68. I live at 276 B Queensbridge Road, London E8 3NH, UK.
67. I have mobile phone service provided by Orange, with the phone number: +44 (0) 7814 525 486
66. I hold an account with PayPal associated with the e-mail address 'zayne@zaynearmstrong.com'
65. I have a Google Mail account - which I have set up to recieve e-mail messages from my primary e-mail address: zayne @ zaynearmstrong.com
64. Ian Law and I are currently working on a two part project together, the first part of which will take place at [space], from 17th March, 2011.
63. I am working on a contribution to the first issue of Kazimierz Jankowski's magazine General Inquiry.
62. S/Z hosts '8 People Are Invited To Give Talks About The Middle', a two part symposium, New York, September, 2010, with talks given by:
Emma Rhodes
Anastasia Aukeman
Bryan Markovitz
and others
61. Reading of Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s by Carrie Lambert-Beatty
60. I had a migraine or maybe a cluster headache on 23rd July, 2010.
59. Reading of Meno, Ion and Symposium by Plato
58. Reading of The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
59. Reading of Zadig by Voltaire
57. I have contributed to Monaco Magazine, Issue One, organized by Katie Guggenheim - with its launch on Friday 25th June, 6-9pm, at SE8, London - as a part of their exhibition Mulberry Tree Press. Documentation
Along with the first issue of the magazine being available at the launch, myself and three other contributors made presentations. Documentation
56. I am contributing to Casco Issues 12, organized by Casco - Office for Art, Design and Theory in Utrecht director Binna Choi, and Axel John Wieder.
55. I have started to assist Marie Lund.
54. S/Z built a bench for No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern, London, c/o Next Visit Berlin/Natalia Stachon, 14-16 May 2010.
53. Reading of Pragmatism and Other Essays by William James
52. Reading of The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
51. Reading of The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
50. Reading of The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
49. Reading of Conversations of Socrates by Xenophon
48. With Amy Godard, I am co-hosting a two week spring break project at Chilsolution Stonesoup Playschool, Ashland, Oregon, March 2010.
47. Die Fuge - La Cueva de Cristal, Mark Morgan Perez Garage, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 21-28 March, 2010 - organized by Hella Gerlach and Roman Schramm. My contribution involved work by Sydney Hart, David Smith and Steven A. Weeks. Documentation.
46. I have contributed to 'Part 04' of Gedanken zur Revolution, a currently virtual exhibition started by Falk Messerschmidt and by Prof. Dr. Marc Ries in Leipzig, Germany, in prepairation for a publication due out in January 2011. Documentation.
45. We had a party to celebrate my 24th Birthday at 35 Kenton Road, 2nd February, 2010, from 8pm.
44. I worked as Founding Director of KEN, 35 Kenton Road, London E9 7AB - until February 2010 - a project space which was started in 2007, for which I regularly invited various practitioners to present 'time based' work.
43. I Love You Here Is What I Made - 2010, Wilderness Charter School, Ashland, Oregon, 7pm, 3rd January 2010, organized by Christy Cook. Documentation.
42. An invitation, a score and plans to re-make 'Slow Motion' at Hermes und Der Pfau, Stuttgart, open 5 December 2009 - 15 January 2010, with public events 30 November - 4 December. Documentation.
41. Reading of On the Pragmatics of Communication by Jurgen Habermas.
40. Reading of The Cogito in Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
39. Reading of Architecture from the Outside by Elizabeth Grosz.
38. Reading of Being Singular Plural by Jean-Luc Nancy.
37. Reading of The World, the Text, and the Critic by Edward W. Said.
36. After Hours, The Wallis Gallery (Vanessa Carlos, Edward Fornieles and Ross McNicol) within the Paradise Row / Prakke Contemporary pop-up show Play (9 October to 3 November 2009), 50 Upper Brook Street, London W1. 6-9pm Friday 23 October. A series of film clips selected and presented by 6 people, organized by Katie Guggenheim and Patrick Shier. Documentation.
