SEBASTIAN CRAIG
Sebastian Craig is a visual artist and the Senior Curator of i-cabin, which is a research site, project space, publisher and author of artworks.
His practice is concerned with a transferance between information and architecture and the generation of an ongoing dialogue on Artistic intention.
Projects authored by i-cabin have been collaborative projects generated by Sebastian (and untill 2007 J.Blightman) through a dialogue with the project space.
sebcraig@netscape.net / www.i-cabin.co.uk / www.studiosc.co.uk
Mobile: +44 (0) 7813 764 937
Exhibitions and Commissions
2011 ATTN:LIBRARY, Booklet Library & Kosmos Lane Gallery, Tokyo. Hello Sebastian...did you say A4?, 2008, What is it?, 2007 and Mythologies, 2007.
2011 Resonance FM, broadcast 7th May. An Introduction to the British Constitution, 2011, audio recording.
2010 Introducing Leo Mas, Supernormal, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire. (link)
2010 We better keep moving this thing forward, whatever the risks, at No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern. (link)
2010 Field Recordings, Five Years, London. 3.29 Miles Public Revisited, 2010, sound recording, OS map & public discussion.
2009 Hi Failure. Solo show, Tenderproduct Design Shop window, London, WC2N 4HE. 17 Oct - 23 Nov.
2009 Mix Tape, The Perserverance, London. Oct 24. Curated by The MM Press. Derma, 2009. Film. (film)
2009 Marketplace, Re:Place, Derbyshire. Oct 29-31. Curated by Charlotte Morgan. Notional Gate, 2009. Plywood, Acrylic, Electronic circuit.
2009 Sequences Art Festival, Reykjavik. PPPTPC- Center for Publicity, Curated by Berglind Jóna Hlynsdóttir.
The Reykjavik International Parc, digitally generated landascape, 2009.
2009 Entry Points. Curated for Subvision Festival, Hamburg. Urban Planning From Below, 2009. Graphite on paper, Bamboo, Cable ties, Nautical sail. (link)
2009 No Bees. No Blueberries. Harris Lieberman, New York. I Get Wet, 2009, wood and glue. Connect Up, 2009, digital print. (link) (link)
2009 Research Annex: Site Visit One, i-cabin, London. (link)
2009 Yes Yes. I Know. Free School. I Know. 5 Years Project Space, London. Strands of Architecture: A Contemporary re-working of a 1980s lecture
on textiles routed specifically via Architecture, Anti-Ballistic Fabrics, Drum & Bass and the Elderly, 2009. Mixed Media Performance.
2009 Derma. Solo show, Old Gold, Chicago, February 2009. (film)
2009 Radiator Festival - Exploits in the Wireless City, Nottingham. Ongoing Notional Model of Brooklyn Via Architectural Experiments, 2008,
Digital Model & photographs.
2008 Ghostwriters, Tyler Coburn and Sebastian Craig. Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, New York. (film) (link) (link)
2008 Nought to Sixty, ICA, London. Salon of Salons discussion, Chaired by Miss B.
2008 Colliding Subjectives, Meantime Project Space, Cheltenham. The Events of Paris '86 , 2007. Digital Prints, noticeboard.
2008 Tree Hugger, Platform, Vaasa, Finland. Collaborative Study on Parially Sighted Philanthropic Gestures (working Model) , 2008. Mixed Media. (link)
2007 Notional Architectures. Solo show. i-cabin, London. (link) (work)
2007 La Commune, Serpentine Gallery, London. On the Physical Implications of the Applications of Information, 2006,
wood, steel, paint, photograph, glass &Mythologies , 2007. Publication.
2007 What is it? i-cabin retrospective containing all the offsite projects authored by i-cabin., Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge.
2007 Geo-phono-box, Around the Coyote, Chicago. 3.29miles Public , 2007, sound.
2006 Satellites, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. Cabin Baggage / Four Paintings Commissioned by S.Craig in 2006 , 2006, paint, linen, wood. (link)
2006 Direct Currency Exchange, Around the Coyote, Chicago.Visitors, 2006, floor tiles, LED sign.
2006 Commission from UrbanLab to produce a Public Artwork to coincide with Architecture Week 2006.
Information is a Building Material and Architecture of Information, 2006, posters.
2006 Either Taking it out or Putting it in . Exhibition at The White Cubicle Gallery, London. Document, not monument Chair , 2006, plywood, screws.
2006 Nominated for Becks Futures competition at ICA (i-cabin).
2006 Another Product, Cornerhouse, Manchester. The Bible Makes it Perfectly Clear , 2006, digital print.
2006 Bridgewater Middle School, Herefordshire. On the Physical Implications of the Applications of Information, 2006, wood, steel, paint.
