FORMAN'S SMOKEHOUSE GALLERY

Future Exhibition. 1.03.12 – 30.03.12

smokehousegallery — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:11:45 +0000

Of this Event, I cannot foresee the end.

Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery presents Of this Event, I cannot foresee the end – an exhibition of video art and installations.
Private view: Thursday 1st March 6-9pm

Exhibition runs 2nd-30th March 2012, Thu-Fri 5 – 9pm, Sat-Sun 12-5pm

The artists featured in the show Of this Event, I cannot foresee the end. appropriate approaches from scientists in order to gain insights, accumulate data or choose their observational vantage point. By defining a framework wherein a staged experiment or observed action can take place, they test the boundaries of our earthly existence, everyday life, human psychology and patterns of social behaviour.

The video works on show are documents of events or experiments where the outcomes have been unknown even to the artists. A distanced camera witnesses and frames the performance wherein chance and failure play part. But the video works go beyond mere documentation demanding independence from the prior performance and share the element of suspense, surprise and humour.
A second strand of the show transfers the experiment to the virtual realm with chance, sound and interactivity to shape the virtual reality in real time.

In new commissions the experiment will take place at the gallery.

Artists:
Memo Akten ● Sophie Clements ● Callum Cooper ● George Eksts ● Kris Emmerson ● Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski ● Santiago Ortega ● Clifford Sage ● David Sherry ● James Stringer ● Anais Tondeur ● Helen Turner ● Pablo Wendel ● der Warst (Simon Schäfer)

Audio visual performances at the opening night:

der Warst (Simon Schäfer)

Brood Ma (Quantum Natives)

DJ Tesco (Quantum Natives).

Curated by Carmen Billows

The Future500

smokehousegallery — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:06:19 +0000

CVTF500 – February Newsletter

Saturday 25th February opening times.

smokehousegallery — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:15:45 +0000

The gallery will be closed after 2pm this Saturday. Sunday open as usual.

If you were expecting to visit us after then, please instead feel free to make an appointment. FSG.

Le Cool London interview with Dave Anderson.

smokehousegallery — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:12:33 +0000

Interview with the cover designer

DAVE ANDERSON

Hey there Dave. I have a bad cough. How are you?
Nothing out of the ordinary about my functions today. I think I can describe my condition as ‘ambient’. Sorry to hear about your cough. Try soda-streaming your Benylin – sickness is no reason not to celebrate.

Have you ever had a sexy dream about one of your characters in your drawings?
If you think I dream of one of my characters leaping off the page and coaxing me into their seedy cartoon world to feel me up, just like in that A-Ha video for ‘Take On Me’, then I’d say, ‘really! what a question!’… right up until I wake up in their cartoon flat next Sunday morning with a hangover and can’t find my trousers.

What connection do you have to blood sausages?
I wanted to give the name of my business a chic, continental whiff about it and unfortunately ‘Rebecca Loos’ was already taken. Although she did yank off a pig on TV.

Have you ever… ever felt like this? Have strange things happened? Are you going ’round the twist?
I’m university educated. I didn’t spend three years loudly remembering the theme tune to Button Moon or whether Zack out of Saved by the Bell was dead or not to be caught out here. Can’t remember what degree I got though.

Where can we see more of your work?
Lazarides currently has a print of mine up in their Outsiders Gallery in Soho, a lovely religious piece centred around the reverend Brian Blessed. A little further away in now ‘Olympian’ Hackney Wick, the Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery is also showing a canvas that takes a ‘wry look’ at that most respected of phenomena, the advertising industry. Bloodsausage will, however, take you to the sheer depths.

Rebecca Strickson

smokehousegallery — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:13:42 +0000

James Unsworth

smokehousegallery — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:25:58 +0000

Martin Wollerstam

smokehousegallery — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:13:04 +0000

Agent Provocateur

smokehousegallery — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:29:34 +0000

FSG would like to say a special thanks to AP. He truly deserves these two bottles of bubbly!

David Shillinglaw

smokehousegallery — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:25:41 +0000

Anwot

smokehousegallery — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:38:31 +0000