THE INHABITANTS
14 MARCH - 25 APRIL 2010
OPENING SATURDAY 13 MARCH, 6:30 - 8.30 PM
Charles Altas, Helena Almeida, João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, K8 Hardy, Alex Hubbard, DAS INSTITUT, Matt Mullican, R.H. Quaytman, Josef Strau, Alex Waterman
VILMA GOLD ARE PLEASED TO PRESENT
"BEACONS OF ANCESTORSHIP", A LIVE RADIO PLAY BY ALEX WATERMAN
THURSDAY 15 APRIL, 7:30 PM
As part of our current group show, 'The Inhabitants', the performance will mark the second stage of Waterman's piece 'Beacons of Ancestorship'- a piece based upon the last and never published book by John Barton Wolgamot. Spoken over an imaginary soundscape composed by Waterman and broadcast on a radio in the gallery, the performance will be delivered as a live film script describing 128 landscapes. The landscape is a memory theatre composed of a group of names sourced from the permutating lists used by Wolgamot for his singular poem, ‘ In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women’. Never changing/ always changing, Wolgamot's poem is a container for hundreds of stories in addition to being a perfect syllabic and formal breakdown of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. The performance will be recorded live thus forming the next installment of Waterman’s piece in the show.
Waterman's scripting of the garden/landscape is conditioned in that it follows two statements from Alan Weiss’s ‘Manifesto for the Future of Landscape’. They are: 7. The garden is a narrative, a transformer of narratives, and a generator of narratives; 8. The garden is a memory theater.
Alex Waterman is a founding member of the Plus Minus Ensemble, based in Brussels and London, specializing in avant-garde and experimental music. In New York he performs with the Either/Or Ensemble. Alex is presently working on his PhD in musicology at NYU as well as writing a book about the composer Robert Ashley with the designer and writer Will Holder. Waterman participated in Dexter Sinister’s residency at the Armory for the 2008 Whitney Biennial writing a new work based upon Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener. Alex Waterman and Beatrice Gibson’s film, A Necessary Music, narrated by Robert Ashley and with original music by Waterman, premiered at the Whitney Museum ISP show and will be shown in galleries and museums in the US and Europe this Autumn.
For further information or images
please contact Gili Tal:
+44 (0)20 7729 9888
or: gili@vilmagold.com
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Installation view
Installation view
Installation view
Matt Mullican
Untitled (Learning from that Person’s work: I), 2007
acrylic and oilstick on canvas
122 x 91.5 cms
Josef Strau
My Uncle Adresses the Stereotypes, 2010
felt pen, ink, gloss medium on canvas
80 x 60 cms
Josef Strau
Read the Non-Productive Attitude, 2010
felt pen, ink, gloss medium on canvas
80 x 60 cms
Josef Strau
How to Change the Past, 2010
felt pen, acrylic and glass medium on canvas
80 x 60 cms
Charles Atlas
Floor, 1974
Super 8 transfered to 16mm film
Black and white, no sound
3 Mins 50 Secs
Helena Almeida
Tela Habitada / Inhabited Canvas, 1976
set of nine black & white photographs
43 x 33 cm each, installation 129 x 99 cm
video still from:
Alex Hubbard
Screens For Recalling the Blackout, 2009
HD DV Cam transferred to DVD /loop
8 Mins 48 Secs
R.H. Quaytman
Distracting Distance, Chapter 16
(Woman in the Sun Yellow Scuff), 2010
Silkscreen, gesso on wood
51 x 82.2 cms
Adele Roeder for DAS INSTITUT
“untitled”, 2010
pigment ink silkscreen on silk
140 x 200 cms
Kerstin Braetsch for DAS INSTITUT
Untitled, 2009
spray-paint on newspaper, plexiglass, steel clamps
63 x 50 cms
Joao Maria Gusmao + Pedro Paiva
The Unbreakable Stone, 2004
16mm film, colour, no sound
1 Min 28 Secs
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