SATELLITE is pleased to announce – Oculomancy by David Steans.
This preview will open 7:00PM – 11:00PM especially for Late Shows.

Alongside this solo presentation Satellite is launching a special edition of Our Demons II available to buy directly from Satellite (info@satellitesatellite.org) or in Alt Vinyl record shop for £14 each.
See here for details
In this installation Satellite observes an emergent artist’s practice and shows a sound-bite of the key devices that he employs: film, costume, artefact and performance.
This exhibition also includes a preview of new film work Oculomancy.

Previous film-work, Our Demons, in collaboration with King Conny Wobble [ http://www.kingconnywobble.com ] records a group of ten characters isolated within a baron landscape and follows them through a series of basic tasks as they endeavor to move through this environment. The morphed faces of these characters, or non-characters, appear disfigured but do not ‘monstorise’ humanity. Some of their actions may be grotesque or degenerate but they imbue a human-like action and endeavor. The lack of direct conversation is substituted with subtle active responses to one another, acting like fellows brought together quickly, and sharing the same rationale and purpose. Their silence together with the situation we find them in and their unexplained outward appearance seems to indicate a post-climactic loss in the tool of direct communication: echoing a disparity in civilization.

Steans’ presentation of works in Oculomancy brings forward two additional dimensions of his practice in the form of artifact and performance.
Specifically Steans presents costume and persona in recognition of the potency of these devises and their potential to forecast and alter the perception of reality. His development of the role of costume follows its heritage, stemming from ritual and its primary function as a form of social identification.
Persona is used in the immediate sense, by Steans who uses costume to appear himself as a directive devise for the audience and challenges ideas surrounding artist as creator and artist’s persona.

For more information on Steans earlier works please visit www.davidsteans.com

as well as www.xymphora.co.uk which documents 10 film-works titled Initiation Rites Anthology by the now disbanded collective Xymphora.

Also  www.glamourie.co.uk

SATELLITE/PRMNT VIBES/GI
Building 34, Hoult’s Yard
Walker Road
Byker
Newcastle upon Tyne
UK
NE6 2HL

SATELLITE is proud to present
FIRST, TASTE THE LEMON…
SATELLITE is pleased to announce a joint, off-site project with GI and PRMNT VIBES in a special one-night curated exhibition and live music event.

Collaborating in the location of an immense quay-side, warehouse space at Hoult’s Yard, Newcastle upon Tyne for the exhibition: First Taste The Lemon…

with performances by Gold Panda (London), Dam Mantle (Glasgow), Seams, Morgellons and Totem Recall (Newcastle)

And a special live performance by Juneau Projects.

First Taste The Lemon… references an early Bauhaus drawing exercise given by Johannes Itten to students.

JUNEAU PROJECTS

Preview: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Friday 9th April 2010
SATELLITE
61 Thornton Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 4AW
United Kingdom
10:30 AM – 6:00 PM, Monday to Saturday

SATELLITE is proud to present
JUNEAU PROJECTS

Juneau Projects’ practice has taken an interesting and obstinate path recently. Recent works include electrified instruments hosting hand-carved effigies of wild native animals. These instruments are played in live performances into sound-reactive plug in software that they have developed to respond visually to music via midi input. This work is all an extension of their enquiry into the evolving interfaces between humanity, and nature………….[cont'd]

Carlie-Rose Laverack
AUX

SATELLITE is proud to present
AUX
A new work by Carlie-Rose Laverack.

aux·il·ia·ry 
–adjective
1.
additional; supplementary.
2.
used as a substitute or reserve in case of need.
4.
giving support; serving as an aid; helpful.

The work of Lancashire based artist Carlie-Rose Laverack operates within the realm of paradox by creating situations that are at once a simulation and subversion of their environment.

Laverack’s adaptation of the gallery space is a reflex of her shrewd response to site: responding with calculated discerption to detail and context in order to ensnare you into the counterfeit situation she has created.
Her work lies within real time but simultaneously defeats this model……………… [cont'd]

Ciara Phillips and Jane Topping

FIELD

Preview: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Saturday 23rd January 2010
SATELLITE
61 Thornton Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 4AW
United Kingdom
10:30 AM – 6:00 PM, Monday to Saturday

SATELLITE is proud to present

Field

an exhibition of works by Ciara Phillips and Jane Topping

‘FIELD’ marks a new and important development in the dialogue between Glasgow-based artists Ciara Phillips and Jane Topping. Both influenced by language and with a shared interest with the simultaneous promise and frustration of meaning, an abrasive conversation with the viewer.

Towards a semi-autonomous self-perpetuating art (phone sex)

an audio installation by Cai Nyahoe

Duration: 5min 44sec

(phone sex) presents a recent audio work in which Cai Nyahoe initiates a conversation surrounding his artistic practice with a stranger by calling a sex line.

During the length of the phone call that dictates the duration of the artwork Nyahoe broaches a discussion with an outsider to his practice who is completely unfamiliar with its terms or manifestations and yet is willing to embrace it on a wholly accepting level on the terms of her aim to satisfy Nyahoe’s desire – in this case to be accepted as an artist.

The ambiguous tone of the conversation in which the phrase “my art / your art” is used repeatedly but without specification questions the level of autonomy that exists in artistic practice.

Satellite is proud to present ‘_’ a solo exhibition of new works by Rachel Adams.
Adams’ practice is rooted in an exploration of domestic material, looks at the balance between the functional and the decorative and investigates the position that such material holds within a culture of mass production. Sculpture plays a fundamental role in Adams’ process and acknowledges the the post-minimal sculpture. Revisiting crafted upholstery materials and techniques such as drapery trims and tassel fringes through sculpture, drawing and animation, her work sets up a new dialogue with old fashioned and typically feminine objects and processes. These installations present anthropomorphic qualities, and show new objects, which balance domestic, utilitarian and fetishist influences.

SATELLITE is proud to present TUNDRA a solo exhibition of new sculpture by Graeme Durant.
Durant’s work stems from personal reflections upon certain materials and their transformations. Like the anagrammatical use of the artists name embedded in the title of the exhibition (that points, romantically, towards a collectively held understanding of the vast, treeless, perma-frost of a body of land); Durant similarly reorders a formalist sculptural vocabulary of form, volume and matter to play host to personal memory and experience.

For the 3rd exhibition at SATELLITE we are delighted to present Sunflowers a new video work by Noel Clueit. Sunflowers sees Clueit take on a “Van Gogh Color Workroom” booth at a shopping centre in Preston. Clueit enters the suped-up passport photo booth and follows the instructions, narrated in a hybrid international american accent generated by the machine; encouraging him to have his own portrait painted in any 4 of Van Gogh’s wide ranging styles. At the crucial point Clueit unveils a Van Gogh publication purchased from the nearby discount bookstore and holds up an image of “Sunflowers” Van Gogh’s iconic painting and perhaps the most reproduced artwork in history.

For its second exhibition SATELLITE is delighted to present new work by Susie Green.WANTING IT, HAVING IT is an installation that continues to explore Greens interest in the themes of desire, escapism, otherworldliness, and transcendence. Greens practice combines many disciplines with a strong grounding in sculpture, evident through an ongoing exploration of materials and their possible combinations. In new works, it is readily available and cheap materials such as Argos catalogues, free newspapers, gold coloured vinyl, and tissue paper that are carefully and subtly re-appropriated.