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Saturday 12.05.2012, 3.00-5.30pm
Event with talks, exercises and discussions by Amber Ablett and Eloise Jones of
[Details on Request] and Fatos Ustek; moderated by Nico de Oliveira
The Showroom
63 Penfold Street
NW8 8PQ London
+44 (0)20 7724 4300
info@theshowroom.org
Navigating from its two exhibition precursors, Reading Complex Act
I&II – Coordinates/ Relocations wishes to engage more directly and
discursively with an audience on the subject of writing. Essentially concerned
with the act of writing within an image-based society, we would like to
question how we as viewers, readers and witnesses dissect alternative information
and knowledge from a given situation, a presentation, a written account. What
is the role of the writer and what motivates their responsibility to the act of
writing?
Reading Complex Act I&II – Coordinates/Relocations invites a number of
speakers whose practice shows a keen engagement with writing, and how the act
of writing might perform a different, more ambiguous role in the field of
contemporary art practice. Here, language and writing forms the host for
projects that engage with the relationship between art and fiction, art and
reality. This could be further considered as a conflict with and a movement
from the loss of the documentary image to its recovery in the element of the
fictional.
Through open discussion, we wish to engage with the ways in which meaning sets
itself in thought, the way it plasticises itself as a body of knowledge not
simply by analysis and interpretation, but rather as something we actively
produce through our various practices.
