Secret Service - A Performance by Marlene Haring

During the opening of Unterspiel (January 17, 2007 from 6 – 9 p.m.), Marlene Haring will perform “Secret Service”. What this entails exactly is, well, a secret! If you’d like to know more, or if you’d like to participate, the best thing to do is come to the opening!

Remember: A free shuttle bus to the Blackwood Gallery departs from the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen St. W.) at 6:00 pm. It couldn’t be easier to get here and join us!


Here’s a little more info about Marlene’s work, as provided by the website of the Vargas Organisation, London:

Marlene Haring
b. 1978, lives and works currently in New York.
From 1999 to 2003 she was mainly working with Catrin Bolt in the collaboration Halt+Boring.

The citation for the 2005 Birgit Jürgenssen Prize states: 'The deciding factor [in awarding the prize to Marlene Haring] was that the young artist does not rely on any formalist approaches in her work or limit herself to one medium, but rather employs performance, happening, photography, video, etc., reflecting trends, contents and strategies of today’s art world and in translating these into her own works after endowing them with a new and subversive dimension. [...She] has developed an independent position evincing a great degree of attention for the rules of art and the everyday world and an aesthetic competence focusing on the crucial questions concerning the criteria for social closeness and distance, body and mind, sex and gender.'


Check this blog regularly: More info about other artists coming soon!