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Of water: a ten-point system
Exhibition
Of water: a ten-point system
2 Aug 2018 – 3 Aug 2018
Event times
Friday 3rd August 2018
11am — 7.30pm
Artists’ Reading: 2pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 64-84 Chisenhale Rd,
- London
- E3 5QZ
- United Kingdom
An exhibition of collaborative research, text-based works and a canal-side reading event, bringing together artist/writers from Glasgow and London in a dialogic process involving writing, mapping and discussion to investigate bodies of water and multi-authored narration.
About
To Whom This May Concern is pleased to present 'Of water: a ten-point system', a project devised by Glasgow-based artist Arieh Frosh with writing participants Adrien Hester Howard, Anna Danielewicz, James St Findley, Calum Sutherland, Fox Irving, Katarina Kelsey, Daniel Neofetou and Luli Perez.
Collaborating with TWTMC for two days in August, artist Arieh Frosh will be resident at Chisenhale Studios bringing together artists/writers from Glasgow and London in a process of co-research generating dialogue around a series of text-based works. The project takes ‘bodies of water’ as its point of departure - examining their public nature and the interactions occurring within them. Following his previous investigations into leisure facilities, public baths and religious Mikvehs, Frosh explores how, in a series of translations from place-writing-place, defining shared artistic parameters can act as a voice of comparison and can construct a contingent narration.
In the first instance, Frosh has brought together four Glasgow-based writers in a reading group, to share and discuss texts they have written about a chosen ‘body-of-water’ space in the city.
Taking the distances between these locations, the corresponding sites in London were determined along the Hertford Union Canal and connected water systems through a mapping process, taking the Chisenhale Studios site which the canal passes alongside as the central point. This provided the starting points for four London-based writers to respond with a written piece, the results of which will be shared and discussed in a second reading group held at Chisenhale Studios. Using this cartographic translation as a cipher for exploring notions of the narrator, relational geographies, regulations, architecture and collaborative writing practices, the project will inform material for an upcoming solo exhibition by Frosh, whilst simultaneously providing a constructive space for dialogue, feedback and peer-to-peer learning for the group of artists who consider writing and text a key expression of their practice.
On Friday 3rd August, we invite you to join us for the second day of the project, open to the public, in which the writers’ works will be on display providing a space to reflect on and engage with the ten texts. The London-based writers will hold a performative reading session of their texts at 2pm, situated at Chisenhale Studios on the canal side, drawing out the site-specific nature of the project.
Following the event, Frosh will design a printed edition, specially produced for the project, collating the writings from both Glasgow and London with corresponding maps and a guided walk connecting the locations.
Arieh Frosh is a Glasgow-based artist (b. London, UK) whose practice combines text, sculpture, and other visual media to produce narrative centred projects that are read through the relations between their components. He is a graduate of the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford. Recent solo shows include As a Stray Dog, Laurieston Arches, Glasgow International (2018); On The Closing of a [Lanark] Leisure Centre, Tontine (2017); On Water, Sculled, Quiet with Jay Delves, CCA Glasgow (2017), Dults, Stanks, Bases, Crownpoint Project Space (2016). Frosh is the Art Editor for Skin Deep Magazine, an online and print platform focusing on race & culture.
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