35. I don't know how close I am to a mountain AND You must have something to do with this, Auto-Italia South East, London, Friday 7pm 16 October 2009 - a two part presentation by S/Z, to coenside with Frieze Art Fair, London. Documentation.
34. Menu, Savoy Cafe, London, 1-9pm 1 August 2009, curated by Katie Guggenheim, for which I am presenting a piece called A Script For 'A Correspondence' (A Few Publications I Would Like To Exchange For Something) - Documentation.
33. Bold Tendencies III, Hanna Berry Gallery, London, July-September 2009, c/o Lucky PDF. The work in the LuckyPDF part of this show rotates - My work will be up 23 September-3 October 2009. Documentation.
32. Reading of Species of Spaces by Georges Perec.
31. I (........) Just Go, Aurora Tabar, KEN, London, 7pm Saturday 22 August 2009
30. I started working at The Duke Of Cambridge mid July 2009.
29. S/Z in No Soul For Sale, X-Initiative, New York, 24-28 June, 2009, with the opening on 23 June, 6-9pm, c/o Next Visit Berlin. Documentation.
28. S/Z in Panda Malin-Head, Auto-Italia South East, London, 21 June - 5 July, organized by Amanda Dennis and James Lewis. Documentation.
27. Perfect Day, Elizabeth Jaeger, KEN, London, 7pm 27 April 2009
26. Reading of A Personal Anthology by Jorge Luis Borges.
25. Reading of Making History: Problems of Methods and Problems of Meaning and The Historiographical Operation from The Writing of History by Michel de Certeau.
24. Twenty Two Oh One, 2201 North California Ave., Apt. 3, Chicago, Illinois, Sunday 31 May, 6-9pm, organized by Sarah Elliott and Julia Rich, for which I sent Julia and Sarah these instructions: Instructions for Set #21. Documentation.
23. Reading of Theses on the Philosophy of History by Walter Benjamin.
22. S/Z in Serial Pops, Green Bicycle Organization, Chicago, Illinois, 7pm 1 April, 2009, curated by Sean O'Connell. Documentation.
21. S/Z built six benches and a table for the Institute events in the SAIC BFA Fine Art Degree Show, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, opening 20 March, 7-9pm 2009. Documentation.
20. S/Z hosts a two part symposium '8 People Are Invited To Give Talks About Geography', Orientation Center, Chicago, Illinois, 24 and 31 March, 2009, starting at 7pm, with talks given by:
Lin Hixson
Megan Ransmeier
Sam Barnett
Devin King
Andy Yang
Nance Klehm
Laurie Palmer
and Matthew Goulish
19. Documentation of a series of sculptures called Signs. Documentation.
18. S/Z Cordially Invites You To Wait in The Grand Hall,
at Union Station, Chicago, Sunday 15 February 2009, between of 1 and 6pm
17. I living at 2201 North California Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60647 - from 16 January to 16 April 2009
16. I Love You, Here Is What I Made - 2009, Ashland, Oregon, 2-4 January, 2009
Zayne Armstrong
Christy Cook
David Cook
Sarah Daegling
Sarah Elliott
Josh Featherview
Elizabeth Jagger
Lisa Kori
Brian Merkel
Sarah Mirk
Julia Rich
Sarah Roach & Cyrus Smith
Jacob & Jim Young
India Wise
... and others
The work that I showed: Set #17 (L'Argent/Logan's Run/The Guardian of the Threshold), 2008, and Set #19 (Ikea, Chris Burden, Vogue, Now I Am Alone), 2008
15. I worked as an assistant at Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, September 2006 - December 2008
14. Sabina Donnelly / Anne Schuh & Dori Deng, KEN, London, Monday 15 December 2008, 7:30pm
13. Reading of Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
12. If You Knew How Much I Miss You, Conrad Ventur, KEN, London, 7:30pm 18 November 2008
11. S/Z made a bench for FormContent, London.
10. About, Auto-Italia South East, 430 - 432 Old Kent Road, London
A group show curated by Zayne Armstrong, 8 - 30 November, 2008
Olivier Castel, Katie Guggenheim & Justin Jaeckle
Sarah Elliott
Peggy Franck
Frederick Fuller
Lydia Gifford
Robin Kirsten
Ian Pedigo
Samuel Whittaker
And texts by David Cook, Tommy Diamond and Richard John Jones. Documentation.
