Proh-soh'pa-peer 

credit: Nik Van Herpt

Richard John Jones

Part 1:
Auto Italia
1 Glengall Road
London SE15 6NJ
www.autoitaliasoutheast.org
info@autoitaliasoutheast.org
1 August- 7 August by appointment only
Live event, Sat 8th August 2pm onwards (refreshment will be provided)

Part 2:
SPACE
9 — 131 Mare Street
London E8 3RH
Private View: 3rd September 6:30pm-8:30pm
4 September- 17 October
www.spacestudios.org.uk
exhibitions@spacestudios.org.uk

A Prosopopoeia is a rhetorical device in which an abstract thing is personified and represented as speaking.

Proh-soh'pa-peer is a live event at Auto Italia South East on the 8th August, 2009 which will be filmed. The edited representation of this event will be presented at SPACE from the 4th September, 2009 as a video installation with the same name.

Proh-soh’pa-peer explores specific queer approaches to libidinal politics and bipartisan notions of contemporary radicality and protest. At Auto-Italia South East different formats of live events, from a television show, music gig, reconstruction and theatrical performance will be used as a platform for groups that are related to an experience of social exclusion to represent different strategies of revolution, radical politics, inclusion and participation.

The event will constrast systemic forms of representation with DIY queer culture, and mainstream media narratives with de-centred independent or alternative reporting. Proh-soh'pa-peer represents the dialects and singularities inherent in the formation of groups and events that are created through a narrative perspective.

Proh-soh'pa-peer comes from Richard John Jones' critical approach to artistic practice and collaboration and the politics of representing discursive projects as art-work. His work to date has placed an emphasis on creating and representing new dialogues between institutions, "specialist practitioners" and the exhibition or “public” space. It is framed by the effect communication technologies and the media have on self-representation and resistance in ideological, global distributive networks.

Auto Italia is supported by Arts Council England and The Chelsea Arts Club Trust

http://www.autoitaliasoutheast.org