"What is being built here are ecologies of commodities and ideas and feelings all mixed together, and these ecologies gain their value from making the most of new interactions, from pre-empting these interactions and steering them on to new, more advantageous courses. This is an art of building attachments, of continually restarting the work of association. The overall goal is to produce, often for only the briefest of moments, a kind of secular magic by forming collectives, temporary gestalts to use Merleau-Ponty’s filmic description, which have pull through their ‘whatever singularity’ an internally plural collectivity understood as that which has an inessential commonality, a solidarity that in no way concerns an essence."
Nigel Thrift
I’m showing a new piece of work at the ‘Paint Club’ Exhibition at Beaconsfield in London on Friday evening (open 6-8pm) which follows on from a one-day symposium looking at painting research.
Contribution for Common People Zine - 100 sheet zines by one hundred artists, see www.bronze-age.net and www.museumspress.co.uk for more info.
Common People Zine, published by Museums Press in collaboration with Bronze Art Editions, launches at Ti Pi Tin, London on 25th April, 6.30pm.
Easy Does It, a group exhibition curated by Kevin Hunt examining the complexity inherent in the simplest of actions, the exhibition begins at David Dale Gallery, Glasgow - 2nd to 23rd February, http://www.daviddalegallery.co.uk/
