The Earth is Our Radio

About

' 'The Earth is Our Radio' brings together seven international artists whose works are informed and inspired by peripheral urban environments, transmitting a gritty sense of what it means to live in neglected or overlooked areas. Narratives such as regeneration, territory and displacement are explored through diverse artistic practices. By re-appropriating the aesthetics, materials and culture associated with these settings, the artists are investigating new ways of representing place, or more fittingly 'non-place'.

The exhibition bares an anti-landscape or anti-picturesque approach, where urban concerns are not ossified and romanticised but revealed through visual codes and transmissions, reflecting the perpetual transformations of the environments they speak of. The themes resonate with KARST's industrial and 're-claimed' heritage. The building is sited among now encroaching development and so-called regeneration, playing an involuntary role in this process. Thus, the exhibition presents a utopia which defies social conventions; impoverished and dysfunctional, yet defiant and critical. Presented here are the artists as receivers, deciphering and recoding their respective environments, transmitting it back to the viewer through new modes for reception and consideration.

Private View Friday 19th February 7pm

Exhibition Continues 24th February until 19th March