9. S/Z hosts a two part symposium 8 People Are Invited to Give a Talk on a Specific Significant Educational Experience, KEN, London, 14 and 21 October, 2008, with talks given by:
Nina Beier & Marie Lund *
Chloe Briggs
Amanda Dennis
Robert Ellis
Francesco Pedraglio
Christian Toepfner
Conrad Ventur
* unable to present.
8. Zayne Armstrong & Olaf Habelmann, at Next Visit, Berlin, October. Documentation.
7. Inside The White Cube, limited edition print series. Documentation.
6. Reading of Architecture and Utopia by Manfredo Tafuri
5. Reading of The Film Sense by Sergei Eisenstein
4. Reading of Supersenseable Knowledge by Rudolf Steiner
3. Reading of A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
2. Reading of Poetics by Aristotle
1. Reading of Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
At Central Saint Martins, London 2005-2008
36. BA (Hons) Fine Art 4D, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London
35. BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree Show, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, 13 - 21 June. Documentation.
34. Object/Title video project made with Simon Leahy. Documentation.
33. Hugo by Zayne Armstrong fragrance - on sale in Stocktake Sale Now On! at Auto-Italia South East, May-June. Documentation.
32. The Concert Goer's Library - a video made as submission to the Camden Arts Center open video submission competition, April (which I didn't submit). Documentation.
31. Mort aux Vaches Ekstra Extra, Simon Leahy & Goodiepal, exhibition at KEN, London, 20 April, 6-8pm, with pre-performance discussion starting at 5pm.
30. S/Z Internet Search Project, collaborative video project with Sarah Elliott.
29. S/Z in 'An X About X' Revolving Door Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 5 April, 7-10pm, with Sarah Elliott - performing 'S & G Dance' in an Open( )Interval event.
28. Epic, Auto-Italia South East, 430 - 432 Old Kent Road, London, 27 March - 6 April, Opening Wednesday 26 March, 6-9 pm. Documentation
27. Round Table Discussion Group with Johanna Billing and 4D Pathway students, made possible by : Doubble Agents - Graham Ellard, Lisa Panting and Anne Tallentire, at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London - publication to follow.
26. Reading Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson.
25. Begin collaboration with Tahli de Courcy O'Grady. Documentation.
24. Several New Works in Parts, Sarah Elliott, KEN, London, 7 March, 6-8pm, with So Far Away, performed by Zayne Armstrong
23. Begin collaboration with Chloe Briggs
22. 4D Open Studio, Wednesday, February 27th, from 3pm, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, 107-111 Charing Cross Road, London
21. Stage Presence & The Absent Performance, thesis paper for BA(Hons) Fine Art Degree.
20. String/Penny/Botton, group show in Christy Cook's Garage, Eugene, Oregon, 2 February, curated by Christy Cook and Sarah Deagling.
19. 22nd Birthday Party, 35 Kenton Road, 2nd February.
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17. Reading Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment by Rudolf Steiner.
