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Dominic Watson @ Space, Sep 29 – Dec 17

27 September 2016

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Dominic Watson is presenting solo exhibition YEAST at London’s Space, opening September 29 and running to December 17.

The Amsterdam-based artists’ new work consists of a single-channel video with a musical score that “revisits the medieval animal trial of a rooster”. A series of images derived from medieval bestiaries will be disseminated over the course of the show in the advertising pages of the Hackney Gazette. The work poses questions about “an anthropocentric worldview and the perils of assuming dominance over nature”.

The video depicts the trial of a rooster, who is accused of crimes against nature for laying an egg, as an “allegorical exploration of the assumed transcendence of humans from the realm of nature”.

The soundtrack of YEAST was made in collaboration with Daniel Woodhouse.

See the Space Studios website for details.**

Dominic Watson, 'Specific Emotions' (2015). Installation view. Courtesy New Studio, London. — Dominic Watson, ‘Specific Emotions’ (2015). Installation view. Courtesy New Studio, London.

Sorbus Video Week @ Sorbus-galleria, May 20 – 24

18 May 2015

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Sorbus Gallery will be hosting a five-day video and film screening series called Sorbus Video Week at their Helsinki space from May 20 to May 24.

The program is compiled by curator Attilia Fattori Franchini, artist Jaakko Pallasvuo and the Sorbus working group, and is divided into five evenings of screenings, many of which will have their Finnish premiere.

The line-up brings video and film work by around 20 different artists and artist groups, including Pallasvuo, who has programmed the opening night on May 20, with ‘Self-Accusation’ (2015) and Keren Cytter with ‘The Victim’ (2006), both screening on May 20, as well as Ben Russell with ‘Atlantis’ (2014) on May 22, and Dominic Watson with ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ (2014), Jala Wahid, with ‘I’ve got a burning desire (come on, tell me boy)’ (2014) and Johann Arens with ‘Marte e Venere – A Hand Held Monument’ (2013) on May 23.

See the Sorbus Video Week page for details. **

Wearing Potentiality @ Paradise Row, May 16 – Jun 28

15 May 2014

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Group exhibition Wearing Potentiality is happening at London’s Paradise Row, as part of its The Basement exhibition program for emerging artists running concurrently with the main program, opening May 16 and running to June 28.

Curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini and featuring UK-based artists Matt Ager, Laura Aldridge, James Clarkson, Hannah Lees and Dominic Watson, the exhibition looks at the idea of ‘potentiality’ “not as the future actualisation of an idea, but as the formless status of becoming”.

Focussing on processes rather than results, the artists resist the urge to reification by the act of ‘culture-making’ as the verb it clearly is through the unprecedented possibilities of new technologies.

The show also comes with a text written by Marie D’Elbee, which goes as follows:

“SO I WAS LIKE STARIN AT DE WATER U KNOW
AND I WAS LIKE … MAN … WATER IS SO BEAUTIFUL
ITS LIKE … HOW U SAY … SHIMMERIN …
AND I THOUGH … MAN … I JUST WANNA GET LOST IN DER
AND DE SUN WAS GOIN DOWN U KNOW
AND DE SKY WAS SPREADIN ITS COLOURS
LIKE A COCKTAIL FROM HEAVEN
TWAS SO BEAUTIFUL ME EYES STILL WEEP
AND DEN DE STARS WER SHININ ON ME
A MILLION STARS TWINKLIN OVER ME HEAD
T WAS LIKE DIVIN INTO ME BABYS EYES
AND ALL ALONG I WAS TINKIN …
MAN … I JUST WANNA GET LOST …
I JUST WANNA GET LOST IN DER”

See the Paradise Row website for details. **