5pm-9pm
4th March 2015
Blade Factory
67 Greenland Street
Liverpool
L1 0BY
Exhibitions are frequently solely experienced online, their digital representations act as politicised agencies negotiating increasingly dominant networks. As art continues to operate in spheres more closely associated with the mass media it exhibits a growing complacency with the nature of these networks. Art is no longer critical of its most pervasive forms of documentation but is instead content to operate within its realm without engagement. Rather than resist the language of consumerism and the mass market it is possible to occupy its modes of expression. This exhibition is presented as an attempt to exercise complete control over its own consumption by adopting the dictatorial nature of consumerist media and removing the possibility of subjectivity by not allowing a physical manifestation. Here we present a selection of artists that construct their own visions of reality, liberated from any obligation for representation their authored world-views are free to exist as carriers of content.
Curated by Dan Mahony and Gregory Herbert
LCAC and Kate Cooper
Gregory Herbert
Jake Laffoley
Dan Mahony
Kim Laughton
Lustfaust
Crown Building Studio
57-59 Victoria Street
L1 6DD
P.v 6-9PM
Open by appointment till 20th May
Exhibition are frequently solely experienced online, their digital representations act as politicised agencies negotiating increasingly dominant networks. as art continues to operate in spheres more closely associated with the mass media it exhibits a complacency with the nature of these networks. Art is no longer critical of its most pervasive forms of documentation but is instead content to operate within its realm without engagement. rather than resist the language of consumerism and the mass market it is possible to occupy its modes of expression. The first exhibition was presented as an attempt to exercise complete control over its own consumption by adopting the dictatorial nature of the consumerist media and removing the possibility of subjectivity by not allowing physical manifestation.
Part 1 included artists Kate Cooper, Lustfaust, Kim Laughton, LCAC, Jake Laffoley, Gregory Herbert, Dan Mahony.
Part 2 of 'reality' will act as a response to the first exhibition, Gregory Herbert and Dan Mahony have collaborated to create artworks that act as documents and represent the conceptual thinking behind the first exhibition.
Reality PT.2 from herbert on Vimeo.
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