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Alex Bailey
Alex Bailey, artista e performer inglese nato a Birmingham, vive e lavora a Vienna. Ha studiato fotografia alla Falmouth University (2006-2009) e ha seguito un master in Fine Arts al Sandberg Institute ad Amsterdam (2012-2014). Tra i suoi vari interessi vi è lo humour concepito in una dimensione narrativa espansa e affrontato attraverso diversi media: stand up, testi e immagini, performance, scultura e pubblica umiliazione. Nel 2012 è stato artist-in-residence alla South London Gallery e alla New Art Gallery Walsall. Ha pubblicato i libri One and Done and Searching for Her. Fra i suoi progetti più recenti vi è la commissione per un’opera radiofonica, Transmitter, per Performa 13 a cura di Anne Szefer Karlssen, e opere per Fusiform Gyrus alla Lisson Gallery di Londra a cura di Raimundas Malasauskas. Alex Bailey è stato anche calciatore professionista nell’Aston Villa football club.
Alex Bailey is an artist and performer born in Birmingham, UK. He lives and works in Vienna. He graduated with a BA in photography from University college Falmouth (2006 - 2009) and MA in Fine Arts at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam (2012- 2014). His interests concern among other things humour in an expanded form of storytelling, something that he has approached through a variety of media such as stand up, public humiliation, text, image and sculpture. In 2012 he was the artist resident at South London Gallery and New Art Gallery Walsall. He has published the books One and Done and Searching for Her. His most recent project involves a commissioned radio play ‘transmitter’ for Performa 13, curated by Anne Szefer Karlssen. Fusiform Gyrus at Lisson Gallery, London 2013, curated by Raimundas Malasauskas. Alex Bailey also spent time as a professional footballer on the books of Aston Villa.