good god yall why am i not in north london
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:15 AM, marc garrett <[email protected] > wrote: > Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent: > An exhibition at HTTP Gallery in London by Doron Golan and Michael > Szpakowski. > > Private View 7-9pm Fri 16th January 2009 > Open 16 January - 1 March 2009 > Fri-Sun 12noon-5pm > Unit A2, Arena Design Centre, > 71 Ashfield Rd, > London N4 1NY. > http://www.http.uk.net/ > > Collaboration is working together. Can two people work together without > ever having met? > Doron Golan and Michael Szpakowski demonstrates that they can... > > Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent: > The exhibition takes its title from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by > the philosopher of language Ludwig Wittgenstein. It explores a > collaboration between two artists across geographical distance through > the ineffable language of image. > > Israeli video artist and filmmaker Doron Golan and British artist, > composer and educator Michael Szpakowski both make digital films, which > they share through websites and email lists, exploring the mystery of > everyday life and of being a human in this place and time. Over the > years, the two artists have developed a dialogue and friendship through > the exchange of their work. Since 2005 they have collaborated to found > and curate DVblog.org, a groundbreaking early platform for art films on > the Internet. And yet they've never met face to face. > > HTTP Gallery in North London is pleased to host the first meeting > between Golan and Szpakowski and their art, in real space. Making their > online collaborative process physical, the central installation has > three elements: a new silent film by each of the artists with a new > musical composition by Szpakowski. Bearing their shared sympathies in > mind, the artists have independently determined the length and subjects > of their films. As a result, the correspondences and resonances between > the works are as yet unknown, and will change constantly. The > collaborative installation will be accompanied by elements of their > independent practices, including a new installation by Szpakowski > utilising video and silver birch branches and a selection of Golan's > recent videos, engaging with elements of life in the Middle East and his > native Israel, to which he has returned after many years living in New > York City. > > For more information about the exhibition & artists: > http://www.http.uk.net/exhibitions/golan_szpakowski/index.shtml > > Location Details: > http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml > > -------------------------- > HTTP Gallery based near North London's thriving Green Lanes area is > London's first dedicated gallery for networked and new media art. > Working with artists from around the world, HTTP provides experimental > approaches to exhibiting artworks simultaneously in physical and virtual > space, and for online projects that explore participative and > collaborative art practice. Projects on DVD, real-time, webcast, > software art and live art also play a role in their curatorial work. > > Past Exhibitions: > http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib12/exhibitions12.shtml > > HTTP Gallery is run by furtherfield.org > http://www.furtherfield.org > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- glimpsecontrol.com baiowulf.com
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