Exhibition
'OBJECT-CULTURE: Art as Viral-Commodity' - Red
Ourhistory presents
OBJECT-CULTURE: Art as Viral-Commodity
RED - 1-3 Rivington St, London EC2.
Opening Thursday 15th April 6.30 pm Onwards
Exhibition 16th – 25th April Tues – Sunday 11am – 6pm
The exhibition concerns the creative, intrinsic and problematic relationship between Art and Object, that is our contemporary stereotype of art as object, as commodity, and for the artwork as objection, that is, as a form of protest in the most general sense.
objectum - to present to the mind • to throw in the way, present, hinder • ob- in the way, + jacere, to throw … cult_ra • cultivation, cultivate • cultus - till, cultivate, worship • k–el – to move, turn (around) …
Artists: Tony Brennan • Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly • Jackie Clark • Andrew Cooper • Thomas Draschan • Richard Ducker • Mark Hammond • Alexander & Susan Maris • Anne McCloy • Prasant • Brendan Quick • Paul Sakoilsky • Geraldine Swayne • Gavin Turk
Live Music, Screenings & DJ-ing by: Andy Collishaw • The Dark Times Trio • Andy Fraser (DJ) • ‘The Light of Gonk’ • Rex Nemo & The Psychic Self-Defenders, featuring Dr. Bombastic • Prasant • Richard Tony & more tba…
The exhibtion is accompanied by a published dialogue between Sakoilsky and writer, theorist and editor, Mike Watson, ‘Object-Culture: Art as Viral Commodity’ (pub. ourhistory). [Online version pub. http://www.indieoma.com ]
