Exhibition
Alternative 23
05 Dec 2014 – 25 Jan 2015
IMT
London, United Kingdom
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Plastique Fantastique
Exhibition
Alternative 23
4 Feb 2015 – 27 Feb 2015
Event times
Open weekdays Tuesday - Friday 10am - 4pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Northumbria University
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- NE1 8ST
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Haymarket Metro
Event map
An exhibition of work by Steve Aylett, David Blandy & Daniel Locke, Let Me Feel Your Finger First, Laura Oldfield Ford, Plastique Fantastique, Henrik Schrat and Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan, curated by Mark Jackson, Tom O'Sullivan and Joanne Tatham.
About
In 1985 DC Comics in the US had taken the commercial decision to unify the complex and contradictory character story arcs from its various strips such as Superman, Batman and Green Lantern. The resultant crossover series, Crisis on Infinite Earths, saw the heroes attempting to align all of the surviving Earths into one single reality that would then make DC Comics continuity more straightforward so as not to confuse potential new readers.
In 1987 Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell's Zenith, a politically-engaged superhero comic strip originally published in British weekly 2000 AD, brought together a group of superheroes from across multiple realities to battle a mysterious Lovecraftian threat. This threat is intent on aligning all the universes, or 'Alternatives', into one, simple universe. Rather than reduce the complex and the inconsistent into the singular, the heroes of Zenith attempt to defend and maintain multiplicities. They meet on a world in Alternative 23.
The exhibition is an evolution of Alternative 23 at IMT Gallery, London, curated by Mark Jackson and supported by the Arts Council England and the Goethe Institut.
