PAST SHOWS AT N/V PROJECTS:
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• Derek Sutherland SOLO PRESENTATION
(EMBASSY residency exchange exhibition at N/V_PROJECTS)
installation view (photo: N/V_PROJECTS)
installation view (photo: N/V_PROJECTS)
installation view (photo: N/V_PROJECTS)
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PRIVATE VIEW: THURSDAY, March 15th 2012 / 6 - 8 PMOn view through March 31st / Saturdays 12 - 5 PM and by appointment
More and more, contemporary warfare takes place in supermarkets, towerblocks, subway tunnels and industrial districts rather than open fields, jungles or deserts. All this means that, arguably for the first time since the Middle Ages, the localised geographies of cities and systems that weave them together are starting to dominate discussions surrounding war, geopolitics and security. In the new military docterine of asymmetric war - also labelled 'low-intensity conflict,' 'net war,' 'the long war,' - the prosaic and everyday sites, circulations and spaces of the city are becoming the main 'battlespaces' both at home and abroad.
EMBASSY and N/V_PROJECTS are producing a short-term residency exchange culminating in an exhibition at the respective venues. N/V_PROJECTS have selected an artist based in London to take part in a three week residency at Embassy in Edinburgh. At the same time an artist from Scotland selected by EMBASSY will be in residence at N/V_PROJECTS in London. The residency at N/V_PROJECTS will begin on 1st of March and will culminate in an exhibition at N/V_PROJECTS from 15. - 31. March 2012
Artist in residency at EMBASSY in Edinburgh:HAZEL DOWLING
Artist in residency at N/V_PROJECTS in London:DEREK SUTHERLAND
www.embassygallery.org
installation view (photo: Damian Griffiths)
`Forrest´ (photo: Damian Griffiths)
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`Family´- New Collaborative work by Dowling&Page
PRIVATE VIEW: Monday, November 21st / 6 - 8 PM / on view through December 17th
'Family', the first collaborative body of work by Aislinn Dowling and Christopher Page, is a social grouping of friendly things - "Birgit", "William", "Liliane" et al. Promiscuous objects, they solicit touch, use, but are only to be admired. With colours both executive and soothing, these works of art shine in the home, the office, the hospital, the prison and the gallery. Using steel, wood, foam and paint, Dowling & Page transform the humble studio into the grand factory, producing items with the assurance of the standardized, and the status of the unique.
BRICKHOUSE is a curatorial project organised by Thomas Bush and Guy Gormley
installation view; works by Berry Patten, Lloyd Corporation (photo: Nicholas Brooks)
installation view; work by Aaron Angell (photo: Nicholas Brooks)
installation view; work by Nicholas Brooks (photo: Nicholas Brooks)
installation view; works by Claire Baily, Rowena Harris (photo: Nicholas Brooks)
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PECKHAM 90210
October 11th - 23rd 2011
Following the success of the show RIVE GAUCHE and PAMI screening, N/V_PROJECTS are pleased to welcome you to PECKHAM 90210, an exhibition featuring works by a group of promising artists. The title PECKHAM 90210 stems from the spontaneous overlap between N/V_PROJECTS and the artists, aiming to highlight the geographic relevance of Peckham as the vibrant centre of a prolific cultural community. With this new exhibition, N/V_PROJECTS wish to offer an occasion to engage with UK and international young artists who identify with this area and whose works explore a variety of media. Attempting to create a critical discourse among the public and the artists, as well as among the artists themselves, PECKHAM 90210 reflects N/V_PROJECTS’ mission to support the development of Peckham’s contribution to contemporary art in London.
participating artists: Aaron Angell, Claire Baily, Julie Born Schwartz, Nicholas Brooks, Tianzhuo Chen, Rowena Harris, Michael Hertz Siim, Lloyd Corporation and Berry Patten.
(image: Art Licks PAMI Tour, 2011. work by Pil&Galia Collective, photo: Mariona Otero) |
PAMI: Peckham Artist Moving Image
screening of video art selected by Cedar Lewisohn at N/V PROJECTS
Ruth Ewan
Liam Gilick & Corinne Jones
Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Tai Shani
Also screening works by NULL/VOID
Participating organisations: The Sunday Painter, Arcadia Missa, Lucky PDF, Bold Tendencies 5, Son Gallery, SG Project Space, Khan's Bargains, Sassoon Gallery, N/V_Projects, New Gallery, Your Body Is A Temple, FIELD, Studio Downturn, Flat Time House
PAMI website
Both venues are situated in Peckham, in the immediate vicinity of each other. In the field of tension between the two locations an overlap of concepts creates a powerful convergence of metaphors for artistic strategies in contemporary art.
'Stockholm Syndrome' is a term used to describe the positive bond some kidnap victims develop with their captor. Similarly, if a viewer encounters a work of art, which is shocking or challenging in its nature, the viewer feels drawn to the violent and abject within the work, as if hypnotized by the repulsive or disturbing appearance or subject matter. In contrast, a Cargo Cult is a religious practice that has appeared in many traditional pre-industrial tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults focus on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magic and religious rituals and practices. This reverberates with the expectation that art objects are believed to bring about an experience which has often been described as magical, mystical and sublime. The parallels in the fetishization of objects offers a way into looking at works of art through the lense of the phenomenon of 'Cargo Cult'.
