Interview with Tim Etchells about Qu’y a-t-il neon for Centre Pompidou Could you tell us a bit more about the project you are presenting at Centre Pompidou ? It’s a new work, commissioned especially for Pompidou. The full phrase is “Qu’y-at-il entre nous?” The letters are made of neon – in classic neon red, and […]| Tim Etchells
Tim Etchells and Aisha Orazbayeva, in conversation with artist Vlatka Horvat about their text and music performance collaboration Heartbreaking Final (2021). VH: You’ve been improvising together as a duo for some years now – what was the impulse for developing this larger collaboration? TE: Most of what we’ve done as a duo has been pure […]| Tim Etchells
Following the Endland publication by And Other Stories last year I’m happy to make these spoken word plus music versions of a few of the stories available for free. They were produced in collaboration with a group of amazing musicians who’ve created soundscape musical material to accompany the readings. The complete Endland is also available as […]| Tim Etchells
Seen from Here: Writing in the Lockdown is a collection of stories, flash fiction, poems, autofiction and conceptual writing gathered during the April and May Covid-19 lockdown, bringing together UK-based writers, poets, performance makers and artists. Published in a PDF format by Unstable Object, an imprint launched by Etchells and Horvat for this occasion, the book is […]| Tim Etchells
Hearing Voices / Departure Lounge 6 March – 18 April 2020 (Closed for Easter weekend) Tim will be presenting a new series of works including a selection of drawings and the newly commissioned neon work ‘Kind of Stillness’ that are inspired by conversations he’s had with local residents. Preview 5 March 2020, 6 – 8pm. […]| Tim Etchells
Tim Etchells has been selected for the shortlist of new writing as part of this year’s Manchester Writing Competition – the UK’s biggest prize for unpublished work. Devised by Professor Carol Ann Duffy DBE at the start of her poet laureateship in 2008, the competition has since awarded £175,000 in prize money and helped to […]| Tim Etchells
Video trailer for my new short fiction collection Endland – shot and edited by the always amazing Hugo Glendinning, words and music by me. Text is the preface for the book. More info about the book here, buy from Forced Entertainment here.| Tim Etchells
Something Common / Ebensperger Rhomberg Salzburg 27 January – 9 March 2019 Tim will be showing a new larger-scale version of his neon piece ‘Something Common’ at the opening of the Ebensperger Rhomberg space in Salzburg. Preview Saturday 26 January from 6-9:30pm. More information here. Presque Rien / Geukens & De ViL Contemporary Art […]| Tim Etchells
Tim has new work in the show Subject:Fwd:Unknown at fffriedrich in Frankfurt, curated by the MA Curating Students at Städelschule. Tim’s section of the exhibition runs 16 November – 25 November 2018. More info about the show here. There are also upcoming gigs for Shown & Told Tim’s collaboration with Meg Stuart, coming up in Vienna (23 and 24th November) and Gent (13 and 14 December). […]| Tim Etchells
VITRINE is delighted to present a solo exhibition of work by Tim Etchells. Taking cues from its position in a busy public square, Etchells fills the unique space with a 12 metre-long neon piece that reads ‘For everything that is shown something is hidden’. The letters spelling out the phrase are only alternately illuminated, disrupting […]| Tim Etchells