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Exhibition seeks out activism in art
Friday, 2 December 2005, 5:16 pm
Press Release: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
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Media Release
02 December 2005
Govett-Brewster
exhibition seeks out activism in art
The Govett-Brewster
Art Gallery is pleased to present From mini-FM to
hacktivists: a guide to art and activism from 10 December to
3 March 2006. Curated by Mercedes Vicente this is her first
exhibition as the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’s new Curator,
Contemporary Art.
The artists featured include: Greg
Bordowitz (US), Fiona Clark (NZ), Alannah Currie (NZ), John
Di Stefano (NZ), Marcelo Expósito (SP), Annie Goldson (NZ),
Adam Hyde (AMS/NZ), Zita Joyce (NZ), Tetsuo Kogawa (JP),
LTTR (US), neuroTransmitter (US), Paper Tiger TV & Deep Dish
TV (US), Oliver Ressler & David Thorne (AU/US), Martha
Rosler (US), Allan Sekula (US), The Yes Men (US),
0100101110101101 (Eva and Franco Mattes) (IT)
Vicente
says: “From mini-FM to hacktivists examines contemporary
artistic and activist practices in the context of
alternative media and provides the historical grounding for
today’s internet collaborations. It illustrates a new
paradigm of counter information in communications as well as
in artistic practices.”
Three components make up the show
including; installation works; an interactive media lab; and
a programme of documentary screenings in the Gallery
theatre. This exhibition presents the mini-FM project of
Tetsuo Kogawa, founder of free radio in Japan in the early
80s, whose model has influenced media activists and artists
such as the collective neurotransmitter and artists Adam
Hyde and Zita Joyce. Representing the anti-globalisation
movement is Allan Sekula’s Waiting for tear gas (white globe
to black) 1999-2000, a photo reportage of the Seattle World
Trade Organisation (WTO) protests. Martha Rosler revisits
one of her most emblematic photomontage series Bringing the
war home: house beautiful 1967-2005, which draws a parallel
between the Vietnam and Iraq Wars. Marcelo Expósito’s video
Radical Imagination (Carnivals of Resistance) 2004 documents
the Reclaim of the streets movement which brought commercial
life to a standstill in London in 1999.
Taking the form
of guerrilla cybertactics the collectives The Yes Men and
0100101110101101.org clone news and spoof websites creating
a great deal of confusion and succeeding in exposing the
effects and ideologies behind global corporations. Fiona
Clark uses photography as a political tool to fight
community issues. Her series Arial views 1980, presented for
the first time in a Gallery context, were used by local Te
Atiawa Iwi in a court case against the destructive waste
generated by an expanding Taranaki energy industry.
The
media lab includes a selection of recent video productions
by Paper Tiger TV and Deep Dish TV who have been providing
shows for public access TV via cable and satellite in the US
since the 80s. An extensive programme of documentary films
will feature works by Annie Goldson, John Di Stefano, Greg
Bordowitz, LTTR, Leon Narbey, among others, whose strong
social and political commitment as a natural progression of
their own politics introduce public awareness and
change.
Vicente has recently returned from New York after
opening her show If it’s too bad to be true, it could be
‘disinformation. This exhibition has received reviews in
both The New York Times and ArtForum and will travel to the
Blackwood Gallery in The University of Toronto at
Mississauga, Canada from 4 January to 28 February 2006.
Also showing at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery from 3
December to 13 March Len Lye: Individual Happiness Now!
curated by Tyler Cann and from 10 December to 3 March 2006
Linked: connectivity and exchange curated by Charlotte
Huddleston.
ENDS
Notes to editor:
Opening weekend
special event:
Sunday 11 December at 1.30: Exhibition
tour
Join Curator Mercedes Vicente and artists for a
discussion of their works in From mini-FM to hacktivists: a
guide to art and
activism.
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