{"id":3806,"date":"2016-05-04T16:22:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T20:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2018-05-06T18:21:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T22:21:12","slug":"bill-allen-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/bill-allen-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Allen Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6422\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3806-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/billallenallen.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/billallenallen.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/billallenallen.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3843 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bill.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"bill\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bill.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bill.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bill.jpg?resize=624%2C624&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bill.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It was after relocating to London from Sydney Australia in the early 70\u2019s that Bill Allen Allen\u00a0began making art full time. It was ten years after that, when as a member of Brent Artist\u2019s\u00a0Register (BAR), he was invited to have his first solo show at the Tricycle Gallery in North\u00a0London. In 1984 when BAR was offered a space in Willesden Library, to be known as \u201cThe\u00a0Artist\u2019s Gallery\u201d, he was a full time member of the team managing the exhibition program,\u00a0running workshops and outreach for adults and children, organizing shows for BAR members at\u00a0the London Artist\u2019s Book, and Participation in \u2018Artists\u2019 Concept Book\u2019 European Touring\u00a0Exhibition for Produzione Editoriali Aprile S.P.A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 2000 he was invited to co-curate with Toby Penrose curate an evening of performance and\u00a0visual art at the 291 gallery which they named Londonesian.\u00a02001 saw him participating in \u2018Rio Trajectorias\u2019, Museum of Modern Art and Funate in Rio de\u00a0Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">By 2002 Bill was asked to curate a complete program of events again at the 291 Gallery.\u00a0also in that yearn he was one of the inaugurating artists at Area 10 in Peckham, South London\u00a0where he participated in events up to 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">2003 saw him in Berlin instigating and curating \u201cChanging Channels\u201d , directed by Marianne\u00a0Wagner-Simon. This was a three week long series of exhibitions and performances in venues\u00a0and galleries across the city.\u00a0In 2005 Lowell Darling and Bill Allen instigated \u201cThe Bayennale\u201d in the San Francisco Bay Area\u00a0with the help of a small grant from the Oakland Port Authority and under the direction of\u00a0Elisabeth Beaird. A full description is<a href=\"http:\/\/1995-2015.undo.net\/it\/mostra\/27014\" target=\"_blank\"> available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While in Berlin in 2003 he realized that it might be possible to make prints under wheels the\u00a0street cars which passed the building where he was living. This led to a series of prints made in\u00a0Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Sofia, which became part of \u2018The Bayennale\u201d event and can be\u00a0seen in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitlanders.com\/movie\/tramprints-experimental-printing-by-bill-allen\/321\" target=\"_blank\">short film \u201cTramprints\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After the storms devastated NOLA in 2005 Bill joined with a group of other Bay Area and New Orleans artists to collect and transport relief supplies to the Big Easy there linking up with Rahim Malick of Common Ground Relief to distribute and assist people returning to their devastated homes. <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>After making contact with the Tribal Chief of Isle de Jean Charles we visited the community bearing relief supplies. Also reconstructing a destroyed bridge restoring access to those stranded across the bayou.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2006 my proposal to bring one of those devastated houses from NOLA to the \u201cShelter\u201d exhibition at the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID) was accepted. Unluckily, despite my working on it for several months it was destined not to be realizable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2007 Marianne Wagner-Simon and I were invited to give talk at NYU entitled &#8220;Artist Driven International Art Events and Independent Art Shows&#8221; at the Arts in Society Symposium.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During the new century he has exhibited or performed in Brasil, Berlin, Bulgaria, Copenhagen, USA, Uruguay, Mexico City, Helsinki, Italy, Istanbul, and Dubai and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Scheduled exhibitions in 2016 are in Florian\u00f3polis in southern of Brasil and in the south of France.<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s3\"> He currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro where he wonders \u201cCan indolence be art?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3844\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3844\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3844 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CIMG0050.jpg?resize=625%2C469&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"CIMG0050\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CIMG0050.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CIMG0050.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CIMG0050.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CIMG0050.jpg?resize=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CIMG0050.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CIMG0050.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drip painting for &#8220;Changing Channels&#8221;, Berlin 2003.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3845\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3845 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CIMG1095.jpg?resize=625%2C469&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"CIMG1095\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CIMG1095.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CIMG1095.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CIMG1095.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CIMG1095.jpg?resize=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CIMG1095.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tramprints from Rio de Janeiro and San Francisco for Somarts, &#8220;The Bayennale&#8221; 2005.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/billallenallen.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listIt was after relocating to London from Sydney Australia in the early 70\u2019s that Bill Allen Allen\u00a0began making art full time. 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