‘Giorgio Sadotti’s Vanity Affairs’, a day of documentation On Sunday 15 February 2009, 11am–7pm
Giorgio Sadotti’s so-called ‘Vanity Affairs’ are (almost) annual events hosted by Sadotti at his minimalist home in East London. Begun in 2002 the events – for small, familiar audiences – have most often been instigated by Sadotti with a sampled sound or audio work given to the invited artist to respond to.
2002 ‘AND’ with 4 musicians unknown to each other
2003 ‘Perpetual Euphoria’ with Paul Noble
2004 ‘Love’ with Liam Gillick and a reading by Michael Conroy-Harris
2006 ‘CF GS’ with Ceal Floyer
2008 ‘To My Left’ with Jemima Stehli
2009 (forthcoming) with Alexandra Stähli, Sarina Scheidegger and Fiona Banner
Sadotti’s video documentation of many of the events will be projected alongside displays of the ephemera generated throughout the history of this small slice of ‘grassroots’ art activity in London.
GIORGIO SADOTTI (B. 20th Century, Manchester, based in London) gained his MFA at University of Syracuse, New York (1981); MA Sculpture, Manchester University (1979); and his BA Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic (1978). Sadotti has exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions for over twenty years.
Limoncello’s punctuation programme is a series of lectures, performances and events held between gallery exhibitions. The programme offers the gallery artists and the people around them a site to try out ideas. If as JG Ballard has claimed, short stories are the loose change of the literary world, then the punctuation programme events are ‘looking after the pennies’, although in a non-fiscal way because they are non-commercially viable work within a commercial context.
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