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22/9/2010

Still life with modern guilt

Motinternational, London

Still life with modern guilt
As Part of its' ongoing 2010 project MOT International will be having a reception for Stian Ådlandsvik and Lutz-Rainer Müller.

Curated by Wiebke Gronemeyer

Stian Ådlandsvik (N) & Lutz-Rainer Müller (G) work collaboratively since 2006 on various occasions while also pursuing their individual practices concurrently. Their collaborative work process often originates in particular situations or contexts that they either create for themselves or upon which they react.
For their exhibition at MOT International curator Wiebke Gronemeyer has asked them to investigate the idea of collaboration itself. In response to this invitation the artists developed a conceptual framework in which their methods and mechanisms of collaboration are tested in relation to their individual practices. Coming to terms with this involves the seemingly paradoxical plan to defer the decision-making process in favour of an exhibition based on a fortune teller’s vision and medical technology. CT-Scans of Lutz-Rainer Müller’s left arm and Stian Ådlansvik’s right arm were made to produce duplicates of the respective bones in their arms cast in Polyamide. Over the summer the bone-duplicates travelled to MOT International in purpose-built briefcases where they have been examined and interpreted by a London-based fortune teller who articulated his vision for their next exhibition.
The new series of works that Stian Ådlandsvik and Lutz-Rainer Müller are presenting at MOT International deals with the predictions the artists were given by the clairvoyant, as well as it manifests their very own means of collaboration and its evolving nature in communication.

Stian Ådlandsvik (b. 1981 in Bergen, Norway) and Lutz-Rainer Müller (b. 1977 in Neustadt in Ostholstein, Germany) met in 2006 while studying at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. Recent exhibitions of their collaborative practice include You only tell me you love me when you’re drunk at Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen, Still life with hyena, lotus and cave at W17, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, in 2010, If I won’t fly, try using it as a reducing machine, simultaneously at Galerie HfbK, Elektrohaus, Trottoir and St. Pauli Kunstverein, all in Hamburg, 2008, and Sketches for the meantime at Fotogalleriet, Oslo, 2006. At MOT International the artists present their collaborative practice for the first time in the UK.

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Cally Spooner
Performance Saturday 25th September 4pm

Three instalments of 'Indirect Language', a translation for radio, by Cally Spooner.

Read by Dulcie Joslyn, Dominic Rouse, Will Holder, Cally Spooner, Philomene Pirecki and others.

Cally Spooner's current project is an evolving translation of Merleau Ponty's 'Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence' (1952) for radio. The project diassembles Ponty's original text on speech, history and cultural expression into 8-parts, numerous re-edits, dialogue , stage directions , dramatisation and a non-chronological order. 'Indirect Language' began in june 2010, with the first instalment (act 5) having been written for ‘Une Exposition (du) Sensible’, curated by Mathieu Copeland, at the Synagogue Du Delme.

At 4 pm on the 25th of September, three newly written installments will be read and recorded for radio, after open rehearsals at MOT from the 11-25 of September.

Cally Spooner’s performance/production work uses broadcasting, dramatisation, live events and writing to explore how subjects and material can be restaged, translated and kept in flux, in the present. She has recently produced new work or presented existing work for CHELSEA Space; Resonance fm; Neue Alte Bruuke gallery, Frankfurt; and the Whitechapel Art Gallery.

Cally Spooner's current project is an evolving translation of Merleau Ponty's 'Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence' (1952). This will manifest as multiple parts, in a non-chronological order, with the first installment (act 5) having been realised at ‘Une Exposition (du) Sensible’, curated by Mathieu Copeland, at the Synagogue Du Delme in June 2010. These acts attempt to disassemble Merleau Ponty's original work into dialogue. Through dramatisation, characterisation and speech the multiple parts, references and figures embedded in the original essay loosen themselves from the body of text and become accessible. Cally will be performing, workshopping and rehearsing a number of additional acts at MOT International from the 11th - 25th of September.

Cally Spooner’s performance/production work uses broadcasting, dramatisation, live events and writing to explore how subjects and material can be restaged, translated and kept in flux, in the present. She has recently produced new work or presented existing work for CHELSEA Space; Resonance fm; Neue Alte Bruuke gallery, Frankfurt; and the Whitechapel Art Gallery.

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Florian Roithmayr

Residing within a response to the architectural framework of the program of 2010, Florian Roithmayr has created two works that are rooted within the notion of pre production. Directly referencing works previously shown in May, Box 1 Spool 1. Spool. Spool and Box 2, Spool 1-5. Ah, the little rascal, utilise the language of archival display and research to deconstruct the conventions of the making process.

Florian Roithmayr was born in Germany in 1977 and graduated with an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in 2005. Recent exhibitions include, 'Naum Gabo & Florian Roithmayr' The Russian Club Gallery, London; 'Feeling Gave Way to Structure' The Approach, London; 'Eventually Everything Happens' Neue Alte Bruecke, Frankfurt; 'Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What' Galerie Miroslav Kraljevich, Zagreb, Croatia.

Opening Thursday 23 September 6.30-8.30pm

MOT International
54 Regents Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London E8 4QN
Open Wednesday - Saturday 11 - 6 and by appointment

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