2006 Piccadilly Hostel, London. On the Geography of Cultural Context , wall-painting.
2006 Broadcast . Solo show at i-cabin project space, London. (link)
2005 Project for ZOO ART FAIR, i-cabin stand at Zoo Art Fair, 2005. Table for a Four Person Think-Tank , 2005, perspex, wood, steel.
2005 Istanbul Airport Project, Istanbul.
2005 B.Y.O/resource . i-cabin project space. Pallet 1 , 2005, wood, Formica laminate, glue.
2004 Opened i-cabin Project Space, London.
2003 Tarts Eggs. Group Show at Former Nylon Space, London. Peripheral Project , 2003, incidental apparatus.
2003 Elthorne Studios, London. A Bitextual Place, 2003, furniture, paint, overhead projector, acetates. With Richard Jones.
2003 Nicholas Hall Gallery Project, London.
2003 We Are Relentless. The Custard Factory, Birmingham. Curated by AAS. Inforoom, 2003, paper, plastic, furniture.
2001 Exhibitionism. The Works Gallery, Birmingham.
2001 The Birmingham Six. The Works Gallery, Birmingham.
2001 Exhibition to be Constructed in Your Head. The Custard Factory, Birmingham.
Articles and Press
2011 Archizines Catalogue. Ed. Elias Redstone, Bedford Press, p135.
2010 Charley Independents: No Soul For Sale Catalogue. p120-123.
2010 Subvision. Published by Kunsthalle Hamburg. Text p143, images throughout.
2009 Subvision Festival Catalogue, p28-31.
2009 Nought to Sixty, Published by the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. Pages 167-173 and 265-266.
2008 ICA, Nought to Sixty Gazetteer No.1, Page 25.
2008 Publish and Be Damned, Catalogue.
2008 Resonance FM: Podcast and be Damned, interview and reading.
2008 Inside Magazine, Issue 2, Winter 2008. Artist-Run Spaces , Elena Serpota, Pages 37-43.
2008 20x20 Magazine, Issue 1, Abstract: Notional Architectures, S.Craig, P22-24.
2007 Modern Painters. March 2007, Diary: Aesthetic and Political , Matthew Collings, Pages 26-29.
2007 Zoo Art Fair catalogue, Page 56.
2007 Plan B. April 2007. Proile: i-cabin , Tyler Coburn.
2006 Hollow Culture, UrbanLab publication. Work Published: The Architecture of Information.
2006 Zoo Art Fair 2006 catalogue.
2006 ICA, Becks Futures Catalogue.
2005 Cocoon Magazine, Work Published: Declaration in Yellow and Blue , Page 31.
2005 Zoo Art Fair 2005 catalogue.
2003 Collections, The Custard Factory, Exhibition Caltalogue. Essay Published: De-natured Elephants- The Art of Museumisation .
Collections
Collection of Ostrobothnian museum (Vaasa City Museum, Finland), (Work: Vaasa from Imagination , 2008. Graphite on paper).
Collection of Brooklyn Museum (Artists Book Collection, Work: Ghostwriters).
Collection of Museum of Modern Art, New York. (Artist Book collection, Work: Ghostwriters).
Publish and Be Damned Archive (Works: Mythologies, Hello Sebastian...did you say A4, What is it?).
Private collection of Sir Paul Smith (Work: Future Grass)
Publications
HelloSebastian...did you say A4?, 2008, i-cabin(texts). (read)
Mythologies, 2007, i-cabin(texts). (read)
Notional Architectures, 2007, i-cabin(texts). (link)
Teaching
2011 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths.
2008 BA / MA Fine Art, University of Reading.
2006 BA / MA Fine Art / Professional Practice, University of Middlesex.
2004-6 Course Leader, The Architecture Workshop Association.
Education
2005-07 MA Interdisciplinary Design Studies. Central St. Martins, London.
2001-03 BA(hons) Fine Art. Byam Shaw School of Art, London.
1999-01 Diploma Fine Art. Coventry School of Art.
Lectures, Talks & Other
Present Curator, Dreamspace Gallery | Architecture & Design Centre
2011 Constructing Criticism, panel discussion at the Architectural Association, for Archizines.
2010-11 Curator, Public Programme, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
2009 Awarded the 2009 Lincoln Penny Artist Stimulus Grant.
2009 Entry Points - a model for i-cabin, lecture at Subvision Festival, Hamburg.
2008 Salon of Salons, panel discussion at the ICA for Nought to 60.
2007 Close Your Eyes to Art, Resonance FM panel discussion at Tate Modern.
2004-12 Curator, i-cabin Project Space, London.
