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17/11/2004

Pass the Time of Day

Gasworks Gallery, London

Curated by Paul Rooney

Participating artists: Arab Strap, Marko Ciciliani, Phil Collins, Fugazi and Jem Cohen, Rodney Graham, Mark Leckey, Rosalind Nashashibi, Susan Philipsz, Pipilotti Rist, Paul Rooney, Stephen Sutcliffe and Thomson and Craighead

Pass the Time of Day, curated by artist Paul Rooney, explores the theme of the estrangement of everyday life through the use of music. The selected works, which include existing and newly commissioned pieces, have an active involvement with the emotional effects of music, mirroring our fluid and subjective experience of the everyday. The works explore the potential within day to day existence for creativity and resistance to constraint, and they often deal with the theme of ‘wasted time’, or time loosely and freely spent, as an act of resistance.

In developing this exhibition, Rooney has drawn on interests inherent within his own artistic practice which include the social and personal aspects of popular entertainments such as music, comedy and storytelling. The works included are poignant musical art moments which use or reference, primarily recent British and North American post-punk music (or pre-punk with the same demeanour). Similarly, the everyday life that is referred to within the works is that of Western, primarily urban, primarily working class, turn of the century experience.

The exhibition includes two newly commissioned works. The first by Susan Philipsz is an off-site work situated in Maryon Park, Greenwich. This audio piece takes Michelangelo Antonioni’s film ‘Blow Up’ as its starting point and explores themes such as disillusionment, discovery and longing. The second commission by Phil Collins is being developed for inclusion in the second half of the exhibition tour and will explore the artists’ relationship to Morrissey.

Gasworks Gallery has also developed a film programme to accompany the exhibition. The first event will take place on Friday 26th November from 7pm is entitled ‘I’d rather Jack’ curated by Michelle Cotton and Matthew Noel-Tod and focuses on artists’ films and videos which take music as their focus. The second event entitled ‘45 Revolutions Per Minute’ programmed by Lucy Reynolds, takes place on Sunday 28th November from 3pm and includes films which take pop music as their inspiration and structure.
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Artists:

Arab Strap: Scottish pop-rock ballardeers Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton’s ‘Girls of Summer’, 1997, and ‘The First Big Weekend’, from 1996 will play in the new foyer space of the gallery. The latter is a story of canteen quizzes, sleeping in the afternoon and watching the Simpsons. Their work explores the grubby disappointments of relationships, set amongst brutally mundane observations.

Marko Ciciliani: Croatian composer Ciciliani will present ‘Home’, a six channel audio installation that includes the ambient sounds of the artist’s apartment in Holland; the sound of the TV next door, the dog barking outside of the window and someone practising the violin.

Phil Collins will exhibit a newly commissioned work which will presented in the latter half of the exhibition tour. The piece will draw on Morrissey’s early writings relating to music.

Fugazi and Jem Cohen: The film ‘Instrument’ by Jem Cohen will be screened each day at regular times throughout the run of the exhibition. The film documents Fugazi on tour. However, rather than attempting to capture the glamour of the ‘rock tour’, the film focuses on the in-between times, the boring, mundane moments of eating at service stations and trying to sleep on the tour bus.

Rodney Graham will exhibit ‘Aberdeen’ a slide and audio tribute to Kurt Cobain’s hometown, with shots of the dreary Washington State backwater and CD walkman soundtrack sung by Graham and inspired by Nirvana.

Mark Leckey presents ‘Parking Lot’, 1999, which includes an audio piece presented in a parked car outside of the gallery space. Visually the piece evokes a homogenous everyday, as banal as the moulded plastic interior. But this British service station Travelodge aesthetic is sensually undermined by the American voice from the piece ‘telling the woman how happy she made me, kissing and hugging’.

Rosalind Nashashibi’s will exhibit ‘Open Day’, 2001 a film which overlays a musical soundtrack onto routine leisure activities, shifting them, or rather situating them, in their own reality more clearly.

Susan Philipsz will present a newly commissioned work entitled ‘Day for Night’, which will be located off-site in Maryon Park, Greenwich. The audio piece will be based on the Michaelangelo Antonioni’s film ‘Blow Up’ and explores themes such as discovery, disillusionment and longing.

Paul Rooney has made a new ceiling mounted video installation entitled ‘In the Distance the Dawn is Breaking’, which has the sound of singing voices describing retail workers’ sleeping dreams, on the soundtrack to monitor images of empty shops at night.

Piplotti Rist will present ‘You called me Jacky’, a video piece which locates the viewer in the particularly British everyday of the English seaside resort and the debris of a summer romance that started and finished there, which is described in a song called ‘Jackie and Edna’ by Kevin Coyne and lip-synched by Rist.

Stephen Sutcliffe will show his 2001 video work ‘Please, Please, Please, Let me get What I Want’. This piece shows an array of supermarket shelves filled with products that are being re-stacked by night workers to the soundtrack of ‘Please, Please, Please……’ by the Smiths.

Thomson and Craighead’s ‘Telephony’ will be installed in the gallery. This work comprises of a wall of cell phones which are linked up to a laptop with a sound card that creates a mini symphonic experience from the ringing sound we hear everywhere and love to hate.

Image: Open Plan, detail, Paul Rooney

Preview: Thursday 18th November 6-9pm

Exhibition: 19th November 2004 – 9th January 2005

Gasworks Gallery is open Wednesday – Sunday 12-6pm. Admission is free.

Gasworks Gallery has full wheelchair access

A catalogue, with essays by Michael Bracewell and Paul Rooney will be published by Gasworks Gallery to accompany the exhibition.

Pass the Time of Day is supported by Arts Council England’s National Touring Programme, AHRB, The PRS Foundation, Lambeth Endowed Charities, Lambeth Arts and The Royal Netherlands Embassy.

For images or further information about this project or the rest of the gallery programme for 2005/06 please contact Fiona Boundy on 020 7582 6848

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