GIVE ME WHERE I STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE EARTH 

GIVE ME WHERE I STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE EARTH

Harriet Piercy, Ese Erheriene, Mark Saunders, Ciara Halpin

Exhibition 13.AUG – 4.SEPT.2010
PV THURS.12.AUG.2010 6:30PM – 10PM

"I can resist everything except temptation."

We are used to fighting - boyfriends, parents, the state, ourselves. We pick our demons and turn aggressor. Resistance spans the religious, the political and the mundane. But how do we resist? In physics, resistance occurs when a conductor has the property of opposing the flow of electrical current. For Freud, our unconscious resisted attempts to drag repressed emotions into the light of consciousness through defence mechanisms. We are also familiar with the brave acts of political resistance, but this exhibition also celebrates the smaller, quiet acts against which we rage silent battles: ageing, self-corruption, and the loss of love. It looks at how much the human body and mind can bear, and at the extent and, sometimes, futility of resisting.  A definition of resistance is never addressed, but is played upon in an attempt to confront blindspots and prejudices, while at the same time refusing knowledge of any overt intentions in the hopes that the audience will resist the passive acceptance of ideas they have not created, and instead choose to understand or to misunderstand or to not undertsand the pieces as they will.

Curated by Ese Erherien