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Aycesu Duran, 'Gently like a river of mandibles, and the parrot's eyelid' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Harlseden High Street, London.
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Bora Akinciturk, 'Choice Cube' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Harlseden High Street, London.
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Midnight Cinema (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Harlseden High Street, London.
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Jon Arbuckle, 'The Battle Of Snakes and Ladders' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Harlseden High Street, London.
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Jonny Meerkat + Jon Arbuckle, 'Harlesden High Street (23 Oct 2017 1 45am)' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Harlseden High Street, London.
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Jonny Tanna + Thomas Hamen, 'Manufactured Since '97' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Harlseden High Street, London.
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Thomas Hamen + Jonny Tanna, 'Snoop Hanging On & Pacified By Dat Chicken Wire' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Harlseden High Street, London.
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Bora Akinciturk, 'Already A Meme' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Harlseden High Street, London.
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Valinia Svoronou, 'The Celestial (Front View)' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Harlseden High Street, London.

Re-purposing the artistic self in the face of cultural indoctrination for Midnight Cinema at Harlesden High Street

, 18 January 2018

Jonny Tanna presented collaborative exhibition Midnight Cinema at London’s Harlesden High Street, which opened October 30 and ran to November 26, 2017.

Jonny Meerkat + Jon Arbuckle, ‘Harlesden High Street (23 Oct 2017 1 45am)’ (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Harlseden High Street, London.

The show is “the rst of a chronicle of gallery takeover shows” at the commercial space on Harlesden High Street and is run collaboratively by assembling a mix of artists and projects. Midnight Cinema features a number of guest works by Bora Akinciturk, Ayçesu Duran, Lara Joy Evans, Roxman Gatt and Jon Arbuckle, among others. 

The exhibition looks at various modes of cultural indoctrination found within contemporary video gaming and mainstream music, and also looks at the rise of nostalgia for older forms of entertainment, like A/V and VHS. It also has an interest in exposing the exhibition itself as “a mechanism for coping with the vulnerability of the artistic self by repurposing cultural layering into new forms of content.”**

Jonny Tanna presented collaborative exhibition Midnight Cinema at London’s Harlesden High Street which opened October 30 and ran to November 26, 2017.