coalesce: the remix
Takes place: May 13th - June 6th, 2005 @ Redux, London E1
Week 4: temporarycontemporary May 28th - June 6th

For four weeks, a complex installation will convert ®edux space into a series of 4 exhibitions/ projects overlaid onto one another ranging from interventions, to meeting spaces, to publications, to 'retro-happening nightclub' events with video screenings and DJ sets on the opening launch night of the exhibition.

For images of previous Coalesce incarnations see: http://web.onetel.net.uk/%7Erayuela/jaimegili/coalesce.html

PRESS RELEASE

COALESCE: The Remix
Project curated by Paul O'Neill

Week 4: Curated by temporarycontemporary. Opens June 3rd.
During the week leading up to the 3rd June, Jen Wu and Anthony Gross of temporarycontemporary will curate 3 group shows, each taking the form of a private poker game. In this metaphorical situation, with the curators as dealers and exhibitors as gamblers, the card playing becomes a stand-in for the to and fro of socialised culture production. The outcome is partly the imagined potential exhibitions but also the conversations, the creation of networks and the exhaustive adrenalin and power play of winning and losing. The gallery itself becomes transformed into lounge with 'drinks tables' by Goodwin and 'rest areas' by Padilha. The sessions will be filmed with techniques familiar from televised poker, with a specially constructed table allowing for under- and overhead footage and recordings.

THE GROUP SHOWS CURATED AT REDUX BY TEMPORARYCONTEMPORARY:

SUNDAY 29TH MAY
LORIN DAVIES / CYRIL LEPETIT / CAROLINE MCCARTHY / LINDSAY SEERS / TAI SHANI

MONDAY 30TH MAY
SARAH BAKER / MONICA BIAGIOLI / MONIKA OECHSLER / PAUL O'NEILL / LUKE OXLEY

TUESDAY 31ST MAY
DIANN BAUER / IAN DAWSON / MARCUS HARVEY / DENISE KUM / MARK PEARSON / MARK TITCHNER

This material will be edited, projected and combined to be screened on the night of June 3rd, against Leesa and Nicole Abahuni's performative experiments in synesthesia and collaboration with electronic sound musician Scott Hewitt. By re-ordering their perceptual arrays through mirroring devices and their refractive obstructions to any clear view, an audience may enter into a 'game' of chance where the superfluity of elements leads to a subtraction of the real from within the body of the exhibition. The 'gestalt' of these environmental adjusters is 'soft' rather than 'hard', within the terms of a history of the interactive whose origins are formed in early modernism, amid kinaesthetic works from Duchamp to Takis through the sensorial imaginaries of concrete and electronic music.

FRIDAY 3RD JUNE
LEESA and NICOLE ABAHUNI in collaboration with SCOTT HEWITT

Week 3: Curated by Dave Beech/Mark Hutchinson. Opens May 27th.
Beech and Hutchinson will produce a special issue of the occasional journal, The First Condition. For this exhibition it will be a photocopied, A5 booklet available free at the gallery. How it is installed in the exhibition will be worked out in relation to what is already there at the time. The journal will consist entirely of written texts, which is to say no photographs, illustrations or so on. The texts will also be posted on the website: www.thefirstcondition.com. They will invite all the participants who might be involved in the Coalesce project to contribute to the journal. However, we expect all contributions to deal directly with concerns, ideas, problems, etc., arising from the Coalesce project.

Week 2: Curated by Sarah Pierce. Opens May 20th.
Sarah Pierce is based in Dublin, and organises The Metropolitan Complex, a practice embedded in various formal and informal exchanges between people. Pierce will live as resident-guest in Paul O'Neill's apartment in London, while he simultaneously works in Dublin. Throughout the week, various background materials from the curator's home will appear in Coalesce, selected by Pierce. In addition, Pierce will explore the possibilities of Coalesce as a meeting place for a series of one-to-one conversations about surroundings, production and collectivity. This will entail non-public exchanges with invited guests, which will be made public at the end of the week in the form of a CD archive.

Week 1: Launch Night May 13th. 6.30pm-late.
Including Artists: The production of the “Coalesce” environment within which a programme of related artist' videos and performances will be presented, with artists: Kathrin Böhm, Oriana Fox, Jaime Gili, Clare Goodwin, Lothar Götz, Anthony Gross, Tod Hanson, Cyril Lepetit, Stefan Nikolaev, Harold Offeh, Mark Orange, Eduardo Padilha, Marko Raat. Screning followed by Coalesce Disco.

COALESCE is part of an on-going exhibitionary project, a mutating environment of overlapping exhibitions of painting, video, and text work in migration, and held at key locations. Works and curated projects 'coalesce' and co-habit with one other, overlapping and interweaving in the gallery space to create one coalescent whole, yet always as a re-appearance, out of view of the embedded history of its serial mutations.

Taking the conceptual-form of a pictorial plane, the exhibition will be divided into spatio-temporal zones: Background, Middleground and Foreground sections, each offering a grounding, or platform for one another. Forming the Background will be Tod Hanson's and Lothar Götz exhibition-specific wall paintings. Produced on site, it will be then overlaid with posters by Kathrin Böhm and Jaime Gili from their respective ongoing print projects. These works will be overlapping each other and migrating across the whole space at ®edux.

The Middleground will comprise of Eduardo Padilha’s floor-works provide mattresses and sleeping bags for a restful moment. In Padhila’s case, these are discomforting places of rest. These have been made from unwanted, discarded beds that have been washed, dismantled and made anew. Clare Goodwin will provide sculptures which can be used as tables, plinths etc. by visitors.

In the Foreground, a selection of video works including Oriana Fox, Anthony Gross, Harold Offeh, Mark Orange, Marko Raat and Stefan Nikolaev will be projected as part of a film screening about notions of coalescence, co-habitation and the remixing cultural forms, to be followed by a ‘Coalesce Disco’ on the launch night. The screenings will continue over the weekend. For the subsequent three weeks the space will then be super-imposed upon by other shows responding to the initial exhibition and installation. O'Neill has asked 3 artists/ curators: 1/ Sarah Pierce, 2/ Dave Beech and Mark Hutchinson, and 3/temporarycontemporary to respond to the environment and use it according to their curatorial idea. These shows will operate as the new ‘foregrounds’ to the show and be placed upon, installed on top of the initial work and operate within the initial "Coalesce" exhibition.

 

Each layer within "Coalesce" will offer alternative levels to experience and interact with the works presented. The gallery walls, panels, ceilings and floors will literally be covered with works that both physically and conceptually overlap - producing a fluctuation between what is expected by an exhibition as 'comfortable' and what is unexpected in terms of an unprecedented discomfort.

®edux is a project organised by Peter Lewis and Makiko Nagaya
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