100th Monkey : Exhibitions feed http://www.100thmonkey.org.uk/exhibitions.php Exhibitions from 100th Monkey en-gb © 100th Monkey 2007 http://www.100thmonkey/webfeeds 15 100th Monkey http://100thmonkey.org.uk/graphics/logo.gif http://www.100thmonkey.org.uk/exhibitions.php Done to Death http://100thmonkey.org.uk/exhibition.php?details=Done%20to%20Death At last, the final show at Loxford Tower which marks the impending demolition of the tower, and the demise of 14 Gifted Children.

A fable is told of a Baghdad merchant who sent his servant to the market to pick up some goods for him. While the servant was making the purchases in the market place he found himself face to face with Death! In great fear he returned to his master and told him that Death had given him a menacing look and that he must have a horse so he could escape to Samara, a city some distance away. The master quickly gave his servant a horse, then went to the market place to find Death. When he found him he asked, "Why did you give my servant a menacing look?" Death replied, "I wasn't looking at him menacingly, I was merely surprised to see him here in Baghdad; for, you see, I have an appointment with him tonight in Samara."]]> 100th Monkey Exhibitions Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:00:12 +0100 http://100thmonkey.org.uk/exhibition.php?details=Done%20to%20Death Andrew Lim Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:00:12 +0100 Sometimes You Can Tell and You Tense and Lo and Behold They Do http://100thmonkey.org.uk/exhibition.php?details=%20Sometimes%20You%20Can%20Tell%20and%20You%20Tense%20and%20Lo%20and%20Behold%20They%20Do
Smith is interested in moments of intensity, the beauty of the definition of a feeling and the relief of being able to point at it; using humour as a coping mechanism and egging herself on with the pure joy of inappropriate action.

Smith works in a variety of disciplines, here showing two films and wall-based work, dealing with the mundane internalised melodrama of staying in the house and occasionally considering leaving it.]]> 100th Monkey Exhibitions Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:12:03 +0100 http://100thmonkey.org.uk/exhibition.php?details=%20Sometimes%20You%20Can%20Tell%20and%20You%20Tense%20and%20Lo%20and%20Behold%20They%20Do Andrew Lim Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:12:03 +0100 Should we distinguish between This and That? http://100thmonkey.org.uk/exhibition.php?details=Should%20we%20distinguish%20between%20This%20and%20That?
Some artists, notably Andrew Lim and Timothy Fisher have utilised materials they found within the building as the basic materials of their work. For others, the visible traces of both of the building’s former uses provide fertile ground for a variety of responses to different aspects of its past and to the space as it is now.

Adam Cain’s simulation of a student bedroom responds most overtly to a particular past use of the building, recreating what was once there. Kate Hooper similarly references a bedroom’s past but does so by highlighting the absence of past objects rather than replacing them with their likeness. Her chalk lines, tracing the outlines of objects, resonate with the marks on the walls and floor that show where furniture has been removed.

Cain and Hooper’s works have a narrative dimension, suggesting uses and relationships that existed in the flat. This is typical of several artists who focus on the potential human relationships embodied by the site. Suzanne Smith depicts a paranoid interpersonal relationship that can be equally well situated in a domestic or office situation. Emma Peers materially represents a conversation, making present the fleeting moments that structure our social relationships in any space.

Martin Palmer and Richard Oldfield construct contrary versions of the space. For Oldfield the room is claustrophobic and leads to evocations of madness. For Palmer a similar room becomes a domain of ownership and mastery. Both artists use the feelings caused by a small bedroom to consider how space or territory elicit different mental states. Likewise, Jayne Kelly and Timothy Fisher portray psychic states that may be caused by domestic space and institutional space respectively.

Many of the artists provoke reflection on broader social issues that play out beyond the confines of this flat. For example, Hannah McKenzie and Sarah Dean. Dean’s consideration of representations of women is relevant in any setting. However here it chimes with the poster of a bathing suit clad woman in Cain’s installation, suggesting that representations function not in an abstract sphere, but through particular social situations that impact on wider society.

Joanne Masding, Bryony Moore and Claire Davidson invite us to literally look outside the building. Moore’s birds, Masding’s objects placed by the window and Davidson’s reproduction of the external view, point to the position of the flat as part of a tower block, part of a larger world. Bringing the external view into the interior of the building, Davidson’s pinhole camera highlights that soon inside will become outside when the building is destroyed. In this context the precariousness of Andrew Lim’s constructions also takes on a new significance, calling up notions of impending collapse.

The slightness of Moore and Masding’s objects and photographs, encourages awareness of the interior of occupied rooms as well as gesturing to the outside. Contrasting Oldfield’s claustrophobia, the rooms seem vast when housing their miniature objects. Their works, along with Palmer’s, are suggestive of childhood, a recurrence that seems pertinent in this former hall of residence. It is also echoed in the collective moniker “14 gifted children” that the artists have chosen for themselves. For many people (neglecting the increasing age diversity of university students) student life is a stage marking entry into adulthood. One has left home but is still reassuringly part of an institution.

Should we Distinguish Between This and That is the third exhibition put on by an ambitious group of final year sculpture students from Manchester Metropolitan University. Soon to have completed their degrees, these are names to watch out for in the art world.

Text by Amelia Crouch]]> 100th Monkey Exhibitions Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:30:26 +0100 http://100thmonkey.org.uk/exhibition.php?details=Should%20we%20distinguish%20between%20This%20and%20That? Andrew Lim Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:30:26 +0100 PANORAMIC http://100thmonkey.org.uk/exhibition.php?details=PANORAMIC 100th Monkey Exhibitions Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:12:10 +0100 http://100thmonkey.org.uk/exhibition.php?details=PANORAMIC Andrew Lim Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:12:10 +0100 14 Gifted Children Present http://100thmonkey.org.uk/exhibition.php?details=14%20Gifted%20Children%20Present 100th Monkey Exhibitions Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:12:20 +0100 http://100thmonkey.org.uk/exhibition.php?details=14%20Gifted%20Children%20Present Andrew Lim Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:12:20 +0100 Essence of Something Interesting http://100thmonkey.org.uk/exhibition.php?details=Essence%20of%20Something%20Interesting 100th Monkey Exhibitions Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:43:27 +0100 http://100thmonkey.org.uk/exhibition.php?details=Essence%20of%20Something%20Interesting Andrew Lim Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:43:27 +0100