‘apocalypse now and next week’
concept: yuen fong ling
This group exhibition of artists and
designers is curated in response to the impending relocation of
Castlefield Gallery - a significant artist initiated gallery in
Manchester since 1986. The project aims to question and in many ways
rediscover the role of the gallery. Among the participants that provide an interpretation are: David Hoyle
(formerly known as The Divine David), Lisa Holden, Bono & Sting,
Pat Flynn, Clive Caswell, Jay Cloth, Mark Briggs, Doodlebug,
Ferrious, Frank Flowers, Chris Morgan, Paul Needham, Claire Norcross
and Variable-D Gallery.
The exhibition 'Apocalypse Now and Next Week' is intended as a fetishistic depiction of "The End" - sometimes fun, sometimes fearful. An exercise in the strategic repositioning of artists and their work to profile a diverse range of artistic practice in from the art to the clubland communities in the North West of England. The project allows artists to respond and react to the notions of an instutionalised gallery mentality. Enabling the project's conceptual framework to make an example of the rigid and static gallery exhibition format. This is achieved by constructing an exhibition from a series of events and activities which leaves behind physical layers and remnants of artistic revelry in the gallery space.
The events and activities include: artists Bono & Sting's End of Term Civil War Disco which reenacts a famous incident during the English Civil War when a civilian was killed by mistake, in a battle of the DJ clubnight with interactive web game The Shooting Gallery.
-graffitti artists collective International Doodlebug Day event, which unites artists and DJ's from Manchester, London and Tokyo to graffitti directly onto the internal gallery walls.
-installation work from The Variable - D Gallery producing a fly poster to effectively make the exterior gallery look redundent or symbolically 'taken over.'
-expressionist insprired mural painting from an infamous media artist formally known as "The Divine David" whose media creation is given a farewell testomony.
-a sinister live performance from artist Jay Cloth exploring mundane objects to their obsessive, spiritual heights from the act of searching the inner worlds of our conciousness.
Which as an END project enables a beginning to new relationships with artists and artforms and a responce to a wider cultural activity in the regions that are often 'closed' to an institutional gallery space - these doors now remain 'open'.
The exhibition 'Apocalypse Now and Next Week' is intended as a fetishistic depiction of "The End" - sometimes fun, sometimes fearful. An exercise in the strategic repositioning of artists and their work to profile a diverse range of artistic practice in from the art to the clubland communities in the North West of England. The project allows artists to respond and react to the notions of an instutionalised gallery mentality. Enabling the project's conceptual framework to make an example of the rigid and static gallery exhibition format. This is achieved by constructing an exhibition from a series of events and activities which leaves behind physical layers and remnants of artistic revelry in the gallery space.
The events and activities include: artists Bono & Sting's End of Term Civil War Disco which reenacts a famous incident during the English Civil War when a civilian was killed by mistake, in a battle of the DJ clubnight with interactive web game The Shooting Gallery.
-graffitti artists collective International Doodlebug Day event, which unites artists and DJ's from Manchester, London and Tokyo to graffitti directly onto the internal gallery walls.
-installation work from The Variable - D Gallery producing a fly poster to effectively make the exterior gallery look redundent or symbolically 'taken over.'
-expressionist insprired mural painting from an infamous media artist formally known as "The Divine David" whose media creation is given a farewell testomony.
-a sinister live performance from artist Jay Cloth exploring mundane objects to their obsessive, spiritual heights from the act of searching the inner worlds of our conciousness.
Which as an END project enables a beginning to new relationships with artists and artforms and a responce to a wider cultural activity in the regions that are often 'closed' to an institutional gallery space - these doors now remain 'open'.
