!Mediengruppe Bitnik: Too big to Fail Too Small to Succeed An intervention into the financial systems of London and Zurich. Reconaissance, media technologies an advertising billboard playfully probe the blind spots of the financial districts and question the shift in power from state to corporation.
3 Sep - 2 Oct Private View 2 Sep 6.30-9pm SPACE Courtyard and Mare Street Advertising Billboard 129 131 Mare Street, London E8 3RH This is Swiss artist collective !Mediengruppe Bitnik's first UK solo exhibition and is presented concurrently with an exhibition at Les Complices in Zurich. It follows their three-month PERMACULTURES residency at SPACE investigating the parasitic potential of media-based systems against the backdrop of the financial crises. !Mediengruppe Bitnik describe their work as an 'explorative practice' to determine how systems can be subverted, interfered with and transformed. Too Big To Fail / Too Small To Succeed is kindly supported by Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain. PERMACULTURES Artists residencies: Media, technology & ecologies Also showing at SPACE 2 Oct - 16 Oct NEU! Charlie Woolley: Mysterious Cults An exhibition of photo and poster collage, textiles and installation work accompanied by the artistÂ’s ongoing Radio Show project and a cycle of broadcasted events. Stages and Screens: Peter Davis, Villon Films and Friends A multi-screen film and archive presentation by Peter Davis exploring culture and counter-culture in the UK and America through the 60s. Reanimation Library: Hackney Branch A collection of books that have fallen out of mainstream circulation by the independent library based in Brooklyn, New York. ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
