THERE WAS A COUNTRY WHERE THEY WERE ALL THIEVES

Opening 4 May 17.00 - 19.00

4 May until 7 June 2012

Curated by Natasha Ginwala

as part of the annual Alongside# residency

Artists:

Gary Colclough

Jasper Coppes / Stijn Verhoeff

FIELDCLUB

Gauri Gill

Pil & Galia Kollectiv

Helen Mirra

Abigail Reynolds

Edward Clydesdale Thomson

Pil & Galia Kollectiv

Still from Better Future, Wolf-Shaped (From Future Trilogy), 2008

16mm transfered to DVD, 15'00 min.

What might it mean to be overexposed to a land? Such that one is like a glacial striation on bedrock – a pattern of selfness and crystal. 

The countryside is as much an imagined terrain as it is an assemblage of components: rock, crops, air, people and histories. Hence, the look and shape of land is a production of labour, industry and capital as much as it is a factor of wind speeds and sedimentary formations. This exhibition is an accumulation of fictions that are registrations of/from place, taking the form of immersive dispatches, field notes and temporal mediations.

Events Programme during the exhibition:

10 May 2012, 18.00 - onwards

Walking with Sebald and Walser:

Readings by Jasper Coppes / Stijn Verhoeff and Raoul Thoos.

Followed by screening of 'Patience (After Sebald)'

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2 June 2012, 13.00 - 16.00

Borderline Picturesque & the recounting prospect:

Workshop led by Edward Clydesdale Thomson

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