Exhibition
All Work No Play
2 Jul 2021 – 10 Jul 2021
Regular hours
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- ASC Studios
- Empson Street
- London
- E3 3LT
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus 323 from Mile End Station
- Bromley-by-Bow on the District Line
- Devons Road on the DLR
About
All Work No Play is a solo show by London based artist Cameron Randall
By appointment, dm on insta: @cameron_randall_
Cameron Randall is an interdisciplinary artist who favours a curatorial approach to his practice rather than one of production. He looks to assemble cultural signs and signifiers, and it is through this dialogue, that a distinctive conceptual language emerges. Previous work has involved sculpture, algorithms, moving image, sound, text, and installation.
Cameron graduated from the RCA in 2019.
In All Work No Play he responds to the specific site location to examine the interplay between studio and gallery. Through the figurative and abstract, visible and invisible, questions surrounding technology, labour, and value are generated in relation to the present human condition.
Tickets for the event can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/all-work-no-play-tickets-159177513227
artist's instagram: @cameron_randall_
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Half formed thoughts cast out, and labour loops back. What seems of value is in fact of very little, and what is expected to work rejects function. One man’s trash is another’s treasure, hot decay that burns white and hissing, eyes are wide and awake. Unconcealed common property, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, so they say. Industry and intelligence, a possibility. Industrial negligence, a calamity. Symbols as miscommunication becoming meta-communication. A pause, a flash, a break.
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To be just: beyond the living present in general - and beyond its simple negative reversal. A spectral moment, a moment that no longer belongs to time, if one understands by this word the linking of modalized presents (past present, actual present: "now," future present). We are questioning in this instant, we are asking ourselves about this instant that is not docile to time, at least to what we call time. Furtive and untimely, the apparition of the specter does not belong to this time, it does not give time, not that one: "Enter the ghost, exit the ghost, re-enter the ghost" (Hamlet).
- Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx
A defunctionalized tool remains a tool, but it becomes a zero-tool, a meta-tool. What it then demonstrates is the sovereign subjectivity of the artist, who is now able to use this meta-tool in any way they wish. Thus, the artist ceases to be a slave of the system in which all tools have a predetermined function. As a meta-tool, the artwork anticipates the death of modern civilization.
- Boris Groys, The Museum as a Cradle of Revolution
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/all-work-no-play-tickets-159177513227
All Work No Play
A solo show by Cameron Randall
Private View: 2nd of July 6-9 pm
03.07.21 - 10.07.21
Unit 3, Empson Street, London, E3 3LT