At Furtherfield Gallery Katriona Beals show and make us think how human kind can behave in relation with digital sources. She proposes a series of art works related to the addicted use of digital tools such as mobile phones and web social platforms. Looking at her works in a tiny dark room we are immersed in an obscure world where screens and lights take most of the space. A PC connects us to a endless series of directories while our eyes movement is projected on the sealing, a small screen on the wall show counts of Donald Trumps Tweeter shares and likes, at the entrance a fruit machine activate when some one moves in front of it and images from the web randomly allign on three digital reels.
Very interesting in the end and quite creepy at the same time.
MAYBE it’s the impending election. A number of Islington art galleries are hosting politicised exhibitions and events this month.
Parasol Unit has scored a coup with a solo show from Cuban-born duo Los Carpinteros (Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodríguez) – their first major show in London.
The ground floor of the gallery will house large installation Tomates, 2013, a torrent of 200 real tomatoes flung against a wall recreated in porcelain and the splash captured in watercolour.
There is a tempered anger in this staged representation of protest. Tomatoes have a violent history, they’ve been chucked by Peta supporters at fur wearers, the Dutch king was pelted by them in 2013 and of course the festival of La Tomatina celebrates a tradition where frustrated villagers would chuck rotten tomatoes at their council officials.
“At the time that Cuba is the talk of the world, to have the solo show of Los Carpinteros in London is simply beyond belief,” said Parasol Unit director and curator Ziba Ardalan.
“Come and see how irreversible socialism can be reversed by joy of life in the short film Conga Irreversible.”
The film follows a large-scale traditional Cuban carnival procession performed back to front. The 100 dancers, musicians, choreographers, composers and costume designers slowly disappear backwards down Havana’s famous Paseo del Prado; the costumes, the dance moves, the lyrics to the song all meticulously arranged in reverse, recognised as a humorous dig at Fidel Castro’s assertion of “irreversible socialism”.
The question of how older people are considered in public will form the focus of the Public Wisdom Symposium at Conway Hall.
The one-day event is organised by the Cubitt Gallery’s education team to provoke a reassessment of our aging population beyond headlines screaming of a “ticking time bomb”.
The line-up includes performance artist Lois Weaver on sex and ageing in public, and anthropologist Jason Danely on abandonment and public life in Japan, while Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects and Older Women’s Co-Housing will discuss their radical co-designed housing development for older women.
Furtherfield Gallery is to host the Spanish activist campaign and art competition Young Fraud on March 28. This is the second year of the prize, launched in response to widespread cuts in art funding.
The awarded artists Isabel Servera and Guillem Portell and the promoters of the campaign will be at the gallery to present the project and showcase the artworks as part of an international tour.
(via A Homemade Artist Train Runs on the Abandoned Rails of Mexico)
From 2010 to 2012, Mexican artists and brothers Ivan Puig and Andrés Padilla Domene set out to ride those nearly 9,000 kilometers of rails in a retro-future exploratory vehicle called the SEFT-1.
