'DOUBLE AGENT' AT BALTIC NEWCASTLE

Phil Collins, 'You'll Never Work in This Town Again', slapped art figures (Claire Bishop and Francesco Manacorda)


Phil Collins, 'You'll Never Work in This Town Again', slapped art figures (Vicky Hughes and Mark Sladen)

DOUBLE AGENT
21 May - 17 August 2008

Artists: Pawel Althamer / Nowolipie Group, Phil Collins, Dora García, Donelle Woolford, Christoph Schlingensief, Barbara Visser and Artur Zmijewski

Double Agent has been curated by Claire Bishop (Assistant Professor of History of Art at Warwick University) and Mark Sladen (Director of Exhibitions, ICA).

Double Agent is a group exhibition featuring artists who use other people as a medium. All of the works raise questions of performance and authorship, and in particular the issues that arise when the artist is no longer the central agent in his or her own work, but operates through a range of individuals, communities and surrogates.

The show contains works in a variety of media, including video and live performance – works which are often slippery in meaning or disquieting in effect. The exhibition tours to three venues in the UK, and includes the British premieres of a number of significant works, as well as new commissions specific to each venue.

Double Agent Tour dates

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London: 14 February – 6 April 2008

Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick : 26 April – 28 June 2008

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead: 21 May – 17 Aug 2008

http://www.balticmill.com