Exhibition
SLEEP FASTER
25 Feb 2011 – 13 Mar 2011
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- Unit 6, Bellenden Road
- Peckham
- London
- SE15 4RF
- United Kingdom
About
Arcadia Missa Gallery, South East London, is pleased to announce its inaugural show Sleep Faster,which will coincide with The South London Art Mapʼs launch of their Last Fridays, on the 25th of
February 2011.
Sleep Faster will explore the divide between what is perceived as reality, and what is described as
virtual.
For Sleep Faster LuckyPDF will present a specially produced collection of highlights from LuckyPDFʼs
TV projects. Shown alongside will be recent video collages by Warren Garland.
Viewing the two video works together allows the viewer to recognise and place themselves within
questions of their own production, cultural translation and relationships to nostalgia, informational
bewilderment and contemporary communication.
Warren Garland appropriates video from cinema, re-hashing and re-mixing narrative into optical illusion
that delves into the bewilderingly dense world of memory and re-mediation found on platforms such as
youtube and other user-generated Internet media sites.
LuckyPDF, in contrast, use a visual language that is self-consciously ʻlo-fiʼ and ad-hoc. Working
collaboratively, and here with methods of mass communication, they re-purpose and parody visual
culture, temporality and multi-user authorship.
Delving further into the spread of culture into an immaterial and unstable virtual environment, Arcadia
Missa will invite the show's artists to submit an object sourced from 'reality.' The objects will be
positioned between the videos in the bleed between the material and immaterial in an attempt to form
an idea that rather than a physical transposition or loss of reality taking place the digital experience is
more an experience of the shift in conceptual focus.
Experiencing recognisable, but uncanny, cultural forms creates a situation where the divide between
abstractions and existing scenarios breakdown and open up for conversation.