Calendar
May
01 - 27 Customer Video in group show “Home Office of the Fan Fiction Empire” The Residence Gallery London
03 The Customer Is Always Wrong performance The Residence Gallery London
03 The Customer Video in The Projection Gallery screening at Luxury Goods: The Reality Of Art
12 Open event with Johanna Thompson ACUD Kunstverein Month Of Performance Art Berlin
25 - 31 Standard Alert in group show “Mis-In-Formation” Fringe Arts Bath
June
01 - 10 Standard Alert in group show “Mis-In-Formation” Fringe Arts Bath
02-03 Indifference performance FFT Dusseldorf
14 Indifference Nightingale Brighton
15 Indifference Showtime @ Richmix London
16 Vinyl You and Your Work: Participatory Performance Festival Arnolfini Bristol
28 Vinyl Trangallan London
July
10 2012 (excerpt) Solo Theatre Festival London
20 Vinyl NEWK Leeds (excerpt)
26 Vinyl Sound/Space V22 London
27 - 31 OMB: Olympic Media Broadcasts
August
01 - 12 OMB: Olympic Media Broadcasts
September
11 Indifference KammerMachen Chemnitz
Details
photo Irina Birger
顾客永远是错的 The Customer Is Always Wrong
One of a kind artist, traveler and all round professional eccentric Bill Aitchison has been taking the citizenship test... in Southern China. The Customer Is Always Wrong is a creative and personal report on the experience of being a Westerner in China today. It is also a complete confusion of languages: a hybrid of imperfect Chinese and Chinglish translations. The performance is inspired by the disorienting roller coaster experience that is the daily life of a visitor to in a bubbling Chinese City today.
03 May 8PM The Residence Gallery London
06 Apr - 27 May The video work The Customer Is Always Wrong will feature in the group show “Home Office of the Fan Fiction Empire”
03 May The video work The Customer Is Always Wrong will be included in the programme of artist’s films presented by The Projection Gallery at Luxury Goods‘ The Reality Of Art
For Indifference Bill Aitchison is joined by Katja Dreyer and the two of them, like degenerate Club Med entertainers, make a performance with the most lofty ideas around freewill and determinism using the most disposable of materials: group dances like The Birdie Dance, The Macarena and The Papaya. Karl Marx on a beach in Hawaii, dry ice, the voice of God and critiques of freedom are all brought into play in a subtle and politically charged performance that defies classification or conclusion but continues to question and amuse nonetheless.
02-03 June FFT, Dusseldorf
14 June The Nightingale, Brighton
15 June Showtime @ Rich Mix, London
11 Sept KammerMachen Chemnitz
Bill will have 8 works from his ‘Standard Alert’ series of collages included in the group show Mis-In-Formation, presented as a part of Fringe Arts Bath visual arts festival.
Private View 25 May
25 May - 10 June
Additionally, a short video has been recently put online showing the full series of posters.
From the Wombles to The Final Countdown and from Be Bop to Bach, Bill's record collection is a pretty damn diverse even perverse and tonight he'll play some of it and talk about the tracks. He'll not just talk about the music however he will also talk about what the music means, about the memories these tracks evoke. He will recall, revise and retell what these round plastic discs might be records of. For the show at YAYW in Bristol this will be a rather special event at which the spectators are invited to bring a record of their own and participate in this historical process, arriving at a collective narrative.
16 June You And Your Work Participatory Performance Festival Arnolfini Bristol
28 June Trangallan, London
26 July Sound /Space pop up record store, V22 London
Independent researcher Dr Bill Aitchison is your guide to the strange times we live in. He reveals hidden facts on the war on terror, dog cloning, the Mayan calendar, the novels of Saddam Hussein and Chinese UFOs. Behind these however is the biggest mystery of all: 2012. The year of the London Olympics and of the End of the World.
10 July Solo Theatre Festival London (excerpt)
2012 concerns itself with the space where conspiracy theories, propaganda, science, art and politics cross over with one another and become indistinguishable. Created in London and Beijing, 2012 is a snapshot of uncertainty, of where desire, and fear, leads the contemporary imagination.
OMB or Olympic Media Broadcasts is a media art project that will run alongside the London Olympics. Most certainly not part of the official Cultural Olympiad, OMB will function as an independent media outlet through which Dr Bill Aitchison will give daily updates on the games. Volunteers are currently being sought. If you are interested to find out more look HERE and get in touch.