Megan Nolan

Hyperlocal Festival, Sep 24

19 September 2016

The latest instalment of Hyperlocal Festival will be on at three locations across London on September 24.

The all-day event will take place at Cafe Oto, Project Space and HUB 16, featuring work, readings and music and DJ sets by Group A, Chloe Frieda, Los Cripis, Megan Nolan, Raisa K, Sneaks, Terriblis, Vindicatrix and 3mpty Space among many more.

The event is self-described as a winding “into an expanding wormhole of likeminded sub-scenes, a dialogue suspended above the transnational abyss. One headspace for 12 hours conducted in two cities, although not at the same time.”

The festival has a primary focus on London and Buenos Aires, and hosts a line-up of international artists connected locally in each city.

See the Hyperlocal Festival Website for details.**

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Dorine van Meel, Disobedient Children (2015) exhibition photos

11 May 2016

Disobedient Children, a solo exhibition by Dorine van Meel at London’s Kunstraum gallery, ran from October 23 to December 19, 2015. Multiple screens and spoken fragments of sound play off each other to create an abstract narrative, all voiced by the artist with music and sound produced and performed by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier and Olle Holmberg.

The exhibition was accompanied by an evening of performative readings on November 29 by Maria Gorodeckaya, Megan Nolan, Naomi Pearce, Rianna Jade Parker (The Lonely Londoners) and Nina Power. Each artist responded to the theme of disobedience, further complicating the site of the sole protagonist.

Dorine van Meel, Disobedient Children (2015). Exhibition view. Courtesy of Kunstraum, London.

Van Meel’s writing works its way between sculpture, installation and moving image. Focusing on architectural elements, screens hang in different angles and projections seep away from their original  frame. Digitally manipulated visuals create abstract landscapes and scenes connected by ‘chapters’.

The press release outlines some of the voices that resonate in the space, “An intimate dialogue at a wedding; the confessions of a young banker; hitchhikers at the gas station; a scene from an Antonioni film; a description of a Hillary Clinton clip on Youtube; Twitter feeds from UK’s prime minister”. Weaved throughout are recollections from the artist’s own memories and experiences. Disobedience finds its power in the moment of rupture, where overlap disintegrates common ideologies and patterned ways of thinking.**

Exhibition photos, top right.

Dorine van Meel’s Disobedient Children was on at London’s Kunstraum, running October 23 to December 19, 2015.

Header image: Dorine van Meel, Disobedient Children (2015). Exhibition view. Courtesy Kunstraum, London.

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