OPEN DAILY:
6. DEC. 09 - 10. DEC. 09
TIMES: 10.00-LATE
BUILD COMMENCES: 6. DEC. 09
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PRIVATE view/ PARTY / DECONSTRUCTION: THURS 10.DEC. 09. TIME: 19.30PM - 3AM
The RART Manifesto Series investigates the constructing of art and is used as a medium to communicate and build RART’s manifesto. For the entirety of the exhibition the artists will have the freedom to use the warehouse space as an exhibition space and simultaneously a studio space. An area for artists to work together feeding off each other’s practice in a vibrancy which is unique and specific to the RART Collective.
PAUSE AND EFFECT (1.5) is a pregnant hyphen between Manifesto1. and Manifesto 2.
The exhibition is feeding on the finite energy of these fresh artists blood. Visual, Audio and performance artists will inhabit this artistic forum like an infestation of complex thoughts building up to a swell of misplaced conclusions and thought out arguments. All these new site specific works are approaching the private view together to create something greater than the sum of its parts.
In a continuation of questions raised in Manifesto 1. PAUSE AND EFFECT (1.5) will be exploring, deeper, and championing, harder, the deconstruction of our everyday surroundings to create a different visual language.
It will exist as a 5 day intensifying ART PARTY constantly open to the public, and stand proud as a testament to individual and collective art process.
All the exhibiting artists proposals for PAUSE AND EFFECT (1.5) stand perverted as site specifics works as they are all designed to the specifics of other venues, thus contorted and wrenched ready to be viewed in a different context, forcing manipulation throughout the inhabitance.
19.00- 19.15 an enforced daily PAUSE of open critique.
' any attempt to document a thought process proves itself to be as futile as the uroboros - Caught in an endless, entropic loop, unable to catch up with the moment of actuality it is chasing.'
The exhibition will culminate with a party where performances will take place before all works will be as publicly deconstructed as they were constructed.
DAVID ANGUS 'DV Interruptions' David Angus is a contemporary artist primarily working with photography and video, although his practice has developed incorporating performance and sculpture. His work deals primarily with light and space. Exploring spaces defined by light and examining how light can be used to define a pictorial image, through this experimentation light becomes a theatrical intervention and servers as a device in the creation of his work. Recent work explores ideas of perspective and pictorial space and his wider practice encompasses concerns around structural and materialist movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s.
EMMA LOUISE BOULDING 'Engaged' The creative processes involved in Boulding’s work are induced via a meditative state of mind or “flat-line” consciousness, on the luminal edge or peripheries of where the conscious meets subconscious. Boulding attempts to recondition her mind and enters into a state where no conscious thoughts or mental activity occurs. Channelling of information and Remote Viewing of particular events in space and time will be depicted as various assemblages of a personal language in two-dimensional ideograms.
ANGUS H BRAITHWAITE 'Failures of aviation' Angus works in live event, specifically exploring these events in their second hand format; there is an uncertainty of the real where narrative can become confused and myths created. Playing with the documentation of performance where sometimes all is left is the promise of what might have been, the tattered remains of a live event most did not see. Nostalgic yet contemporary the work sits in a time that never was and revels in an uncertain and romanticized past.
JACK BRINDLEY ''Objective Deliberation - Ad Infinitum' Jacks current practice explores the hidden structures of language. With a combination of text, painting and installation the presentation of his work attempts to illuminate the perplexities that we encounter everyday as we endeavor to comprehend the world around us. The paintings strive towards a state of objectivity through a comprehensive understanding of display and presentation.
DAN –CORBEY- BRISTOW 'Big Wood' Bristow playfully exposes the folly of a mere passing glance with his beautifully crafted sculptures, rewarding the virgin eye with a disjointed symbolism and harmony of misconjoined materials that together seek a more immutable and mellifluous position in the creative stream.
DORI DENG & META DRCAR 'Measuring No.1' Dori and Meta have been collaborating in the Performing Arts since the end of their Fine Art degree course. Their shared interests in live performance, contemporary dance, light projection and sound became the foundation of their collaboration and their work always generates from The Space. They use moving bodies, visuals and sound in an interactive manner with regards to the space, therefore exploring its dimensions and proportions. The new project Measuring, is a series of on-going live performances that explore the measuring of a space using body movement.
SARAH GIFFORD 'Neutral' Sarah Gifford's work focuses on the private and personal moments in life. Her art can be seen as romantic because these secrets are made public. She encourages the audience to witness these moments through 'spontaneous' performances. In the exhibition, she uses a simple costume to create an unidentifiable figure thus exploring the importance of expression.
CORINNE MYNATT 'My dads guns' Corinne Mynatt’s work exists as examinations in politics, gender, sexuality, popular culture, the spectacle and existentialism. Recent works delve into the “society of the spectacle,” the media, and how this in turn creates our perceived reality. Most recently Mynatt has taken the memento mori as a starting point and describing it visually in the most literal of ways such as holding a skeleton and digging a grave with collaborative partner Angus H. Braithwaite.
EMILY PAIGE SHORT ' Horizon' The reflection of the self onto the division of space as perception direction in time lies infinitely between the present body controlled by the vastness of the mind. Horizon a and Horizon b stand at opposite sides of the space facing each other, creating between themselves a hypothetical space in which the viewer is the central anchor point, the cantilever in the circumference of the infinite. A geometric tension stretches incommensurably between the two distortions leaving existence in a condition of tepid flux and suspension. -Emily Paige Short on horizon.
HOLLY SLINGSBY 'What if there's only up?' Slingby is showing What if there’s only up? a video installation that is typical of her current practice, it focuses on a vertical journey and uses this as an image of progress, recovery or healing. In addition it employs simple repetitive action, which is a recurring feature in her work. The formal qualities of the work – in this case the placement of the weighty monitors on the floor and their reflection of each other – are used to emphasis its metaphorical allusions.
ANDREW SUDERLAND 'Neither either nor or' By setting a video camera to autofocus, pointing it towards a blank space, and leaving it. Autofocus attempts to create a truly autonomous piece of work bereft of intent or meaning. The artist has chosen to record 60 of these ‘happenings’ that are ordered and edited differently each time the work is shown in an attempt to create an original. This ordering is decided by a random number generator and time sheet which will be shown with the video.
KIKI TAIRA '3 sticks' Kirika Tairas artwork is inspired by the diverse superstitions of other cultures and the psychology behind superstitious behaviors. Tiara multidisciplinary approach brings together sculpture and Performance contorting ritualistic patterns to perversion through repetition rules and restriction. Metaphor also plays a vital role within the performance via the insinuation of pain, this prevailing once the scale of these everyday life rituals has been distorted.
CHOOC LY TAN 'Verticality' Tan’s performance based video work explores themes of metaphysics through the derision of the sublime by the physical act of falling, raising questions of the nature of being. For the exhibition Tan presents a video installation on three monitors of work from 2008 that features the artist vied against varying Icelandic landscapes.
KONSTANTINIA VAFEIADOU 'Tic Tac toe' Vafeiadou employs the nostalgic lure of simple childhood games to create vibrant performance rich visual experiments. The work is produced by the participant’s strategies and conducted by their decisions, informing an experiential visual game.
ADAM WATTS 'Elevated-Illuminated Pyramids' Adam Watts proposed work deals with the title of the show Pause and Effect quite literally. Watts structures considers the fast paced, impulsive and the consumptive side of society and the struggle to stop and take stock. Watts site specific sculpture will consist of various elements including banners, flags, motors and found images mimicking a production line of sorts.
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