Edwin Burdis’s practice explores a unique and extravagant fusion between art, music and sub-cultural references for which he has in the past taken on various artistic personas. His drawings which he exhibits as a backdrop for his performances and which are sometimes created during the event are part of an on-going compulsion to produce.
Differentiating it from entertainment and eliminating what the artist describes as a ‘pay-off’ for the viewer; a performance he hopes will leave the viewer wanting more and making their own connections between all the elements in the gallery space.
PERFORMANCES & SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Longmeg, The Peckham Hotel, London, UK
No Stop, Stature, Machine, The Peckham Hotel, UK
FOR IT IS A PEAR, The Gopher Hole, London, UK
Handle, Manton Studio, Tate Britain, London, UK
Longmeg, The Architecture Foundation, London UK
Handle, Goods Shed, BRICKHOUSE Incarnation 5, Stroud, UK.
HE WANTS WHAT SHE WANTS, Vitrine Gallery, London
The Stage has Eyes, Music | Art | Film Festival, Vitrine Gallery, Bermondsey Square, London, UK
Shake, Rattle and Hole, Max Wigram Gallery, London UK (Performance)
Home Service, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, UK.
BigBoxStatueAction, Serpentine gallery, London, UK. (Performance).
2010
The People Person and A Deconstructed Chicken Pie (Song and Work, Work and Song) Incarnation 4, BRICKHOUSE, New Gallery, Peckham, London, UK (Performance)
Edwin Burdis and LongMeg, Radio IPS, I.P.S, Bourneville, Birmingham, UK (Installation and curated radio show).
Back, Sack and Crack (a work) and Home (a performance), Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK (Solo show and Performance).
LongMeg, I.P.S, Bourneville, Birmingham, UK (Performance).
Flexi-man, Civic Room, London , UK (Solo show and performance).
NOVEL Publication launch,”Oh Stexts” Limoncello, London, UK(Performance).
NOVEL Publication launch, I.P.S, Bourneville, Birmingham, UK (Performance).
Goldene Zeiten, Haus De Kunst, Munich, Germany (Performance).
A Relaxed Affair, BRICKHOUSE gallery, London, UK (Solo show and performance).
LongMeg, Tate modern, London, UK (Performance).
AND THERE WAS…, Salon Vert, London, UK (Performance).
LongMeg, Be Glad For The Song Has No End, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK (Performance)
2009
Edwin Burdis presents HOME (a fixation with happiness), Union sq, New York, USA (Performance).
“Garbage for Garbage” a cultural exchange, Lincoln Plaza, New York, USA (Performance).
INSIDE OUT, BROADWAY 1602, New York, USA (Solo show and performance).
LongMeg, Vilma Gold, London,UK (Performance).
The Gold Whole, Vilma Gold, London, UK (Performance)
2008
Hit the Skin, Ink the Paper, Dicksmiths Gallery, London (Performance)
Edwin presents a story of a Man Like Me, Vilma Gold, London (Performance)
Ed Laliq presents Man Like Me show, Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany (Performance)
2007
Ed Laliq presents Man Like Me, Pro QM, Berlin, Germany (Performance)
Jack too Jack, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland (Performance)
Jack too Jack, Arnolfini Centre, Bristol (Performance)
2006
Jack too Jack, Migros Museum, Zurich (Performance)
Jack too Jack, Kunstverein, Duesseldorf (Performance)
2005
Jack too Jack, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (Performance)
Jack too Jack, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (Performance)
2003
Big Box Statue Action, Tate Britain, London, UK (Performance)
DonAteller, Nova Popularna, Warsaw, Poland (Performance and record album)
Ed LaLiq, Flourish Nights, Glasgow (Performance)
Londonatella, Hidden in a Daylight, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Poland
2002
DonAteller, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Studio 672, Cologne, Germany (Performance)
Ed Laliq’s Have you seen this man Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany (Performance)
Ed Laliq’s This man is playing at Neon Neon Gallery, London, UK (Performance)
Ed Laliq’s This man is playing at Neon 2 Neon Gallery, London (Performance)
Electric DREAMS, LonDonAteller, Barbican Art, London, UK
2001
DonAteller, Gavin Brown enterprise, New York, USA (Performance)
DonAteller, Optimo, Glasgow (Performance)
DonAteller, Club 414, Cabinet Gallery, London (Performance)
DonAteller, Cabinet Gallery, London (Performance)
SATURDAY Journal, Hyde Park, London (Text project)
Free Booze, DB Gallery, London (Solo Show)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Purr Fig Purr, Lombardium, curated by Vitrine Gallery, Hanover Square, London, UK
Just the Flip Side of the Wall, The Architecture Foundation, London UK
No Stop, Statue, Machine, The Architecture Foundation, London UK
Asbestos Curtain, GalleriesGoldstein at Goodhood, London, UK
No Stop, Statue, Machine, ICA, London, UK
Ghosts of Gone Birds, Rochelle School, London, UK
Sick, Shit and Weird, INSTINCT FOR THE ACTUAL, Cold Harbour London, (curated by Guy Robertson)
Voice Studies presented by My Dance The Skull, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Relica, Vitrine Gallery, Bermondsey Square, London, UK
Tarot,
Organised by Hayward Touring and Focal Point,
Focal Point Gallery, Southend, UK
BRUDERKRIEGSOUNDSYSTEM (sound project from Edwin Burdis, Mark Leckey and Kieron Livingston) ICA, London, UK
Edwin Burdis presents ‘Doughnut’ by Man Like Me, Blackpool, UK January – March 2011
Edwin Burdis presents ‘Doughnut’ by Man Like Me, Southend, UK April – June 2011
2010
Allan Kaprow: 18 Happenings in 6 Parts, 1959/ 2010 as part of Move: Choreographing You, The Hayward, London
And There Was…, Salon Vert, London, UK
Novel and Something Blue (Joint Publication Launch at Archive Kabinett), Archive Kabinett, Berlin, Germany
BRICKHOUSE publication, Limoncello, London, UK
2009
Unnaming of Parts, Blackston gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Valerie, Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin, Germany
Frieze art fair, BROADWAY 1602, London, UK
One-Dimensional Man, I.P.S, Bourneville, Birmingham, UK
2008
Jon Jon the Demigod, The Wharf Road Project, London, UK
MAN LIKE ME, Panorámica, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
2007
Dracularising, Galerie Neue Alte Bruecke, Frankfurt, Germany
2006
NADA, BROADWAY 1602, Miami, USA
Artissima, BROADWAY 1602, Turin, Italy
Keep passing the open windows or Happiness, Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
LISTE, The Young Art Fair, BROADWAY 1602, Basel, Switzerland
All Dressed Up with Nowhere to go, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, Scotland