Bussey Building, London, UK - December 11th - 12th 2011 (www.thenullandvoid.co.uk) participating artists: (The Cargo Cult) Ting Tong Chang, Nigel Dunkley, Noam Edry, Lauren Evans, Roman Liška, Nevine Mahmoud, Jeff Moerchen, Hannah Perry, Anthony Williams participating artists: (Stockholm Syndrome) Robin Bale, Thomas Bresolin, Zavier Ellis, Laura Oldfield Ford, Patrick Goddard, Chas Higginbottom, Thomas Johnson, Mark Mcgowan, Alexis Milne, Tom Poole, John Wild
PAST SHOWS PRODUCED BY NULL/VOID (in various venues):
EMOTION DRIVEN PROCESS BASED PARALLEL IDENTITIES
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Sunday, May 6th 2012 / 12 - 4 pm
N/V_PROJECTS is pleased to present to you another exclusive event featuring our favorite South London-based post-relational aesthetics gang EMOTION DRIVEN PROCESS BASED PARALLEL IDENTITIES. Their latest project FACETIME: MASKS will comprise of a facepainting and mask-making workshop, including a rap lyrics session inspired by hip hop artist MF DOOM aka Daniel Dumile.
EDPBPI - V22
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EMOTION PSYCHO AFTERLIFEO: PSYCHOANALYSL & EDPBPI at PECKHAM HOTEL
N/V_PROJECTS are pleased to present a night of emotionally charged prosthetic hipness. On invitation of the Peckham Hotel we have brought together the two well-cool London/Berlin/Tel-Aviv based artist/dj/scuba-diving collectives PsychoanalYSL and EDPBPI (Emotion Driven Process Based Parallel Identities).
In this ultra-contemporary joint venture which further blurs the line between artist, producer and consumer, we wish to celebrate with you the AFTERLIFEO. Taking the form of a wake, this one-night-only show and party will function as an anthropology of contemporary art, tinged with the nervous humour of a funeral party. Furthermore, the format of party-as-art also serves as a groovy networking opportunity.
This event is the official after-party for the second installment of BRICKHOUSE incarnation 7 opening on the same evening 6 - 8 PM at N/V_PROJECTS with an exhibition of new works by BEN BURGIS and KSENIA PEDAN titled `BOTIQ´.
The artists are hosting a live performance of ECTOPIA (Jack Brennan, Adam Christensen, Vicky Steiri) followed by DJ's Jana P & Jack Phrost.
Performance starts 9:30 PM
NULL/VOID: THE AFTERMATH
On view September 23rd through October 2nd 2011
If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.
Near the day of purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky.
A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans.
participating artists: Nigel Dunkley, Roman Liška
Deptford X website
ΩMEGA: NULL/VOID
On view July 28th through August 14th 2011
YOU ARE AN IMPORTANT PERSON. A RARE INDIVIDUAL. A UNIQUE CREATURE. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANYONE JUST LIKE YOU AND NEVER WILL BE. YOU HAVE TALENTS AND ABILITIES NO ONE ELSE HAS. IN SOME WAYS YOU’RE SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER LIVING PERSON. THE POWER TO DO ANYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS WITHIN YOU WHEN YOU DISCOVER YOUR REAL SELF BY PRACTICING A FEW SIMPLE LAWS OF SUCCESS.
`Employing self-help mantras, guides to success and repositioning actual media content Null/Void perform a media and trophic hijack, through water feature installation, news paper, video, scent and sound. By using the sensual and visual language of new age mysticism set alongside apocalyptic representations of political and cultural upheaval and paranoia, the work is underpinned by a sense of dangerous coercion, blatant ‘brain washing’ and indoctrination into a world view courtesy of Null/Void.´ (Laura Vent on the occasion of the exhibition OMEGA at Sassoon Gallery)
participating artists: Thomas Bresolin, Nigel Dunkley, Roman Liška, Alexis Milne, Hannah Perry
Documentation will be online shortly.
