Free-fall
Exhibition - 13th
April to 12th June '03
Performances - 12th
April
Peterborough
Digital Arts http://www.pdarts.org.uk/pda/home.asp a new lottery
funded centre for digital arts in the eastern region of England opens
with Free-fall
Free-fall takes its title from the projection by Pernille Spence, in which we see a person in the sky free falling. Spence investigates notions of flying, falling and the human desire to escape gravitational pull. Similarly digital technologies have seemed to offer an escape from physical boundaries, whilst at the same time predicting a fall to earth. Empty promises of a networked real-time society have brought a culture apparently without boundaries. Yet boundaries remain in place for many people and these words are written on the eve of world war.
The exhibition, curated by Mike Stubbs, shows work by a range of artists including Richard Brown, Heath Bunting, Gina Czarnecki, Bill Drummond, Ronald Fraser-Munroe, Zoe Irvine, Bob Levene, Michael Pinsky, Simon Poulter, Rtmark, Ahbin Shim, Pernille Spence, Thompson & Craighead, Simon Yuill, Dane Watkins, Ben Woodeson- with contributions from Hull Time Based Arts and New Media Scotland.
Opening night
performances by: Bill Drummond, Roney Fraser Munro, Dreams of Tall
Buildings, Bob Levine.
While many of us are addicted to consuming the latest technology, artists are pushing at what these technologies can be, subverting them and what can be done with them. Free-fall explores some of the issues, technologies and themes artists have been wrestling with since the 1990's.
The show includes Bill Drummond's first media work, The Silent Protest, a protest against war: 'the one in your family, the one at work or the one in a far-flung land'. Zoe Irvine's' sound installation MMM uses material from her recording and collection trip to the Pas de Calais, France, the ferry and Eurotunnel terminal and site of the former camp at Sangatte for asylum seekers
As part of Free-fall Peterborough Digital Arts has commissioned Simon Poulter to work amongst shoppers in Peterborough's central Queensgate shopping centre (the largest in Europe when it was opened in the early 80's) making a physical and virtual miniature shopping centre. The sculpture, titled Rome Shopping Centre, made from card and mini LCD screens, will take sharp but humorous look at the way we live and shop in 2003. Simon Poulter will be working in Queensgate on the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 15th, 16th, 17th of April 2003.
Peterborough Digital Arts and Free-fall have been Lottery Funded by Arts Council England.
For more
information please contact
Maggie
Warren, Arts Project Officer
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