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Harald Smykla is a German-born artist who has been London-based since 1988. He studied painting and printmaking at Karlsruhe in the 1980s, and pictorial concerns still inform the ephemeral, site-time, context-specific and frequently collaborative live art practice he has pursued since the late 1990s. He has exhibited and performed throughout Britain and Europe and presented work in Israel and Croatia during the MAP Live Performance Art Exchange programme. He performed as part of East Wing Collection VIII (2008-09) at the Courtauld Institute, London, and at the Quad film festival in Derby, where his Movie Protocol drawings were exhibited (2010-11); and at the launch of UnSpooling - Artist & Cinema at Cornerhouse, Manchester (2010).  He exhibited with England & Co at the Zoo Art Fair (2009), and had a solo exhibition at the gallery Harald Smykla: Movie Protocols & Other Activities in 2010. Smykla has participated in numerous the group exhibitions at the gallery, most recently in Trailer (with Alberto Duman); Wandering Lines i & ii (2011 & 2012) and Screen Practice (2012).

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 Constructions & mixed media   Performance   

1: Eat Your Words
The 7-Year Itch

Mixed media on paper
12 x 17.25 inches

2: Launch of the Sushi Armada
The 7-Year Itch

Mixed media on paper
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3: Fresh Scents for Chess Friends
The 7-Year Itch

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4: Clean Sweep/Gorf Castle
The 7-Year Itch

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5: Ticker Countdown
The 7-Year Itch

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6: Re-Cover
The 7-Year Itch

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7: Face Value (pilot) – Cash for Sale
The 7-Year Itch

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8: Drawing Disco at Gorf Castle Ball- and Drawing Room
The 7-Year Itch

Mixed media on paper
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9: Ain’t No Love for Sale (The Deptford VOracLE)
The 7-Year Itch

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10: Johannistag
The 7-Year Itch

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11: Buffalo Bill Performance Spaziergang
The 7-Year Itch

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12: Random Rundum Observation
The 7-Year Itch

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13: Performative Guidance
The 7-Year Itch

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14: Fruit/Veg Chess Deptford X
The 7-Year Itch

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15: Endgame Ticker (My Heart Beats for the European Champion)
The 7-Year Itch

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16: Face Value Brixton
The 7-Year Itch

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17: Royal Crunch
The 7-Year Itch

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18: Zweite D-Markierung: Lokalwaehrung (Second D-Markation: Local Currency)
The 7-Year Itch
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19: PAC Live Movie #3: Dog Whip; Reverse Ladder
The 7-Year Itch

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20: Bow[o]man Cosmetics
The 7-Year Itch

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21: T-Rent
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22: The T-Hams Feast
The 7-Year Itch

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23: Fruit/Veg Chess East
The 7-Year Itch

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24: Song of Songs
The 7-Year Itch

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25: Ticker (pilot)
The 7-Year Itch

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26: Face Value Portrait Services Ladywood Branch
The 7-Year Itch

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27: Tick-Toer/Toe-Ticker
The 7-Year Itch

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28: Melting Plot #1
The 7-Year Itch

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29: PAC Live Movie #4: Anna O double juggling
The 7-Year Itch

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30: C.R.E.H.A.
(Centre for Research into Emotional Hygiene through Art)

The 7-Year Itch

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31: Put Your Hands Together for the Kelling Sea-Feed (Home visits) The 7-Year Itch

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32: The Rolling Garden of Redriff
The 7-Year Itch

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33: Put Your Hands Together for the Kelling Sea-Feed (Conclusion)
The 7-Year Itch

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34: Origami Pool
The 7-Year Itch

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35: Straight from the heart (Days of my life)
The 7-Year Itch

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36: Nothing Other, Brother/Nothing Sinister, Sister
The 7-Year Itch

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37: Ticker EEC
The 7-Year Itch

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38: Annual Return (Loss Account)
The 7-Year Itch

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39: C.R.E.H.A. on the canal boat Auriga
(for Harry Palmer’s The Sirens Project)

The 7-Year Itch

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40: Zebra (set-up)
The 7-Year Itch

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41: Synchronised Swingers of Bermondsey
The 7-Year Itch

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42: Calorific Face Value (Nutritional Portrait Gallery Peckham)
The 7-Year Itch

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43: PAC Live Movie #5: Anna O Falling/Rising
The 7-Year Itch

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44: Melting Plot #4
The 7-Year Itch

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45: Europe and the Bull
The 7-Year Itch

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46: Greenwich Reprojection (Archijection/Blueprint)
The 7-Year Itch

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47: Day 16K, part 1
Ground Preparation (Audio-Fluidity/250 Chessboards)

The 7-Year Itch

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48: Day 16K, part 2
(Transfer Ticker: Per Tenebras ad Lucem – 'Through Darkness to the Light')

The 7-Year Itch

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49: Perfect Square Day, part 1
(4⁷ – On reaching Life's Last Perfect Square)

The 7-Year Itch

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50: Perfect Square Day, part 2
(2¹⁴ – A North Southwark Chess Pilgrimage)

The 7-Year Itch

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51: Perfect Square Day, part 3
(4⁷ Reprise: Transit)

The 7-Year Itch

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52: Melting Plot: Portals
The 7-Year Itch

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53: In Dada still relevant for the 21st century?
The 7-Year Itch

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54: Spawning
The 7-Year Itch

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55: PAC Live Movie #7: Chess Footsie
The 7-Year Itch

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56: PAC Live Movie #1: Anna O juggling her hysteria
The 7-Year Itch

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57: Psychological Art Circus: The Tent Season
The 7-Year Itch

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58: Zebra (revealed)
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59: Carmen Horti Whittensis
The 7-Year Itch

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60: To Anna Blune
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61: Ticker Self
The 7-Year Itch

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62: Psychological Art Circus at St George’s Circus
The 7-Year Itch


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63: OHP Road Movies (Obus 2)
The 7-Year Itch

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64: C.R.E.H.A.
(Centre for Research into Emotional Hygiene through Art)

The 7-Year Itch

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65: Silkworm's Dream
The 7-Year Itch

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66: PAC Live Movie #2: Cushion Throwing
The 7-Year Itch

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67: PAC Live Movie #6: Snake Hand
The 7-Year Itch

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68: PAC Live Movie #7: Beard of the Father
The 7-Year Itch 68

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Movie Protocol Triptych Lightfast ink on paper, in acrylic cases
2009

Left: Olympia 1, Fest der Schönheit (Leni Riefenstahl)
Centre: Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
Right: Olympia 2, Fest der Völker (Len


Ref: HS009