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Lenka Clayton |
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www.lenkaclayton.com |
lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
U.S.A. |
Education
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'04-'06
MA Documentary Direction |
National
Film & Television School, Beaconsfield, U.K. |
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'96-'99
BA(hons) Fine Art |
Central
St. Martins School of Art, London, U.K. |
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'95-'96
Foundation in Art and Design |
Falmouth
College of Art and Design, Cornwall, U.K. |
Solo Exhibitions
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2009 |
Mysterious
Letters |
Curfew
Tower, N. Ireland (with Michael Crowe) |
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2008 |
7,000
Stones |
Cohen
Art Center, Alfred, New York, U.S.A. |
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2007 |
Local
Newspaper |
Galerie
fŸr Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, Germany |
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2006 |
People
in Order |
Paul
Smith Space, Tokyo, Japan (with James Price) |
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2004 |
Lenka
Clayton |
Oberwelt
Gallerie, Stuttgart, Germany |
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2003 |
T.V.,
Radijo, Vidijo, Tanke |
Foto/Grafik
Gallerie KŠthe Kollwitz, Berlin, Germany |
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2001 |
Borrowed
and Stolen |
…rebro
Konstskola, Sweden |
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2000 |
Langsame
Zaubertricks |
Vitrine
Sutstein, Berlin, Germany |
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All
the Art on Kopenhagener |
LUNA
international, Berlin, Germany |
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1998 |
Some
Exciting Finds |
Simmons
Gallery, London, U.K. |
Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings
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2009 |
3rd
Fotofestival Mannheim |
VVork
& Mannheim, Germany |
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See
Revolutionary Art Exhibit |
Whitechapel
Gallery, London (screening) |
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Reconstructed
ZONE |
Kunstverein
Wolfsburg, Germany |
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Timeless |
Schuhfabrik
Ahlen, Germany |
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FLEX
experimental film festival |
Florida,
U.S.A. (5 film screening) |
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2008 |
Iranian
int. Doc. Festival |
Tehran, Iran |
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Learning
to Love You More |
BALTIC
centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK |
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Nichts
Tun in die Neue Gesellschaft |
IG
Galerie, Vienna, Austria and NGBK, Berlin, Germany |
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Aging
in Art & Society |
NGBK,
Berlin, Germany |
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2007 |
History Will Repeat Itself |
Kunst
Werk / Kino Arsenal, Berlin, Germany |
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Mobile
Archive |
Israeli Centre of Digital Art, Holon, Israel |
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Walk! |
KŸnstlerhaus
Bethanien, Berlin, Germany |
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Britdoc
Documentary Festival |
Oxford,
U.K. |
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2006 |
Six |
Espace
Surplus, Berlin, Germany |
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Articulated |
Oxo
Tower, London |
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Re-Vision |
Edith-Russ
Haus, Oldenberg, Germany |
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Observatory
II |
Laura
Bartlett Gallery, London |
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Snafu |
Hamburger
Kunsthalle, Germany |
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Jagd
Salon |
Kunstlerhaus
Bethanien, Berlin, Germany |
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Krakow
Int. Film Festival |
Krakow,
Poland |
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Leipzig Int. Doc Festival |
Leipzig, Germany |
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Shadow Festival |
Amsterdam, Holland |
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Britspotting |
Berlin,
Germany |
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N.F.T.S.
