c3 opens its last show for 2011 on Wednesday the 23rd of November from 6-8pm
Show runs from 23rd November - 11th December
SPACE A
TROPICALSPASMO:
LETTERS FROM THE ORIENT
OLIVIA HITTMANN
Master Kong
(aka Confucius) said "Real knowledge
is to know the extent of one’s ignorance". Forget Orientalism, this is
Tropicalspasmo – Letters from the Orient, a print installation
depicting the complete rejection of post-colonial discourse in favour of Pina
Colada Dysmorphia.
PROJECT ROOM
EX LIBRIS
SIMON MACEWAN - JON BUTT
JOANNE MOTT - ANITA
FOARD
CARLY BOJADZISKI - WTOA
ELEANOR BUTT
People say that real
books are on the way out.
While this may or may
not be the case, it is impossible to replace the physicality, or the
sentimentality we place upon, a beautifully bound hardcover or a dog-eared
coffee stained classic. The act of keeping a special book implies a
relationship with the object that goes beyond the ideas contained within and
becomes associated with the concept of fetish.
GALLERY 2
KAKA
KEVINA-JO SMITH
Our ancestors, the neanderthals, hunted only what they needed to survive
and made productive use of what remained. With bone, skin, sinew and plant
materials, they created objects of both practical and symbolic worth. This
logic seems entirely alien to our contemporary existence, as the sheer
abundance of human waste now threatens to eradicate us altogether.
Kevina-Jo Smith’s work emerges from her almost obsessive collection and
reuse of waste materials. Plastic bags, string, leather, rope, ribbon,
seeds, shells, sticks, grass and plants are knitted, woven, knotted and braided
into totems for a new age. Her craftsmanship transforms familiar debris into
vivid textural objects that nurture and protect: woven cloaks, fishing nets and
sheltering structures.
GALLERY 3
NEW WORK
MICHAEL MILLER
Through processes of gentrification and modernization the centers of Polish
towns and cities are becoming increasingly homogenous and not easily
identifiable when compared with their western European counterparts.
As
the new face of progressive and modern Poland spreads outward from these
centers the city fringes and outer urban areas await the redevelopment that has
been slow to arrive.
This work acts as a personal record of my time in the suburbs of Warsaw,
Szczecin and Gdansk during the winter of 2011.
These photographs document the banal urban beauty found at the fringes of
Polish cities whilst also examining the subtle evidence of encroaching redevelopment
and urban renewal.
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