OK, OKAY
Dates
30th Jun 2007 - 26th Aug 2007
Summary
Contemporary Art Exhibition
Event Description
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OK, Okay – the art of communication
From 30 June to 26 August Fife Contemporary Art and Craft will be presenting an exhibition called OK, Okay at St Andrews Museum, Kinburn Park. It has been curated by artists Stuart Fallon and Charlotte Jones at the invitation of Fife Contemporary Art & Craft.
This group show investigates how artists collate, transform, and rebel against conventional forms of communication. It brings together a selection of national and international artists who employ a wide variety of techniques, methods and media. While each artist provides a very different experience for the viewer, they all work to re-evaluate or re-contextualise the familiar - be it recognised imagery, objects, texts, physical environment or personal interaction; challenging the viewers’ expectations of the traditional communication process.
Manuel Duboe, originally from Argentina but now based in London, transforms found imagery into new, sophisticated assemblage paintings by combining elements that do not typically belong together. He mixes collage techniques with oil sticks, acrylics, pencil and any other material to take the viewer to a fantasy world.
Paulina Sandberg’s site-specific practice involves her interference with a recognised environment in order to alter the viewer’s perception and experience of their surroundings. Her work is an investigation of how we relate to nature and the extent to which we can understand what lies beyond ourselves. She will be making drawings on the museum windows overlooking the surrounding park.
Like Sandberg, Sarah Schor is based in Edinburgh. She will be exhibiting laboriously wrought recurring images in drawings and an animation. Her work explores the human compulsion to transcend our biological constraints and for her, the mark-making process itself refers strongly to its talismanic and symbolic use found in many rites and ceremonies.
Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic based in Brooklyn, New York. He will be showing sculpture and painting which explore language and challenge the context in which it is experienced in order to affect its meaning for the viewer.
‘Who are these people’ is the title of a sci-art collaboration between artist and designer Robb Mitchell and psychologists Dr Alex Gillespie and Dr Brian O’Neill. The piece begins with an interactive event on the opening night; documentation of the intervention will be available within the space for the remainder of the exhibition. It uses information and communication technology to create a powerful new medium of interaction and distraction. Allowing the audience to explore, manipulate and subvert the process of communication. The outcome is a displacement of authorship, a decentring of personality, a disruption of who it is who speaks and thus, ultimately, a questioning of 'who am I?'
Summer workshops for children and an informal guided tour will take place at the museum to accompany the exhibition. OK, Okay is part of a season of exhibitions on the theme of communication organised by Fife Museums Forum.
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Event Keywords
The Art Of Communication
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