Exhibition

Supralimen Presents: How to Carve Totem Poles

26 Mar 2011 – 13 Apr 2011

Regular hours

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
Friday
10:00 – 18:00

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FREE

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Arcadia Missa

London, United Kingdom

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Supralimen Presents: How to Carve Totem Poles

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Arcadia Missa Gallery is presenting a show by collaborative group Supralimen and architect Alex Sprogis; How to Carve Totem Poles from 26th of March — 14th April 2011 (private view 25th March, coinciding with South London Art Map's 'Last Fridays' event). This project will draw on, amongst other things, the work of the Supralimen curatorial blog and Arcadia Missa's current exhibition programme, which examines the object-centric experience of the virtual form. Supralimen and Alex Sprogis will be constructing a totem like structure from a series of modules stacked on top of one another that will act as a back bone for the curated works and as a specific reference to the vertical narrative of totemism and blogging; allowing us to understand and re-address these continued symbolic relations to objects and production in our contemporary situation. The show aims to explore the physicality and prosthetic manipulation that occurs within the standardised forms available in online space. The project will link this method of communication to creative processes, the historical importance of linear narrative, in this case a vertical, and the ever present totemism, animism and symbolism that frames our interaction with the physical world. This project will exist in part as an extension of the Supralimen Blog and curatorial programme ( http://supralimen.wordpress.com, www.supralimen.com) but will allow everyone participating to make sense of contemporary relations to art forms in terms of what at first seems to consist of abstract historical meanings, practices, and systems, for example the archaic American Indian practice of totem carving. The full list of artists showing in Supralimen's modular structure will be announced on the week beginning 21st of March. Totem structure will be re-shuffled (like blogs) on the 31st March and 7th April. Talk on modular memories with Alex Sprogis (architect) and John Crook (freelance film curator working with various institutions, including the BFI) will also be held with a screening of a film on Native American totem poles, date will be announced on the week beginning 21st of March. How to Carve Totem Poles runs from 26/3/11 to 14/4/11, private view 6-9pm 25th March 2011

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