#temporary contemporary

[spyroskaprinis]

"The Persistence of Utopia" Exhibition – The Market Gallery, Temporary Contemporary, Huddersfield _ 23rd October – 9th November 2019 _ Curated by: Professor Nic Clear and David Smith.  

Exhibitors: Stella Baraklianou, Nic Clear, Claire Diggle, Danilo Di Mascio, Donal Fitzpatrick, Roddy Hunter, Marko Jobst, Spyridon Kaprinis, Sara Nesteruk, Hyun Jun Park, Christian Peterson, Andrew Taylor, Mathew Taylor, Katrina Whitehead, Simon Woolham. 

The Cosmia Festival and the School of Art Design and Architecture. 

"At a time when society appears to be in a state of continual crisis, political and ecological, and there are deep divisions over which direction our futures should take, the concept of utopia may seem to be naïve, idealistic and irrelevant. However, in opposition to this sense of despondency the Utopian impulse persists across contemporary cultural practice, taking many forms from text, fine art, architecture, the moving image and interactive arts.  

The works exhibited in ‘The Persistence of Utopia’ represent the diversity of practices across the School of Art Design and Architecture and involve a variety of media, from painting, illustration, photography, video and animation to architectural models and collages. The exhibition examines how the Utopian imagination is developed particularly in relationship to ideas of the ‘everyday’. The work explores a number of perspectives on utopian and dystopian thinking and counteracts the wider negative context with subtle humour and a critical affirmation of difference.  

The Persistence of Utopia is produced in association with the Cosmia Festival, a new arts festival, based in Huddersfield, dedicated to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction. The first festival takes place from 25 October-to 3 November 2019." 

_ Professor Nic Clear [2019]

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[moca]

Installation view of Betye Saar's exhibition, Sanctified Visions, 1990 at the Temporary Contemporary, courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, photo by Ellen Jaskol

[blech]

FAC 331 The Temporary Contemporary Table from Cerysmatic Factory:

I came up with the idea of making it seem to float, tense, chaotic and asymmetrical, as the thing should be, like Factory, somewhat unstable and structureless. I made a model of the steel construction in the attic and one of the table so that together I could figure out how to rig up the cables to keep it in position, trembling in mid-air. That's when I showed it to Ed for some design criticism, which was more or less, cor, that looks cool, when do we start?

We used beer crates and stacks of mags and books to get the table to the right height and level, rigged up the the cables and tensioned them to keep it in place. Nerve racking! That thing made noises which were not healthy, we all thought for sure that something was going to give, but both thankfully and amazingly it didn't! The added bonus was that the cables could be tuned, like you would a guitar, and therefore the table could be played and used as an instrument (sort of). Contrary to rumour, nothing got broken and no walls collapsed. The first glimpse of it when coming up the stairs was magical, there was this big industrial object hovering in space, which looked like it just wanted to go fast, to take off, but was being tied down and held in check by razor thin steel wires - nice!

[realemotional]

Cross My Heart - London Bridge Temporary Contemporary (2000)

[clinging]

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Cross My Heart - With Bells On you can return me I come with a receipt exchange for a better boy one that doesn't get annoyed one that's all smiles and is attached with strings.