30 April 2015
For our April Spin event we will be visiting artist-run Embassy gallery to discuss MUD, an exhibition of new work and stealth collaborations by Mel Franklin Smith and Alex Pollard and works by Mike Cooter.
We will be joined by the exhibition’s curator Dane Sutherland and other committee members. Shoes and other artworks are displayed on top of horizontal screens giving the overall effect of light emitting sarcophagi.
Pollard and Franklin Smith are ‘collaborating’ with a diverse list of artists, inanimate objects and concepts including the German Democratic Republic, Physarum Polycephalum (the many-headed slime), computer animation artist Clifford Sage and Jeff Koons’ contemporary, Meyer Vaisman. Previously a Franklin Smith and Pollard collaborative project involved wirelessly hacking visitors’ iOS 8 devices. The exhibition runs until Sunday 3rd May.
30 October 2008 at 6pm
This month we will be visiting the Talbot Rice Gallery to see the work of Turner Prize 2004 nominees, Langlands & Bell.
Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell have been collaborating since 1978, and exhibiting internationally since the early 1980s. This exhibition marks 30 years of their artistic collaboration and looks to re-assess their early and most recent film works.
Well known for their use of modern technologies employed in the production of their animations, sculpture, object design and interactive artworks, the exhibition includes a new neon sculpture, and 13 films and animations.
Whilst the early works have the patina of age indicative of the now superseded technologies used in their creation, digital media has become an important part of their recent working practice, with interactive works such as the installation The House of Osama bin Laden using the most modern of computer production processes. This work, created in 2003 after their visit to Afghanistan as official war artists, is far removed from the everyday, western televised experience of events in the region.
Joining us in discussion will be Zoe Fothergill, Curator of Education and Development at the Talbot Rice Gallery, to talk about the diverse nature of Langlands & Bell’s output to date.