link: The Sassoon Gallery
`Rock the hard jams - treat it like a seminar,
teach the bourgeoise, and rock the boulevard´ (1)
He went back to the wall at the north end, passing the guard at the door. The guard was here but did not count as a presence in the room. The guard was here to be unseen. This was his job. the guard faced the edge of the screen but was looking nowhere, looking at whatever museum guards look at when a room stands empty. The man at the wall was here but maybe the guard did not count him as a presence any more than the man counted the guard. The man had been here for days on end and for extended periods every day and anyway he was back at the wall, in the dark, motionless. (2)
Pompous Stoned Meandering
Point Omega bears the same relationship to traditional novels as abstract art to representational art, or hip-hop to music, or (more relevantly) art films to Hollywood movies. In other words, it does not live up to the objective established standards for a novel. Therefore, most "ordinary" readers will not appreciate it, but literary types will love it, because they can endlessly argue about its merits and shortcomings. (3)
(1) Professor Griff (Public Enemy) in: Don´t Believe the Hype (Def Jam/Columbia Rec. 1988)
(2) Don DeLillo - `Point Omega´ (p. 7, Picador 2011)
(3) Customer review of Don DeLillo - `Point Omega´ on Amazon.com, November 5, 2010 By Stoney (Miami, FL)
The New Gallery, London / participating artists: Thomas Bresolin, Nigel Dunkley, Roman Liška, Alexis Milne, Hannah Perry
The famous czech phrase `STRC PRST SKZ KRK´ which contains no vowels is the starting point for investigation of such braintwisting topics as Octuplets, Esoteric Formalism, Mutant Toddlers, New Age Canibalism and Conceptual Trailer Trash. The unspeakable materialises in the form of sculpture, video installation and performance. A journey beyond the White Cube which lures the viewer into the mystic realms of a dystopian funfair, dark and otherworldly.
The Lord Napier, London, UK - December 11th - 12th 2010 (www.thenullandvoid.co.uk) participating artists: Thomas Bresolin, Eugene Chapman, Nigel Dunkley, Roman Liška, Alexis Milne, Hannah Perry, Charles Stanton Jones, Chris Woltman
Intervention at Frieze art fair opening - October 14th 2010 (www.thenullandvoid.co.uk)
ICA Everything was a show in which NULL/VOID created a collection of polystyrene, nuclear apocalyptic sculptures playing dead, titled 'The Russians Are Coming' in response to the question 'What is to be done?' posed by the Russian collective 'shit delat' in a group show held at the ICA in which NULL/VOID participated.
participating artists: Eugene Chapman, Miloslav Vorlicek
Proposal for the event `Everything´ @ ICA on 25. of September 2010
Project title:`The Russians are coming!- Русские идут!´ The NULL&VOID propose to install a group of 3-5 formalist sculptures painted with fluorescent paint in the bar area and/or the corridor of the ICA. The sculptures themselves will be lit with stroboscopic and ultra violet lighting. A selection of Russian experimental music played from the PA in the bar area will accompany the presentation of the works. Two videos will be projected simultaneously displaying slogans in Russian and the English translation respectively. However, these will be out of sync.
ICA Student forum, London, UK - September 25th 2010 (http://www.ica.org.uk)
THE NULL AND VOID PRESENTS: `TAKE THAT´
In questioning tropes of masculinity in the age of post-feminist theory, The NULL&VOID venture into their first truly collaborative work of art. By embracing the somewhat dated concept of modernist sculpture, they have committed to a group effort which dilutes the notion of authorship even further, in addition to the anonymity offered by the collective identity. As in the previous shows, `TATE New Cross´, `Anonymat´ and `Frozen´, the bleeding edge of contemporary art once again unravels it´s painfully relevant presence in the heart of South East London. By taking place alongside the Goldsmiths BA Fine Art degree show, `TAKE THAT!´ ambitiously seeks to challenge the institutional framing of art, covering the vast trajectory from Institutional Critique to Hyper-Criticality by juxtaposing the strategies of deliberate failure and megalomania in order to create a paradox convergence of the rhizomatic multitude inherent in the group´s ecclectic nature and it´s double-bluff dilletantism. At the same time the highly mannered professionalism in The NULL&VOID´s visual communication raises questions about the orthodoxies reflected in the art world´s investment in cultural production and it´s connections to the fields of power and class. Once more the most pressing questions are: `Who is the author, where is the viewer, what is at stake and why should anyone care?´ To find out the truth, come to the opening of `TAKE THAT!´ on Thursday, the 17th of June 2010 from 7 PM! You will never have to attend any art exhibitions again, since every possible question will have been erradicated by the micro-dystopic tour de force you will witness.
NULL/VOID Gallery participating artists: Tom Bresolin, Eugene Chapman, Nigel Dunkley, Roman Liška, Miloslav Vorcilek
Goldsmiths University, main hall participating artists: Alistair Birch, Tom Bresolin, Nigel Dunkley, Drew Hoad, Alex Lawrinson, Roman Liška, Lloyd corporation, Phillip Rogers
Lift&Hoist, London, UK - February 24th 2010 (www.thenullandvoid.co.uk) participating artists: Bradford Bahamas, DjTendraw, Azahara Ubera, Alistair Birch, Rory Blofield, Maeve Brennan, Tom Bresolin, Eugene Chapman, Nigel Dunkley, Michael Harvey, Tom Johnson, Roland Hutchison, Alex Lawrinson, Roman Liška, Nevine Mahmoud, Luís Matos, Richard Nicholson, Charlotte Northall, Kadeem Oak, Kyrone Oak, Rose Ridgway, Anastasia Shin, Hannah Stearn, Miloslav Vorlicek, Malin Weidenbusch, Chris Woltman, Ciaran Wood
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