General Installation View
The Showroom, Exterior View
Installation View, Arguments
Performance, Private View at The Showroom, 11 June 2010
Photo Credit: Dominic Tschudin, RCA
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Gossip, Scandal and Good Manners
Works by Ulises Carrión
The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ
Private View Friday 11 June 2010, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Exhibition continues 12 June - 26 June 2010
Opening hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 6pm
Gossip, Scandal and Good Manners is the first solo presentation in the UK of the work of Mexican artist, writer and publisher, Ulises Carrión (1941-1989), curated by the first year MA Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art in collaboration with Martha Hellion. Comprising an exhibition, series of events and publication and will invoke the spirit of Carrión’s practice through the activation of his provocative propositions and methodologies.
With special thanks to Martha Hellion, without whom this project would not have been possible.
With thanks to the Mexican Embassy (London), the Netherlands Media Art Institute (Amsterdam), Chelsea College of Art & Design Library, Archive for Small Press and Communication (Bremen), Ibid Projects, The Block and Yume Pictures.
Tel: 020 7724 4300 E-mail: info@theshowroom.org
For further information, please visit www.theshowroom.org or contact Nicole Yip at nicole.yip@network.rca.ac.uk
Gossip, Scandal and Good Manners
Works by Ulises Carrión
Gossip, Scandal and Good Manners is a project based on the work of Mexican artist, writer and publisher, Ulises Carrión (1941-1989). Comprising of an exhibition, series of events and publication, the project aims to reanimate Carrión’s practice for a contemporary audience in a way that reflects his own ideas, methodologies and idiosyncrasies.
Carrión, whose work has rarely been shown in the UK, emerged out of Fluxus and concrete poetry circles in his native country before moving to Europe in the mid-1960s. His diverse practice is underpinned by a concern with alternative strategies of distribution and communication. As such, he promoted a transnational dialogue prior to the inception of the Internet with his mail art projects and initiatives such as Other Books and So, which was active in Amsterdam from 1975 to 1978 and subsequently became an archive. This informal space for exhibitions, performances, collaborations and the making and publishing of artists’ books also served as a meeting point for artists and publishers. Alongside his commitment to self-publishing, he was also one of the first to theorise on artists’ books.
This project is curated by the first year MA Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art in collaboration with Martha Hellion, with the kind support of the Monique Beudert fund.
Marie Angeletti
People, Material Things, Nature, 2009
C prints
Dimensions variable
Aki Ilomaki
Nature, 2010
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
Robert Lye
The Rules, 2010 (from the ‘Performance’ archive)
Mirror, glass, beard cuttings grown throughout the duration of the ‘Performance’ project, hard wood, digital C print, frame, digital print, potted pine plant
Dimensions variable
Fay Nicolson & Oliver Smith
A Provisional Model for Expansion and Collapse, 2010
Risograph, laserjet and screenprint on paper, corrugated cardboard and archival glass
200cm x 110cm x 60cm