The Eighteenth Emergency
Fri 27 Aug 2010 - Sat 04 Sep 2010
The Eighteenth Emergency
27th August -4th September 2010
Private View: 26th August 2010: 6.30-8.30pm
Deptford Last Friday Late Opening: 27th August 2010 we remain open until 8:30pm
Andrew Bryant, Frauke Dannert, Chas Higginbottom, Burcu Yagcioglu, Daniel P. Lichtman and Stefan Sulzer
Core Gallery is delighted to present 'The Eighteenth Emergency', an exhibition that brings together the work of 6 emerging international artists. All of the artists are current Goldsmiths MFA students or recent graduates The exhibition is curated by Andrew Bryant, Artist, writer and editor of Artist’s Talking, a-n.
‘The Eighteenth Emergency’ is an exhibition of photography, sculpture, installation and video which explores the many issues surrounding masculinity; addressing the violent and aggressive dimensions of male identity.
The show will be accompanied with an Artist & Curators Talk with Andrew Bryant on 4th September.
The exhibition takes as its prompt Betsy Byers’ short novel ‘The Eighteenth Emergency,’ a text, which sees
two boys create a series of action plans for unexpected and exotic ‘emergencies’. Apparently a ‘rights of passage’ book for adolescent boys, in Andrew’s rereading of the text the real emergency reveals itself to be masculinity itself, when one of the boys, whose nickname, significantly, is Mouse, finds himself on the wrong side of school bully Mary Hammerman. According to Andrew the narrative unwittingly reveals the violence at the heart of masculine identity, when in the penultimate scene the two boys literally knock each other into position.
As a counterpoint to Byers’ novel, Andrew draws a lot of inferences from Queer Theory, in particular the work of Judith Butler, who describes masculinity as a nexus of fears about feminisation and homophobia. In a culture of individuals who define themselves through gendered identity and desire, is it possible that this panicked masculinity produces varying intensities of intersubjective violence, which are played out across personal, social, political and even aesthetic boundaries? These are the questions the exhibition attempts to address.
Venue
- Venue:
- Core Gallery - Website
- Street:
- C101 Faircharm Trading Estate
- ZIP:
- SE8 3DX
- City:
- London
- Country:
- UK
Description
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Core Gallery's highly considered and dynamic annual exhibition program to explore, excite and stimulate discussion.
Focusing on outstanding contemporary art and curated shows, Core Gallery is establishing itself as a key place to visit in Deptford.
Core Gallery’s launch show Exquisite Corpse invited twenty two artists and curators in a curatorially collaborative 'consequence' exhibition and saw over 600 visitors in its 2 week run.
The following exhibition, Wilderness, showcased three of London’s promising emerging artists and will be followed by further exhibitions by amongst others graduates of Goldsmiths and Central St Martins.
Core Gallery is an artist-led exhibition space, situated in one of Deptford’s thriving artist-run studio complexes. Core Gallery’s location within a working studio complex fuels an energetic and productive atmosphere where the appreciation for exhibited work comes from makers and visitors alike.
Accompanying exhibitions are educational talks with artists, guest speaks and curators and artists discussions. Cor Blimey’s Studio members who run the space are a diverse range of artists from around the globe, who have exhibited World wide, and include graduates from colleges such as RCA and Goldsmiths.
Core Gallery is part of the Cor Blimey Arts charitable cooperative.