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Association of Art Historians+++Twitchers: Birds and Art+++April 2013

A screening of London Fieldworks' film Between Premonition and Knowledge at the Association of Art Historians 39th Annual Conference, University of Reading.

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Joseph Grima interviews London Fieldworks & Gustav Metzger for DOMUS / Feb 2013

Interview extract:

"GM: I would like to bring up the name of Yves Klein. His work is central to what we have been doing—his project for a house built of fire. The heat keeps out and holds in what is necessary. The "immaterial", that was his term. It is now commonplace, but at that time was totally new. I am not comparing myself to Yves Klein — my text for the catalogue of Null Object deals with the same problem in a different way — but the parameters are essentially the same. How can we get hold of the immaterial, how can we push it around, how can it be pushed? This is what it is talking about, the immaterial, the fantasy. It is all a fantasy: just take one pull at reality, and the whole thing collapses. Add something to it, and it is another world."

NULL OBJECT: Gustav Metzger thinks about nothing++++30 Nov-9 Feb 2013

NULL OBJECT: Gustav Metzger thinks about nothing, is a new sculptural work by London Fieldworks (Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson) involving the participation of artist Gustav Metzger.

Linking a computer brain interface to an industrial manufacturing robot, a block of Portland stone has been rendered hollow as a consequence of the artist thinking about nothing.

To coincide with the exhibition launch WORK is pleased to announce a publication of the same title by Black Dog Publishing featuring texts by Bronac Ferran, Hari Kunzru, Nick Lambert, Gustav Metzger and Christopher Tyler, and a limited edition print by the artists (both available from this web site).

"Null Object combines hyper-performativity with auto-production of sculptural form. It fuses together mind-stuff  with software, wetware and hardware to produce a void in stone." Bronac Ferran

"Null Object mocks the persistent narcissism of the artist, who believes secretly that he is a little god. It is a release into a more profound and complex reality. A great liberation." Hari Kunzru

Deluge courtesy London Fieldworks 2012

ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES++++Mobile Republic: Digital Caravans++++Aug-Sept 2012

New Touring Commissions from London Fieldworks, Hellicar and Lewis, The Centre for Genomic Gastronomy, Bureau A, Julian Oliver and Designers Republic.

10 – 11 Aug, Marina, Whitehaven, Cumbria
17 – 18 Aug, Youthzone, Blackburn, Lancashire
29 Aug – 02 Sep, First Street, Manchester
07 – 09 Sep, Avenham & Miller Parks, Preston, Lancashire

Over the summer months AND will take to the road with Mobile Republic, a convoy of interactive caravans. The classic touring caravan is a symbol of the traditional British summer holiday, but these caravans are not what they seem. Beneath their innocent exteriors the five caravans have been radically remodelled and re-imagined by artists, architects and activists.
When in situ the five commissioned caravans will group together in a wagon circle, creating a central ‘big-top’ social space designed by Bureau A and featuring an artist’s studio, performance space and an indoor/outdoor cinema.
The cinema will feature the newly commissioned short film END OF THE ROAD from London Fieldworks that investigates dual symbolism associated with the touring caravan.

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PLAYFUL LANDSCAPES++++Clumber Park, Worksop++++Open to the Public, 3 August 2012

Two new outdoor installation works commissioned by The National Trust for Clumber Park in Worksop, Nottinghamshire as part of Playful Landscapes opened to the public on Friday 3rd of August.


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POETRY, LANGUAGE, CODE+The Ruskin Gallery & Studios, Cambridge+21st June-12th July 2012

Summer Exhibition 2012 curated by Bronac Ferran for Visualise. London Fieldworks present SYZYGY: Island Spirit Generator , in collaboration with Steve Beard and Kaffe Matthews.

The exhibition explores the dynamic, constructive and formal relationships which artworks contain within themselves: the visual language, codes and grammars which artists often invent, appropriate or borrow to make art work. Exposing the often unseen underlying interior typologies, this is an exhibition about form-finding, about the processes by which visual communication occurs or composition happens. It is also a play with identity and with artistic signature in a context of the generic, the generative and the collaborative.

Image by London Fieldworks 2012