New sound installation at Lost Language exhibition, Kraak gallery
Press release for forthcoming exhibition showing some of my work:
Lost Language
Featuring experimental emerging artists from Manchester and London predominantly working in sound, installation, live art and video.
Helen Shanahan, Jennifer McDonald, Graham Dunning, Gary Fisher, Kate Hughes, Lucy Campbell, Debbie Sharp, Andrew Locke, Rebecca Taylor, Matt Dalby, Louise Woodcock. Curated by Louise Woodcock.
Preview: 2nd April
Show ends: 23rd April 2010
Lost Language juxtaposes themes of loss, fear and disgust with visions of beauty, transcendence and spirituality. Cutting edge media and practice is juxtaposed with time old concepts and concerns. Lost Language raises questions about femininity and masculinity through material and concept: outmoded machines with crocheted acrylic, organic matter with video, digitalism with spirituality.
The inspiration for the Lost Language came from Julia Kristeva’s book Powers of Horror which investigates the roots of our sense of the ‘abject’, our fascination with it and what it means to us. The key theme in the book is around the concept of ambiguity. Ambiguity frightens us: when we think we know something or someone and we find we have been deceived or misguided we doubt our senses. If we become too afraid of ambiguity it can be stifling to creativity and to our fascination with the unknown in general. The rediscovery of horror and therefore ambiguity, according to Kristeva, brings us closer to our pre-historic selves who were not so bound to oppressive patriarchal systems.
Lost Language features the cutting edge of experimental emerging artists from Manchester and London predominantly working in sound, installation, live art and video. Lost Language is at Kraak: a new space for artists to experiment and discuss, in central Manchester.
Workshops and performances will be held on 17th and 18th April with artists including Matt Dalby, Graham Dunning and Gary Fisher.
Contact Louise 07958 050 730, louwoodcock@hotmail.co.uk to book workshop places or for more details.
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