Exhibition

This Time, That Time, Another Time

28 May 2015 – 29 May 2015

Event times

PV: 28th May, 6-9pm
Open: 29th May, 11am-4pm

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Free

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ArtLacuna Space

London, United Kingdom

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  • Clapham Junction Rail, take the Grant Road exit, turn right and then left onto Falcon Road, we are five minutes walk on the left hand side of Falcon Road
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ArtLacuna is pleased to present For One Night Only - Emma Gamble: This Time, That Time, Another Time.

About

This Time, That Time, Another Time, brings together a series of documents as the products and by-products of Gamble's persistent attempts to place her own obituary in local newspapers.

Death for the living represents a boundary for thought, invariably reaching just outside of what is comprehensible. While it cannot be experienced here and now, it would appear that we are fatalistically drawn to it. It is with this in mind, and through the act of repetition that Gamble explores the possibilities of gaining a conscious experience of the unknown, whilst highlighting the obvious limitations.

A shift between present and future is implied within the content of her intended posts, where traditional language and its tendency towards the final are replaced with enigmatic statements that invite multiple meanings and interpretations. The enlightenment anticipated through the reading of her own obituary is offset by the ambiguity of the text and its suggestions of the varied potentials of the future.

In her break from common structure, limitations to the act also emerge in the form of each newspaper's associated scrutiny teams, who seek to edit and eliminate certain posts according to their guidelines. In this way Gamble's attempts become subject to negotiations that suggest tensions between the individual and the collective experience of death.

As an ever-expanding archive of printed obituaries and communication surrounding those unprinted or edited, the work can be viewed as a performance scripted by the documents received, that will enact itself over several years.

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Emma Gamble

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