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DILSTON GROVE: SWANDOWN - THE INSTALLATION - 27 June 2012 to 29 July 2011 Current Exhibition |
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SWANDOWN - THE INSTALLATION Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair Preview: Tuesday, 26 June 2012 from 6.30 – 8.30pm. 27 June – 29 July 2012, Wednesday – Sunday from 12 – 6pm. In London's Olympic year, CGP London present Swandown – The Installation which is a project of Herculean proportions by two of Britain's most creative individuals: Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair. Swandown is a plot of Olympian ambition. A poetic film-diary about encounter and culture an endurance test and pedal-marathon. Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair pedalled a swan-shaped pedalo from the seaside in Hastings to Hackney in East London, via the inland waterways. The journey provided multifarious outcomes; a film work, pinhole photographs, sound recordings and numerous texts and artefacts. Swandown - The Installation will be a deconstruction and re-presentation of this epic journey. Within the cavernous confines of Dilston Grove the pedalo itself will be presented complete with the knocks and bruises of its difficult journey together with selected film sequences from the voyage, sounds, pinhole photographs and many of the artefacts collected en-route. It is a celebration of The Waterbound Pilgrimage, welcoming difficulty and celebrating local particulars, ever alert to the traces of submerged histories; songs, civil protest, and the wilderness, through both the real and the imagined. SWANDOWN -THE INSTALLATION PERAMBULATIONS AND CONFABULATIONS Sunday, 1st July from 4 to 6pm at Dilston Grove Marina Warner (Writer and Mythographer) will be in conversation with Iain Sinclair (Writer and Psychogeographer). ABOUT MARINA WARNER She was born in London in 1946, of an Italian mother and an English father who was a bookseller. After primary schools in Cairo and Brussels, she was educated in England at St Mary’s Convent, Ascot, and then read French and Italian as an undergraduate at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, of which she is now an Honorary Fellow. Since 2004 she has been a professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex Sunday, 29th July from 4 to 6pm at Dilston Grove Alan Moore (Writer and Wizard) will be in conversation with Iain Sinclair (Writer and Urban Shaman). ABOUT ALAN MOORE He was born on 18 November 1953 and is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell. Frequently described as the best graphic novel writer in history, he has also been described as one of the most important British writers of the last fifty years. He has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, and Translucia Baboon. Swandown is the third in a series of collaborations between Kötting and Sinclair, the first of which produced Offshore; a cross channel swim project. Notions of ‘the psyche and its geography’ have cemented their friendship and brought the artists together to realise this project. Notes for editors “Dilston Grove is a venue that has always been close to my heart. I presented my Installation In the wake of a Deadad there in 2006 which went on to receive great acclaim around the UK and throughout Europe. Iain Sinclair has also promoted the venue through his writings for many years and cited it as one of Britain’s best kept secrets in The Guardian. The space enables ambitious projects to be realised in collaboration with CGP London – a place where the impossible is made possible.” Andrew Kötting. "Andrew Kötting is one of Britain’s most intriguing artists, and perhaps the only film-maker currently practising who could be said to have taken to heart the spirit of visionary curiosity and hybrid creativity exemplified by the late Derek Jarman. Formally exploratory and aesthetically innovative, like Jarman he is also a great collaborator, building around his various projects a community of shared interest, while anchoring his prolific production in an ongoing report on the lives of those closest to him. His twenty year oeuvre to date has moved from early live-art inflected, often absurdist pieces, ripe with their own internal logics and skewed mythologies, through darkly comic shorts teasing out the melancholy surrealism at the heart of contemporary Englishness to three resolutely independent features that take landscape as the springboards for visually striking and structurally inventive enquiries into identity, belonging, history and notions of community. Such activity reflects both his wide-ranging formal interests but also his refusal to adopt conventional ideas of closure around artworks in any medium. It is this openness, underpinned by an outlaw intelligence and pranksterish wit that marks out his work as both energising and important." Gareth Evans, curator, writer and co-editor of Artesian magazine . Iain Sinclair’s greatest gift is to link seemingly unconnected dots to bring new meanings to landscapes so familiar that they have become almost invisible. He imbues dirty streets with artistic magic and hidden energy that might, for example, connect tired Stoke Newington with Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and the Kubrick recreation of Vietnam in nearby Newham. The outcome of this semiotic redevelopment is one that leaves the legacy of these historic ‘non-places’ with a greater sense of value than any multi-billion pound CGI promise. The greatest part of the 2012 aftermath, he writes, will be a huge shopping center. “The proper response… is a happy slap of enchantment." Tony Hill. Dilston Grove Southwark Park London SE16 2DD Tel: +44 (0)20 7237 1230 E: [email protected] cafegalleryprojects.org |
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