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The Showroom presents Several Attentions Lying Freely Part III, New Zealand artist Ruth Buchanan's first solo show in the UK. The third part of a larger project, Buchanan continues her enquiry into the work of three well-known literary women with a new 16mm film made in the British Library in London. The film is shown in a choreographed installation including 35mm projections, photographs, text, prints and sound, which together question how one speaks as an artist today, and what space this voice creates.
Events:
5 December 2009
âAngles, straight lines and curves, and the interference they cause one another'. Ruth Buchanan discusses ideas around âsubjective organisation' with Binna Choi (Casco), Emily Pethick (The Showroom) and writer Marina Vishmidt.
9 January 2010
âScattering as a behaviour towards risk'. An afternoon of conversation, performance and film, with Ruth Buchanan, writer Marina Vishmidt and others.
Ruth Buchanan was born in Te Ati Awa/Taranki in 1980. In her work she addresses how artistic legacy characterises artistic agency in the present and does so by working in various forms and tones - video, text, sculpture, sound, 35mm slide and readings, bringing these various elements together in choreographed spatial and temporal arrangements and situations. She completed her MA (Fine Art) at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2007 and is currently a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. Buchanan has shown her work in Europe, Australia and New Zealand and actively initiates and contributes to print-based projects.
Lying Freely is co-produced by The Showroom, Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want to Be Part of Your Revolution and with support from the Jan van Eyck Academie and Creative New Zealand and from the Cooperation Measures Grant as part of the European Unions Culture 2007 programme. Several Attentions has had further support from Creative New Zealand, Kodak and The British Library.
The exhibition at The Showroom is generously sponsored by The Elephant Trust and Outset. The Showroom is supported by Arts Council England and members of the gallery's Supporters Scheme.
Please note that The Showroom will be closed from 24 December 2009, reopening on 6 January 2010.
For further information please contact Natasha Tebbs at natasha@theshowroom.org or 020 7724 4300.