Sovay Berriman Entertainment
Suite,
2010.
29 October to
10
December 2010 - PV Fri 29th Oct
A THEATRE
TO
ADDRESS2: in excessive structure
Sovay Berriman, Mikko Canini,
Tai
Shani
Curated by Bridget
Crone
Screening curated by Al Cameron and Karen Di Franco - date
tbc
Jean Luc Nancy has
described
representation as an intensification of presentation – his
emphasis
on the ‘re’ renders not a repetition but a kind of going
deeper
and more intensely into the performance that takes place before us and
is
called ‘representation’. A THEATRE TO ADDRESS2:
in
excessive structure begins at this point of
intensification
with a simple interrogation of what constructs its parts – in
this
case, text is addressed through an excessive emphasis on its role
to
describe or to communicate and this is a task rendered so excessively
in
the case of Mikko Canini’s MOHB (2009) that a reduction
takes
place, or in the case of Milky White Light, Inky Black Hole: A
Radio
Play by Tai Shani (2010) worlds occur within worlds within
worlds
interwoven through and by the text
itself.
A THEATRE TO ADDRESS2:
in
excessive structure is an experiment and an enquiry into the
way
language orders or structures experience, exploring the potential for
text
to block the immersion into the experience of being an audience (in
the
theatre of the exhibition). The fragility of this moment of
possible
experience or immersion is heightened through Sovay Berriman’s
large
sculptural work, Entertainment Suite (2010), a structure that
with
its shiny, reflective surfaces and platforms both invites and repels
its
activation as a stage. Instead, it becomes a space of intensified
but
temporally unstable potential – has something just taken place,
about
to take place, never
happen?
A THEATRE TO ADDRESS2:
in
excessive structure explores the idea of the exhibition as a
form
of theatre, a form of theatre that might invite participants or it
might
not. This is an exhibition about structures and structuring,
and
specifically about the power of text to write the structure of this
stage
(of the exhibition) and deny an ease of identification with
its
contents.
This
exhibition
follows on from A THEATRE TO ADDRESS: a
festival
of textual form – concrete, material, scripted and performed,
a
two day festival of performances, talks and readings exploring the work
of
artists who use text as something that might block, impose upon or
break
apart communication (or it might revel in rhythm and rhyming
nonsense)
producing a gap through which other systems and structures –
both
visual and sonic – might appear. A THEATRE TO ADDRESS was
held
at the Arnolfini, Bristol in June
2010.
A THEATRE TO ADDRESS2:
in
excessive structure is curated by Bridget Crone, Artistic
Director
of Media Art Bath – a commissioning organisation based in South
West
England dedicated to championing contemporary art and
ideas.
//
+ finissage of VENEZIA - solo show by Patricia Ellis
// + stav
B's
slammer bar - cocktail night
// + Deptford Last Fridays -
local
galleries open till 8pm
(visit www.deptfordartmap.co.uk)
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AFTER PARTY>11pm
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