GUIDED TOURS: a permanent project for Auto-Italia

Three curators, Bettina Brunner, Kathy Noble and Francesco Pedraglio, present fictional guided tours of Auto-Italia through the medium of writing. The guided tour, an established museological convention, is used here as a means to visit exhibitions that don't exist. The tours will be permanently available, as three alternatives to the exhibition on show, for as long as Auto-Italia remains at its current location, an old Volkswagen garage which is awaiting demolition.

Bettina Brunner has written a conversation between herself and Dan Graham based on interviews and the artist's writings concerning architecture and space. Dan Graham – Against the "Neutrality of Surface" is presented as dialogue transcribed in a booklet. Bettina is Exhibitions Co-ordinator at the BFI and a regular contributor to Frieze Magazine and Springerin.

Kathy Noble has reviewed an imaginary exhibition, addressing authenticity through performance and re-performance. To Be Real is presented as a page photocopied from an art magazine. Kathy is a writer and Assistant Curator at Tate Modern.

Francesco Pedraglio has imagined a possible future for Auto-Italia as an underground political movement who are forced into hiding and adapt physical features of the building for communication and surveilance. This is presented in the form of an audio guide. Francesco co-founded the curatorial project space FormContent, edits the quarterly fanzine The Mock and other superstitions, and is a London editor for Kaleidoscope.

Auto-Italia South East, 1 Glengall Road, London SE15 6NJ

Flyer design by Emily Rand




MELROSE PLACE, JT Project 09, James Taylor Gallery

In 1995 the artist Mel Chin, and a group of students from CalArts in Los Angeles, formed the GALA Committee and collaborated with the producers of Melrose Place to insert artworks into the TV show as props and additions to the set.

Coinciding with the US airing of a new, contemporary version of Melrose Place, this exhibition will act as a re-make of the GALA project. Original episodes of the show will be screened within a set styled to look like an open-plan loft apartment, and a group of seven artists will show work, including sculpture, installation, drawing, video and performance, as a series of interventions within an environment which will be part domestic, part theatrical and part fictional.

With work by Jennifer Bailey, Olivier Castel, Danielle Dean, Justin Jaeckle, Kazimierz Jankowski, Rachel Pimm and Patrick Shier.

One of seven simultaneous exhibitions by artist-run galleries and artist collectives, invited by James Taylor Gallery to temporarily occupy a different section of their huge warehouse building.








A publication was produced to accompany the exhibition, including more information, further reading and contributions by the artists.


James Taylor Gallery. Collent Street, London E9 6SQ
JTG Project 09: 14 October to 1 November 2009. Private view Friday 16 October 6pm to 10pm. Open Monday to Friday 12pm to 6pm (closed Monday 26, Tuesday 27 October).

Image: © The CW Television Network

MENU, The Savoy Cafe, 240 Graham Road

1st August 2009, 1-9pm
A choice of thirty-two artworks delivered to seated exhibition visitors on request. Handled, assembled, observed, and even eaten, works temporarily combined to form miniature table-top exhibitions.

With work by Zayne Armstrong, Sophie Aschauer, Jennifer Bailey, Mark Barker, Oscar Carlson, Censor, Côme Ciment, Danielle Dean, Constintin Debuffu, Amanda Dennis, Sarah Elliott, Jenifer Evans, Alexander Hassenpflug, Kazimierz Jankowski, Richard John Jones, Atalya Laufer, Aki Nagasaka, Django Pemberton, Rachel Pimm, Patrick Shier and Giorgio Silverio.

Vacant since the 1990s, this landmark 1930s cafe was temporarily re-opened to play host to a programme of screenings, performances, talks and exhibitions organised by Rosie Cooper.









N I G H T S C H O O L, Window Gallery, Central St Martins College of Art & Design

5 to 19 May 2009
A rolling programme of documentaries, interviews, texts and images, using the window as a projection screen and loudspeaker; an extension of the art school which turned the pavement into both public classroom and entertainment hotspot.




Co-curated with Olivier Castel and Justin Jaeckle following an invitation by Richard John Jones.

ENTRANCE AND UNDERGROUND, Friends of the Divided Mind, The Royal College of Art

17 to 29 March 2009
Re-interpretations and re-presentations of Auto-Italia's archive, as one of three artist-run galleries invited to exhibit in Friends of the Divided Mind, the Royal College of Art MA Curating Contemporary Art degree show.








A project with Olivier Castel, Theo Cook, Kate Cooper, Amanda Dennis, Richard John Jones, Rachel Pimm and Patrick Shier, and Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art students Dean Kissick, Marcus Mitchell, Eszter Steierhoffer and Shang Wang.

...AND THE DARK SHOW RETURNS AS A GHOST, Wallis Dies and Goes to Paradise, Paradise Row

16 January to 14 February 2009
Artists were invited to make work that occupied time instead of space for a group show hidden within another exhibition; a four-week programme of one-off performances and screenings as well as regularly repeated events and interventions by fifteen artists.









With work by Ed Atkins, Mark Barker, Julie and Maude Belgrand, Oscar Carlson, Kate Cooper, Debo Eilers and Nic Xedro, Mathew Hale, Alexandros Haßenpflug, Kazimierz Jankowski, Aki Nagasaka, Casper Perrin Yoakum, Rachel Pimm, Patrick Shier and Louise Weiss. Part of Wallis Dies and Goes to Heaven curated by Vanessa Carlos, Edward Fornieles and Ross McNicol.
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