7/10/2005
Folk Archive
Spacex, Exeter
Contemporary Popular Art from the UK. Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane have documented the fantastic array of visual art through photography, film and objects, updating what is traditionally thought of as folk art. It includes incredible objects, films, painting, performance, costume, decoration, political opinion, humour and poetry.
Contemporary Popular Art from the UK. By Alan Kane and Jeremy Deller
Folk Archive is a vibrant collection of contemporary folk art put together
by artists Alan Kane and 2004 Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller. Over the
last five years Deller and Kane's ongoing research has explored both
traditional and contemporary forms of popular creative expression.
From body ornament to flower arranging, knitting to custom cars, Deller and
Kane have documented this fantastic array of visual art through photography,
film and objects, updating what is traditionally thought of as folk art. It
includes incredible objects, films, painting, performance, costume,
decoration, political opinion, humour, poetry and more, from our own, often
overlooked, doorstep. This exhibition shows how contemporary folk art is and
the central role it plays in the nature of a society and its art.
Folk Archive celebrates energetic and engaging creativity from a vast range
of activities occurring throughout the UK including tar barrel rolling at
Ottery St Mary. It features other material from the South West and a series
of special events accompany the show.
³The stuff throbs with unmistakably current creative energy. It¹s naughty,
chaotic, disrespectful and, at times, clinically insane.² The Evening
Standard
Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK is organised by Bruce
Haines. The exhibition is accompanied by a full-colour publication by Alan
Kane and Jeremy Deller, with an essay by Jeremy Millar, edited by Bruce
Haines and published by Book Works. Price £14.50, available from SPACEX
bookshop.
Spacex
45 Preston Street - Exeter
Open Tues - Sat, 10am - 5pm, admission free