16. I Love You, Here Is What I Made - 2008, held at Childsolution Play School, Ashland, Oregon - 4 January, first annual group exhibition with:
Shevawn Armstrong
Zayne Armstrong
David Cook
Christy Cook
Paul Clay
Sarah Janko
Sarah Daegling
Julia Rich
Brian Merkel
Sarah Elliott
S/Z
And others
The works that I showed: Set # 4 (Solaris / An Actor Prepares), 2007, Set # 8 (Two Chairs, Two Flashlights, Two Arrows, and Two Props), 2008, "Rising and Falling" Under Felt, 2008, Screen Stage, 2008, Kurt Cobain's Song Structure, 2008, and collaborative work with S/Z, and Julia Rich
15. Halloween Party, 35 Kenton Road, London, October 28th, 2007
14. Begin Billie Holiday in Vowels, ongoing project with Julia Rich, (On The Sentimental Side, Without Your Love)
13. A Folding Chair; His name is my name too, DA NA NA NA NA NA NA, Some Beekeepers (David Cook, Sarah Elliott and Julia Rich), KEN, London - 4 August, 6-10pm
12. We May Never Pass Here Again, with Lundahl & Seitl Co-Laboratory, Battersea Arts Center, London
11. Christer's Birthday, Lundahl & Seitl Co-Laboratory (Christer Lunhadl and Martina Seitl), KEN, London - 1 June, 6-10pm
10. Greedy Magpie, Whitechapel Gallery, London, with Lundahl & Seitl Co-Laboratory, curated by James Smith
9. The Relation Ship, Helene Nymann, performance at KEN, London - 2 May, 6-10pm
8. 21st Birthday Party, at 35 Kenton Road, London, February 2
7. My voice shall now come from the other side of the room, touring performance with Lundahl & Seitl Colaboratory, Battersea Arts Center, London; Recent Graduates, at The Affordable Art Fair, London; Bryam Shaw School of Fine Art, London - 2006 MFA Degree Show; Espace Khiasma, Paris; Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2006
6. November 2006 move to 35 Kenton Road Hackney London E9 7AB United Kingdom to live with Luke Brooks, and then others, including Peirong Wu, Eric Watts, Sarah Elliott, Henrik Schunk, Thomas Ponethal, Bill Ryley, Richard Houguez, Thomas Pemberton, Isabel Manning and Sydney Hart, until I moved out in February 2010.
5. Performance / Lecture event at Goldsmiths, University of London, London, group show, selected by Brian Merkel.
4. 'Creative Director' of SV Magazine, with Peirong Wu, and Tom Farthing
3. Assistant at Benjamin Kirchhoff, London
2. BA (Hons) Menswear, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, England, 2005-2006 - A degree which I did not complete.
1. June 2005, move to 134 Grange Road Ilford Essex IG1 1EZ United Kingdom, where I lived mainly with Sophie Arber.
At Parsons School Of Design, New York 2003-2005
11. Summer Show, PASCA Gallery, Pont-Aven, France, group show.
10. Certificate Fine Art, Painting & Sculpture, Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, Brittany, France, with Vocktor Kord and Dean Schneider
9. Portraits of _____, Shelly Steffee, New York, New York, solo exhibition of drawings.
8. Will's Creek Survey 2005, Allegany Arts Council's Saville Gallery, Maryland (I don't think I ever sent the selected works to them).
7. Contributed art work for the jewelry company Alex & Ani's cosmetics line.
6. Foundation degree and BFA Level Independent Design Curriculum (IDC) Course in Architecture & Fine Art, Parsons School of Design, New York, New York, 2003-2005.
5. January 2005 move to 291 Hart Street Brooklyn, New York 11206, where I lived with my sister Shevawn, Nina Basker, Megan Vandever, Joshua Cosimo, John Wise, John Saltana, Katie Vandever, and others.
4. Drawings, 13th Street Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, student curated group show of drawings, 2003.
3. Intern and then illustrator & Assistant, for Shelly Steffee Inc., New York, NY, 2003-2004
2. June 2003 move to 81 Olive Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11211, where I lived with Nina Basker and Dan Greene and others.
