Exhibition
Forum: Bread and games
27 Feb 2020 – 29 Feb 2020
Ugly Duck
London, United Kingdom
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Credit: Holly Revell
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Credit: Holly Revell
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Credit: Holly Revell
Event
Louise Ashcroft at Forum: Bread and games
27 Feb 2020
Regular hours
- Thu, 27 Feb
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 47-49 Tanner Street,
- London
England - SE1 3PL.
- United Kingdom
Event map
Artist Louise Ashcroft performs as part of Open Space's Forum: Bread and games, taking the audience on a journey through the exhibition. Visitors begin to question everything as ordinary things become new adventures.
About
Louise Ashcroft opens the Open Space programme for Forum: Bread and games as she engages with stories relating to the other exhibiting artists' practices, creating one possible truth about them, speaking "fantasy to power”, as she describes. Her exploration into her colleagues' work will result in a visual, verbal and engaging journey shared with the audience through various media across the show, and a performance on the opening night.
Forum: Bread and games, a three-day exhibition of artworks and performances exploring fiction and trust, curated by Natalija Paunić. Over the course of the exhibition, six artists (Louise Ashcroft, Radek Brousil, Lea Collet, Rosa Doornenbal, Caz Egelie, Teal Griffin) will perform individual interpretations of the display, questioning the possibility of both neutral spectatorship and original authorship. Sculptures, drawings, photographs and text will be activated by artist-led guided tours, live performances, talks and sound.
Bread and games comes from the Latin phrase panem et circenses, which, in some languages, is a popular idiom for distraction, appeasement and mass manipulation. This phrase illustrates how the viewers' experience of the exhibition could be manipulated and deconstructed by each artist's intervention. Resonating with Open Space's 2020 curatorial theme Manufacturing Memory, which examines the dichotomy between memory and technology, Bread and games provokes personal experiences with an unpredictable fictional narrative.
The sequence of interventions within the exhibition is initiated by individual installations that explore different modes of storytelling, in relation to the real and the intended, the remembered and the known - in public, political and private life. Re-appropriating the space, the six artists fictionalise the narrative of the exhibition, so that the audience experiences their new interpretations rather than the original voice of the curator. Control of the original idea is lost, allowing the audience to have memories dependent on chance and choice, rather than a singular exhibition theme.
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