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David Thomas Crawley, Andy Roe, Diana Ali/Tom Mills, Cameron Craig, Xin-Shu Li/Xiao Bai
Monday 14th April 2008. 6pm - 9pm
The Gallery, Wimbledon College of Art, Merton Hall Road, London, SW19 3QA
A provocation, time specificity, a key word - infinite.
Just words, a mixture of vowels and consonants types on a page, could be any page in any order, yet when re-read the power within these words is their very essence, the poetics of what they are, simple yet complex.
They invite the reader to invest imagination! Their beauty is what they offer, a world beyond the typeface.
It is this poetry that the Russian Formalists wished to free from the page, ridding the text of the shackles of author and manipulation by authority or those who sort to control.
Viktor Shklovsky et al. and their notion of 'defamiliarization' is explored in 'Art as Technique'. A seminal essay on the poetics and mechanics of the written word in 1917. It is this essay that the MA Contemporary Fine Art students from Sheffield Hallam University have chosen to explore and to facilitate debate and discussion on its continued relevance to artists', curators and theorists in the 21st century.
With an overarching theme of 'defamiliarization' running through their research the artists' and curators from Sheffield Hallam University have used imagination to respond to the provocation set by their hosts.
'One Night Stands' is a series of three events hosted by the MA Critical Writing & Curatorial Practice students of UAL Chelsea College of Art and Design in collaboration with curating students of Essex and Sheffield Hallam Universities.
The SHCF artists/curators will exhibit their new work with their invited artists' in response to 'infinite' and 'time specificity'. This event will be part of an ongoing collaboration with MA curating students from UAL Chelsea and Essex Universities.
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