1. Move to Tenefly, New Jersey, to live with Linda, Gavin and Steel Armstrong, June - during this time I regularly, if not almost always stayed with Sarah Janko and Nina Basker in their dorm room at Lobbe Hall on East 12th Street in the East Village.
Early Years In Oregon 1992-2003
29. High School Diploma, Ashland High School, Ashland, Oregon, 2000-2003
28. 7 Slammed, 1 Sober, a self-published book of pros by Anne (Hannon-Kramer) Gery, which I illustrated.
27. Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, Oregon, group show
26. Best of the Best, Group Exhibition, The Rogue Gallery, Medford, Oregon, 2002
25. Recycled Art Competition, 2nd Place, Southern Oregon University, Art Gallery, Ashland, Oregon
24. Apprentice to Joy Downey Light, Hand Painted Silks, Ashland, Oregon
23. Pangea, Ashland, Oregon, group show
22. Laser Heart Surgery, Pediatric Ward, Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center Portland, Oregon
21. Laser Heart Surgery, Providence Medical Centre, Medford, Oregon
20. Certificate Design & Research, Istituto Marangoni, Milan, Italy
19. Art Auction, Standing Stone Brewery, Ashland, Oregon - a fundraiser for a trip to Italy to study design, which I organized with my parents. Many people from the community gave me support.
18. Apprentice to Jane Cluggston for Belfry Masks, Portland, Oregon, 2001.
17. Perform in a short play with Heidi Stewart, Ashland Senior High School, Ashland, Oregon - I can't remember the exact title or much more about this.
16. Internship with Ashland Gallery Association event management director Lynn Kambury, for 'A Taste of Ashland', Ashland, Oregon.
15. Perform in numerous touring performances with the Duct Tape / Planned Parenthood Theatre group, Oregon 2001-2002.
14. Best of the Best, Group Exhibition at Marion Ady Galleries, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon.
13. (Figure), Group Exhibition at Marion Addy, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon, 2000 (I'm actually not sure what the title of the show was).
12. Elected Sophomore Class President, Ashland Senior High School.
11. Prelude, Zayne Armstrong + Lauren Steele, Earwax Contemporary Art Space & Record Shop, Ashland, Oregon.
10. Elected to Homecoming Court, Freshman year, with Mckenna Arndt - which involved, primarily, riding on the back of a convertible in the Ashland 4th of July Parade.
9. Painting & Art History Short Courses, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon, 1999.
8. Intern in Costume Property Department of Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, Oregon, 1999-2001.
7. Ashland Middle School, Ashland, Oregon, 1997-2000.
6. Second in election for Freshman Class President, Ashland Senior High School, 1999.
5. Perform Ancient Chinese History Lessons as Nirvana cover songs in a band with Evan Campbell and Michael Orsow.
4. Direct and perform in a variety of short plays with siblings, Talent, Oregon - 1992-1993.
3. Attends The Rogue Valley Waldorf School, Ashland, Oregon - in Mrs. Christine Leonard's class from 1992 - 1997.
2. Perform a variety of plays with friend Mariah Fielder, Talent, Oregon.
1. Family moves to The Rogue Valley, in Southern Oregon.
Early Years In California 1986-1992
7. Brother Jaiden Garret Armstrong is born, January 10th, 1991
6. Pasadena Montessori Academy, Pasadena, California
5. Attend Scientology Pre-School, Los Angeles area
4. Diagnosed with Tachycardia - Prescribed medication of Atenolol-Oral for the next 11 years.
3. Participated in gymnastic classes.
2. Ganglioneuroblastoma Surgery, at Loma Linda University Hospital, which I then, and have since, thought of as an operation to remove my twin from inside my abdomen.
1. Zayne Konrad Armstrong was born on 2nd February 1986, in Upland, Los Angeles area, Southern California. He is the second of three children - Shevawn and Jaiden - born to Daryl Philip Armstrong and mother Paula Inery Lynam, in the Family Birthing Center of Upland, California, United States of America.