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Exhibitions & Live Art Commissions1978 South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell 1980 Leverkusen, West Germany
1982 PMC Gallery, London
1983 Percy Thrower Garden Centre, Shrewsbury
1984 Baron Alban’s Plumb Line, South Hill Park
1986 Arts Centre, Swindon
1987 Finborough Arms, London
1987 Aspects, Portsmouth Art Space 1988 Contemporary Art Fair, Bath International Festival
The Guerilla Squad National Review of Live Art at Riverside Studios, London Alastair Snow was asked to programme the banquet event at the National Review of Live Art at Riverside Studios London in 1987. Silvia Ziranek planned the menu, Mona Hatoum was the guest speaker and The Guerilla Squad provided the cabaret with a riverside intervention by raft with pyrotechnics by Le Maitre Fireworks. Baron Alban devised The Guerilla Squad in 1986 as a remarkable concept in concussed percussion, sparked by the tactics of confrontation and deterrent in an uncertain age of reason. It consisted of up to 25 percussionists and amplified ironing-boards played with timpani sticks, a highly charged domestic metaphor to promote home centred society under fire and under threat. A disco version was presented at the Hippodrome Night Club in London with a sonic arrival on the Flying Phantom*, a fire tug on the Clyde at the Glasgow Garden Festival. Following the riots in Korea, the performance took on more of a militaristic identity given by a locally recruited and rehearsed company of artists, dancers, musicians and enterprising members of the general public, many new to or unfamiliar with the confrontational aspects of live art. * The Flying Phantom tug capsized claiming three crewman’s lives on the river Clyde after running aground in December 2007.
1996 Saltburn Artists Gallery 1997 Six Chapel Row Gallery, Bath 2001 Painting Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 2006 Exhibition of paintings at Chapel Row Gallery, Bath
2007 Exhibition of photographs at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Royal West of England Academy Autumn Exhibition 2007 Alastair Snow visited Berlin in October 2005 with artists and architects as part of an international delegation arranged by MADE Birmingham. The two RWA exhibited photographs were part of a series of about fifty images taken during this visit which included a number of guided and invigilated tours of parliament buildings, museums, public realm development, the Netherlands Embassy and E-Werk – a refurbished industrial building in the former Russian sector, now used by media and creative industries for workspace, exhibitions and events. Within the conversion of E-Werk, the architect has retained the original control room of the previous power station as a point of recollection of former use. It is the most evocative space to recall times past; almost Kubrick in intensity with a powerful sense of place and time. E-Werk is situated on Mauerstrass and Wilhelmstrasse near to several government buildings and close to the site of the former SS Headquarters and Hitler’s bunker.The security fenced, green space overlooked from E-Werk retains a certain historic resonance.
2008 Exhibition of photographs Through the Lens at Royal West of England Academy the first RWA exhibition to be devoted entirely to photography; contemporary work from invited photographers and open submission.
Above: Shelter, The Marais, Paris December 2008 Exhibition and Secret Art Sale in aid of Shelter |
