Turner Prize winner, Mark Wallinger, is one of Britain’s most original and socially committed artists, creating works that combine intellectual curiosity with wide public appeal.

This Hayward Touring Exhibition opened in London to great critical acclaim, before moving to Leeds City Art Gallery and now Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.

This is the first gallery exhibition curated by Wallinger and provides special insights into the artist’s thought processes and interests.

The title and many of the themes in the exhibition take their inspiration from the story of the Russian linesman, whose controversial ruling in the 1966 World Cup final between England and Germany changed the course of footballing history.

For his selection, Wallinger has created an exhibition that investigates many of the issues that have concerned him as an artist over the past 25 years, in particular ideas of boundaries, thresholds and arbitrary divides, whether physical, political, psychological or metaphysical.

Navigating almost 2000 years of history, from an early Roman double-headed marble bust of Dionysus and Silenus, through popular ‘View-master’ stereoscopic photographs and 18th Century trompe l’oeil paintings, to a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer showing a device for rendering objects in two dimensions, the show explores the ambiguities present in our own perceptions and how the lines between fact and fiction are often blurred and manipulated.

The show includes Mark’s own work, Time and Relative Dimensions in Space (2001), a life-size mirrored representation of the Tardis from Doctor Who, first shown at the Venice Biennale. Related works in the show are grouped together, in order to create unexpected dialogues and interpretations.

Highlights in the exhibition include: A Dead Soldier by an anonymous painter, originally attributed to Velasquez , which was the source for The Dead Matador by Manet, who thought it was by the Spanish master; historical and contemporary trompe l’oeil images, from L-L Boilly’s Ivory Crucifix on Wall of 1812 to Vija Celmin’s To Fix the Image in Memory XII (1977), a stone exactly replicated in bronze; and Thomas Demand’s Poll (2001), a representation of a polling station during the Florida recount.

This exhibition is the latest in an ongoing Hayward Touring series curated by artists, including Michael Craig-Martin, Tacita Dean, Susan Hiller and Richard Wentworth.
A Hayward Touring exhibition from the Southbank Centre, London on behalf of Arts Council England.

A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition, with an essay by Mark Wallinger Exhibition price £14.99

For more information on the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery visit http://www.glynnviviangallery.org or telephone 01792 516900.

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The Scream is pleased to announce our ebullient 2009 readers for the Scream in High Park Mainstage:

Oana Avasilichioaei is a poet and translator who’s most recent book is feria: a poempark (Wolsak & Wynn, 2008. A collaborative work with Erín Mouré, involving authorial and translational impossibilities, will appear as Expeditions of a Chimæra fall 2009 (BookThug).

Wakefield Brewster has been performing in a musical capacity since age six and writing for the past 16 years; he has made his dynamic presence on the scene with no uncertain terms. Writing in a political yet lyrical voice and performing with audaciousness yet unseen, he has blasted onto nearly 700 stages in the past seven years.

Margaret Christakos is a poet and fiction writer living in Toronto whose work has shown consistent interest in recombinant poetics, process writing and seriality. She has published six collections of poetry and one novel and given readings and seminars from her work since 1989.

Peter Culley from Nanaimo, BC, has published four books of poetry, including, most recently, The Climax Forest (Leech Books). His poetry & writings on visual art have been appearing for three decades in a variety of venues.

Jeramy Dodds lives in Orono, Ontario. His poems have been translated into Finnish, French, Latvian, Swedish, German and Icelandic. He is the winner of the 2006 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award and the 2007 CBC Literary Award in poetry.

Paul Dutton is a poet, novelist, essayist, and oral sound artist who is internationally renowned for both his literary and musical performances; a member of the legendary Four Horsemen sound poetry quartet (1970–1988), he has taken his art to festivals, clubs, concert halls, and classrooms throughout Canada and across the United States, Europe, and South America. Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl is an Icelandic poet and the author of two novels. He is also an avid translator of foreign literature. He works with performance and sound-poetry, and regularly appears at poetry and music festivals, as well as dabbling in the dark arts of the concrete.

Lisa Foad’s debut story collection, The Night Is A Mouth (Exile Editions, 2009), has been praised by the Globe and Mail as “a brand-new thing.” Lisa lives in Toronto and is at work on her first novel.

Susan Holbrook is a poet and fiction writer whose first book, misled, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Stephen J. Stephensson Award. She teaches North American literatures and creative writing at the University of Windsor. Her second collection of poetry, Joy Is So Exhausting, is forthcoming from Coach House this fall.

Ryan Kamstra is a writer of poems, fiction, and songs. His first book of poems, Late Capitalist Sublime, was published by Insomniac Press in 2002. As a musician he is also known by the name Scratch Kamstra, and his band, Tomboyfriend, is fast becoming a cult sensation.

Shani Mootoo was born in Ireland and grew up in Trinidad. Her acclaimed first novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, was published in fourteen countries, was a finalist for The Giller Prize, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award

Andrew Pyper is a Canadian writer of fiction. His fourth novel, The Killing Circle, has been published in the UK, the US and Canada, having been selected as one of the notable crime novels of 2008 by The New York Times.

Adam Sol’s third collection of poetry, Jeremiah, Ohio (House of Anansi Press 2008), has been nominated for the 2009 Trillium Award. He is also the author of Jonah’s Promise (Mid-List Press, 2000), which won Mid-List Press’s First Series Award for Poetry, and Crowd of Sounds (House of Anansi Press, 2003), which won the Trillium Award for Poetry.

Hosted by Misha Glouberman

A fantastic lineup! Be sure to come and listen to them read from their dead books on Monday, July 13, 2009 at the Dream Stage in High Park.

About the 2009 Scream Literary Festival
The 2009 Scream, Canada’s oldest and strangest literary festival, will explore the imminent demise of books, book culture and all that readers hold dear. Faced daily with the decaying vestiges of books, it’s time to stand over the open grave. Join us from July 2nd to 13th as we wander through poetic laments, predictions, ululations and dreams of technological salvation.

Visit http://www.thescream.ca for a list of festival events and performers.

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The Scream Literary Festival is one of the largest annual poetry festivals in Canada. We remain committed to our mandate: to bring Canadian writers from all genres, styles, backgrounds, and communities to our unique stage.