Invisible Forces
Furtherfield Gallery | 11.05.2012 13:29 | Culture | Free Spaces | Social Struggles
Dr Hairy In..., Edward Picot, since 2010
An exhibition about why contemporary life is so difficult for so many
"I'm as angry as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!" - Howard Beale, Network 1976
Invisible Forces features the work of artist-visionaries: Kimathi Donkor, Laura Oldfield Ford, IOCOSE, Dave Miller, Edward Picot, and YoHa with additional game events, talks and workshops with Class Wargames, The Hexists, Olga P Massanet and Thomas Cade Aston.
Our social, economic and cultural institutions are being dismantled. Control over the provision of social care, urban and rural development, education and freedom of expression, is being redistributed to private enterprise at a global level.
Undeterred, the artists in this exhibition meet these challenges with clear eyes, spontaneity, experimentation and a sense of adventure. The resulting mix of installations, digital video, net art, painting and drawings deal with conspiracy, money, politics, hidden signals and frustration fatigue.
As we scan our cultures for maps, role models, possible ways of living in today’s world, we often encounter images of society that are created by its hidden, controlling forces. By naming, revealing, tracking, playing, making, subverting and transforming tools, circumstances and figures that give rise to current crises we enlarge the debate and extend our freedoms. And the artists in this exhibition offer examples of just some of the ways in which this might be done.
Free public play, games, making and discussion run alongside the exhibition.
Led by Dave Miller, The Hexists, Class Wargames, Olga P Massanet and Thomas Cade Aston. See HERE for details.
For more information please download the press release: (313kb)
http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery-files/Invisible-forces-press-release.pdf
and visit: http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/invisible-forces
Free public play, games, making and discussion:
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/event/invisible-forces-events
Exhibition ends Saturday 11 August 2012
Open Thu-Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
Furtherfield is supported by Arts Council England and Haringey Council Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997
"I'm as angry as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!" - Howard Beale, Network 1976
Invisible Forces features the work of artist-visionaries: Kimathi Donkor, Laura Oldfield Ford, IOCOSE, Dave Miller, Edward Picot, and YoHa with additional game events, talks and workshops with Class Wargames, The Hexists, Olga P Massanet and Thomas Cade Aston.
Our social, economic and cultural institutions are being dismantled. Control over the provision of social care, urban and rural development, education and freedom of expression, is being redistributed to private enterprise at a global level.
Undeterred, the artists in this exhibition meet these challenges with clear eyes, spontaneity, experimentation and a sense of adventure. The resulting mix of installations, digital video, net art, painting and drawings deal with conspiracy, money, politics, hidden signals and frustration fatigue.
As we scan our cultures for maps, role models, possible ways of living in today’s world, we often encounter images of society that are created by its hidden, controlling forces. By naming, revealing, tracking, playing, making, subverting and transforming tools, circumstances and figures that give rise to current crises we enlarge the debate and extend our freedoms. And the artists in this exhibition offer examples of just some of the ways in which this might be done.
Free public play, games, making and discussion run alongside the exhibition.
Led by Dave Miller, The Hexists, Class Wargames, Olga P Massanet and Thomas Cade Aston. See HERE for details.
For more information please download the press release: (313kb)
http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery-files/Invisible-forces-press-release.pdf and visit:
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/invisible-forces Free public play, games, making and discussion:
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/event/invisible-forces-events Exhibition ends Saturday 11 August 2012
Open Thu-Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
Furtherfield is supported by Arts Council England and Haringey Council Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network
http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997
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