2003 Making Space Conference, Yorkshire Artspace Society. Delegate. Regarding art-spaces and related projects.
i-cabin
i-cabin is a research site, project space, publisher and author. In September 2008 i-cabin became the owner of a quarter-acre of land in Worcestershire.
It's programme of collaborations, residencies and exhibitions is now based there. Our London space continues to function as a studio, publishing office
& research space. (Link to i-cabin website)
2011
05.11 - 12.12 ARCHIZINES, Architectural Association, London. Curated by Elias Redstone.
08.11 - 13.11 Attn:Library, Booklet Library, Kosmos lane Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. Curated by Booklet Press.
05.09 - 25.09 Milly Thompson: Summer Picnic (Part 2).
20.08 - 21.08 Supernormal Festival: Milly Thompson & Jessica Farnham.
06.08 - 28.08 Jessica Farnham: We Spent All The Equity.
2010
21.08 - 22.08 Introducing Leo Mas, Supernormal Festival 2010.
14.05 - 16.05 We better keep moving this thing forward, whatever the risks, at No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern.
2009
26.08 - 07.09 Entry Points. Curated by i-cabin for Subvision Festival, Hamburg 2009.
26.06 - 30.07 No Bees. No Blueberries. Harris Lieberman, New York. Bransford Bridge Arrangement, 2009, mixed media. Curated by Tyler Coburn. (link)
01.05 - 30.06 I-LAND RESIDENCIES 2009: James Hardy and Richard Healy.
15.05 - 31.05 RESEARCH ANNEX: site visit one.
Between 2005 and 2008 i-cabin operated 4 programming strands concurrently.
Year1 was concerned with exhibiting emerging international artists who have not had solo shows in London before. The artists took part in a residency at i-cabin
resulting in entirely new and site-specific works generated through a dialogue with i-cabin and the i-cabin space.
Year2 worked with more established international artists (who may or may not be represented by other galleries) and asked them to operate outside of their
normal practice. Year2 hoped to result in entirely unique works which would not have been generated elsewhere and are a result of a specific exchange.
Year3 was i-cabin's offsite collaborative practice which continues. Since our nomination for Beck's Futures in 2005 i-cabin has operated as an 'Art production Hub'
(quote: F. Manacorda) authoring original artworks for exhibitions.
Year4 was an unrestricted number of one week long shows by artists with disjointed and problematic practices. The programme intended to culminate in a public
archive which would act as a unique reference document of difficult contemporary practice.
2008
19.10 - 27.10 i-cabin (in collaboration with Lewis Amar, Sebastian Craig and Duncan McAfee): NOHOPEFORUS.
13.09 - 28,09 Barry Sykes: I Was Born on the Day Heidegger Died (But I don't Know Much About His Work). (Year1)
09.08 - 17.08 The Miller and McAfee Press: The End of the Beginning. (Year4)
05.07 - 13.07 Caleb Lyons: You Just Can't Win. (Year4)
31.05 - 08.06 Alec Dunnachie. (Year4)
08.03 - 22.03 Collaborative Study on Partially Sighted Philanthropic Gestures (working model), Barry Sykes & Sebastian Craig/i-cabin, Platform, Vaasa. (Year3)
16.01 - 03.02 Jemima Stehli and Lewis Amar: Video Works 2005-6. (Year2/Year1)
2007
15.10 - 18.10 i-cabin(texts): Projects for Zoo Art Fair. Happily I spill My Guts to You or Sadly it Comes to This & 3 Art Objects Which Are Not For Sale. (Year3)
07.07 - 29.07 Duncan McAfee: I'm Human Now. You're Human Later. (Year1)
14.04 - 13.05 Sebastian Craig: Notional Architectures. (Year1)
22.02 - 18.03 What is it? i-cabin offsite projects 2004-7. Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge. For Seja Marginal, Seja Heroi, curated by Sebastian Ramirez (Year3)
13.01 - 04.02 Patrick Meny: Far 2 Close. (Year1)
2006
06.10 - 16.10 (Group)Show. (Year3)
15.10 - 18.10 i-cabin(texts): Z006, A Project for Zoo Art Fair. (Year3)
07.09 - 14.10 Satellites, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. Curated by Francesco Manacorda and Erin Manns. (Year3)
11.08 - 31.08 i-cabin: Direct Currency Exchange. Around the Coyote, Chicago. (Year3)
07.07 - 23.07 Direct Currency Exchange Part 2. artLedge: To London from Chicago with Great Love. (Year1)
02.06 - 25.06 Christina Mackie: How to Begin. (Year2)
24.03 - 16.04 Adrian Hermanidez and Robert Michael: Blackson. (Year1)
22.02 - 29.02 i-cabin: Either Taking it out of Putting it in. The White Cubicle Gallery, curated by Pablo Leon De La Barra.