Grad. Screening |
National
Film Theatre, London |
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Sheffield
Int. Doc Festival |
Sheffield,
U.K. |
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Ex-is
Experimental Film Fest |
Seoul,
Korea |
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2005 |
Gallerie
KŠthe Kollwitz |
Prenzlauerberg
Museum, Berlin, Germany |
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Jagd
Salon |
Kunstverein
Ettlingen, Germany |
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Weisse
NŠchte / Kiel Oben |
Kunsthalle
zu Kiel/Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany |
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This
Much is Certain |
Royal
College of Art, London, UK, |
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Beirut
Int. Film Festival |
Beirut,
Lebanon |
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Kiev
Int. Film Festival |
Kiev,
Ukraine |
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Qaeda,
Quality, Question... |
National
Film Theatre, UK |
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PDX
Film Festival |
Portland,
Oregon, America |
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LUX
Salon |
Lux,
London, U.K. |
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8th Jihlava Int. Doc. Festival |
Jihalva,
Czech Republic |
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2004 |
inCINEraci—n |
Galeria
Sandunga, Granada, Spain |
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Very
British? |
Landdrostei,
Pinneberg, Germany |
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Arco
04 |
Madrid,
Spain |
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Qaeda,
quality, question... |
Museum
of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia |
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Lens
Politica |
Helsinki, Finland |
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Chicago
Doc. Festival |
Chicago, America |
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Festival
of Expanded Media |
Stuttgart, Germany |
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Warp
Film Festival |
North Carolina, America |
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Freedom
Cinema Festival |
Utah, America |
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2003 |
T.V.,
Radijo, Vidijo, Tanke |
Foto/Grafik
Gallerie KŠthe Kollwitz, Berlin, Germany |
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Lenka
Clayton & Clare Stent |
Galerie
Borgman Nathusius. Cologne, Germany |
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Hamburg
Short Film Festival |
Hamburg,
Germany |
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CCCB
Literature Festival |
Barcelona,
Spain |
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Dutch
Open |
Holland |
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Sheffield
Int. Doc Festival |
Sheffield,
U.K. |
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2002 |
Freundschaft |
Kuckei
und Kuckei, Berlin, Germany |
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2001 |
Host |
Hastings
Museum, U.K. |
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Talk
to Me |
Signal
Gallery, Malmš, Sweden |
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Sammeln! |
Museum
Der Dinge, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin |
Awards,
Prizes, Residencies
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2009 |
2
week residency ÒIn you we TrustÓ – Curfew Tower, Cushendall, N. Ireland |
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2008 |
Theodore
Randall International Chair – Alfred
University |
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British
Council Grants for Artists award – to realise a new series of works in Vienna |
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2007 |
8
week residency in Hamburg -
Kulturbehšrde der Freie und Hansastadt Hamburg |
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Hamburg
City Production grant - to realise Local Newspaper project |
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First
Prize Audience Award (People in Order) - Britspotting Festival, Berlin |
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First
Prize (People in Order) - Medienfest, Villinen Schwenningen, Germany |
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2006 |
British
Council Grants for Artists award – to screen a film at Kiev Int. Film festival |
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2005 |
British
Independent Film Award – Bursary to National Film and Television School, UK |
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2001 |
Grant
to support gallery LUNA international
– Kulturbehoerde,
Berlin 6
week Residency -
…rebro Art School, Sweden |
Teaching, Talks etc.
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2009 |
Artists Talk ItÕs Nice That, London |
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Visiting Lecturer at Falmouth College of Arts,
Cornwall. |
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06-09 |
Lead
Tutor in Fine Art Video and
Photography at Central St. Martins
Art School, London. |
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2008 |
Theodore
Randall International Chair at Alfred University, New York. |
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Films for the Humanities &
Sciences acquire Conversation, to use in classrooms across
America. |
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2007 |
Artists Talk
Shadow Documentary Festival,
Amsterdam, Holland |
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Screening and Artists talk,
One Dot Zero Film Festival, London |
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2006 |
Visiting
Artist at MattÕs
Gallery, London. |
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Collaborative
Artist produced the video component of Voices, a contemporary dance piece by Rafael Bonachela, premiered at Queen
Elizabeth Hall, London. |
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Graphic
Designer (2006 – present) produced artwork for
Accidental Records for Matthew
HerbertÕs albums Score, Scale and ThereÕs Me and ThereÕs You. |
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Screening
and Q & A, Visible Evidence
Documentary Conference, Bristol |
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Screening
and Q & A, National
Film Theatre, London |
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2005 |
Workshop
leader for London
Talent Theatre, leading two video documentary workshops. |
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2001-2003 |
Co-founder
& curator
at Luna international gallery, Berlin. An artist run space in East Berlin specialising in
solo shows of emerging artists and workshops. |
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2001 |
Visiting
artist & teacher
at …rebro Art School, Sweden, ran
workshop with 20 students. |
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1998 |
Project
Manager for Tate
Gallery – responsible for Mark DionÕs project Tate Thames Dig. |
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97-02 |
ArtistÕs
assistant to Mark Dion
in England, Germany and America. |
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1996 |
ArtistÕs
assistant to Jimmie
Durham in Berlin. |
Filmography and Television
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2009 |
See
the Revolutionary Art Exhibit Director and Producer |
4
x 5 min documentaries about Intoart artists working processes to be screened
alongside an exhibition. Commissioned by Intoart. |
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2008 |
Picture
This 4 x 3
min Co-director & producer with J. Price |
4
short documentaries on contemporary photographers. Commissioned
by Channel 4 Television, U.K. |
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2007 |
A
Piece of the Moon 24 min Co-director & producer with J. Price |
A
documentary about some of the tens of thousands of British people who have
bought land on the moon. Channel 4, U.K. |
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Conversation
18 min Co-director & producer with J. Price |
Strangers
assess one another based on their first impressions of the others physical
appearance. |
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2006 |
People
in Order 4 x 3
min Co-director & producer with J. Price |
Four
films that collect & organise people according to scales of age, length
of relationship, earnings and stage of pregnancy. Commissioned
by Channel 4 Television, U.K. |
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2005 |
Zweifel
32min Director, Producer, Sound. Ed: H. Hunger, DOP: S. Lavelle, Sound Design: N. Loe |
A
surreal look at the remnants of the GDR in contemporary Germany through an
Erich Honecker double wandering the streets of Berlin, two ex-border guards
from opposite sides of the fence and a man with a dream to rebuild his own
version of the GDR in a town with 70% unemployment. |
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Deutsche
Boerse 2 x 3 min Co-director & producer with J. Price |
Films
about the approach of photographers Anders Petersen and Phillipe Chancel.
