| | | Alright, the lovely Tai Shani has an installation at The Horse Hospital this month. The gala opening is tomorrow night (Saturday) & you're all invited.
(I'm curating.)
Open invite to Barbelithers, so it'd be great to see some of you here. There will be cake & badges & ritual & King Crimson & it's free! How could you possibly be doing anything more interesting?? I think you're all going to like this one ...
(Temple guys might think of turning up too.)
Orrin x
“THE 46TH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE MIDDLEMAN AND THE CHERRY BRIGADE”
An installation by
TAI SHANI
Gala opening Saturday 3rd September, 7pm
Exhibition runs 5th September – 24th September
Exhibition open 12 – 6 Mon – Sat
Special film screening : Sunday 25th September, doors 7pm
The Horse Hospital is proud to present the first solo UK show of
performance / video / installation artist Tai Shani.
Shani’s work concerns the question of what happens to stories after they
have been told, of what is left from a process after its production. The artist creates installation as potential for possibility, an eternal no-space within which stories that have been read, films that have been watched, art that has been seen exist. Using the present continuous tense of noir, Shani’s objects –
a scorpion with butterfly wings emerging from its mouth, a bleeding fireplace,
a perpetual video explosion, breathing – resonate their purpose like a used theatre set, props and sound effects extant, yet divorced of intended meaning.
From the 19th century stable gallery of The Horse Hospital, the artist creates
a lodge* within which The Cherry Brigade – the public army of amassed evidence, revealed and unalterable – meet the Middleman, that which conducts the brutal negotiations between fact and possibility, the distance between the object and the watcher.
To highlight the installation there will be a special kinoKULTURE screening of the artist’s new video work “That Night They Told Us That I Had Seen The Light” alongside Dario Argento’s classic ‘Suspiria’
For further information and images please contact
Orrin Hare on 020 7833 3644 or 07967 102 958
* Lodge : The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
: To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind - Mortimer. |
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