Exhibition

THERE IS NOT AND NEVER HAS BEEN ANYTHING TO UNDERSTAND!

8 Jun 2012 – 3 Aug 2012

Regular hours

Friday
10:00 – 17:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 17:00
Thursday
10:00 – 17:00

Cost of entry

Free

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Plastique Fantastique Communique

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John Russell, Dean Kenning, Suzanne Treister, Simon Davenport, Reza Negarestani,
Lawrence Leaman, Joanne Tatham; Tom O'Sullivan, John Gillis; Aline Bouvy,
Benedict Drew, Peter Rockmount, Mark Jackson, John Cussans; Roberto Peyre,
Pil; Galia Kollectiv, Neil Chapman; Ola Sahl, David Burrows; Simon O'Sullivan.

ASC Gallery Erlang House, 128 Blackfriars Road London SE1 8EQ 020 7274 7474 info@ascstudios.co.uk

June 8 - August 3 2012, Monday to Saturday, 2 - 5pm.

SLAM Last Fridays:

LATE NIGHT OPENING | Friday June 29th | 18.00-20.00

Friday July 27th | Performance by WE, Neil Chapman & Ola Stahl | 18.00-20.00

In January 2012, ASC invited David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan to produce an exhibition as Plastique Fantastique. They explained that they were not Plastique Fantastique, this was instead the name of a fiction, and proposed a Plastique Fantastique Communique; in the form of a group exhibition. Initially, discussions went well. However, in the last few weeks the pair have preferred pointing, humming, or nodding to talking. ASC believes this is probably a ruse or the result of a strange pact they have made between themselves but are committed to seeing the exhibition through. ASC are in an embarrassing position however, as writing a description of the exhibition is very difficult. We can only offer the communique the pair sent and ideas discussed at our first meetings. Burrows; O'Sullivan told ASC they were interested in making an exhibition through layering or accretion, a process more akin to the production of a noise or crystalline object than curation. When asked why, they told ASC they believed that it was what the times or situation demanded - a mixing-up or refusal of genre - and pointed to the peculiar diagrams that some of the contributors had submitted for the show, and this was as far as the conversation went. ASC only knows for sure that the work in the exhibitions ranges from painting, texts and diagrams, objects and film and sound work.

Plastique Fantastique Communique:

Plastique Fantastique is for Skizzcretion... as an interference with the processing of stimuli by the nervous system... as secretion over-load... as semantic under-load... as a burning of the ear and splitting of the eye... as an accretion that is neither transparent nor opaque but a vibration... as dense and crystalline rather than a complex and rich source of information... as a surplus that is a store of energy... as an oscillation rather than a movement from A to B... as disorganisation and disorientation... as noise... as a refrain yet-to-come:

'THERE IS NOT AND NEVER HAS BEEN ANYTHING TO UNDERSTAND!'


For more information on Plastique Fantastique, visit: www.imagemusictext.com or www.plastiquefantastique.org

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