Commissioned by Channel 4 Television, U.K. |
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2005 |
Plat
du Jour 55 min Director, Producer, Camera with
H. Hunger & S. PurfŸrst |
Films
to accompany conceptual music project generated by the sounds of food, by
Matthew Herbert (www.platdujour.com) |
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2004 |
Hello...?
10 mins. Director, Producer, Camera |
Trying
to get in touch with 150 of my neighbours by telephone. |
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2001 |
Qaeda
quality question... 22min Director, Producer, Editor |
An
alphabetical re-arrangement of President Bush's "Axis of Evil"
speech. |
Selected Articles and Published Work
BBC Northern
Ireland Newsline 14/03/09 3 minute report on Mysterious Letters
Project
Code
Magazine 02/09 VVork
Supplement, Domanovic & Laric
Higher Education
Chronicle 02/2009 A Time and a place to gather stones together
L. Biemiler
Alfred Sun 11/12/08 Hundreds
of Smiles Among Thousands of Stones, Elaine Hardman
Alfred Sun 11/09/08 Looking
for SteinheimÕs Lost Artefacts, David Snyder
(Catalogue)
08/08 Aging in Art and Society. NGBK,
Berlin
(Catalogue) 08/08
10 Grad Kunst, Local Newspaper.
Willhelmsburger Freitag
Der Tagesspiegel 29/07/08 Traum
keinem unter 50, C. Tilmann
Artists Newsletter,
June 2008, ÒNew Collaborations –
Clayton / CroweÓ, Emilia Telese
Hinz und Kunz 09/07
Lenka ClaytonÕs Close-Up, M.A.
Spex
05/07 Gelungene Verpackung: Matthew Herbert, Martin Hossbach
Modern Painters 08/06,
Matthew Herbert on Lenka Clayton, Matthew
Herbert.
(Catalogue)
11/06 Shadow Festival, Lenka Clayton and
James Price
Tip 26/01/2006 Versteckte
Beobachtung KBM
Die Tageszeitung 20/01/2006
Readymades in der Kombifalle Cord Riechelmann
Berliner
Morganpost 15/01/2006 Meute
und Beute Eckhard Fuhr
Res Magazine Vol.
8 No.1 Open Source: Cinema in the Public
Domain Steve Anderson
The New York Times
27/01/2005: Army Recruits Find out How
Much They Can Be Dana Stevens
The Village Voice
25/01/2005 ÉQaeda, quality, question,
quickly, quickly, quiet Laura
Sinagra
"Out of the
Box" DVD, 2005 Compilation of experimental documentary films
including Qaeda quality question...
Published by Documentary Filmmakers Group and the
British Council.
Boomkat www.boomkat.com
1/12/2004 Single of the Week Lenka
Clayton: Qaeda, qualityÉ
12" Vinyl Soundtrack to Qaeda quality
question... 2004, published by
Accidental Records, London, U.K.
Chicago Reader
21/05/2004 The Spectacle of Society
Fred Camper
One Day Magazine
2001 (with Guy Allott) magazine conceived, printed and distributed within 24
hours.
Berliner Zeitung 27/06/2001
Zeig Mir, Was †ber Deinem Sofa HŠngt! AM