Why Art Has a History
dal 4/7/2007 al 7/7/2007
Segnalato da
4/7/2007
Why Art Has a History
Wiebke Morgan Gallery, London
Julia Moore, Nicholas Morgan, Matthew Rowe, Chris Smith. Selected Marginalia. On show - which marks the launch of a new collaborative text-based digital provocation - a selection of objects, sounds and images documenting and describing the games and thought processes that parented the work.
Julia Moore, Nicholas Morgan, Matthew Rowe, Chris Smith
To mark the launch of a new collaborative text-based digital provocation
developed by Moore, Morgan, Rowe and Smith, we are showing a selection of
objects, sounds and images documenting and describing the games and thought
processes that parented the work. The artwork around which the show
revolves, "A PDF of Why Art Has a History", is a dematerialised and
intersubjective exploration of internally-disputatious text as fine art. The
PDF has been developed from a four day participatory art event in 2006
("...an extraordinarily rich affect from an equally extraordinary economy of
means....one of the best things I have seen (and modestly, can claim to have
worked upon) for a long time..." Dr. Mary Anne Francis, Chelsea College of
Art and Design). It will be available as a download only from the gallery
website from 7pm on Thursday 5 July for the duration of the show only, in a
counter-intuitive ploy to limit the edition size of an inherently infinitely
reproducible work.
As part of our participation in First Thursdays the show will be open until
9pm on Thursday 5 July to include a reception for the launch of the PDF
itself at 7pm. The artists will be present to introduce the work and to
answer questions.
Moore, Morgan, Rowe and Smith have shown work in a number of group and solo
exhibitions in London, both together and separately, including spaces such
as the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the ICA and London's Guildhall.
Wiebke Morgan
6 Cyprus Street - London