An exhibition of work by 12 UK-based artists at the Chingghis Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar.
Private view: 9 April 2007. Exhibition: 10 – 29 April 2007.
Programme of workshops and seminars: 11 – 13 April 2007.
On the surface, this show is intended to raise questions about what constitutes contemporary art practice in the UK – to display a cross-section of current work. Running beneath this, however, are explorations of travel and shifting identity as the flow of information, populations, desires and artefacts around the world, becomes ever-more irresistible.
The work explores how we move between places, whether geographically defined or poetically imagined. The artists employ a range of strategies in their practice: they manipulate light and sound; they navigate and reorganise texts; they make use of digital simulations, household materials or their own bodies; they utilise computers, cameras and drawing tools in their investigations, reworking the image as the artefact and method of their research.
The exhibition that results from these varied approaches will be a configuration of installations, objects, images and illuminations, incorporating spaces for research and sites for performance.
The show will address the challenges of making a connection across cultural, linguistic and geographical divides. It will take place alongside a programme of workshops and seminars and is intended as a starting point for dialogue with artists and students in Mongolia.
Participating artists
Åsa Andersson, Peter Ellis, Marion Harrison, Karen Heald, Ben Judd, Juliet MacDonald, Graham Martin, Shakila Bi Mumtaz, Megan Leigh Smith, Lisa Stansbie, Tsendpurev Tsegmid
Curator
Jill Morgan
(text written by Juliet McDonald, our former project coordinator)
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