Quantum Jumping 

Quantum Jumping

Quantum Jumping is a process that involves jumping into a parallel
dimension. It is associated with the 80-something writer Burt Goldman who
teaches that we can access our other selves in parallel universes through
methods Burt claims to have learnt from Indian swamis and Hawaiian
Kahunas. It is of course, entirely phoney, but has made Burt a rich and
successful man.
Cock and Bull is an art space beneath a restaurant, The Tramshed. It is less
of a Quantum Jump than a short stroll down the stairs to get there. But
conceptually you might be leaping into an entirely parallel universe. So in
order to mark our first exhibition we’re celebrating Burt's idea with four artists
whose works rapidly shifts from one set of realities to another.
Adam Bricusse's (b.1964) paintings often feature scenes of combat where
multi-layered images split to open fractured realities. A bear wrestles a
muscled strongman who seems to have emerged from early twentieth-century
photography. A glamorous woman’s face emerges suggestively yet
disturbingly between the torsos of two boxers. Fighting gives rise to
heightened perception (perhaps brought on by being whacked on the head
repeatedly) that crosses the quantum barrier into an entirely different world.
Patrick Coyle’s (b.1983 Hull) practice revolves around chance encounters with
objects and language. Like the protagonist of Lawrence Sterne’s ‘Tristram
Shandy’ Coyle can become obsessed with a seemingly trivial detail and
spend months unpicking its poetic and prosaic ramifications. Coyle produces
idiosyncratic objects and rambling performances. Along with his new work on
the walls, Coyle will be performing at the private view.
Caroline McCarthy (b.1971, Ireland) has used supermarket packaging,
rubbish, furniture and toilet paper in her art, for instance re-making Dutch Still
Life from coloured toilet tissue. She uses these disparate and normally
throwaway materials to make witty and poetic works. McCarthy questions the
disposability of consumerist culture, making us stop and ponder what we we
would normally thoughtlessly snaffle before lobbing the remnants towards the
bins.
Peter Newman (b.1969, London) makes works that address our relationship
to the sky. His series ‘Metropoly’ record the view of looking up from the
ground in different cities around the world using an ultra wide-angle lens to
provide discombobulated cityscapes. For Newman, looking upwards is an
inherently optimistic gesture that he compares to thinking about the future. In
addition Newman is presenting works from a new series of drawings incised
on metal.
As Robbie Agnew from Salt Lake City has said of Quantum Jumping on Burt's
website: "And the portion I was really thrilled with was the ability to cross all of
the universes."
Notes
Cock’n’Bull is a multi-disciplinary, multi-talented space located beneath Mark Hix’s new
restaurant, Tramshed. A regular exhibition programme will be complemented by a DIY Library
and all sorts of other artistic happenings.
More information about each of the artists is available at:
www.adambricusse.com
www.patrickcoyle.info
www.carolinemccarthy.net
www.peternewman.net
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