Exhibition

Straylight Cavern

30 Jan 2009 – 1 Mar 2009

Regular hours

Friday
12:00 – 18:00
Saturday
12:00 – 18:00
Sunday
12:00 – 18:00
Thursday
12:00 – 18:00

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London, United Kingdom

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  • bus lines: 26, 48, 55, 106, 236, 254, 277, 388
  • Bethnal Green station
  • Cambridge Heath Road station
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Jonathan Baldock ”¢ Michael Bell-Smith ”¢ Rick Buckley ”¢ Aisling Hedgecock ”¢ Ian Monroe ”¢ Takeshi Murata ”¢ Milika Muritu ”¢ Angelo Plessas ”¢ Richard Priestley ”¢ Rafaël Rozendaal

About

The title of the exhibition 'Straylight Cavern' is derived from cyberpunk author and sci-fi visionary William Gibson's Villa Straylight in his novel 'Neuromancer'. The Villa Straylight is a cyber-chateau of sorts, inhabited by cyber-diegheties where anything and everything is possible. Straylight Cavern offers the viewer a realm of possible other worlds and dimensions, inspired by memories of Villa Straylight and it's inhabitants, but goes on to refer to other science fictional situations where mankind has colonised natural rock or ice formations in order to survive, such as the rebel bunker, ‘Echo Base', on the ice planet, ‘Hoth', in Steven Spielberg's 'The Empire Strikes Back', or the androids cave in Michael Anderson's film 'Logan's Run'. From the exterior, only a streamline, almost computer generated graphic interpretation of glacial or rock formation is visible. The interior of the cavern encounters the amalgamation and communion of various artists works and interventions.

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