See exhibition blog for more details.Many Albertans looking to spend their Victoria Day weekend outdoors aren’t letting forecasts of rain or snow dampen their spirits.Ī mix of rain and light snow fell in Calgary much of Thursday but that didn’t stop Jaden Crozier and Christopher Radmacher from hitting the links. RECURSIVE is at No Format Gallery, London, from October 9 to November 2 2014. That is to say: read, paint, sleep, repeat. So this week has been busy, and soon she could be back in her role as an artist. “Curating my own work is particularly challenging,” says Boyer. Sounds clear as crystal.īut no one said curating was easy. he’s making a case and making an argument for each element, in his argument and then he brings it all together and makes a final statement”. “Sometimes it’s not easy, but to follow with him. “What I’ve learned in reading Deleuze is to follow with him,” she says. Says Boyer: “It’s a sort of twofold clarity.” And the artist enjoys both the “brilliant” initial thoughts and his detailed explanations. His presence at this show is after all a result of a certain “clarity” which can be found in his work. That holds true for Deleuze, however off the wall he might seem. “But it’s there, insists Boyer, “and whether or not they’re engaged with it and understanding it, it is in fact affecting their lives and and it’s entering their lives in ways that they may or may not be aware of.” While everyone gets, say, The Matrix (1999), some still balk at raw post-structuralism. Indeed she makes it sound like the most honest starting point: “Philosophy underlies every aspect of society so any attempt to look at art without philosophy would be like going to the movies without philosophy.” And in this respect particularly Deleuze: “As I read philosophy, I just have all sorts of mental images, that happen in my head and as a result I feel sort of compelled to get those images down in the artwork.”īoyer makes no apologies for staging a show in which the philosophy is overt. The Califormian artist says that, while it never gets in the way of visual pleasure, she’s “very intrigued by and inspired by philosophy”. Rather than a factor in a sickness, like one of Freud’s primal scenes, it appears to be a cornerstone of who we are. What really intrigues is that this originary experience is one we all share. Since repetition is so vital to us, says Boyer, “We begin to disguise that and perhaps, as says, close it”. And as life develops we try and fit these repetitions into our current situations. We repeat because we could use this elemental experience in some way. In other words, perhaps, we repeat to give us a sense of ourselves. “He’s talking about an initial elemental experience we all have,” suggests the artist, “whether it’s the moment of birth or whether there’s some sort of trauma or some other thing that begins to develop and really solidify our identity.” “In fact it’s given me a challenge, as well, to really wrap my head around it.” That at least is reassuring. “It’s a difficult one,” she freely admits about her quotation. The morning she was due to begin the hang in London, Boyer spoke with me on the phone. Her group of artists may be select, but the show organiser is gathering them together with a proposition by the influential French thinker: “We don’t repeat because we repress, we repress because we repeat.” It sounds true, but what exactly might it mean?
Some kind of repetition compulsion might be at work there, except for the fact that Boyer draws inspiration, not from Freud, but from one of the authors of Anti-Oedipus, Gilles Deleuze. The artist is losing count of the number of times she has by now also curated.
The Gallery in South London is hosting Hitomi Kammai, Ant Pearce, Susan Francis, Simon Fell and Jane Boyer.īoyer is also curating the show. RECURSIVE is a group show which looks at the cyclic nature of personal history, as suggested by the work of five international artists. So if you want the antidote, consider the next show due to open at No Format Gallery. As philosophies go, it’s a little simplistic, suggesting nothing so much as a kind of nihilistic stoicism. Susan Francis, Palace of Sham (2012), installation viewĮat, Sleep, Repeat: there’s a meme doing the rounds all about repetition.
0 kommentar(er)
