Transmission Interrupted

Modern Art Oxford, Oxford

With contributions from 14 artists working internationally, the exhibition demonstrates art's ability to make visible and audible what remains unseen and unheard at a time when free speech and democracy are invoked as universal values to which we can all subscribe. Many of the works in the show are poetic testaments to events and experiences that have a passing and, in some cases, recurring presence in the public domain. Among the artists: Adel Abdessemed, Pilar Albarracin, Yto Barrada, Mircea Cantor, Jem Cohen, Jimmie Durham...

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Adel Abdessemed, Pilar Albarracín, Yto Barrada, Mircea Cantor, Jem Cohen, Jimmie Durham, Simryn Gill, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, Lia Perjovschi, Michael Rakowitz, Ernesto Salmerón, Yara El-Sherbini, Sislej Xhafa

Curated by Suzanne Cotter, Senior Curator at Modern Art Oxford, and curator and writer Gilane Tawadros

Transmission Interrupted looks at how contemporary artists disrupt prevailing forms of registering and representing the world. With contributions from over fourteen artists working internationally, the exhibition demonstrates art’s ability to make visible and audible what remains unseen and unheard at a time when free speech and democracy are invoked as universal values to which we can all subscribe. Many of the works in the exhibition are poetic testaments to events and experiences that have a passing and, in some cases, recurring presence in the public domain.

Adel Abdessemed’s Practice Zero Tolerance (2006) a burned-out car fashioned from black clay is a mute witness to the riots that took place in the working-class districts of Northern Paris in 2005. Sislej Xhafa’s installations and performances render visible experiences and relationships that are barely recorded. His live performance piece elegant sick bus (2001/9), which involves a group of men pushing a mirrored tour bus through the streets, draws a parallel with the burden imposed by tourism on local populations.

A number of artists in the exhibition offer meditations on fleeting realities in cities and their inhabitants, which are at odds with the impacts of globalisation and heightened public fears and prohibitions. Simryn Gill’s assemblages of found materials to create replicas of our material world and her photographic projects eloquently map the in-between spaces of borderlands and margins. Jem Cohen’s mesmeric film, NYC Weights and Measures (2006), documents New York street life at a time when filming in the city is becoming increasingly controlled due to national security concerns.

This richly textured and thought provoking exhibition, presented throughout Modern Art Oxford’s galleries, also includes a programme of films, performances and interventions in the public spaces of Oxford. The accompanying publication designed by Åbäke features interviews with exhibiting artists and contributions from poet Mourid Barghouti and Human Rights scholar Thomas Keenan.

The exhibition is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Culturesfrance, The Romanian Cultural Institute, Carluccio’s, Phoenix Picturehouse and The Jam Factory.

BOOK
Transmission Interrupted is accompanied a fully-illustrated book, featuring contributions from Suzanne Cotter and Gilane Tawadros, Bard Human Rights scholar Thomas Keenan and poet Mourid Barghouti, and artists’ interviews. The book is designed by Åbäke, and costs £19.95

EVENTS PROGRAMME
As well as the exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, Transmission Interrupted will comprise a series of performances, screenings and talks in public venues around Oxford:

PERFORMANCE
Friday 17 April, 3.00pm
Sislej Xhafa: elegant sick bus
Starts at the top of Cornmarket Street, Oxford
FREE, Just turn up

Monday 20 April, 7.00pm
Yara El-Sherbini: A Pub Quiz
Jam Factory, 27 Park End Street, Oxford
FREE, Booking recommended

SCREENING
Wednesday 12 May, 6.00pm
Screening of Harun Farocki’s, Videograms of a Revolution, 1992, and Respite, 2008
Modern Art Oxford, FREE, Just turn up

Wednesday 10 June, 6.00pm
Short video and film works from Jem Cohen, Claire Fontaine and Samuel Stevens
Modern Art Oxford, FREE, Just turn up

Tuesday 26 May, 6.00pm
Jem Cohen, Empires of Tin, 2008
Phoenix Picturehouse, 57 Walton Street, Oxford
£7.50/ £6.50 concessions Booking essential 0871 704 2062

Tuesday 3 June, 6.00pm
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Je veux voir, 2008
Phoenix Picturehouse, 57 Walton Street, Oxford
£7.50/ £6.50 concessions Booking essential 0871 704 2062

TALK
Wednesday 29 April, 6.00pm,
Maja and Reuben Fowkes: Art and Sustainability
£4/£3 concessions Booking essential

Thursday 16 May, 6.00pm
Thomas Keenan, Director, Human Rights Project and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Bard College, New York.
Department of History of Art, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes, Oxford
6pm £4/£3 concessions

Image: Sislej Xhafa, elegant sick bus, 2001. Installation and Performance. Istanbul Biennial. Courtesy the artist. © Sislej Xhafa

For further information and images please contact Frances Arnold, Press and Marketing Assistant on 01865 813804, frances.arnold@modernartoxford.org.uk

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30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP
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