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Press Release
Use this kind of Sky is an exhibition and project which brings together a number of international artists
whose practices engage with the social climate and the events and concerns of the
present, to explore the potential of contemporary art as an effective
mediator of change. At a time when the media control and dissemination of
information appears total in its sophistication,
artists' works and non-artist consumers of
works alike [kinds of art-spectator
'users']
are faced with dismissal, in the generic dislike of art,
which is regarded as, if not at base entertaining,
a decorative irrelevance, " ...footnote to forces more
powerful than its capacity to confront." [Jean
Fisher]
One of the distinguishing features of Use this kind of Sky is the use of what might be called a
'democratising' principle embedded in viewer
friendly strategies of representation; the humorous,
comic, ironic and absurd to be found endemic in the dramatology of human error
and failure.
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However these affects do not operate merely as
wish-fulfilment, 'dumbing
down', but herald
[universally] the work of criticism as the
oblique, continuous work of reformation of the subject.
Undercover of the casual remark lies the devastating comment; the witty aside and the
flippant remark act as covert
to an agonistic realm, one where we would be able to
identify, not without anticipating the difficulty and struggle
for freedom, the 'imperial'
firmly lodged within [for instance,
as the simplification of states to totals:
democracy, user-friendliness,
transformation of culture to market].
Each artist has been invited to make work specifically for a project which integrates galleries
[Keith Talent Gallery] as
outside, within their broader location over a set
duration, in and around East London,
at specifically,
®edux,
SPACE at the Triangle and on Resonance Radio,
104.4 F.M.
A project through which the processes of variegated kinds of installed works brings individual
ones and their subjectivities into the active form of a surface,
the intercedence answering the potential for something at odds and unforeseen.
Paul Eachus and Nooshin Farhid, as the curators are also artists
currently living and working from London. 'Wait for
Me' was held at the London Institute Gallery at Millbank in
2002.
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