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Radek Brousil, Teal Griffin + Caz Egelie at Forum: Bread and games

29 Feb 2020

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Sat, 29 Feb
14:00 – 18:00

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Artists Radek Brousil, Teal Griffin and Caz Egelie perform as part of Open Space's Forum: Bread and games.

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Open Space presents Forum: Bread and games. On the final evening of the three-day exhibition, Radek Brousil, Teal Griffin and Caz Egelie perform within the space, interacting the works on display and presenting alternative ways in which we engage with art and the world around us.

Radek Brousil brings together the natural and virtual with works on fabric with a specific geopolitical origin and geographic trajectory. With an abundant visual language, Brousil constructs a narrative suggestive of colonial and quasi-colonial histories. In the context of Open Space’s 2020 theme, Brousil works with the memory of objects and spaces, questioning ways of existing and “collective generational nostalgia”.

Teal Griffin thinks of the contemporary moment, in which bodies (both human and non-human) are caught between climate catastrophe and uncertain futures. Shaped by personal experience, Griffin’s work presents a cast of characters, performing their own fiction in reference to a ballet ensemble, yet removed from the music which gives the dancers purpose. This “tragicomic sound of silence” as Griffin describes, wraps up the project’s narrative with something closer to a question than an answer, towards a potential for a new platform created together with the audience.

Digital means and personal relationships appear as a motive and method in Caz Egelie’s work, performed with a dance group. Egelie will appropriate existing historical artwork into a place of affection, confusion and fiction. He will mediate the relationship between authenticity, originality and memory - mapping the place where a digital glitch inevitably shakes the identity of the original.

Forum: Bread and games is 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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Caz Egelie

Teal Griffin

Radek Brousil

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