UK-based arts commissioning body Artangel has announced an open call for proposals, offering £1 million in backing for the five chosen projects.  Artangel has a history of backing Turner prize winners and shortlist candidates, including Jeremy Deller’s 2004 Turner Prize-winning “The Battle of Orgreave” re-enactment, and  is seeking proposals that attempt the fantastic and seemingly impossible.  “We hope to find younger artists who will put forward amazing proposals. We feel that we want to get ideas that are forming in the darkness into our field of vision.” Says Artangel Director James Lingwood.

(more…)

‪‬Mike Kelley project with Artangel and MOCAD ‘Modern Homestead’ public art work to stay in storage in Michigan, while 3 project-based videos will show at Whitney Biennial, which is dedicated to the recently deceased Kelley [AO Newslink]

(more…)

Ryan Gander’s Locked Room Scenario. All pictures for Art Observed on site by Caroline Claisse.

British artist Ryan Gander‘s Locked Room Scenario is set in the mysterious Londonnewcastle Depot in north London. Every detail, from postcards and notes left throughout the scene, to teenage actors sitting on the stoop, create an intriguing, paranoia-inducing installation. Walking past locked rooms and peering through windows of a seemingly closed exhibition, the viewer is frustrated, left wanting more. Indeed, “the crime scene” reaches an intolerable suspense as the public must decipher the art within and the possible meaning thereof. Gander’s game plays with imagination and paranoia, creating an experience of total immersion, leaving the viewer second-guessing everything and everyone involved.

More text and images after the jump… (more…)