Hello,
Michael, Annie, Liz Sterry, Emile and Maxime, and I are featured in this
exhibition - Stranger Collaborations
<http://www.londonartfair.co.uk/whats-on/art-projects/stranger-collaborations/>
- as part of London Art Fair this week.
See info below.
All the best
Ruth
ART PROJECTS SCREENING ROOM
The radical development fostered by net art was the possibility that
artists who had never met to nonetheless be inspired by, use and remix
each other’s work. Hosted in the Art Projects Screening Room, ‘Stranger
Collaborations
<http://www.londonartfair.co.uk/whats-on/art-projects/stranger-collaborations/>’
is an exhibition featuring artworks that in some way wouldn’t have been
possible without the collaborations formed via the internet, showing how
strangers can, sometimes even unknowingly, create an artistic
partnership online.
The artworks of Annie Abrahams and Liz Sterry create temporary
communities that are ‘safe spaces’ in which socially-proscribed
behaviours – such as public anger or private alcohol consumption – are
accepted and even embraced. In Abrahams’ ‘Angry Women’ series, people
who met via the internet come together to both vent their frustrations
and explore the power of anger, while Sterry’s ‘Drinking Alone with the
Internet’ documents a succession of online performances in which the
artist put out an open call for internet users to join her in dressing
and drinking like a Star Wars character, creating a virtual party in
which everyone is both together and very much alone.
The practices of Michael Szpakowski and the art duo Émilie Brout &
Maxime Marion appropriate the creations of others, individuals whose
identities usually remain anonymous and who probably never expected
their works to be re-presented as constituents of a work of art.
Szpakowski’s ‘Shit Happens in Vegas’ remixes images from Google Street
View to stage a vicarious cruise through Las Vegas and Brout & Marion’s
‘Gold and Glitter’ is a shimmering, largescale projection comprising
several hundred golden animated GIFs sourced from the internet.
As the technology of the internet develops, so do the types of
collaboration that it enables. Ruth Catlow’s Time Is Speeding Up is an
online video created in real time with the participation of visitors to
the Screening Room, which is then authenticated using the anonymous,
distributed network of the blockchain.
Curated by Pryle Behrman, ‘Stranger Collaborations’ runs throughout
London Art Fair in the Art Projects Screening Room on Gallery Level 1.
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