2005
16.12 - 06.01 Sebastian Craig: Broadcast* (*communication to the art viewer). (Year1)
04.11 - 04.12 Adam Latham, Jon Baldock and Anthea Hamilton: Ich Bin Ein Sachennaushiesse. (Year1)
15.10 - 18.10 i-cabin: Project for Zoo Art Fair. (Year3)
06.10 - 30.10 Juliette Blightman: Marcelle, are you feeling bored with life? (Year1)
16.07 - 07.08 B.Y.O./resource. (Group show, no specific programme)
03.06 - 26.06 Darren Norman vs. Giovanni Manzini. (Year1)
09.05 - 22.05 Alec Steadman: Clarendon Building Project. (Year1)
08.04 - 01.05 Matt Incledon: Proposition. (Year1)
13.01 - 20.02 Till Exit: STRAND (in several harmonies). (Year2)
Articles and Press
2011 Archizines Catalogue. Ed. Elias Redstone, Bedford Press, p135.
2010 Charley Independents: No Soul For Sale Catalogue. p120-123.
2010 Subvision. Published by Kunsthalle Hamburg. Text p143, images throughout.
2009 Subvision Festival Catalogue, p28-31.
2009 Nought to Sixty, Published by the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. Pages 167-173 and 265-266.
2008 ICA, Nought to Sixty Gazetteer No.1, Page 25.
2008 Publish and Be Damned, Catalogue.
2008 Inside Magazine, Issue 2, Winter 2008. Artist-Run Spaces , Elena Serpota, Pages 37-43.
2007 Modern Painters. March 2007, Diary: Aesthetic and Political , Matthew Collings, Pages 26-29.
2007 Zoo Art Fair catalogue, Page 56.
2007 Plan B. April 2007. Proile: i-cabin , Tyler Coburn.
2006 Zoo Art Fair 2006 catalogue.
2006 ICA, Becks Futures Catalogue.
2005 Modern Painters. October 2005, Undiscovered London , Roger Tatley and William Turner, Pages 50-53.
2005 Zoo Art Fair 2005 catalogue.
Collections:
i-cabin's work is represented in the collections of Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the private collections of Franz Koenig, Peter Saville and Ryan Gander.
Book Collections:
Publish & be Damned Archive, London
BOOKLET Library, Tokyo
ARCHIZINES Archive, London (National Art Library, V&A)
Bartlett School of Architecture - Public Programme 2010-11
International Lecture Series 2010-2011:
(curated with Peter Cook & Marcos Cruz)
06.10 Enric Ruiz-Geli.
13.10 CJ Lim.
22.10 Will Alsop, Nat Chard, Naja + DeOstos, Dux Content and Sir Peter Cook.
27.10 Izaskun Chinchilla.
17.11 Neil Denari and Sir Peter Cook.
18.11 Richard Blythe.
02.12 Carme Pinos and Sir Peter Cook.
09.12 Thom Mayne.
15.12 Didier Faustino.
12.02 Anna Heringer.
19.01 Ortlos.
24.01 Bernard Tschumi and Sir Peter Cook.
02.02 Nils Norman.
07.02 Helen + Hard and Sir Peter Cook.
22.02 Adam Somlai-Fischer, Tomas Saraceno, Gabi Schillig and Sir Peter Cook.
16.02 Antoine Picon.
18.02 Alberto Kalach and Sir Peter Cook.
25.02 Vito Acconci.
08.03 William Menking & Aaron Levy.
09.03 Marcello Spina.
14.03 Jane Rendell.
16.03 Kivi Sotamaa.
23.03 Atelier Van Lieshout.
15.04 David Grahame Shane.
04.05 Reiser + Umemoto and Sir Peter Cook.
06.05 Goodiepal.
09.05 Jonathan Noble.
03.06 Steven Ma.
08.06 David Garcia.
30.06 Itsuko Hasegawa.
Exhibitions Programme:
01.07-10.07 Bartlett Summer Show 2011.
03.05-11.05 Cities Methodologies, Curated by the Urban Lab, UCL.
15.03-01.04 PhD Research Projects, Curated by Willen De Brujin.
03.12-20.12 Whirlwinds, to accompany the Sexuate Subjects conference, Curated by Jane Rendell.
15.11-27.11 635 x 508: Heygate Absracted, by Simon Kennedy.
28.10-07.11 Drawing Diversities, Initiated by Dr. Susam Moore.
28.09-02.10 MArch and MA Show 2010.
Publications:
Architectural Design 2010
Urban Design 2010
Sexuate Subjects Catalogue
Further Reading Required Catalogue
PhD Conference 2011 Catalogue
Summer Show 2011 Catalogue