In March 2009 I am also participating in a group exhibition at The VAULT Gallery in Lancaster.

The VAULT Gallery presents new group exhibition ‘Curiosity’.

Preview: 5th March 2009, 6:30-9:30pm, Lancaster.

This March, Lancaster’s VAULT Gallery presents its first selective group exhibition.  Entitled ‘Curiosity’, the Church Street space plays host to artworks ranging from the peculiar to the downright strange.

This unusual collection of objects- spanning the fearful, freakish and fantastical- come courtesy of artists from across the north-west and nationwide.

Gallery Co-Curator Ben Hill commented:

“We received so many great applications that it wasn’t difficult to make sure the exhibition was so visually intriguing and exciting.  It’s a pleasure to showcase some of the more bizarre objects in modern contemporary artistic practice”

The exhibition contains works of drawing and sculpture alongside photographic prints and videos; investigating themes from memory, absence and security; to the fantastic, the imagination and domesticity gone wrong.

Some recent Bastet screenings:

twochange, Gotlandsgatan 76 (Stockholm, Sweden), daily, 4-11pm until the end of February 2009.

Ear-Plugged Festival, The LAB (Dublin, Ireland), 27th & 28th February 2009 at 4pm.

Outcasting – online moving image gallery, season 6 (February – March 2009), CH3.

And last but not least:

Flatpack Festival, Electric cinema (Birmingham, UK), 14th March 2009, 12pm.

Alternatively, you can view it here:

Bastet (2008) from alicja rogalska on Vimeo.

I am currently finishing off my artist action research into art in public transport context commissioned by Longhouse. More information about the research can be found on a separate blog.

Contos do Paiva had its Los Angeles premiere on the 15th of February 2009. Read about the event on the Los Angeles Film Forum website.

My new video, premiered at Supermarket (Stockholm, Sweden).

Lucid (2009) from alicja rogalska on Vimeo.

Camera by filmcafe, sound by Martin Clarke.

Just got back from Supermarket – an artist-led art fair in Stockholm, Sweden where I showed my new video piece Lucid and also offered free childcare as a performance.

Some of my co-performers: Ivar, Kim and Moa. We looked at art together, discussed it and even carried out a survey amongst Supermarket guests and exhibiting artists about people’s favourite art forms.

Binaural is a Portuguese media arts collective that promotes the exploration and research in sound, visual and new media arts, focusing on the crossing of media and languages and on the articulation between artistic production and the surrounding context, particularly through its activities in the rural space of Nodar.

Binaural runs Nodar Artist Residency Center, located in an ancestral rural mountain community of northern Portugal. Through an annual program of residencies, are organized and produced the development of media arts projects from international artists, followed by public presentations in the surrounding villages. The resident artists are encouraged to establish interactions with the place, its inhabitants, geographic space and memory.

Between January, 21st and February, 17th 2009, Binaural founder and sound artist Rui Costa and the sound/video artist Maile Colbert will conduct a series of lectures, workshops and concerts hosted by US universities and cultural organizations. Through this tour, Binaural seeks to share with artists, students and communities from across Atlantic the experience of an immersive and committed site-specific art practice and of creative interaction with rural communities. A particular focus will be given to the different possibilities of working with sound in a site-specific manner.

As part of the lectures, some excerpts of works developed in Nodar will be presented, by such sound / video artists as Martin Clarke & Alicja Rogalska, Vered Dror, Maile Colbert, John Grzinich, Aaron Ximm, Pablo Rega & Oscar de Paz, Jurate Jarulyte Weiss, o.blaat, Pali Meursault, Viv Corringham, Rui Costa & Manuela Barile, Suzanne Caines, Christine Niehoff and Xesús Valle.

Contos do Paiva will be screened at:

• California Institute for the Arts, Valencia,CA
• Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
• Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
• State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
• Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

You can also view it here:

Contos do Paiva from alicja rogalska on Vimeo.

On 23 January 2009 professor Zenon Bankowski from the School of Law at the Edinburgh University and myself attended a Legal Education conference at the UK Centre for Legal Education, University of Warwick. We gave a brief presentation about the Beyond Text project we have been working together on for the last year and showed a film documenting the practical workshops.

Since December 2008 I have been working with a group of young adults with complex emotional, behavioural and psychological difficulties to explore thoughts, feelings and destructive behaviour in a more constructive and creative way using photography.

The project was commissioned by Full Potential Arts and will culminate in an exhibition at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery‘s new Community Gallery (18th July – 1st November 2009).

Picture above by Shei.