A thematic project by Chris Evans (January-March 2011)

A simplistic scenario might be that we go into the studio, consider a subject matter or train of thought that interests us and then choose a medium that we feel is appropriate for what we would like to address. What might be lost in this process is the call and demand of working through a particular medium for the sake of that medium, of responding to its needs. The two-way conversation between you and what is in front of you.

How can we make art that doesn’t look like art? Or art that deliberately looks like art in an allusively disjunctive way? How can we create methods and practices which prevent relying on the erudite articulation of research? Acknowledging that research-based practice and formalism are not mutually exclusive, it might nevertheless be useful, for this thematic project, to create a bias – to put the chronological rationale behind a work in progress to one side and to focus on what is in front of us. We could aim for the process of a works genesis to be non-reversible. We could entertain directions that we might name ‘constructive idiocy’, ‘clinical mythology’, or ’spastic logic’. We should aim to make our way out of it rather than talking our way out of it.

With Will Holder,  Bedwyr Williams, Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan and Natasha Soobramanien.

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I DON’T KNOW IF I’VE EXPLAINED MYSELF

Public event by Chris Evans. Piet Zwart Institute, Wednesday, January 26, 11.00am.

IS THIS WHAT BRINGS THIS INTO FOCUS?

Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan. Hosted at La Poste Studios, St Gilles, Brussels

$EMI-CREATIVE

Giles Bailey tripping up the logic of Susana Pedrosas’ work, formally known as ‘A pas de loupe’

$EMI-CREATIVE

Se Ra Park tripping up the logic of Frode Markhus’ work, formally known as ‘P.R.M.’

STEPPING RAZOR

Bedwyr Williams performance. Public event Piet Zwart Institute, 3rd March,19.30.

NUDE COMPLICATIONS

Deniz Unal and Susana Pedrosa