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Art Licks Weekend, Sep 30 – Oct 2

27 September 2016
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The fourth edition of Art Licks Weekend is on across London, running September 30 to October 2.

Happening at various locations around London and free to all, the three day art and culture festival will be host to a number of artist-run projects, young galleries and curatorial collectives that are at an early stage of their career. Bringing together contributions from emerging artists, the festival aims to celebrate the “grassroots projects [that contribute] to the cultural life of London.”

Here are some events we’re looking forward to:

Canning Time. Act IV  @ The Living Room featuring work by Himali Singh Soin, Lucy Evetts, Rodrigo and Lewis Hammond among others.

Fresh ‘n’ Frozen @ 12ø featuring  Sarah Boulton, Kitty Clark and The White Pube among others in a long line-up of others.

Turn Around in the Nipple Dome is a collaboration between Taïs Bean and Florence Devereux taking place in a basement flat.

Status Quo hosted by A-Z asks artists to respond to the GIF, featuring Evan Ifekoya, Erica Scourti and Paul Kneale among others.

Moist Heat with Laura Yuile, Megan Snowe, and Special Tears (Cassandre Greenberg and Christopher Kirubi) at The White Building.

Adam Hines-Green and Dylan Spencer-Davidson‘s this is for me, this is with me, this is because of me joint exhibition at The Old Biscuit Factory.

See the Art Licks website for the full programme.**

'Fresh n' Frozen' (2016). Promotional image. Courtesy of 12ø, London
‘Fresh n’ Frozen’ (2016). Promotional image. Courtesy of 12ø, London
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Kitty Clark, Humans Unite (2016) exhibition photos

27 June 2016
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Humans Unite, a solo show by Kitty Clark at new London space, Public Exhibitions ran May 27 – June 12, 2016. Curated by Valentina Fois, the show presented a new series of works by Clark that address futile desires and contemporary anxiety through what Fois describes as “a transhuman mentality”.

Kitty Clark, 'A New Post Appears' (2016). Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Public Exhibitions. Photo Original&theCopy.
Kitty Clark, ‘A New Post Appears’ (2016). Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Public Exhibitions, London. Photo Original&theCopy.

It’s comprised of mainly sculptural pieces featuring materials and arrangements such as aluminium, etched text onto acrylic, dead flies, and laminate. Some air vents with printed text look to be providing air to an empty see-through chamber that acts as an arm rest for an animatronic hand perched, armless on top. A large-scale digitally projected 3D virtual environment of a ‘Wheatfield (FEEL KNOW)’ presents Humans Unite as a clinical space for its items, the projected work acting as a perfect backdrop for a perfectly possible emotional transformation. 

 

To accompany the show the London-based artist provided the following text with the press release, which was also printed in ‘stages’ snaking around each aluminium air vent installed in the space:

Stage 1.0 – Alpha:

Unreliable – repeated major system failures

Erratic – total lack of administrative control

Infested – bugs crawling all over the desk

Stage 2.0 – Beta:

Free – Enslavement seems a long way off!

Chaotic – surge of largely illicit content

Prophetic – reactionary critics emerge

Stage 2.5 – Enlightenment:

Bias – early adopters gain superior competency

Divergence – basis of persisting hierarchy forms

Unrest – the path to the top becomes steeper

Stage 3.0 – Passivity

Mutation – interface optimised for ease of use

Integration – convenience breeds compliance

Contentment – the environment is seamless

Stage 4.0 – Return

Collapse – overcrowding triggers power outage

Despair – irreparable damage to infrastructure

Cure – regression, acceptance, euphoria.**

Kitty Clark’s Humans Unite was on at London’s Public Exhibitions, running May 27 to June 12, 2016.

Header image: Kitty Clark, Humans Unite (2016). Exhibition view. Courtesy the artist and Public Exhibitions, London. Photo Original&theCopy.

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Kitty Clark @ Public Exhibitions, Apr 27 – Jun 3

26 April 2016

London-based artist Kitty Clark will present solo show Humans Unite at Public Exhibitions, opening April 27 and running June 3.

The exhibition, which takes form in two parts: an online piece and a physical show in the space hosts a new series of works that address, according to the press release, “futile desires and contemporary anxiety [that belong to] the transhuman ideal of remodeling and enhancing the body” with things that might radically transform human intellectual physical and emotional capabilities. 

In the space will be a severed animatronic hand of a silicone love doll incessantly tapping one finger, and a stomach breathing peacefully in spite of the screws that hold it down, for example, while the accompanying text prefaces the show with a short bullet point-based story about bugs and their human ‘adopters’. 

Clark has recently shown work in group shows, Difference and Repetition in Bari and in A British Art Show at New York’s Meyohas.

See the Public Exhibitions website for details.**

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