed a two way communication with these artists and has prepared a portfolio of London based artists to show in Tehran this June.

Perrier was part of this Project organised by London Print Studio.
For more information, please see links below:

callingproject.com/
issuu.com/newbookz/docs/callingproject

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Perrier is included within this book:
PLAYING THE CITY, INTERVIEWS - BOOK
57 artists answering 10 questions during the exhibitions playing the city I,II and III for the Kunsthalle Schirn.
Please see links below:
www.vanjavukovic.com/index.php?page_id=8
www.schirn.de/
www.playingthecity.de/aktionen/schillermarkt-studio/

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Eileen Perrier | Send and Receive (Man with nine kids)

This is a test piece which has come about through my experience with Film and Video Umbrella - Free to Air Development Artists programme.

(Link to video) vimeo.com/search/videos/search:eileen%20perrier/st/c246f83f
(Link to Film and Video Umbrella) www.fvu.co.uk/artists/details/eileen-perrier/
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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/

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Perrier has images included in Autograph ABP Learning resource pack.

www.autograph-abp.co.uk/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=ABP_1&FRM=CMSRightFrame:ABP_103

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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.

The RCA BLACK exhibition is now posted on www.duniamagazine.com

by: Juliette Goddard MA(RCA)

Please see link below:

www.duniamagazine.com/2011/09/a-cultural-diversity-affair-at-the-royal-college-of-art-black-exhibition-in-london/
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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.

The RCA BLACK exhibition is now posted on www.duniamagazine.com

by: Juliette Goddard MA(RCA)

Please see link below:

www.duniamagazine.com/2011/09/a-cultural-diversity-affair-at-the-royal-college-of-art-black-exhibition-in-london/
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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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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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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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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 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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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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In August 2009 Perrier completed 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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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 2008, Perrier did an artist talk at Napier University for The Photography and Film department. They also interviewed Perrier for their end of year graduation catalogue. Please see the PDF below:
Click here to download this file
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Perrier was Commissioned by the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King’s College London.

NEWS ARCHIVE 2007
Nursing School launches major arts project

18 Sep 2007
www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/news-archive/2007/sep/Nursing-School-launches-major-arts-project.aspx

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