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10/12/2008

Open studio and talks

Gasworks Gallery, London

Currently participating in Gasworks’ international residency programme artists Fabiano Marques (Brazil), José Arnaud-Bello (Mexico), and Dane Mitchell (New Zealand) open their studios to the public. At the preview the artists will introduce the development of their practices in London with talks in their studios. Marques will also present a new performance piece The London Translation-Interpretation Chorus. The performance will begin at 8pm.

Fabiano Marques works in video, performance and site specific installation. Marques often approaches the production and presentation of his work as if it were a game, building structures which have their own rules of interaction. At Gasworks, Marques has been developing various projects in parallel however one project has been to investigate the possibility of making a moto-continuum machine; a vehicle that can generate its own energy to propel itself. Marques' performance during the open studio launch, The London Translation-Interpretation Chorus has developed from his interest in communication and translation.

José Arnaud-Bello works in sculpture, installation, photography, video and drawing. During his residency at Gasworks, Arnaud-Bello has been intervening in the architecture of his studio, modifying the way it relates to its natural, urban and human surroundings. Throughout his work there is a focus on the process of transition, exploring how the general affects the specific and viceversa. In his practice he realises interventions which are devised from a sustained period of research into the specifics of an environment, varying from the informal appropriation of public space in Mexico City to the speculative history of the ruins left from a discotheque in Corsica.

The work of Dane Mitchell takes a methodological approach to uncover the institutional customs and pathologies at work within contemporary galleries and museums. Mitchell chooses to work in installation, however, often borrows processes from the fields of bacteriology, anthropology, geology and parapsychology among others. Whilst at Gasworks, Mitchell has been exploring witchcraft and the connections such mysticism can have to place and space. At a glass blowing workshop Mitchell gave form to a New Zealand witch's spells by reciting them into the molten glass.

Alongside the open studios Gasworks' will launch the Even Better Together Billboard Project. During a series of arts workshops, families resident and local to the two neighbouring housing estates of Kennington Park and Ashmole have been making collaborative artworks with artists Albert Potrony and Janetka Platun. A selection of these works will be displayed as a public billboard on the façade of Gasworks' building, offering a unique reflection on living in the Kennington/Oval region of South London.

Preview with Artists' Talks and a Performance: Thursday 11 December 2008, 6.30-8.30pm
Open Studio Continues until: Sunday 14 December 2008
Also Showing: Even Better Together Billboard Project

Gasworks Gallery
155 Vauxhall Street, London
Open: Wed-Sun, 12-6pm daily
Gasworks' ground floor has full wheelchair access
Admission is free

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