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Image: Carolyn Lazard, Get Well Soon, 2015, HD Video (still)
Exhibition
more of an avalanche
11 Feb 2018 – 15 Apr 2018
Regular hours
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Monday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Fox Road
- Bourn
- Cambridge
- CB23 2TX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 18 or 18A from City Centre to Bourn
- BR Cambridge Station ( 8 miles)
This group exhibition presents new work produced at Wysing in 2017, alongside existing and historical work, that considers what it means to have sensitivity in the current political climate.
About
more of an avalanche presents work produced, researched, shared or discussed at Wysing in 2017 when we developed our programme under the theme
Polyphonic (many voices). The exhibition considers what it takes for people in marginalised positions to speak out and the mechanisms that get used to stop them from doing so. Looking back at 2017, the exhibition aims to includes the ephemeral "work" produced at Wysing alongside traditional material forms. Photos, posters,
mixes, furniture and a collection of writing reference the informal discussions, DJ sets, meals, workshops, experiments and events that shaped the year.
The exhibition takes the term "snowflake" as a starting point, a term used pejoratively by the political right to code dissent as whining, vulnerability as over-sensitivity and the right to protest as a willingness to take offence. Across Wysing's gallery and a screening room, works take sensitivity and fragility as a starting point and look for strength in numbers and strength in networks. Intended as an insult, the metaphor of a "snowflake" provides its own key for survival and defence. Bound together and in great enough numbers, snowflakes become something hard, strong and with their own energy.
Transport from London and Cambridge is available for the launch event here.
